CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

and there is one tom petty song that is not "american girl" that i am still very much, um, waiting for.

i can't even remember what i voted for, except that my #1 and #3 have already placed :(

fingers crossed that 2 hits the bigtime

Badfinger RULED and agreed that it was not a wasted vote. My #2 vote for a UFO song, however, feels wasted even though I LOVE THEM SO.

Also:

Sandy's last story makes me feel like a kid wishing "they'd lived in the Sixties," but, yknow, in the Seventies. Kinda Dazed & Confused like, seems like hell in some ways but everybody at least looks a lot better than when I was a teen.

― Doctor Casino

If you made a mashup movie of Dazed and Confused and Almost Famous, you would pretty much have my own personal biopic.

And there are two Petty songs in my top ten that I am still waiting for. Like I said, I was raised on promises... and the waiting is the hardest part.

oh hold on, I had No Matter What at #5! My number 3 still has a good chance of placing because it's a bona fide CR gem.

well, there's at least 180 points right there for unnamed-tom-petty-song-about-not-being-able-to-do-what-you-want-to-do-right-now-even-though-the-lyric-seems-to-suggest-he-is-in-fact-doing-it-right-now.

come on, rest of ilm. give us the rest of those points.

man have I grown to love Joe Walsh since the Eagles thread

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, July 30, 2014 4:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*cue C. Grissom*

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, July 30, 2014 4:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sorry...work...stuff

Will that be

(A) Well, yeah.

or do we want an upgrade in the form of:

(B) DON: It was quite a novel idea to bring Joe in as a replacement for Leadon. We'd followed him from The James Gang up through his first solo albums, so we knew he could handle the responsibility that comes with being an Eagle. No one had succeeded in bringing an already established star into an even more famous group scenario, but we made it happen. Suddenly we had some overdue cred in the rock world, not to mention our biggest selling studio albums.

GLENN: And what a sport he is! He brought us "Funk's #50-52" as demos, and let us completely improve 'em into "Teenage Jail", "Learn To Be Still", and "Busy Being Fabulous" without even asking for credit! That's what I call teamwork!

DON: Well, yeah.

Badfinger RULED and agreed that it was not a wasted vote. My #2 vote for a UFO song, however, feels wasted even though I LOVE THEM SO.

My weirdest "brush with greatness" is someone at the local club in my college town calling us up at the college radio station and admonishing us for not picking up Michael Schenker at the bus station, like one of us had said we would.

I was the only one in the office with a car that afternoon, but who the fuck is Michael Schenker? So we found a bunch of UFO and MSG albums, found the guy on the sleeve. I picked him up, one of the other DJs faked his way through an unprepared interview, and then I took him to the club.

Quite honestly, I really didn't even need to look at the albums. The middle-aged German heavy metal guitarist standing in the middle of the Columbia, Mo., bus station parking lot was easy to pick out.

Michael Schenker is one of the truly oddest people I have ever known. Looool that you had to pick him up at a bus station.

Many Xposts but I remember curt kirkwood saying in an interview in musician magazine in about 1986 that billy gibbons got all those crazy squeal harmonics by playing guitar with the edge of a peso... Is that true?

It's a modified peso, filed down so it's pick-shaped:

http://kkguitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Billy_Gibson_ZZ_Top_holdi_470efc4239812.jpg

http://www.patobryan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/billypeso.jpg

::BAP BAP::

Wake up, ILM, I think I've got some poll results for you.

http://i.imgur.com/R9NurZv.jpg

40. Rod Stewart – Maggie May
1149 points, 19 votes, 1 first place vote

My number 1. Unlike some dude and his mom, early Rod is one thing me and my old man agree on.

"It's late September and I really should be back at school"

That line always stressed me out. He's missed a lot of school! He probably can't start this semester at all!

GROSS CANCEL POLL.

I like "Maggie May" but I gave my Rod vote to "Hot Legs" which'll surely get the shaft here (talk about gross)

Some of you look a little hung over this morning. I've got something that'll cure what ails ya.

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

39. Nazareth – Hair of the Dog
1161 points, 17 votes

TOO LOW both of these

A+ pic for maggie btw

"It's late September and I really should be back at school"

That line always stressed me out. He's missed a lot of school! He probably can't start this semester at all!

― carl agatha, Thursday, July 31, 2014 7:28 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I pretty much get what the song is about; what I was to know is, her place or his? She led him away from home, but somehow still manages to wreck his bed. Or does he have his own bed at her place as well?

I never never get bored of "Maggie May" and Rod could've gone on writing variant after variant if he'd wanted to (i.e. give us more songs like "You Wear It Well" and "Oh God, I Wish I Was Home Tonight").

lol Carl

My Rod vote went to "Reason to Believe", because that's the closest we get to hearing Tim Hardin on CR radio. And because it's a great song.

hair of the dog way way too low

pretty sure i spent my middle school CRR-listening years just assuming this was a Gn'R song

I know a lot of you may be driving to work right now. And the station manager has asked me to remind you all that we cannot be held responsible for how fast you drive when we play this song, we now have a legal precedent.

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

38. Van Halen – Panama
1165 points, 16 votes

such great cowbell here.

xp

everything i love abt VH and nothing i hate in this song

Wow, Aorta playing Hair of the Dog during morning drive. Thought the FCC said that was an after-8pm song.

pretty sure i spent my middle school CRR-listening years just assuming this was a Gn'R song

ah, they covered it on spaghetti incident, maybe that got more airplay than Nazareth's original did on KLPX

listening now, it's not a terrible cover by any means

And every time we play this song, I am obligated to publicly apologize to our station manager for the "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" banner that I hung in the break room to celebrate his hiring last year. Sorry, Frank.

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

37. The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again
1172 points, 16 votes

Alfred I mentioned earlier that I am going through a purge of my greatest hits collections, and your Rod Stewart post made me think of the Standells. While most of these follow the form of:
Early Great Stuff>Complete lack of direction>ballad>some attempt at recapturing early magic, The Standells never deviated from trying to write Dirty Water #2, and I love them for it.

Fantastic image

Hair of the Dog WAAAY too low. Conversely, I had no reason to think Panama would make it. 1984 doesn't seem like a classic rock album at all, and neither do any of its singles.

"Panama" is their #1 most played track and its other 3 singles still get spins too

lol at Won't Get Fooled Again photo

"Hair of the Dog" represents my first "Oh THAT song????" moment on this poll so far.

"Panama" represents my first feeling of true disappointment. There are so many Van Halen songs that are so much better gah.

GNR's "Hair" cover was a mnor radio hit (rock radio embraced it after the only video they made for Spaghetti Incident was for "Since I Don't Have You"). For years I only knew the cover, until I started listening to a station that plays the Nazareth one a lot.

"Panama" is their #1 most played track

Surprised. I had no idea.

Was anyone as confused as I was as a kid about all the Fleetwood Mac solo stuff? I knew Buckingham as the guy who did the Vacation theme song, so I thought he was a Dr. Demento type ("Go Insane" also) and I knew Stevie's "Lips like a One Wing Dove" song, but she was part of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, right? So then these videos with Stevie & Lindsey started showing up credited to someone named "Fleetwood Mac." Who was that? The other blonde girl?

"Hair of the Dog" too low. You voters done messed with the wrong song.

Hair of the Dog is like one of the bricks in the foundation on which CRR stands. It was my #2, but only because there was one song I liked even more.

If you have a sex machine, please keep the motor clean, failing to do so may violate the warantee, and trust me, those things can be expensive to replace.

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

36. AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long
1176 points, 16 votes

boner killer song

YES. My Brian-era AC/DC song, never gets old.

Panama is fucking fantastic. Top 25 for me.

Won't Get Fooled Again is too long, but I had to vote for it cause of Daltrey and Moon.

"Won't Get Fooled Again" TOO LOW.

What a weird song. The guitar is pretty sparse (sometimes only playing one or two notes per line), the bass is trying to make up for the sparseness while simultaneously sparring with the drums which manage to lay down new rules that no one to this day has yet picked up on while flailing into hitherto-unexplored territory all while keeping perfectly swinging time with the organ/synth...and then a solid 60 seconds of supercharged Terry Riley, Moon laughing through the warning shots, and the greatest scream ever screamed.

http://cow.org/csi/

Absolutely one of my favorite AC/DC songs. Didn't make my cut just due to the vagaries and constraints of the poll, but I'll love this song no matter how overplayed it is. I met one of my best friends on a Boy Scout campout because one of us was singing this under our breath.

From the ILM : The Top 100 Metal/Heavy Rock Tracks Of All Time poll:

59
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long (1980) (348 Points, 8 votes)
http://www.youtube.com/v/Bomv-6CJSfM&fs=1&hl=en

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, August 4, 2010 9:37 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Gah, I feel responsible for this placing so low - I gave it about twenty points, but should've gone double that. Wonderful, uplifting song.

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, August 4, 2010 9:56 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If only more strippers voted. Would have been #1.

― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, August 4, 2010 10:05 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sad that EZ Snappin is traveling right now. His contributions to this thread are missed.