I also would go so far as to say that I like every Cars album I’ve heard (which admittedly is not all of them) more than American Idiot. I also find the title song extremely obnoxious.
Do you like Green Day? If not, you can’t exactly be objective.
But wouldn’t liking Green Day be subjective too? I’m not a big fan but I don’t have a problem with them in the Rock and Roll Hall of fame. I’m also not a big The Cars guy but their self titled album is probably one of the best rock albums ever, so it is pretty silly that they’re not in.
I just looked it up, there are some absolutely absurd snubs going on here: http://www.futurerocklegends.com/The_Snub_List.php
I always assumed that they started putting in non-rock groups because they already inducted all the good rock groups. Guess not.
I think I’ll go back to not caring about this topic.