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Hall of Acclaim 2022 (CLOSED)

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Welcome to the new round of Hall of Acclaim voting!

Category 1, Performers: Nominate at least five and no more than ten acts that you feel are deserving of being in the AMF Hall of Acclaim. 2022 releases can be included in your evaluations. The point system: #1 = 10 pts., #2 = 9 pts., and so on. This poll is kind of the Wild West of our forum, so if you are so inclined, you can do something like push your most popular picks (instead of your biggest personal favorites) to the top spots in your submission. The acts with the four-highest points will be our four inductees, as usual, but only if they each receive 20 points or higher. If only one, or two, or three acts get 20+ points, then only they get inducted. If NO act reaches 20 points, well, we can't have absolutely no one be inducted, but then there will be a second ballot vote among the acts with 11+ points, to at least induct one performer.

Category 2, Backstage Wing: Additionally, if you'd like, you can have up to three “Backstage Wing” nominations. “Backstage Wing” types include songwriters, producers, record company founders/owners, music video directors, and critics/scholars. (Inductees have also included session musicians, wandering guest musicians, and record company house bands. Unofficial band members like Ian Stewart are "allowed" onstage in this category, as are guest musicians; but this isn't a category meant for a Performer's official backing band, who is often already lumped in together with the Performer.) The Backstage Wing point system: #1 = 3 pts., #2 = 2 pts., #3 = 1 pt. Whoever gets the most points will be our one inductee.

I will keep this poll up through the end of January 31, 2023, UTC timezone. In the finalist stage, in the case of a tie, a tie-breaker vote will go into effect for 3 days to determine the winner, in which case I will cast the last vote (or abstain) if need be.

The results will be sometime in February. With that all said and taken care of, let the voting begin!

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My old warning again:

So, last year, for the first time, none of the performer inductees received 20 points... Out of all our 60-plus induction classes before that, every single inductee had hit a 20-point benchmark. I don't have a problem with last year's winners -- I figure their inductions were inevitable for that year, or an imminent year. (Incidentally, all of them placed in this year's AMF All-Time Artist List. Muse and Run the Jewels did especially well.) But I didn't like how they got in, with none of them receiving more than 2 votes out of 10 voters (with none of the winners receiving first-place votes, either).

I don't feel like we have no choice but to induct four performers every year. My stance is that it should be a little bit difficult for an act to be inducted. For this next time around, my proposal is that if the four-highest performer vote totals are at 20 points or higher, then everything proceeds as usual. If only one, or two, or three acts get 20+ points, then only they get inducted. If NO act reaches 20 points, well, we can't have absolutely no one be inducted, but there would be a secondary vote among the acts with the four-highest vote totals, to at least induct one performer. That's one idea, at least, because I don't want to keep running things like last year.

I'll post my usual stuff like the list of old inductees next week.
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As a little exercise, I decided to compare how I voted for the 2022 artist poll versus how I voted for the Hall of Acclaim last time. As far as non-inductees, these performers were forum-ranked the highest in the artist poll:
1. The Zombies (forum rank #175), 2. Tori Amos, 3. Alice in Chains, 4. Whitney Houston, 5. Soundgarden,
6. Tears for Fears, 7. Rod Stewart, 8. Sting, 9. Cyndi Lauper, 10. Suzanne Vega (forum rank #414)

How I voted for the Hall of Acclaim last time. Overlap in bold.
1. Whitney Houston
2. John Williams
3. The Moody Blues
4. Soundgarden
5. Billy Idol
6. Oingo Boingo
7. Sting
8. Justin Hayward
9. Tori Amos
10. Jimmie Rodgers

Now, there is only so much overlap between the forum members who vote for both polls. If I changed gears and started voting for the Zombies, it wouldn't necessarily put them in the Hall. I think it's funny, though, after checking my old posts, that I've apparently never voted for the Zombies for the Hall, once, ever. Not when I can keep flogging Billy Idol, Oingo Boingo, etc. (Incidentally, the Zombies are probably the longest-suffering "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride" nominee here -- they first made the top 10 of nominees for the Class of 1969. All of the other top 20 finalists from that year eventually made it in, except for the Impressions, though it could be argued they informally got in when Curtis Mayfield was inducted; and the Monkees, who perpetually received a solitary [first-place] vote for a while.)
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We have inducted 248 performers so far. Here are the top non-inductees from this year's Top Artist poll, which would presumably make them among the hottest names.

80. Lana Del Rey
87. Gorillaz
88. Vampire Weekend
95. Janelle Monáe

119. Grimes
122. Taylor Swift
123. Fleet Foxes
124. Beach House
125. Bee Gees
127. Frank Ocean
134. Angel Olsen
140. Swans
142. Tame Impala
146. Amy Winehouse
147. Big Thief
161. Mitski
163. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
164. Dire Straits
167. Adele
171. Bon Iver
175. The Zombies
177. Julia Holter
178. Paul McCartney/Wings
179. Interpol
182. Sharon Van Etten
183. Boards of Canada
184. Phoebe Bridgers
185. Linkin Park
186. The Killers
191. The Roots
195. The War on Drugs
196. Tears for Fears
198. Phil Collins
199. Lady Gaga

202. Donna Summer
203. Spiritualized
206. Jorge Ben
209. Bright Eyes
210. George Michael
211. Mariah Carey
212. Robyn
214. The Verve
218. The Decemberists
219. Spoon
220. The Divine Comedy
223. Burial
224. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
225. Lorde
226. Tori Amos
227. Alice in Chains
228. The Weeknd
230. Courtney Barnett
231. Iron Maiden
232. Super Furry Animals
233. The xx
235. Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young)
236. Rush
237. Whitney Houston
238. FKA twigs
239. Morrissey
240. Yo La Tengo
241. Chico Buarque
242. Echo and the Bunnymen
246. Hot Chip
247. Rod Stewart
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(Instructions now posted at the top)
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The list of the 248 performer inductees, and 65 backstage wing inductees, from our 62 previous class years. As perhaps a one-time statistical exercise, I've also put where the performers ended up on this year's forum Artist poll. (I paid particular attention to whether they placed #248 or better. Over a dozen performers didn't place at all; the "poptimism" controversy we had didn't affect this.)


Performers:

2Pac (200s -- #297)

ABBA (#77)
AC/DC (#130)
Aerosmith (#129)
Animal Collective (#154)
Aphex Twin (#110)
Fiona Apple (#55)
Arcade Fire (#22)
Arctic Monkeys (#79)
Louis Armstrong (#174)

The Band (#145)
Alain Bashung
The Beach Boys (#11)
Beastie Boys (#70)
The Beatles (#1)
Beck (#73)
Belle and Sebastian (#85)
Chuck Berry (#109)
Beyoncé (#72)
Big Star (#188)
Björk (#21)
Black Sabbath (#59)
Blondie (#82)
Blur (#50)
David Bowie (#2)
Georges Brassens (400s -- #457)
Jacques Brel (#115)
James Brown (#78)
Jeff Buckley (#243)
Kate Bush (#33)
Buzzcocks (300s -- #309)
The Byrds (#120)

Can (#149)
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band (300s -- #316)
Johnny Cash (#48)
Nick Cave (#39)
Ray Charles (#93)
The Chemical Brothers (300s -- #347)
Chic
The Clash (#18)
Patsy Cline (400s -- #486)
Cocteau Twins (#166)
Leonard Cohen (#44)
Coldplay (#76)
Nat King Cole (300s -- #365)
Ornette Coleman (300s -- #321)
John Coltrane (#52)
Sam Cooke (#144)
Elvis Costello (#29)
Cream (200s -- #295)
Creedence Clearwater Revival (#49)
The Cure (#19)

Daft Punk (#61)
Miles Davis (#28)
De La Soul
Deep Purple (#193)
Depeche Mode (#74)
Bo Diddley
DJ Shadow (300s -- #360)
Dr. Dre (400s -- #474)
Fats Domino
The Doors (#54)
Nick Drake (#104)
Bob Dylan (#4)

The Eagles (#221)
Duke Ellington (#162)
Missy Elliott (#244)
Eminem (#103)
Brian Eno (#65)
Eurythmics (200s -- #259)
The Everly Brothers (300s -- #380)

Ella Fitzgerald (#194)
The Flaming Lips (#97)
Fleetwood Mac (#58)
Foo Fighters (#112)
The Four Tops (400s -- #461)
Aretha Franklin (#41)
Franz Ferdinand (200s -- #270)
Fugazi (300s -- #336)

Peter Gabriel (#158)
Serge Gainsbourg (#229)
Marvin Gaye (#40)
Genesis (#143)
The Grateful Dead (400s -- #423)
Al Green (#172)
Green Day (#67)
Guided by Voices (300s -- #344)
Guns N’ Roses (#100)
Woody Guthrie

Merle Haggard
PJ Harvey (#45)
Jimi Hendrix (#26)
Billie Holiday (#181)
Buddy Holly (#207)
Howlin’ Wolf (300s -- #367)
Hüsker Dü (200s -- #276)

The Isley Brothers (400s -- #440)

Janet Jackson (#217)
Michael Jackson (#27)
The Jam (#152)
Jay-Z (#107)
Jefferson Airplane (300s -- #307)
The Jesus and Mary Chain (200s -- #266)
Billy Joel (#126)
Elton John (#42)
Robert Johnson (400s -- #421)
George Jones
Janis Joplin/Big Brother and the Holding Company (#208)
Joy Division (#56)

B. B. King (300s -- #363)
Carole King (400s -- #400)
King Crimson (#108)
The Kinks (#37)
The Knife (#169)
Kraftwerk (#68)
Fela Kuti (#135)

Kendrick Lamar (#43)
LCD Soundsystem (#46)
Lead Belly
Led Zeppelin (#16)
John Lennon (#83)
Jerry Lee Lewis (400s -- #469)
Little Richard (#165)
Love (200s -- #252)
Low (#151)
Lynyrd Skynyrd (400s -- #444)

M.I.A. (#156)
Madonna (#38)
Manic Street Preachers (200s -- #282)
Bob Marley and the Wailers (#36)
Massive Attack (#116)
Curtis Mayfield (#139)
Paul McCartney/Wings -- new induction
Metallica (#89)
Charles Mingus (#90)
Joni Mitchell (#47)
Modest Mouse (#157)
Thelonious Monk (300s -- #319)
Bill Monroe
Ennio Morricone (#248)
Van Morrison (#60)
Muse (#136)
My Bloody Valentine (#111)

Nas (300s -- #304)
The National (#64)
Willie Nelson
Neutral Milk Hotel (200s -- #274)
New Order (#66)
Randy Newman (400s -- #465)
Joanna Newsom (#148)
Nine Inch Nails (#138)
Nirvana (#13)
The Notorious B.I.G. (200s -- #249)
N.W.A.

Oasis (#51)
Roy Orbison (#190)
OutKast (#53)

Charlie Parker
Parliament/Funkadelic (#121)
Gram Parsons
Pavement (#159)
Pearl Jam (#75)
Pet Shop Boys (#141)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (#197)
Edith Piaf (300s -- #387)
Pink Floyd (#9)
Pixies (#35)
The Pogues (#216)
The Police (#57)
Iggy Pop (#205)
Portishead (#62)
Elvis Presley (#30)
Pretenders (#245)
Primal Scream (200s -- #285)
Prince (#7)
Public Enemy (#91)
Pulp (#137)

Queen (#32)
Queens of the Stone Age (#213)

Radiohead (#3)
Rage Against the Machine (#201)
Ramones (#94)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (#86)
Otis Redding (#98)
Lou Reed (#81)
Django Reinhardt (400s -- #491)
R.E.M. (#6)
The Replacements (200s -- #264)
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (300s -- #364)
The Rolling Stones (#5)
Roxy Music (#102)
Run-D.M.C. (400s -- #445)
Run the Jewels (#170)

Santana (#222)
Sex Pistols (#176)
Sigur Rós (#132)
Paul Simon (#105)
Simon and Garfunkel (#25)
Nina Simone (#63)
Frank Sinatra (#84)
Siouxsie and the Banshees (#200)
Sleater-Kinney (#101)
Sly and the Family Stone (#117)
The Smashing Pumpkins (#99)
Bessie Smith
Elliott Smith (#69)
Patti Smith (#128)
The Smiths (#10)
Soda Stereo (300s -- #370)
Sonic Youth (#96)
The Specials (300s -- #358)
Spiritualized -- new induction
Dusty Springfield (200s -- #272)
Bruce Springsteen (#17)
Steely Dan (#131)
Sufjan Stevens (#31)
The Stone Roses (#187)
The Stooges (#114)
The Strokes (#118)
St. Vincent (#113)
Suede (300s -- #302)
The Supremes (#155)

T. Rex (200s -- #278)
Talk Talk (#189)
Talking Heads (#20)
Television (#180)
The Temptations (#215)
A Tribe Called Quest (#106)
TV on the Radio (#160)

U2 (#15)

Vampire Weekend -- new induction
Van Halen (#192)
The Velvet Underground (#8)

Tom Waits (#34)
Scott Walker (#234)
Muddy Waters (300s -- #390)
Weezer (#133)
Kanye West (#23)
The White Stripes (#71)
The Who (#24)
Wilco (#92)
Hank Williams (200s -- #288)
John Williams -- new induction
Wire (#150)
Stevie Wonder (#14)
Wu-Tang Clan (#168)

X
XTC (#173)

Yes (#153)
Neil Young (#12)

Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention (#204)
Warren Zevon

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Backstage Wing:

Steve Albini (Indie record producer)
Burt Bacharach and Hal David (Songwriting team)
Lester Bangs (Music critic)
Irving Berlin (Legendary songwriter)
Rodney Bingenheimer (Best known as the first American D.J. to play hot new punk/new wave/alternative acts)
Chris Blackwell (Founder of Island Records; helped popularize reggae music)
Booker T. & the MG’s (Stax Records house band)
Leonard Chess (Chess Records founder)
Robert Christgau (Music critic)
Miles and Ian Copeland (Miles: I.R.S. Records founder; Ian: Promoter, booker, his "FBI" talent agency helped new wave acts)
Ry Cooder (Guest musician discography a mile long; produced Buena Vista Social Club)
Willie Dixon (Also a prolific blues songwriter)
DJ Kool Herc (Credited with helping originate hip-hop music)
Thomas Edison (Inventor of the phonograph, both the first sound recorder and the first sound player) -- new induction
Brian Eno (Also a record producer)
Brian Epstein (Discovered and managed the Beatles)
Michael and Stephen Thomas Erlewine (Michael: Created AllMusic; Stephen: Allmusic critic and senior editor)
Ahmet Ertegun (Atlantic Records founder)
David Fincher (Also once a music video director)
Henrik Franzon (Acclaimed Music founder)
Alan Freed (Early rock and roll D.J.)
Dave Fridmann (Indie record producer)
The Funk Brothers (Backed most Motown recordings from 1959 to 1972)
Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff (Songwriting and production team credited for developing Philadelphia soul)
George Gershwin (Legendary songwriter)
Gerry Goffin and Carole King (1960s songwriting team)
Nick Gold (World-music producer)
Michel Gondry (Music video director)
Berry Gordy (Motown founder)
Norman Granz (Founded Verve, and other labels; jazz's most successful impresario)
John Hammond (Talent scout, helped the careers of Dylan, Springsteen, Billie Holiday, Aretha, Leonard Cohen, etc., etc.)
Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland (Motown songwriting and production team)
Nicky Hopkins (Session musician, 1960s to 1990s, e.g. the Rolling Stones)
Jimmy Iovine (Record producer; co-founder of Interscope Records)
Quincy Jones (Most famously the record producer for Michael Jackson, "We Are the World")
Spike Jonze (Music video director)
Casey Kasem (D.J. for American Top 40)
Hilly Kristal (Owner of the New York City club CBGB)
Larry Levan (American D.J., dance music pioneer)
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (Songwriting team and producers, primarily 1950s)
Alan Lomax (Ethnomusicologist, best known for numerous field recordings of folk music)
Greil Marcus (Music critic)
George Martin (Long-time Beatles producer)
Malcolm McLaren (Promoter and manager of the Sex Pistols, the New York Dolls)
Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (A group of studio musicians, 1960s to 1980s; most notably played on "Respect")
Lodewijk "Lou" Ottens (Inventor of the cassette tape, and helped develop the compact disc)
Les Paul (One of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar; credited with many recording innovations)
Bruce Pavitt (Sub Pop founder)
John Peel (Legendary English D.J.)
D.A. Pennebaker (Rock and roll documentary filmmaker, e.g. Don't Look Back)
Lee “Scratch” Perry (Reggae record producer; pioneer in dub music)
Sam Phillips (Record producer, Sun Records founder)
Cole Porter (Legendary songwriter for Broadway and film musicals)
Rick Rubin (Hip-hop/rock producer; Def Jam Recordings co-founder; established American Recordings)
Ryan Schreiber (Pitchfork founder)
Martin Scorsese (Also a rock and roll documentary filmmaker)
Harry Smith (Compiled 1952’s Anthology of American Folk Music)
Phil Spector (Record producer with the "Wall of Sound")
Timbaland (R&B/hip-hop record producer)
Rudy Van Gelder (Long-time jazz engineer, most closely associated with Blue Note Records)
Ivo Watts-Russell (Joint-founder of the indie record label 4AD)
Jann Wenner (Co-founder and publisher of Rolling Stone)
Jerry Wexler (Signed and/or produced numerous Atlantic Records stars)
Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong (Motown songwriting team)
Pharrell Williams (Also a record producer)
The Wrecking Crew (Loose collective of L.A. session musicians, 1960s-1970s; de facto house band for Phil Spector)

(Basic descriptions after the fact, edited by Live in Phoenix)

Backstage Wing ties: 1970, 1985, 1995, 1997 (and apparently 1998, for Ry Cooder)
Backstage Wing vacancies: 1989, 2009
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Here is the master list of previous, eligible Backstage Wing nominations that have yet to be inducted, with short or edited descriptions, plus the name of one forum member who made the nomination. (Let me know if you think my description missed the mark.) I added some names that I thought would be of some note.

William Ackerman and Anne Robinson (Founders of Windham Hill Records, a new age record label from 1976 to 2007) (Live in Phoenix, 2021)

Moses Asch (Ran the Asch [later Folkways] label from 1948 until his death in 1986; some of America's greatest folk songs were originally recorded for Asch) (EmilienDelRey)

Kurt Ballou ("Probably the greatest producer of heavy rock and metal albums in the last 20 years, responsible for dozens of modern classics") (FrankLotion)

Pierre Barouh (Introduced Bossa Nova in France before founding the "Saravah" label, on which some seminal French acts recorded) (Pierre)

Adrian Belew (King Crimson frontman has also played and/or toured with Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, Nine Inch Nails, Paul Simon, Tom Tom Club) (notbrianeno)

Emile Berliner (Inventor best known for inventing the flat disc record and the Gramophone) (Rocky Raccoon)

Otis Blackwell (His compositions include "Fever," "Great Balls of Fire," "Breathless," "Don't Be Cruel," "All Shook Up," "Return to Sender" [with Winfield Scott]; and "Handy Man") (The_Claw)

T-Bone Burnett (Record producer; credits include everyone from B.B. King to the Wallflowers, with over a dozen Grammys [e.g., Raising Sand; O Brother, Where Art Thou?], and one Oscar ["The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart]) (DocBrown)

John Cale (Record producer and arranger on a number of albums, including the Stooges' debut and a trilogy by Nico; produced Patti Smith's Horses) (luney6)

Julián Carrillo (Composer, conductor, violinist and Mexican scientist, considered by many experts as one of the most important composers in the country and an important microtonal music pioneer) (Blanco)

Dick Clark (From 1956 to 1989, hosted American Bandstand, a popular music-performance and dance show also credited with introducing rock and roll to many Americans) (luvulongTIM)

Gregory Coleman ("drummer behind the Amen Break, the most used sample in recorded music") (mileswide)

Michel Colombier, Alain Goraguer, and Jean-Claude Vannier (Three of the Gainsbourg arrangers. And three great composers too.) (Romain)

Anton Corbijn (Director and photographer with his very own style: Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box,” Joy Division’s “Atmosphere,” and personal favourite Depeche Mode "Never Let Me Down Again") (Honorio)

Don Cornelius (American television show host and producer who was best known as the creator of the nationally syndicated dance and music show Soul Train [hosted 1971 to 1993]) (luvulongTIM)

Dee Nasty (French DJ who practically created the French hip-hop subculture) (Pierre)

DJ Premier (Has worked with Big Daddy Kane, Christina Aguilera, Common, D'Angelo, Dr. Dre, Game, Janet Jackson, Jay-Z, Kanye West, KRS-One, Ludacris, Mac Miller, Mobb Deep, Mos Def, Nas, The Notorious B.I.G., Rakim, Snoop Dogg) (EmilienDelRey)

Coxsone Dodd (Studio One owner/producer) (Mindrocker)

Tom Dowd (Atlantic Records' chief engineer and a producer; popularized multitrack recording; recorded both for Atlantic, Stax and Muscle Shoals and worked with jazz, R&B, soul and rock legends) (The_Claw)

Dr. Demento (American radio broadcaster specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings; brought ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic to national attention) (luvulongTIM)

Dr. Dre (Produced for -- and in some cases, overseen the careers of -- 2Pac, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent, The Game, Kendrick Lamar, Anderson .Paak) (Live in Phoenix, 2019)

The Dust Brothers (Paul's Boutique, Odelay and MmmBop, 'nuff said!) (nassim)

Thomas Edison (His 1877 phonograph is the recording industry's Big Bang [originally too lo-fi for serious music recording, and improved on for years without him]. Co-founded Edison Records in 1888.) (Schüttelbirne)

Manfred Eicher (Founder of ECM Records and record producer) (Schüttelbirne)

Daniel Ek (Founder of Spotify. Changed the music listening experience and made streaming albums easier and more accessible.) (Mattceinicram)

El-P (Co-founder of the Definitive Juxrecord label; a major driving force in alternative hip hop, producing for Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, and Cage, among others) (nassim)

Paul Epworth (Record producer, songwriter: Adele, Florence and the Machine, Rihanna, Maxïmo Park) (Henry)

Bob Ezrin (Produced some of the most entertaining hard rock albums in history [credits include Alice Cooper's '70s run, Lou Reed's Berlin, Kiss's Destroyer; co-producer of Pink Floyd's The Wall]) (Pierre)

Anthony Fantano ("Probably the most popular music critic of all time, and second only to Ebert & Roeper among critics of all mediums") (prosecutorgodot)

Flood (Post-punk and alternative rock record producer and audio engineer: New Order, U2, Nine Inch Nails, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Sigur Rós, The Smashing Pumpkins, Brian Eno) (notbrianeno)

Kim Fowley (Runaways manager; kinda like the John Waters of 70s glam/hard rock with his wild perversion and raunchy imagery) (luvulongTIM)

Bob Geldof (Singer of the Boomtown Rats, co-founder of Band Aid, actor in The Wall, he has earned his place in pop music history) (Pierre)

Charlie Gillett (Radio presenter, musicologist and writer [e.g. The Sound of the City book]; promoted world music; discovered and promoted such acts as Dire Straits and Ian Dury) (DaveC)

Nigel Godrich (Producer of Radiohead's studio albums since OK Computer. Has worked with Beck, Paul McCartney, U2, R.E.M., Pavement and Roger Waters.) (Gillingham)

Peter Guralnick (Music biographer, including an acclaimed two-volume Elvis biography in the '90s) (Live in Phoenix, 2017)

Rick Hall (Record producer, owner of FAME Studios. "I'd recommend the documentary Muscle Shoals for his story. It's amazing how much great music came out of there, and he had a lot to do with it.") (andyd1010)

W.C. Handy ("Possibly the most important backstage guy in popular music. The blues became part of the musical landscape thanks to his compositions [like 'St. Louis Blues'], which also helped developed jazz.") (Rob)

Martin Hannett (Producer, particularly of Joy Division's two LPs, significantly shaping the sound of those records) (mileswide)

Hipgnosis (English art design group [primarily Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell, and later Peter Christopherson]. Album cover clients included Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Wings, T. Rex, and especially Pink Floyd.) (Live in Phoenix, 2023)

Jessica Hopper (American writer; author of The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, a compilation of her essays, reported pieces, zines, and reviews) (StevieFan13)

Robert Hunter and John Perry Barlow (The lyricists for Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, respectively, of the Grateful Dead) (Live in Phoenix)

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (Went from playing in The Time to being major R&B songwriters and producers: Janet Jackson [nine #1 hits], TLC, Michael Jackson, Boyz II Men, Usher, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey. Wrote 41 U.S. top ten hits.) (bonnielaurel)

Eddie Kramer (Recording producer and engineer: Jimi Hendrix [all four original albums], the Beatles, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, The Kinks, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and Carlos Santana) (Live in Phoenix)

Robert John "Mutt" Lange (Produced some of the most entertaining hard rock albums in history [AC/DC's Highway to Hell, Back in Black; Def Leppard's Pyromania, Hysteria]) (Pierre)

Bill Laswell (Everywhere-at-once figure as a producer, player, composer and multiple-label entrepreneur [Ramones, Swans, Herbie Hancock, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Motörhead, the Last Poets, Whitney Houston, Fela Kuti, etc.]) (CupOfDreams)

Teo Macero (Jazz saxophonist, composer, record producer; producer at Columbia Records for twenty years; credits include Bitches Brew, and Dave Brubeck's Time Out) (sonofsamiam)

Robert Mapplethorpe (Creator of a disturbing but fascinating universe with his provocative black and white pictures, not hiding pornographic subjects. Favourite cover art: Patti Smith's Horses.) (Honorio)

Marley Marl (DJ, producer [LL Cool J's Mama Said Knock You Out], rapper, record label founder; influenced hip hop icons such as RZA, DJ Premier, and Pete Rock) (StevieFan13)

Dave Marsh (For his many written words concerning the world of music and his part in organizing the real RnR HOF) (Rocky Raccoon)

Max Martin (Has written or co-written 25 Billboard Hot 100 number-one songs, most of which he has also produced or co-produced, from Britney Spears's "...Baby One More Time," to Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off," to The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights") (andyd1010)

Jimmy Miller (Producer, notably the Rolling Stones' most famous run [even the main drummer on "You Can't Always Get What You Want," "Tumbling Dice"]; Steve Winwood's '60s run; also Screamadelica) (Henry)

Robert Moog (Inventor of the synthesizer, which is easily as influential on popular music as the electric guitar) (Kingoftonga)

Giorgio Moroder (Dubbed the "Father of Disco", pioneering Italo disco and electronic dance music; his work with synthesizers heavily influenced several music genres) (The_Claw)

Shadow Morton ("For his contributions to my favorite girl group of all time, The Shangri-Las." Wrote and produced "Remember [Walking in the Sand]", "Leader of the Pack", and other hits) (HRS)

James Murphy (Has worked on the side with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, Gorillaz, Pulp) (notbrianeno)

The Neptunes (I know Pharrell is already on the list but I think the Neptunes with Chad Hugo deserve even more recognition for their contribution to pop music) (FrankLotion)

Michael Nesmith (Wrote "Different Drum"; won the first Grammy for Video of the Year, in 1981, for the hour-long Elephant Parts; wrote/directed one-hour Monkees '90s comedy special) (jap123)

Alan Parsons (Assistant recording engineer on "Let It Be" and "Abbey Road," engineer for Dark Side of the Moon, reinvented the Hollies, produced 11 albums as the Alan Parsons Project) (DocBrown)

Conny Plank (Principal krautrock producer, also many new wave/postpunk acts in the 80s) (Mindrocker)

Ann Powers (Music critic, writer [NPR, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Spin, Village Voice]; co-authored book Piece by Piece with Tori Amos) (Pierre)

Mark Radcliffe (Radio broadcaster; best known for his broadcasting work for the BBC since the 1980s [e.g., Mark and Lard, The Folk Show]) (Akhenaten)

The Raelettes (American girl group from the 1950s to 2003, formed, as the name suggests, to provide backing vocals for Ray Charles) (Pierre)

David Ritz (Autobiographies co-written by Ritz include: Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, Jerry Wexler, Etta James, B.B. King, Neville Brothers, Janet Jackson, Morris Day. Author of Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin. Co-wrote "Sexual Healing" song.) (Live in Phoenix)

Sylvia Robinson (Founder and CEO of Sugar Hill Records, "The Mother of Hip–Hop"; credited as the driving force behind "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang, and Grandmaster Flash's "The Message") (EmilienDelRey)

Nile Rodgers (Produced David Bowie's Let's Dance, Madonna's Like a Virgin; later worked with The B-52s, Mick Jagger, Bryan Ferry, Lady Gaga, and Daft Punk [three Grammy Awards]) (bootsy)

(Richard) Rodgers and (Oscar) Hammerstein (Songwriting team behind Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. The "Lennon/McCartney" style of dual songwriting credit was based on these kinds of teams.) (Live in Phoenix)

Todd Rundgren (Production credits include Badfinger's Straight Up, Grand Funk Railroad's We're an American Band, New York Dolls, Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell, XTC's Skylarking) (Henry)

George Russell (His jazz music theory book led the way to modal jazz and crystallized it as theory, with Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization, from 1953. This essentially gave us Kind of Blue.) (Live in Phoenix, 2021)

RZA (Produced many Wu-Tang solo and affiliate projects) (Gillingham)

Gustavo Santaolalla (One of the most-awarded and recognized musicians in South America. Santaolalla has produced over a hundred albums, which form a kind of map of Latin alternative music.) (Blanco)

Stéphane Saunier (Arranged the live performances on the French show Nulle Part Ailleurs [including Jeff Buckley, Nirvana, Pulp, and Elliott Smith]. The show was known as the best place to perform.) (Nassim)

Piero Scaruffi (Music critic; he has some unorthodox opinions, but a lot of the time the criticism is objective. He reviews a lot of genres that someone like Robert Christgau hasn't even touched on.) (PlasticRam)

Sly and Robbie (Drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare, a prolific Jamaican rhythm section and production duo, associated primarily with the reggae and dub genres) (Live in Phoenix)

Stephen Sondheim (Considered American musical theater’s most revered and influential composer-lyricist of the last half of the 20th century -- “Send in the Clowns,” Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Oscar-winner "Sooner or Later" from Dick Tracy) (Live in Phoenix)

SOPHIE (Was also a record producer for Charli XCX, Vince Staples, Kim Petras, Madonna, Let's Eat Grandma, Namie Amuro) (Nassim)

Charles Stepney (Record producer, arranger, songwriter and musician; noted for his work with The Dells, Ramsey Lewis, Rotary Connection and Earth, Wind & Fire) (EmilienDelRey)

Bernie Taupin (Elton John’s long-time lyricist; also co-wrote Heart’s “These Dreams") (luvulongTIM)

Ike Turner (In the ‘50s, a producer/talent scout for innumerous R&B acts including Howlin' Wolf, Bobby Bland and Elmore James, and of course his future wife Tina) (Mindrocker)

Andy Warhol (Sticky Fingers and Velvet Underground album covers, among many others; Lou Reed: "In a sense, he really did produce [the Velvets' debut], because he was this umbrella that absorbed all the attacks when we weren't large enough to be attacked.") (Holden)

Andrew Lloyd Webber (Has been called the most commercially successful composer in history -- Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita) (Live in Phoenix)

Kanye West (Executive producer on his own albums; producing credits include The Blueprint, Common's Be and countless other albums and songs) (PlasticRam)

Vivienne Westwood (British fashion designer, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream; made clothes for Malcolm McLaren's "SEX" boutique) (Pierre)

Joel Whitburn (For decades, he and his company have examined music statistics [1890s-onward] and published reference books like The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits 1955–2009) (Live in Phoenix)

Hype Williams (Music video director: "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check", "Gettin' Jiggy wit It", "No Scrubs", Kanye West's "Gold Digger." Has collaborated with Kanye on 20 videos, and with Busta Rhymes on 16 videos.) (bootsy)

Brian Wilson (Equally as gifted as George Martin and his hero Phil Spector) (madzong)

Tony Wilson (Behind some of Manchester's most successful bands. He was one of the five co-founders of Factory Records and the founder and manager of the Haçienda nightclub. Promoted the culture of Manchester throughout his career.) (Akhenaten)

Francis Wolff & Alfred Lion (Wolff: Record company executive, photographer for Blue Note record label. Lion: Record executive, co-founded Blue Note Records, which featured many of the biggest names in jazz 1940s-1960s.) (EmilienDelRey)
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My performer nominations:
1. “Weird Al” Yankovic
2. Ofra Haza
3. Paul McCartney/Wings
4. Mariah Carey
5. Adele
6. Bee Gees
7. Chico Buarque
8. Frank Ocean
9. Taylor Swift
10. Crosby, Stills, and Nash

And for the backstage wing:
1. Dr. Demento
2. Marley Marl
3. Vivienne Westwood

Although there are too many great options for both!
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(It’s really weird that we haven’t added The Bee Gees yet, and ironic that of the high-ranked artists from the last artist poll, I didn’t feel inclined to vote for any of them. I don’t know Vampire Weekend well enough besides their big songs, I like Janelle Monae fine but I wouldn’t call them an all-timer, Lana Del Rey has never really been my favorite besides a few songs, and I’d rather honor Blur or Damon Albarn for his work as a whole than just Gorillaz).
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Also, uh…not to piss on this third rail, but have we ever considered rescinding a past induction? I dunno, I personally feel a little uncomfortable still having Kanye here. I get it, it’s a slippery slope (that’s the reason the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has never rescinded an inductee - you start poking through the reeds, you’re gonna find very few music legends have a clean rap sheet), but that’s just my two cents.
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1. Built to Spill
2. Hot Chip
3. Car Seat Headrest
4. Four Tet
5. Gorillaz
6. Burial
7. Robyn
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StevieFan13 wrote: Tue Jan 03, 2023 4:36 pm Also, uh…not to piss on this third rail, but have we ever considered rescinding a past induction? I dunno, I personally feel a little uncomfortable still having Kanye here. I get it, it’s a slippery slope (that’s the reason the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has never rescinded an inductee - you start poking through the reeds, you’re gonna find very few music legends have a clean rap sheet), but that’s just my two cents.
That gets complicated pretty quickly. In his most recent appearance in a big forum poll, 37 voters put him at #23 in our all-time artist list, ahead of 225 of his 248 inductee peers here, putting him in the top 90% percentile. In that poll’s profile of his accomplishments, his newest forum favorite album is from 10 years ago at this point, and his newest forum favorite song is older still. So, his work is legendary here, but his acclaim (in or out of the forum) also rests on a period of about ten years when he was famous and had a functioning brain. Currently, of course, he’s reduced to the extremely small niche of being a hero to whoever likes black Nazis.

A couple of people besides me have been in charge of the Hall of Acclaim, and hopefully someone would be in charge after my run, so I’m kind of just the steward, and wouldn’t want to unilaterally throw him off. I think in the baseball hall of fame, for instance, you would need 60% of voters to expel an inductee. And that would involve a stable, dependable number of board voters. His 2004-2013 work has been exceptionally honored here and outside the forum (he’s #13 on the main page, just after Elvis), so at best, a poll would be need to be ran, and would need to involve a ton of voters. Keep in mind, if we made some perverse list of some of the more repulsive legendary musicians in history, I’m not even sure where he would land...
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Live in Phoenix wrote: Tue Jan 03, 2023 10:09 pm
StevieFan13 wrote: Tue Jan 03, 2023 4:36 pm Also, uh…not to piss on this third rail, but have we ever considered rescinding a past induction? I dunno, I personally feel a little uncomfortable still having Kanye here. I get it, it’s a slippery slope (that’s the reason the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has never rescinded an inductee - you start poking through the reeds, you’re gonna find very few music legends have a clean rap sheet), but that’s just my two cents.
That gets complicated pretty quickly. In his most recent appearance in a big forum poll, 37 voters put him at #23 in our all-time artist list, ahead of 225 of his 248 inductee peers here, putting him in the top 90% percentile. In that poll’s profile of his accomplishments, his newest forum favorite album is from 10 years ago at this point, and his newest forum favorite song is older still. So, his work is legendary here, but his acclaim (in or out of the forum) also rests on a period of about ten years when he was famous and had a functioning brain. Currently, of course, he’s reduced to the extremely small niche of being a hero to whoever likes black Nazis.

A couple of people besides me have been in charge of the Hall of Acclaim, and hopefully someone would be in charge after my run, so I’m kind of just the steward, and wouldn’t want to unilaterally throw him off. I think in the baseball hall of fame, for instance, you would need 60% of voters to expel an inductee. And that would involve a stable, dependable number of board voters. His 2004-2013 work has been exceptionally honored here and outside the forum (he’s #13 on the main page, just after Elvis), so at best, a poll would be need to be ran, and would need to involve a ton of voters. Keep in mind, if we made some perverse list of some of the more repulsive legendary musicians in history, I’m not even sure where he would land...
Yeah, that's why I'm saying I won't bemoan it forever. After all, I also think his work from 2004-2011 or so is fucking brilliant. I can't listen to it anymore, but I can't pretend I don't objectively think it's good music (same for Wagner, Michael Jackson, Van Morrison, Brand New, etc etc etc). I don't believe in historical revisionism in the sense that Kanye's importance toward hip-hop in the '00s and '10s not be acknowledged. But I do hope he doesn't get any further recognition. It should be like Russia's FIFA ranking: there, unchanging, even if it used to be considered high.
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My Backstage Wing vote:

1. Thomas Edison (If you've ever heard a sound recording, you can thank Edison)

2. Martin Hannett (Joy Division's record producer, who gave that band's "loud and heavy" music the classic postpunk sound everyone remembers)

3. Hipgnosis (Design team, primarily Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell, and later Peter Christopherson. The biggest hit of the AMF Album Cover Poll 2020: Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here [#2], and The Dark Side of the Moon [#6]; Peter Gabriel's 1977 and 1980 car/melting face covers [#97, #35]; T. Rex's Electric Warrior [#66]; Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy [#117])
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Performer Ranks:

1) Todd Rundgren (all time favorite)
2) The Style Council (7)
3) Joe Satriani (8)
4) Joe Jackson (10)
5) Chicago (13)
6) Steve Winwood (14)
7) Doobie Brothers (15)
8) Journey (17)
9) Allman Brothers (19)
10) Emerson, Lake & Palmer (28)
If any of these is already in the Hall of Acclaim, the next on list include:

11) James Taylor (34)
12) Jackson Brown (35)
13) Jethro Tull (39)
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Backstage Wing:

1. Todd Rundgren:
(Production credits include: The Band's Stage Fright, Badfinger's Straight Up, Grand Funk Railroad's We're an American Band, New York Dolls, Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell, Tube's Remot Control, Patti Smith's Wave, The Psychedelic Furs' Forever Now, XTC's Skylarking)

2. Thomas Edison
3. Rick Beato
4. Alan Parsons
5. Rodgers and Hammerstein
6. Andrew Lloyd Webber
7. Brian Wilson
8. Robert Moog
9. Giorgio Moroder
10. James Murphy
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1. Robyn
2. Dead Can Dance
3. George Michael
4. Underworld
5. Fat Freddy’s Drop
6. Isaac Hayes
7. Judas Priest
8. Sade
9. Iron Maiden
10. The KLF
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Henry wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 7:37 pm
If any of these is already in the Hall of Acclaim, the next on list include:

11) James Taylor (34)
12) Jackson Brown (35)
13) Jethro Tull (39)
14) Grateful Dead (40)
Actually, one of your backups, the Grateful Dead, has in fact made it in, for the Class of 2018
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Taken directly from my all time artist list:

1. Beach House
2. Soundgarden
3. D'Angelo
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5. Crosby, Stills & Nash (& Young)
6. Deerhunter
7. Idles
8. Lana Del Rey
9. Swans
10. Buffalo Springfield
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1. Lana Del Rey
2. Thrice
3. Vampire Weekend
4. Taylor Swift
5. Blink-182
6. Florence + The Machine
7. Father John Misty
8. Tool
9. Beach House
10. Laura Marling
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1. Sharon Van Etten
2. Vampire Weekend
3. Angel Olsen
4. Tame Impala
5. Fleet Foxes
6. Bee Gees
7. Adele
8. Super Furry Animals
9. Chicago
10. Taylor Swift
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Changed my vote. Certain unfortunate recent events reminded me there's an act I probably should've included. (Sorry, Amy!).
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I've heard the three CSNY albums over the years and, frankly, wasn't greatly impressed. But I can put them on my list based on their old So Far compilation, which includes CSN numbers.
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This is also to boost numerous performers, so they can stay in the conversation.

Performers:
1. Gang of Four
2. Swans
3. Tool
4. John Williams
5. Tori Amos
6. Whitney Houston
7. CSN(Y)
8. Adele
9. Soundgarden
10. Bee Gees
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1. Beach House
2. Roy Harper
3. Interpol
4. Richard Dawson
5. The Decemberists
6. Cesária Évora
7. Lana Del Rey
8 . Big Thief
9. Gentle Giant
10. Billy Bragg
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At this point, there won't be a second ballot to induct a performer, because one act has cleared 20 points.

Now, it's just a matter of whether we induct 1 performer, or 2-4.
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1. Teenage Fanclub
2. Spiritualized
3. Lush
4. Vampire Weekend
5. The Runaways
6. Kirsty MacColl
7. Billy Bragg
8. Sinead O’ Connor
9. Magnetic Fields
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1. Paul McCartney
2. Spiritualized
3. George Michael
4. Billy Bragg
5. Gorillaz
6. Sinéad O'Connor
7. Kirsty MacColl
8. The KLF
9. Tori Amos
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As per usual I tried to avoid personal favoritism, for a more historical view, with the caveat that I should at least like the artist (George Michael when? Never if I could help it). Though I did allow myself Lana Del Rey this time, as she has made enough great work by now to make the favoritism more justified.

1. John Williams
2. Dolly Parton
3. Bee Gees
4. Koji Kondo
5. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
6. Lana Del Rey
7. Judas Priest
8. Iron Maiden
9. Beach House
10. Alice Coltrane

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Nearing the last hours for this. (By the way, once the deadline has passed, allow for a handful of days to get my presentation together.)
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1. Camarón de la Isla (my all time artist #30)
2. Echo and the Bunnymen (#44)
3. Joan Manuel Serrat (#47)
4. Prefab Sprout (#48)
5. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (#52)
6. Goran Bregovic (#63)
7. Vampire Weekend (#73)
8. The Style Council (#76)
9. Caetano Veloso (#78)
10. Todd Rundgren (#80)

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Only artists already mentioned by others (there really is no point for an individual ballot here):

1 | Spiritualized
2 | John Williams
3 | Paul McCartney
4 | Richard Dawson
5 | Built to Spill
6 | Crosby, Stills & Nash
7 | Alice Coltrane
8 | Gang of Four
9 | Judas Priest
10 | Swans
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1 | Thomas Edison
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I'm going to combine my favorite remaining artists as well as others I really like who have gotten some traction (or who plausibly might).

1. Janelle Monáe
2. Kylie Minogue
3. Annie
4. Mylène Farmer
5. Gorillaz
6. George Michael
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
8. Sade
9. Robyn
10. Echo and the Bunnymen
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I don't have time to check who hasn't been admitted, so I'll just take my picks from others' suggestions, thanks Live in Phoenix and those I'm cribbing from!

1. Billy Bragg
2. GY! BE
3. Laura Marling
4. Echo and the Bunnymen
5. Gang of Four
6. Iron Maiden
7. The Magnetic Fields
8. Tame Impala
9. Alice Coltrane
10. Prefab Sprout
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Ooo, last minute surprise! Thanks everyone for voting. The voting is now CLOSED. Turnout was high, and we have 4 performers to induct. Numerous acts ended up hitting 20+ points, more than I can even induct.
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Edison's 1877 phonograph (illustration from 'Physique Populaire,' Emile Desbeaux, 1891) -- Science Photo Library
Colorized photograph of Edison with his 2nd phonograph model, taken in Mathew Brady's Washington, D.C. studio in April 1878. Original photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Ed ... _edit1.jpg

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"Just tried experiment with a diaphragm having an embossing point & held against parafin paper moving rapidly. The spkg [sic] vibrations are indented nicely & theres [sic] no doubt that I shall be able to store up and reproduce automatically at any future time the human voice perfectly" -- 18 July [1877]

"his greatest invention"
"...I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. I never was so taken aback in my life. Everybody was astonished."
"...[John] Kruesi, listening with incredulity to the thing he had made talking with Edison's voice, exclaimed, 'Mein Gott im Himmel!' [Literally, “My God in heaven!”] All those who heard the miraculous machine in the ensuing months, from the president of the United States on down, reacted with equal disbelief."
"When he applied for a patent on Christmas Eve, its originality so stunned examiners at the Patent Office that they issued one without question, not having any precedent to judge the instrument against."
"...it is impossible to listen to the mechanical speech without his experiencing the idea that his senses are deceiving him" -- Scientific American

All text, besides the photos, are from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris's 2019 Edison book


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Thomas Edison -- 8 points
Dr. Demento -- 6
W.C. Handy -- 5
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Paul McCartney/Wings
Genres: Pop Rock, Singer-Songwriter, Art Pop, Pop, Western Classical Music, Rock & Roll

"[In] retrospect, [Paul] McCartney's albums make for the most fascinating body of work among any of the ex-Beatles, and really among any of his peers" ... Wingspan: Hits and History captures "the quirky brilliance of McCartney's solo career, how it balanced whimsical pop with unabashedly sentimental romantic ballads, piledriving rockers, and anything in between ... it's a convincing argument that McCartney's solo recordings are a rich, idiosyncratic body of work of their own merits." (Review of Wingspan: Hits and History by Allmusic/Stephen Thomas Erlewine)

Top 10 studio albums (Rate Your Music)
1. Paul & Linda McCartney – Ram [#2 Acclaimed Music]
2. Paul McCartney & Wings – Band on the Run [#1 Acclaimed Music]
3. Chaos and Creation in the Backyard [#3 Acclaimed Music]
4. Flaming Pie [Bubbling Under]
5. Wings – Venus and Mars
6. McCartney
7. Tug of War [Bubbling Under]
8. New [Bubbling Under]
9. Memory Almost Full [Bubbling Under]
10 (tie). Flowers in the Dirt
10 (tie). Wings – London Town
[Also Bubbling Under: Egypt Station]

Top 10 Acclaimed Music songs
1. Maybe I’m Amazed
2. Band on the Run
3. Live and Let Die
4. Jet
5. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
6. Silly Love Songs
7. Another Day
8. All Day
9. Coming Up
10. Mull of Kintyre
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Spiritualized
Genres: Neo-Psychedelia, Space Rock Revival, Art Rock, Space Rock, Dream Pop, Psychedelic Rock

"Lazer Guided Melodies takes full advantage of [Jason] Pierce’s facility for crafting songs that build slowly — majestically, even — from simple acoustic kernels to fully orchestrated euphonies" ... The third album, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, "is a sacred and profane masterpiece ... another heady cocktail of familiar ingredients (gospel, blues, garage rock, psychedelia, free jazz, minimalism and systems music), with a continued focus on the intertwined themes of love, drugs and salvation ... The most compelling numbers develop into Spector-sized symphonies, elevating Pierce’s prosaic lyrics to epic stature: 'Broken Heart,' a rather mundane song of lost love, gains the illusion of earth-shattering gravitas from its string and horn arrangement." (Trouser Press)

Studio albums, ranked (Rate Your Music)
1. Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space [#1 Acclaimed Music]
2. Lazer Guided Melodies [#2 Acclaimed Music]
3. Pure Phase [Bubbling Under]
4. Let It Come Down [#4 Acclaimed Music]
5. Everything Was Beautiful™
6. Sweet Heart Sweet Light [Bubbling Under]
7. And Nothing Hurt [#3 Acclaimed Music]
8. Songs in A&E [Bubbling Under]
9. Amazing Grace®

Top Acclaimed Music songs
1. Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
2. Hey Jane
3. Soul on Fire
4. Broken Heart
5. Stop Your Crying
6. I Think I'm in Love
7. Electricity
Bubbling Under: Come Together; Feel So Sad; Good Times; I'm Your Man; Medication
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Vampire Weekend
Genres: Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Indietronica

"At times, the [debut] album sounds like someone trying to turn a Wes Anderson movie back into music (it's no surprise that the band's keyboardist also writes film scores); there's a similarly precious yet adventurous feel here, as well as a kindred eye and ear for detail. Everything is concise, concentrated, distilled, vivid; Vampire Weekend's world is extremely specific and meticulously crafted ... Amazingly, instead of being alienating, the band's quirks are utterly winning ... [Ezra] Koenig has a boyish, hopeful quality to his voice that completes Vampire Weekend, especially on bittersweet but irrepressible songs like 'I Stand Corrected' and album closer 'The Kids Don't Stand a Chance' ... this band is smart, but not too smart for their own good." (Allmusic)

Top Acclaimed Music studio albums
1. Modern Vampires of the City
2. Vampire Weekend
3. Father of the Bride
4. Contra

Top Ten Acclaimed Music songs
1. Hannah Hunt
2. A-Punk
3. Harmony Hall
4. Step
5. Diane Young
6. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
7. Ya Hey
8. Oxford Comma
9. This Life
10. Giving Up the Gun
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John Williams
Genres: Film Score, Cinematic Classical, Film Soundtrack, Orchestral, Soundtrack, Modern Classical

"You ensured that Star Wars would endure forever. And then, you did it again with Raiders of the Lost Ark. Steve [Steven Spielberg] and I sat on the beach to talk about the story for Indy. And instantly, we both said at the same time, 'John has to write the music.' Steve said, 'Great -- that's the most important part. Let's go have lunch, and we can write the story later.'"

“John, you breathe belief into every film we have made. You take our movies, many of them about our most impossible dreams, and through your musical genius you make them real and everlasting for billions and billions of people." (George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, American Film Institute life achievement award ceremony)

Top 10 albums ranked (Rate Your Music, with 100+ user ratings)
1. Star Wars [#1 Acclaimed Music]
2. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
3 (tie). Schindler's List
3 (tie). Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark
6 (tie). A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
6 (tie). E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
6 (tie). Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
6 (tie). Superman: The Movie
10. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(If we limit Williams to one album per franchise, then the top 10 is rounded out by Jurassic Park, Jaws, and Memoirs of a Geisha.)
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Top Performer results
1 (tie). Spiritualized – 28 points
1 (tie). Vampire Weekend – 28
3 (tie). Paul McCartney/Wings – 26
3 (tie). John Williams – 26

5. Beach House – 24
6 (tie). Billy Bragg – 22
6 (tie). Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young) – 22
6 (tie). Lana Del Rey – 22
9. George Michael – 21
10. Gang of Four – 20

Any of these runner-ups would have gotten in last time with these many points.
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Live in Phoenix wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 12:40 am Top Performer results
1 (tie). Spiritualized – 28 points
1 (tie). Vampire Weekend – 28
3 (tie). Paul McCartney/Wings – 26
3 (tie). John Williams – 26

5. Beach House – 24
6 (tie). Billy Bragg – 22
6 (tie). Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young) – 22
6 (tie). Lana Del Rey – 22
9. George Michael – 21
10. Gang of Four – 20

Any of these runner-ups would have gotten in last time with these many points.
Thanks Live in Phoenix for your excellent work on this project!

None of my nominations made it, but I love that we have our own hall of fame and the artists we have inducted over the years. I’m very glad that we have a greater participation again.
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Henrik wrote: Mon Feb 06, 2023 2:24 pm
Thanks Live in Phoenix for your excellent work on this project!

None of my nominations made it, but I love that we have our own hall of fame and the artists we have inducted over the years. I’m very glad that we have a greater participation again.

You're welcome, Henrik!
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Always a fun thing to see. Next year, Beach House, I promise! Next year!
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Somehow didn't see Spiritualized coming. One of those bands I don't expect to ever be nominated by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but a worthy band for sure.

It surprises me that the Bee Gees can't get any traction here. They may not be my number one pick, but they seem like the most obvious miss at this point.
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The Bee Gees’ showings have been awful, but this year they were #11, probably their best showing ever. They might have some momentum building.

Beach House was the first act to hit 20 points this time around. They’re the ones that made me post that there wouldn’t need to be any funny second ballot. It's hard to predict things around here, but they might be one of those “next time” winners.
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Hi, so as Howlin' Wolf once put it, I have had my fun. For next time, I'd like someone else to take over. It's probably the easiest regular poll (hence why I did it).
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