Waiting For You
I'm Alive
Looking East
The Barricades Of Heaven
The Pretender
That Girl Could Sing
Take This Rain
Knock On Any Door
Shall I go on?
You should probably START first, before "going on". Not one of those is half as relevant or insinuated into the fabric like "Rock and Roll All Nite", "Beth", "Love Gun", "Lick It Up", "I Love It Loud", "Shout it Out Loud", "I Was Made For Loving You". In the recent movie "Why Him?", big budget, Bryan Cranston, James Franco, who did they fly in by helicopter to play at the wedding? Kiss or Jackson Browne? Poll any halfway decent rock/metal guitar player and ask them if they know how to play any songs from Kiss Alive!. Then ask them if they know how to play any songs from... does he even have a live album? Pearl Jam; just in the Hall this year. Listen to the solo from "Alive". Ring any bells? It should; the first half is the solo from "She", from, you guessed it, Kiss Alive!. The one thing I'll give you: Jackson Browne's first SEVEN LPs have all gone platinum (he has eight platinum total). Not as many as Kiss (10 or 14, if you count the "solo albums"), but nothing to sneeze at.
In 1996, without a record, without ANY assurances that it would actually be any good, who sold out Detroit stadium - STADIUM - in minutes. Who sold out four nights at Madison Square Garden, also in minutes? Jackson Browne has had a grand total of ONE SONG in the Billboard Top 10, and it was from a soundtrack ("Somebody's Baby", from Fast Times at Ridgemont High".)
But we're getting off topic. This isn't about "Jackson Browne" versus "Kiss". Why are "politics" - and more importantly, "politics that coincide with the guy that founded the joint" - a criteria for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Should we do that for other things as well? Maybe we should get rid of every red neck in the Baseball Hall of Fame. How about every player that was ever a gang member in the Football Hall of Fame? What about drug users (not talking steroids) in the Basketball Hall of Fame? How about every hockey player that voted against sovereignty of Quebec?