Top 10 Rock Hall of Fame Snubs
A band is eligible for induction into Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25 years after they release their first record. This year's finalists were announced Sept. 24 — giving new hope to fans of two long-suffering bands — but the gala will leave a bitter taste in the mouths of fans of many bands whose idols haven't yet made the cut. Here are 10 of the Hall's most notable snubs.
Calling your band "Cheap Trick" puts you at risk of self-prophesy. In their '70s iteration, Cheap Trick produced the skin deep (but sugary sweet) "I Want You To Want Me" and rock standards like "Surrender." But they lived up to their name in the '80s, reduced to penning songs with bad hooks and worse titles — "Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)?" Really? Cheap Trick may not be Hall bound, but they continue to be hugely popular in Japan and did their patriotic duty stateside by penning the opening ditty to The Colbert Report, their best work in decades.
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