There are many great artists who have been overlooked by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The vast majority of these artists have never been nominated for induction. Each year, the final ballot of performers is selected by the Rock Hall Nominating Committee, then sent to the larger Voting Committee for election.

Here are the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's biggest snubs:

The artists listed above are currently eligible for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and were selected by Future Rock Legends commenters on the Rock Hall Revisited and the Rock Hall Projected pages.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has inducted only the lead performer of certain notable groups, with Smokey Robinson and The Miracles being the most famous example. Here are a list of Rock & Roll Hall of Famers with (arguably) snubbed backing groups. Rock Hall Monitors has a comprehensive look at this issue.

Here are some additional notable candidates who deserve consideration for the Rock Hall because of their influence on the rock era.

FUCK the Rock Hall of Fame..

HAPPYPERSON said:

There are many great artists who have been overlooked by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The vast majority of these artists have never been nominated for induction. Each year, the final ballot of performers is selected by the Rock Hall Nominating Committee, then sent to the larger Voting Committee for election.

Here are the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's biggest snubs:

Artist	Years Snubbed	# of Years Nominated
Afrika Bambaataa	5	1
The B-52's	6	0
Bad Company	11	0
Barry White	12	0
Beastie Boys	3	3
Big Star	13	0
Black Flag	7	0
Bon Jovi	2	1
The Buzzcocks	8	0
Can	17	0
The Carpenters	16	0
The Cars	7	0
Cat Stevens	19	1
Cheap Trick	8	0
Chic	8	6
Chicago	16	0
Connie Francis	27	0
The Cure	7	1
The Dead Kennedys	6	0
Deep Purple	17	0
Def Leppard	6	0
Depeche Mode	4	0
Devo	7	0
Dick Dale	23	0
Dire Straits	7	0
Donna Summer	11	4
Donovan	20	2
The Doobie Brothers	14	0
Duran Duran	4	0
Electric Light Orchestra	14	0
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	15	0
Eurythmics	4	0
Faith No More	0	0
The Flaming Lips	1	0
Gram Parsons	18	3
Hall & Oates	13	0
Harry Nilsson	18	0
Heart	9	1
Hüsker Dü	4	0
INXS	5	0
Iron Maiden	6	0
The Jam	8	0
Jan & Dean	25	0
Janet Jackson	3	0
Jethro Tull	17	0
Johnny Burnette and the R... Roll Trio	29	0
Journey	10	0
Joy Division	7	0
Judas Priest	11	0
Kate Bush	7	0
King Crimson	16	0
KISS	11	1
Kraftwerk	14	1
Linda Ronstadt	16	0
Link Wray	25	0
LL Cool J	1	2
Love	19	0
The Marvelettes	24	0
Mary Wells	24	2
MC5	19	1
Megadeth	0	0
The Monkees	19	0
The Moody Blues	21	0
Mötley Crüe	4	0
Motörhead	8	0
My Bloody Valentine	0	0
New Order	4	0
New York Dolls	12	1
Nick Drake	16	0
Peter Gabriel	8	0
Peter, Paul & Mary	23	0
Procol Harum	18	0
Randy Newman	20	1
Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	2
The Replacements	4	0
Roxy Music	13	0
The Runaways	9	0
Rush	12	0
Scott Walker	19	0
Silver Apples	17	0
Slayer	2	0
The Smiths	2	0
Sonic Youth	3	0
Sparks	14	0
The Spinners	24	1
Steppenwolf	17	0
Steve Miller Band	17	0
Stevie Ray Vaughan	2	0
Stone Roses	0	0
T. Rex	17	0
Television	10	0
Thin Lizzy	14	0
War	14	2
Warren Zevon	16	0
"Weird Al" Yankovic	6	0
Whitney Houston	1	0
X	7	0
XTC	8	0
Yes	16	0
The Zombies	21	0

The artists listed above are currently eligible for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and were selected by Future Rock Legends commenters on the Rock Hall Revisited and the Rock Hall Projected pages.

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has inducted only the lead performer of certain notable groups, with Smokey Robinson and The Miracles being the most famous example. Here are a list of Rock & Roll Hall of Famers with (arguably) snubbed backing groups. Rock Hall Monitors has a comprehensive look at this issue.

Bill Haley & His Comets

Bob Marley & The Wailers

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

Bruce Springsteen & T...treet Band

Buddy Holly and the Crickets

Dion & The Belmonts

Frank Zappa & The Mot... Invention

Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps

Hank Ballard & The Midnighters

James Brown and the Famous Flames

Janis Joplin and Big Brot...ng Company

Patti Smith Group

Paul McCartney & Wings

The Miracles with Smokey Robinson

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Here are some additional notable candidates who deserve consideration for the Rock Hall because of their influence on the rock era.

Albert King	Big Mama Thornton
Bing Crosby	Blind Lemon Jefferson
Buchanan & Goodman	Cab Calloway
Chuck Willis	Crew Cuts
Django Reinhardt	Dolly Parton
Duke Ellington	Eddie Lang
Ella Fitzgerald	Emmylou Harris
Esther Phillips	Fela Kuti
Frank Sinatra	Freddie King
George Jones	Gil Scott-Heron
Herbie Hancock	Joan Baez
John Coltrane	Johnny Ace
Lightnin' Hopkins	Merle Haggard
Mississippi John Hurt	Nina Simone
Patsy Cline	Ravi Shankar
Roy Brown	Scott Joplin
Screamin' Jay Hawkins	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sonny Boy Williamson II	The "5" Royales
The Carter Family	The Clovers
The Dominoes	The Four Freshmen
The Kingston Trio	The Mills Brothers
The Ravens	The Weavers
W.C. Handy	Waylon Jennings
Willie Nelson	Wynonie Harris

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This is why the R&R committee needs to increase the number of inductees each year. Having just five is dumb.

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...Dude didn't even make the "snubbed" list.




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theAudience said:

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...Dude didn't even make the "snubbed" list.




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I thought it was missing someone. Todd gets disrespected even by those who think so and so got "snubbed". He's just as much an imprint on rock & roll as the snubbed artists are and those that eventually got in.

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Jann Wenner doesn't like The Monkees, they're not getting in.

OK..Time to vent...

The RARHOShame is a good ol' boy network ran by Jon Landau, Jann Wenner and Dave Marsh. These are the same knucklehead idiots that have pull in Rolling Stone and Saturday Night Live.

These are the same douchebags that I'm sure have kissed Springsteen's ass backstage at all his concerts and snorted many vials of cocaine with members of the Eagles at David Geffen's house in the hot-tub hedonistic 1970's.

They've already said that there is no way some of the acts (that have been snubbed for years) will get in. Dave Marsh has already gone on record and said KISS is one of them.

Granted there are some acts that deserve to be in there..but there are some one hit wonders that

don't belong.

Don't be shocked if you see Vanilla Ice, M.C. Hammer or Matthew (Ain't Nothing Gonna Break My Stride) Wilde get in there next year. The Hall (and those 3 assholes) are fucking clueless.

Hall of Fame should be taken about as seriously as the Grammy's.

For those artist who don't ever get a wooden plaque nailed up in the Hall, they should consider it an honor.

TD3 said:

Hall of Fame should be taken about as seriously as the Grammy's.

For those artist who don't ever get a wooden plaque nailed up in the Hall, they should consider it an honor.

True.

I have a question about the Hall... Why do they consider some groups to be the same when they aren't? For instance the Jackson 5/Jacksons were from two different eras with different members but the Hall merged them as one. Randy is not inducted. Michael Jackson should be listed 3 times instead of 2.

musicjunky318 said:

I have a question about the Hall... Why do they consider some groups to be the same when they aren't? For instance the Jackson 5/Jacksons were from two different eras with different members but the Hall merged them as one. Randy is not inducted. Michael Jackson should be listed 3 times instead of 2.

I have a better one: why did they induct Smokey Robinson solo-wise when the Miracles was really the ones who should've gotten in?

Timmy84 said:

musicjunky318 said:

I have a question about the Hall... Why do they consider some groups to be the same when they aren't? For instance the Jackson 5/Jacksons were from two different eras with different members but the Hall merged them as one. Randy is not inducted. Michael Jackson should be listed 3 times instead of 2.

I have a better one: why did they induct Smokey Robinson solo-wise when the Miracles was really the ones who should've gotten in?

And that too. And why doesn't Diana Ross have a solo induction?

musicjunky318 said:

Timmy84 said:

I have a better one: why did they induct Smokey Robinson solo-wise when the Miracles was really the ones who should've gotten in?

And that too. And why doesn't Diana Ross have a solo induction?

Diana was constantly dissed by the rock committee.

Timmy84 said:

musicjunky318 said:

And that too. And why doesn't Diana Ross have a solo induction?

Diana was constantly dissed by the rock committee.

And by the Grammy committee. Do you know she has no Grammys? None. Zippo.

Too bad Mathew K wasn't around during the nominations.

musicjunky318 said:

Timmy84 said:

Diana was constantly dissed by the rock committee.

And by the Grammy committee. Do you know she has no Grammys? None. Zippo.

Too bad Mathew K wasn't around during the nominations.

Yeah I know, nominated 12 times both as a Supreme and solo-wise combined.

musicjunky318 said:

I have a question about the Hall... Why do they consider some groups to be the same when they aren't? For instance the Jackson 5/Jacksons were from two different eras with different members but the Hall merged them as one. Randy is not inducted. Michael Jackson should be listed 3 times instead of 2.

Technically, J5/The Jacksons are the same group. The only reason they changed their name is because Motown claimed they owned the name "Jackson 5", when they already had that name before signing to Motown. But I guess the brothers didn't register it, and Motown did. The Eagles, Rolling Stones, Genesis, The Temptations, and many other groups had different lineups. Having a different name doesn't make someone a different group. It's not they would consider The Moments/Ray Goodman & Brown or The Time/Original 7ven different groups.

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Mariah Carey is elgible to get nominated in 2013

oh yeah what year was prince and Madonna inducted into the hall of fame would love to see their speeches

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MickyDolenz said:

musicjunky318 said:

I have a question about the Hall... Why do they consider some groups to be the same when they aren't? For instance the Jackson 5/Jacksons were from two different eras with different members but the Hall merged them as one. Randy is not inducted. Michael Jackson should be listed 3 times instead of 2.

Technically, J5/The Jacksons are the same group. The only reason they changed their name is because Motown claimed they owned the name "Jackson 5", when they already had that name before signing to Motown. But I guess the brothers didn't register it, and Motown did. The Eagles, Rolling Stones, Genesis, The Temptations, and many other groups had different lineups. Having a different name doesn't make someone a different group. It's not they would consider The Moments/Ray Goodman & Brown or The Time/Original 7ven different groups.

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It's not the same group to me. If Michael had left people wouldn't be calling it the same group.

That's why I just can't trust the way the committee conducts their business... I mean if you're gonna induct the original quintet, induct them all especially if "Shake Your Body" and "Can You Feel It" is added to their list of essential songs released by them, don't make no sense. I mean if they were "technically the same group" and all. The way the committee does it is suspicious.

musicjunky318 said:

MickyDolenz said:

Technically, J5/The Jacksons are the same group. The only reason they changed their name is because Motown claimed they owned the name "Jackson 5", when they already had that name before signing to Motown. But I guess the brothers didn't register it, and Motown did. The Eagles, Rolling Stones, Genesis, The Temptations, and many other groups had different lineups. Having a different name doesn't make someone a different group. It's not they would consider The Moments/Ray Goodman & Brown or The Time/Original 7ven different groups.

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It's not the same group to me. If Michael had left people wouldn't be calling it the same group.

MickyDolenz said:

musicjunky318 said:

It's not the same group to me. If Michael had left people wouldn't be calling it the same group.

You know what I mean. I mean by the public and media. And this was a flop. Some example.

musicjunky318 said:

You know what I mean. I mean by the public and media. And this was a flop. Some example.

Many of the 1980's Genesis fans don't know Peter Gabriel & Steve Hackett were in the group, but they were inducted with them (but oddly Anthony Phillips wasn't, since he was the main person who put the band together). A lot of the acts in the Hall are little known by the general public, so that is not the criteria. The Jackson 5 crossed over, The Jacksons not so much. The Hall has few if any acts that were only popular on the R&B charts. I'd say Johnnie Taylor or Teddy Pendergrass more had more success than Percy Sledge, but Percy had the really big pop hit, when the others were only popular with black audience.

Some of you hate on all Award type ceremonies. I have never understood the hatred for the Grammy winners. The nominations, the nominee list and the votes are by the industry - for your own, of your own. Many artists, wruters, producers, engineers that meet the qualifications of being in, don't sign up or allow their NARAS membership to lapse. Perhaps before hating on something one should have investgated the process.

As for the R&RHOF, well, it speaks for itself. Some get in, some don't, oh well. Rather than bitching about it - write letters to the Board of Directors, be pro-active.

Selection when not obvious, can be very subjective. Hate on the American Music Awards, now that is the real crap!

RnBAmbassador said:

Some of you hate on all Award type ceremonies. I have never understood the hatred for the Grammy winners. The nominations, the nominee list and the votes are by the industry - for your own, of your own. Many artists, wruters, producers, engineers that meet the qualifications of being in, don't sign up or allow their NARAS membership to lapse. Perhaps before hating on something one should have investgated the process.

As for the R&RHOF, well, it speaks for itself. Some get in, some don't, oh well. Rather than bitching about it - write letters to the Board of Directors, be pro-active.

Selection when not obvious, can be very subjective. Hate on the American Music Awards, now that is the real crap!

I for one actually don't hate the R&RHOF, I actually love talking about it. But yeah the AMAs are a bunch of crap.

wow whitney or janet wasn't inducted either

HAPPYPERSON said:

wow whitney or janet wasn't inducted either

Whitney ain't gonna get inducted. Janet might in five years.

Timmy84 said:

Whitney ain't gonna get inducted. Janet might in five years.

Why not Whitney? And why does Janet have to wait when Madonna got in on her 1st year of eligilbility?

TD3 said:

Hall of Fame should be taken about as seriously as the Grammy's.

For those artist who don't ever get a wooden plaque nailed up in the Hall, they should consider it an honor.

Agree... very irrelevant and just as biased if not more...

mookie said:

Timmy84 said:

Whitney ain't gonna get inducted. Janet might in five years.

Why not Whitney?

Probably same reason Diana ain't in.

It's quite astonishing to me that Todd Rundgren isn't in the Rock Hall of Fame.

Their are some great Artists in that list. Kate Bush and Kraftwerk amongst others should be inducted.

Not having The Wailers in their as well is a crime.