Who Cares About the Rock Hall? - Podcast Rankings and reviews

This has become one of my favorite podcasts and I’ve gone back to listen to previous years’ episodes. Joe does an excellent job researching and organizing each episode, and the guests are always engaging and knowledgable. I’ve learned a lot even from episodes about artists I didn’t think I was interested in! It’s focused on the Rock Hall but will appeal to anyone interested in pop music history. I hope Joe and Kristen continue it next year!

Consistently well-researched, thoughtful, and hilarious. I look forward every year to tuning in and following the eligible/nominee/inductee cycle with Joe and Kristen.

Found this pod after Joe was on SPY pod. Great in depth and insightful discussion of musicians and music. Lots of humor too. Both hosts Kristen and Joe are a great balance for each other. Burning through the back catalogue now.

Feels weird to say, but I’ve learned so much from this show—not just about the history of music, but also how the industry views itself. I was mourning the potential loss of the annual FYE countdown episode, so what a delight to see it in my feed this week. Please keep it coming! Especially the fantasy ballot draw, the nominee reveal episode and the interviews with voters.

*Caveat: I only recently started listening to this podcast, and have been cherry-picking episodes from the back-catalog.
Like the concept of the podcast, and Joe is great in his role as resident expert and ringleader. Additionally, most of the guests are very entertaining and add something to the conversation.
What I can’t understand is why Kristen is on the show. She has almost no understanding of music history (or music in general, for that matter), and seems to have no interest in doing research on the bands/artists that she will be commenting on. And she often stops the flow of the podcast because she won’t stop riffing on a comment she made that didn’t make any sense the first time she said it.
I intitially downloaded about 30 episodes, and have listened to half. The rest are getting deleted as soon as I finish this review.