My Name Ain't Baby. It's Whitney. Miss Jackson If You're Very, Very Drunk.

It's October again, which brings us baseball playoffs, my favorite pro football team looking like a band of misfit donkeys, pumpkin spice crap, ghosting, and yes, the release of the latest batch of nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Giddyup:

• Def Leppard
• Devo
• Janet Jackson
• John Prine
• Kraftwerk
• LL Cool J
• MC5
• Radiohead
• Rage Against the Machine
• Roxy Music
• Rufus featuring Chaka Khan
• Stevie Nicks
• The Cure
• The Zombies
• Todd Rundgren

For those of you on Gheorghe's music tip, you'll recognize a few acts that were left outside the gates last year.  Radiohead's snub stunned mopes with stunted social skills and regular rock fans alike last year. It would be surprising (if kind of amusing) were they to be left on the doorstep once more.  And I can't see Janet Jackson getting left off the list this go-around.

But that's the thing about us fallible humans... we do make "interesting" decisions.  (Like what my first wife called "poor choices"; what my second wife described in terms we can't use here; what my next wife will call her wedding day. But I digress.) At least the Rock Hall isn't like the Recording Industry Association of America and the team of semi-trained goats they have picking the Grammy nominees and winners.

As usual, I'll do the heavy lifting for you.  Last year I came reasonably close in my prognostications. Let's have another go at this, shall we?

Be sure to go to the Hall of Fame website and place your vote.  Oh, and if you want to see someone who nerds music up even worse than I do, check out this masterful list of historic RnRHoF snubs. What a geek.

My personal picks would be The Cure, Devo, John Prine, LL Cool J, and The Zombies, but they don't ask me.  Neither did you, I suppose.

And here's your handy-dandy playlist from the nominees.  Enjoy.