CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

yeah i've been working my way through some 70s blind spots, definitely on the to-do list

Whoa I mean give :O

lol

I'd never heard the T Rex version when I first heard the power station version when it was on the Muzak at the Gap when I worked there briefly in 2001

This one is dedicated to rogermexico. Which reminds me, I once rogered a girl in Tijuana while this song was playing.

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

7. The Who – Baba O’Riley
1681 points, 23 votes, 1 first place vote

20th Century Boy should be as big as this song, but I don't mind

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I heard the oasis song "cigarettes and alcohol" before "bang a gong", it's one of their more transparent ripoffs.

The Slider is another all killer no filler album, highly recommended

feel like Old Lunch is abt to update his list again

Felt that I had no choice but to vote for this because any CR poll without WE'RE ALL WASTED totally misses the point

this was one of the biggest surprises to me as I was counting votes. Who's Next-era Who always seemed pretty divisive around here and "Baba" seemed more emblematic of what some dislike about the album and anecdotally less popular than "Won't Get Fooled Again," so I had no idea "Baba" would be in the top 10 with "Fooled" 30 spots lower.

Townshend's 9-minute instrumental "Baba O'Riley" demo:
http://youtu.be/v-layDeazY8

Obvious rad song. I'm starting to feel like a lot of CR bands made their song titles purposefully obfuscatory.

TEENAGE WAISTBAND

Baba is awesome. I thought everyone agreed on that. My 7.

ugh the top 5 really doesn't need two Heart songs

Obvious rad song. I'm starting to feel like a lot of CR bands made their song titles purposefully obfuscatory.

― Dr. Yah Mo B. There, DDS (Old Lunch), Friday, August 1, 2014 12:59 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The title of the song is derived from the combination of the song's philosophical and musical influences, Meher Baba and Terry Riley.[2]

my senior prom date walked down the aisle to an orchestral arrangement of baba when she got married, it was really lovely tbh

"burnin' for you" top 10 the most wtf moment of this entire poll for me. i like the song just fine -- it's definitely top 10 boc for me-- but wtf? never change, ilm.

The Who - "Don't Cry (Don't Raise Your Eye)"

holding out for "China Grove"

Fun fact: there is a song called "Teenage Wasteland" that Townshend demoed but the Who never recorded:
http://youtu.be/tmbaWtQoLM0

I had china grove high. Not sure though.

I didn't get the pee thing on the Who's Next cover until fairly recently

I remember having a hard time reconciling the violin coda with what had come before in early listens

xp Feel like Crazy on You might not place. I have what I feel is a pretty good guess on what's in the top 6, and it'd be shocked if Crazy on You were in there.

In a perfect world both Crazy on You AND Barracuda place in the top 10.

otm

ugh the top 5 really doesn't need two Heart songs

not otm

Fun fact: there is a song called "Teenage Wasteland" that Townshend demoed but the Who never recorded:

"Hey you! Don't step on my turnips/ Oh lord, when will they ever learn it?" didn't have quite the same lyrical punch.

Freaks and Geeks had scene with Rogen correcting Lindsay on the song title

The cover artwork shows a photograph, taken at Easington Colliery, of the band apparently having just urinated on a large concrete piling protruding from a slag heap. According to photographer Ethan Russell, most of the members were unable to urinate, so rainwater was tipped from an empty film canister to achieve the desired effect. The partially cloudy sky seen above the site was also composited from a separate image. The photograph is often seen to be a reference to the monolith discovered on the moon in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, which had been released only about three years earlier.[10] Pete Townshend stated it was an ironical answer to Stanley Kubrick turning down the direction of Tommy.[11] In 2003, the United States cable television channel VH1 named Who's Next's cover one of the greatest album covers of all time.[12]

I like to imagine that the cover of "Ace of Spades" was taken at the same location

Ace of Spades cover shows the dudes who were hired to track down the people who peed on the thing.

Another great classic rock band that isnt' represented on crr playlists.

The Who's discography has never been polled?

I know where you've peed
The only card I need
is the ACE OF SPADES
THE ACE OF SPADES

song i'm happiest to see in the top 20: "night moves." sad that "still the same" missed the poll, but i get that. "night moves" is a cr epic done right: platonically ideal composition and a lyric that rings completely true.

I didn't get the pee thing on the Who's Next cover until fairly recently

― brimstead, Friday, August 1, 2014 1:03 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Me neither - didn't look closely, that those were just shadows

I passed over Won't get Fooled & Baba but am happy that they placed, they're certainly about as CR as it gets.

This was the original idea for the WN cover:

http://www.coverdude.com/covers/the-who-whos-next-1995-inlay-cover-78091.jpg

My prime classic rock radio years were in the early-2000s and at the time you'd get so much Who Are You.

Baba O'Riley was my number 2. Anthem.

early-2000s and at the time you'd get so much Who Are You.

such a terrible album.

My mom definitely saw the pee cover right off, and young me got a talking to about that album.

People have been going crazy on the prospect of this one showing up for a little while now. A dedication to our fact checking cuz...

http://i.imgur.com/fKNexR6.jpg

6. Heart – Crazy On You
1711 points, 22 votes

"Who Are You" is still The Who's top song airplay-wise but I don't think I've even heard another track from that album on the radio

"Radar Love" is amazing. Yet another karaoke song that has destroyed my voice (so worth it). I was pleasantly surprised a little while back to discover that Golden Earring had been around since the '60s and that their earlier stuff isn't half bad.

― Dr. Yah Mo B. There, DDS (Old Lunch), Friday, August 1, 2014 4:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I voted "Baba O'Riley" #1 in AG's 70s rock poll, #4 in this.

Crazy On You at #6 just where I placed it!

didn't CSI do wonders for "Who Are You"s popularity?