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    What are people talking about?

    About the 2026 Inductees, Casper wrote:
    * Sorry, Lauryn Hill is also upper tier. So, yeah 11 names from the upper tier on this last ballot.

    My total amount of names on the board from the upper tier is just 40 (with 29 from the 1980s and beyond). Highly doubt we get 11 again, let alone 8, but I'd applaud it if it happened. The ballot SHOULD be the most electable names.
    Wednesday, 10/21/2026 @ 15:31pm

    About the 2026 Inductees, Casper wrote:
    INXS and Mariah Carey are the only high tier candidates that didn't get in during this last cycle. The other names were cannon fodder. There's pretty much no chance going forward that we get ten candidates on that level as far as electability goes.
    Wednesday, 10/21/2026 @ 15:29pm

    About the 2026 Inductees, Casper wrote:
    Totally on the money in regards to future ballot quality and acts like Pixies and The Smiths and Smashing Pumpkins. Unless the committee just wants to be absolutely ridiculous and sidestep a lot of these music, they're going to be on the ballot in the next few years and they're going to easily get in because there just aren't that many acts as competitive as they are.

    As I've said a billion times already, unless they face a stacked ballot (Diana Ross, Boston, Weezer, etc.) there's basically no way they won't get in. They're competing against far more flawed candidacies like Shakira, Melisssa Etheridge and New Edition. It'll be easy.

    I would say though that INXS were definitely a victim of circumstances. There was just enough classic rock/80s stuff on this last ballot for them to (presumably narrowly) miss election. Next time though? They'll predictably be on some ~15 name ballot where at least half is of a lower tier. Boom, induction.
    Wednesday, 10/21/2026 @ 15:26pm

    About Garbage, Oscar wrote:
    Another thing I could see is Garbage is used as umbrella to induct both Shirley Manson and Butch Vig
    Wednesday, 10/21/2026 @ 13:12pm
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