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

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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CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS