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.
awesome.
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
no amount of cr overplay will ever be able to kill the majestic strangeness of "purple haze" for me.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
tru
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
we've already had several songs that aren't in any of the top 500 airplay lists i gathered (Walk Away, Walk On The Wild Side, Stop Draggin, Eminence Front). i don't think that necessarily means anything. the canon is pretty large, even if playlists are shrinking on a lot of stations.
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
Sund4r: "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around, "Eminence Front," I guess "The Chain" and now I'd add "Walk Away" I guess, though I don't think I even know that one (add it to the list, fcc?). Not like the public hates any of those - just that ILM types rate Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks a lot higher than I'd reckon the average CR listener does. Not dramatically - I'm just saying, A+ "essential," versus A- "love 'em." Of course, as discussed previously, our tendency to not vote a lot of songs by a given act may have vote-split some of the heaviest hitters - we'll see as the rollout continues. I think it's cool.
"Purple Haze" sounded fucking amazing to me at age 16 in the mid 90s, as rock as rock would ever get, and yeah, it's all in those opening bars. I didn't vote for it though, and came near to note voting for any Hendrix. Wish I could still hear it fresh, but I can't.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
"Purple Haze" has one of my favourite solos. Could be a jazzy modal thing if it were played totally clean but becomes psychedelic liftoff with fuzz and Octavia. Love the way it sits against the beat.
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― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
I still can't imagine what the opening 23 seconds of "Purple Haze" sounded like to people in 1967. Like some straight up Martian shit, probably.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, July 28, 2014 2:10 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Probably why it peaked at #65 in the US.
And yeah, it cannot be overplayed.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
My internal list is comprised of the songs we played at the classic rock station I worked at/with for 11 years. So far, the list is OTM.
Now, some of these are fading away from radio and fast. Back when there were CR stations and "oldies" stations, the CR would play Purple Haze or Turn Turn Turn while the oldies station would play Runaround Sue. But now, some of those songs like the ones mentioned above or even The Joker are moving from CR to Oldies.
― pplains, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
Purple Haze is one of those songs where every note is ingrained in my subconscious, so I never listen anymore and therefore did not vote for it. Doesn't make it any less great though.
― voodoo chili, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I remember when I was a kid in the 1990s shortly after I got Are You Experienced, I was talking to my dad like "I wish I was alive in the 1960s ... the music was so much better ... Jimi Hendrix, etc." and he was like "You know, Jimi Hendrix wasn't really that popular."
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
oh "The Chain" is a staple. 175th-ish rank on my airplay lists.
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
(I voted for a different song from that album that I have hopes will still place. Maybe?)
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
Walk Away" I guess, though I don't think I even know that one (add it to the list, fcc?)
happy to add it! though it's one of those songs with a slightly misleading title, so maybe you do know it and just don't know you know it. but i'll add it and we'll see.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
The guitar on Purple Haze does not seem like it's played with hands, or by humans. It's like a mountain that climbs itself.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
OK, kids, I'm back with your rock alphabet, just in time for a little CSN (and sometimes Y)
http://i.imgur.com/kbV368F.jpg
87. Crosby, Stills & Nash – Suite: Judy Blue Eyes854 points, 13 votes
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
"suite: judy..." was up there with the doobies' "black water" when i was a kid as a song that i would patiently sit through the first several minutes every time it came on the radio just so i could hear the ending.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
Woah! Didn't expect that. Would have thrown it a little teeny vote if I'd thought it had a chance as "classic rock" (versus AM gold).
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
ugh
― Euler, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
everything doesn't need to fall into a neat containeri hope "ohio" makes it but i have my doubts
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
I dig plenty of CSNY just fine but not those with the taint of Stills as much as that one
― Euler, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
I would love "Ohio" to place.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
I expected more mid-70s cuts by this point, but perhaps the top half of the poll will be loaded with those.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
the mid 70s are definitely the center of gravity for this whole thing
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
haven't been able to participate in this, but just wanted to say those pictures are great
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
Judy Blue Eyes is a great springtime jam.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
indeed. Stills wrote most of my favorite CSN songs.
― brimstead, Monday, 28 July 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
man I am not much of a CSN/Y fan but when I put my balloting hat on it turns out they're pretty classic imo. think I voted for three tracks. "suite: judy blue eyes" was one of them but "our house" was a canyon too far.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 July 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
"can I tell it like it is?"
\m/
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 July 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
Either this song is pretty trippy or I drank something I shouldn't have from the cup gr80 left in the studio.
http://i.imgur.com/U3ZoeM3.jpg
86. Steve Miller – Fly Like An Eagle857 points, 15 votes
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
For people of a certain generation, Fly Like an Eagle will always evoke Space Jam (and Seal's terrible version).
― voodoo chili, Monday, 28 July 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
^ false
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
voodoo chili probably otm. I was a little too old for Space Jam, but have been stunned to realize what a cultural touchstone it is for people 3-8 years younger than me.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Monday, 28 July 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
I think I'm glad I have no idea what "Space Jam" is
FLAE rules, always has, always will, and I say that as somebody w/ a very low Steve Miller tolerance level
― sleeve, Monday, 28 July 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
steve miller, CR necessary evil
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
imo
Definitely a mid-70s cut, though, just what I was hoping for.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Monday, 28 July 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
FLAE has a good trippiness going for it, though tbh I always thought shooting the children with no shoes on their feet was a little excessive. Second-tier Miller though IMO - this is one guy where I like him more when he goes full-on corporate fraternity rock and ditches the remnants of spacey Sixties mind-expansion and nature-love. Hoping for "Jet Airliner" and/or "Jungle Love" to place here.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 28 July 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
"Fly Like An Eagle" evokes the bit in Miles Davis' autobio about Miller being a "non-playing motherfucker with only one or two sorry-ass records out."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
lol - I just looked up that full quote and I love it.
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
We laugh now, but wait til Columbia exhumes Miles' sweetass fusion jam cover of "Swingtown".
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
Didn't Macca claim that Steve Miller was his favorite guitarist? Yikes...
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
A couple of songs I voted for have shown up so far, but Suite: Judy Blue Eyes is the first placing song I'm really excited to see. I love that tune. It has so many parts!
(As I was putting my ballot together for this poll, I realized that I have a thing for songs with lots of parts, as my #1 and #2 will strongly attest.)
― carl agatha, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
The picture selections for Purple Haze and Suite: Judy Blue Eyes are fantastic, btw.
― carl agatha, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, July 28, 2014 4:04 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Haha, CSNY were on that bill with Miles and Miller, and Miles did cover "Guinnevere"...
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
::does a split in mid-air::
http://i.imgur.com/7OHnHPy.jpg
85. Van Halen – Runnin’ With The Devil858 points, 14 votes
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
XP Davis was also on the bill when the Whitten/Crazy Horse live album was recorded.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
OH GOD I'M RUNNIN'!
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
wonder what miles thought of evh
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
for years I heard the lyric "I found the simple life ain't so simple" as "I found the simple life -- it's so simple!"
I like my version better...feels very authentically DLR.
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
One of my big takeaways from this is that Roth Van Halen is possibly my ultimate classic rock band.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link