^ ad-libs on the coda to my no.17
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
This song is so unruly.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
Shoulda included WAY more Boston on my ballot.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
I am a big, big fan of foreplay. I mean "Foreplay." Well, yeah.
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
Won't be able to rank the whole thing. Top 20 or 25 maybe.
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
But that's the most difficult part to rank! I've got like twenty viable no.1s up top.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
The number of points your #25 song is getting is still pretty high, just list 'em and they'll all get a nice boost
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
lol @ Swamp Da Wamp
― guwop (crüt), Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link
Top 50: sent! Can't wait to see this poll. Al, you're a giant for compiling it.
― thomasinskeep, Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
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.
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:44 (nine years ago) link
I won the Supertramp tickets!
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:59 (nine years ago) link
letting the deadline slide is so classic rock
wait was five man electrical band's (or tesla's ffs) 'signs' nominated?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 July 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Thursday, 17 July 2014 01:48 (nine years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 July 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Thursday, 17 July 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
rocktaugust
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 July 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link
so that would be oxt week.
http://www.vox.com/2014/7/16/5901883/oxt-new-word-weekend
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 17 July 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 July 2014 03:25 (nine years ago) link
ugh xp
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 July 2014 03:28 (nine years ago) link
just realized we missed "You're So Vain"
― Euler, Saturday, 19 July 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
great song obv but i can't recall ever hearing it on a classic rock station
― some dude, Saturday, 19 July 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
I dunno I think I remember it as a staple but I have no other evidence.
― Euler, Saturday, 19 July 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
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
― Euler, Saturday, 19 July 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
Yup: Billboard Hot 100 x Adult Contemporary.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
I've heard it on classic rock radio before, for sure.
― how's life, Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
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...).
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
fwiw this was *precisely* why I didn't nominate any Carole King
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
I would've voted for You're So Vain til the cows came home though
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
There will be a singer-songwriter poll one sweet day, and Kris Kristofferson will get the acclaim he deserves
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
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
― Euler, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
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.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
don't get me wrong, ysv wouldn't have made my first round of cuts itp.
― how's life, Saturday, 19 July 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
I've heard more Joni* than Carly on CR radio.
*Court and Spark singles.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 July 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
tonne or other formats
"on other formats"
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 July 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
Adult Contemporary at the time of You're So Vain would have meant the much less hip Easy Listening. Classic Rock at the time would have been AOR. Nice spin by Simon's publicist though.
― campreverb, Saturday, 19 July 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
Joni gets a lot of CR airplay here. It's hard to say how of that has to do with Cancon requirements. Absent that, she'd still have gender bias and the singer-songwriter tag to contend with, but not as much as King or Simon, probably. Think she was more accepted by the rock audience back then.
A singer-songwriter poll down the road with a window from about '68 to '72 would be great.
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 July 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
i was going to vote for Donovan's "Season of the Witch" but it was not nominated either.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 20 July 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
Really? I don't hear her much on CR. "Big Yellow Taxi" does turn up at #482 on the Q107 list.xpost
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 20 July 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
yeah...the classic rock canon is funny, women were allowed in, but they had to rock pretty hard most of the time, whereas there's lots of mellow acoustic staples by the guys. some of the mellower Fleetwood Mac hits probably the most significant exception.
― some dude, Sunday, 20 July 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
I've been hearing the Court and Spark singles semi-regularly on Q-107 for years, Sund4r. I can only seem to find the 2007 list online, which has "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Raised on Robbery."
― clemenza, Sunday, 20 July 2014 00:26 (nine years ago) link
I can believe it. CHEZ has become pretty limited even compared to the Q, probably.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 20 July 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link
I think Joni has more CR street cred via her Zeppelin endorsements over the years (plus more shared Zep DNA if you consider her influence on III and IV).
― Darin, Sunday, 20 July 2014 05:16 (nine years ago) link
^^Not to mention the CSNY connections.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 20 July 2014 05:24 (nine years ago) link
ICYMI, the results have begun: CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link