The nominees are:

Pat Benatar
Dave Matthews Band
Depeche Mode
The Doobie Brothers
Whitney Houston
Judas Priest
Kraftwerk
MC5
Motörhead
Nine Inch Nails
The Notorious B.I.G.
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan
Todd Rundgren
Soundgarden
T.Rex
Thin Lizzy

That is a better-than-average list.

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Still no Jethro Tull love.

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Based on previous inductions, I'm surprised a few on this list aren't in yet.

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Cause tried and true
I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
life?--Gener and Deaner

They really should be the first Prog band in the door, before ELP and King Krimson, anyway.

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My dad was not a fan of Tull. "Jethro Tull? That's the freak who simulates masturbation with his flute!"

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Don't take it personally.

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Thick as a Brick listed at #5 on this list:

https://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp

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I dig some Jethro Tull but King Crimson is the far more accomplished band. I especially like the Discipline/Beat/Three of a Perfect Pair trilogy with Adrian Belew and Tony Levin. Chapman stick!!

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Dave Matthews

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Thin Lizzy
Motorhead
Soundgarden
Depeche Mode
Pat Benetar
Nine Inch Nails

Rundgren to me belongs in as a producer...not a performer. Whitney Houston and Biggie will probably get in...although, maybe things are a little different since Jann Wenner isn't the chairman anymore. DMB should be launched into the sun.

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What a fucking embarrassment to nominate that shitty college bar band. The only one drunker than all the frat bags at the concerts was dave himself. If you could make a date rape mixtape it would be all DMB songs.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

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No shit. And I can't believe that shithead has had his own Sirius channel for the last five months.

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Don't take it personally.

Sorry guys. You and I may not like Dave, but they fit the criteria.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

The public vote-generated final list had Blink 182 on it.

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Dave Matthews Band was one of the first "serious" bands I remember liking. Consider the top 40 landscape at the time and it's more defensible. What's not defensible is the lyric "hike up your skirt a little more and show your world to me," which is firmly entrenched in the top of the Worst Lyrics Ever list.

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She’s My Cherry Pie?

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If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Not surprised. The Blink is still popular with kids today. I always get a couple of requests to play their songs (when asking students to list songs with which they connect). I suppose they are trying, but I can't stand their music.

They should have gone with “hole world”.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

"What's My Age Again?" is a classic.

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Dave Matthews was that guy in freshman year English glass that understood the significance of Piggy's broken glasses in Lord of the Flies on a much deeper and tedious level than the rest of the class, but never evolved beyond that.

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So THAT'S what Jasmine was singing about in Aladdin!

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People are stupid.

Although, Adam’s song is pretty good.

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Speaking of shit, wasn't it the DMB bus driver who intentionally dropped a payload on an architectural boat cruise?

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Why not, it's his mileau.

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Points to TS. Had to look up mileau. Still no clue what it means.

Yes. Still a legendary story in the small but tight-knit Chicago maritime industry.

I actually like that lyric. It's a cousin to "I had a taste of the real world when I went down on you, girl."

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Don't take it personally.

I like them better than most of these nominees.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!