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Originally Posted by Soulflower
Those are very different points. So I am a bit confuse with the point you are trying to make because I never imply this at all.
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No they're not I was simply clarifying what I meant in the first post.
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Originally Posted by Soulflower
I am referring to the way they snub acts that they nominate themselves not every single other act that is not nominated because they might not be eligible.
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Snubbed in your opinion.
I don't pay much attention to the hall of fame, but even I knew that fans of Kiss & Rush were petitioning to get them in because they'd been ignored every year for something like 15 years by saying things like 'It's supposed to be the Rock n Roll hall of fame yet they put in ABBA & The Bee Gees in ahead of two of the biggest rock bands of the 70s'.
I don't recall anyone making the same case for Donna Summer and I speak of someone that likes her music.
Besides, why does she deserve it so much?
I don't see for example the Smiths in there.
If it was down to Donna Summer or The Smiths who I don't believe are inducted currently for a place in a ceremony on a particular year do you go with an artist like Donna Summer who sold a sh
it ton of records over a short 5 or 6 year period of time and spent the next 30 years basically being a nostalgia act.
Or do you choose a band who never had great record sales, but had a couple of hits but who have sold a steady stream of albums over a 30 year period who have stayed relevant despite being split up for most of that time and who I would argue are more popular now with a teen/20something audience than when they were together in the mid 80s.
Personally I think Donna Summer would have only stood a chance of getting in that hall of fame in two ways. Her suddenly reinvented herself for a new audience and having huge selling hits again, or as an acknowledgement of her talent when she died.
It turned out to be the latter.