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Ramones, Sex Pistols Up for Rock Hall
Punk innovators the Ramones and the Sex Pistols lead the ballot for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2001.
The list, released Monday, also includes such pioneering acts as new-wave funkmeisters Talking Heads, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, easy-rocking singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, as well as notable holdovers like Patti Smith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, AC/DC and, yes, Black Sabbath.
Ballots determining this year's hopefuls for the Cleveland-based shrine have been sent out to voters with finalists likely to be announced later this fall. Typically, inductees are voted on by a 70-member committee made up of journalists, music historians, artists and those alleged rock 'n' roll experts otherwise known as record company execs. Of the 16 nominees, a maximum of seven can be elected into the Hall of Fame, with the requisite ceremony/jam session taking place in New York City.
The New York-based Ramones, whose frontman, Joey Ramone, died in April from lymphoma, arrived in 1976, introducing the world to such hard-driving, three-chord, two-minute punk anthems as "Blitzkreig Bop" and "I Wannabe Sedated." Despite lasting for just two years, Britain's Sex Pistols also made an indelible impact on rock with their "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen" and their incredibly self-destructing behavior.
The Talking Heads were a different story. They could actually play their instruments and helped lead the new wave invasion with tunes like "Once in a Lifetime," "Burning Down the House," "Psycho Killer" and "Life After Wartime."
Influenced by the Byrds and Bob Dylan, Petty's crew has been churning out top 40 hits since the mid-70s, including "American Girl," "Refugee," "The Waiting," "Don't Do Me Like That", "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" and "Don't Come Around Here No More."
Jackson Browne, one of the top singer-songwriters of the '70s and '80s, cowrote the Eagles hit "Take It Easy" and dominated FM airwaves with such tunes as "Doctor My Eyes," "The Pretender," "Running on Empty," "Somebody's Baby" and "Tender Is the Night."
Others up for enshrinement include super-cool soul man Isaac Hayes ("Shaft"), '50s girl group the Chantels ("Maybe"), doo-woppers the Dells ("Stay in My Corner," "Oh, What a Night") and "5" Royales ("Baby Don't Do It" and "Help Me Somebody"), melodramatic '60s popster Gene Pitney ("Town Without Pity," "Only Love Can Break a Heart") and influential country-rocker Gram Parsons, who was a member of both the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers. Smith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, AC/DC and Brenda Lee were also-rans last year who are up again this year.
So is perennial snubbee Black Sabbath, which hasn't made the cut for the past four years. While frontman Ozzy Osbourne had no comment this time around, the heavy-metal icon has in the past demanded his band be removed from the ballots because the voting wasn't being done by the fans.
"Just take our name off the list. Save the ink," he said at the time. "Forget about us."
Among the eligible acts failing to make the ballot: Alice Cooper, KISS, Lou Reed, Bob Seger and Iggy Pop's Stooges.
Last year's crop of inductees included Michael Jackson and Paul Simon (for their solo work), Steely Dan, Ritchie Valens, Aerosmith, Queen and Solomon Burke.
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