CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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

I don't remember hearing "Surrender" that much. "Dream Police", "I Want You -- To Want -- ME", even the goddamm "Flame" I heard more often on CR.

Note the large jump in points from #5 to this one. The top 4 separated themselves from the pack fairly early on in the voting and never let "Slow Ride" or anything else get close to catching up. This one is for Jeff and Doctor Casino.

http://i.imgur.com/gY5cTw1.jpg

4. Boston – More Than A Feeling
2324 points, 34 votes, 2 first place votes

Of course.

34 votes and I was not one. Figured it didn't need the help.

DAMN IT THE WAITING ISN'T GOING TO MAKE THIS LIST

this is pretty cool re: "all the young dudes" (via wiki)

According to an interview Bowie gave to Rolling Stone magazine in 1973, the boys are carrying the same news that the newscaster was carrying in the song "Five Years" from Ziggy Stardust; the news being the fact that the Earth had only five years left to live. Bowie explains: "All the Young Dudes' is a song about this news. It's no hymn to the youth, as people thought. It is completely the opposite."

I fear Urgent probably isn't either. xp

(stomps off in Nancy Wilson-style hissy fit)

if no matter what doesn't show up i'll boycott this list all over again

Also, thinking it might only be two Doobies tracks in the top 100, and one of them is yacht rock.

wait a minute -- did i miss "feel like makin love" showing up?

this is pretty cool re: "all the young dudes" (via wiki)

According to an interview Bowie gave to Rolling Stone magazine in 1973, the boys are carrying the same news that the newscaster was carrying in the song "Five Years" from Ziggy Stardust; the news being the fact that the Earth had only five years left to live. Bowie explains: "All the Young Dudes' is a song about this news. It's no hymn to the youth, as people thought. It is completely the opposite."
― brimstead, Friday, August 1, 2014 2:05 PM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Somebody needs to translate this for me, i have no idea what this means.

More Than Feeling was my number 1. That song is goddamn perfection. I probably listen to it 79 times a day. Maybe not.

haha Bill

someone give bill magill the news

stomping sandy otm.

34 votes and I was not one. Figured it didn't need the help. Figured Boston can fuck off, they broke my head with overexposure in high school.

All I know is that there are three songs left and one is Barracuda.

It would be nuts to have zero Bad Company songs in the top 100, though.

one is reaper

one is steppenwolf

i would like to go back in time, to wednesday, and tell my two-day-younger self to stop worrying so much about the absence of heart in the lower tiers of the countdown.

One has gotta be Leo Sayer.

REM gets some play on crr here so don't count them out

I buy Reaper (of course!), but I don't buy Steppenwolf.

xp to will c -- More Than a Feeling is the only Boston song I can stand

Gold Dust Woman?

Working For The Weekend?

Ha! That would be a very ILM thing to do. xp

Biggest surprise to me thus far is "Comfortably Numb" being the only Floyd pick in a classic rock poll. That's not their best song, their most popular, or their most Classic Rock.

iron butterfly #1. everybody watched Manhunter on netflix last weekend.

Biggest surprise to me thus far is "Comfortably Numb" being the only Floyd pick in a classic rock poll. That's not their best song, their most popular, or their most Classic Rock.

― Lee626, Friday, August 1, 2014 2:15 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, big head-scratcher to me too.

(fingers in ears) lalalalalalala OH BABY DON'T IT FEEL LIKE HEAVEN RIGHT NOW

;_; feelin that

It very well could be The Waiting, but a top 100 with no Foreigner and no Bad Company is just weird.

urgent
urgent
emergency!