The Black Crowes, Melissa Etheridge nominated before Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Weezer, Coldplay, Linkin Park, No Doubt, The Cranberries, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Offspring, Blink-182, Beck, Korn, Deftones, System of a Down? Come on, every one of them is way more popular than The Black Crowes. Shaking hands with John Sykes at the 2024 iHeartRadio festival makes them friends so John Sykes approves pushing his buddies? It is a joke, The Black Crowes and Melissa Etheridge are nowhere near being in the conversation for the top 40 90s Rock Hall candidates. It will be laughingstock that if The Black Crowes and Melissa Etheridge are inducted before many more influential 90s acts but unfortunately I feel it may happen because they have buddies in committee.
The Black Crowes, Melissa Etheridge nominated before Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Weezer, Coldplay, Linkin Park, No Doubt, The Cranberries, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Offspring, Blink-182, Beck, Korn, Deftones, System of a Down? Come on, every one of them is way more popular than The Black Crowes. Shaking hands with John Sykes at the 2024 iHeartRadio festival makes them friends so John Sykes approves pushing his buddies? It is a joke, The Black Crowes and Melissa Etheridge are nowhere near being in the conversation for the top 40 90s Rock Hall candidates. It will be laughingstock that if The Black Crowes and Melissa Etheridge are inducted before many more influential 90s acts but unfortunately I feel it may happen because they have buddies in committee.
The Black Crowes, Melissa Etheridge nominated before Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Weezer, Coldplay, Linkin Park, No Doubt, The Cranberries, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Offspring, Blink-182, Beck, Korn, Deftones, System of a Down? Come on, every one of them is way more popular than The Black Crowes. Shaking hands with John Sykes at the 2024 iHeartRadio festival makes them friends so John Sykes approves pushing his buddies? It is a joke, The Black Crowes and Melissa Etheridge are nowhere near being in the conversation for the top 40 90s Rock Hall candidates. It will be laughingstock that if The Black Crowes and Melissa Etheridge are inducted before many more influential 90s acts but unfortunately I feel it may happen because they have buddies in committee.
I still feel like 7 Performer inductees and 6 side-category picks are better numbers for each year.
Eighteen is a lot, and it risks diluting the worthiness of an induction class, especially when Queen Latifah and MC Lyte (mostly likely inducted because of their industrial connections) basically got backdoored in while way more influence peers like Mariah Carey and Lauryn Hill were snubbed. That just doesn't feel right.
