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ProfessorGAC

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5. For Me It's The Cars

Reply to demtenjeep (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 9, 2015, 11:27 AM

Jan 2015

Unless i missed something, i don't think they're HoF.

Nobody sounded like them before. Nobody sounded like them since. Most underrated great guitar player of all time. Clever, hummable tunes. Millions of records sold.

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This guy is so far off base [View all] mimi85 Dec 2014 OP

Never heard of Kraftwerk, Chic or, say, the Germs or Black Flag. Scuba Dec 2014 #1

Kraftwerk -- probably the most commercially successful early 70's German band dogknob Sep 2015 #12

Paul Butterfield Band were fantastic bluesmen. Nitram Dec 2014 #2

SRV should've been in the first vote taken. mimi85 Dec 2014 #3

Chicago should be in demtenjeep Dec 2014 #4

For Me It's The Cars ProfessorGAC Jan 2015 #5

We saw them in 1980. mimi85 Feb 2015 #9

I Saw Them Twice ProfessorGAC Mar 2015 #10

Chic? Weren't they like a one hit wonder from the disco era? WhoIsNumberNone Jan 2015 #6

NOT in R&R hall of fame: Moody Blues, Kansas, Doobie Bros... Number9Dream Jan 2015 #7

The Butterfield Band brought the 'extended jam' to rock music. greendog Jan 2015 #8

Butterfield Band is pretty good leftofkant May 2015 #11

Paul Butterfield was popular in the late sixties ... Trajan Sep 2015 #13