CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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.

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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.

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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.

This was actually the only AC/DC track I voted for, but please know it's not the only AC/DC track I think worthy of inclusion in a classic rock poll. I just had to choose to vote for only a single track from some big names to make room for everything else.

Haha what vagaries and constraints of the poll stopped you from putting a song you love in your personal top 100?

I had to leave room for things like Survivor and Red Rider and Donnie Iris, who will never have a shot at making any other ilm poll.

xp: sorry, that would have been better expressed as "the sheer number of good songs along with personal choices about how many songs certain bands could get". didn't mean it as a snub on you or the poll logic at all.

You might think that this far into the countdown, you wouldn't be seeing any more deep cuts. But you'd be wrong. This is The Aorta, and we go DEEP.

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35. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
1179 points, 17 votes

By the way, I'm still making monthly payments to the IRS for filing a slight return a few years ago.

I fucking love this song. Maybe you can tell.

#7 for me.