boys of summer a classic, rogermexico. otm
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
love it but it's totally AC.
― brimstead, Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
A rough day for my ballot, given how high we are now - only four matches. "Sweet Emotion" and "Lido Shuffle" both very high on mine, though, so that's cool. I will say that the very high appearance of "Jane," though it kinda makes me shrug in confusion (gave it an honest go in the fcc thread but I just find it shrill and headache-inducing), is heartening: weird ILMer-type picks can totally make it in this poll! Figured we'd be kinda done with stuff like that way down in the 90s, but this is definitely not your everyday classic rock poll, and it's more interesting for that.
I do feel pretty good about most of my top ten, if not my top twenty, showing up here. Maybe not "Drift Away," though I'd really like to see it place.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
Agreed with brimstead - I hear that song at the grocery store, but not between car ads.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
boys of summer plays on crr here 5 times a day
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link
19 so far for me.
Surprised by some of the tunes/bands that haven't shown up so far.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link
Henley Jams* I Have Heard On Area CRR: "Dirty Laundry", "Boys of Summer", "All She Wants To Do Is Dance", "The Sunset Grill", "The End of The Innocence", "The Last Worthless Evening", "The Heart of The Matter".
*Well, yeah.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
In general, I always heard "Dirty Laundry" a lot more than "Boys of Summer." Not sure on which stations tbh.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
"All She Wants to Do is Dance" is typical stupid ho Henley condemnation but man Kootch and Campbell made great synth grooves for him.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
Boys of Summer is fine. I don't hate it. I might even like it. I just look at my list, of which 17 songs have placed so far, and think of all the amazing songs that could have made this list instead. Also Don Henley is gross.
https://twitter.com/movingsideways/status/453943890622812161
― carl agatha, Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
7/50
Surprised that every major cr standard (bo rap,layla,stairway,freebird, watchtower,comfortably numb) placed. The only ones missing are smoke on the water and well, The Eagles.
― g simmel, Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
The #1 will end up being, like, "Only God Knows Why"
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
irl lol
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
wwwwwwwooooooooow lotsa great jams today (<3 <3 cinnamon girl, under pressure, jane)
i was the #1 for sultans of swing because it was my very first favorite song -- i was 3 or 4 and my mom noticed that i liked it and i asked her what it was and it thereby became my favorite. then i learned how to work the record player and got lots of new favorite songs but the sultans of swing were my first favorite song in my life. it did not ignite a love for dire straits -- i've never owned a dire straits album -- but for songs, yesssss.
where's dust in the wind?
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
There were 4 bands I had multiple tracks for-Fleetwood Mac, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who and Heart.Where are Ann & Nancy?! Oh god.
― campreverb, Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
oh they're coming up -- it's the AORTA
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
xpost on reflection I'd vote for only god knows why over smoke on the water
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
hahaha me too but not in an OG classic rock poll
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
― carl agatha, Thursday, July 31, 2014 6:41 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hahaha irl lol @ that tweet
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:56 (nine years ago) link
I've got 19 so far. My only rule for voting was no voting for anyone who had or is scheduled to have their own poll. So no Stones, Who, etc.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
That tweet is one of those things I just sit and think about to cheer myself up when I'm feeling blue. xp
― carl agatha, Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
28 of mine have placed so far. A lot of others that have placed were last minute cuts for me.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
For those keepig score, the average length of the 80 songs is 4:41. I was hoping we'd break the 5 minute barrier. We've got at least one 8 minute opus to come, but after that, who knows.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
There were some heavy hitters like Paranoid and Won't Get Fooled Again that I dropped in favor of giving some love to the lesser-knowns. I regret nothing... yet.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
My level of anticipation for the next bank of songs is only equalled by anticipation for MOAR awesome PHOTOES :D
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
I placed the Zombies (iirc) despite it verging on oldies, and despite me trying to be strict about only including 'proper' classic rock, as I just think the sound of that song works in the CR canon. I do get other people not being so sure, though.
― emil.y, Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
I heard the Zombies on classic rock radio all the time in the 80s. Time of the Season and She's Not There were both in heavy rotation.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
those people can always vote for Hold Your Head Up xpost
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
P sure Neil Young gets daily CR airplay here.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
Ugh I hate Hold Your Head Up. The Argent deep cut that the FM jocks somehow missed is Dance In The Smoke. Epic.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, July 31, 2014 7:04 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
average length of the whole top 100 is 4:39 :(
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
do oldies stations still exist? i wish i had an oldies station
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
the last time i heard an oldies station with any regularity was when i worked at a sub shop in college. if i worked a morning shift, they had oldies on, if i worked a night shift, they had classic rock on. very elemental duality.
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
My oldies station was "Imus in the morning, oldies all day long" :(
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
always had oldies on the radio at the bakery in high school
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
ugh yeah this is reminding me of my college togo's job where it was always classic rock and we had to listen to the manager's stupid stories/anecdotes about Don McLean and how Zeppelin was "75% acoustic" or what-the-fuck-ever
btw does this mean American Pie is not going to place
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
Ha, my local station offered an online Neil Young player for people to stream his most recent album when it was released.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
lol at that know-somethingish Zeppelin assertion.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
for the record, The AORta is the main artery of Album Oriented Rock. whether our heart beats for the Wilson sisters is a personal matter.
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cVXMOa4Azh4/TzF5EwRv5uI/AAAAAAAAAeI/Sn7eG7hbuVY/s1600/ann+nancy+wilson+central+park.jpg
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:30 (nine years ago) link
omg cuet
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
24 so far
there will be some bitter tears shed over here if ILM can't find a place for Alice Cooper and Grand Funk Railroad in its classic rock canon, but they don't seem like top 20 material the way things are going
thank goodness Phil Collins and Don Henley made it
― Brad C., Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link
alice cooper may suffer from vote splittingi voted capriciously and regret not cutting a few obvious stinkers for the ac band
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
20 spots left and at least 40 must-place songs on my ballot. I hate to go all LJ-esque but a preemptive FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU to, uh, the universe I guess.
― rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link
alice cooper this poll may suffer from vote splitting
― sleeve, Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:45 (nine years ago) link
Alice Cooper will make it. How can you say no to this face?
http://www.wolfmanjack.com/images/images/alice_cooper.jpg?0.3884963674846667
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
idk why it didn't embed. How can you say know this face, which you have to click on to see?
there will be some bitter tears shed over here if ILM can't find a place for Alice Cooper and Grand Funk Railroad in its classic rock canon
Aqualung too
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link
classic ILM flute bias
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
if Aqualung makes the top 20 I will BURN THIS SHIT TO THE GROUND
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link