CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

i'm glad Johnny Fever is finally teaching us how to properly listen to classic songs like "Back On Chain Gang" and "Middle Of Road."

brass in the pocket

lol I'm taking it easy on you guys. I once got involved in a week-long argument about this on last.fm (when people gave a shit about last.fm) over whether or not "Pretenders" or "The Pretenders" was the correct artist id. It got ugly.

Love the one you're with just seems like such a questionable life lesson lol

"Life Lessons by Stephen Stills"

Love the one you're with just seems like such a questionable life lesson lol

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, July 29, 2014 1:07 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh totally. for years i just kind of glossed over the song as being a generic hippie anthem about loving thy neighbor, and then one day i thought about it for more than 5 seconds and was like wait, is this song just about settling and/or cheating when you're horny?

it's about cheating when you're horny ... with stephen stills.

Tbf, he wasn't ugly yet.

I think it's specifically about cheating when you're a horny rocker on the road - or maybe the girlfriend of said rocker, receiving disingenuously-framed advice via Western Union. And yet - it sounds so nice! If you pay only half attention you can maybe assume it's a really garbled, low-level conversation about a potentially healthy polyamorous situation, if that makes it easier to enjoy the happy-seeming vibes.

it's weird growing up thinking of CSN as 100% hippie peace love songs That Defined A Generation and then realizing it's just stills making crosby and nash sing his creepy sex poetry

yeah otm

"Chicks dig crutches"

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_04kZGR_ltmE/THjzshxFFXI/AAAAAAAAILg/p6F2s2_A67A/s1600/Stephen-Stills-Rolex-1972.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Stephen_Stills_2011.jpg/220px-Stephen_Stills_2011.jpg

please love the one you're with pleeeease

there's a rose in a fisted glove

ohhh its a hemorrhoids metaphor now i get it

TS: "Love the One You're With" vs. "Triad"

Where's Nash's skeevy jam? Is "Marrakesh Express" code for something?

I always figured Love the One You're With was a hippie love jam and yet "rose in a fisted glove" was just disturbing enough to suggest something gross at the center of the song. Then I had life experiences with the kind of hippie dudes who cloak their ill treatment of women in a mantle of free love unfettered by the restrictions of society and now I think that song is garbage.

Maybe if it had more parts.

Read that as "more pants".

Sure.

no joke i had a dream last nite that some dude walked in to the studio at The Aorta and caught me looking at pr0n

is it a dream if two different people had it? ::Bon Scott cackle::

http://i.imgur.com/p2UiRrh.jpg

80. AC/DC – Highway To Hell
877 points, 14 votes

^this photo is a special one

wait...

there's a space in the img url that's messing it up I think

should be good now.

::thumbs up::

who's the other guy? or is he just a long-time listener?

he was the 77th caller and scored VIP passes to last weekend's Aorta Resort-a Getaway™

the photo for #1 should be the "So Not Gonna Happen" one

Well, folks, after I entered the twilight zone, met Frankenstein, and took a drive on the highway to Hell, I do believe I'm ready to join the lunatic fringe. But I think I worked out the technical issues (too much "coffee" in the studio) and am ready to resume the countdown.

http://i.imgur.com/O5Yf5AE.jpg

79. Red Rider – Lunatic Fringe
880 points, 14 votes

MMM-HMMM

lol @ the lady's expression on the far left
she has beautiful hair!!

A+ centre lady with the can on her head

I'm a little behind but the only worthwhile version of "Love The One You're With" is by Luther Vandross, who because it was Luther Vandross made the gross message rather sad and almost stiff-upper-lip pathetic.

Definitely surprised Lunatic Fringe came in higher than Freebird. (I voted for Lunatic Fringe (98) and did not vote for Freebird at all so I'm part of the problem but still.)

Also I had a dream last night that Chicago stalwart "adult album alternative" station WXRT changed their format to classic rock.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are releasing their 13th album today, but we're gonna take it back to 1976 right now with a little ditty from album numero uno...

http://i.imgur.com/1IgVj73.jpg

78. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Breakdown
885 points, 15 votes

This song doesn't get much play down here; nor does "Don't Do Me Like That." It's all "American Girl," "Refugee," "Even the Losers," and "The Waiting" from this period.

i'm genuinely baffled lunatic fringe placed at all

oh man, that pic reminds me of the 8-Way Santa cover.

Breakdown reminds me a lot of Pretzel Logic by Steely Dan.

i'm genuinely baffled lunatic fringe placed at all

can-con lurkers

Another cover better than the original, imo.

I voted for Lunatic Fringe. It's one of those songs I heard on CR for years and years before I found out who it was by, so there was some mystery in its appeal for me.

Yeah, Lunatic Fringe was included in my ballot (albeit nearly in last place) because I don't think I can imagine crr without it. Also mysterious. Of an ilk with Twilight Zone.

also contains the word "twilight" in the lyrics.

Aretha's "Love the One you're With" kills:
http://youtu.be/X5oTJl4VTmU

Yeah, I don't know what you would call the weirdos who voted for Red Rider. I know they're out there, though.

http://i.imgur.com/88b3yMI.jpg

77. Electric Light Orchestra – Evil Woman
890 points, 15 votes

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2927/14458566238_4e91edf70f.jpg

FUCK WRONG THREAD> I AM NOT A CLASSIC ROCK COVER.