CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL voting thread -- deadline July 15 -- VOTING CLOSED

top 20 minimum. c'mon you can freestyle that in like 2 minutes!

my advice would be, think about the songs that you'd be angry to see miss the top 100. because right now, having tabulated more than half the ballots, i still have no idea how this is really gonna end up. a lot of huge songs are not safe at the moment. there are bands with tons of hits that have nothing guaranteed in the top 100 yet.

how many ballots do you have?

Okay, I scanned my longlist and threw together a top... 26? It's not a particularly interesting ballot but at least I'm throwing some love at a few favourites.

*opens photoshop*

*cracks knuckles*

I'm sure you guys have some awesome stuff planned for rollout, but I think a podcast where you do a radio countdown with DJ banter in between songs would be perfection

I'd be willing to chip in to enlist Steven Wright for that.

yessss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mto3YoSIEM

You've reminded me that K Billy was more of a K-Tel/AM Gold kind of guy--though he does get in a "keep on truckin'", and has an excellent way of saying "The Behemoth."

I heard my four-year-old absent-mindedly singing Abracadrabra to himself as he wandered the floor this morning otherwise doing his four-year-old stuff

current total is 58 ballots but I am still accepting votes from my fellow workaholics and procrastinators! bring em on!

can we do worst first?

yes, subpolls will roll out first

Carson City Fairgrounds

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i still plan on doing this but can't finalize til tonight.

tonight is good! do it!

ok then

Can I still vote on this then? Just got internet set up at the new place.

Yes! There is still time, please vote! If both you send me ballots that will put us over the line to 60!

VOTER SIXTY GETS TO TICKETS TO SUPERTRAMP!

I've been dialing since 8am, line is permanently jammed wtf I WANT SUPERTRAMP TICKETS GODDAMMIT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQgP1I64AE4

1:28 forward

I am sad the Rock Legends Cruise is sold out.

http://rocklegendscruise.com/

Featuring:

The Doobie Brothers, Alice Cooper, Paul Rodgers,.38 Special, The Marshall Tucker Band, Don Felder, WAR, Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam, Blue Oyster Cult, Uriah Heep, The Outlaws, Molly Hatchet, Rik Emmett, The Edgar Winter Band, Ten Years After, Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown, Pat Travers Band, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Melvin Seals & JGB, The Artimus Pyle Band, Swamp Da Wamp, Steve Rodgers, The Blue Lords, Citizens Band Radio

wow

Al, did I read correctly that we can still send you lists today?

Do it, Thomas!

Yes, go for it!

Doing it, Paul.

Oh man, Foreplay/Longtime you guys.

^ ad-libs on the coda to my no.17

This song is so unruly.

Shoulda included WAY more Boston on my ballot.

I am a big, big fan of foreplay. I mean "Foreplay." Well, yeah.

Won't be able to rank the whole thing. Top 20 or 25 maybe.

But that's the most difficult part to rank! I've got like twenty viable no.1s up top.

The number of points your #25 song is getting is still pretty high, just list 'em and they'll all get a nice boost

lol @ Swamp Da Wamp

Top 50: sent! Can't wait to see this poll. Al, you're a giant for compiling it.

Have been having ridiculous computer trouble - it doesn't wantto cut & paste 100 lines. Think I've sorted through it now & am sending ballot. Pologies for lateness.

I won the Supertramp tickets!

Haha wow just got 3 ballots in the space of 20 minutes! Any more stragglers? I'll give you Thursday too, lotta counting left to do.

letting the deadline slide is so classic rock

wait was five man electrical band's (or tesla's ffs) 'signs' nominated?

cover was post-86 and nobody nommed the original.

I let the deadline slide on all my polls, usually because i'm anxious for more voters, in this case because the turnout was so huge that it just seems fair to give people an extra window of opportunity while I'm counting.

tbh that entire post was rhetorical

<3 some dude, thanks for running the show that never ends. it's guaranteed to blow our heads apart

btw I should just you guys the gist now, the top 100 will probably run mon-fri the week AFTER next, starting July 28. thread will kick off with subpolls sometime next week I reckon. all tentatively, obviously gr80 have our work cut out for us and doing it right is more important that doing it quickly.

rocktaugust

so that would be oxt week.

http://www.vox.com/2014/7/16/5901883/oxt-new-word-weekend

I call for a literal, month-long Rocktaugust, just because more than five songs a day is hard to have a proper drunken argument about.

ugh xp