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

I know this is somewhere in the gigantic noms thread, but: ordered or unordered?

Do you want the ballots in any particular format?

Also: EXCITED

this thread should play 'caught up in you' every time you open it

nvm that's probably not a good idea

Did you exclude Three Dog Night's "Shambhala" for some reason?

Uh, wow, so... you've disallowed 2 songs that I nominated and were going to be top-10 on my ballot.

Guess I'll have to rethink this.

Or, "Shambala" as they spell it. xp

song that doesn't need to lobbied for at all, but which i will lobby for anyway: "sweet home alabama." the platonic ideal for every rock radio format ever invented. but this is its home format. and it has the best sounding guitars ever recorded in the rock and roll milieu.

Ah yes, sorry: ordered ballots only please, top to bottomed. Numbered not necessary but may be helpful.

Don't know if it makes a difference but you have the following listed as separate entries:
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit, Somebody to Love

this thread should play 'caught up in you' every time you open it

Ha, I just looked that one up and went "Oh, that (awesome) song!"

I think "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Tush" are the only non-Allmans Southern rock songs that made my initial cut.

so glad ILM loves .38 Special as much as I do

<3

I'm not voting for any songs Eminem has rapped over

Was Mr. Blue Sky disallowed for any reason? CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL parking lot tailgate pre-party -- nominations, discussions, parameters, etc.

Also the song Blue Sky itself. Could have sworn i nominated that.

This is the "Party Rock Anthem" fiasco all over again!

why is Party Rock Anthem not on this list?

Mr Blue Sky is a classic rock staple

not gonna vote for it but

i never heard "Mr. Blue Sky" on the radio before it appeared in a bunch of commercials and movie trailers about a decade ago and only a few times since then

I wish

Don't know if it makes a difference but you have the following listed as separate entries:
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit, Somebody to Love

― nxd, Tuesday, July 1, 2014 11:40 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh yeah, disregard the entry w/ both song titles in it. maybe i should've specified that it would've helped to format nominations for my convenience but there was a lot of stuff like that to fix on my end, there was bound to be something falling through the cracks.

I managed to get my list down to 134 on the second pass. I realized I was keeping token songs from certain radio airplay staple bands even though I was either burned out on those specific songs or liked other songs that don't get airplay much better. Once I let go of that urge, it went much easier. That's going to make my ballot weird, I think (no Pink Floyd, no Aerosmith for two examples), but it will be true to my heart.

if you're dying to vote for something not on the list, vote for it, i don't care. but i don't feel like i cut anything that has a fighting chance of making the countdown unless i had a reason, and ended up just trimming away a lot of obscurities that only seemed to have one or two likely voters.

nbd but I pine for Rainbow's "stone cold" as nom'd by (i think) la lechera and I will vote for it

also I heard "edge of seventeen" on the radio last night and it ruled and I'm happy it's on the list!

if you're dying to vote for something not on the list, vote for it, i don't care. but i don't feel like i cut anything that has a fighting chance of making the countdown unless i had a reason, and ended up just trimming away a lot of obscurities that only seemed to have one or two likely voters.

Thank you.

This is my campaigning post for

Wings - Junior's Farm
John Lennon - #9 Dream

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

This is my campaigning post for

Eric Clapton - Badge

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

ah jeez chill with the bold would ya

he did it first

Is that a different version than Cream's "Badge"? I'll totally vote for the OG Cream recording.

ah jeez chill with the bold clapton would ya

Cream's "Badge" is great. I guess, billed as Clapton, it might be some live thing? I dunno.

Ah yeah sorry, Cream did it first - was thinking of a live number. I'll vote for Cream too.

I'm feeling very boldface today, but I'll take the request under advisement.

btw gr80 is going to be working up visuals for the results thread, i've seen some samples and they're awesome.

:D

yay
hold on loosely, ppl

I'm voting for Shambala and I encourage you all to join me. You have 100 spaces on your ballot, and seeing a write-in place feels good!

Hold On Loosely is so necessary.

Hold On Loosely is so necessary.

huge place in my heart because it's one of the first songs i ever learned how to play on guitar. i thought i owned the world. also, it's great.

tbh i've barely heard even the really BIG enduring Three Dog Night hits on classic rock radio and just included some of those in good faith, never heard this "Shambala" thing before in my life

I guess it's regional (although I don't know why the southeast us would've picked up on it more than other regions)? It's a total radio-cranker for me.

Yeah, I hear it reasonably often. I'll write it in.

Will .38 Special be the beneficiary of a "top of ballot" advantage, as is often asserted in political races?

they'll get a lift from the more obscure "back door stranger" advantage

I'd always planned to vote for at least one 38S song. Will them being at the top swerve me into voting for a second? Dunno yet.

if we could figure out a way to disqualify .38 special and brian johnson-era ac/dc, then this poll would start with "big balls" and end with "tush."

I was able to carve this down to about 300 tracks on the first pass, discovering in the process that I was applying a "no MTV" rule

it was sweet revenge to delete some songs and artists I've heard way too often ... I'm sure many of them will show up in the results, but not on my ballot, maaaaan

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.

don't get me wrong, ysv wouldn't have made my first round of cuts itp.

I've heard more Joni* than Carly on CR radio.

*Court and Spark singles.

tonne or other formats

"on other formats"

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.

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.

i was going to vote for Donovan's "Season of the Witch" but it was not nominated either.

Really? I don't hear her much on CR. "Big Yellow Taxi" does turn up at #482 on the Q107 list.
xpost

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.

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."

I can believe it. CHEZ has become pretty limited even compared to the Q, probably.

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).

^^Not to mention the CSNY connections.

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