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

FREE HOT DOGS! FIFTY CENT BUD LIGHT DRAFTS!

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

just realized we missed "You're So Vain"

great song obv but i can't recall ever hearing it on a classic rock station

I dunno I think I remember it as a staple but I have no other evidence.

Thirty seven Decembers ago, pop songstress Carly Simon tore up the record charts with her single "You're So Vain." The song captured the number-one slot on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Adult Contemporary charts, and to this day remains one of the most popular classic rock songs of all time.

from a Carly Simon press release, qed

Yup: Billboard Hot 100 x Adult Contemporary.

I've heard it on classic rock radio before, for sure.

I never have, I don't think--which is not to say CR stations elsewhere don't play it. Great song, but it doesn't really fit my amorphous definition of CR; for one thing, my guess is it would have been considered pop by Creem readers at the time (as they lusted after Carly herself...).

Yeah, I think that's OTM. Singer-songwriter, not noted as an instrumentalist as such, James Taylor connection, other hits are all definite AM pop stuff, and...a girl?!! Feel like the deck woulda been stacked against her. I'm totally down with the idea that some CR stations could have gone with it though. It does basically rock, kinda. And it's undoubtedly classic.

fwiw this was *precisely* why I didn't nominate any Carole King

I would've voted for You're So Vain til the cows came home though

yeah there's a lot of '70s soft rock that's borderline classic rock, and where you put the border is subjective. speaking of James Taylor, i definitely would've nominated "Fire And Rain" if i'd thought about it, although it's in that gray area where i doubt it would've gotten many votes.

There will be a singer-songwriter poll one sweet day, and Kris Kristofferson will get the acclaim he deserves

I heard "You're So Vain" on a car radio (*) the other day and the solo + 70s Stones subtext made me think it HAD to have been a CR staple, like in between "Beast of Burden" and "Rock and Roll Never Forgets"

(*) counterpoint: I was in Britain

It could fit, musically, but, yeah, I don't hear it on CR radio, even though I hear it a tonne or other formats. Doesn't turn up on the couple all-time lists I checked.