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Originally Posted by boo boo
What are you talking about? Of course they do.
I know I'm a fanboy and thus I like a lot of their work no casual listener would be caught dead listening to, but you're telling me you don't want to vote for them because they didn't have enough great material, but you want JEFF BUCKLEY to get in?
He made ONE finished album for gods sake, and I don't see what was do damn innovative about it, compared to say an album like Close to the Edge in 1972.
But like Elliott Smith I guess being dead gives you a free pass. Defining a new form of music obviously ain't that important, but lets just go ahead and induct every run of the mill folkie/crooner that people only care about because they're dead.
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The "unfinished" album is two discs and ninety-one minutes long. And for having such a small discography, his impact upon rock music is unprecedented. If Joy Division deserved to get in with their two
extremely overrated albums, Jeff Buckley sure as **** does.
And Yes expressed a huge divergence from progressive rock. I think you explained it best: that their early and later albums sucked. Why? Because they elected to start manufacturing trepid pop music and marketed it to sell to the masses. Their clumsy relationships with each other resulted in poorly produced albums for the last two decades.