CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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.

"can I tell it like it is?"

\m/

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 Eagle
857 points, 15 votes

For people of a certain generation, Fly Like an Eagle will always evoke Space Jam (and Seal's terrible version).

^ false

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.

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

steve miller, CR necessary evil

imo

Definitely a mid-70s cut, though, just what I was hoping for.

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.

"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."

lol - I just looked up that full quote and I love it.

We laugh now, but wait til Columbia exhumes Miles' sweetass fusion jam cover of "Swingtown".

Didn't Macca claim that Steve Miller was his favorite guitarist? Yikes...

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.)

The picture selections for Purple Haze and Suite: Judy Blue Eyes are fantastic, btw.

We laugh now, but wait til Columbia exhumes Miles' sweetass fusion jam cover of "Swingtown".

― 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"...

::does a split in mid-air::

http://i.imgur.com/7OHnHPy.jpg

85. Van Halen – Runnin’ With The Devil
858 points, 14 votes

XP Davis was also on the bill when the Whitten/Crazy Horse live album was recorded.

OH GOD I'M RUNNIN'!

wonder what miles thought of evh

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.

One of my big takeaways from this is that Roth Van Halen is possibly my ultimate classic rock band.

great song I've never tired of

What really made me vote for Runnin' was the isolated vocal track that circulated years back. I can listen to it all day.

eeYEAAAHH!

OOWWW!

grady killin' it with that pic

Again, this isn't my favorite song by the band in question, but it's the one that feels most like CRR. It was my lone VH vote.

Runnin' With the Devil is an amazing song, it would be perfect as the intro song for an MLB closer, but I'm not sure if anyone has used it yet.

growing up there was a club in Ocean City called Scandals, and for like 10 years i would constantly hear a local rock radio ad in Delaware that was some random cover band playing the "Runnin' With The Devil" intro with that bass pulse and the little piano tinkle, and then the drums kick in and a vocalist sings along with the guitar riff: "SCANDAAAAAAALS"

I really hear that every time I hear the VH song tbh.

Pop Music Scores Big With Baseball’s Champions
Top teams are programming hit tunes over stadium sound-systems to keep crowds fired up between innings.
by Colin Devenish 10/18/1998

New York Yankees star-pitcher David Wells is the classic ruffian, known for
his after-hours antics, but he’s all business when he brings his portly
frame to the mound.

Or as business-like as you can be when the defiant blast of “Runnin’ With the Devil”
by Van Halen is escorting you onto the baseball diamond.

While Wells, an anchor in the 1998 American League Champion Yankees’
rotation, favors the fist-pumping fervor of Van Halen, each of his
teammates will step into the batter’s box during this year’s World Series
against the National League Champion San Diego Padres this week to the tune
of their own drummers — or drum machines, as the case may be.

OK, now let's smooth it out with a little afternoon rock with Chrissie Hynde and the boys...

http://i.imgur.com/ynCEYhx.jpg

84. The Pretenders – Brass In Pocket
859 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote

As you know, every night at 11pm on "The Aorta" we kick back with a set of deep cuts from a different classic band. If you join us tonight, we'll be digging in the crates with The Pretenders:
http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2014/06/deep-album-cuts-vol-21-pretenders.html

Total pedant shit here, but Pretenders are one of those bands like Ramones and Pixies who have no article before their name.

ha ha "and the boys" is my #1 most hated rock dj cliché

we get a few things wrong here at The Aorta, but it feels so right

Sometimes yes, sometimes no...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b3/Learning_to_Crawl_(The_Pretenders_album_-_cover_art).jpg/220px-Learning_to_Crawl_(The_Pretenders_album_-_cover_art).jpg

xp to JF

Total pedant shit here, but Pretenders are one of those bands like Ramones and Pixies who have no article before their name.

where were you itt when Eagles needed you??

http://images.picturesdepot.com/photo/t/the_pretenders_learning_to_crawl-28014.jpg

I think the "The" is typically added to European pressings.

where were you itt when Eagles needed you??

I often refer to them as The Eagles because I know Glenn Frey would hate it.

cr cover connections:
http://i1.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/400/draft_lens1271574module168475102photo_a3261e3d2dc5fdef9c5a2.jpg

xp

xps to tipsy -- if there's any pitcher who could pull off Runnin' it's David Wells, who pitched a perfect game while hungover.

where were you itt when Eagles needed you??

I often refer to them as The Eagles because I know Glenn Frey would hate it.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, July 28, 2014 4:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think the "The" is typically added to European pressings.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, July 28, 2014 4:52 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Netherlands picture sleeve:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9b/Oneofthesenightssingle.jpg/220px-Oneofthesenightssingle.jpg

Take that, Glenn

1 first place vote! out yourself!

xps to tipsy -- if there's any pitcher who could pull off Runnin' it's David Wells, who pitched a perfect game while hungover.

Yeah, David Wells was maybe the most Classic Rock pro athlete ever.

growing up there was a club in Ocean City called Scandals, and for like 10 years i would constantly hear a local rock radio ad in Delaware that was some random cover band playing the "Runnin' With The Devil" intro with that bass pulse and the little piano tinkle, and then the drums kick in and a vocalist sings along with the guitar riff: "SCANDAAAAAAALS"

I really hear that every time I hear the VH song tbh.

― some dude, Monday, July 28, 2014 8:37 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yesssssssssss god that commercial rises unbidden into my forebrain every time somebody mentions the TV show Scandal, too.

SCANDAAAAAAALS EVERY ONE KNOWS

Wooooo I just came dangerously close to pasting some dude's SCANDAAAAAALS post into a risk assessment memo for work.

Well, I mean I DID paste it in the memo. I came dangerously close to sending the document to the reviewing attorney with a little anecdote about Ocean City's finest night club instead of information about a settlement demand.