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

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

http://ljplus.ru/img4/h/e/hermanngrekoff/_No-Beatles.jpg

The Beatles probably won't end up on my ballot; I like them fine but there are at least 100 songs on here that are better.

amen

No Beatles on my ballot. No .38 Special, either. It made the first two rounds of cuts but couldn't hack it for round three.

Def voting for "Badge." It's the only omission that would definitely make my top 10.

Bummed that Loverboy "Turn Me Loose" didn't make the cut. I expected everything used in Wet Hot American Summer to show up here.

"Revolution" is essential classic rock canon imo. Plenty of bikers dig the beatles.

tbh everything psychedelic can fuck off...I think? well except Jimi obv

only beatles on my ballot is aerosmith's come together XD

I didn't even realize until I had looked at my choices that I hadn't even considered the Beatles, it was COMPLETELY SUBCONSCIOUS

I was surprised at how quickly I got to 100. I kind of think that's too big a ballot- between 20 - 50 would provoke more hard choices.

disagree! got to 400 in the first run. cutting it to 100 will be brutal

looking forward to some savage cutting this evening

i'm not against voting for the Beatles on any principle, although looking at the cuts we ended up with nothing really feels like it needs to be on my ballot. "Revolution" will probably make it, i have a lot of fond memories of hearing it on late shifts at my college job and always liked the single version far more than the White Album one.

The ones I can imagine on CRR are pretty much my least-favourite Beatles, but Revolution would sound damn good.

First pass: exactly 250 songs left. I found out I don't know anything by Bob Seger or John Mellencamp. Should I correct this before I vote?

did "Revolution" get much classic rock radio play before the Nike ad? that's when I really started hearing it out

answer is probably yes since it's not like "Search and Destroy" ever took off

Seger maybe, try "Night Moves"? xp

xxp Seger and Mellencamp are classic rock more than anything else so yes

Still the Same sounds just like the first few notes of On Some Faraway Beach, so it's def worth a try.

Also it's a good song.

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."

One of these things is difficult to put inside the other

xp The Nike ad was my first time hearing "Revolution." Also, my gateway to classic rock stations were 3 or 4 song sets of the Beatles that played in the morning during my bus ride to daycamp and also on the busride home in the afternoon.

Oh well I guess back to mid-season baseball! I heard someone laid down a nice two-out bunt last night.

lol

I'm definitely not voting for Centerfield or the outfield either.

I found out I don't know anything by Bob Seger or John Mellencamp. Should I correct this before I vote?

yes. perhaps in this order:

Bob Seger – Night Moves
Bob Seger - Still The Same
Bob Seger – Rock & Roll Never Forgets
Bob Seger – Turn The Page
Bob Seger – Hollywood Nights

John Mellencamp – Hurts So Good
John Mellencamp – Pink Houses
John Mellencamp – Crumblin’ Down
John Mellencamp – Jack & Diane
John Mellencamp – Small Town

I know I've heard "Still The Same" a million times but in my head right now I am hearing it as "stiiiiill the same" to the tune of "Against the Wind"

did "Revolution" get much classic rock radio play before the Nike ad? that's when I really started hearing it out

There wasn't much CRR before the Nike ad. The ad premiered in 1988, and CRR had been around since 1986, at the earliest.

lol
you could sub in "turn the page" too

here i go
still the saaaame

still the same
i was strong as i could be
still the same
nothing ever got to me

imo "I Need A Lover" is the ultimate AOR Mellencamp track. that long instrumental intro is incredible!

I love the Beatles, but didn't vote for any of their tracks since they don't seem to be what this poll is about. I define classic rock as more of a 70's thing for whatever reason.

And lol - both "Turn the Page" and "Against the Wind" made my worst ten list.

Album poll question: are Greatest Hits/Best Ofs ok?

no

Crying Eagles Greatest Hits Vol.1 .jpg

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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CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS