CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

just heard crack the sky's 'from the greenhouse' for the first time in 25 years

weirton, wv ftw

Crack the Sky! I forgot about them completely.

They regularly played somewhere that advertised on the radio a lot when I was a kid and when I see the name all I can think is the radio commercial announcer guy's manly voice saying CRACK THE SKY.

i had always assumed they were a pittsburgh thing, but wiki says they were mainly popular on baltimore radio

'from the greenhouse' is very late-floyd/queensryche with huge gated drums and a children's choir. i love it

Crack The Sky are still enduringly beloved in Baltimore (and nowhere else). they co-headlined a show with Boston recently, and the local classic rock station plays "She's A Dancer" and "Hot Razors In My Heart" pretty regularly.

bless

this poll was so goddamn legit btw. i have thought back on it a few times lately as one of the most fun things i've done this year.

otm

Hot Razors in My Heart! Yes!

I knew some dude would have first hand knowledge of CRACK THE SKY.

OMG YES CRACK THE SKY

They were pretty much hometown boys (Weirton being only about a 45 minute drive from Pittsburgh). They were awfully popular here in the mid 70s (Hot Razors in My Heart and Rangers at Midnight especially) but their popularity didn't endure here the way it did in Baltimore.

And yes, this poll was so much fun, it makes me a little bit sad that it couldn't have lasted forever.

Oh, and Surf City, too. That was the song from their first album that was waaaaay more popular on Pittsburgh radio in 1975 than She's a Dancer was.

http://i.imgur.com/EFAjVB6.jpg

✓ indeed

Our venerable classic-rock station here, Q-107, is in the midst of some kind of identity crisis. (Declining ratings, I would assume.) First I heard Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)" a few months back, now I'm hearing "1979" and "Creep." They've closed the gap from being 30 years behind to maybe 20. (Putting aside that there's much better stuff from the early '90s than those two particular songs..."1979"'s good.) Maybe one, two, or all three of those wouldn't be unusual on an American classic-rock station--for Q-107, they're very unusual, and, for me, egregiously wrong. Worlds colliding; if I tune into Q-107, I want to stay inside the cocoon. I'd almost rather they stick with their old idea of new music, Nickleback and such, as godawful as that stuff it is. It at least makes sense in context.

That is horrid. I can't imagine WDRV in Chicago - "The Drive" - which I listen to all of the time - doing that.

My dream station plays everything, of course (not really; "everything" from the subset of music I love...), but there's something so sad and desperate about hearing Simple Minds and "1979" there.

CR playlists seem so set in stone that there's always a tiny thrill whenever I hear something for the first time since its original release. Today -- "Jazzman" by Carole King and the Elton cover of "Pinball Wizard."

A massive stone edifice with a typical CR playlist would make a pretty sweet piece of public art actually.

Not quite what you're talking about, but it was the first thing I thought of:

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

http://onlineathens.com/images/101702/ten.jpg

let there be drums
there were drums
let there be guitar
there was guitar

Why Classic Rock Isn’t What It Used To Be

(bizarrely, neither the words "lynyrd" nor "skynyrd" show up in this article, and "eagles" appears only once. some interesting stats nonetheless.)

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/james-gang-interview-2015

great piece, thanks for sharing!

makes me happy to know they were working so well together, that album is so damn good

and i dig that joe seems like a decent guy. kinda like a dog ...a dog that is a guitar genius

I literally thought they were singing "Well now look/We're the Doobies now"

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, July 31, 2014 12:02 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This now cracks me up every time I heard this song.

i love this poll so much

last week i looked up the doobie brothers wiki page to find out what the deal was with them switching singers

i got the gist of it but man it's long. srsly the War & Peace of wiki pages

and i never knew they started in San Jose! i always thought they were from florida or something

I recently discovered this album cover:

http://i.imgur.com/U0n2ISr.jpg

I mean...

hahaha yeah

That's a good album though - fine starting point if you're curious about McDonald-era Doobies beyond the singles.

...which I am not

thx anyway, Doc :)

Well now look / Veg you're missing out

naaaaanananaaaaow

I looked it up to find the Doobie version of "You Belong to Me".

It'd be hard to beat Carly or Anita anyway, but I thought MM would be up for it since he co-wrote the damn thing. Was kinda disappointed.

But hey, that pun title/bizarre photo manipulation of an album cover made up for it.

it's very Planet of the Apes...except dumb

reminds me of those old SI posters

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

I'd kill for a Michael McDonald or Skunk Baxter version of that ^^

lol

always nice to see this thread bumped for any reason

i revisited my classic rock playlist today bcz of the revive

and i have decided i have way more time for preMM doobies. I like the MM doobie's hits a lot but they feel like a whole different band somehow

Gee, whatever makes you say that?

http://i.imgur.com/aywZi1H.jpg http://i.imgur.com/RRPB5Lk.jpg

:D

i was having a minor freakout a few months ago when i had to pack up my entire apartment in a day and a half and along with that freakout i couldnt settle on what music to listen to until i dialed up this poll's corresponding spotify playlist and it was like aural adderall

classic rock & chill

I've actually looked at the Livin on the Fault Line cover at least a dozen times and it never hit me until now that it's really fucking weird.

Ooh, Spotify playlist. I didn't have Spotify when we did this so never followed. If you chuck the Foghat song, it's eerie how close the top 10 from "Reaper" to "Magic Man" comes to my taste.

i always mix it up with the climax blues band flying the flag cover

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/514uymAJ5uL.jpg

xpost

thanks to this poll i'm now totally in love with "Eye in the Sky"

that song is amazing

If you chuck the Foghat song

it's like i don't even know u

have nearly revived an alan parsons thread a couple times lately, I guess it might be time (flowin like a river)

dont post any words you're gonna regret.

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