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Originally Posted by jackhammer
I would say: use your own criteria. Just the same as you listen to a band and judge it on your own criteria then the same applies here. I didn't vote for the Beach Boys because as far as I'm concerned , one album isn't enough to convince me of their influence or greatness.
With Zappa he is a true one off, extraordinarily gifted and also promoted the idea of making music for oneself unaffected by genre.
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Each to their own in the end in terms of aesthetics and you know and I both that but I really do not understand how a music board as educated as this one has no understanding of the influence of The Beach Boys.
I am no Led Zeppelin fan but it would be utterly churlish of me to deny their influence. In terms of vocal harmonies The Beach Boys and The Everly Brother and, later, the Bee Gees influence can be heard to this very day. Listen to the new Animal Collective album as an example. I have had friends in various groups over the years who cite them as the groups that they listened to when aspiring to put vocal harmonies together. So this dismissal of them on this Hall of Fame thread makes me think that is is just a popularity poll and therefore a touch meaningless.
Be that as it may if I am going to vote in a meaningful Hall OF fame Frank Zappa is a yes for all the obvious reasons.