Green Day May Get Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Nod

[desertrose]

20 Artists Eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Next

Year Eligible: 2015
Debut Album: 39/Smooth (1990)
Why They Should Be Inducted: What other band of punks could serve as the connecting thread between 924 Gilman Street and Broadway? From their humble beginnings as snotty iconoclasts singing about masturbation to winning two Tony Awards for American Idiot, Green Day have truly redefined punk without abandoning the ethos of rock & roll.
Possible Drama: None. Despite a mini-breakdown following the release of ¡Uno!, when frontman Billie Joe Armstrong unleashed an angry screed on Justin Bieber at a festival and later sought substance-abuse treatment, the frontman has since been rehabilitated. The group is even putting out an LP of demos on Record Store Day.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-artists-eligible-for-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-next-20140408/green-day-19691231

[Akshat]

http://m.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-artists-eligible-for-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-next-20140408

Also, the artists ranked above Green Day are eligible after 2016, means among the artists eligible for 2015, green day stands out.

[Spike]

http://m.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-artists-eligible-for-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-next-20140408

Also, the artists ranked above Green Day are eligible after 2016, means among the artists eligible for 2015, green day stands out.

I merged this with the main Hall Of Fame thread as this list was already posted there.

[JardyOfSuburbia]

You guys...the induction is in Cleveland next year...I live in Cleveland. When Green Day goes in next year I will do whatever it takes to be there. Also how awesome would it be if they performed 86 as sort of a fuck you to all those who banished them?

[DookieLukie]

You guys...the induction is in Cleveland next year...I live in Cleveland. When Green Day goes in next year I will do whatever it takes to be there. Also how awesome would it be if they performed 86 as sort of a fuck you to all those who banished them?

Why exactly would they do that? They were exiled over 20 yrs ago. I think they're kind of over it.

[JardyOfSuburbia]

Why exactly would they do that? They were exiled over 20 yrs ago. I think they're kind of over it.

I don't know. Sort of a look where we've come after you exiled us. It came up on my shuffle when I posted my comment earlier, so maybe that was playing on my mind.

[astoria]

This article came out a while back but I still though it was pretty cool. Not sure if this is a viable source though. What do you guys think?

http://www.cleveland.com/music/index.ssf/2014/03/rock_and_roll_hall_of_fame_is.html

[Spike]

This article came out a while back but I still though it was pretty cool. Not sure if this is a viable source though. What do you guys think?

http://www.cleveland.com/music/index.ssf/2014/03/rock_and_roll_hall_of_fame_is.html

This came up in the main Hall Of Fame thread a while back. Merged

[Guest]

Ah yes, that huge news site cleveland.com. I get all my Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame insider tips from there. They're a shoo in now!

[GreenDayGeorgia]

oooh shit 2015 is coming search on google people are divided into 2 parts one say that Green Day hadn't made enough influence to be inducted (that i think is a bullshit without Green Day today on the radio we would listen to fucking Justin Bieber and other shitty singer) and second part of people are for GD

[WhiteTim]

oooh shit 2015 is coming search on google people are divided into 2 parts one say that Green Day hadn't made enough influence to be inducted (that i think is a bullshit without Green Day today on the radio we would listen to fucking Justin Bieber and other shitty singer) and second part of people are for GD

Well people also will say they won't cause ALOT of bands don't get in first year nominated

[DEEPTHROAT]

Green Day could be in the hall of fame ?

[Green_daze1039]

I don't know whether or not there is already a thread for this, but I dont care. Apparently Green Day is nominated for 2015 and there is a poll and you guys need to all go vote because they need to win. They are losing right now. Here's the link http://www.cleveland.com/music/index.ssf/2014/09/rock_and_roll_hall_of_fame_201_9.html#pd_a_8339106

[Karl Karlson]

This is a poll on a regular website - it's not like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has an open poll that will decide what bands will be inducted.

The question is pretty easy to understand, too: "Which acts deserve induction into the Rock Hall?"

[Green_daze1039]

Yea I know I'm just saying that they need to win that poll because they do deserve it

[Karl Karlson]

And I'm just saying that it's not thread-worthy, because it's a poll that doesn't matter.
Fans will support the bands by buying records and going to concerts.

[Sanity Loan]

Yea I know I'm just saying that they need to win that poll because they do deserve it

Green Day will get in regardless of this poll.

[Heather.]

This is a poll on a regular website - it's not like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has an open poll that will decide what bands will be inducted.

The question is pretty easy to understand, too: "Which acts deserve induction into the Rock Hall?"

I know that the inductees are decided by like music critics and other musicians who are in whatever exclusive society decides this, but isn't there also a smal component of the voting that can be done by fans? (Definitely not via a poll on THIS website, but some other time?) Or is it 100% not in the fans hands?

Green Day will get in regardless of this poll.

All the media and common sense and my own beliefs agree with that, but I still have this fear that they will be suddenly shut out for no reason... but Billie Joe obviously has a good relationship with Rolling Stone, and Jann Wenner who is Editor also I think runs the Hall of Fame, and GD has been involved so frequently in induction events that it seems they are darlings of that group, somehow. Still, I wait with bated breath for the news!

So, October they announce "nominees" (like a preliminary list)? And then sometime in like December/January they announce who actually gets in? And then in the spring the ceremony happens?

[WhiteTim]

But on the other hand a lot of bands don't make it on first go

I think Green Day and Garth Brooks (esp Garth) will be the shoe-ins tho

[BucksCoEric]

http://www.cleveland.com/music/index.ssf/2014/09/9_acts_guaranteed_to_enter_the.html#incart_related_stories

[Heather.]

FYI from the Hall of Fame induction process website:

Beginning in 2012, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened Nominee voting to fans around the world. The Top Five Nominees as voted by the fans count for one ballot entry, which is weighted the same as individual ballot entries submitted by members of the international voting body.

[Todd]

. We wouldn't have Blink 182, MCR, All Time Low, Fall Out Boy, NFG or any of these pop punk bands without Green Day.

I wish Green Day never existed

[Heather.]

I wish Green Day never existed

I think the sad thing is that they were so influential but not over anyone anyone respects, ya know? Or at least, the most obvious ones. Like, name one truly celebrated artist who was influenced by Green Day? Lady Gaga? It would be cool if newer bands like Kings of Leon or Muse came out and discussed their infantile love of Green Day.

[Bastard of 1969]

I wish Green Day never existed

Those are just pop-punk bands.

Well...shit, basically, any pop punk band was influenced by them.

[Jimmy Strummer]

Okay, so my friend runs a podcast on SoundCloud, and on her recent episode she discussed the Rock Hall nominees and her two guests (also friends of mine) contested that Green Day will get in solely based on popularity. They also feel the band has, quote, "done nothing to be considered a 'Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame group'" and "didn't invent anything," specifically referencing American Idiot when saying that. The link to the podcast is below; their brief remarks on the band happen between 11:45 and 12:30. Feel free to listen to the whole episode if you'd like, help support my friend Brandi and her online radio station! http://olio.fm/2014/10/13/goingtohell-10/

Personally, I think what my friends said is technically true, they aren't really in the same league as The Who or Led Zeppelin or The Beatles, but I feel Green Day deserves to be in because they were able to truly capture two completely different points of time in our society and youth culture with their music, two very different generations and their worldviews, speaking to both the post-grunge confusion and angst in 1994 with Dookie and the disillusionment of most teens and young adults during the post-9/11 George Dubya era in 2004 with American Idiot. Not a lot of bands, at least in the late-20th/early-21st century, have been able to pull that off, especially on such a massive scale. Not to mention that GD were essentially the leaders of that second wave of mainstream punk (or punk-inspired) rock that occurred in '94. And while AI wasn't particularly "innovative" (as my friends said, the rock opera has been done before, and arguably much better), it did bring the rock opera back into prominence. Like, in all honesty, who here can name one hugely-popular you-are-an-idiot-if-you-haven't-heard-it-by-now rock opera that came out after Pink Floyd's The Wall in 1979 and before American Idiot in 2004? In my very bold and straightforward opinion, the rock opera died in the 80s and Green Day brought it back.

Anyone else have thoughts on this?