CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

so Heart have 3 of the top 20....holy shit!
...a realistic representation of the CR ethos I guess but man, does that guitar work on "Magic Man" drag.
"Crazy" pretty flawless, though.

looks like my guesses for the top 6 are not as accurate as I hoped!

man, does that guitar work on "Magic Man" drag

rong

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

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, August 1, 2014 1:26 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it probably boosted its iTunes sales but it's popularity on radio seems eternal and unaffected

Yeah, "Crazy on You" is constructed and performed really well imo.

for such a zepcentric band, heart were surprisingly low on guitar heroics...seems like they emulated Jimmy Page's orchestrations more than anything

"Crazy On You" is one of those songs that I don't think I love when I see the title and think of the chorus, but when it's on and I hear all the other parts of it I'm like yeah, this song has tons of great stuff.

"Who Are You" is something I loved as a teenager ("They swore!") and can't switch off fast enough now.

What I wanna know about "Who Are You" is why it never gets the F word bleeped out on radio like everything else

forever redeemed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6E-NXGJTqU

There's a scene in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle where Kumar fantasizes about living his life married to a large bag of weed, soundtracked by "Crazy On You." So obviously, that's all I can think about when I hear it.

man, does that guitar work on "Magic Man" drag
rong

― mookieproof, Friday, August 1, 2014 10:28 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, this is just the rongest

Heart indeed had tight pop sensibilities, but the hired gun solo on "Magic Man" is total guitar villainry imo....

What I wanna know about "Who Are You" is why it never gets the F word bleeped out on radio like everything else

― Lee626, Friday, August 1, 2014 1:35 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It does, to the point that stations now edit out that whole line.

(There's also a "who the hell are you?" version, which I've never heard)

My local CR station still plays the unedited version

'funky kicks goin' down in the city'

Here's one for mookieproof. Take it easy, dude!

http://i.imgur.com/J2leU2T.jpg

5. Foghat – Slow Ride
1916 points, 28 votes, 3 first place votes

yesssssssss

ILM OTM

8min version or gtfo

Awesome that "Crazy On You" made it! I had given up hope.

I would not have been surprised to see Foghat at #1.

Always thought of this as second-tier. Biggest WTF for me so far.

Local station here leaves it in too.

The editing-out of "And all the colored chicks..." from "Walk on the Wild Side" over the past 40 years would make your head spin: in, out, in, out, in, etc.

Slow Ride totally deserves top 5 xp

didn't even know there was an edited version; fuck that

6. Heart – Crazy On You

yes!!! the aorta comes through! there's so much i love about this song, from the dead-on rennfair guitar intro to the simple genius of the main riff to the heart-melting tonal change between pre-chorus and chorus. this is a song of many many parts, all woven together with pop grace. my #2.

Walk on the Wild SIde - They took out the giving head part here, but left the colored girls in there,

How many of these songs mention cum by name?

"Slow Ride" is the song most linked to Dazed & Confused for me

http://media1.giphy.com/media/ja8l1AHm3Zk5O/200_s.gif

One of those where you go, "Ha, and they had a band who called themselves 'Foghat' back then too."

"Slow Ride" is the song most linked to Dazed & Confused for me

― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes),

Same here. Used to confuse it for "Free Ride" too.

"Slow Ride" has an even more famous place in popular culture that Dazed & Confused, but I've already posted the relevant clips enough.

Oddly enough, a song I never really heard on the radio through the '70s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_VrQ0onXEM

i think this thread is making me have a heart attack! Or maybe it's a stroke? Either way BRING IT ON what a great buncha songs

are these images collected anywhere so that we can look at them in greater detail without scrolling?

you youngsters and your 'dazed and confused'

you old people being dazed and confused

so yeah, baba o'riley was my #1. when all is said and done i just couldn't find anything that was more Classic Rock to me. hits all the marks and earns the bombast.

are these images collected anywhere so that we can look at them in greater detail without scrolling?

will link to a nice & clean gallery once we get to #1

Bet there'll be a gallery at Aorta1077fm.com complete with slideshow, real player featuring the hits and photos from the two-for-one remote they had out at Jaker's.

for such a zepcentric band, heart were surprisingly low on guitar heroics...seems like they emulated Jimmy Page's orchestrations more than anything

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee)

But is Nancy Wilson a guitar-heroic guitar player? I don't play myself, so I'm no expert, I always figured she was a decent acoustic player but here's the thing...
1980, a friend of mine did some work with Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson, so we went down to Wheeling, West Virginia to see them open for Heart. After the show, there's nothing much going on in the bar, the hotel bar band are just finishing up and some of the guys from Heart ask if they can get up and jam. Then they ask Mick Ronson to come up and play with them and Nancy throws a fit, seriously runs off to her room crying because why did they ask Mick instead of her? So a couple of people go to calm Nancy down and bring her back to the bar and everybody's like OH NANCY, we're sorry your feelings were hurt, please jam with us too. So they start playing something and maybe ten minutes pass and she throws ANOTHER fit and storms off again because "Mick's showing off."

I can't imagine it's easy to be the other guitar player in a band with Nancy Wilson.

Cant stand Crazy on You, or most of Heart's ouerve. I just dont get it.

don't forget the babe-of-the-day, pp

"crazy on you" is more than the sum of its parts (and jeez is it stuffed with 'me) and got my highest Heart vote itp on the strength of its full-on cock rock swag.

I changed "wet t-shirt" to "two-for-one" at the last minute back there.

Ha, I've now heard the full version of "Slow Ride" for the first time in my life.

:D

(xxxp) would love to hear a version of heart with nancy AND mick ronson in it.

will link to a nice & clean gallery once we get to #1
hi 5 my man

i'm late but i heard "surrender" on the radio last tuesday, because that's when 100.3 does twofer tuesdays and invariably play i want you to want me/surrender at least 5 times