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[wickedflea]

Once again, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame can eat a bowl of dogballs. Tom Petty, Jackson Browne, and fucking AEROSMITH have been in for years, yet Black Sabbath has been snubbed once more. EARTH, WIND, AND FIRE is in the fucking hall of fame. No Sabbath.

AAHHHHHHHHHHH I'm home early and watching the local news. I should never do this. First of all, I just learned that there's an anthrax scare in Milford, a neighboring town. But that's nothing. I also heard about the return of a missing teen--which, don't get me wrong, is wonderful--but the girl's name is PEPSI SIMMONS. I let loose with a very loud, involuntary wail when I heard that. The neighbors probably think I've been violated.

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[m-fallenangel.livejournal.com]

Not that some of the other bands you mentioned don't, but you have to remember how truly thoroughly Black Sabbath sucked.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Wrong again.

[skid-rose.livejournal.com]

Ah, but you WERE being violated. By having to live in a world with people who would abuse their parental rights by christening their child after a fizzy drink that rots your teeth.

Regarding Sabbath- even during the Dio/Gillan/Martin years, which admittedly weren't their best, they were better than FUCKING TOM PETTY.

Who's had more of an overall impact on rock? Eh? I dare you to say Ironman isn't a more recognizable and iconic tune than...uh...what did Tom Petty do again?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Right on. I can't wrap my head around the continued exclusion of Sabbath. I wonder if it has anything to do with Ozzy's comments from a few years ago. When they weren't elected one year, he said something to the effect of, "Fuck it--we deserve to be elected, but if we ever are, we're not showing up, so don't bother."

And you're right. So much of their stuff with Ozzy blows my mind, and they deserve recognition just on the basis of that--but they also did some VERY solid stuff with their other singers, even if hardly anybody ever heard it. I'll take Heaven & Hell, The Headless Cross, Dehumanizer, etc., ANY day over just about any Tom Petty material or absolutely anything Aerosmith's recorded in the last 25 years.

[skid-rose.livejournal.com]

I mentioned this to my boyfriend, and he said they actually WERE offered a spot in the Hall, but Ozzy told them to shove it since it was voted on by a panel, rather than fans.

[dichotomous.livejournal.com]

...can eat a bowl of dogballs.

You. Are. So. AWESOME.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Aw, shucks. Thank ye kindly, ma'am. ;)

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

Ah, parents naming their kids after drinks again. "This is my daughter Brandy and her sisters, Gin and Tonic."

:P

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

"And my niece, Red Bull!"

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

"She'll give you wiiiings!"

[wild-magnolia.livejournal.com]

I saw this documentary the other day on the beginning of rock, and Don Kirschner -- who basically FOUNDED rock (Brill Building, Aldon Records, that whole fleet of songwriters like Carole King and Neil Sedaka and Bacharach and David -- isn't in the Hall of Fame either. How the fuck can these instrumental people and bands be left out but they induct motards like Rod Stewart. It makes me want to change my name to 7-Up McDurden.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Just yesterday I was thinking about how much I despise Rod Stewart. He has a unique voice, but he's a despicable whore and wouldn't know a good song if it spritzed his hair with product. This is the guy who gave us "LOVE TOUCH," the theme from Legal Eagles, for crying out loud!

[wild-magnolia.livejournal.com]

Yes! And that awful vomit-inducing piece of scrotal tissue, "Have I Told You Lately".

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

Oh, honey, no. He did a *remake* of it.

That is classic Van Morrison.

But "Do You Think I'm Sexy" and "Tonight's the Night" have to be the worst glurge ever warbled by a man in tight polyester.

[wild-magnolia.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Those ARE bad. I still hate that other song though. I can taste the bile right now. Which is hot, I know.