CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

"did you hear the one about 'american girl'?"

"no"

"everyone heard this song, but only one band went and made a whole career off it"

"who?"

"the strokes"

I thought Voodoo Child would be top 10 tbf

With regards to a lot of these songs, I'm having a hard time remembering if I liked them because I heard them on classic rock radio back in the day, or I like them because Girl Talk sampled them.

awkward

I was listening to "Voodoo Child" yesterday and just marveling at the controlled chaos of the guitars on that song. Astounding every time.

OTM. I should have probably voted it higher.

Tom Petty kind of bringing things down for me. Otherwise, today's stretch has mostly been gold.

gonna pretend I didn't just read that :)

I hate the mix on the Electric Ladyland Voodoo Child. It pans left and right way too frequently.

"American Girl" showing up on the poll such a great palate cleanser after all those Knopfler images.

xp agree but even a crap recording couldn't ruin that jam for me

Ha, I kind of love all the stereo fuckery on Electric Ladyland.

"American Girl" showing up on the poll such a great palate cleanser after all those Knopfler images.

Oh, so you're in the mood for some Tom Petty fan art?

xp it is ok on speakers. it sounds ridiculous when listening with headphones imo.

I hate the mix on the Electric Ladyland Voodoo Child. It pans left and right way too frequently.

this next track reminds me of a really nasty breakup i went through with my girlfriend over labor day weekend 1986. we'd just finished a road trip through--

actually, you know what? i've already been fired from too many stations for telling this story on the air.

in the interest of job security, i'll just let this one play:

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

29. Jefferson Starship – Jane
1330 points, 20 votes

I added this one purely due to the noms thread. Great song

Hm, listening now, I'm actually enjoying "American Girl" more than "Lido Shuffle" (which I don't think I've heard before). Probably one of the best Petty hits, tbf.

Yes!

my first "WTF? never heard of it--click---OH THIS SONG" moment on this thread

JAAAAYYYYNNNN you're playing a GAAAMMME

a nasty breakup at camp firewood?

Ha, I really like "Jane" but it didn't make my top 100. I'm a little surprised that ILM rates it this highly. It's a decent Foreigner song, basically.

Hey it's the song from the beginning of Wet Hot American Summer!

Residual love for that movie should have pushed it onto my list

Pretty much the video version of gr8080's awesome thread images:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjs9eUlv2AQ

I forget this era of the band exists.

I think '90s and early '00's comedies are informing about 50% of this list.

truth bomb

mickey thomas' debut -- and high point -- in the jefferson starplane world. he's also the singer on elvin bishop's great "fooled around and fell in love.

well there goes my #2 vote

TOO LOW

JANE RULES

mickey thomas' debut -- and high point -- in the jefferson starplane world. he's also the singer on elvin bishop's great "fooled around and fell in love.

I didn't even realize Elvin Bishop wasn't a singer. Until I read his wiki awhile ago, I just knew him as the guy who shows up on all the 70s comps.

elvin bishop does sing, but not on everything.

I think '90s and early '00's comedies are informing about 50% of this list.

― Darin, Thursday, July 31, 2014 1:24 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

several of the votes for "Sweet Home Alabama" referred to it as simply "that song named after the Reese Witherspoon movie"

several of the votes for "Sweet Home Alabama" referred to it as simply "that song named after the Reese Witherspoon movie"

i resign from ilm.

in my email I forgot to erase the phone number for Sultans of Swing escort service :/

omg I had no idea Mickey Thomas sang on Elvin Bishop's song

well that's pretty damn cool

is mickey mad that it has Elvin's name on it though? how does that work

i think there's EVERY reason to get excited about result number twenty eight:

http://i.imgur.com/mGEd6BL.jpg

28. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along The Watchtower
1332 points, 18 votes, 2 first place votes

AKA the Battlestar Galactica song.

fuckin so great!

love the opening, it melts my face every time

at the time it came out I didn't really have an opinion on U2's cover of this and now I want to kill them with fire, how dare they

is mickey mad that it has Elvin's name on it though? how does that work

i was going to say "ask david lee roth." and then it occurred to me mickey would have been a better singer for van halen than either sammy hagar or gary cherone. and then i remembered i have recently resigned from ilm.

is mickey mad that it has Elvin's name on it though? how does that work

― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, July 31, 2014 1:47 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think it was a case of Elvin realizing, "fuck, I'm no singer; I'm a guitarist! Get that Thomas kid in here to add some razzle-dazzle!"

(see also: Rod Stewart as lead singer of the Jeff Beck Group)

xp I kind of feel that way about Dylan's

xp to vg

DEAL WITH IT

http://www.webtvwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/bono-from-u2.jpg

all he's got is a red guitar, three chords, and the truth...and some nifty tax shelters, iirc.

that's a (red) guitar.

...a house for my collection of sunglasses.

I cannot stand this song in any of its forms. It's like it just tips over the border into a territory that is too rennfesty for me. I'd bet that it's the most played Hendrix song on crr too.

lol tarfumes

Stairway is the renfestiest cr

The 3 distinct sections of the "Watchtower" solo...god, I get emotional just thinking about the fact that Jimi Hendrix once walked the earth.