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

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.
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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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