Saturday, October 24, 2020

POP-A-LOOZA! Does PAT BOONE belong in the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME? [spoiler alert: NO!!!!]

Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is my brief (and emphatically negative) response to the question: Does Pat Boone belong in The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame?

No. Of course he doesn't. 

So let's move on and talk about who should be in. Now, the Rock Hall's pathetic history of ignoring and snubbing so many worthy acts over the years deserves all the scorn we can muster. On the other hand, I don't support the notion of just shrugging and accepting the Hall's irrelevance. Rock 'n' roll should honor its own, and Wenner's Folly remains the highest-profile means of doing so.

The Monkees remain my pick for the Hall's most egregious omission to date. In 2016, foolishly confident that the positive buzz of The Monkees' fantastic Good Times! album would finally sweep Micky, Davy, Michael, and Peter into their deserved Hall of Fame recognition, I wrote out the speech I would give if cosmic providence allowed me the opportunity to induct The Monkees. When they didn't get in, I wrote an embittered follow-up, "Cleveland Mocks." I'm still right, and The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame is still wrong.

I've returned a few times to this subject of who oughtta be in the Hall. I came up with a hypothetical list of who should be in the Hall if the Hall could only include 100 acts. I concocted a fake This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio playlist of acts that should be added to the Hall; from that list, I think only The Zombies have since been inducted. And last year, I wrote "Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss," stating my belief that the overdue departure of chairman and noted weasel Jann Wenner probably wouldn't improve the Hall's myopic and chuckleheaded determination to exclude a truckload of worthy older acts. 

That said, I do agree that Pat Boone should absolutely not be inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. My rant in that direction is the subject of the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.

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