CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

As the only member without a hat, drummer should've been named Frank Hat.

i see what u did there

A+, Tarfumes.

Sort of pissed at AC/DC atm for messing up this beautiful spotify playlist by not being available.

btw we should have a nudie suit poll

Porter Wagoner ftw

Watching ZZ Top video in my childhood, these guys seemed a million years old. Weird to realize that Billy Gibbons was 33 when Eliminator came out.

We've already seen "Born To Run" and "Stairway" today, how many more iconic tracks can we get out of the way?

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

49. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
1050 points, 17 votes

i can understand the ambivalence others have about it, but a top 5 track for me, never gets old.

can pretty much tell which one of them just killed a man.

it's not even remotely possible that ilm is going to rate "carry on wayward son" over both "bohemian rhapsody" and "stairway to heaven," is it? iS IT? IS IT???????????

Can pretty much tell which one of them just fucked a man

lol, that's never been in doubt. xp

I didn't realize that Dusty was about a half-foot shorter than Billy.

For ilxors who have a handle on what the culture was like pre-Wayne's World, was Bohemian Rhapsody top-tier Queen or was it elevated to some massive degree by the film?

it was always a pretty big deal iirc, but WW put it over the top

like, I knew most of it by heart pre-WW without ever owning a single Queen album

I remember it getting moderate play on cr radio, but it seemed to have vanished by the late 80s.

The only Queen songs I knew as a kid/adolescent were We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions, Another One Bites the Dust and One Vision (thanks to Iron Eagle), so getting introduced to Bohemian Rhapsody in 1991 as a 17 year old was quite revelatory.

It was always the #1 cultural touchstone in the UK, even above Stairway

I heard Bohemian Rhapsody in the 80s cuz it would get video play (sometimes it would be billed as the "first rock and roll music video" which is just ridiculous)

Yeah I dunno how that line caught on, I used to hear it constantly too

They used to always play the video for Bohemian Rhapsody on Night Flight in the '80s,

It was neck and neck with "Killer Queen" for a long time, took the lead at the last turn, but got blown out by "Rock You/Champions" when CR playlists started being solidified, imo.

Not only was it the first rock and roll video, but it was also the first ROCK OPERA!

So they said.

invented the internet too

and overbites

Bill Brohemian Rhapski

BR #5 for me.

Queen were first rock royalty too

I heard "Bohemian Rhapsody" on the radio a lot in the '80s. I didn't vote for it, but I do appreciate its subversion of the '70s multi-part rock epic -- like, a "Stairway to Heaven" that knows it's ridiculous and revels in its ridiculousness.

I was listening to "The Mercy Seat" the other night. Now I'm imagining this going through Nick Cave's head at the big moment.

All the songs people say they don't or didn't hear on Classic Rock Radio, I keep thinking how would 14 or 21 year old me have ever even known of the existence of these songs without Rock or Classic Rock Radio.

I heard "Bohemian Rhapsody" on the radio a lot in the '80s. I didn't vote for it, but I do appreciate its subversion of the '70s multi-part rock epic -- like, a "Stairway to Heaven" that knows it's ridiculous and revels in its ridiculousness.

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, July 30, 2014 3:18 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah "BR" and "Thick As A Brick" are two of my favorite '70s epics because they're such knowing parodies of the form but still awesome

And now, the opening track from our #6 album. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

http://i.imgur.com/fiHR5fj.jpg

48. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Refugee
1054 points, 19 votes

Join us on 107.7 tonight as we dig in to Tom Petty's greatest deep cuts, with and without the Heartbreakers:
http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2014/07/deep-album-cuts-vol-23-tom-petty-and.html

For ilxors who have a handle on what the culture was like pre-Wayne's World, was Bohemian Rhapsody top-tier Queen or was it elevated to some massive degree by the film?

I guessing it was around quite a bit. April-ish 1991 I taped this VH1 "'70s Sunday" thing where they played '70s videos all day, which was my first time hearing the song or seeing the video (the old version). I heard it a few times on classic rock stations afterwards and it turned into one of my favorite songs by the time summer arrived. Wayne's World was released the following February and my obsession felt more vindicated.

the Wayne's World soundtrack was the first CD i purchased with my own money, but the whole Queen greatest hits album was a staple of my household well before that.

April '91 was also while Freddie was alive. Dang.

ONE OF THOSE THINGS YOU GOTTA FEEL TO BE TRUUUUUUUUUE

Man, 107.7 is all Top 40 and shit here.

https://lh5.ggpht.com/tfevx7jJFMGrU5P9n99rXKXgZULHZVhl-45tJDSE41gYtiREpHhMC-2RmXqY-iXxGu3S=w300

Why would anybody leave Baltimore...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6EpfCzdMoY

This poll has me listening to my own CR-ish playlist and remembering so many little-remembered gems that, if they'd become "classics", would've fit seamlessly into the format, like Jo Jo Gunne's "Run Run Run" and "Ebony Eyes" by Bob Welch. I'd love to see other people's picks along those lines once all of the legit results have rolled out.

ONE OF THOSE THINGS YOU GOTTA FEEL TO BE TRUUUUUUUUUE
yeah man, that part. :)

re: the popularity of Bohemian Rhapsody, when I was in fourth grade (c. 1982), cool kids would bring tapes out to recess and play them on those little single-speaker mono tape decks and being the coolest kid of them all I brought a tape recording of Bohemian Rhapsody and spoke enthusiastically to my skeptical audience of how amazing the song was because it had so many different PARTS and that was the last time I was allowed to play my tapes on the playground.

haha

cool kids otm

A college friend hated "Refugee" because of the "kidnappedtieduptakenawayandheldforRAN-som" part -- "It has too many words!"

"Ebony Eyes" by Bob Welch

is insanely great. and is, like "don't stop believin'," one of those exceptionally rare pop songs where the chorus doesn't appear until the end of the song.

I distinctly remember Mark Goodman on MTV referring to that Queen song as "The BoHo Rap".

The Petty documentary has a bit where the members and Jimmy Iovine failing take after take, pissed off because they knew it was such a great song.

'Bohemian Rhapsody' was definitely of population-permeating renown over here, from probably the first day it was released. Pretty sure I voted for it, it's just so ridiculous.