The Black Crowes: HOF?

Any of you guys nostalgic for the Black Crowes should check out Mount Moriah. Similar musically, but a little more country and with a chick singer.

 

Better bands/artists than the Black Crowes from the 1990s (not including any bands that got their start in the '80s like REM and Red Hot Chili Peppers, but some of these had their first album in '89 but didn't get big until the '90s):

Pearl Jam
Nirvana
Beck
Green Day
Radiohead
Soundgarden
Stone Temple Pilots
Nine Inch Nails
Oasis
Weezer
Tool
Foo Fighters
Counting Crows
Dave Matthews Band?
Snoop Dogg
Eminem
Tupac
Outkast
Lenny Kravitz
Notorious B.I.G.

This is just the ones off the top of my head. Many of these didn't have staying power; others did. Some of them are in the Hall; some aren't. All of them should be in before the Crowes (maybe not the rap/hip-hop guys, but the Hall has been taking those in lately). And this doesn't count all the bands from the '80s that should be in line in front of them as well.

Maybe the Black Crowes get in someday in a weak class, but they aren't even in the top 20 bands/artists for the decade in which they were most prolific.

 

First time I saw the Black Crowes live was at Hordefest, the year Jerry Garcia died. In fact, I think he died within a few weeks of the show I went to.

The Crowes headlined, and came on after hours and hours of terrible Grateful Dead covers and "tributes." I was ready to hang myself before they came on and blew me away with a completely Dead-less set. They saved the entire day.

 

Edited for accuracy.

 

Lenny Kravitz and Weezer are probably the shakiest artists on that list, but you're right, there are a lot of groups and singers from that era who exceeded the Crowes, including Alice in Chains, which for my money is the most underrated group of that era.

 

Green Day sucks.

 

Oasis grates on my nerves every time on of their songs starts on my satellite radio. Christ, I can't stand that dude's voice.

I'll vote no on the Black Crowes.

 

Radiohead sucks.

 

Correct.

 

Oasis was the best rock 'n' roll band in the world from the mid-90s till the late-00's.

 

If Shannon Hoon had lived, Blind Melon might have become the best band of the '90s.

 

I think you and I pretty much have lockstep taste.