The Rock hall has been pissing me off with their choices the last few years. Of that list, The Cure is the most qualified. The Small Faces should probably be considered too only because they're an overlooked band. Does anyone know why The Smiths still have never been considered? I mean, talk about an incredibly important band! They are way more important than say, Joan Jett or Donna Summer, or Donovan or War. I'm surprised The Cure are being considered. Aside from R.E.M., alternative music has been given short shrift so far from the Rock Hall, and the institution is in danger of becoming as irrelevant as the Grammy's.
That said, I'll give them props for putting Tom Waits in last year.
Does anyone know why The Smiths still have never been considered? I mean, talk about an incredibly important band! They are way more important than say Donna Summer
The Smiths never ever made a more important song than "I Feel Love."
That said, I like them and would rather see them inducted than The Cure. But don't think for one second that they had a bigger impact than Donna Summer on music history. They might fare better on internet album polls, but that doesn't change a thing.
Does anyone know why The Smiths still have never been considered? I mean, talk about an incredibly important band! They are way more important than say Donna Summer
The Smiths never ever made a more important song than "I Feel Love."
That said, I like them and would rather see them inducted than The Cure. But don't think for one second that they had a bigger impact than Donna Summer on music history. They might fare better on internet album polls, but that doesn't change a thing.
You're kidding, right? Who exactly did Donna Summer influence?
Does anyone know why The Smiths still have never been considered? I mean, talk about an incredibly important band! They are way more important than say Donna Summer
The Smiths never ever made a more important song than "I Feel Love."
That said, I like them and would rather see them inducted than The Cure. But don't think for one second that they had a bigger impact than Donna Summer on music history. They might fare better on internet album polls, but that doesn't change a thing.
You're kidding, right? Who exactly did Donna Summer influence?
Okay, well let's start with this song called "Our Love" from Donna Summer's genre-splicing 1979 double album, Bad Girls:
Straight away I think we can safely say this song's sound more closely resembles today's hits than The Smiths' fey indie guitar pop. But you asked for more specific examples. This song might be jogging your memory -- maybe you hear something in it that makes you think of another song? Maybe that beat that comes in at 1'32" rings a bell? If not, then I'm proud to introduce you to these lovely new-to-you tunes:
The rhythm in "Temptation" and that beat at the beginning of "Blue Monday" can both be traced back to "Our Love" by Donna Summer.
But Donna's most "important" song, the one that reinvented the wheel (something that'd be hard to say about The Smiths or many many other acts), is "I Feel Love":
Here's something from the wikipedia page for it, an oft-referenced tidbit of Bowie/Eno history:
Quote:
According to David Bowie, then in the middle of recording of his Berlin Trilogy with Brian Eno, its impact on the genre's direction was recognized early on:
“ One day in Berlin ... Eno came running in and said, 'I have heard the sound of the future.' ... he puts on 'I Feel Love', by Donna Summer ... He said, 'This is it, look no further. This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years.' Which was more or less right.[4]
Rock music has become less and less relevant in the years since "I Feel Love," but electronic music is still the greatest force in pushing sounds into the future. The Smiths came when rock music's hold was dying.
Artists have still been replicating and reusing the sound of "I Feel Love" in the past ten years:
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