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90. James Gang – Walk Away846 points, 12 votes
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
Cool images grady! Y'all shoulda hit me up for old Sh1pley family photos to add to the mix!
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Monday, 28 July 2014 17:24 (nine years ago) link
I hear "Walk on the Wild Side" reasonably often, actually (and don't know what "Shambala" is). In fact, it was on when we turned on CR radio while setting up our apartment a couple of weeks ago. I remember that when I was a kid and first listening to CR, I totally didn't get what the point of the song was, just some guy talking over a couple of chords.
The guitar tone on "My Sharona" is actually pretty ripping, I noticed when I heard it a little while ago!
i first heard about 'lola' on 'family ties,' so
Me too! Nick's preferred wedding song iirc.
xposts LOVE "Walk Away"
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 28 July 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
Sharona guitars are so good.
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Monday, 28 July 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
ITAT is a monster. never considered voting for it due to it's almost, like, anti-classic rock but imo this track can't be praised enough. changed everything. Phil Collins on LEAD DRUMS, motherfuckers.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 July 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
My #9!
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Monday, 28 July 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
my sharona's lyrics are pretty uncomfortable if you sing them out loud
― Karl Malone, Monday, 28 July 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
in my world of classic rock neither Genesis nor Phil Collins ever registered, because they were on top 40 / pop radio. I think?
yeah I hate "My Sharona" for the lyrics; but "My Bologna" is a classic
― Euler, Monday, 28 July 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
Lol
xpost
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 28 July 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
nah Genesis/Collins were AOR staples
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 July 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
ooh... seems to me "walk away" is the first track on my ballot to place. the Aorta is making Monday at the tool and die shop fly by.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 July 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
I cut "Walk Away" pretty late, despite loving it; I remember hearing "Rocky Mountain Way" on classic rock radio but no James Gang.
― Euler, Monday, 28 July 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
Something about ITAT seems to draw inspiration from Wall-era Pink Floyd as well as laying the foundation for later Floyd music that came after Waters departed. Are Collins and Gilmour buddies? Seems like they would be.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
"walk away" is sublime.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Monday, 28 July 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
and it seems to me VG should be here for this moment.
deeply regret not voting 4 this
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
i didn't know the james gang was from cleveland!
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 July 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
DADDY'S HOME
gr80, you wanna do one more song before i get in the booth and finish out today's broadcast?
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
can i go both tracks from this tie we have coming up?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
do*
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
Assumed I'd know every song on the Top 100, but here's one I don't. (Don't know anything except "Funk #49.") Yesterday, at the HOF inductions, there was a dead ringer for Joe Walsh was sitting right behind Greg Maddux's family. Unless it really was Joe.
― clemenza, Monday, 28 July 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
Might explain why Joe Walsh was on the Drew Carey Show.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
sure, do the whole tie
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
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88. (tie) Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising853 points, 12 votes
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
tbh before this poll i really didn't have any concept of James Gang having more than one hit "Funk #49" and "Walk Away" just blended together as a vague cloud of 'Joe Walsh songs that I don't like as much as "Life's Been Good"'
never knew the title or band behind "Walk Away" till now
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
Go to the 4-minute mark on this video...That's him, that's Joe!
― clemenza, Monday, 28 July 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
Bad Moon Rising was my top Creedence pick.
Hope you got your things together.Hope you are quite prepared to die.Looks like we're in for nasty weather.One eye is taken for an eye.
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
the whole james gang rides again album is fabulous.
― brimstead, Monday, 28 July 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
throughout the poll there were a few CCR songs getting several votes but not enough to be a lock for the top 100, i was pleased when "Bad Moon Rising" got a late surge of support to make the cut.
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
There's a bathroom on the right
― voodoo chili, Monday, 28 July 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
Will be bummed if that's the only one. No other band for me sounds as classic rocky as CCR does.
― Jeff, Monday, 28 July 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
i'll say no more on the topic
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
"Bad Moon Rising" was my CCR vote. I stuck with a one-vote-per-artist rule (with exceptions for the greats i.e. Nazareth).
― Euler, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link
I'm in line to do a CCR ballot poll but there are 10 others ahead of me.
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
what's crazy is it wouldn't be any harder to come up with 100 songs by 100 different bands for this poll xp
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
I only voted for one CCR track, and I suspect it may be coming up, but upon reflection today and I think "Up Around the Bend" might be the most CR of all CCR tracks.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
yeah my ballot is more or less completely arbitrary
― Euler, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
ok one more from me & its back to some dude, been real cool hanging with y'all
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
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88. (tie) The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze853 points, 14 votes
"bad moon rising" is one of the most haunting songs any rock band has ever come up with.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
I remember hearing "Rocky Mountain Way" on classic rock radio but no James Gang
Huh. This is another one of those songs that I literally have only ever heard on CRR -- I have never owned any James Gang (even though probably I should), but every second of this and "Funk #49" are deeply imprinted on my musical cortex.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
lol great photo
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
Heard Stairway to Heaven just now while shopping for groceries.
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of cortexes
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
― voodoo chili, Monday, July 28, 2014 1:59 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
'scuse me while I kiss this guy!
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
xp Always had trouble reconciling the ominous lyrics of BMR with its happy, jaunty sound ... Not my fave CCR track
― Brad C., Monday, 28 July 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
imo there is no more classic rock CCR than "fortunate son." whether that was enough for it to make my ballot or this rollout, only the rock gods know.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
I heard "Yoda" before I ever heard "Lola," and therefore always consider it sort of a novelty song...despite a deep and abiding love for all things Kinks.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, July 28, 2014 10:21 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha ditto, I saw gr8080 post this entry then went outside to do some gardening and the whole time I was singing "So I used the Force! I picked up a box!" to myself.
fuck don't stop believin' forever, i will take solace in the fact that it came very near to not placing, and could very easily have been beaten by "eminence front"
loving how "ILM" these results are, though - all the wrangling over what constitutes Classic Rock aside, we've already got at least three songs here that I am sure would not place in a top 250 of the general radio listenership. Why I love this place!
"My Sharona" rules and was one of the few borderline new-wave/power-pop songs I let in (the main riff is really close to something like Costello's "Pump It Up")- it just rocks so hard, has always been ubiquitous in the format in my lifetime, and MY YI YI YI YI, YI, WOO!
"Bad Moon Rising" not my favorite CCR... reducing the turmoil and upheaval of the late 60s to an old man on the back stoop checking the wind could have maybe worked if anything about the song felt like an actual bad moon was on the rise. Wellll, don't come around tonight - we're out of beer. But come 'round on Saturday, Ed's gonna get the grill fired up around four, and the weather looks good. It's like it wants to be "Gimme Shelter" in vibe, but just ended up in the wrong key by accident. I did vote for "Up Around The Bend" which I doubt we'll see, and "Fortunate Son," which I could see placing...
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
basically, what brad said