{"id":793,"date":"2007-08-13T14:30:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T18:30:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-28T14:43:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T18:43:38","slug":"rock-n-roll-hall-of-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-n-roll-hall-of-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock &#8216;n Roll Hall of Shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Per <strong>Townsman Mwall&#8217;s <\/strong>suggestion, we&#8217;re moving the question from today&#8217;s <em>Dugout Chatter<\/em> on the <strong>Band That Brought the Most Shame to the Genre of Rock &#8216;n Roll<\/strong> to the Main Stage!<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ajCER3Nk4js?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nTo review, I wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Has any artist outright <strong>shamed<\/strong> the entire genre of rock &#8216;n roll as Meat Loaf did in his prime? I heard the intro to &#8220;Paradise by the Dashboard Light&#8221; the other day, and I felt like I was watching one of my own sons get a swirly in summer camp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>2000 Man suggested solo <strong>Mick Jagger<\/strong>. Mwall singles out <strong>Styx<\/strong> for the shameful way they treated the genre. All good suggestions, but I still say Meat Loaf gave rock a swirly, then rubbed his sweaty briefs in roll&#8217;s face! <\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s be clear:<\/strong> we&#8217;re not talking &#8220;bad&#8221; bands &#8211; that&#8217;s shooting ducks in a barrel. Rather, we&#8217;re talking bands that made a mockery of or otherwise shamed the entire genre of rock &#8216;n roll. <\/p>\n<p>A little description is in order with your nominations. I, for instance, find Meat Loaf&#8217;s appropriation of early rock &#8216;n roll bombast performed in a post-<em>Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em> manner to be disrepectful to the founding fathers of rock. In one fell swoop, he drags in Broadway, Vampire Rock, and operatic ambitions. The mixing of pure rock &#8216;n roll with <em>any one<\/em> of these elements is dangerous enough. In Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman&#8217;s hands, music becomes an act of terror. Four measures into &#8220;Paradise by the Dashboard Light&#8221; and any good will engendered by the likes of glam rockers like the <strong>New York Dolls<\/strong> is shot to hell.<\/p>\n<p><em>For shame, Meat Loaf, for shame!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per Townsman Mwall&#8217;s suggestion, we&#8217;re moving the question from today&#8217;s Dugout Chatter on the Band That Brought the Most Shame to the Genre of Rock &#8216;n Roll to the Main Stage! To review, I wrote: Has any artist outright shamed the entire genre of rock &#8216;n roll as Meat Loaf did in his prime? I <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-n-roll-hall-of-shame\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}