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What are your favorites of these songs?

Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
12 (6.6%)
Dire Straits - So Far Away
8 (4.4%)
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
19 (10.4%)
Dire Straits - Walk of Life
11 (6%)
Dire Straits - Brother in Arms
15 (8.2%)
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
14 (7.7%)
Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
21 (11.5%)
Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
18 (9.9%)
Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
7 (3.8%)
Bon Jovi - I'll Be There for You
4 (2.2%)
The Moody Blues - Gemini Dream
4 (2.2%)
The Moody Blues - The Voice
5 (2.7%)
The Moody Blues - Your Wildest Dreams
9 (4.9%)
The Moody Blues - The Other Side of Life
0 (0%)
The Moody Blues - I Know You're Out There Somewhere
3 (1.6%)
The Cars - Shake It Up
5 (2.7%)
The Cars - Since You're Gone
4 (2.2%)
The Cars - Magic
6 (3.3%)
The Cars - Drive
12 (6.6%)
The Cars - You Might Think
5 (2.7%)

Total Members Voted: 36

Voting closed: February 25, 2024, 04:02:30 PM

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Re: Your favorite of these 80's songs by this year's ROCK H&F Inductees
« Reply #35 on: May 18, 2018, 02:02:10 AM »
*thinks the RHOF is a joke*

*gets worked up each year about the nominees and their worthyness*

Find the contradiction.  ;D
Must've been Kwyji sending all the wrong songs.   ;D

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Re: Your favorite of these 80's songs by this year's ROCK H&F Inductees
« Reply #36 on: May 18, 2018, 06:39:00 AM »
If you're talking to me, I don't know that I think the Hall is a joke  I think Jann Wenner is a joke, and they're not the same thing.   I personally see too many artists like Rush who "think it's all bollocks" until they get there, get up on the stage, and realize "wow, this is real."   Why SHOULND'T a guy like Phil Collins, who's body is falling apart around him, get a little love, FINALLY, after being the whipping boy for a bunch of people that don't know dick all about music (critics) and even a few that do (Bob Plant). 

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Re: Your favorite of these 80's songs by this year's ROCK H&F Inductees
« Reply #37 on: May 18, 2018, 06:52:04 AM »
I don't mean anyone in particular, it's just an observation you can make every year when the nominees are announced.

I just find it funny to get worked up about something you (not you personally) claim you can't take serious.

And I don't know why Phil Collins isn't in there, but then I'm of the people that doesn't care who's in there and why, or why not.
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Re: Your favorite of these 80's songs by this year's ROCK H&F Inductees
« Reply #38 on: May 18, 2018, 08:45:08 AM »

I still have no idea what GnR are doing in there. None.

Green Day
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jackson Browne
The Sex Pistols
Laura Nyro

And yet, no Phil Collins, no Iron Maiden, no Judas Priest, no Soundgarden.
 

No Thin Lizzy, Blue Oyster Cult, Grand Funk Railroad, King Crimson and Jethro Tull either.

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Re: Your favorite of these 80's songs by this year's ROCK H&F Inductees
« Reply #39 on: May 18, 2018, 09:17:42 AM »

I still have no idea what GnR are doing in there. None.

Green Day
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jackson Browne
The Sex Pistols
Laura Nyro

And yet, no Phil Collins, no Iron Maiden, no Judas Priest, no Soundgarden.
 

No Thin Lizzy, Blue Oyster Cult, Grand Funk Railroad, King Crimson and Jethro Tull either.

RHCP deserve to be in.  Iron Maiden deserve it too eventually.  I could live without the rest in (including the list of who is actually in) although all have good arguments.

My only issue with the RnR HOF is that they include music beyond "rock", otherwise it's just a popularity contest so it'll never be about who is really the best rock music

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« Reply #40 on: May 18, 2018, 10:01:08 AM »
I think you just never had interest in them that leads to your belief they are not worthy.  But their sales and tours prove differently.

Bon Jovi sold a lot of albums (or, more accurately, they sold a shitload of copies of one single album).

I believe the stretch from Slippery When Wet through New Jersey, Keep the Faith, These Days and possibly Crush all sold good, Slippery is surely the best seller but at the very least New Jersey was also huge.

You are correct (assuming the sources that Wikipedia cites are accurate):

Slippery.............28M (12x platinum in the U.S.)
New Jersey.........18M (7x platinum in the U.S.)
Keep the Faith.....12M (2x platinum in the U.S.)
These Days.........10M (1x platinum in the U.S.)
Crush.................11M (2x platinum in the U.S.)

Not surprising that New Jersey (as the follow up to Slippery) sold like a mother f-er, and it's not surprising that Crush did well because "It's My Life" was huge, but I honestly can't say I've ever heard anything off of Keep the Faith or These Days.  From my perspective, Bon Jovi was completely off the map in the 90s, but maybe I just missed it.

Anyone know of any site that tries to normalize album sales figures for albums that were originally released before CDs existed and whose sales numbers are inflated because of folks re-buying an album on CD to replace a cassette or vinyl?  As I type this it sounds like it would be too speculative to be reliable, but who knows?
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Re: Your favorite of these 80's songs by this year's ROCK H&F Inductees
« Reply #41 on: May 18, 2018, 10:10:55 AM »
From my perspective, Bon Jovi was completely off the map in the 90s, but maybe I just missed it.

These are single's numbers (not albums like you showed) but I think kind of make the point Bon Jovi was still relevant on some level in the 90s.

https://www.billboard.com/music/bon-jovi/chart-history

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Always
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Peaked at #4 on 12.10.1994

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Bed Of Roses
Bon Jovi
Peaked at #10 on 3.6.1993

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Re: Your favorite of these 80's songs by this year's ROCK H&F Inductees
« Reply #42 on: May 18, 2018, 10:25:14 AM »

I still have no idea what GnR are doing in there. None.

Green Day
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jackson Browne
The Sex Pistols
Laura Nyro

And yet, no Phil Collins, no Iron Maiden, no Judas Priest, no Soundgarden.
 

No Thin Lizzy, Blue Oyster Cult, Grand Funk Railroad, King Crimson and Jethro Tull either.

I think  Crimson should be in  - Fripp is EASILY as influential in his own way as a Lou Reed or any of the other hipster darlings that have gotten in the Hall.  Fuck, he almost single-handedly created an entire genre. 

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Re: Your favorite of these 80's songs by this year's ROCK H&F Inductees
« Reply #43 on: May 18, 2018, 10:47:43 AM »
I loved Bon Jovi from hearing Runaway, their first single. They wer3 great until after New Jersey. Every album after had a few good songs but it started not to rock. The became boring ballad heavy.
I remember JBJ was having songwriting lessons and the better he got as a songwriter, the worse his songs got!

I haven’t even bothered to listen to the last few.

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Re: Your favorite of these 80's songs by this year's ROCK H&F Inductees
« Reply #44 on: May 18, 2018, 11:17:02 AM »
I loved Bon Jovi from hearing Runaway, their first single. They wer3 great until after New Jersey. Every album after had a few good songs but it started not to rock. The became boring ballad heavy.
I remember JBJ was having songwriting lessons and the better he got as a songwriter, the worse his songs got!

I haven’t even bothered to listen to the last few.

Last album I liked was Have A Nice Day.
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Re: Your favorite of these 80's songs by this year's ROCK H&F Inductees
« Reply #45 on: May 18, 2018, 11:31:26 AM »
These are single's numbers (not albums like you showed) but I think kind of make the point Bon Jovi was still relevant on some level in the 90s.

https://www.billboard.com/music/bon-jovi/chart-history

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Always
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Peaked at #4 on 12.10.1994

Always was huge. Heck, it's how I got to know them. It was so big that even a young teen as me who, as mentioned before, never really bothered with foreign music before got notice of it.

And as sappy as in some moments the lyrics tend to be, I still think it's one of their best ballads.
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Re: Your favorite of these 80's songs by this year's ROCK H&F Inductees
« Reply #46 on: May 18, 2018, 12:02:05 PM »
Yea, Always was a huge hit when I was a kid and my first experience with Bon Jovi.  I've been bummed because he hasn't played it very much, it's always an "audible" on his current setlists that gets scratched off.

I loved Bon Jovi from hearing Runaway, their first single. They wer3 great until after New Jersey. Every album after had a few good songs but it started not to rock. The became boring ballad heavy.
I remember JBJ was having songwriting lessons and the better he got as a songwriter, the worse his songs got!

Runaway is my favorite BJ song.  But you are right, his albums got worse and worse.  I wouldn't of gotten his latest, but it was free with tickets for his last show I went to.  I turned it off after a couple songs  :lol

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« Reply #47 on: May 18, 2018, 12:15:56 PM »
I loved Bon Jovi from hearing Runaway, their first single. They wer3 great until after New Jersey. Every album after had a few good songs but it started not to rock. The became boring ballad heavy.
I remember JBJ was having songwriting lessons and the better he got as a songwriter, the worse his songs got!

I haven’t even bothered to listen to the last few.

Last album I liked was Have A Nice Day.

Worst album cover of all time, though.  Or at least a contender. 

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« Reply #48 on: May 18, 2018, 12:24:25 PM »
I loved Bon Jovi from hearing Runaway, their first single. They wer3 great until after New Jersey. Every album after had a few good songs but it started not to rock. The became boring ballad heavy.
I remember JBJ was having songwriting lessons and the better he got as a songwriter, the worse his songs got!

I haven’t even bothered to listen to the last few.

Last album I liked was Have A Nice Day.

Me too. That had some good stuff on it. It’s a masterpiece compared to what I heard after it.

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« Reply #49 on: May 18, 2018, 12:50:38 PM »
I'd say put all the best songs of Crush, Bounce and Have a Nice Day all on one disc, and forget about the rest.
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« Reply #50 on: May 18, 2018, 06:53:26 PM »
Phil Collins is in the R&RHOF, as a member of Genesis.