Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

[NicRN77]

The boys are up for nomination this year. (y)(y)

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/28431/211349/1

[RichieT.]

It's about time. And just one notch below the Boys: Neil Diamond, the fucking man! Wooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

[pshabi]

It's about time. And just one notch below the Boys: Neil Diamond, the fucking man! Wooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

It ain't the first time. They got shafted last time. Fuckers.

[Burnout18]

Yea they were eligible before run dmc due to polly won stew comin out in 82.

I think it would have been inappropriate to put the boys in before run dmc. They should be the third rap act in the hall though.

[NicRN77]

ya, I thought this wasn't the first time...hope this time they get in!

[Ty Webb]

suprised that tom waits is under consideration, good shit though. Bon Jovi seems like the most obvious one. I'm not a bon jovi fan, but they've become like part of americana and, so i guess they deserve it. and "runaway" is kinda cool.

[Adam]

Which hall? rock or roll?

[JoLovesMCA]

It's about time and this time it better happen. They totally deserve this!!! :p They rock no matter what and everybody knows that but something like this will be a huge honor for their hard work over the years. (y)

[Guy Incognito]

Yea they were eligible before run dmc due to polly won stew comin out in 82.

I think it would have been inappropriate to put the boys in before run dmc. They should be the third rap act in the hall though.

who were the second?

looking at that list , not sure. how many get in each year?

i think they are the most appropriate hip hop act to get in the rock n roll hall of fame cos they are much more than a rap group

[pm0ney]

Some comments I read under some of the news articles about this were vomit-inducing. There are actually people in this world who think that KISS was some legendary positive contribution to Rock N Roll music. Not just a bunch of guys in make up and costumes making shitty arena-rock music.

edit: http://kiss4ever0.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/kiss5a.jpg Rock and roll dude! Nothing more Rock N Roll than a man wearing skin tight cheeta spandex. Ugh.

[Ghouls_Night]

KISS are legends!!! But to each his own.


http://gillmoreboy.blogspot.com/2007/10/listen-beastie-boys-live-kxlu-1985.html

[Burnout18]

who were the second?

looking at that list , not sure. how many get in each year?

i think they are the most appropriate hip hop act to get in the rock n roll hall of fame cos they are much more than a rap group

GrandMaster Flash and the furious five were first. Run DMC was second.

[pm0ney]

KISS are legends!!! But to each his own.


http://gillmoreboy.blogspot.com/2007/10/listen-beastie-boys-live-kxlu-1985.html

Oh look its three good looking upper class fresh faced white kids with some scary looking man with an outrageous afro!

[cj hood]

BEASTIE BOYS NOMINATED FOR ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION

Beastie Boys have been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, it was announced today.

Formed 1981 in New York City, Beastie Boys are arguably the single longest lived hip-hop act to consistently enjoy commercial and critical success both on record and as an international live attraction. Beastie Boys first changed the course of popular music when their 1986 debut album Licensed To Ill was the first hip hop record to reach #1. Since then, Mike "Mike D" Diamond, Adam "MCA" Yauch, and Adam "Ad Rock" Horovitz have logged 40 million in record sales, three Grammy awards, the MTV Video Vanguard Lifetime Achievement award, four #1 albums, and countless sold out world tours, magazine covers and TV appearances.

Beastie Boys' musical history is as rich as it is varied: By 1982, the band was releasing the Pollywog Stew EP and playing its first public gigs opening for the likes of Bad Brains at storied NYC venues including CBGB, A7 and Max's Kansas City. The current Mike D/MCA/Adrock Beastie Boys lineup debuted in 1983 with the "Cooky Puss" 12", after which the band first hooked up with Rick Rubin for 1984's "Rock Hard"/"Beastie Groove" 12," the second ever record released by Def Jam. The next year saw the release of a few more Def Jam 12"s as the band supporting Madonna on the entire North American Virgin Tour.

Licensed To Ill dropped in fall 1986. Fueled by "Fight For Your Right," "No Sleep Til Brooklyn," "Brass Monkey" and more it remained at #1 for seven weeks and simultaneously reached #2 on the urban chart, becoming the fastest selling debut to date for Columbia and the first hip hop record to break 5 million sales.

1989's landmark Paul's Boutique saw Beastie Boys resurface with a new deal (Capitol), a new home (Los Angeles) and a kaleidoscopic new array of sounds. Produced by Beastie Boys and the Dust Brothers, Paul's Boutique laid down the blueprint for a generation of emergent genres. "Shake Your Rump," "Lookin' Down The Barrel Of A Gun," "Car Thief," Shadrach," and the hip hop "suite" "B-Boy Bouillabaisse" elevated Beastie Boys to a new level of critical respect: thumbs up from Robert Christgau, four stars from Rolling Stone, and various accolades hailing it as the "Pet Sounds or Dark Side Of The Moon of Hip Hop."

Check Your Head, released in 1992, heralded the return of live instrumentation into the B Boys mix, with Mike D on drums, Yauch on bass and Adrock on guitar. Produced by the band and Mario Caldato Jr. and recorded at Beastie Boys' own G-Son studios, Check Your Head would yield new B Boys staples including "So Whatcha' Want," "Pass The Mic," "Gratitude" and "Jimmy James." With the assistance of Keyboard Money Mark, Beastie Boys returned to the touring circuit and Check Your Head hit double platinum.

In the summer of 1994, Ill Communication, also produced by the band and Mario Caldato Jr., entered the charts at #1 as the album's first video, "Sabotage," directed by Spike Jonze, became an instant classic. Royalties from two songs on Ill Communication were donated to found the Milarepa Fund, which staged the Tibetan Freedom Concert series. Drawing crowds well into the hundreds of thousands and featuring performances from U2, Radiohead, Beck, Bjork, Patti Smith, Fugees, Joe Strummer, Pearl Jam, John Lee Hooker, Foo Fighters, R.E.M., A Tribe Called Quest, Yoko Ono, Sonic Youth and many more, the Tibetan Freedom Concerts would rank among the most significant benefit concerts of the '90s. Meanwhile, Ill Communication was supported by Beastie Boys' first arena headline tour since the '80s: The Quadraphonic Joystick Action tour, which sold out NYC's Madison Square Garden and Chicago's Rosemont Horizon in half an hour each, Massachusetts' Worcester Centrum in approximately 20 minutes, and Detroit's Cobo Arena in nine. One dollar from each ticket sold on the tour was donated through Milarepa to local charities in each city on the tour.

Hello Nasty was released July 1998 and, spurred by the monster success of "Intergalactic," clocked first week sales of nearly 700,000 in the U.S. and debuted at #1 in England, Germany, Australia, Holland, New Zealand and Sweden, #2 in Canada and Japan, and Top 10 in Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Belgium, Finland, France and Israel. That same month, Beastie Boys' 360-degree In The Round tour would be unveiled, its turntable stage set offering unobstructed sightlines from every seat, while a specially designed circular P.A. gave new dimension to the term "Surround Sound." Beastie Boys rounded out 1998 by accepting the Video Vanguard honor at the MTV Video Music Awards, and rang in 1999 with Artist, Band and/or Record of the Year accolades from Rolling Stone, SPIN, The New Yorker and Playboy, among others. A month later, at the 41st Annual Grammy Awards, the quadruple-platinum Hello Nasty took Best Alternative Music Performance, while "Intergalactic," nailed Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group--the first time an artist would win in both Rap and Alternative categories.

In the wake of September 11, 2001 the Beastie Boys-headlined New Yorkers Against Violence benefit was staged October 28 & 29 at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom, with proceeds disbursed to the New York Women's Foundation Disaster Relief Fund and the New York Association for New Americans (NYANA) September 11th Fund for New Americans--both chosen for their efforts on behalf of those affected by the September 11th attacks least likely to receive help from other sources. The NYAV line-up included the Strokes, the B-52's, Mos Def, N*E*R*D, the Roots, Afrika Bambaata, a surprise two-song set by Moby and Michael Stipe (featuring an impromptu cameo by Bono), and more. Not long after, Beastie Boys added their voice to the growing protest against America's imminent course toward war, offering the track "In A World Gone Mad" as a free download on Beastieboys.com, moveon.org, winwithoutwarUS.org, MTV.com, and milarepa.org.

Beastie Boys' sixth studio album, To The 5 Boroughs, released in summer 2004, was the band's third consecutive #1 debut-and Rolling Stone's only 5-star review of that year. To The 5 Boroughs was supported by the Challah At Your Boy traveling pageant--which climaxed with a sold-out October 9 homecoming at Madison Square Garden, at which cameras were distributed to 50 audience members, whose efforts (and herculean editing sessions) spawned the feature-length AWESOME; I F----N' SHOT THAT!, which debuted at Sundance in early 2006 and was released theatrically the same year.

With 2007's Grammy winning all-instrumental The Mix-Up, Beastie Boys threw fans a curveball reminder of the one constant throughout the band's 29-year-and-counting career: reinvention. The Mix-Up featured Diamond, Horovitz and Yauch back on drums, guitar and bass, with Keyboard Money Mark and percussionist Alfredo Ortiz, on Beastie Boys' first ever full length offering of all-new, all-original instrumental recordings. Reminiscent of the cult hit The In Sound From Way Out! which compiled Check Your Head/Ill Communication era instrumentals, The Mix-Up found NYC's favorite sons drawing on one of their arsenal's primary strengths and pushing it into bold new directions.

Since then, Beastie Boys have recorded and prepped for release their long awaited eighth all new studio opus, Hot Sauce Committee Part 1. Following a headlining set at 2009's Bonnaroo festival during which the record's "Too Many Rappers" was premiered live with guest star Nas, the record's release was unexpectedly delayed by Yauch's surgery and treatment for parotid gland cancer. Like the record, the band's sold out debut headlining stand at the Hollywood Bowl had to be postponed, as did appearances atop the 2009 Lollapalooza and All Points West festivals. It is the most sincere hope of all in the B Boys camp that Hot Sauce Committee Part 1, which features soon to be classics "B-Boys In The Cut," "Make Some Noise," "Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (featuring Santigold)" and more, will be released in 2011.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ballots are sent to more than 500 voters, who will select those to be inducted at the 26th Annual Induction Ceremony. To be eligible for nomination, an act must have released its first single or album at least 25 years prior to the year of nomination. The 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees will be announced in December 2010 and the Ceremony will take place on March 14, 2011 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, and will be televised live on Fuse. All inductees are ultimately represented in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland OH, the nonprofit organization that exists to educate its audiences on the global impact of the rock and roll art form via the museum, as well as its education programs and library and archives.

[cj hood]

KISS are legends!!! But to each his own.


http://gillmoreboy.blogspot.com/2007/10/listen-beastie-boys-live-kxlu-1985.html

i agree...KISS belongs there as well as the Beasties!

[Brother McDuff]

BEASTIE BOYS NOMINATED FOR ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION

Beastie Boys have been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, it was announced today.

Formed 1981 in New York City...


Wow, excellent summation. (y) There are so many shabby bios these days, it's nice to see somebody do their fuckin job right for a change.

They did forget the best pop instrumental grammy for TMU though. But we can let that one slide. ;)

[Darko]

Induct Beastie Boys, Neil Diamond and Tom Waits so they can all get up onstage at once and put on THE GREATEST CONCERT EVER.

[JoLovesMCA]

If they do get in and then HSC comes out in 2011 won't it be a great year for the band and as fans? (y) :D

[cj hood]

Wow, excellent summation. (y) There are so many shabby bios these days, it's nice to see somebody do their fuckin job right for a change.

that's because it's from the email that NLM sent out!

[Brother McDuff]

NLM? the National Library of Medicine? (:o)

[Laver1969]

NLM? the National Library of Medicine? (:o)

Hello Nasty... :D

[MCMel]

It's about time. And just one notch below the Boys: Neil Diamond, the fucking man! Wooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Too freaking awesome!!! :D They so deserve it & I totally agree! Nobody does it like Neil Diamond from back in the day to ever! The Beasties & Neil Diamond show what REAL music is! (y)

[MCMel]

If they do get in and then HSC comes out in 2011 won't it be a great year for the band and as fans? (y) :D

Hell yeah it would!!! That's what I'm talking about!(y) (y) :D

[MCMel]

Induct Beastie Boys, Neil Diamond and Tom Waits so they can all get up onstage at once and put on THE GREATEST CONCERT EVER.

That WOULD be sweet! :D

[JoLovesMCA]

I am getting nervous! Only because I was pretty sure BB's would get in but some articles keep saying they only have a decent chance up against LL Cool J. Uh I am sorry I like LL and all but to put him in first over the BB's is completely ridiculous! :confused: I worry too much, that's my problem. "sigh."

[Brother McDuff]

It's not worth worrying about. They will be in there, guaranteed. Doesn't need to be immediately. Doesn't matter who makes it in before or after them. They'll get theirs.

[freshlyill]

i didn't notice a direct link to vote..

http://rollingstoneextras.com/rockhall/poll/

[JoLovesMCA]

Thanks I am gonna share this and get their poll results up. ;) Everybody vote for the BB's Please!!!! They only have like 6% votes.

[freshlyill]

Remember you can vote as many times as you would like..

[FLO MASTER]

Currently, groups or individuals are qualified for induction 25 years after the release of their first record. Nominees should have demonstrable influence and significance within the history of rock and roll. Four categories are recognized: Performers, Non-Performers, Early Influences, and Sidemen (as of 2000). However, fans have no input concerning who is nominated or elected to the hall.


An EP (short for extended play) is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play (SP) records and LP records,[1] but it is now applied to mid-length compact discs and music downloads as well. Ricardo Baca of The Denver Post said, "EPs — originally extended-play 'single' releases that are shorter than traditional albums — have long been popular with punk and indie bands."[2] In the United Kingdom, the Official Chart Company defines a boundary between EP and album classification at 25 minutes of length or four tracks (not counting alternative versions of featured songs, if present).[


Was "Polly Wog Stew" an official "record?" I dont know but it was an "EP" not an "LP". An "LP" is considered a "record" or an "album", thus leaving the "ep" in limbo.

[lyneday]

Looks like they've been shafted again =o/


Neil Diamond, Alice Cooper, Tom Waits Inducted Into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Darlene Love and Dr. John will also be inducted in New York City on March 14

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/68404/242409

[Matchstikk]

Looks like they've been shafted again =o/


Neil Diamond, Alice Cooper, Tom Waits Inducted Into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Darlene Love and Dr. John will also be inducted in New York City on March 14

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/68404/242409

Fuck that. Okay, Tom Waits is awesome. But seriously, fuck that.

[NicRN77]

Looks like they've been shafted again =o/


Neil Diamond, Alice Cooper, Tom Waits Inducted Into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Darlene Love and Dr. John will also be inducted in New York City on March 14

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/68404/242409



All well deserving musicians! The Beasties will get in some year...no worries!

[JoLovesMCA]

This annoys me. :/ Whatever they will get in for sure. (y)

[Brother McDuff]

they'll get theirs, people. surprisingly, many other artists came before them.

if there were artists newer than them squeaking their way in then it would be a different story.

[Documad]

All well deserving musicians! The Beasties will get in some year...no worries!

I agree. It's the first time in a while that all the inductees are terrific choices. Darlene Love is way overdue.

The Beasties deserve it and it's only a matter of time.

[JoLovesMCA]

Thought I would share what Chuck D said on twitter. Read bottom up.... I guess he's rooting for them to get in the hall of fame! He's too damn cool.


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2012 w RUNDMC and Beaties its my personal campaign to get BB into the RRHOF.We'll have a good 2 weeks across USA doing it, Ok I gotta go now

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OR you GET what you gotten the PAST 10 years? Meantime im on the senior circuit & I told RUN and DMC PE AND the BEASTIES would open for THEM

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What I MEAN by CUPCAKE is that smashing a STADIUM w Performance and not Bullsht pyrotech REQUIRES, EFFORT SWEAT stamina and structure OR....

[Chrisco83]

Very cool

[pm0ney]

Public Enemy and Beastie Boys opening up for Run DMC in a stadium? Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no, I dont think I have a problem with that at all.

[Brother McDuff]

would gobble these tickets up in a flash, though i must say, run dmc headlining? i mean, i know they are the most iconic of the three, but beasties and PE would blow those guys off the stage. no jam master jay either? hmmm.

[pm0ney]

Well just in terms of moving tickets the Beastie Boys are a no brainer to headline that tour. Out of respect though I don't think anyone would have a problem with Run DMC headlining. I do agree with there being a giant drop off in performance if they have to follow the Beasties, though.