TOO LOW both of these
― g simmel, Thursday, 31 July 2014 11:53 (nine years ago) link
A+ pic for maggie btw
― g simmel, Thursday, 31 July 2014 11:55 (nine years ago) link
"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?
― Lee626, Thursday, 31 July 2014 11:58 (nine years ago) link
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").
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 July 2014 11:59 (nine years ago) link
lol Carl
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:00 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Lee626, Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:03 (nine years ago) link
hair of the dog way way too low
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:05 (nine years ago) link
pretty sure i spent my middle school CRR-listening years just assuming this was a Gn'R song
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:06 (nine years ago) link
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
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:08 (nine years ago) link
such great cowbell here.
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:09 (nine years ago) link
xp
everything i love abt VH and nothing i hate in this song
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:11 (nine years ago) link
Wow, Aorta playing Hair of the Dog during morning drive. Thought the FCC said that was an after-8pm song.
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:20 (nine years ago) link
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
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:35 (nine years ago) link
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
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:40 (nine years ago) link
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.
― campreverb, Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
Fantastic image
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:45 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:46 (nine years ago) link
"Panama" is their #1 most played track and its other 3 singles still get spins too
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link
lol at Won't Get Fooled Again photo
― carl agatha, Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:02 (nine years ago) link
"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.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:03 (nine years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:06 (nine years ago) link
"Panama" is their #1 most played track
Surprised. I had no idea.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:09 (nine years ago) link
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?
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:10 (nine years ago) link
"Hair of the Dog" too low. You voters done messed with the wrong song.
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:11 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:15 (nine years ago) link
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
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
boner killer song
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
YES. My Brian-era AC/DC song, never gets old.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
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.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
"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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
http://cow.org/csi/
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:33 (nine years ago) link
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:
59AC/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 PermalinkGah, 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 PermalinkIf only more strippers voted. Would have been #1.― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, August 4, 2010 10:05 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:33 (nine years ago) link
Sad that EZ Snappin is traveling right now. His contributions to this thread are missed.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:38 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link
Haha what vagaries and constraints of the poll stopped you from putting a song you love in your personal top 100?
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:41 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:43 (nine years ago) link
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.
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:45 (nine years ago) link
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.
http://i.imgur.com/QfeCBvS.jpg
35. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Child (Slight Return) 1179 points, 17 votes
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:47 (nine years ago) link
By the way, I'm still making monthly payments to the IRS for filing a slight return a few years ago.
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
I fucking love this song. Maybe you can tell.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:49 (nine years ago) link
#7 for me.
so I don't have perfect pitch, but I have pretty good relative pitch, and at this point I can basically tune a guitar by playing the intro to "you shook me all night long" in my head for a reference G. As good as a pitch pipe.
(AC/DC heads will now point out that it's recorded off a quarter-step or something...)
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 31 July 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link
We're all out of Toto songs for the countdown, but if you want a song featuring multiple future members of Toto, we've got one for the road...
http://i.imgur.com/hZ3tvog.jpg
34. Boz Scaggs – Lido Shuffle 1203 points, 15 votes
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
TOO HIGH
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 31 July 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
https://vine.co/v/MuOWP7ezWHQ
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
^otm
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 14:13 (nine years ago) link
6 months ago I didn't know what the song was called or even who it was by, but "Lido Shuffle" ended up in my top ten
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 14:13 (nine years ago) link
This poll is getting weird. I'm not feeling good for about 70 of my remaining 77 unplaced songs.
― Jeff, Thursday, 31 July 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
Unexpected!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 July 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link