CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

UGH work is getting in the way of this poll today.
AMERICAN GIRL my #1, my favorite song ever. I've heard it a million times and I never tire of it. So much history with this song, so much history with this band.

hey, my upper lip is feeling prickly.

and it reeks of bacon in here...

that can only mean one thing:

http://i.imgur.com/x6obIJu.jpg

26. The Zombies – Time Of The Season
1372 points, 22 votes

took this song for granted until Miguel's interpolation in 2012.

...Wait, what? I love (LOVE) the Zombies, but...classic rock?

Love this song. Such an oldie though.

feel like this oldies station song (but I love this song)

ha, yeah. what how's life said.

gettin weird up in here. need something CLASSIC to settle us down

Interesting that this is a year younger than "I Can See For Miles," but no one called that an oldie.

Well, it doesn't particularly rock, either.

True story, I thought I had finalized the top 50 last week and sent it to gr80 to make images when I realized i'd neglected to do the count for "Time of the Season" and it leaped into the top 30. Countdown woulda been better without it afaic but the people have spoken.

it's fun watching the age and regional differences mess with everyone's minds ... "Time of the Season" was low on my ballot due to limited rock content, but it squeezed in, while "Boys of Summer" bombed the big-on-MTV test

"What's your name? Who's your daddy?" will never stop bringing the lols for me.

Next song is like the epitome of classic rock fwiw

Good song, great organ solo, great band. Didn't vote for it though.

Long organ solo definitely the most classic rock element of the song.

voodoo chili OTM, particularly 'good song, great band'. Decent but definitely on the low end of my esteem in comparison to the rest of their output.

at the height of my CRR listening years, circa 1991-95, Time of the season still got a lot of airplay, as did CCR, Janis, and other 60s stuff that got phased out to make way for the stuff that was big on modern rock radio then that is on CRR now.

is 'centerfold' classic rock?

we'll find out

didn't vote for this Zombies song, but it's def more cr than that Henley tune.

Boys of Summer WTF

is 'centerfold' classic rock?

― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, July 31, 2014 2:29 PM (3 minutes ago)

what about "centerfield"?

dunno but I'm ready to play

(centerfold on spotify, that is)

is 'centerfold' classic rock?

yes

ok folks, we're officially 75% through this thing... we've had a few dark horses and more than one surprise, but big number twenty-five is certainly one that is underrated by few and loved by almost all:

http://i.imgur.com/Y64jJPE.jpg

25. Aerosmith – Sweet Emotion
1383 points, 20 votes, 1 first place vote

YES

this was in my top ten iirc

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet emooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooootiooooooooooon

bassline so classic

I voted for three other Aerosmith songs but I think all of their major singles from this period were pretty great.

My only Aerosmith vote. That bassline is all-time.

my favorite intro of all time possibly

*exhales*

gettin some sweet emotion from far right dude in that pic

My number one! I wouldn't have expected to vote it #1, but when I sat down to rank-order the songs it just rose and rose. I admit I was partly swayed by its perfect use in the Dazed and Confused credit sequence, but I have always always loved this song.

After all is said and done, I wanna figure out what percentage of the poll results showed up in Dazed and Confused. Assuming some dude hasn't already tabulated those results.

And the Forrest Gump soundtrack.

I have to assume there are even more Dazed tracks to come.

Love this song. It was an early contender for my #1 but ended up just outside of my top ten.

When I first got back into crr after an extended absence in my late teens early twenties, I loved making up soundtracks to imaginary movies based on the songs I heard on the radio. One day while getting stoned with my sister, I decided to outline one of my grand visions: "Okay, so it starts off with Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion and it's the 1970s and there are all these big muscle cars everywhere..." "What, like Dazed and Confused?" I hadn't seen Dazed & Confused since it was in theaters, but there you go.

never realized Aerosmith were behind that Big Ten Inch Record song

Amazing sentence from the wiki entry on Toys In The Attic:

"By this point, Aerosmith had fully matured as a band and Steven Tyler made sex the primary focus of his songwriting on the album."

My #'s 1, 2 & now 3, off the board.

"Awright, guys, we went gold. Let's really experiment, Beatles style. Let's write about sex!"

Meh. Not a huge fan of this one.

From their spotify picture, it's clear that aerosmith had a large influence on PUA style

Was not until late adolescence that I grokked the meaning of "the rabbit done died."

plz explain

so, how many till we get to #1?

twenty four before my love, you'll see I'll be there with you...

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

24. Yes – Roundabout
1384 points, 23 votes, 1 first place vote