CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

Re: eye in the sky -

"From our upstairs porch I watch my neighbor, a small town accountant with a voice like a toy keyboard, begin his walk to work in his navy blue Botany 500 suit, bought used in an L.A. consignment store while visiting his widower son-in-law and blind granddaughter, and according to my neighbor, formerly owned by Gene Rayburn, the semi-retired game show host whose grotesque aura still haunts the seven o’clock time slots of my body’s internal clock along with Merv Griffin, Don Rickles, Cloris Leachman, Bert Convy, Wink Martindale and the tenants of every Hollywood square, those horrible hucksters, sickening adults/hyenas who seem to have had their proteges on every Main Street, the men with perms, tight gray curls erupting over the alcoholic topography of their oiled faces, a legion of salesmen ruined by bad translations of an already disastrous California ideal, their eyes stinking like boiled cocktail onions as they emerged from “sleek” 1980 Thunderbirds, all marinated teeth and snowplow mustaches, fresh from invigorating divorces, dragging tawny S-shaped girlfriends by the wrist to wooden gargoyle waterbeds where stereo systems built into the headboards played “Eye in the Sky” by the Alan Parsons Project endlessly through the night.

- David C. Berman

Yessssssss Running On Empty. This one just gets better with (my) age. Already rambled about it in the voting thread, but basically I can't imagine a classic rock station that doesn't play this.

re: Watergate, yeah that line seriously needed a little more work - the ambiguity of the "you" is the problem I think. It very easily reads like: ehh, who gives a shit about Watergate, Nixon's not such a bad guy, and anybody who would get all up in arms about it is an insincere concern-troll, and that's the only reason why they criticize SWEET HOOOME AL A BAAM UUH.

Nu-Skynyrd is a complete embarrassment. xps

Eye In the Sky one of those songs permanently sutured to another song, Sirius, or as the listeners on the request line used to call it, The Chicago Bulls Theme Song.

iiiiii hate jackson brown so much

I'd never heard 'Cant You See' before we started polling -- I really love it! Am intending to dig into Marshall Tucker Band as a result, they definitely have a sound that I love

Running On Empty - another victim of the Forrest Gump Soundtrack.

Not really a fan of this one, I much prefer Doctor My Eyes.

This is the only song of Browne's that I like (totally think it's great...actually, "Somebody's Baby" is pretty good, too), but the line in "The Load Out" about "roadies workin' for that minimum wage" always pissed me off. PAY THEM MORE! YOU'RE THEIR BOSS!

I love every Jackson Browne hit, coulda voted for all of em

hey there folks, and happy tuesday to you. some dude had to run, 'cause he was running on empty, but don't sweat it because gr8080's here to run you through the afternoon & hits #'s 70-61.

let me stop running my mouth though and get back to the music, with this hit from the Doobies

http://i.imgur.com/l4fzCJi.jpg

70. The Doobie Brothers – Long Train Runnin’
926 points, 13 votes

YES! Some Doobies, finally!!!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Another act where pretty much every single is golden in my book.

I might have voted for this song if I'd known it was this song.

This was the third of the three DB tracks I voted for, but right after I sent in my ballot I knew it should've been ranked the highest of the three.

Don't get trampled under foot while you're running, gr80s.

I hate the Load-Out/Stay with an unholy passion. Ten minutes of ninniness.

ninnyness?

xp The lap steel on Running on Empty just sounds wrong to me somehow, really grating

Y'all are breaking my heart re Skynyrd, but I can see how the combination of overplay and negative associations with False Nu-Skynyrd damaged SHA in the poll ... I'm hoping we've got a few more Skynyrd tracks to come

My favorite Doobie Brothers song, such a jam.

I was maybe only vaguely familiar with that Marshall Tucker song. It's a jam!

With VG: fucking despise Jackson Browne. But at least it wasn't "The Loadout".

Dithered endlessly about which Johnston-led Doobies cut to include. It wasn't this one, but it easily could have been. Love the sound on this... the strummin', the singin' along. Something very nervous and anxious about it. No idea what it's actually about but always happy to hear it.

xp to Brad C not a huge Skynyrd fan, but there was still a track that's yet to place that I voted in my top 25. Probably more Skynyrd to come.

Ha. Hilarious to see so many xposts also excoriating "The Loadout".

Going through a periodic music collection purge, and just trimmed Jackson Browne's 2 disc greatest down to a more tolerable 10 songs. Writing These Days covers up a lot of sins though, and I adore Runnin' On Empty.
But I love Boulevard even more, and assuming it didn't get any write-in traction.

The Loadout/Stay is how I have always heard it on the radio-pretty vile, but then most songs about 'The Road' are too.

The Loadout/Stay is totally annoying but I think to me it's mostly because of the audience

Yay Marshall Tucker Band! <3

Loadout rules idc idc

The "Stay" refrain nearly induces physical revulsion. Seriously, that shit is the worst.

Had Long Train Running in my top 15. Great record, awesome sounds/rhythm/percussion/melodies/harmonies.

The ringing acoustic strings behind the funky main riff in "Long Train Runnin'" where it goes "ting dnh dnh ting ting ting" is one of my favorite things in all of classic rock.

for sure

well folks, we've got #69 coming up, and one thing i know about making a sixty-nine... its that you need a couple of faces:

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

69. The Faces – Stay With Me
928 points, 15 votes

lmao gr80

ha!

loool

TOO FUCKING LOW! Top ten for me, a true facemelter, with a classic intro and an even better rave-up at the end.

lol

is there a Spotify playlist going for this yet? I don't know that song by title

http://open.spotify.com/user/1219464571/playlist/7pw9uBSg3Vb49ONnFZEn3O

http://open.spotify.com/user/1219464571/playlist/7pw9uBSg3Vb49ONnFZEn3O

Only thing missing so far is AC/DC.

Consider this Part One to Maggie May's Part Two.

and an even better rave-up at the end.

One of the best rave-up endings ever. The way they ramp up the intensity after the solo bits is insane (and love Kenney getting the final word in).

I've never heard this before

The Faces were truly one of the greatest bar bands. They're always loose, but the music is always so rich--two keyboards (organ and piano), two guitars, and Rod's voice, which sounds like it could be another guitar.

I grew up thinking of Rod as such a lame balladeer, really blew my mind when I started listening to a station that played "Stay With Me" regularly. I think it was in my top ten.

I kind of hate the meanness of "stay with me" but the performance is undeniable. which I guess is kind of the point, so fair play Faces.

this next track is the only one in our top 100 to be officially dedicated to a space station (true story)

http://i.imgur.com/JuxH2vs.jpg

68. Electric Light Orchestra – Don’t Bring Me Down
930 points, 13 votes

wish "Evil Woman" was higher than this but happy about the ELO love

some dude you should do a Jackson Browne deep cuts! Digging the blog btw.