hey folks,
you've been tailgating and helping me get the nominations list ready for the last couple weeks. now let's get ready for the eternal all-request weekend.
will post the final nominations list in a moment -- i tried to consider everyone's suggestions but ultimately made the final call on what was in and what was out. there should be plenty of songs for you to vote for. about 800.
send ballots to shipley.al at gmail dot com by the end of day on Tuesday, July 15.
you can send up to 100 tracks (or at least 20). there are also two subpolls:
10 worst tracks
5 favorite classic rock albums (i.e. records that have multiple tracks you always enjoy hearing on the radio -- you don't even necessarily have to know and love the whole album, just the hits).
I've just started loading tracks into the Spotify playlist but hopefully soon all the nominated tracks will be here: http://open.spotify.com/user/1219464571/playlist/54fE6NUiIkUpeR4WENZWWr
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
.38 Special – Caught Up In You.38 Special – Hold On Loosely.38 Special – If I’d Been The One.38 Special – Rockin’ Into The NightAC/DC – Back In BlackAC/DC - Big BallsAC/DC – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt CheapAC/DC – For Those About To RockAC/DC – Have A Drink On MeAC/DC – Hells BellsAC/DC – Highway To HellAC/DC – It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll)AC/DC – Rock ‘n’ Roll AIn’t Noise PollutionAC/DC – Shoot To ThrillAC/DC – T.N.T.AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night LongAerosmith – Back In The SaddleAerosmith – Come TogetherAerosmith – Dream OnAerosmith – Last ChildAerosmith – Mama KinAerosmith – Same Old Song And DanceAerosmith – Sweet EmotionAerosmith – Train Kept A-Rollin’Aerosmith – Walk This WayAlan Parsons Project - Eye in the SkyAlan Parsons Project - I Wouldn't Want to Be Like YouAldo Nova -- FantasyAlice Cooper – I’m EighteenAlice Cooper – No More Mr. Nice GuyAlice Cooper – School’s OutThe Allman Brothers Band – JessicaThe Allman Brothers Band – Melissa The Allman Brothers Band – Midnight RiderThe Allman Brothers Band – Ramblin’ ManThe Allman Brothers Band - Statesboro BluesThe Allman Brothers Band – Whipping PostAmerica - Daisy JaneAmerica - Horse With No NameAmerica - I Need YouAmerica - Lonely PeopleAmerica - Tin ManAmerica - Ventura HighwayThe Animals - House of the Rising SunThe Animals – We’ve Got To Get Out Of This PlaceApril Wine – Sign of the Gypsy QueenApril Wine – Tonight Is A Wonderful Time To Fall In LoveApril Wine - You Could Have Been a LadyArchie Bell & the Drells - Tighten UpArgent – Hold Your Head UpArlo Guthrie-Alice's RestaurantAsia - Heat of the MomentAsia - Only Time Can TellAtlanta Rhythm Section - So In to YouAutograph – Turn Up The RadioBachman-Turner Overdrive – Let It RideBachman-Turner Overdrive – Takin’ Care of BusinessBachman-Turner Overdrive – You Ain’t Seen Nothing YetBad Company – Bad CompanyBad Company – Burnin’ SkyBad Company – Can’t Get EnoughBad Company – Feel Like Makin’ LoveBad Company – Ready For LoveBad Company – Rock ‘N’ Roll FantasyBad Company – Shooting StarBadfinger - Day After DayBadfinger - No Matter WhatThe Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie DownThe Band - Up On Cripple CreekThe Band – The WeightThe Beach Boys – Good VibrationsThe Beatles – A Day In The LifeThe Beatles – Back In The USSRThe Beatles – Birthday The Beatles – Come TogetherThe Beatles – Day TripperThe Beatles – Eleanor RigbyThe Beatles – Get BackThe Beatles – Let It BeThe Beatles – Paperback WriterThe Beatles – RevolutionThe Beatles – Strawberry Fields ForeverThe Beatles – Ticket To RideThe Beatles – While My Guitar Gently WeepsBenjamin Orr - Stay the NightBig Brother And The Holding Company – Piece Of My HeartBig Country - In a Big CountryBilly Idol – Dancing With MyselfBilly Idol – Rebel YellBilly Idol – White WeddingBilly Joel – Big ShotBilly Joel – Captain JackBilly Joel – It’s Still Rock And Roll To MeBilly Joel - Miami 2017Billy Joel – Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)Billy Joel – New York State Of MindBilly Joel – Only The Good Die YoungBilly Joel – Piano ManBilly Joel – You May Be RightBilly Squier – Everybody Wants YouBilly Squier – Lonely Is The NightBilly Squier – My Kinda LoverBilly Squier – The StrokeBilly Thorpe- Children of the SunBlackfoot - Train, TrainBlack Oak Arkansas - Jim DandyBlack Sabbath – Iron ManBlack Sabbath – ParanoidBlack Sabbath – War Pigs Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way HomeBlondie - One Way Or Another Blood, Sweat & Tears – And When I DieBlood, Sweat & Tears – Spinning WheelBlood, Sweat & Tears - You've Made Me So Very HappyBlue Cheer - Summertime BluesBlue Oyster Cult – Don’t Fear The ReaperBlue Oyster Cult – GodzillaBlue Oyster Cult – I’m Burnin’ For YouBlues Image – Ride Captain RideBob Dylan – Knockin’ On Heaven’s DoorBob Dylan – Like A Rolling StoneBob Dylan – Rainy Day Women #12 & 35Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick BluesBob Dylan - Tangled Up In BlueBob Seger – Against The WindBob Seger – Fire Down BelowBob Seger – Her StrutBob Seger – Hollywood NightsBob Seger - KatmanduBob Seger – Mainstreet Bob Seger – Night MovesBob Seger – Old Time Rock & RollBob Seger – Rock & Roll Never ForgetsBob Seger - Still The SameBob Seger – Turn The PageBon Jovi – Livin’ On A PrayerBon Jovi – Runaway Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or AliveBooker T. and the MG's - Green OnionsBoston – Don’t Look BackBoston – Feelin’ SatisfiedBoston – Foreplay/Long TimeBoston – Hitch A RideBoston – Let Me Take You Home TonightBoston – More Than A FeelingBoston - Peace of MindBoston – Rock & Roll BandBoston – Smokin’Boston – Something About YouThe Box Tops - The LetterBoz Scaggs - Lido ShuffleBoz Scaggs - LowdownBrownsville Station - Smokin' in the Boy's RoomBruce Springsteen – Badlands Bruce Springsteen – Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen – Born To RunBruce Springsteen – Dancing In The DarkBruce Springsteen – Hungry HeartBruce Springsteen – JunglelandBruce Springsteen - The Promised LandBruce Springsteen – The RiverBruce Springsteen – Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)Bruce Springsteen – Tenth Avenue Freeze-OutBruce Springsteen – Thunder RoadBuffalo Springfield – For What It’s WorthBryan Adams – Cuts Like A KnifeBryan Adams – Run To YouBryan Adams – Summer Of ‘69The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine ManThe Byrds – Turn! Turn! Turn! The Cars – Bye Bye LoveThe Cars – Good Times RollThe Cars – Just What I NeededThe Cars – Let’s GoThe Cars – Moving In StereoThe Cars – My Best Friend’s GirlThe Cars – Shake It UpThe Cars – You’re All I’ve Got TonightCharlie Daniels Band – The Devil Went Down To GeorgiaCheap Trick – I Want You To Want Me (Live)Cheap Trick – Surrender Chicago -- Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?Chicago -- Feeling Stronger Every DayChicago – Saturday In The ParkChicago - 25 or 6 to 4Christopher Cross - Ride Like The WindThe Clash – Rock The CasbahThe Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I GoThe Clash – Train In VainCream – CrossroadsCream – Sunshine Of Your LoveCream – White RoomCreedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon RisingCreedence Clearwater Revival – Born On The BayouCreedence Clearwater Revival – Down On The CornerCreedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate SonCreedence Clearwater Revival – Have You Ever Seen The Rain?Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin Out My Back DoorCreedence Clearwater Revival – Proud MaryCreedence Clearwater Revival - Run Through the JungleCreedence Clearwater Revival – Who’ll Stop The Rain Crosby, Stills & Nash – Suite: Judy Blue EyesCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young – OhioCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Our HouseCrosby, Still, Nash & Young-Teach Your ChildrenCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Woodstock Crowbar - Oh What a FeelingThe Cult – She Sells SanctuaryDavid Bowie - ChangesDavid Bowie – FameDavid Bowie – Let’s DanceDavid Bowie – Modern LoveDavid Bowie – Rebel RebelDavid Bowie – Space OddityDavid Bowie – Suffragette CityDavid Bowie – Young AmericansDavid Bowie – Ziggy StardustDavid Essex – Rock OnDavid Lee Roth – Yankee RoseDeep Purple – Child In TimeDeep Purple – Hush Deep Purple - Highway StarDeep Purple – Smoke On The WaterDeep Purple - Space TruckinDef Leppard – Bringin’ On The HeartbreakDef Leppard – Foolin’ Def Leppard - PhotographDef Leppard – Rock Of AgesDef Leppard – Too Late For LoveDerek & the Dominos - Bell Bottom BluesDerek & The Dominos – LaylaDio – Holy Diver Dio – The Last In LineDio – Rainbow In The DarkDire Straits – Money For NothingDire Straits - Romeo and JulietDire Straits – Sultans of SwingDire Straits - Tunnel Of LoveDire Straits – Walk Of LifeDobie Gray – Drift AwayDon Henley – All She Wants To Do Is DanceDon Henley – Boys Of SummerDon Henley – Dirty LaundryDon McLean – American PieDonnie Iris -- Oh! LeahDonovan - Hurdy Gurdy ManThe Doobie Brothers – Black WaterThe Doobie Brothers – China GroveThe Doobie Brothers – Jesus Is Just AlrightThe Doobie Brothers – Listen To The MusicThe Doobie Brothers – Long Train Runnin’The Doobie Brothers – Takin’ It To The StreetsThe Doobie Brothers – What A Fool BelievesThe Doors – Break On ThroughThe Doors – Hello, I Love YouThe Doors – L.A. WomanThe Doors – Light My FireThe Doors – Love Her MadlyThe Doors – Love Me Two TimesThe Doors – Peace FrogThe Doors – People Are StrangeThe Doors – Riders On The StormThe Doors – Roadhouse BluesThe Doors – Touch MeDr. John - Right Place Wrong TimeThe Eagles – Already GoneThe Eagles - DesperadoThe Eagles – Heartache TonightThe Eagles – Hotel CaliforniaThe Eagles – In The CityThe Eagles – Life In The Fast LaneThe Eagles – The Long RunThe Eagles – New Kid In TownThe Eagles – One Of These NightsThe Eagles – Peaceful Easy FeelingThe Eagles – Take It EasyThe Eagles – Take It To The LimitThe Eagles – Witchy WomanEddie Money – Baby Hold OnEddie Money – Shakin’Eddie Money – Take Me Home TonightEddie Money – Two Tickets To ParadiseEdgar Winter – FrankensteinEdgar Winter – Free RideElectric Light Orchestra – Don’t Bring Me DownElectric Light Orchestra – Do YaElectric Light Orchestra – Evil WomanElectric Light Orchestra – Fire On HighElectric Light Orchestra – Sweet Talkin’ WomanEmerson, Lake, and Palmer - From the BeginningEmerson, Lake & Palmer – Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression, Part II)Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Lucky ManElton John – Bennie And The JetsElton John – Funeral For A Friend – Love Lies BleedingElton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick RoadElton John – LevonElton John – Rocket ManElton John – Saturday Night’s Alright For FightingElton John – Tiny DancerElvin Bishop - Fooled Around and Fell In LoveElvis Presley - Burning LoveEric Burdon & War – Spill The WineEric Clapton - After MidnightEric Clapton – CocaineEric Clapton – I Shot The SheriffEric Clapton – Lay Down SallyEric Clapton - Let It RainEric Clapton – Wonderful TonightEurope – The Final CountdownThe Faces - Stay With MeFairport Convention -- Genesis HallThe Firm – RadioactiveThe Fixx – One Thing Leads To AnotherThe Fixx – Saved By ZeroFleetwood Mac – The ChainFleetwood Mac – Don’t Stop Fleetwood Mac – DreamsFleetwood Mac – Gold Dust WomanFleetwood Mac – Go Your Own WayFleetwood Mac - GypsyFleetwood Mac – RhiannonFleetwood Mac – SaraFleetwood Mac – Say You Love MeFleetwood Mac - TuskFleetwood Mac - You Make Loving FunFree – All Right NowFree - Wishing WellFocus – Hocus PocusFoghat - Fool for the CityFoghat – Slow RideForeigner – Blue Morning, Blue DayForeigner – Cold As IceForeigner – Double VisionForeigner – Feels Like The First TimeForeigner – Head GamesForeigner – Hot BloodedForeigner - I want to Know What Love IsForeigner – Juke Box HeroForeigner – Long, Long Way From HomeForeigner – UrgentForeigner - Waiting For A Girl Like YouGary Glitter – Rock And Roll Part 2Gary Wright – Dream WeaverGenesis – AbacabGenesis – Follow You Follow MeGenesis – Invisible TouchGenesis – The Lamb Lies Down On BroadwayGenesis – Land Of ConfusionGenesis - MamaGenesis - MisunderstandingGenesis – No Reply At AllGenesis – That’s AllGenesis – Turn It On AgainGeorge Harrison - My Sweet LordGeorge Harrison - What Is LifeGeorge Thorogood – Bad To The BoneGeorge Thorogood – I Drink AloneGeorge Thorogood – Move It On OverGeorge Thorogood – One Bourbon, One Scotch, One BeerGeorge Thorogood – Who Do You LoveThe Georgia Sattelites – Keep Your Hands To YourselfGerry Rafferty – Baker StreetGlenn Frey – The Heat Is OnGlenn Frey – Smuggler’s BluesGlenn Frey – You Belong To The CityGolden Earring – Radar LoveGolden Earring – Twilight ZoneGrand Funk Railroad – Closer To Home (I’m Your Captain)Grand Funk Railroad – Some Kind Of WonderfulGrand Funk Railroad – We’re An American BandGrateful Dead – Casey JonesGrateful Dead -- Touch of GrayGrateful Dead - Sugar MagnoliaGrateful Dead – Truckin’ Gregg Allman - I'm No AngelThe Greg Kihn Band – The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)The Greg Kihn Band - JeopardyThe Guess Who – American WomanThe Guess Who - Clap For The WolfmanThe Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight/New Mother NatureThe Guess Who – No TimeGuess Who - Share the LandGuess Who – UndunHamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds - Don't Pull Your LoveHead East – Never Been Any ReasonHeart – BarracudaHeart – Crazy On YouHeart – Magic ManHeart – Straight OnThe Hollies – Long Cool Woman In A Black DressThe Human Beinz - Nobody But MeHumble Pie - I Don't Need No DoctorHumble Pie - 30 Days in the HoleThe Ides of March - VehicleIron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da VidaIron Maiden -- Aces HighIron Maiden – Run To The HillsJackson Browne – Doctor My EyesJackson Browne – The Load-Out / Stay (Live)Jackson Browne – The PretenderJackson Browne – Running On Empty (Live)Jackson Browne – Somebody’s BabyJackson Browne – Stay James Gang – Funk #49James Gang - Walk AwayJanis Joplin – Me And Bobby McGeeJefferson Airplane - Somebody to LoveJefferson Airplane - White RabbitJefferson Starship - Find Your Way BackJefferson Starship – JaneJefferson Starship - MiraclesJefferson Airplane - White Rabbit, Somebody to LoveJethro Tull – AqualungJethro Tull - Bungle In The JungleJethro Tull – Locomotive BreathJethro Tull - Mother GooseJethro Tull -- Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of the New Day)Jethro Tull -- Thick as a BrickJ. Geils Band – CenterfoldJ. Geils Band – Freeze FrameJ. Geils Band - Land of 1,000 Dances (Live)J. Geils Band – Love Stinks J. Geils Band - Must Of Got LostThe Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along The WatchtowerThe Jimi Hendrix Experience – Crosstown TrafficThe Jimi Hendrix Experience - FireThe Jimi Hendrix Experience – Foxey LadyThe Jimi Hendrix Experience – Hey JoeThe Jimi Hendrix Experience – Little Wing The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Manic DepressionThe Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple HazeThe Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)The Jimi Hendrix Experience – The Wind Cries MaryJimmy Buffett – MargaritavilleJoan Jett – Crimson & CloverJoan Jett – I Love Rock ‘N RollJoe Cocker - Cry Me a RiverJoe Cocker - Feeling AlrightJoe Cocker – With A Little Help From My FriendsJoe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?Joe Jackson - Stepping OutJoe Walsh – All Night LongJoe Walsh – The ConfessorJoe Walsh – Life’s Been GoodJoe Walsh – Rocky Mountain WayJohn Fogerty – CenterfieldJohn Fogerty - The Old Man Down the RoadJohn Lennon – ImagineJohn Lennon – Instant Karma (We All Shine On) John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Through the NightJohn Mellencamp – Authority SongJohn Mellencamp – Crumblin’ DownJohn Mellencamp – Hurts So GoodJohn Mellencamp – I Need A LoverJohn Mellencamp – Jack & DianeJohn Mellencamp - Lonely Ol' NightJohn Mellencamp – Pink HousesJohn Mellencamp – Small TownJohn Parr – Naughty NaughtyJohn Waite - Missing YouJourney – Any Way You Want ItJourney – Don’t Stop Believin’Journey – LightsJourney – Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’Journey – Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)Journey – Stone In LoveJourney – Wheel In The SkyJourney - Who's Crying NowJudas Priest – Breaking The LawJudas Priest – Livin’ After MidnightJudas Priest – You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’ Kansas – Carry On Wayward SonKansas – Dust In The WindKansas – Point Of Know ReturnThe Kings -- This Beat Goes On/Switchin' to GlideThe Kinks – All Day And All Of The NightThe Kinks – Come DancingThe Kinks – LolaThe Kinks – Rock And Roll FantasyThe Kinks – Sunny AfternoonThe Kinks – You Really Got MeKiss – BethKiss – Detroit Rock CityKiss – Rock And Roll All Nite (Live)Kiss – Shout It Out LoudThe Knack – My SharonaLed Zeppelin – All My LoveLed Zeppelin – Black DogLed Zeppelin – Dancing DaysLed Zeppelin – Dazed & ConfusedLed Zeppelin – D’Yer Mak’erLed Zeppelin – Fool In The RainLed Zeppelin – Going To CaliforniaLed Zeppelin – Good Times Bad TimesLed Zeppelin - Heartbreaker / Living Loving Maid (She’s Just A Woman)Led Zeppelin – Hey Hey What Can I DoLed Zeppelin – Houses Of The HolyLed Zeppelin – Immigrant SongLed Zeppelin - In The EveningLed Zeppelin – KashmirLed Zeppelin – Misty Mountain HopLed Zeppelin - Nobody's Fault But MineLed Zeppelin – The OceanLed Zeppelin – Over The Hills And Far AwayLed Zeppelin – Ramble OnLed Zeppelin – Rock & RollLed Zeppelin – Stairway To HeavenLed Zeppelin - Ten Years GoneLed Zeppelin – Trampled UnderfootLed Zeppelin – What Is And What Should Never BeLed Zeppelin – Whole Lotta LoveLee Michaels - Do You Know What I Mean?Leon Russell - Tight RopeLinda Ronstadt - When Will I Be LovedLinda Ronstadt - You're No GoodLittle Feat – Dixie ChickenLittle Feat - Oh AtlantaLittle Feat - Willin'Little River Band - Help Is On Its WayLittle River Band - Lonesome LoserLittle River Band - ReminiscingLoggins & Messina-Your Mama Don't DanceLou Reed - Walk on the Wild SideLoverboy – Working For The WeekendLynyrd Skynyrd - The Ballad of Curtis LoewLynyrd Skynyrd – Call Me The BreezeLynyrd Skynyrd – Free BirdLynyrd Skynyrd – Gimme Back My Bullets (Live)Lynyrd Skynyrd – Gimme Three StepsLynyrd Skynyrd – Saturday Night SpecialLynyrd Skynyrd – Simple ManLynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home AlabamaLynyrd Skynyrd – That SmellLynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's GoneLynyrd Skynyrd – What’s Your NameMannfred Mann’s Earth Band – Blinded By The LightMarshall Tucker Band – Can’t You SeeMarshall Tucker Band - Heard It In A Love SongMeat Loaf – Paradise By The Dashboard LightMichael Stanley Band -- My TownMolly Hatchet – Flirtin’ with DisasterMott The Hoople – All The Young Dudes The Moody Blues-I'm Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band)The Moody Blues – Nights In White SatinThe Moody Blues-- The Story in Your EyesMotley Crue – Home Sweet HomeMotley Crue – Smokin’ In The Boys RoomMountain – Mississippi QueenThe Move - Do YaNazareth – Hair Of The DogNazareth – Love HurtsNeil Young – Cinnamon GirlNeil Young – Heart Of GoldNeil Young – Like A HurricaneNeil Young – Old ManNeil Young – Southern ManNeil Young & Crazy Horse - Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)Nick Gilder - Hot Child in the CityNight Ranger - Sister ChristianNorman Greenbaum - Spirit in the SkyOrleans – Still The OneOutfield – Your LoveThe Outlaws – Green Grass And High TidesOzark Mountain Daredevils - Jackie BlueOzzy Osbourne – Bark At The MoonOzzy Osbourne – Crazy TrainOzzy Osbourne – Flying High AgainOzzy Osbourne – Over The MountainPat Benatar – HeartbreakerPat Benatar – Hit Me With Your Best ShotPat Benatar - Love Is A BattlefieldPaul McCartney & Wings – Band On The RunPaul McCartney & Wings – Jet Paul McCartney & Wings - Live And Let DiePaul McCartney & Wings – Maybe I’m Amazed (Live)Paul McCartney/Wings - Silly Love SongsPaul Simon - Late in the EveningPeter Frampton – Baby, I Love Your Way (Live)Peter Frampton – Do You Feel Like We Do (Live)Peter Frampton – Show Me The Way (Live)Peter Gabriel - Games Without FrontiersPeter Gabriel – Shock The MonkeyPeter Gabriel – Solsbury HillPete Townshend – Let My Love Open The DoorPhil Collins – I Don’t Care AnymorePhil Collins – In The Air TonightPilot - MagicPink Floyd – Breathe (In The Air) / On The RunPink Floyd – Brain Damage / EclipsePink Floyd – Comfortably NumbPink Floyd – The Happiest Days of Our Lives / Another Brick In The Wall Part 2Pink Floyd – Have A CigarPink Floyd – Hey YouPink Floyd – MoneyPink Floyd – Run Like HellPink Floyd – Time / Breathe (Reprise)Pink Floyd – Us And Them / Any Colour You LikePink Floyd – Welcome To The MachinePink Floyd – Wish You Were HerePink Floyd – Young LustThe Police – Don’t Stand So Close To MeThe Police – Every Breath You TakeThe Police – Every Little Thing She Does Is MagicThe Police – Message In A Bottle The Police – RoxanneThe Police – Spirits In The Material WorldThe Police – Synchronicity IIThe Pretenders – Back On The Chain GangThe Pretenders – Brass In PocketThe Pretenders – Don’t Get Me WrongThe Pretenders – Middle Of The RoadProcol Harum (with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra) - ConquistadorProcol Harum - Whiter Shade Of PaleQuarterflash - Harden My HeartQueen – Another One Bites The DustQueen – Bohemian RhapsodyQueen – Crazy Little Thing Called LoveQueen – Fat Bottomed GirlsQueen – Killer QueenQueen – Somebody To LoveQueen – We Will Rock You / We Are The ChampionsQueen – You’re My Best FriendQueen & David Bowie – Under PressureQuiet Riot – Cum On Feel The NoizeRainbow – The Man On The Silver MountainRainbow -- Since You've Been GoneRam Jam – Black BettyThe Raspberries - Go All the WayRatt – Round And RoundRed Rider – Lunatic FringeREO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving YouREO Speedwagon – Roll With The ChangesREO Speedwagon – Take It On The RunREO Speedwagon – Time For Me To FlyRick Derringer – Rock And Roll, Hoochie KooRick Springfield – Jessie’s GirlRick Springfield - Love is Alright ToniteRingo Starr - It Don't Come EasyRobert Cray- Right Next DoorRobert Cray- Smoking GunRobert Palmer – Addicted To LoveRobert Palmer – Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)Robert Palmer - Sailin' Shoes/Hey Julia/Sneakin' Sally Through the AlleyRobert Palmer – Some Guys Have All The LuckRobert Palmer – You’re Gonna Get What’s ComingRobert Plant - Big LogRobert Plant – In The MoodRobert Plant – Little By LittleRod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a StoryRod Stewart - Gasoline AlleyRod Stewart - Hot LegsRod Stewart – Maggie MayRod Stewart - Reason to BelieveRod Stewart - You Wear It WellRod Stewart - Young TurksThe Rolling Stones - AngieThe Rolling Stones – Beast of BurdenThe Rolling Stones – Brown SugarThe Rolling Stones – Can’t You Hear Me KnockingThe Rolling Stones – Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)The Rolling Stones – Gimme ShelterThe Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk WomanThe Rolling Stones – (I Can’t Get No) SatisfactionThe Rolling Stones – It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll (But I Like It)The Rolling Stones – Jumpin’ Jack FlashThe Rolling Stones – Let’s Spend The Night TogetherThe Rolling Stones – Miss YouThe Rolling Stones – Paint It, BlackThe Rolling Stones – ShatteredThe Rolling Stones - She's So ColdThe Rolling Stones – Start Me UpThe Rolling Stones – Street Fighting ManThe Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The DevilThe Rolling Stones - Waiting on a FriendThe Rolling Stones –Wild HorsesThe Rolling Stones – You Can’t Always Get What You WantThe Romantics - Talking in Your SleepThe Romantics – What I Like About You Rush – Closer To The HeartRush – Fly By NightRush - FreewillRush – LimelightRush – Red BarchettaRush – Spirit Of RadioRush - SubdivisionsRush – Tom SawyerRush – Working ManSammy Hagar – I Can’t DriveSantana – Black Magic WomanSantana – Evil WaysSantana – Gypsy QueenSantana – Oye Como VaScandal – Goodbye To YouScandal - The WarriorThe Scorpions – No One Like YouThe Scorpions – Rock You Like A HurricaneSly & the Family Stone - Dance to the MusicSly & the Family Stone - Everyday PeopleSly & the Family Stone - Family AffairSly & the Family Stone - Hot Fun in the SummertimeSimon & Garfunkel – The Sound Of SilenceSpencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'The Standells – Dirty WaterStatus Quo - Down DownStatus Quo – Pictures of Matchstick MenStatus Quo - Rockin' All Over the WorldStealers Wheel – Stuck In The Middle With YouSteely Dan – Deacon BluesSteely Dan – Do It AgainSteely Dan – Kid CharlemagneSteely Dan – My Old SchoolSteely Dan - PegSteely Dan – Reeling In The YearsSteely Dan – Rikki Don’t Lose That NumberStephen Stills – Love The One You’re WithSteppenwolf – Born To Be WildSteppenwolf – Magic Carpet RideSteve Forbert – Romeo’s TuneSteve Miller – Fly Like An EagleSteve Miller – Jet AirlinerSteve Miller – The JokerSteve Miller – Jungle LoveSteve Miller – Rock’n MeSteve Miller - SwingtownSteve Miller – Take The MoneyStevie Nicks – Edge of SeventeenStevie Nicks – Stand BackStevie Nicks with Tom Petty - Stop Draggin' My Heart AroundStevie Ray Vaughan - Cold ShotStevie Ray Vaughan – Pride And JoyThe Stray Cats – Rock This TownStyx – Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)Styx – Come Sail AwayStyx – Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)Styx – Grand IllusionStyx - LadyStyx – RenegadeStyx -- Rockin' the ParadiseStyx - Suite Madame BlueStyx – Too Much Time On My HandsSugarloaf – Green-Eyed LadySupertramp – Breakfast In AmericaSupertramp – Give A Little BitSupertramp – Goodbye StrangerSupertramp - Hide in Your ShellSupertramp – The Logical SongSupertramp - SchoolSupertramp – Take The Long Way HomeSurvivor - Eye Of The TigerThe Sweet – Ballroom BlitzTalking Heads – Burning Down The HouseTalking Heads – Life During WartimeTalking Heads – Take Me To The RiverTed Nugent – Cat Scratch FeverTed Nugent – StrangleholdTen Years After – I’d Love To Change The WorldThem - GloriaThin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back In TownThree Dog Night - Joy to the WorldThree Dog Night - Mama Told Me Not To ComeThree Dog Night - OneThunderclap Newman - Something in the AirTommy James – Draggin’ the LineTommy James and the Shondells -- Crimson and CloverTommy James and the Shondells -- Crystal Blue PersuasionTommy James and the Shondells -- Mony MonyTodd Rundgren - Bang the Drum All DayTodd Rundgren - Hello It's MeTodd Rundgren - I Saw the LightTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – American GirlTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – BreakdownTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Don’t Come Around Here No MoreTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Don’t Do Me Like ThatTom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Even The LosersTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Here Comes My GirlTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – RefugeeTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – The WaitingTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – You Got LuckyToto - AfricaToto – Hold The LineToto – Rosanna Traffic – Dear Mr. FantasyTraffic - Empty PagesTraffic - Feelin' AlrightTraffic-Low Spark of High Heeled BoysT. Rex – Bang A Gong (Get It On)Triumph – Magic PowerThe Troggs -- Wild ThingThe Tubes – She’s A BeautyThe Turtles – Happy TogetherTwisted Sister – We’re Not Gonna Take ItU2 - Bad (Live)U2 – New Year’s DayU2 – Pride (In The Name Of Love)U2 – Sunday Bloody SundayUriah Heep – Easy Livin’ Uriah Heep – Wizard Van Halen – And The Cradle Will Rock…Van Halen – Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love Van Halen – Beautiful GirlsVan Halen – Dance The Night AwayVan Halen – Dancing In The StreetsVan Halen – Eruption / You Really Got MeVan Halen – Finish What Ya StartedVan Halen – Hot For TeacherVan Halen – Ice Cream ManVan Halen – I’ll WaitVan Halen – Jamie’s Cryin’Van Halen – JumpVan Halen - PanamaVan Halen – (Oh) Pretty WomanVan Halen – Runnin’ With The DevilVan Halen – UnchainedVan Halen – When It’s LoveVan Halen – Why Can’t This Be LoveVan Morrison – Brown Eyed GirlVan Morrison – DominoVan Morrison - MoondanceVan Morrison - Wild Night Walter Egan - Magnet & SteelWar – Low RiderWarren Zevon – Werewolves Of LondonWet Willie – Keep On Smilin’The Who – Baba O’RileyThe Who - BargainThe Who – Behind Blue EyesThe Who – Eminence FrontThe Who – Going MobileThe Who – I Can See For MilesThe Who - Join TogetherThe Who - Long Live RockThe Who – Love Reign O’er MeThe Who - Magic BusThe Who – My GenerationThe Who – Pinball WizardThe Who – Squeeze BoxThe Who - Summertime Blues (live)The Who – Who Are YouThe Who – Won’t Get Fooled AgainThe Who – You Better You BetWishbone Ash - Blowin' FreeYes – I’ve Seen All Good PeopleYes – Long Distance RunaroundYes – Owner Of A Lonely HeartYes – RoundaboutYes – Starship TrooperYes – Wonderous StoriesYes – Yours Is No DisgraceThe Zombies – She’s Not ThereThe Zombies - Time of the SeasonZZ Top – Cheap SunglassesZZ Top – Give Me All Your Lovin’ZZ Top – Got Me Under PressureZZ Top – I’m Bad, I’m NationwideZZ Top – I Thank YouZZ Top – La GrangeZZ Top – LegsZZ Top – Pearl NeckalceZZ Top - Sharp Dressed ManZZ Top – Tube Snake BoogieZZ Top – Tush
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
861
― how's life, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
(uh, 861 songs, that is)
I know this is somewhere in the gigantic noms thread, but: ordered or unordered?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
Do you want the ballots in any particular format?
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
Also: EXCITED
this thread should play 'caught up in you' every time you open it
nvm that's probably not a good idea
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
Did you exclude Three Dog Night's "Shambhala" for some reason?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
Uh, wow, so... you've disallowed 2 songs that I nominated and were going to be top-10 on my ballot.
Guess I'll have to rethink this.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
Or, "Shambala" as they spell it. xp
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
song that doesn't need to lobbied for at all, but which i will lobby for anyway: "sweet home alabama." the platonic ideal for every rock radio format ever invented. but this is its home format. and it has the best sounding guitars ever recorded in the rock and roll milieu.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
Ah yes, sorry: ordered ballots only please, top to bottomed. Numbered not necessary but may be helpful.
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
Don't know if it makes a difference but you have the following listed as separate entries:Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to LoveJefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit, Somebody to Love
― nxd, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
Ha, I just looked that one up and went "Oh, that (awesome) song!"
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
I think "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Tush" are the only non-Allmans Southern rock songs that made my initial cut.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
so glad ILM loves .38 Special as much as I do
― guwop (crüt), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
<3
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
I'm not voting for any songs Eminem has rapped over
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
Was Mr. Blue Sky disallowed for any reason? CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL parking lot tailgate pre-party -- nominations, discussions, parameters, etc.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
Also the song Blue Sky itself. Could have sworn i nominated that.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
This is the "Party Rock Anthem" fiasco all over again!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
why is Party Rock Anthem not on this list?
― guwop (crüt), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
Mr Blue Sky is a classic rock staple
not gonna vote for it but
― Euler, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
i never heard "Mr. Blue Sky" on the radio before it appeared in a bunch of commercials and movie trailers about a decade ago and only a few times since then
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
I wish
― Euler, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
― nxd, Tuesday, July 1, 2014 11:40 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh yeah, disregard the entry w/ both song titles in it. maybe i should've specified that it would've helped to format nominations for my convenience but there was a lot of stuff like that to fix on my end, there was bound to be something falling through the cracks.
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
I managed to get my list down to 134 on the second pass. I realized I was keeping token songs from certain radio airplay staple bands even though I was either burned out on those specific songs or liked other songs that don't get airplay much better. Once I let go of that urge, it went much easier. That's going to make my ballot weird, I think (no Pink Floyd, no Aerosmith for two examples), but it will be true to my heart.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
if you're dying to vote for something not on the list, vote for it, i don't care. but i don't feel like i cut anything that has a fighting chance of making the countdown unless i had a reason, and ended up just trimming away a lot of obscurities that only seemed to have one or two likely voters.
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
nbd but I pine for Rainbow's "stone cold" as nom'd by (i think) la lechera and I will vote for it
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
also I heard "edge of seventeen" on the radio last night and it ruled and I'm happy it's on the list!
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
Thank you.
This is my campaigning post for
Wings - Junior's FarmJohn Lennon - #9 Dream
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
Eric Clapton - Badge
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
ah jeez chill with the bold would ya
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
he did it first
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
Is that a different version than Cream's "Badge"? I'll totally vote for the OG Cream recording.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
ah jeez chill with the bold clapton would ya
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
Cream's "Badge" is great. I guess, billed as Clapton, it might be some live thing? I dunno.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
Ah yeah sorry, Cream did it first - was thinking of a live number. I'll vote for Cream too.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
I'm feeling very boldface today, but I'll take the request under advisement.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
btw gr80 is going to be working up visuals for the results thread, i've seen some samples and they're awesome.
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
:D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
yayhold on loosely, ppl
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
I'm voting for Shambala and I encourage you all to join me. You have 100 spaces on your ballot, and seeing a write-in place feels good!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
Hold On Loosely is so necessary.
― how's life, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
huge place in my heart because it's one of the first songs i ever learned how to play on guitar. i thought i owned the world. also, it's great.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
tbh i've barely heard even the really BIG enduring Three Dog Night hits on classic rock radio and just included some of those in good faith, never heard this "Shambala" thing before in my life
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
I guess it's regional (although I don't know why the southeast us would've picked up on it more than other regions)? It's a total radio-cranker for me.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I hear it reasonably often. I'll write it in.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
Will .38 Special be the beneficiary of a "top of ballot" advantage, as is often asserted in political races?
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
they'll get a lift from the more obscure "back door stranger" advantage
― guwop (crüt), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
I'd always planned to vote for at least one 38S song. Will them being at the top swerve me into voting for a second? Dunno yet.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
if we could figure out a way to disqualify .38 special and brian johnson-era ac/dc, then this poll would start with "big balls" and end with "tush."
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
I was able to carve this down to about 300 tracks on the first pass, discovering in the process that I was applying a "no MTV" rule
it was sweet revenge to delete some songs and artists I've heard way too often ... I'm sure many of them will show up in the results, but not on my ballot, maaaaan
― Brad C., Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
http://ljplus.ru/img4/h/e/hermanngrekoff/_No-Beatles.jpg
― Euler, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
The Beatles probably won't end up on my ballot; I like them fine but there are at least 100 songs on here that are better.
― guwop (crüt), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
amen
― Euler, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
No Beatles on my ballot. No .38 Special, either. It made the first two rounds of cuts but couldn't hack it for round three.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
Def voting for "Badge." It's the only omission that would definitely make my top 10.
Bummed that Loverboy "Turn Me Loose" didn't make the cut. I expected everything used in Wet Hot American Summer to show up here.
"Revolution" is essential classic rock canon imo. Plenty of bikers dig the beatles.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
tbh everything psychedelic can fuck off...I think? well except Jimi obv
― Euler, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
only beatles on my ballot is aerosmith's come together XD
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link
I didn't even realize until I had looked at my choices that I hadn't even considered the Beatles, it was COMPLETELY SUBCONSCIOUS
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
I was surprised at how quickly I got to 100. I kind of think that's too big a ballot- between 20 - 50 would provoke more hard choices.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
disagree! got to 400 in the first run. cutting it to 100 will be brutal
― g simmel, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
looking forward to some savage cutting this evening
― polyamanita (sleeve), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
i'm not against voting for the Beatles on any principle, although looking at the cuts we ended up with nothing really feels like it needs to be on my ballot. "Revolution" will probably make it, i have a lot of fond memories of hearing it on late shifts at my college job and always liked the single version far more than the White Album one.
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
The ones I can imagine on CRR are pretty much my least-favourite Beatles, but Revolution would sound damn good.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
First pass: exactly 250 songs left. I found out I don't know anything by Bob Seger or John Mellencamp. Should I correct this before I vote?
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
did "Revolution" get much classic rock radio play before the Nike ad? that's when I really started hearing it out
answer is probably yes since it's not like "Search and Destroy" ever took off
― Euler, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
Seger maybe, try "Night Moves"? xp
― polyamanita (sleeve), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
xxp Seger and Mellencamp are classic rock more than anything else so yes
― g simmel, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
Still the Same sounds just like the first few notes of On Some Faraway Beach, so it's def worth a try.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
Also it's a good song.
One of these things is difficult to put inside the other
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
xp The Nike ad was my first time hearing "Revolution." Also, my gateway to classic rock stations were 3 or 4 song sets of the Beatles that played in the morning during my bus ride to daycamp and also on the busride home in the afternoon.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link
Oh well I guess back to mid-season baseball! I heard someone laid down a nice two-out bunt last night.
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
lol
― polyamanita (sleeve), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
I'm definitely not voting for Centerfield or the outfield either.
― how's life, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
I found out I don't know anything by Bob Seger or John Mellencamp. Should I correct this before I vote?
yes. perhaps in this order:
Bob Seger – Night MovesBob Seger - Still The SameBob Seger – Rock & Roll Never ForgetsBob Seger – Turn The PageBob Seger – Hollywood Nights
John Mellencamp – Hurts So GoodJohn Mellencamp – Pink HousesJohn Mellencamp – Crumblin’ DownJohn Mellencamp – Jack & DianeJohn Mellencamp – Small Town
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
I know I've heard "Still The Same" a million times but in my head right now I am hearing it as "stiiiiill the same" to the tune of "Against the Wind"
― guwop (crüt), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
There wasn't much CRR before the Nike ad. The ad premiered in 1988, and CRR had been around since 1986, at the earliest.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
lolyou could sub in "turn the page" too
here i gostill the saaaame
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
still the samei was strong as i could bestill the samenothing ever got to me
― guwop (crüt), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 22:56 (nine years ago) link
imo "I Need A Lover" is the ultimate AOR Mellencamp track. that long instrumental intro is incredible!
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
I love the Beatles, but didn't vote for any of their tracks since they don't seem to be what this poll is about. I define classic rock as more of a 70's thing for whatever reason.
And lol - both "Turn the Page" and "Against the Wind" made my worst ten list.
― Darin, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
Album poll question: are Greatest Hits/Best Ofs ok?
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
no
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
Crying Eagles Greatest Hits Vol.1 .jpg
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
what mookie said
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
Turn the Page made mine. I hate CR songs about ~the road~.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 00:21 (nine years ago) link
it's no place to start a family
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
if yr on the fence re: seger then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHdboNjPnRs
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link
Bob Seger's "Night Moves": C or D
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 00:30 (nine years ago) link
"Hollywood Nights" is majestic. do you DJ with Seger a cappellas, gr80?
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
down to 230 after my first cut
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
1st cut: 3922nd cut: 196
developing new ranking strategies with a 100 track ballot
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 00:42 (nine years ago) link
i can envision the cuts, but i don't know how i'm gonna rank that many
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 00:44 (nine years ago) link
Do it in chunks of 20. Bump all the tracks that are "omg this could be my #1," then rank those. Look at the rest of the list and move the ones that stand out to the top of their group until you have about 20, then rank those. Then look at the rest of the list and find the ones that are barely worth keeping, move those to the bottom of the list and rank 'em. Rank the 40-80 chunk or leave 'em alone, because fuck 'em.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 00:49 (nine years ago) link
hoping you can also keep jeter out of the all-star game tbh
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 00:51 (nine years ago) link
xxxp Lonely Ol' Night will be my cougar vote
― g simmel, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 02:09 (nine years ago) link
man the narrowing down is brutal
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 03:07 (nine years ago) link
I have a feeling my final ballot will be heavily weighted toward wacky 80s tracks, which probably aren't truly in line with the intention of the poll, but I can't help it, that's the crap I grew up with.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 03:17 (nine years ago) link
my voting line has to be 'have I heard this on classic rock radio'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
this is awesome, i asked for help with the Steely Dan poll and he was one of the ones who said he could help with images. pplains just happened to beat him to the punch is all. he will do a great job.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 03:22 (nine years ago) link
attention everyone: please vote early and often for The James Gang
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 03:23 (nine years ago) link
hollywood nights rules y'all
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:00 (nine years ago) link
^^^
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:05 (nine years ago) link
my personal favorite is night moves on the list, BUT, classic rock wise, hollywood nights might trump it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:06 (nine years ago) link
I have never heard "Her Strut" on the radio and only actually discovered it for the first time a few months ago, but I'll vote for it since it's on the list. That song is killer.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:10 (nine years ago) link
that's kind of the essential dilema here, which i guess we will all have to answer for ourselves: are we voting for the songs on this list that we like the most, or are we voting for the songs on this list that we think best exemplify the concept of "classic rock"?
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:12 (nine years ago) link
(or do we split the difference and just cast 100 votes for the cars' "moving in stereo," which i know gets classic rock play but which i probably wouldn't put on the "classic rock" shelf in my imaginary genre-by-genre filing system, but when i heard it on an actual classic rock station last week it just sounded so fucking perfect?)
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:15 (nine years ago) link
i am voting for the songs that most epitomize classic rock
or i will try to if i can ever get my ballot down to 100 songs FUUUUCK
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:28 (nine years ago) link
WHY IS EVERYONE ALREADY TRIMMING AND RE-TRIMMING THEIR LISTS???!!! some dude just started this thread 14 hours ago! doesn't anyone believe in procrastination anymore? doesn't anyone remember laughter?
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:32 (nine years ago) link
FUCK YOU THIS IS GOING TO TAKE FOREVER
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:33 (nine years ago) link
xxxp I'm voting for the ones I still enjoy hearing, ranking them by how much I would enjoy them if they came on at a bar late at night while I was having a good time with friends
I cut "Her Strut" but y'all are making me reconsider, time for round 2
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:34 (nine years ago) link
I haven't even started yet beyond my top 2 or 3. Daunting task imo.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:35 (nine years ago) link
totally got this down to 500 btw
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:38 (nine years ago) link
and yeah, there are definitely cases where one track may be more classic (e.g. "My Generation") but another may be more CLASSIC ROCK RADIO (e.g. "Squeeze Box").
me, i'm voting like it's my weekend to program KILX \m/
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:42 (nine years ago) link
uh, guns n' roses?
― maura, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:50 (nine years ago) link
cutoff date of 1986 iirc
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:56 (nine years ago) link
wanted dead or alive was a single in '87 but ok
― maura, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:57 (nine years ago) link
Slippery came out in 1986, so...technicality ftw!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 06:14 (nine years ago) link
i was thinking 100 is just way too many but on first glance that will not be a problem.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 06:24 (nine years ago) link
lol I just noticed "Dream Weaver" is on the list.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 06:26 (nine years ago) link
Didn't have a chance to look at the noms thread but not seeing Hysteria on here is saddening me. FAIR ENOUGH THO, plenty of other jams to vote for. Spotify playlist will be essential, thanks for taking the time to put it together.
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 06:46 (nine years ago) link
It was that 1987 cutoff which disqualified Hysteria. Although a "classic rock radio" playlist without "Pour Some Sugar on Me" smells off.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 07:07 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for the handy Seger and Mellencamp lists above. Would it be fair to say that Seger is four-fifths Bruce Springsteen and one-fifth Van Morrison with about one-twentienth of their talents? The only thing that stood out in the five songs I listened to was the piano line in 'Still the Same', the rest just didn't make any impression. On to Mellencamp...
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 07:20 (nine years ago) link
Also, 'Turn the Page' is a straight rip off of that gospel song 'Eyes on the Prize'.
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 07:25 (nine years ago) link
more like ArchCarrier is a assburyier.
― Zachary Taylor, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 07:28 (nine years ago) link
This is gonna be sooooo hard.I haven't started officially cutting down but am doing it in my mind.There are songs I love that I probably won't include because they don't feel "classic rock" to me, and songs I may not love that will probably make my list because they totally embody what classic rock is all about.
― Sandy, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 08:39 (nine years ago) link
It was that 1987 cutoff which disqualified Hysteria. Although a "classic rock radio" playlist without "Pour Some Sugar on Me" smells off.― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 3:07 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 3:07 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Guys, there's a hair metal poll coming down the line. You'll be able to pour sugar all over whatever you like in about 6 months.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 09:02 (nine years ago) link
already 4 ballots in!
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 09:11 (nine years ago) link
Cannot wait for hair metal. Cinderella and Skid Row, oh yeah.
― Sandy, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 09:15 (nine years ago) link
My criteria: If I was driving and listening to CR and then arrived at my destination just as this song came on, would I sit in my car and listen to it all the way through? If yes, then it makes my list.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 10:02 (nine years ago) link
I've been enjoying the cutting. Taking out an artist in one fell swoop (Elton John) or even songs that I like but don't fit my definition of classic rock (sorry Alice ' s Restaurant, but you're a folklore record). But the Can't You See revelation in the other thread made me nervous. I can't just randomly cut things that I think I haven't heard, because what if I've heard them 1000 times but just never knew their name? So now I'm listening to the Spotify playlist, checking out things like Asia and Aldo Nova to see if they are long lost southern rock classics. This is torture. This is ILM.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 10:26 (nine years ago) link
Ok, Lonely is the Night by Billy Squier? Totally thought that was just some Zeppelin song I hadn't heard yet.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 10:53 (nine years ago) link
Heresy.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 11:03 (nine years ago) link
First pass: do I even like these songs? If no, cut. Am I so tired if these songs that they are barely noticeable to me when they come on or does the thought of listening to it right now make me sad? If yes, cut. Also listening to anything I didn't recognize by name.
Second pass: does this really fit my definition of classic rock, though? If no, cut. Also the "Come on, girl, you can't keep all the Zep/Yes/Genesis/Heart songs" pep talk and reluctant cutting.
Third pass: listening to songs that I included by rote to make sure they actually pass first/second cut tests.
Step three is how I found myself watching Def Leppard videos and marveling at their cheese and also realizing that I have had Joe Elliot's haircut for most of my adult life.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 11:13 (nine years ago) link
Also the "Come on, girl, you can't keep all the Zep/Yes/Genesis/Heart songs" pep talk and reluctant cutting.
In a couple cases, if there's a big artist and I like too much of their stuff, I've cut all but one of their songs out. Not the case with Heart though, I will tell you that.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 12:22 (nine years ago) link
Not making many new discoveries going through the list though. Some of this sounds like shit I would have heard in a McDonalds twenty years ago or something.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 12:26 (nine years ago) link
there will be 3 possibly 4 billy squier tracks in my top 50
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 12:30 (nine years ago) link
Okay, is it worth me taking part in this just to rep the songs I do love, considering I really really hate the vast majority of the list? Or should I leave the party to the people who like this stuff generally?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 12:31 (nine years ago) link
yes put together a ballot of 20
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 12:32 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, seriously emil.y. Join the fun. I am not making any assumptions about what the results are going to look like. The more people who join who want to make it weird, the better, imo.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 12:33 (nine years ago) link
As long as people don't mind, I'm up for it. Not sure I'll make it particularly weird (is 'Barracuda' weird? Man I love that song), but I do have quite *specific* tastes.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 12:42 (nine years ago) link
you should absolutely submit a ballot, especially if you're voting for Heart
― guwop (crüt), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 12:48 (nine years ago) link
Even though I whined a little bit in the noms thread about not being able to vote for Van Halen's When It's Love, it's worth noting that both that one and Finish What Ya Started are 1988 and therefore after the cutoff.
Not that many of you would vote for them anyway.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 13:12 (nine years ago) link
listening to these songs while sitting at a computer is an unusual experiencecome to think of it, listening to them on purpose is an unusual experiencemy most hated list is coming along nicely -- lotsa old time rock and roll, you know "the good stuff"
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 13:22 (nine years ago) link
Definitely submit a ballot, emil.y. I agree that the more people who submit and the weirder the results the better.
I'm down to 109 and shit just got super difficult.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 13:37 (nine years ago) link
I just got mine down to 100. It took cold precision.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 13:39 (nine years ago) link
Had to be a little heartless.
no heart??
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 13:43 (nine years ago) link
Definitely a lot of Heart. I just meant that I ruthlessly cut some favorites.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 13:45 (nine years ago) link
Hey, why isn't Lou Reed's "Vicious" on there? I am 100% sure I heard that song on CR radio because 1) otherwise I wouldn't have known it in high school and 2) I remember dancing around the kitchen to it when I was in 9th grade after eating a shocking amt of Cheez-Its, as I did every day in my friend's kitchen as we gossiped and listened to the radio.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 13:45 (nine years ago) link
Haha, my first cut left me with 14 tracks.
― nxd, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
Also I think "Jane" is going to kill in this poll. That song rules. I thought it was called "Change" until not too long ago.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
Jane is absolutely badass.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
"Jane" was in heavy rotation on WLS-AM in Chicago in 1979-80 because the mayor at the time was Jane Byrne. It's all a rich tapestry.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
Don't know if I'll quite make it to 100, but I expect this will be my longest ballot yet. I will include things things that were cut--I understand why they were, but I figure there's no real harm if you include them on your own ballot. But I will try to honor the spirit of the poll, i.e. only vote for things that I've heard on Q-107 here. Except when I don't, because I really, really want to vote for something.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
The beginning part of the guitar solo in "Jane" is the eighth wonder of the classic rock world.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
I don't see any difference b/w "songs that epitomize classic rock" and "my favorite songs."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
Boy that is really true. I cut Jane in round three after I listened to it again but now I'm having second thoughts. xp
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
Would it be fair to say that Seger is four-fifths Bruce Springsteen and one-fifth Van Morrison with about one-twentienth of their talents?
imo that is unfair, see also:
Bob Seger Reissue News
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
Ugh I just listened to it AGAIN and it is so good. I kinda want it to go on forever just like the opening part and then the solo and skip all the "playin a GAAAAAAAME" stuff but it's the classic song where I had no idea who sang it, what it was called, or even whether it was a man or woman singing, but I could identify it within a few seconds of it starting and I always liked it. Quintessence of turn it up man classic rock radio for me.
As I'm sitting here trying to whittle, there are so many songs I don't recognize the titles of. Makes me realize just how many Floyd/Zep songs I don't know.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
I think could make my ballot so much easier if I could place my hand on a yes button and a no button while listening to each song -- so many of these songs are not associated with words for me, just sounds.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
not and, OR
Probably won't be listening to any of these before voting. If I can't conjure it in my head, it doesn't get my vote.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
that was my approach
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
"Hmmm...Sister Christian...not as good as War Pigs, but...better than Can't Find My Way Home?"
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
War Pigs >>>> CFMWH >>>>>>>>> Sister Christian
see, easy!
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
AC/DC and Bob Seger both absent from spotify-- any other big ones?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
You, sir, need to do some more motorin'.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
total opposite-- there are riffs in my bones I couldn't begin to guess the name/artist for
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
I don't see any "All That It's Worth" by Buffalo Springsteen. Worst poll ever.
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:37 (nine years ago) link
xp - otm
that's why i want yes/no buttons
also have we already talked about free bird? i just watched it live on the old grey whistle test and it made my arm hairs stand up.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
i thought your original AND was kind of perfect for classic rock.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link
good point
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
I'd like to do some random campaigning for Roll with the Changes by REO Speedwagon. I just listened to that to get an idea of if/where it might place and that song is a fucking jam.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:46 (nine years ago) link
Jane has been my biggest "ohhhh THAT song!" so far
― guwop (crüt), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
slowly working my way through the playlist, good grief what is this black oak arkansas abomination?
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
― carl agatha, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 10:46 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Such a perfect highway song.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
yeah that one is good. i find myself wishing there were less singing in 80% of these songs. speaking of REO Speedwagon, here's something i've always wondered: can someone explain/point me to the history of the high pitched male singer? i remember being a little kid and not being able to sing as high as some of these dudes. is it robert plant? what is a classic rock poll for if not asking the really big questions?
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
maybe they're all really big Frankie Valli fans?
― guwop (crüt), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
Listening to all of these on Spotify and was surprised to find that I recognized not one, but all four of the 38 Special nominees.
― Darin, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
fuck yeah that REO Speedwagon tune is a jam, and it survived both my initial cuts
down to 130 now, gonna give it a rest for a few days. I'll be incommunicado for the week of the 9th to 16th, so I need to send my ballot early.
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
Eunuchs? Clarence Frogman Henry?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
I haven't listened to a CR station in years, and I just turned on 102.5 WDVE in Pittsburgh and sure enough, first song, Boston, "Rock and Roll Band," this is gonna be SO MUCH FUN.
― Sandy, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
can someone explain/point me to the history of the high pitched male singer?
Dude Sounds Like A Lady
(more a list than a history, but still.)
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
Also, the reason I haven't listened to a CR station in years is that I was a teenager in the 70s so save for a couple of the Canadian songs that I never heard on US stations (hello Crowbar), every single one of these songs is coded into my DNA.
― Sandy, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
I've whittled it down to 100 tracks, but ordering is going to be tough. So far I have it split between about 30 "top tier" tracks and then the other 70.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:12 (nine years ago) link
that thread doesn't really do it for me -- i'd like to know more! i just watched the video for "big log" because i thought the title was funny and i didn't recognize it. not familiar at all! but i was reminded of how similar these dudes looked to me. if i was lucky enough to get a look at these dudes, it didn't help to distinguish them much
http://heavyharmonies.com/bandpics/lougramm.jpgandhttp://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/fd/5f/ff/fd5fffd6efc02681a20ac09d4096bd17.jpg
looked like basically the same person to me (until i could see lou gramm's teeth, which are his only distinguishing characteristic afaict)
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
Big Log is a weird song and I like it a lot.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
Also: Big Log
wtf is that, Bob?
Big Log is definitely one of those top tier tracks I mentioned. Love that song!
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
why is it called Big Log?
oh! and while i'm asking questions as old as time, can anyone explain why there was an add-in chant for "mony mony"? if you know what i mean, i'm sure the chant was the same. where did that come from? the first time i heard it was at the teen dance club held at the community center every other friday. tweens and teens from all over the area, from dozens of different schools, would pay a couple bucks, pack into the building, and socialize as hard as they could for 2 hours or so. one of the songs that was always played was "mony mony". when everyone started shouting about getting laid i was confused, but it happened every time. all different kinds of kids went -- some danced, some milled around shiftlessly (me) and some hung out in the cafeteria where they could smoke.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
Sent!
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
Some speculation on the Mony Mony chant
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link
at the end of the speculation, there's this So where does this leave us? Sadly, no closer to the truth than when we started. The origins of the “Mony Mony” meme remains a mystery. so where did it come from!? i'm so curious.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link
haha I have never heard that chant before!
― guwop (crüt), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link
Me neither! It seems so random.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
Seriously?! Imagine you are a 12 year old girl who goes to an all-girl school and at the teen dance club you find yourself in a room of thundering kids shouting GET LAID GET FUCKED. Whoa.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
I definitely remember hearing it, my guess is that it existed before the Billy Idol version, but who knows? It is really random and seemed pretty random when people were doing it back in the 80s.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
"Big Log" is gorgeous.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
but I've said repeatedly that mid eighties Robert Plant was his best solo period.
Is "Sweet Caroline" An Anomaly In That...
Some discussion of "Mony Mony" on there. I've never heard of the "Mony Mony" additions before today, but have been baffled for years by how everyone at the karaoke bar knows the "Sweet Caroline" additions
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
"Big Log" is gorgeous, but I like when he further refined it five years later as "Ship of Fools" even more.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
A pity this wasn't a single:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjUetCpIkkk&feature=kp
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
I'd just like to note that the Donnie Iris song (which I will be voting for, high up) is actually called "Ah! Leah," not "Oh! Leah."
http://youtu.be/YH5Arbm47IQ
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:16 (nine years ago) link
(Technically there is also a second exclamation point after Leah.)
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
actual bumper sticker seen in the wild:
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3849/14372504148_25694fa696_m.jpg
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
aka Pittsburgh
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
Sorry I got the title of that song wrong! That was my fault. I never knew what that song was called until I was grading papers (in a bar lol) and Ah! Leah! started playing and i realized that i had no idea who sang it but it was super familiar. I thought and thought and googled and googled (I thought he was saying Alía?) Finally I found it and I entered Donnie Iris territory.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
True fact: It was the first 45 I ever bought.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
Took me about an hour to generate a list of 100--about 60 from the nominations, the rest my own picks. Pretty easy. Ranking them, though, would take forever...Can we just send in an unranked list and split the points evenly?
― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
― La Lechera, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 4:39 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think you called me at work when that happened! Or shortly thereafter. I remember you calling me at work years ago about this song.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
does anyone else on here think that the Classic Rock format underwent a pretty big change somewhere in the late 80s/early 90s? I seemed like Classic Rock radio back in the 80s was much more heavily tilted towards tracks from the 60s, including many that would now be considered Oldies. 70s rock was only represented by the abosolutely most popular bands like Zeppelin, Floyd, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Steve Miller, and not a lot of the more obscure tracks you hear today. It seemed like this changed to a more 70s tilt somewhere along the line.
Am I just imagining this or did it really happen?
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
The James Gang's 'Walk Away' should be officially named SEEMS TO ME because I never, ever think of it by the song's title, and I always forget about it til I hear it and then I'm like THIS SONG IS THE BEST
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
"the immigrant song" should also have its name officially changed because when i was growing up i had no idea what that song was or how to find it. unfortunately, i don't know what the proper spelling of AAH-AHH-AAAAAAAAAHHHHH is.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
oh snap just saw this thread
this is going to be awesome
also going to be hard
Totally gonna do the write-in thing for "Junior's Farm" - would have seconded/thirded the nom if I'd known it was in jeopardy! Not so sure about Shambala but maybe... that song is awesome so if there are definitely CR stations that play it somewhere I would happily rank it really really high. I was very much in favor of a fairly curtailed list of noms so I think it's a good thing that we have to whine about exclusions. I gotta get back on my listening schedule though - pretty stoked to have already discovered a new favorite ("Flirtin' With Disaster") since this whole crazy party got started.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
First pass is just anything I don't really consider classic rock, even if I like it - Zombies, U2, Turtles - and any familiar songs that just jump out as "probably not gonna make it on a ballot of 100." I like "You Better, You Bet" on a greatest hits, but it wouldn't make my top fifteen Who songs even.
Major write-in contender and I think legitimate candidate: The Sweet - Fox on the Run.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
Also: Paul Simon - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover. Actually always thought that was in the original list! Jimmy Buffett - Cheeseburger in Paradise presumably has no chance but I swear I hear it - though maybe that's just mixed up memories of the "yellow album."
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
sorry, sorry, i know we had a noms thread, just doin' the write-in campaign thing.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
Huh, how was Fox on the Run not on there? It wouldn't have been one of my votes, but it was totally on the Dazed and Confused soundtrack.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
Really though, those, and Bob Dylan - Hurricane (CR loves this!) are the only omissions that really jump out at me going through the big list that's pretty great.
Got my list down to, uh... 660. Might sit there for a while, I have some listenin' to do, though realistically I think only a few new-to-me wildcards will probably slip in, 100 is only so many! But this is gonna be pretty cool, programming a dream station. Think it's gonna be midway between "most classic rock" (gradually purging or down-balloting stuff that doesn't have the right 'feel' though this isn't necessarily sonic - again I think "Drift Away" is super key), "best" and "favorite by that band" in terms of representative-ness, which crosses A and B: a classic rock station would have to play certain bands at least once in a hundred songs, so what would their token be in my dream world?
It's really bizarrely satisfying to be able to hit "delete" (or mark for later worst-ballot contention) annoying songs that have been part of the inescapable "beloved classics" background my entire life.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 12:51 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark
same, and you can't sing it to people because it's too embarrassingthus it remained a mystery for a really long time
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
^^^ same story with "In The Air Tonight" when I worked in a record store.
― wild-eyed, high-volume bursts of pious indignation (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
I'm going to be off-piste voting for Chris Rea - Josephine and Chris Rea - On The Beach. He's probably got no US profile but I don't care. Can't believe I forgot to nominate the guy - for me, he is Classic Rock.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
If only Road To Hell had been five years earlier, oh man
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
A few somewhat-less-familiar tracks (or just things with unhelpful titles) from the list:
Donnie Iris - Ah! Leah, just discussed above - this has such a great chorus with those "ahhhhhh"s but just enough muscle to be a claimant to the format and not just your basic power-pop song. Also Iris had a legit classic rock CV (lead guitar/vocals in the Jaggerz, as Dominic Ierace). My stations never played this but it would be cool if they had.
Aerosmith - Mama Kin - never heard this before ILX but it rocks. Doubt it'll survive to 100 in my ballot but it deserves a few scattered votes.
The Guess Who - Clap For The Wolfman - charmingly dopey bar-band filler where the protagonist loses his girl's interest to the compelling radio presence of Wolfman Jack, who guests on the track in order to mock Burton Cummings. A little googling indicates it was originally "Clap For Napoleon" (??) and that the Wolfman left his radio gig for a time in order to join The Guess Who on tour, wow.
Billy Joel - Miami 2017 - In Praise Of... Billy Joel's "Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Down On Broadway)"
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - wasn't til recently that I realized it was the "Doo doo doo doo doo, DOOT DOOT do doody doo" song. It's pleasant. If you like their other songs you'll like this. If you don't, you'll hate this as it is like ten minutes long.
The Box Tops - The Letter - this is ILX so I probably don't need to say this, but this is that "Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane, ain't got time to take a fast train" song. Just saying because I was well into my twenties before I ever pinned an actual title on the thing. I think of it as more 'oldies' than CR but it's kinda cool.
Nazareth - Hair of the Dog - everyone knows this but, title obscurity: this is the "now yaw messin' with a (donk, donk), a SON OF A BITCH!" song. Obviously belongs in the top half of every ballot here.
James Gang - Funk #49 - same deal, this is the song with the "Devil With a Blue Dress"/"Footloose" rhythm, the killer riff, and "I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DO-INNNN" screeches. You must vote for this.
Steve Forbert - Romeo's Tune - Got this off the AM Gold thread recently, and it's great AM gold - the "Meet me in the middleoftheday, let me hear you say, everything's okay..." song. #11 in 1980, don't think I've once heard it on the radio in any format. It's not very 'rock' for much of its running time, but it is pretty fine stuff for the genre. Apparently he had some significance in early ILX that escapes me now: The Steve Forbert Game STUPID NEWBIE QUESTION ALERT: steve forbert
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
Fleetwood Mac - Hypnotized is another off-menu killer, it must be CR
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
I loathe "Money For Nothing" with a passion, so I'm swapping in its brother-in-arms, Dire Straits - So Far Away. I have no idea what kind of recurrent CR presence it has, hard to separate out vague memories of hearing these songs when they were still recent hits in the late 80s. Hell, "Walk of Life" was used in a video yearbook that some kid's dad made for our elementary school in 2nd or 3rd grade.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
I could vote for pretty much anything they did tbh; I'm going to ration them strictly.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
I think I dig "So Far Away" here cause it touches that chord of escaping into the idea of being a youthful dreamer with a big, romantic quest (possibly related to being on the road in a rock and roll band) - essential in classic rock songs, especially 'quieter' ones. It also somehow evokes, at a sonic level, being a Reagan-era boomer enjoying financial comfort and a really nice first-generation CD player, discussing Mark Knopfler's technical proficiency over some Perrier at the condo, as the sun sets. Which is just as essential to "classic rock" in terms of it becoming a thing that had its canon and its criteria and its token latter-day entrants. None of which detracts from the prettiness of the song for me - just saying it feels very much of this format.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
I dunno, the picture you're painting is almost yacht
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
True, but there's overlap IMO, there's a suburban dad version of the thing above. In my mind it has vaguely to do with being interested in, and affording, a really nice sound system, while concurrently losing any youthful interest in e.g. going to actually see a new band live. These are impulses to which I now relate as a thirtysomething, mind you!
oh btw another thing about "Ah! Leah!" for those on the fence: a fi-yah/desi-yah rhyme is prominently featured.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
This may also be me just never really understanding who it was that bought all those bajillions of Dire Straits albums, then left them for dead in the used bins by the time I was really trawling 'em in the late 90s and early 00s. So I may just be projecting a heavy-duty straw man onto that album.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
Anecdote: when my daughter was in the NICU, I rented an Ameda breast pump from the hospital and as Ameda rhymes with "Ah! Leah!" I almost couldn't help but sing "AHHHHHMEEEEEDAAAAA here we go again" every time I used it.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
It also somehow evokes, at a sonic level, being a Reagan-era boomer enjoying financial comfort and a really nice first-generation CD player, discussing Mark Knopfler's technical proficiency over some Perrier at the condo, as the sun sets.
brb, applying a no-American-Psycho rule to my ballot
― Brad C., Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 1:51 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the AC adapter for my laptop started dying this morning and i swear the weird little whirring death rattle it made was almost exactly in the tuen of Robert Plant's AAH-AHH-AAAAAAAAAHHHHH. unfortunately when i got home just now and plugged it in to see if i could record the sound, it had begun to make a slightly different, un-Zep-like whir.
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
if my car's engine starts growling to the tune of "Smoke On The Water," i will know that the poll is casting a spell over my life
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
Revisiting Asia now with a more critical ear. The band had some good songs in the eighties, but "Heat of the Moment" is the least of them.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
Not directed at you personally, JF, but I believe that first sentence is the seventh sign of the apocalypse.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
Haha
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
heat of the moment will always be at the bottom of my list because i can only ever visualize that stupid video they had
"the heeeeeeeat (flames) of the moment (clock)" SO STUPID
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
SO BAD
You know what else is a freaking TERRIBLE video? Foolin'. Also Photograph. What was I thinking when I was 12 years old and not going outside to play in the sunshine so I could wait hollow-eyed before the television for a glimpse of Joe Elliot in tight white jeans, writhing around while handcuffed to a neon triangle.
Wait, I think I just answered my own question.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
lol I don't remember those videos thankfully....and i'm not going to look them up because i love those songs so much
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
Not that the video is any good but for a 12-year-old hetero girl, that was a pretty shall we say intriguing spectacle.
xp No do it! Watch them! It will be super fun I promise.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
Foolin' is the ideal Def Leppard song imo. It's got the slow ballady part, the bar band riffing with cowbell and the slick harmony rich chorus. Most of time the band does one of these, or maybe two of these, in a single song. Foolin' is packed with all of them.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
pretty sure I thought Toto and Asia were the same band until this poll
― Darin, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
Would be funny to hear Asia do Africa.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
Foolin' is so awesome. The song has something like 5 distinct sections which is kind of crazy for a pop metal tune.
― Darin, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
Right? And it never feels forced. It just moves along exactly the way it should.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
I'm really agonizing over whether to include Toto here, all three of their noms here would make a ballot if this was just fave songs, but I'm not sure how CR any of them are. Might compromise and just give 'em "Hold The Line" though it's my least favorite of the three. "Heat of the Moment" is awesome though, that's one whose powers I didn't really hear til adulthood. I keep wanting the verse to wander into "Video Killed The Radio Star" though: And now we meet in an a-BAN-doned STU-di-O! We hear the playback and it seems so long agooooo. Real pre-echoes of "Owner of a Lonely Heart" in the guitar, too.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
Don't mind me. Just bringing the mountain (erm) to Vegemitegrrl.
http://hakkwylde.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/1983-Foolin-Def-Leppard.png
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
!!!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
joe wtf are u wearing
This seems pertinent: http://gawker.com/styx-and-foreigners-tour-buses-catch-fire-in-philly-par-1599334914
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
ha! beat me to it...alright, which one of you "hot blooded" folks are responsible for this "cold as ice" classic rock arson
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
― pplains, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 10:37 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you had 2 weeks to contribute to the nominations list and didn't. and it's called "For What It's Worth," and it IS in the list. worst post ever.
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
I can't get an accurate bead on the extent to which you can't tell that pleasant plains is hella joking.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
Buffalo Springsteen Again
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
if someone's only post on either of these 2 giant threads is snarky i can't really get a read on their tone or level of participation. if it's a "joke" it's a dickish joke. don't give your beleaguered pollrunner any unnecessary shit, satirically or otherwise.
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
Unfair, untrue, uninformed
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
fair point. xp
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
― carl agatha, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 10:46 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
glad to see a groundswell of support for this song, it's so awesome.
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
xxpost myonga speaks the truth. Another way to phrase it would be: rong, rong and rong.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
all the REO on the list rules obv. "keep on loving you" is my karaoke ace in the hole
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
oh man.. i haven't listened to "sweet emotion" in a long time. so cool, such a cool bassline.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
Roll With the Changes is good stuff, but Take it on the Run where I spend my REO dollars.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
idk maybe you'd better listen to roll with the changes again.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
Heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from another you've been overhyping Roll With the Changes.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
I discovered Roll With the Changes thanks to Cabin In The Woods, at which point the song (and the movie) overtook my life for a bit
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link
I'll be here when you are ready to vote for Roll with the Changes. xp
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah! I forgot it was in Cabin in the Woods. Good stuff.
I have a hundred song ballot to fill. I'll likely vote for both.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
It's a shame Ridin' the Storm Out didn't make the list. pre-Cronin REO is definitely more "classic rock" classic rock.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
No Mario Meatwagon for me, thank you
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
Can we just send in an unranked list and split the points evenly?― clemenza, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 12:42 PM (6 hours ago)
Re-posting this before it gets buried. If I knew how the points were assigned, I'd go ahead and do the math.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
just to join the "fuck the seger bashing" crowd. night moves moves just as well as thunder road or sweet thing. it's more modest but it's just as beautiful
― g simmel, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
― clemenza, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 7:42 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i really just kinda hate the idea of unranked ballots in principle (and, when i'm the pollrunner, in practice as well). but since i already screwed up by not asking only for ranked ballots in the OP, and 2 of the 5 ballots i've gotten so far were in alphabetical order, i'm guessing that sticking to my guns is going to become untenable and i'm going to have to count a bunch of unranked ballots w/ all songs getting equal points whether i like it or not.
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
I always rank ballots, it's just that this one is so large. I could single out my 25 or so favourite, but after that you're looking at increasingly tiny micro-distinctions. I'll send it along as is--if you change your mind, post an alert and I'll try my best.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
I decided to stop myself at top 50 because of those micro distinctions between 51 and 301
― g simmel, Thursday, 3 July 2014 00:17 (nine years ago) link
50 was about where I typed out too, as far as being serous about splitting hairs and strategic voting etc. But I still did a 100 song ballot.
― how's life, Thursday, 3 July 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
i don't know how you guys can resist voting for as many songs that you like as possible. so many of your favs are gonna land below songs you don't like as much by, like, a point. it always happens.
― some dude, Thursday, 3 July 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
feeling a little bad about cutting Triumph but man, getting this down to 100 is brutal
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 3 July 2014 02:05 (nine years ago) link
first pass = 300
ugggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 July 2014 02:41 (nine years ago) link
is this what ranking your children feels like? ;_;
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 July 2014 02:42 (nine years ago) link
I DUNNO WHAT YOU'RE DOIN HERE BECAUSE YOU'RE ALL CUT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saKRZEMqdis
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 July 2014 02:48 (nine years ago) link
i think i could pick a favorite child if one of them could perform "Radar Love" and the others couldn't
― some dude, Thursday, 3 July 2014 03:03 (nine years ago) link
lool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 July 2014 03:05 (nine years ago) link
My high school garage band used to do "Radar Love," but we didn't really know what the words were, so on the part where he says "Don't need a phone at all" the singer would just go something like "DUBBITAbabyWAAAAAAAAAA."
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 3 July 2014 03:21 (nine years ago) link
Man, these early Doobie Brothers singles are so fucking good.
― cwkiii, Thursday, 3 July 2014 03:27 (nine years ago) link
such a strong rhythm section
― intheblanks, Thursday, 3 July 2014 03:33 (nine years ago) link
the shit i'm cutting it's just criminal and i'm not even down to 250 yet
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 3 July 2014 04:02 (nine years ago) link
real question is can i get down to 5 Foreigner tracks
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 3 July 2014 04:05 (nine years ago) link
i love the shit out of "eye in the sky" and "i wouldn't wanna be like you" but it just feels wrong putting them on my ballot here
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 3 July 2014 04:22 (nine years ago) link
yeah probably gonna haveta nix "hold your head up" and "ride captain ride" to make more room for THE GUESS WHO
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 3 July 2014 04:30 (nine years ago) link
F BTO tho
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 3 July 2014 04:31 (nine years ago) link
feel like there's a solid "quien es mas classic rock" side poll of bands in here. i mean i don't even like the guess who but damn if they won't have three tracks on my ballot because they are so damn classic rock.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 3 July 2014 04:33 (nine years ago) link
"don't bring me down" is high on my ballot xp
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 3 July 2014 04:41 (nine years ago) link
ugh it really fuckin hurt to cut burdon & war, but as long as burdon is somewhere in my ballot, i think I'm okay.
I'm justifying most of my cuts as 'okay well see this one song I'm keeping is going to be representative of these 5 other songs that I've cut, yeah that'll work'
but it's getting down to 'fuck this song, it's too goddamn repetitive' THAT MEANS YOU DAVID ESSEX
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 July 2014 04:44 (nine years ago) link
LOW
RIDE
ER
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 3 July 2014 04:55 (nine years ago) link
ok I'm done
someone hold me
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 July 2014 05:02 (nine years ago) link
I got you. it really is exhausting. the "one song I'm keeping is going to be representative of these 5 other songs" principle is the only way to do it without going completely insane imo. the two exceptions were Rod Stewart and the Stones cause they are simply above the rest imo
― g simmel, Thursday, 3 July 2014 05:11 (nine years ago) link
yes, I'm very opinionated
KEEP ON ROLLIN
WOOO
OOOO
OOO
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 3 July 2014 05:12 (nine years ago) link
Found this "gem" combing through my Random CanCon shelves trawling for obscurities to DJ on Canada Day. Can't quite tell if it's a semi-loving coke-fuelled tribute to or a full-on coke-fuelled pisstake of his former bandmate. Cummings did have a fantastic voice, though.
http://youtu.be/dEjwrDBrlzU
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Thursday, 3 July 2014 05:43 (nine years ago) link
lol gr80
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 3 July 2014 06:17 (nine years ago) link
Down to 150 ... nothing but muscle and bone left and still I've got to cut. Cruel cruel cruel.
― that's not my post, Thursday, 3 July 2014 06:32 (nine years ago) link
Yes, it's the song that opens Wet Hot American Summer iirc
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Thursday, 3 July 2014 11:22 (nine years ago) link
Also on the list from WHAS is Love Is Alright Tonite by Rick Springfield, which is a total fucking jam.
― how's life, Thursday, 3 July 2014 11:36 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, but the version of "Ridin'" heard on cr radio is the live version with Cronin singing. Poor pre-Cronin dude couldn't catch a break.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 3 July 2014 12:19 (nine years ago) link
I actually looked up REO's bio yesterday. First album had a singer, second album had a new singer (Kevin Cronin), third album had a new singer who wasn't the original dude or Cronin, and then I think Cronin became the permanent singer by the time of the fourth album. Do your auditions before recording and releasing albums, REO!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 July 2014 12:54 (nine years ago) link
probably gonna haveta nix "hold your head up"
ha, I was just thinking this morning that that's a likely top 10 for me. Like a lot of what I'll be voting for, it's a song that to me exists only and entirely within the confines of Classic Rock. An indigenous species. I think I'll end up cutting lots of things that I love but that to me have their own separate lives outside of CR -- like, I won't vote for much Stones, but I will vote for lots of Zep.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 3 July 2014 12:55 (nine years ago) link
Was Mr. Blue Sky disallowed for any reason?
― Jeff, Tuesday, July 1, 2014 4:49 PM (2 days ago)
― Euler, Tuesday, July 1, 2014 6:21 PM (2 days ago)
― some dude, Tuesday, July 1, 2014 6:22 PM (2 days ago)
Does this mean it remains disallowed? That would've been my most-obvious ELO pick.
― emil.y, Thursday, 3 July 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
I remember when "Take It On the Run" appeared in the top 40 and Casey Kasem said that REO were a band that young people lo9ved but if you were over 25 you'd probably never heard of them.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Thursday, 3 July 2014 12:59 (nine years ago) link
No, you can vote off-list. xp
― carl agatha, Thursday, 3 July 2014 13:00 (nine years ago) link
I cut my list down to 100, haven't ranked them yet. First cut was "Do I even like this song?", second cut was "Have I heard this song on the radio?", third cut was "OK, how excited am I when I hear this song on the radio?" and when that still wasn't enough I had to limit myself to two songs per artist.
Oh and I wasn't gonna vote for "Breakin' the Law," but then I remembered Beavis and Butthead.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 3 July 2014 13:00 (nine years ago) link
a song that to me exists only and entirely within the confines of Classic Rock. An indigenous species
yes!!! this is the most classic rock of all classic rock species. "hold your head up" is a perfect example of this. also, the collected works of foghat, rainbow, uriah heep and iron butterfly.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 3 July 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link
The first several million times I heard Hold Your Head Up, it was in the context of Phish, as the intro music to the part of their set where the drummer comes to the front of the stage and did various cheeky, horribly-rendered cover songs (Syd Barrett's Terrapin, Purple Rain, and Sexual Healing were common). I finally heard the original version years later on classic rock radio in a van on a field trip to Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in college. To be honest, I've only recently started to get over the Phish stigma attached to this song.
― how's life, Thursday, 3 July 2014 13:16 (nine years ago) link
I first heard it through Girl Talk if that makes you feel better...
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 3 July 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
first cut 483! i'm feeling compelled to make sure i have enough tempo variety in my list -- if every song is "smoke on the water" then the jams don't sound quite as sweet
― La Lechera, Thursday, 3 July 2014 13:49 (nine years ago) link
Almost! xp
― how's life, Thursday, 3 July 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
i had never heard the argent version til this poll
only version I knew was by aussie rock 'supergroup' The Party Boys :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 July 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
argent's other big moment, a one-time rock staple that apparently didn't survive the transition to classic rock: "god gave rock n roll to you."
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 3 July 2014 13:59 (nine years ago) link
^^ Unrest do a great cover of that
― polyamanita (sleeve), Thursday, 3 July 2014 14:02 (nine years ago) link
emil.y, join me in the voting for Mr. Blue Sky club. I'll also support Blue Sky those those affected by that injustice.
― Jeff, Thursday, 3 July 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
It might get a vote from me too. I don't think I've ever heard it on the radio but it epitomizes some elements of classic rock for me (fussy arrangement, Wurlitzer (I think), laidback guitar solo)
― Vinnie, Thursday, 3 July 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
I think I've decided to vote in this, even though I don't know anything about classic rock. Apologies in advance.
― first is the worst (askance johnson), Thursday, 3 July 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
First serious attempt at winnowing the list gets me to...194 songs. Ugh. Next step I guess is really seriously purging stuff that I like but don't 100% consider part of this radio format - the new wavier entries, the more overproduced 80s things, and the few mid-60s hangers-on that I let slip through. Still, this is going to get ugly soon. Ironically, I'm reproducing the very narrowness of concept and playlist by which these stations rankle! But I had always imagined this poll was basically going to be ranking the top 100 songs that they play into the ground anyway, so I'm fine with that.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 3 July 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
Jeff, I'm with you! I guess it's also quite pop, but it definitely fits with some of the other stuff nominated here, and is *the classic* ELO song.
I'm thinking about doing a very short ballot and ordering it as I would my own imaginary rock radio show.
― emil.y, Thursday, 3 July 2014 15:06 (nine years ago) link
Like a lot of what I'll be voting for, it's a song that to me exists only and entirely within the confines of Classic Rock. An indigenous species. I think I'll end up cutting lots of things that I love but that to me have their own separate lives outside of CR...
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, July 3, 2014
i'm 100% on board with this approach btw. i just see myself putting more wood behind "lunatic fringe" when the tough cuts come.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 3 July 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
If I include two 38 Special songs on my ballot, I think the second one will be Rockin' Into the Night. I love that "Waitin'...Anticipatin'..." part so much.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 July 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
when I got down to 105 I considered handing Mr Veg my ballot and getting him to do the cuts for me.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 July 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
And that's why I didn't include any Beatles
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 3 July 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, July 3, 2014
^^AND WE WEREVOTINVOTININTO THE NIIIIIGHT
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
BALLOT SENT
― carl agatha, Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
I included a couple of Beatles songs, but really kept them to a minimum. Ditto, to a slightly lesser degree, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, the Who, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young. Like a lot of voters, I'm sure, that would easily be 100 first-tier songs right there. They probably accounted for 20 on my final list.
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
life was easier when I decided that Elvis, the Beatles, Dylan, Sly, the MG's and Archie Drell won't fit with the rest of my list and should therefore be excluded. but yeah, I shamelessly voted for the Boz and Stones disco tracks cause I love them to death and it FELT GOOD!
― g simmel, Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
2 Zeppelin (didn't want to vote for them but hey, what can you do)1 Beatles 1 Neil Young 0 Stones 0 Who 0 Dylan
― how's life, Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
Actually jumped at the chance to vote for Sly. I think he gets some play on the classic-rock station here, not a lot, but my favourite songs were a very manageable three, all from the nomination list. (Realize now I could have added a fourth in "Everybody Is a Star.")
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
But yeah, Archie Bell didn't seem to fit.
Will totally join the Mr. Blue Sky write-in campaign.
― Sandy, Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
i have no Who, no Def Lep, i don't know how to feel
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
I have to vote for the Who/Stones/NY songs I heard on CR radio because otherwise I wouldn't have pursued those artists any further because i wouldn't have heard them*. I did, and I'm glad i did thanks to CR radio. I can live without Low Rider, tbh. I cannot live without Heart of Gold. I did cut a bunch of stuff that I really like but basically feels 80s to me rather than classic rock.
*my parents had some records, and i bought records and tapes from the age of 6 or so, but there was a point where i was trying to figure out what kind of sounds i liked (hence all the turtles/raspberries/zombies confusion and lord knows what else). i had no one to play sabbath/skynrd/iron maiden songs for me, and i don't think they had them at my local library. if not for classic rock radio, my musical diet would have been severely limited and frankly i prefer it this way!
― La Lechera, Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
otm re cutting stuff that feels 80's vs classic rock, I'm totally the same way
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
xxp ha! those are the two omissions from my own list to baffle me the most too. must be that I prefer the Hysteria singles and the Who's sixties period (which felt out of place here even if it was nominated)
― g simmel, Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
same wrt 80s stuff though i'm really struggling with "missing you" :(
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
Generational, unless any 50+ voters feel differently: ignoring Def Leppard was the easiest thing in the world. (I did like "Two Steps Behind," and included it on a decade-end Top 40. They and it are far, far from the way I conceive of this poll.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
clemenza bringin' on the heartbreak itt
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
(I'm always too quick to put things down to generational differences. Just remembered a well-known book by someone my age that used Hysteria as its starting point.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
i think it's just the classic rock radio I'm most nostalgic for kinda happened before any of the hairbands really took hold, idk
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
can't/won't/don't wanna imagine my classic rock radio without rock blocks of scorps/priest
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
Even though I nominated "Missing You," I might not vote for it because I'm drawing my 80s dividing line between things that were more often heard in the AOR format than on Top 40 radio. Something like "Working for the Weekend" actually did hit #29 on the Hot 100, but it was more of an AOR staple throughout the eighties before it fully crossed over into the culture in more recent times.
But even with that methodology, it's still a case by case basis.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
I just really like Photograph and F-f-f-foolin'.
I made a Spotify playlist of my ballot using this - http://www.ivyishere.org/ivy/
It took some fiddling, but I got 98/100 of songs. Two weren't on Spotify. Anyway, listening to my ballot now and it makes for a nice classic rock station.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
I'm totally out of step with a lot of y'all. My top 30 is pretty much all 80s stuff. I have a feeling very little of it is going to end up showing up in the results.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
Oh there will definitely be a good chunk of eighties music on my ballot. That's my childhood!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
for sure. As much as I love most of the "real" classic rock, I didn't really experience it when it was new so it just doesn't have the same immediacy for me as the tracks of my childhood.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
I think the other thing in the back of my mind is I'm saving all my bitchin hairbands for hows life's ultimate hairband poll :D :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
not hairbands imo
― polyamanita (sleeve), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
I'll probably be the dufus voting for Joe Jackson "Stepping Out" in the hairband poll too, and that dude is bald as fuk
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
also - a lot of my memories of classic rock were classic rock in australia, which didn't really include much in the way of hair bands, the bogan rock stations would usu play that stuff. i was kinda blown away when I moved here that they were playing judas priest and def leppard on the classic rock station, in amongst the eagles and hendrix, i'd never heard that!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
(note: on the Spotify playlist of my ballot, I included the 22 minute Live at the Fillmore East version of Whipping Post because in my heart, that's what I voted for on this poll.)
― carl agatha, Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
next up: a bogan rock poll
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
My ballot is entirely Who. And I think some Sly.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
/can't/won't/don't wanna imagine my classic rock radio without rock blocks of scorps/priest/not hairbands imo --polyamanita (sleeve)
not hairbands imo --polyamanita (sleeve)
Mine either :)
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
WRAPPED UP LIKE A DOUCHE
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
looooool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
timing of this poll is so perfect, awesome summer/4th of july weekend music
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
ELO's "livin thing" on the radio right now, might need to write-in for it
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
http://youtu.be/eRFs92LUOio?t=9m24s
"my line says 'cut loose like a deuce' and theirs said 'cut loose like a douche'...i have a feeling that that is why the song skyrocketed to number one"
― some dude, Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
trying to weigh whether "I Can't Tell You Why" is worth a write-in vote
― guwop (crüt), Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
Well, yeah.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
the write-in i'm considering for the Eagles is "Those Shoes"...can't believe i didn't bother to put it in the list
― some dude, Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrpP1BDCEAAw_-R.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
I'll write it in if you write it in xp. It's their best song, but I find it hard to imagine as a CR staple.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
Yikes - I'm talking about I Can't Tell You Why of course.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
If it weren't a cr staple, I would not know it. That's a good litmus test for me imo!
― La Lechera, Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
onto the ballot it goes
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
yeah I absolutely hear it on classic rock radio
― guwop (crüt), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIHfuihoz70
^ does this version of Woodstock ever get any play or is it always the CSNY one?
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
CSNY won that war.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
boo!
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
I'm trying to extract "Bad to the Bone" the song from "Bad to the Bone" the cultural wallpaper and it's not making it any better. Screw that song.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
just vote for other Thorogood. "Move It On Over" and "One Bourbon" are more proper AOR songs.
― some dude, Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Perfect Timing!
http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2014/07/02/this-george-thorogood-fan-is-not-happy-with-the-crowd-at-least-nights-show
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
oops did not mean that as a block quote
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
George deserves no love since he removed "Delaware" from George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers. And even before that he sucked so no worries.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
Respect the Rock,Dale Baker
Dale Baker
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
this gem from the comments:
A lot of bands don't even want to play here because there are times where Cleveland Rockers have the attitude "you gotta prove to me you are good" --for example-Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes about it
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
"SIT DOWN? What is this, an Eagles show or something?"
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
― carl agatha, Thursday, July 3, 2014 5:01 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah, it's really a pity he backed down from his promise to destroy Delaware
― some dude, Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:05 (nine years ago) link
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― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
i guess you guys have never lived in/near cleveland
― La Lechera, Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
new DN
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
i'm going to try and get the guy who wrote this letter to assist in the poll rollout.
As I said, my wife and I went to what we thought was going to be the Classic Rock party of the summer. Unfortunately, our hopes were dashed moments into the first song.
Some rotten bastard had the stones tell us to “Sit down”.
Sit down?
Sit down for George Thorogood? Sit down for Rock N’ Roll? Sit down while George tore into a blistering opening opus. This somehow did not compute in my thinking machine.
― some dude, Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
I texted my friend and brother in Rock to ask for advice. Do we sit and be respectful to the crowd behind us or do we stand? He texted back and said that Rock N’ Roll has become complacent and that we needed to do what was right.
Well, this thing was bigger than the moment.
― some dude, Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
The more we break it down, the more beautiful this letter gets.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
it led to a lunchtime discussion of whether one could truly rock in dockers or not. Photographic evidence was sought
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
― some dude, Thursday, July 3, 2014 9:05 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I always read it as Destroyers from Delaware, but really either way...
― carl agatha, Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
JUST KIDDING I LOVE YOU DELAWARE
I saw Neil Young awhile back and somebody nearby continued to pass gas. Now that is a problem.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
<---- 50+ and will definitely have Def Lep/Priest/Scorps on my list.
― Sandy, Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
xxpost more like bore-ogood amirite?
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
― Sandy, Thursday, July 3, 2014 2:16 PM
^^ gets it \mm/
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
Anybody remember these guys? They were all about the ribfests.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Classic_Rock_All-Stars
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
So much loool in Dale Baker's letter.Also, fuck him for thinking that people from Pittsburgh do not take their rock seriously. We just jumped off that crappy George Thorogood train around 1979.
― Sandy, Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
"Everybody's funny...now Pittsburgh's funny too"
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
We just jumped off that crappy George Thorogood train around 1979
oh, i don't think that's true at all
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/bad-to-the-bone-to-be-used-in-film,3903/
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 3 July 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
nice!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 July 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
haha I think of that article every time I hear that song, though in my memory the soundtracked scene involved a baby putting on sunglasses.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 3 July 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
shhh, mookieproof... I'm gearing up to have a WDVE listening marathon this weekend while I do my ballot and I'm trying to manifest a reality in which I can get through 3 days without having to hear that shit.
― Sandy, Thursday, 3 July 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
I just noticed that Fleetwood Mac - Never Going Back Again is not on the list. I might write that one in.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 4 July 2014 01:03 (nine years ago) link
251 after the second cut
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 4 July 2014 01:13 (nine years ago) link
ooh good catch, i may have to as well
― brimstead, Friday, 4 July 2014 01:38 (nine years ago) link
I think I love every single by Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 4 July 2014 01:44 (nine years ago) link
Also, if you don't know "Starship Trooper", pls listen thx.
I hadn't heard Atlanta Rhythm Section's "so into you" before, what a nice southern groove.
― brimstead, Friday, 4 July 2014 01:55 (nine years ago) link
can't believe i didn't put Supertramp's "Bloody Well Right" in the list, that's the song of theirs i really love
― some dude, Friday, 4 July 2014 01:57 (nine years ago) link
Alright I have never knowingly heard Asia before this moment. My goodness, this is silly.
― brimstead, Friday, 4 July 2014 02:10 (nine years ago) link
one thing led to another; they were young
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 July 2014 02:14 (nine years ago) link
Listening to some of these songs through a sound system better than the one in a 1978 Pinto is a weird revelation. The bass in "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" really throbs!
Jumping around in some dude's Spotify playlist and hitting re-recordings is depressing as hell.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 4 July 2014 02:28 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, "takin care of business" just doesn't sound as good if it's not a) on a slightly distorted radio or b) on the pa system after a memphis grizzlies home game victpry
― brimstead, Friday, 4 July 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link
Just realized that Spill the Wine is some sort of inspiration for Guided by Voices "Hot Freaks". Pollard must have been guided by Burdon that day:
"I was taken to a placeThe hall of the mountain kingsI stood high by the mountain topsNaked to the world"
"i walked into the house of miraculous recoveryand stood before king everythingand he asked me to join him in the red wingtook me to pie landsaid, "i'm a thigh man"i will be eternally hateful"
― Darin, Friday, 4 July 2014 02:36 (nine years ago) link
i am pleased to say that the Spotify playlist of nominated tracks is DONE and fully stocked with 59 hours of music: http://open.spotify.com/user/1219464571/playlist/54fE6NUiIkUpeR4WENZWWr
― some dude, Friday, 4 July 2014 02:47 (nine years ago) link
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Thursday, July 3, 2014 10:28 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
been trying to avoid those, but obviously spotify is a minefield for that kind of thing. feel free to point out songs that have the wrong version in the playlist and i'll try to fix 'em (maybe also tell me what album to search for to get the right one if you can).
― some dude, Friday, 4 July 2014 02:48 (nine years ago) link
thanks for the list. been listening for the last couple days
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Friday, 4 July 2014 02:50 (nine years ago) link
Wish I'd thought to nominate "And We Danced" and "All You Zombies" by The Hooters, even though I'd probably be the only person who'd consider voting for either.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 July 2014 02:56 (nine years ago) link
i'd consider voting for them in an 80s poll
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 July 2014 02:58 (nine years ago) link
I hit three rerecordings this morning in the A's and thought the list might have a lot of them throughout, but haven't caught any since. Here are those 3 --
The Animals -- both tracks. Grab the ones on The Animals Retrospective, the 2nd album in their band overview.
Atlanta Rhythm Section - "So Into You" - scroll down to the 20th Century Masters: The Millenium Collection and that's the good one. That one on 70s Classics is pretty good -- almost had me fooled.
I don't want to pick nits too hard though -- that playlist is a great piece of work, thanks for assembling.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 4 July 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
nah picking nits is good and helpful in this sitch. thanks!
― some dude, Friday, 4 July 2014 03:21 (nine years ago) link
would have definitely voted for The Hooters
― Sandy, Friday, 4 July 2014 03:23 (nine years ago) link
Both Badfingers are rerecordings, but looks like the original versions aren't available at all.
Blondie's "One Way or Another" is rerecorded. Weirdly, the only place I could find the original is on the Mean Girls soundtrack album.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 4 July 2014 03:36 (nine years ago) link
man i can't figure out April Wine at all
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 July 2014 04:07 (nine years ago) link
though this reminds me that if Saga's "on the loose" had been nominated my cutdown would have been even tougher. poor canada.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 July 2014 04:09 (nine years ago) link
George deserves no love since he removed "Delaware" from George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers. And even before that he sucked so no worries
otm. also worth destroying and/or withholding your love: anything by southside johnny and the jukes after they deleted the asbury. anything by jason and the scorchers after they ditched the nashville. this is a hard-and-fast rock and roll rule. (also, obviously, the tampa bay rays after they parted ways with the devil.)
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 4 July 2014 04:14 (nine years ago) link
yeah, badfinger has been an online music problem from the beginning of online time.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 4 July 2014 04:15 (nine years ago) link
I've never seen these jams in one place at the same time
Free - All Right NowHead East - Never Been Any ReasonBTO - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
― that's not my post, Friday, 4 July 2014 05:27 (nine years ago) link
man i can't figure out April Wine at all― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, July 3, 2014 11:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, July 3, 2014 11:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I've never even heard of those songs before. Down here, April Wine means "Roller" and "I Like To Rock" (neither nominated BTW).
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 4 July 2014 05:28 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I nominated it along with several other songs that didn't make the cut. I may write in "On The Loose", "Hypnotized", "Whiskey Man", "Amie", and "Love is Like Oxygen", or I may not. I haven't started the ballot process yet.
― Zachary Taylor, Friday, 4 July 2014 05:36 (nine years ago) link
― that's not my post, Thursday, July 3, 2014
i'm not sure what you're suggesting but if you're suggesting they're the same song because DCG then just no. on has moog, one has koss, and one sucks.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 July 2014 05:43 (nine years ago) link
rog if you're insinuating that the one that sucks is BTO then you can GT(F)O
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 July 2014 05:49 (nine years ago) link
Iirc, YASNY is an interesting feat of recording: it started out as a brief ad-libbed song the band played to get levels in the studio, and their engineer recorded it and then made a series of loops of different elements (lyrics, riffs etc.) which were built up into the final song.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 4 July 2014 06:02 (nine years ago) link
On the spotify, "Games Without Frontiers" Peter Gabriel is a remake.
― Zachary Taylor, Friday, 4 July 2014 06:06 (nine years ago) link
Oh shit, all the Peter Gabriel that finally turned up on US Spotify a few months ago is now gone again.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 July 2014 06:07 (nine years ago) link
Still listening to all these tracks on Spotify (thanks Some Dude) and I can't believe I never caught all of the lyrics for Mr. Saturday Night Special. Who knew Skynyrd were pro-gun control?
Two feets they come a creepin' Like a black cat do And two bodies are lyin' naked Creeper think he got nothin' to lose So he creeps into this house, yeah And unlocks the door And while a man reaching for his trousers Shoots him full of .38 holes
[Chorus]Its a Saturday night special Got a barrel that's blue and cold Ain't no good for nothin' But put a man six feet in a hole
Big Jim's been drinkin' whiskey And playing poker on a losin' night Pretty soon, Big Jim starts a thinkin' Somebody been cheatin' and lyin' So Big Jim commences to fightin' I wouldn't tell you no lie And Big Jim done grab his pistol Shot his friend right between the eyes
[Chorus]
Hand guns are made for killin' Ain't no good for nothin' else And if you like your whiskey You might even shoot yourself So why don't we dump 'em people To the bottom of the sea Before some fool come around here Wanna shoot either you or me
― Darin, Friday, 4 July 2014 06:14 (nine years ago) link
insinuating nothing. BTO is the worst.
[NB i was forced to sing "takin' care of business" in public on multiple occasions in cover band days and so yeah maybe THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL but seriously fuck that terrible song forever]
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 July 2014 06:22 (nine years ago) link
possibly more bad and hated than Defend the Indefensible: "Wonderful Tonight"
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 July 2014 06:23 (nine years ago) link
"Work out!"
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 4 July 2014 06:23 (nine years ago) link
^^ i'll have you know i have legitimate PBTOSD and that post could have used a trigger warning
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 July 2014 06:25 (nine years ago) link
OG Skynyrd was, if not "liberal," at least progressive-leaning. They campaigned pretty heavy for Carter in 1976 and "Saturday Night Special" makes no bones about Ronnie Van Zant's opinion of guns.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 July 2014 06:38 (nine years ago) link
First cut is down to 508. That was just stuff I don't like or don't believe fits the format. All I need to do now is add in all my write-ins and cut another 460 or so. Then make an order being fair to balance of time and style, my own favorites, and my interpretation of importance.
I'll post the write-ins ahead of time here. I'm not sure why. Maybe someone else will want to vote for them. Maybe some dude won't want me to skew the results or create extra work by leaving them on my ballot.
― Zachary Taylor, Friday, 4 July 2014 06:48 (nine years ago) link
He's already said there's at least one song he might write-in on his own ballot, so they're fair game imo.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 July 2014 06:50 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I'm not surprised by LS's politics, but more surprised that pro-gun mid-westerners I grew up with never picked up on this and made a big deal about it. Maybe guns weren't as heavily politicized in the '70s?
xp
― Darin, Friday, 4 July 2014 06:52 (nine years ago) link
anti-gun and pro-environment!
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 July 2014 07:00 (nine years ago) link
Maybe they dig Ronnie too much to argue :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 July 2014 07:02 (nine years ago) link
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet is cool, great sound, good hook (though with a cruel backstory: they were making fun of a guy in the band with a stutter), nice bassline IIRC. This was on a tape of summer fun hits that I believe we got from Domino's Pizza and which never left my sister's ready reference of tapes, so I am irrationally attached to the song. (Can't remember what else was on there...Summertime Blues for sure, maybe Summer in the City.)
''Takin' Care of Business'' always sounds a little forced though, band trying too hard to have a working class catchphrase kind of hit. ''Work out!'' is indeed where it all falls apart, a sad contrast to ''You need educatin'!''
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 July 2014 13:04 (nine years ago) link
I cannot stomach BTO in any way
― La Lechera, Friday, 4 July 2014 14:05 (nine years ago) link
Let It Ride by BTO is completely awesome tbh
― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 4 July 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
I'm a little tired of thump-thump BTO too. Try "Hey You," which I voted for--closer to power-pop, almost.
― clemenza, Friday, 4 July 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
I won't clutter this up with embeds, but two great clips I've found:
"Hey You": youtube.com/watch?v=NyMNCqhRNOM&feature=kp"Can't Get It Out of My Head": youtube.com/watch?v=ZrffDM3hHk8
The second is almost like an actual video...in 1974?
― clemenza, Friday, 4 July 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
Let It Ride is a car commercial -- sorry. No thx. They just remind me of the sonic wallpaper of a place I am desperate to leave.
― La Lechera, Friday, 4 July 2014 14:27 (nine years ago) link
fair enough! i am mercifully unburdened by extramusical associations with a lot of this stuff - the only bto song that anyone really knows in the uk is YASNY
― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 4 July 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
Sit down for George Thorogood?
Keep hearing this in Lil Jon's voice
So I switched from actual CR radio to our Spotify playlist, and while 100% fewer commercials is a bonus I'm bummed I missed out on the chance to win tickets to see Foreigner & Styx in Camden.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 4 July 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
"Oowatanite" is the April Wine song I associate the most with CRR from growing up. I never thought they were at all great, though.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 4 July 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
irl lol
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 4 July 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
growing up I thought some of these songs--"Lunatic Fringe" "Burnin' For You" "Twilight Zone"--were by the same band
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 4 July 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
and that band rules
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 July 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
bummed that the 86 cutoff date keeps me from voting for Thunderstruck
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 4 July 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
BTO rules, u all suck
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 July 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
Just noticed a nom that was disallowed -- I'm going to make room on my ballot for the write-in, hope y'all will too.
Amie - Pure Prairie League
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 4 July 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
ILM loves thin lizzy, right?
"boys are back in town" gets better every time i hear it
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 4 July 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
Only have ever heard this song on CRR. Will definitely vote for it.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 4 July 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
(I mean "Amie," but same goes for Lizzy.)
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 4 July 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
Trying to finish my ballot today and "The Boys Are Back in Town" will surely be in my top ten, I love Thin Lizzy so much.
― Sandy, Friday, 4 July 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
Also writing in UFO, "Too Hot to Handle," and I invite anybody who agrees with me to do the same
― Sandy, Friday, 4 July 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
Re: BTO, I own their greatest hits (''...So Far!''), and have listened to it on several occasions, but I swear all I can come up with in my head are the big two.
Lunatic Fringe is so great. Any fictitious band would be happy to have it linking together their brute rockers with their spacey jams.
And woah, woah, woah. ''Amie'' is essential here! Sliding that into my crowded ballot immediately.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 July 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
''The Boys are Back in Town'' definite top ten. Never unhappy to hear that on the radio. Love how joyous the guitar is... the 'boys' sound kind of like awful sexist bros, but the music kinda convinces you that everybody involved really loves their antics. This gets really problematic re: the girl wlaps them in the face, but still, what craft. Was even thinking it might be #1 til I remembered some pummeling super-jams that really have to get top billing.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 July 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
thin lizzy forever
so much swagger
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 July 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
I browsed around the rest of the Spotify list while I ate breakfast and found a few more rerecordings.
Dobie Gray - "Drift Away" -- looks like the original isn't available on Spotify, but it's on youtube --https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIuyDWzctgY
The John Lennon and Ringo Starr tracks, but the originals aren't available. Ditto "Games Without Frontiers"
Kiss -- "Beth" -- I've never been a Kiss fan so I don't know for sure, but this one sounds a little off somehow.
Orleans - "Still the One" -- scroll down to the one that says "45 Version," track time is 3:55
Ozark Mountain Daredevils -- "Jackie Blue" -- the original is on 20th Century Masters: The Millenium Collection, track time 4:12
Pilot -- "Magic" -- get the version on Anthology, track time 3:07
Stealers Wheel -- "Stuck in the Middle With You" -- the original is on the Reservoir Dogs soundtrack
Basically I looked for all the 70s one-hit wonders fucked by the music industry. I was surprised that Blondie did a bunch of rerecordings.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 4 July 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
listening to Jailbreak for the first time rn
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 4 July 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
growing up i always loved "The Boys Are Back In Town," but i couldn't place Phil's accent, and ended up picturing Arnold Schwarzenegger delivering the verses, which still entertains me to this day.
― some dude, Friday, 4 July 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
Just noticed a nom that was disallowed -- I'm going to make room on my ballot for the write-in, hope y'all will too.*Amie - Pure Prairie League*
*Amie - Pure Prairie League*
Aw, nuts. I would have totally voted for this but I already submitted my ballot. I LOVE this song.
― carl agatha, Friday, 4 July 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
Amie write-in campaign? Count me in.
― Sandy, Friday, 4 July 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
WC's suggested playlist changes implemented, cheers!
― some dude, Friday, 4 July 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
I'd heard "Amie" certainly, but I never knew who'd done it (to be fair, I haven't looked very hard). This is a great song, though!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 July 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
oh man, didn't notice that wasn't on the list - that's a crucial omission
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 4 July 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
"Jailbreak" shld have gotten nominated too
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 4 July 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
It did...I remember ctrl+f'ing the nominations thread for it...but it didn't make it to some dude's final list.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 July 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
::puts feet up, takes nap::
― some dude, Friday, 4 July 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
For a while, maybe longer if i ---LONGER IF I DOOO A HOOOOOO
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 July 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
thanks to this poll i had "green eyed lady" stuck in my head last night & this morning woke up with "caught up in you"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 July 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
If anyone mod-edits "Amie" into the noms list above, it wasn't me! I only thought about it...
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 4 July 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
see this is why i'm not making the Spotify playlist collaborative
― some dude, Friday, 4 July 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
lol, wise move
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 4 July 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
Do you want the ballots numbered, un-numbered, or it doesn't matter?
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 4 July 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
each vote submitted on individual rolling papers
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 July 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 4 July 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
I've already smoked my ballot. Fuck.
― Jeff, Friday, 4 July 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
Kickin' Sugarloaf bonus track that never made it over to CR radio: their followup hit, five years and three albums later, the kinda sorta funky music industry kissoff "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You," with very Derringer-esque vocals and a sheepishly acknowledged lift from "I Feel Fine."
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 July 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
(#9 hit on Billboard, but apparently not beloved enough to rate inclusion on any oldies format, or Sounds of the Seventies commercials - never heard it til I was specifically trawling Billboard countdown-type CDs.)
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 July 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
numbered ballots would be helpful but not necessary
― some dude, Friday, 4 July 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
My ballot will be on a spread sheet, using decimals, so I can actually vote for 1000 songs.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 July 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
A key question: what's the bona fide, signature Frampton hit? Always thought "Baby I Love Your Way" was a slow-dance snooze in search of an ounce of energy; the other two, in equally shambling fashion, hold up key parts of the classic rock belief system. "Do You Feel Like We Do?" wins for me despite the sheer pointlessness of much of the 'jam' (read: the band gets drunk and almost falls asleep); the use of the talkbox is at its most epic, the "BWEEWEEEEEEEEEAAAAEEEEUUUUUHHHH!" coming back in from the wind-down is awesome, and while "Show Me The Way" hits that key vibe of searching that's key to classic rock, "Do You Feel Like We Do?" portrays the equally important epic bender and besides has a really perfect, stupid "are you hip/high" kinda title. REAL GOOD NIGHT, GOOD NIGHT. I HOPE YOU HAAAVE A GOOD NIGHT.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 July 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
Show Me the Way is the biggest of the three imo. It's the only one I ever hear on the radio, anyway.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 July 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
Oh man, really? I definitely hear that one most, but back when DJs DJed things, "Do You Feel Like We Do?" was in that Stairway joke-category "DJ wants to go to the bathroom" etc.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 July 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
I heard all three to death when they were new, but when they passed into CR status, "Do You Feel Like We Do?" seemed to drop out of favor.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 4 July 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
It's pretty terrible imo. Show Me The Way is great though. But tbh I've never understood how he got to be a huge star, with Simpsons appearances and all.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 4 July 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
"show me the way" has the perfect combination of being lost and lonely and different ("no one to relate to except the sea"), searching and dreaming ("show me the way"), and still maintaining a hgh degree of swagger ('i want YOU").
"do you feel like we do" should have been on the who's tommy, side four.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 4 July 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
*high* degree of swagger
Best part of "Show Me The Way," besides the talkbox hook, is the way he sings the last lines of the verse, e.g. "I watch you when you're sleeping... and then I WANNA TAKE YOUR LOVE!" although now that I now that's what he's saying, it's a lot less appealing.
I sort of figured that part of the shambling, basically sloppy quality of all three Frampton hits was just down to them being live and everybody being wasted and sunburned or something, but I just checked out the studio version of "Show Me The Way" and it's awful - slower, sluggish, kinda empty. "Do You Feel Like We Do" also lacking tons of energy - I'd forgotten in my post above how 'Alive' the band does sound during the breakdown as it picks up steam, banging away at the drums and the keys. No talkbox, either! Weird.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 July 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
"Do You Feel Like We Do" is the one i'm voting for. the way everything hushes for that little improv section, and then the talkbox goes OUUUUEWWWWWWWWWWW into the final chorus, so awesome.
― some dude, Friday, 4 July 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
haha oh yeah Doc already said that
― some dude, Friday, 4 July 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
I'm going to Paypal one American dollar to the voter whose top-10 tracks looks most like my Worst Songs ballot.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 4 July 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
IDG frampton, never have.
― how will the milf survive? (Jon Lewis), Friday, 4 July 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
I don't either, but I'm giving the albums that aren't Frampton Comes Alive a spin on Spotify right now just to see if I can figure it out.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 July 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
no way i am trying to figure out peter frampton now or everhe has always seemed like a drip
― La Lechera, Friday, 4 July 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
Not much to figure out really
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 4 July 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link
Frampton falls in the Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton category for me, in that they garner praise to the heavens for some guitar playing that sounds incredibly anonymous and dull to my ears.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 July 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
Oh really? I never knew anyone classed him with those guys. More like Ricky Nelson.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 4 July 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
Frampton just seems lucky as fuck to me - his songwriting's generic and his band isn't stellar, but for whatever reason that live album caught the Zeitgeist or something. I mean clearly the novel sound of the talkbox against the usual beige mid-70s festival rock did something. But since they did become canonical, I heard the songs a lot, and there's a fondness that comes with that to the point where I do totally enjoy them for all their ordinariness. Have never been even slightly interested in the rest of his career; I owned "Frampton Comes Alive" for ages and I'm sure I put it on a few times but again, can't recall a thing about the rest.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 July 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
Frampton is best heard on the early Humble Pie records, particularly Town and Country (one of the most intriguing/effective UK responses to Music From Big Pink).
As a soloist, he gets into modal areas that few (if any) of his contemporaries explored. But there isn't much of that on Comes Alive!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 4 July 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
Beck is one of the odder CR dudes in that almost none of his songs ("For Your Love" maybe?) gets any radio play, but everyone who listens to CR probably knows who he is. Plus he put out some Electronica albums I listened to a bunch.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 4 July 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
I love Show Me The Way, could give a shit about Frampton otherwise though
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 July 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
There's a pretty interesting chapter in the otherwise uneven-as-fuck The Mansion on the Hill about Frampton's manager Dee Anthony. The strategy was to keep Frampton on the road constantly, for years on end, and then cash in with a live album. Dee had had success with this approach with Joe Cocker and Humble Pie, but it obviously paid off beyond anyone's expectations with Frampton.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 4 July 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
Is Beck even on For Your Love? I always thought that was where Clapton got pushed one step too far. Not that the guitaring on it is at all of note.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 4 July 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
For me Jeff Beck basically existed as this name that would constantly get in the way when browsing for Beck.
That's interesting, Tarfumes - so the idea was basically to sell to people who had actually seen the guy in concert? This was the golden age for huge double live albums, I feel like (At Budokan, Over America, etc. etc.) - dunno if that has to do with recording equipment, or actually just the size and scale of the concerts, with better speakers and shit, to where you would really believe you'd missed something by not hearing the live versions. I mean they existed before, but I don't feel like they were as much of a "thing" before the mid-70s, though I'm probably missing some huge obvious examples.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 July 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
That's interesting, Tarfumes - so the idea was basically to sell to people who had actually seen the guy in concert?
I think it was partly that, and partly to capitalize on whatever word-of-mouth was generated by those who'd seen him. He kept putting out studio records while he toured, and each charted higher than the last, but nothing sold anywhere near what Comes Alive! did -- his previous record topped out at #32.
(Also, At Budokan was a single LP, and originally intended for release only in Japan; when CBS saw how well import copies were selling, they released it in the US.)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 4 July 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, July 4, 2014 4:02 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^ this
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 4 July 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
If I could include 500 tracks, none of them would stillbe frampton
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 July 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
Painfully purged a bunch of stuff as just "not classic rock enough." I've heard all or most of these songs - some of which are some of my favorite in the noms list - on classic rock at some point, and as some have pointed out, some of these 80s acts were welcomed into the fold early as tokens. But, without trying to draw the boundaries too tightly, I gotta limit this thing somehow and there are things that probably just cross the line too far in one direction or the other. It's arbitrary - I'm sure classic rock still plays "Satisfaction" and "Somebody To Love" (Jefferson Airplane, I mean) - but I'm not sure they ever took on the Kinks and Spencer Davis Group, somehow having decided those could be left to be the toughest things played on 'oldies.' Or am I just delusional?
purged as too 60s/mod/garage
Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'The Beatles - Paperback WriterThe Kinks - All Day and All Of The NightThe Troggs - Wild ThingThem - GloriaTommy James - Draggin' the Line
(still waffling on "My Sharona" - I think I'll keep it)
purged as too AM gold/bubblegum/billboard rock
Gary Wright - Dream WeaverNick Gilder - Hot Child in the CityOrleans - Still The One
(I'm'a keepin' "What A Fool Believes")
purged as too 80s, too punk, too New Wave, etc.
Robert Palmer - Addicted To LoveThe Cars - Let's GoThe Cars - Just What I NeededThe Clash - Train in VainThe Fixx - One Thing Leads To AnotherThe Kings - This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To GlideThe Police - Message in A BottleToto - RosannaToto - Africa
At this point, I'm in striking distance of a pretty good 150-song ballot. Might now switch to putting the bottom 75 in order and just see what falls off, rather than just trying to cut things. Shit's getting real.
Am finding Zep to be the hardest band to trim down to representative songs for some reason, maybe they exactly ride this line between shit I'm glad to hear on the radio and shit I'm glad to hear on the album. Alternately, I basically just never intend to put Zoso on ever again and have become happy to think of "When The Levee Breaks," "Rock & Roll," etc. as non-album singles or something.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 July 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
Campaign mode: "Running On Empty" is such essential classic rock: a quarter-life crisis as road epic. So windswept and searching, a hollow man at a ragged moment, the clear goals of a decade earlier having faded. His friends are facing the same challenges, but is this a comfort, or can they only nod at each other sadly, across the painted lane dividers? The live recording is crucial to the effect: some tuning, some isolated shouts in the cold desert, then the band, pounding in, raising the temperature, fighting against an audibly big space. Players, Browne and backing vocalists work to fill the emptiness with warmth and heart: gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive. There's provisional hope, the journey will go on, but I don't even know what I'm hopin' to find - thank god, he hasn't found pat answers or an anthem to deliver.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 July 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
I kept Spencer Davis Group, because I've heard it a ton on classic rock radio. Didn't realize it was so old.
― how's life, Friday, 4 July 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
Hard for me to not vote for every queen song.
― Jeff, Friday, 4 July 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
Also key IMO, fitting with my insistence that classic rock, bikers aside, still has a lot to do with wide-eyed (but now world-wearier) visions of something bigger out there: ELO's version of "Do Ya": blowsy, sexed-up and hairy Lynne, egged on by his raging guitar hard-on - - - but the sweetness of the strings! Secret weapon: the late chorus where it skips straight from "never seen nothin' like you" to DO YA DO YA WANT MY LOVE!? WOM-AN! It's this careful little wrapped up package of the caveman beating inside the chest of this rainbow-tripping wizard who can see through unstated dreams and untold things - babies dancing in the midnight sun? Old men crying at their own gravesides?! But that's not his project right now: sure, he's seen lovers flying through the air hand in hand, but as of right now, well, I THINK YOU KNOWWHATIM TRYIN TO SAY WOMAN!! Fucking great.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 July 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
totally got your back on "running on empty" and making a lot of similar cuts for similar reasons. down to about 160 now.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 July 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
jackson brown can eat me
somebodys baby is the only song of his that i like
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 July 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
"somebody's baby" is fantastic.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 4 July 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
Was going to write-in for Cocaine, 'til I listened to it again. Classic Rock it is not.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 4 July 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
may or may not be classic rock but fwiw it's already on the list
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 July 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure classic rock still plays "Satisfaction" and "Somebody To Love" (Jefferson Airplane, I mean) - but I'm not sure they ever took on the Kinks...?
― Doctor Casino, Friday, July 4, 2014
nah "Lola," "Destroyer" and "Come Dancing" is a totally legit rock block. sub in "all day and all of the night" or "you really got me" if feeling ROCK.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 July 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
ha if "destroyer" had made the list i mighta wrote it in. that + "lola" is like the most Classic Rock Radio kinks.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 July 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
lola def
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 July 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link
xps I meant Jackson Browne's Cocaine. Clapton's might be more CR, but it is also awful.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 4 July 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
f y'all's i ELP's "lucky man" is a jam
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 July 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
I would probably also vote for ''Destroyer,'' definitely would with a longer ballot. I was thinking more of the mid-sixties rockers, I love ''All Day'' etc. I guess I have to try and remember classic rock as it once was, not only in terms of songs they play now but would never have back then, but also the other way round. Not that this makes balloting any easier...
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 July 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
I've got my hundred, just need to order them now. Last cut: The Faces - Stay With Me. My list is now Rodless.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 4 July 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" is definitely getting a lofty position on my ballot.
also just a reminder to the thread that no song hammers as much rock 'n' roll into your ears as "Satisfaction" does
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 4 July 2014 22:56 (nine years ago) link
still have 40 to cut. this is horrific. the remaining survivors just had to eat quarterflash.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 July 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
You'll have to harden your heart and swallow your tears.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 4 July 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
god this is hard to watch. now they're burning robert plant's solo career to keep the wolves away for one more night.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 July 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
lord of the flies
(pause for crotch pun)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 July 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
I got it down to 100, although I'll probably let it marinate before sending it. I dropped some Zep/Yes/Rush to make room for more diversity, even though I probably do like "Whole Lotta Love" more than "Hot Child in the City".
I'm a little surprised that the Cars don't seem classic rock enough for some people. (I mean, I get it but.) "Just What I Needed" might actually seem like the most typique song for my local classic rock station these days!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 4 July 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
we're voting for favorite/best, not 'song that most embodies the CR aesthetic', right
― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 July 2014 00:18 (nine years ago) link
― mookieproof, Saturday, July 5, 2014 1:18 AM (1 minute ago)
Different people always tackle these things differently. I use a combination of those factors. As I said a while ago, I think 'Good Vibrations' pisses over the majority of these songs, but it isn't "classic rock" as I understand/experience it, so it won't make my ballot. The Stones will definitely make my ballot, but I'm more likely to vote for 'Gimme Shelter' than 'Paint It Black', because though I prefer the latter the former seems more apt.
― emil.y, Saturday, 5 July 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
A mix of both approaches for me, like 85/15 or so. xp
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Saturday, 5 July 2014 00:26 (nine years ago) link
Hrm, if others are voting for Hot Child in the City, maybe I should go for it...
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 5 July 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
― Jeff
This is my dilemma as well. Also, Tom Petty. I think I finally have them pared down to three songs each.
― Sandy, Saturday, 5 July 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link
^^^better be voting for donnie iris
― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 July 2014 02:36 (nine years ago) link
"waiting for a girl like you" is one of my favorite songs ever but to me it's more "adult contemporary" than "classic rock"
― brimstead, Saturday, 5 July 2014 04:18 (nine years ago) link
yeah foreigner is mad classic rock but 4 isn't. juke box hero would have made my list of 130 anyway.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 July 2014 04:24 (nine years ago) link
listen you guys, hair of the dog is bitchin and all but let's be real: love hurts is the business
fuckin looooooove it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 July 2014 05:04 (nine years ago) link
I KNOOOOOW IT ISNT TRUUUUUE
― mookieproof, Friday, July 4, 2014 10:36 PM (Yesterday)
Of course I am! And then I'm gonna eat a Primanti's sandwich to seal the deal!
Also: VegemiteGrrl otm about Love Hurts, I will likely wind up with both Nazareth songs on my list.
― Sandy, Saturday, 5 July 2014 05:45 (nine years ago) link
Anybody have anything nice to say about Steve Forbert? Is Adam Duritz a fan?
― brimstead, Saturday, 5 July 2014 06:28 (nine years ago) link
I tossed out a few limp words upthread. That's a nice song. Adam Duritz is plausible. I somehow recall that Ben Folds is a big fan of Dean Friedman ("Ariel") so, sure.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 5 July 2014 06:30 (nine years ago) link
First cut I was merciless and I still ended up with 178. FUCK!
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 July 2014 07:19 (nine years ago) link
Even less mercy took me down to 100 (including two write-ins). Now how the hell am I going to rank these?
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 July 2014 08:06 (nine years ago) link
Also surprising (well not really in this context, but I wasn't expecting it), the only artist with three entries on my ballot is The Doobies.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 July 2014 08:07 (nine years ago) link
I'm approaching it this way, yeah - as a britisher I've never really experienced CR radio and while there's a lot of stuff on the noms list I definitely wouldn't normally think of as classic rock I'm just accepting that the CR format has its quirks.
― Gavin, Leeds, Saturday, 5 July 2014 09:24 (nine years ago) link
WmC had a good technique he explained somewhere upthread. Basically go through and pull out your absolute favorites, rank them. Then go through and pull out the ones that barely made the cut, rank them. Then do whatever with the leftovers.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 5 July 2014 11:49 (nine years ago) link
yeah i started my ballot from the top down
― some dude, Saturday, 5 July 2014 12:22 (nine years ago) link
Did "Radioactive" by the Firm even make the nominations list? Cuz that's a likely write-in for me.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 5 July 2014 12:23 (nine years ago) link
It's on the list.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 5 July 2014 12:30 (nine years ago) link
I remember reading somewhere (Hammer of the Gods?) about how post-Zep Page had come up with Stairway II, and was rumoured for ages to be possibly even more amazing, but never managed to put together properly; then when it was released, I'm pretty sure by The Firm, sunk without trace. What song was it?
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 5 July 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
"Midnight Moonlight" was based on the Physical Graffiti outtake "The Swan Song"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB04NpFx-3Q
― some dude, Saturday, 5 July 2014 13:15 (nine years ago) link
good lord that cheeseball fretless bass though
― some dude, Saturday, 5 July 2014 13:16 (nine years ago) link
Going through the nominations with my wife, it's a fun exercise - she dismisses >75% of the list as either not rockin' (mostly the singer-songwriter stuff), too heavy metal (Priest, Sabbath and the 80s hair metal songs), too new wave or too oldies (the 60s stuff, Beatles/Stones/Kinks/The Who) so if I go with her condensed list it actually makes it a lot easier.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 5 July 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
― carl agatha, Saturday, July 5, 2014 12:30 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh, duh. Don't know how I missed it. Good!
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 5 July 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
got to concentrate
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 July 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
For all the trumpeting I did of "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" in the nominations thread, I actually forgot to vote for it.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 July 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
listen you guys, hair of the dog is bitchin and all but let's be real: love hurts is the businessfuckin looooooove it― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, July 4, 2014 10:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, July 4, 2014 10:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Couldn't believe "Hair of the Dog" the first time I heard it on the radio as a child, and the talk box part still causes me to laugh uncontrollably for some reason. Definitely making my ballot over "Love Hurts"
― intheblanks, Saturday, 5 July 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
/!\ HEAD EAST /!\
― guwop (crüt), Saturday, 5 July 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
Also just realized upon re-listening that "Hair of the Dog" is the "Day Tripper" riff.
― intheblanks, Saturday, 5 July 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
haha i'd been trying to figure out what those 2 songs resembled for ages without realizing it was each other, you just blew my mind
― some dude, Saturday, 5 July 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih6XjO_fhrI
Probably exactly what you're referring to, but sorry, can't pass that up.
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 July 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
kramer definitely put that phrase in my vocabulary, fair game
― some dude, Saturday, 5 July 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
Was just listening to Hair of the Dog in the car. Such a perfect musical distillation of the emotion of now messing with a son-of-a-bitch. Love the Beatles connection!
― how's life, Saturday, 5 July 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
it kinda weirds me out that "Hair of the Dog" and "Love Hurts" are from the same band, much less the same album
― some dude, Saturday, 5 July 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
kramer definitely put that phrase in my vocabulary, fair game― some dude, Saturday, July 5, 2014
As close as the MC5 will get to this poll, or to Classic Rock Radio. Which is too bad--Back in the USA should be a staple.
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 July 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
― guwop (crüt), Saturday, July 5, 2014
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130130224326/nickfanon/images/b/b1/Omar-Oh-Indeed.gif
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 July 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
so i've had a chance to spend some time with the playlist in a car AS GOD INTENDED.
Rising: Kansas, "Point of Know Return" (oh yeeeeeeesss it out-Styx's Styx.)Rising: Boston, "HItch a Ride"Falling: Rainbow, "Since You've Been Gone" (i remembered this as a banger but today it just sounded mad corny)
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 July 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
"Point of Know Return" is my shiiiiiiiit
― some dude, Saturday, 5 July 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
i have this feeling that the big guns with lots of track noms are going to fall surprisingly low due to vote-splitting across the catalog. not that it bothers me - if Head East ends up in the top spot* that's just all right with me. by the same token i'm having a lot of trouble deciding which Doors is my most hated.
*i assume the top spot in this poll is technically #3 since regardless of the ballots Stairway and Freebird are always #1 and #2 on any Classic Rock Countdown.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 July 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
hitch a ride is gorgeous
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 July 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
RIP brad delp you sang like an angel and sold rock'n'roll platitudes like your life depended on them and i'm sorry they weren't enough ;_;
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
rogermexico otm, super-sad
― intheblanks, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
REST IN PEACE BRADWE MISS YOU SO BAD
AMANDA
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
Can someone pls explain this Amanda joke?
― La Lechera, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
Boston - Third Stage
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
there has not been nearly enough discussion of heart on this thread. a quintessential classic rock band in so many ways: the voice that sounds like it's going to burst through the roof at any moment, the gigantic earworm riffs, the perfectly calibrated acoustic/electric guitar interplay, and really ambitious songwriting..
the acoustic guitar intro to "crazy on you" and the way it opens up into the song is an all-time favorite rock moment for me.
also, "straight on" sounds like a talking heads song.
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
OOOOOOH BARRA CUDA
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
"barracuda" was the only ringtone i ever bought.
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
I would've liked to have voted for one 70s Heart track and one 80s Heart track, but the stuff from the s/t album didn't make it to the final list. ;_;
Barracuda is my #4, though.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
Yes, Heart has stood the test of Classic Rock time and passed it with flying colors
Falling: Rainbow, "Since You've Been Gone" Didn't Head East do this tune first?
― Riot In #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
I see. :-/
― La Lechera, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
Did you look at the whole thread? There's some truly great ones in there.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
Didn't Head East do this tune first?
― Riot In #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, July 5, 2014
They did! Part of the Russ Ballard secret history of rock'n'roll. The Head East version is sillier iirc and probably better for it.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
Xp I saw sthg about a wank and that was enough. When I was in 8th gr boys screamed lewd parody verses of that song in the hallway and honestly that was enough! What a shitty song.
― La Lechera, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
I was wondering why I kept thinking I knew 'Jane' from somewhere besides the background sounds of my youth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjs9eUlv2AQ
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 5 July 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
As I get closer to 100, my cuts seem more and more insane. Bohemian Rhapsody, Tangled Up In Blue, Up On Cripple Creek. Bound and determined to keep some room in the bottom 20 for this to remain an 'interesting' hypothetical radio station. Plus, if I'm honest with myself, those songs don't need Classic Rock radio anymore, but "Do You Know What I Mean?" could really use the boost. It would be awesome if these stations had, like, Forgotten Fridays where they actually weren't permitted to play any of their top 200 songs.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 5 July 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
don't feel too bad. I can't remember ever hearing "tangled up in blue" or "up on cripple creek" on classic rock radio. seriously though don't sleep on Kansas.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 July 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
Long gone.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 5 July 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
I've got 531 more songs to review.
― Jeff, Saturday, 5 July 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
No thanks to Point of Know Return
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 5 July 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
I'm not voting for anything from the 80s, most of that stuff just feels wrong. I mean, much love for Mellencamp but that's totally reactionary roots reenactment rock, And the post-Boston power rock stuff is a different flavor as well. Boston s/t and Journey's Infinity are kind of as far as I'm willing to go in that direction.
― brimstead, Sunday, 6 July 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
Mellencamp will die of vote splitting
― g simmel, Sunday, 6 July 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
Hahaha me too!
― how will the milf survive? (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 6 July 2014 00:28 (nine years ago) link
Listening to Crazy on You right now- that is a singular vocal performance.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 6 July 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
We can avoid this and also address the concern about the '80s by all agreeing to vote for "I Need a Lover" (1978!).
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 6 July 2014 00:43 (nine years ago) link
AGREED
― some dude, Sunday, 6 July 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
btw the "games without frontiers" in the playlist is... not the "games without frontiers" you know.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Sunday, 6 July 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
My local station is doing Fourth of July Four-Play, four-in-a-row of your favorite artists. I was kinda stoked about this because their four for the Who were "Baba O'Riley," "You Better, You Bet," "Getting In Tune," and.... "Long Live Rock" ! Unfortunately, it turned out that the four-play does not apply to the whole weekend but only, I guess, to random rock blocks within it. Huge missed opportunity IMO, particularly since the next act they played was BOC; I was convinced they were going to be forced to play something not in the normal rotation. Sigh.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 6 July 2014 03:09 (nine years ago) link
There was so much classic rock on the 4th. All from very loud sound systems not at my location however (we went to a local fireworks show at a small bay close to our house). So the wind would blow in one direction and I'd catch some Boston, or another direction and there'd be some Scorpions. I did catch a relatively uninterrupted Don't Fear the Reaper. But the guy who was setting off the fireworks nearest to us had a small CD boombox with some sort of post-Sublime white reggae and it was skipping. Anyway, he brought in a lot of fireworks on his own dime so I couldn't complain too much, but like, come on man.
― how's life, Sunday, 6 July 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
102.5 WDVE now playing "Rain on the Scarecrow," writing it in
― Sandy, Sunday, 6 July 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
I will get a larf or two if some write-ins make the rollout.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Sunday, 6 July 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
You and me and people yet to be determined will get "Junior's Farm" on there.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 July 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
My CR station is doing a song each from the top 10 albums of each year. I heard 1975 and 1979 in the car today
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Sunday, 6 July 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
― clemenza, Sunday, July 6, 2014 2:37 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
take me down, clemmy
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 6 July 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
I don't know how many people are planning to vote, but "Amie" might get a significant amount of write-in love.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 6 July 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure everyone here has seen The Midnight Special TV clips on YouTube. Tons of live 70s classic rock. Where else can you see Little Richard introduce Golden Earring?
― that's not my post, Sunday, 6 July 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
Was just looking at the Zeppelin poll rollout and came across this possibly prophetic post:
PG is the weakest double album in the classic rock canon imo― some dude, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 8:07 PM (2 years ago)
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Sunday, 6 July 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
was proven with science too: best big iconic classic rock studio double LP of the 1960s and 1970s
― some dude, Sunday, 6 July 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
I remember a stoner dude in my school reading aloud from his essay on why Physical Graffiti was Zeppelin's first bad album.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Sunday, 6 July 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
there's no way i'm gonna find room for solo Robert Plant on my ballot given how little space i even have for prime Zep but i can't believe you guys are riding for "Big Log" over "In The Mood"
― some dude, Sunday, 6 July 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
my CR station is, at this very minute, playing Boston's "Peace of Mind"
PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION
RIP Brad Delp indeed
― Sandy, Sunday, 6 July 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
love u Braf
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 July 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
ugh BRAD even
Ballot sent, not a deep cut on it. So joyous to get to cast a vote for Supertramp, Bryan Adams, et al.
These are my write-in votes:• Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra• Fleetwood Mac - Hypnotized• Cream - Badge• Chris Rea - Josephine• Survivor - Burning Heart• The Eagles - I Can't Tell You Why• Genesis - Tonight Tonight Tonight• Chris Rea - On The Beach• Paul Simon - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover• Dire Straits - So Far Away
I ranked by imagining my platonic ideal Classic Rock station: K-LATA if you will. If I was in the mood for Classic Rock, like really in the mood, and I turned it on at random, what would it be playing to scratch that itch?
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 6 July 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
Abracadabra is a good one
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Sunday, 6 July 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
Ah "So Far Away" definitely gets enough spins that it shoulda been nommed
― some dude, Sunday, 6 July 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
in the wild: "d'yer maker" (speaking of songs that obviously should have had different titles when I was a kid) followed by "night moves" at meatpacking district bar just now. one of these two songs has an excellent chance to be on my ballot; the other does not.
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
and now "the waiting." i think i shall stay here awhile.
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
In the wild, getting dinner:
Maggie May > Livin' in the USA (Ronstadt) > Don't Stop Believin' > Come Sail Away
I like one and voted for it, I like another but not enough to vote for it, and I wouldn't clean up cat puke with the other two.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
agree: night moves and maggie may are all-time
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 7 July 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
I always remember "Night Moves" as the song Pete sings at the end of American Pop
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Monday, 7 July 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link
In the wild (sort of): went to the back yard to have a smoke and a guy rode by on his Harley blasting "Gimme Three Steps," thank you kind biker.
In the final stages of paring down my list/programming my dream CR station and fuuuuuuuuck, which is better? "Lights" or "Lovin' Touchin" Squeezin"?
― Sandy, Monday, 7 July 2014 01:46 (nine years ago) link
i used to think "Lights" but now i lean toward "Squeezin'." but the top Journey on my ballot will be "Any Way You Want It" and "Separate Ways." i may include all four. and "Stone In Love." and "Don't Stop Believin'." and a write-in vote for "Feeling That Way." fuuuuck Journey has got jams.
― some dude, Monday, 7 July 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
heard "rock and roll never forgets" and "main street" 20+ times on my uncle's motorboat tape deck one summer
― brimstead, Monday, 7 July 2014 01:50 (nine years ago) link
"Lights" is my favorite Journey song these days, it's very "driving home on early sunday morning" evocative
― brimstead, Monday, 7 July 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
yeah, "Lights" is pretty dreamy. even thought i know it's about San Francisco, in my mind the city by the bay is Baltimore.
― some dude, Monday, 7 July 2014 02:19 (nine years ago) link
stone in love and wheel in the sky are the most classic rock Journey. faithfully is the greatest ballad Journey.
lights is sublime but living in the bay area I can't separate it from the local narcissism that end in Train.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 7 July 2014 02:36 (nine years ago) link
i love 'wheel in the sky'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 July 2014 02:37 (nine years ago) link
"endS in Train," obv
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 7 July 2014 02:38 (nine years ago) link
I'm curious about this soundtrack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream,_After_DreamIt's Journey in 81 but it's supposed to be more progier/jammier like the early stuff. Love that first album a bunch.
― brimstead, Monday, 7 July 2014 02:44 (nine years ago) link
"Wheel in the Sky" is already safe on my list, trying to decide what the second Journey song is gonna be! Nobody gets more than a three song rock block and I can only spare a handful of those, Journey can only have a two-fer! This is starting to make me cry!
― Sandy, Monday, 7 July 2014 03:00 (nine years ago) link
yes: of the two songs i mentioned in my "night moves" post, "night moves" was indeed the all-time one.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 7 July 2014 03:12 (nine years ago) link
As your Journey sommelier, let me recommend "Stone in Love" -- it's from a good vintage but easily overlooked. You could call it the Journey lover's Journey song.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 7 July 2014 03:13 (nine years ago) link
http://www.labelvalue.com/images/freedom.gif
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 July 2014 03:14 (nine years ago) link
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra)
YOU PEOPLE.
Now I am remembering how great Stone in Love is! The blue jean girl! He'll keep her forever!
Also: having to choose between Caught Up in You and Hold On Loosely is too cruel. It's Sophie's Choice. I can't do it.
― Sandy, Monday, 7 July 2014 03:22 (nine years ago) link
Just want to make sure that everybody is voting for "Spirit In the Sky." That is all.
― voodoo chili, Monday, 7 July 2014 03:29 (nine years ago) link
I wanted to have so many rock blocks - i think i only ended up with 1 and it was not 38 special ;_;
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 July 2014 03:40 (nine years ago) link
Sandy, check out this classic thread:
"Stone in Love" - Classic or Greatest 4:25 In The History Of The Bay Area?
― polyamanita (sleeve), Monday, 7 July 2014 03:45 (nine years ago) link
weird poll for me -- like, 'it's only rock 'n' roll' is nowhere near my favorite stones song, but it seems to fit ~classic rock~ more perfectly than the others
i can assure you that 'stone in love' was very high on my list tho
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 July 2014 04:10 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, there's a strong chance my only Stones will be "It's Only Rock And Roll" and "Heartbreaker" for this reason. "Wild Horses" and "Beast of Burden" are also very classic rock, but I'm just not as attached to 'em.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 7 July 2014 04:15 (nine years ago) link
also while i <3 in a big country, for example, that ain't CR imo so
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 July 2014 04:15 (nine years ago) link
my #1 stones right now, and this is subject to change, is "can't you hear me knocking," which is probably my favorite post-'70s stones (except for maybe "happy," which isn't on the list). i do hear it on cr radio. but i don't hear it a lot on cr radio, certainly not as much as some of the tracks mentioned above (except "heartbreaker," which i never hear). so it's not the MOST classic rock of classic rock tracks, but it IS classic rock, and it's the one i like most, and if i were running this cr station, every time a dj wanted to play "it's only rock and roll," i'd run into the booth and make him play "knocking" instead. otherwise, djs would have lots of freedom at my station, but on this particular point, they would not.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 7 July 2014 04:30 (nine years ago) link
Included on my ballot, but probably underrated: That Smell. The backing vocals alone on that are so immense. "You fool you!"
― how's life, Monday, 7 July 2014 11:08 (nine years ago) link
WHISKEY BOTTLE BRAND NEW CAROAK TREE YOU'RE IN MY WAY
that's how you open a song
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 July 2014 15:06 (nine years ago) link
FUCK YES.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 7 July 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
I've been sitting on my ballot since Thursday thinking I might revisit it and switch some stuff around, but I've decided to just ship it. I pulled it together very quickly and I'm sure that I'll regret my picks and order, but what can you do? I definitely gave priority to tracks that I personally like even if they don't fit the Classic Rock format very well, we'll see how that goes...
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Monday, 7 July 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
yeah even second-tier skynyrd is monstrous. you could justify a ROCK BLOCK on the ballot even without "sweet home" and "freebird"
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 7 July 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
How have I never noticed the bongos in "Two Tickets to Paradise" before?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 July 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
And I did! xp
― how's life, Monday, 7 July 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
absolutely xxp
― polyamanita (sleeve), Monday, 7 July 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
Doing the final look-over of my list today before submitting and Skynyrd might be the one band that breaks my no-more-than-three-songs-per-artist rule. And Free Bird isn't even one of the four songs on my short list.
― Sandy, Monday, 7 July 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
green grass and high tides is such a (literal) jam
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 July 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
Just submitted because I figured there's no way I'm gonna have time to hear the ~400 songs I don't know. Narrowed it down to 55 songs that cross the "is great song" and "is classic rock" thresholds. Barely spent time ordering apart from the top five picks, which I felt was in the spirit of radio
― Vinnie, Monday, 7 July 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
haha "spirit of radio"
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 7 July 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
― voodoo chili, Sunday, July 6, 2014 10:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
― cwkiii, Monday, 7 July 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
^^^ Not much of a classic rock radio listener, but I'm pretty sure my local doesn't play this anymore, if they ever did.
― Both jaunty and authentic (Dan Peterson), Monday, 7 July 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
such a weird song. one of the coolest, sleaziest-sounding riffs ZZ Top never wrote, and then homeboy starts singing about having a friend in Jesus.
― some dude, Monday, 7 July 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
Yes. The song itself was simple, when you’re writing a song you keep it simple of course. It wasn’t like a Christian song of praise it was just a simple song. I had to use Christianity because I had to use something. But more important it wasn’t the Jesus part, it was the spirit in the sky. Funny enough… I wanted to die with my boots on.
― how's life, Monday, 7 July 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
^Never knew this!
Haha, was just listening to the Norman Greenbaum album! Unfortunately it has no other death-worshiping drone-rock anthems, but it does have some pleasant singer-songwriter odes to the good country life in a James Taylor/down-south horns mode - "Jubilee," "Junior Cadilac." Actually it's all pretty listenable. "Spirit in the Sky" is top ten classic rock: "Draggin' The Line" gone horribly wrong, optimistic on paper but an Altamont bad trip on record.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 7 July 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
death-worshiping drone-rock anthemsi never thought of it that way, but sure! spirit in the sky was right up there with sultans of swing for radio songs i loved as a kid, like ages 4-6it really is funny realizing how classic rock radio molded my brain at an early age it's kind of embarrassing tbh!
― La Lechera, Monday, 7 July 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
it really is funny realizing how classic rock radio molded my brain at an early age
otm. revisiting all this music has turned out to be deeply spiritual to me in a way I didn't expect.
― guwop (crüt), Monday, 7 July 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
Total death-worship. Jesus gets name-checked but when I diiie is clearly the real attraction here.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 7 July 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
Death is pure love iirc
― how will the milf survive? (Jon Lewis), Monday, 7 July 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
By extension: Death is like Oxygen.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 7 July 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
You get too much, you get too high. Not enough and you're gonna live.
― how will the milf survive? (Jon Lewis), Monday, 7 July 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/qteq21CvDRE/hqdefault.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 7 July 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-classic-rock-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/
Beginning to think ILX is the rest of the internet's lab rat.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Monday, 7 July 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
Fuck "R.E.M. is now classic rock."
― how's life, Monday, 7 July 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
Will be interesting to see how our countdown lines up with those top tracks.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Monday, 7 July 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
“We start from a set of artists and use a lot of complicated math to extrapolate the rest of the universe if those artists are the the center of it,” McDonald said. In order to define a genre, first McDonald has to find out the relationships among different artists. To do that, he relies on a mountain of data that The Echo Nest collects from users and elsewhere. “We have listening histories and machines that go read the web,” he said. “We read charts, we read reviews, we read blog posts, we read news articles, Wikipedia entries, pretty much anything we’re legally allowed to read.”
reading between the lines: your ILX poll votes matter!
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 7 July 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
― how's life, Monday, 7 July 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
lool u know that's an ILX poster being quoted, right?
― polyamanita (sleeve), Monday, 7 July 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
Whoops, didn't notice that. Hi Glenn!
― how's life, Monday, 7 July 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
Oh ha, totally didn't make that connection either!
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 7 July 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
I should have nom'd Zep's take on "Traveling Riverside Blues", since for years the only place you could hear it was during "deep cuts" on classic rock radio
was thinking about that as I consider cutting all Zep except "Hey Hey What Can I Do" for similar reasons
― Euler, Monday, 7 July 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
otm, the thing is I really cannot imagine a classic rock station of any merit not playing "When the Levee Breaks" - but yeah, if it had to be only one, "Hey Hey What Can I Do" would kinda be the right one.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 7 July 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
also how tf did Fairport Convention's "Genesis Hall" make this but T. Rex's "20th Century Boy" get cut
― Euler, Monday, 7 July 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
i was more likely to leave in a song i haven't heard on the radio if the same band didn't also already have other songs that were clearly far more popular.
― some dude, Monday, 7 July 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
Have never heard any T-Rex on CR besides "Bang a Gong" but my status as an expert on this kind of thing has more or less been torn to tatters.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 7 July 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
I've heard "20th Century Boy" occasionally.
― guwop (crüt), Monday, 7 July 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
"20th Century Boy" entered the US consciousness when it was in a Mitsubishi commercial 12-15 years ago.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 July 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
tbh I've never managed to get it straight vs. "21st Century Digital Boy," which I heard probably once, at age 12 or 13, in a parked car at Atlanta's Toco Hills shopping center. Not on Classic Rock Radio.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 7 July 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
xxxpost yes! "hey hey what can I do" is the most Classic Rock Radio zep
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 7 July 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link
agreed, but "The One I Love" is still classic rock canon.
― billstevejim, Monday, 7 July 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
https://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/classicrock_grx_final1.png
Glad to see Seattle gets all Yessed out.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 7 July 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
I left in hey hey what can I do and one other zeppelin song that I consist to be particularly crr.
― how's life, Monday, 7 July 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
I'm pleased to note that I've already received 14 ballots and we're less than 50% through the voting period. I've responded to every e-mail I've gotten, so let me know if you sent one and haven't heard back from me.
― some dude, Monday, 7 July 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
I used to hear "Jeepster" a lot, almost as much as "Bang a Gong." Never heard "20th Century Boy" publicly aired except for that car ad.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 7 July 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
^^^ this needs to be repeated frequently.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 7 July 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
FRANKENSTEIN, ppl
― brimstead, Monday, 7 July 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
and Free Ride.
― how's life, Monday, 7 July 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
AND Slowbird
― brimstead, Monday, 7 July 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
omg slowbird
― some dude, Monday, 7 July 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
Writing in slowbird
― how will the milf survive? (Jon Lewis), Monday, 7 July 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
Danger: slowbird
― La Lechera, Monday, 7 July 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
is there anything more classic rock than being called 'the florida guitar army'
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 July 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link
The master list of songs from the fivethirtyeight article:https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/classic-rock/classic-rock-song-list.csv
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Monday, 7 July 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
Correction (1:23 p.m., July 7, 2014): A previous version of this article misspelled Thin Lizzy.
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 July 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
the classic rock canon sorted by year of release can only be modelled as a bell curve centered on 1975 IMO
― guwop (crüt), Monday, 7 July 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
looks more like 78 tbh
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 July 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
free ride so awesome!!!!
I always get it muddled up in my head with Free's 'All Right Now', just bc of 'free' appearing in both.
'All right now' is one of those trap songs, where you remember it being cool and you dig hearing it after a long time and then you're like OH WAIT THIS SONG GOES FOR 900 YEARS FUCK OFFFFFFFFF
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 July 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
rong
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 July 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
in fact it's exactly opposite
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 July 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
way rong
― guwop (crüt), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
"all right now" is so so hot
― brimstead, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 00:03 (nine years ago) link
"Let's move before they raise the parking rates!"
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
I didn't listen to any classic rock today. I feel like a failure.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
Considering all the babes in classic rock songs, for some reason I feel the one in "All Right Now" to be the hottest.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
I have no grounds for this.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
I actually go through huge oscillations with "All Right Now" - sometimes I'm so stoked and sometimes I'm super bored; this can probably be tracked inversely based on how much I'm in the mood for "Free Ride" and/or "Slow Ride."
It's definitely on the ballot but it might be a coin-toss whether it's in the top 30 or the bottom...
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
i was luke-warm on 'all right now' until a stretch in the mid-90s when i became invincible at pool when it was playing in a particular anchorage bar
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link
i'm really into the 'favorite classic rock album' category, Rumours, at least half those songs are deserved staples. and the first led zeppelin album, i want to believe that DJs just played the whole thing uninterrupted
― brimstead, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 01:15 (nine years ago) link
my dad was a bit of a jazzbo -- he saw coltrane in '63 -- and otherwise into classical, such that i attended the symphony as a kid (tympani rule iirc) and have vivid memories of listening to shostakovich while playing yahtzee
so he didn't really get into classic rock until i did, which happened because school + pittsburgh. at some point he heard something on the radio that he liked and called the station to find out what it was, and wdve's herschel told him, with no condescension, that it was 'sympathy for the devil'
i think his first CR album was 'get yer ya-ya's out' on cassette, but ultimately ac/dc became his favorite. he appreciates absurd over-the-top lyrics. pretty sure he heard 'thunderstruck' before i did
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 02:14 (nine years ago) link
i love that
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 02:23 (nine years ago) link
tympani rule iirc
hell yeah. tympani are basically the classic rock section of an orchestra.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 02:54 (nine years ago) link
Not huge into Allmans but I would've considered "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" for a write-in.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 04:18 (nine years ago) link
I love that your story involves Herschel! Herschel was awesome!
― Sandy, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 04:19 (nine years ago) link
all of you who think Ride Like The Wind doesn't belong on your lists are wrong
― g simmel, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 04:45 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0HzWMqLeiE&feature=kp
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 05:01 (nine years ago) link
just cooked up some early polling data to help gr80 get started on the graphics and wow u early voters have great taste
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
The parts where the arrangement blows up and the backing vox go BA DA DA DUP! DUP DUP DUP DUUUUP! And cross goes RIIIIDE! make me feel super insane. Those bits really feel like he is being driven before a cavalry of demons.
― how will the milf survive? (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
xp I'm just glad I'm finally being recognized for it
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
It's funny xp, I was reading the backstory where he had the idea of a man on the run, then dropped acid and sat down and wrote it, and I was all 'pah this is no acid song, it's hardly the Green Manalishi'. But you make a convincing case.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
Whoa, that is pretty good. never heard this before. dismissed christopher cross out of hand during my pre-ballot listening. I think I might have confused him with someone else.
― how's life, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
No, you didn't. Ride Like the Wind is kind of an anomaly.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
yeah, lol, listening to Sailing right now.
― how's life, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
What is that classic rock song that references Sgt Pepper's Band playing? is that Spinning Wheel? Man I hate that song so much.Didn't realize how much I liked that Boz Scaggs track, Lido Shuffle.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
'High on PCP, Cross claimed he felt the oppressive weight of moving to New York was crushing him, and his only escape was to stand on his rooftop, with the full moon beckoning him ever closer to the precipitous edge. As he was coming down he took to the piano to write what would ultimately romantic ballad rather than the intense psych voyage he had believed he was working on.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
"Summer Rain," Johnny Rivers?
― Riot In #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
He wrote it on acid? Good to know!
Green manalishi into RLTW is a good covers medley idea
― how will the milf survive? (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
Oh pcp lol xpost
Ride Like The Wind has a cool mini-epic intensity, only partially deflated by my being unable to picture it without the SCTV clip as posted above, god that shit is hilarious. I also totally rep for Sailing, different kinda song but man: Just a dream of wind to CARRY me!, never before has a bourgeois leisure activity been rendered so transcendent. TBH I don't hear either of them as "classic rock" at all, either sonically or in terms of airplay.
Wow, I always forget "Summer Rain" exists, yeah, that's a little...much. Nice atmosphere in the verses, knockoff Mamas & the Papas sixties emo thing, but Johnny Rivers has a unique knack for overdoing it on every damned recording. His "Memphis" is a travesty, "Secret Agent Man" is at best okay-ish but would still be way better with almost anybody singing on it.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
my childhood marked by the unfortunate mishearing of SE-CRET ASIAN MAN!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
Johnny Rivers, in at #3 with his emotive tribute to the pointless, awful yellowface digression in You Only Live Twice.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
Thanks Riot. Summer Rain-that's it. Which is not terrible. Somehow I conflated that in my mind with the BS&T song, and they share nothing in common. Spinning Wheel is like clown paintings to me, completely disturbing.
Speaking of disturbing, my first write-in is Lyin' Eyes by The Eagles.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
When I'm singing to myself I always do a segue from Ride Like The Wind into Ain't No Mountain High Enough, the Inner Life disco classic version. I think hearing that for real would be amazing.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
some dude, save the current list for after poll reference cause i'm intrigued.
Cross into Inner Life is an amazing idea!
― g simmel, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
sure. I'm curious what will change from here, because right now some really huge and uncontroversially well regarded songs are out in the cold. Make NO assumptions about anything being "safe."
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
Wouldn't count anything out yet IMO - lot of us ballot-agonizers still in play here, plus the inevitable rush in the last day or two of any such poll.
Oddly, the second GIS result for "silent majority rock" is the sleeve for "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me"
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
How many ballots in so far?
― Jeff, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
Whatever I said yesterday, 14? Still that.
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
I don't think I had heard "Ride Like the Wind" before last week (via the spotify playlist), my lord what a silly fun song. Cross' voice is just ridiculous to me, for some reason (in a good way). one of the hardest i've ever laughed was when i heard "sailing" for the first time. When that first chorus came on, i just completely lost it.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
Just submtitted my ballot - I voted an almost entirely sentimental ticket. Some of my votes surprised me - I didn't expect to see 2 Eddie Moneys or any Foreigners at all, but I listened to my heart.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
Got foreigner's best of off my boss yesterday. Psyched.
― Neil Sekada (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
My first cut got me down to 331. I had no idea how much I loved Urgent by Foreigner, but that song rips.Wrote in 'Shadows of the Night' over 'Love is a Battlefield'.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
I had no idea how much I loved Urgent by Foreigner, but that song rips.
YES, IT DOES
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
wow, there's going to be a lot of Foreigner in the countdown, isn't there?
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
If you want to feel really super gross, sing a Foreigner song at a karaoke bar.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
I voted for two Foreigner songs, but I don't feel like any one Foreigner song has an edge on all the others as far as voting goes. Every one nominated might make it in.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
I sure hope not, indefensible band imo
― polyamanita (sleeve), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
^^^ otm
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Your face is indefensible! >:P
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Do any of the bands here feature a member who wears a badass eyepatch besides Kansas?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show not here?
― Riot In #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
Got foreigner's best of off my boss yesterday. Psyched.― Neil Sekada (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, July 8, 2014 4:17 PM (1 hour ago)
― Neil Sekada (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, July 8, 2014 4:17 PM (1 hour ago)
― Riot In #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
I'd thought about nomming "The Cover of Rolling Stone," but forgot. I see they had a fella with an eyepatch, though!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
"Syviia's Mother" by the same band and songwriter is good too.
― Riot In #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
"Sylvia's Mother" even
to them what been at $2 draft nights at Paddy o Furnitures with Schmucky and Fuckface from Assholes in the AM on WSUX…you guys have been going great guns on this shit for weeks when I can only intermittently join in…but I wanted to mention this…
My wife and I drove to and from Louisville Ky/NYC in the past five days. She grew up in Albany, late 80s/early 90s, and is puzzled when I get so upset listening to CR radio, and so when she was tired of listening to Richard Thompson/ Roxy Music/ St Vincent or KP's "Birthday," "fancy" "Tre Songz "Na Na," or many many songs referencing trucks on the country stations, I thought of you guys, bit the bullet and agreed to check in on "central Pa's best rock station." PENNSYLVANIA NEVER FUCKING ENDS, btw.
1. per the 5/38 article, Poison's "Something to Believe In" (I.e."we care about the homeless and Viet Nam vets, not just Sunset strip skanks") makes the cut on that station. I chalk this up to awareness of Poison's origins in the state.
2. I never heard Lynnyrd Skynnyrd's "You got that Right" in my entire life until this trip. Thought it was Blackfoot or some shit until she shazamed it.
3. also per 5/38, Bush's "Comedown" and Candlebox's "far behind," two of the songs I disliked the most in the mid 90s, make the cut. advertisers in C PA want listeners, dads I guess, who remember that fare fondly. If there is no Nickleback, there will be soon. No way will any of those be played on the present WXAQ in NYC, the most infuriating station I've ever encountered.
4. marginally refreshing to drive into Columbus, a big college town, and my own hometown Louisville, a burgeoning town that beardo parents have come to be attracted to, and to hear "new Rock" stations. this tends to mean LOTS AND LOTS OF BLACK KEYS (obv, there's some Ohio pride re: Columbus and the Keys), some Vampire Weekend, 90s bubblegrunge like Third Eye Blind, and Pearl Jam, of course. No paramore or Lana Del Rey, tho. that's pop shit, apparently.
still, listening to pop/r&b/hip-hop of 2014 was satisfying if repetitive…although the song where the guy is taunting his future father in law is annoying…good conceit for a tune, tho.
ultimately, as the 5/38 article sez, classic rock is mutable. Metallica, RHCP, Nirvana, U2, PJ, STP, REM, Green Day are CR now. In context, any of those feeding into "rocky Mountain Way" or "Have a Cigar" or "cocaine" or "Train in Vain" becomes deeply deeply irritating. On the initial thread, I said something like CR is the sound of the overclass, which someone rightly ridiculed me for going all adorno or some shit. but what I meant was that rock tunes are robbed of potency when part of a deeply stultifying canon. It's the status quo (yeah yeah, down down down, etc etc). it's boring as fuck. if its becomes classic rock, then it sucks.
oddly, very end of the trip, Carol Miller or some leathery DJ lady was hosting "get the led out" for Bonzo's birthday. Showcasing his funk/r&b chops: Purdie shuffle on "Fool in the Rain," Clyde Stubblefield vai "the Crunge," the Meters via the presence tunes. The drummer from Clutch talked about how those tunes made him want to learn about african american drummers, who listeners will never ever hear on CR (Purdie is on S. Dan tunes, tho).
― veronica moser, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 00:44 (nine years ago) link
Listening to the youtubes on Dr Casino's thread has made me realize I need to listen to every. damn. nom. because there's tons of shit I didn't know I knew (and love), so voting by memory/title is not gonna work.
shitshitshit.
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 02:23 (nine years ago) link
Will write in for "Fox on the Run," FWIW.
'sylvia's mother' is cool but feels like it's never going to end, the angst is so overcooked
but i love dr hook
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 02:30 (nine years ago) link
Jesus, the video for "Fantasy" is str8 bonkers: bit.ly/1pYpaie
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 02:56 (nine years ago) link
Did Alllman Bros 'Blue Sky' not make it? Gonna write in for that one and hope everyone else does too!
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 04:11 (nine years ago) link
Somewhere in western PA there is still a solid, honest-to-god oldies station that plays legit 50s greats, like Clarence Frogman Henry and I don't know what. I may have hallucinated this while moving from Columbus to New York, driving a U-Haul through a torrential rainstorm, my second time behind the wheel in seven years, but I swear it's there. Or was, this was two years ago.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 04:16 (nine years ago) link
There was a shortlived 50's/60's station in Sac for abt 5 years from 2000 to 2006. Turned into a country station. And my oldies station turned into AOR, and they don't even do "Saturday at the Seventies" anymore which was my housecleaning music :(I miss the 50's station the most
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 04:33 (nine years ago) link
I've rambled about this before, but Atlanta's fifties station (Oldies Lake 102) was so crucial to my musical upbringing. My mom didn't have a big record collection but she had a great memory for and love of music she'd heard throughout her life, and would get so excited when songs came on, sometimes things she hadn't heard in thirty years. It wasn't even that they played crazy obscurities constantly, I'm sure most of it was general purpose oldies, but it was such nice music to hear driving around in a Ford Aerostar, running errands in the suburbs.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 04:40 (nine years ago) link
ultimately, as the 5/38 article sez, classic rock is mutable. Metallica, RHCP, Nirvana, U2, PJ, STP, REM, Green Day are CR now
also mutable in the sense that -- as we have learned throughout this thread -- classic rock in central pennsylvana is not the same as classic rock in central tennessee, which is not the same as classic rock in central arizona. in los angeles, as i think i mentioned somewhere uptread, kings of leon are classic rock now. as time continues to collapse on itself, i can imagine classic rock stations someday breaking bands that "new rock" stations won't touch. "straight to classic rock" can be the new "straight to video."
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 05:15 (nine years ago) link
Not that the poll needs more CCR but I'm kinda thinking about switching up my token vote to a write-in for Up Around The Bend. Maybe not their 'best' song, but the one of their classic rock standbys that I hear the least, am least worn out on, and would be most likely to actually turn up the radio on. It's been a long time since I could hear the freshness of "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" or the real fire in "Fortunate Son."
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 05:27 (nine years ago) link
You aren't hallucinating about that Western Pennsylvania station, and I'm pretty sure it still exists, out around Jeannette or Greensburg (about an hour east of Pittsburgh). Heavy on the deep R'n'B 50s stuff like Huey "Piano" Smith.
― Sandy, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 05:55 (nine years ago) link
Up Around the Bend is one of my fave CCR songs, I love the riff
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 06:36 (nine years ago) link
Didn't realize how much I liked that Boz Scaggs track, Lido Shuffle.
― campreverb
Lido Shuffle is THE BEST.
― Sandy, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 07:13 (nine years ago) link
^^A bit awkward to do on karaoke tho (I ended up singing along to the synth solo)
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 08:17 (nine years ago) link
i've enjoyed "Lido Shuffle" for years without knowing what it was called or who it was by (i think i vaguely thought it might be Van Morrison) and finally looked it up just before the poll started when it was on an episode of Halt And Catch Fire. definitely voting for it.
― some dude, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 11:04 (nine years ago) link
Probably because it was sung by Steve Gaines, not Ronnie Van Zant. Great, great fucking song.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
Want to put a quick word in for "Life's Been Good," sure it's interminable but it's also legitimately funny.
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 13:58 (nine years ago) link
A bit awkward to do on karaoke tho (I ended up singing along to the synth solo)
I've been wanting to do this in karaoke for years! It's #2 on my ballot.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:05 (nine years ago) link
It's fun to do at karaoke! Agreed, you kinda have to fill some time with the solo but that goes for many things. When I did it, the karaoke guy was like "oh, THAT song!" It may get that reaction more than any other song.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
keyboard solo = drink time!
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:13 (nine years ago) link
xxpost Bill Magill: there's an alternate version of 'You Got That Right' on the 2001 re-release of Street Survivors that is even better than the original imo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
will be high on my ballot.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
we'll all be high, maaaan
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
Had "Life's Been Good" in earlier shortlists but it fell off back when I was stuck around 160. It's good, but I associate the long synth (mouth harp?) break with this one time when I was 17 and feeling really carsick after eating these bad airline yogurt-covered pretzels, while this song played for seemingly hours. On the same road trip, "Whole Lotta Love" came rushing back in from the jam right as we were cresting a ridge and descending with the power and grace of long-gone automobiles into some Oregon coastal town. It will be on my ballot.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
I didn't vote it, and maybe should have, but "I can't complain/But sometimes I still do" is possibly the greatest lyric ever written.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
There was a single/radio edit of "Life's Been Good" that cut out at least half of the synth break and all of the guitar solo; made the song much more effective.
Also, fun fact: the synth used on that song was a gift to Joe Walsh from Pete Townshend. Joe had given Pete the Gretsch guitar that Pete used on Who's Next and every Who and solo record thereafter, so Pete gave Joe an ARP.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
sometimes i feel
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
redefine everyday
― how's life, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
good lord i feel like i'm dyin
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
I can't think of any lengthy classic rock staple that I prefer as the single edit. Lotta 6-to-8 minute tracks on my ballot.
― some dude, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
I used to prefer the edit of Don't Fear the Reaper without the extended solo in the middle, but then I realized I was being a fool.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
One would qualify for me (classic-rock bubblegum, but it does get played on Q-107 here): the "Crimson and Clover" edit. I remember how disorienting is was when I heard the full version for the first time--seemed altogether wrong.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
xp: me too. The solo is very jarring though, so I don't really blame myself. Just glad I've come around.
― how's life, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
― mookieproof, Wednesday, July 9, 2014 3:28 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I love that song so much. I love the Allman Brothers. I also wrote in Blue Sky, and you all should, too.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
On the same road trip, "Whole Lotta Love" came rushing back in from the jam right as we were cresting a ridge and descending with the power and grace of long-gone automobiles into some Oregon coastal town. It will be on my ballot.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, July 9, 2014 2:32 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I had a very similar moment to Blue Sky, driving somewhere in eastern Pennsylvania, just the right amount of stoned, cresting a ridge on a beautiful autumn day right as the chorus to Blue Sky kicked in. It is one of my life's sparkling moments.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
might be your man, I don't know
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 16:04 (nine years ago) link
So many great Duane-era Allman tracks. I limited myself on my ballot to two songs per artist, and I chose Jessica and Statesboro Blues. I haven't submitted yet, so I might switch out Jessica for Blue Sky. It'll come down to Chuck Leavell's piano solo on Jessica vs. Dickie Betts' guitar solo on Blue Sky.
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
break the rules and vote both imo
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
I understand about indecision
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
Midnight Rider IMO
― guwop (crüt), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
xxxp yeah but that would mean cutting something else that I love.
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
crut OTM in my heart tho I don't feel like I ever hear midnight rider on the tadio
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
speaking of: "i'm no angel" may not make my 100 but damn
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, July 9, 2014 1:07 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I heard a rock block on CR of "Elizabeth Reed", "Leave MY Blues at Home" (which was shocking) and "Nobody to Run With". Surprising choices, but deeply satisfying.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
Elizabeth Reed is my favorite (the live version), but the classic rock stations I listen to usually don't go for 14-minute jazz influenced instrumentals. I prefer the live versions of almost all Duane-era Allman tracks.
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
once or twice long ago i remember hearing 'don't want you no more/not my cross to bear' on the radio <3
gregg's yell just after the segue is one of the better examples of the genre imo
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
sent!
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, July 9, 2014 1:39 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It was the studio version. I assume you mean the Fillmore version. That is a mindblowing performance.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
It'll come down to Chuck Leavell's piano solo on Jessica vs. Dickie Betts' guitar solo on Blue Sky.
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, July 9, 2014 12:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think both Duane and Dickey trade solos here, and they are pretty tough to tell apart. Duanes second to last song on wax, the last being the sublime "Little Martha".
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
I think Duane takes the first solo, and Dickey takes the final solo.
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
both end too soon. wish that song was 20 minutes long.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
VOTED. And thank you WilliamC for the ranking suggestions, it made it actually doable.
Write-ins that made my final cut: "Mr. Blue Sky," "Blue Sky," "Amie," and UFO "Too Hot to Handle."
And in the spirit of CRR, lots of two-fers, and 8 bands got ROCK BLOCKS.
― Sandy, Thursday, 10 July 2014 04:33 (nine years ago) link
in the wild: after seven innings of classic modern rock on the fenway park p.a. at tonight's red sox game (matthew sweet, they might be giants, living colour, etc.), the fenway dj switched to "stairway to heaven" when the previously sleepy red sox started rallying in the eighth inning. the red sox went on to complete a miraculous comeback in the ninth (with further assistance from dropkick murphys, who might as well be classic rock as far as boston is concerned). "stairway to heaven" potentially moving up my ballot as a result.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 10 July 2014 05:54 (nine years ago) link
Ugh, how did I miss the two Uriah Heep tracks in the noms list?
― how's life, Thursday, 10 July 2014 09:17 (nine years ago) link
Just voted! Also did a worst poll and albums poll.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 10 July 2014 13:33 (nine years ago) link
participation has been very high for the subpolls, which is great
― some dude, Thursday, 10 July 2014 13:49 (nine years ago) link
I didn't feel like it at the time, but I should probably throw together a quick albums ballot.
― how's life, Thursday, 10 July 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
I'm kind of burned out on classic rock. Only 369 more songs to review.
― Jeff, Thursday, 10 July 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
yeah feel free to submit subpoll ballots later if you've already sent in the main tracks ballot btw
― some dude, Thursday, 10 July 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
I don't think I can bring myself to vote for any songs as the worst. Even "American Pie."
― guwop (crüt), Thursday, 10 July 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
Worst tracks is where I wish I had a 50 song ballot. Got a lotta hate to purge.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Thursday, 10 July 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
Oh yea, I coulda gone forever with that one.
― how's life, Thursday, 10 July 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
Even "American Pie."
Does this mean I can double-vote for it?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 10 July 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
the songs i chose for my most hated are the 10 that overwhelm me with the desire to flee with the most intensitylike, i'm generally a very peaceful person, and these are 10 of the songs that make me wonder if i am secretly a monster
― La Lechera, Thursday, 10 July 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
My number one worst is like that. People like it & the artist a lot and listening to it makes me want to scream. I put it on before I submitted my votes to be sure and I think I made it through 20 seconds.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 10 July 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
glad to know everyone hates margaritaville as much as i do
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 10 July 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
which to be fair i've never heard on crr but it plays forever athttp://www.wetreatkidsbetter.org/wp-content/uploads/islands-logo-350.jpg
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 10 July 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
I think I've concluded that all the space in Atlanta's playlists that was not taken up with rockers from Detroit and Delaware was instead given over, not to southern rock proper (as this might have overpowered all the Yankee transplants from the 60s and 70s), but to Jimmy Buffett. Margaritaville is not my favorite but I'm tempted to keep it in my 100 as a token of the fondness I have for his golden age.
For some reason I got mixed up and thought we only had five worst tracks, so I am stoked to luxuriate in the full 10, although yes, I could certainly go on longer. Though there is honestly a big gap in this format, down from "just drives me up a wall" to "boring and heard it too many times."
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 10 July 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
Already regretting cutting Piano Man from my worst songs ballot. Please vote for Piano Man everybody else! It's the worst.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 10 July 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
I'm a Joel fan so that won't happen, but certainly of his noms here it's the one I have the least need to ever, ever hear again. "Captain Jack," against all odds, has grown on me, though that requires pretending not to hear some of the most groan-inducing attempts at crowd-pleasers.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 10 July 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
"Movin' Out" is kinda essential though, juuuust enough oomph to qualify for the format and the setting/plot is soooo classic rock. Hackensack!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 10 July 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
ack ack ack ack ack ack
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 10 July 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
http://www.digitalstormonline.com/forums/uploads/117/billponder.gif
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 10 July 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
"Movin' Out" is definitely, to me, Joel's most AOR hit, the one that real classic rock heads are big on that wasn't an MTV or pop radio staple.
― some dude, Thursday, 10 July 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
"Captain Jack" and "Miami" definitely in that zone too though
― some dude, Thursday, 10 July 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Both arguably more rockin' (or at least swarthier), but only in their live versions - the studio editions of both are wannabes.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 10 July 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
"Only the Good Die Young" is arguably more a pop song than a CR song, but I'm voting for it anyway because it's awesome. (And they definitely used to play it on my hometown CR station.)
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 10 July 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
It's also in line with the CR mandate that songs be about either existential angst or trying to get laid.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 10 July 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
Or ~the road~.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 10 July 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
Only the Good Die Young is great, Piano Man is rancid
― g simmel, Thursday, 10 July 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
xp That qualifies as existential angst AND trying to get laid
― Vinnie, Thursday, 10 July 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
the road to existential angst
aka, "Slow Ride"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 10 July 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
Movin' Out was on my tracks list and Piano Man is going on my most hated, so I got y'alls backs
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Thursday, 10 July 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
Every time Slow Ride comes up it just takes over my brain and blots out everything else. SLOW RIDE!
I also love how nobody involved seems to be "taking it easy" in any way.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 10 July 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
― some dude, Thursday, July 10, 2014 1:49 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
using this logic to winnow down Elton John (who's already had his own poll anyway) to, probably, "Levon" and "Funeral For A Friend." "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" is rockin' enough I reckon, but...
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 10 July 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
"Levon" is def prime AOR Elton imo although "Funeral" has the virtue of being the long album cut championed by rock radio.
actually, what was i saying the other day about how i like all the really long 8+ minute rock staples and wouldn't want a single edit? i kinda hate "Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding."
― some dude, Thursday, 10 July 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
you are wrong though
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 10 July 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
Finished! 4 Write-Ins: Pat Benatar-Shadows of the Night, Jackson Browne-Boulevard, The Eagles – Lyin Eyes, & Heart-Nothin At All.Top CR Album: Toys In The AtticMy eternal hatred top 5: Blood Sweat & Tears-Spinning Wheel, Jethro Tull-Aqualung, Eric Clapton-I Shot the Sheriff, Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky, The Moody Blues-I'm Just A Singer In A Rock And Roll Band
― campreverb, Thursday, 10 July 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
though i lived in new york long enough to know billy joel as a classic rock artist, and though i love billy very much and am eagerly counting the days until his own poll comes up, it's hard for me to actually think of him as classic rock. that just seems weird to me. "that was 'slow ride.' coming up next, 'piano man.'" uh, no. filling out a 50-song billy ballot will be easy, finding one of those songs to go here ... not sure i can do it. don't ask me why.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
but elton "funeral for a friend/love lies bleeding," absofuckinglutely yes.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
cr radio should dig up billy joel's "roberta," though. that could kinda sorta work!
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
Piano man has been cr radio fodder in every city I've inhabited.
― Neil Sekada (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
up to 22 ballots now!
― some dude, Thursday, 10 July 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
5 more days.
― how's life, Thursday, 10 July 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
campreverb thank you! I forgot all about Eye In The Sky while making my shitlist. that one NEEDS to be there
― g simmel, Thursday, 10 July 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
http://rapgenius.com/2931539/Future-move-that-dope/Theres-an-eye-in-the-sky-im-tryna-let-yall-know
― some dude, Thursday, 10 July 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
Eye in the Sky made my top ten because it was the first song that ever BLEW MY MIND.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 11 July 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
The story behind the first Boston album, wow! Sneaking around the record company's back to re-create your demo tape instead of recording in a "pro" studio. someone should do a 33 1/3 book on it.
― brimstead, Friday, 11 July 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
i looooove eye in the skyso creepy
― La Lechera, Friday, 11 July 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
yeah the Boston album is such an odd phenomenon for its era. a nerd at MIT makes an incredible bedroom pop record with songs like "Rock And Roll Band" that create a false bar band mythology, it sells bazillions and become synonymous with corporate rock.
― some dude, Friday, 11 July 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link
Everybody remember to write in Junior's Farm#9 DreamAmiePhotograph (Ringo Starr)Shambala (3 Dog Night)Mr. Blue Sky (ELO)!!!!!!!
Your ballot is a thumb in The Man's eye!
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 00:55 (nine years ago) link
Take that, The Man!!!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 July 2014 01:05 (nine years ago) link
Voted. My Worst Songs list is a thumb in everyone's eye.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 01:12 (nine years ago) link
Is "American Pie" on it?
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 July 2014 01:12 (nine years ago) link
nope
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 01:21 (nine years ago) link
Eye in the sky is like the most politely sung song in history. Only if Kermit's nephew robin sang it could it be more polite. This of course enhances its creepiness.
― Neil Sekada (Jon Lewis), Friday, 11 July 2014 01:21 (nine years ago) link
Shit. Shit. Okay. If "Shambala" write-in campaign is happening I might need to make room for it. I mean in the last year it has become one of my favorite songs period. But...but...am I being true to my life experience, in that I don't think I ever heard it at all before two years ago, and certainly not on the radio? Augh.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 July 2014 04:54 (nine years ago) link
Buhhhh. Just dunno. Is it "classic rock"? It sure should have been.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 July 2014 04:55 (nine years ago) link
My experience with "Shambala" is hearing it a lot on classic rock radio in the 90s when I lived in N. Alabama, and then later when I moved to Nashville. Maybe its appeal really is confined to a specific region, but I have no qualms writing it in based on real world experience with it.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 July 2014 04:59 (nine years ago) link
never heard this song in my life. can only think of three dog night as a novelty band though once again there's a Russ Ballard/Argent connection
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 11 July 2014 05:19 (nine years ago) link
Three Dog Night are great. They picked really good material and performed it enthusiastically, if not always with great subtlety. Having three lead vocalists came in handy sometimes. They also tended to go for a soft-verse, loud-chorus thing which has probably orphaned them on radio more than their megahit status (twenty-one top forty songs! hardly a novelty act!) would have anticipated: the loud parts are considerably throatier and more raucous than the easy AM gold verses. In 1971 that all kinda fit together in the woolly rock landscape but I feel like those things diverged a lot more later on. The choruses of Shambala, Never Been To Spain, Joy to the World, Eli's Coming, Liar and Mama Told Me Not To Come are all in that kinda scratchy, textured, yellowing-photos campfire Woodstock mode that I think is a key part of the Classic Rock matrix. Admittedly some other stuff hasn't dated as well and there is something about them that doesn't really suggest they are actually a 'rock and roll band' in any way, but ehh, I'll take my groovy positive-vibed singalongs where I can find them.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 July 2014 05:40 (nine years ago) link
it felt so good to put billy squier & eric clapton's names on my most hated list
NAME & SHAME
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 July 2014 05:47 (nine years ago) link
just for that i'm moving "lonely is the night" up 10 spots
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 11 July 2014 05:50 (nine years ago) link
but billy squier is awesome
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 July 2014 05:51 (nine years ago) link
yes but Stroke is a turd
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 July 2014 05:55 (nine years ago) link
oh. yeah. if it's "the stroke" we're talking about here do what you gotta do.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 11 July 2014 05:57 (nine years ago) link
i hate that song with the force pf a thousand suns
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 July 2014 06:01 (nine years ago) link
you disgust me
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 11 July 2014 06:28 (nine years ago) link
re: Three Dog Night, not crazy about them, but voted Mama Told Me Not To Come in my top 100, because it gave me a back door way to vote for Randy Newman, and also TDN gave us one of the BEST Behind The Music's ever.
― campreverb, Friday, 11 July 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
i wrote about "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)" this week for the boomer paper of record! http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/20-biggest-songs-of-the-summer-the-1970s-20140709
that list a good example of how different the pop charts were in the '70s from what became the classic rock canon, though.
― some dude, Friday, 11 July 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
I think Clapton will feature pretty heavily on most hated lists. And his least favorite song of mine is not even eligible for this poll
― Vinnie, Friday, 11 July 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
though i am not much of a clapton fan, and though i thought the film "august osage county" was about as bad a film as has ever been made, the usage of "lay down sally" in the film got me to like it quite a bit. it's a realy nice laid-back groove.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 11 July 2014 13:36 (nine years ago) link
no boomer's rep has dropped more drastically than Clapton's. VH1 did two 'greatest artists of all time' lists a decade a part, and Clapton went from #15 to not mentioned at all: artists that were on VH1's 1998 "Greatest Artists of All Time" list but not the 2010 list
― some dude, Friday, 11 July 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
You're far more likely to hear "Shambala" on an AM oldies station than on an FM classic-rock station. (I voted for it anyway.) I think Q-107 here generally sticks to "Mama Told Me Not to Come," "Easy to Be Hard," or "One"...um, early Dog, before they really became a full-fledged Top 40 band with "Joy to the World." If you've never heard B.W. Stevenson's countryish "Shambala," released a week before Three Dog Night's and not nearly as big a hit, it's excellent too.
youtube.com/watch?v=EyOqUX4eUpo
― clemenza, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
you guys i have news:i loathe "shambala" and would only write-in for most hated (but only if there were like 50 spots on the most hated ballot, not otherwise because fortunately i never have to hear it)
― La Lechera, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
Shot through the heart, and you're to blame.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
Ouch.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
I gave it a write-in spot as thanks for the write-in support I'd gotten upthread. Checked my ballot, found a song that I dug less than "Shambala," made the switch. Sorry, Nick Gilder!
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
2014 is a rough time to be a lover of Three Dog Night, I suppose. And that's what I am. I can't think of any other 20-track compilation besides The Best of 3 Dog Night where I love love love each of the 20 tracks.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
i'm sorrythey are just too cheesy for me! i can't take it now any more than i could take it when i was a kid. it's just not how i like things to sound. it hasn't repulsed me + my sensibilities in the way the eagles (or jimmy buffett) have, so it's not like i run around hating it actively. blame my heart of stone.
― La Lechera, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
I've just passed a band of buskers playing Abracadabra. This is taking over my life.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 11 July 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
P. sure I've never heard "Shambala". I think I heard "Joy to the World" in a doctor's office once?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
I always feel like I'm the biggest Clapton defender on ILM and I'm not even that big of a fan.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
I just recently realized how great of a song "Joy to the World" is after being unfairly prejudiced against it as a result of a childhood in which kids sang the opening lines on the schoolbus on what seemed like a fairly regular basis. I didn't know what song they were singing and when I finally heard it I was like "oh, fuck this song forever", but I've since come around and it will be pretty high on my ballot.
― cwkiii, Friday, 11 July 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
"joy to the world" is redeemed because it's cute for kids and esl students who are game for singing
― La Lechera, Friday, 11 July 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
also three dog night is an ok band name
― La Lechera, Friday, 11 July 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
Joy to the World is going on my 10 worst
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:16 (nine years ago) link
it's pretty bad
― La Lechera, Friday, 11 July 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
I like Shambala (wordless choruses are the BEST), and appreciate the campaign. I'm not sure if it's classic ROCK enough to vote it ahead of Mama though; I voted Start Me Up over Paint It Black by the same reasoning. I'd probably vote Old Fashioned, Shambala and Mama in a TDN poll.
Joy To The World I'm more conflicted about, the song starts with that great vocal and riff, and I think underrated, then chorus comes on and I think, not so fast. And then there's a key change, which almost always annoys me.
― campreverb, Friday, 11 July 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
"Eye In The Sky" and "I Can See For Miles" are basically about the same thing, right?
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
you're gonna lose that smile becausethe sun in your eyes makes some of your lies worth believing
― La Lechera, Friday, 11 July 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
?
i like it!
agreed on the similarities with I Can See For Miles, but that points out what I find most distasteful in Eye In The Sky-its MORness. but that's kind of the great thing about this poll, is multiple songs have a good chance of appearing in both the best and worst top 10.
― campreverb, Friday, 11 July 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
"Eye In The Sky" is #101 for me. I want to vote for it but I just can't make room.
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 11 July 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
or maybe...
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 11 July 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
ballot sent. phew.
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 11 July 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
You're far more likely to hear "Shambala" on an AM oldies station than on an FM classic-rock station. (I voted for it anyway.) I think Q-107 here generally sticks to "Mama Told Me Not to Come," "Easy to Be Hard," or "One"...um, early Dog, before they really became a full-fledged Top 40 band with "Joy to the World." If you've never heard B.W. Stevenson's countryish "Shambala," released a week before Three Dog Night's and not nearly as big a hit, it's excellent too.youtube.com/watch?v=EyOqUX4eUpo― clemenza, Friday, July 11, 2014 11:17 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― clemenza, Friday, July 11, 2014 11:17 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Seems clear that "Mama Told Me Not To Come," "One" and "Joy To The World" have boiled down as their signature songs, kinda funny given how many hits they really did have. "Black and White," one of their #1s, is almost never heard on any format at this point.
re: Stevenson - may be old hat for folks here, but his "My Maria" is incredible. Decades later it was a moderate hit for Brooks & Dunn, but Stevenson's is wild, joyous, transcenddentally jangly, and wow those backing vocals. One of the best country-rock songs I know.
re: Nick Gilder, "Hot Child In The City" is soooo fucking good but IMO not even borderline CR, whereas at least the Dog have a certain hoarse, earnest barnstorming quality that slots them right into the format IMO.
re: "Joy to the World," it's wonderful! Also was sorta biased against it by childhood (more sunday school than school bus) but mannnn. Those guys fucking sell that joyfulness, man! The imagery of bullfrogs and fishes is very vacation-bible-school but it's also very granola-commune, dirt between the toenails hippie stuff. Love the fuzzed-out arrangement too, and the key change around two minutes in, an easy trick but it does raise the joy level and then they just retreat back to normal for the rest, endless trucker key changes for these down-home guys.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 July 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
The imagery of bullfrogs and fishes is very vacation-bible-school but it's also very granola-commune, dirt between the toenails hippie stuff.
you may have landed on 2 well-defined reasons why I hate it so much
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Friday, 11 July 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
hahaha yeah that's more a "they belong in CR" claim versus a "they are good" claim
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 July 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
My first exposure to The Three Dog Night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxyu4gGfC6o
Still think "One" is meh, but "Mama Told Me" is pretty great (and used perfectly, if obviously, in Boogie Nights). The drums kicking the chorus into gear is a high point of early 70s session hackery.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 11 July 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
One reminds me of Sesame Street.
― Jeff, Friday, 11 July 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
Prefer both Nilsson and Aimee Mann versions of "One" even though the TGN version is the famous one.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Friday, 11 July 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
I was in high school in the 70s and Three Dog Night were considered soooooo uncool, like the only people I knew who liked them were backwards girls who still had Bobby Sherman posters in their bedrooms.
I like Eli's Coming, tho.
I saw them at a huge stadium show in Pittsburgh in 1972 or 1973. My cousin and I went only because OPENING ACT LEON RUSSELL. We left after about the second Three Dog Night song, we had reputations to maintain.
― Sandy, Friday, 11 July 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
Love that commercial calling them "The Three Dog Night." It did remind me of "Out in the Country," another key link back to definitely legitimate forms of late 60s/early 70s rock. I will concede that "The Show Must Go On" is dire.
Leon Russell has been ill-served by classic rock, as I discovered when I got his greatest hits off a friend (see thread). "Tight Rope" is good, and his biggest hit, but definitely not his best. Keep waffling on including it in my 100 as a token representing his whole branch of the CR family tree.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 July 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
backwards girls who still had Bobby Sherman posters in their bedrooms
^^^ possible future doctor casino display name
I can't think of Bobby Sherman without giggling like Lisa Simpson.
― MarkoP, Friday, 11 July 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/P4p7p.gif
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 11 July 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
Doc, vote for Tight Rope if only for the awesome saloon piano solo at the end.
― voodoo chili, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
Dan Rydell: Eli's Coming.Casey McCall: Eli?Dan Rydell: From the Three Dog Night song.Casey McCall: Yes?Dan Rydell: Eli is something bad, a darkness.Casey McCall: "Eli's coming. Hide your heart, girl." Eli is a inveterate womanizer. I think you're getting the song wrong.Dan Rydell: I know I'm getting the song wrong. But, when I first heard it, that's what I thought it meant. Things stick with you that way.
― some dude, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Einstein meets Freud.
youtube.com/watch?v=Yb8A9UBXYF0
― clemenza, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
we should really poll AM Gold soon. God I love that series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM_Gold
― campreverb, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
I would like an AM Gold poll very much.
Also I always sing, "Eli's coming. Hide your hat, girl" because it amuses me.
― carl agatha, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
I'm all for an AM Gold ballot poll sometime down the line, maybe doing like some dude and using the Time-Life series as a basis for further noms?
Also feel very strongly that LimbsKing should do a modern/alternative rock poll but it may be "too soon."
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
And hasn't been for a long time as far as I've heard. The disappearance of "Celebrate" seems more recent.
― timellison, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
I remember hearing it a lot in the '80s on oldies radio, maybe into the '90s.
― timellison, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
"Shambala" too.
Yeah, I didn't really grow up with "Black or White" even. Maybe it's just one of those things that started to seem really hokey really quickly, and maybe the moms and dads that went for it as a pleasant statement rapidly became an undesirable demographic or something. "Celebrate" I definitely used to hear, and it's missed.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
Used to hear "An Old Fashioned Love Song" on oldies radio too.
― timellison, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
yesssss
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 July 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
ugh, no!that song is basically the antithesis of what i want from a love song, old fashioned or otherwise. it's borderline lawrence welk hokey.
― La Lechera, Friday, 11 July 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
aaaaaaannnnnnnd Shambala bumps "Going Mobile"
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 July 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
"Going Mobile" seemed like one of the biggest Who songs when i lived in Delaware but i don't hear it nearly as much elsewhere
― some dude, Friday, 11 July 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
Old Fashioned Love Song is a Paul Williams composition, which makes it pure solid gold imo.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 July 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
"Going Mobile" virtually the only 70s Who song I'd actually turn up on the radio. Love all the bigguns, just fucking burned out as shit on them. Might go back and rejigger things, would be great to get "Eminence Front" in there.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 July 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
OMG, I finally have this down to 100. It really was impossible until I enforced some hardcore limits on inclusion: with one exception, no act gets more than two entries, even if their other songs are better than half the stuff in the countdown.
Now...the 'worst' list. Yikes.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 July 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
would be great to get "Eminence Front" in there.
yes it would!
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 11 July 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
Total car jam.
― La Lechera, Friday, 11 July 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
seriously, how did the who get so funky?
― brimstead, Friday, 11 July 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
they killed keith moon
― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 July 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
a shadowy criminal organization, the eminence front, saw to the details
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 12 July 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
i would LOVE an AM gold poll, fwiw
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 July 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
^^ yessss
― brimstead, Saturday, 12 July 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
so many quality soft rock jams here
AM Gold poll would be so much fun
― Sandy, Saturday, 12 July 2014 04:58 (nine years ago) link
Key thread: I need more AM GOLD
And, oh heck, I'll hawk it again - slowly expanding Spotify playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/doctorcasino/playlist/6WzifvQ5j3RMO9gB1iTs12 (with big lapses for artists like Simon who I listen to heavily on LP). But save that for later - or take a quick dip I guess if you need a palate-cleanser in between rounds of some dude's killer classic rock playlist. My head is spinning from trying to actually get my top-, mid-, and bottom 33 in order.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 12 July 2014 05:27 (nine years ago) link
This is interesting, every time I try to play "Baby I'm-A Want You," Spotify keeps hitting me with "Subterranean Homesick Blues." Perhaps a sign that rock holds the day for now.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 12 July 2014 05:57 (nine years ago) link
You can do it Doc. I just moved my 100 over a column in excel, and cut & pasted chunks of 10. The Joe Cocker's of the world (#99) just naturally found their place.
AM Gold came to mind as I was thinking about Shambala, and wondering where the Bread songs were. For that matter, no Guess Who in my Classic Rawk top 100, but I'm pretty sure These Eyes would crack my AM Gold top 20.
― campreverb, Saturday, 12 July 2014 12:40 (nine years ago) link
Last night I dreamed i was hanging out with some guys and they got really stoked about the idea of doing a Three Dog Night style band, they wrote a song on the spot and I had some choice harmonies. But I was simultaneously playing a Batman video game that involved an inordinate amount of diving under water and searching for air pockets, Sonic-style, so I'm not sure if they felt I was really committed to the idea.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 12 July 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
meanwhile, really hoping my ballot proves to be a game-changing missive from another planet (Joe Cocker at #13 currently).
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 12 July 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
some dude thanks for doing this, especially the spotify playlist. I think I spent a good couple of days on my list, so I imagine running this must be exponentially more time consuming. This poll inspired me to grab the FM Soundtrack, as I realize how incomplete my life is without Lido Shuffle.
― campreverb, Sunday, 13 July 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
man I could totally vote for every Boston track
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Sunday, 13 July 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
random assortment today
janie's got a gun - aerosmithhold the line - totowhole lotta love - zepboys of summer (live) - ole fartbag henley moving in stereo - the carscisco kid - war
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 July 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
I voted for both Boys of Summer and Lyin' Eyes. Voted The Heat Is On in the worst poll, but could have been any solo Glenn Frey.
Pump is great, but I think that's where I got off the bus. I even like the Aerosmith album they disavow (Done With Mirrors).
― campreverb, Sunday, 13 July 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
― campreverb, Saturday, July 12, 2014 8:11 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no prob! it is definitely time consuming, but it's also stuff i can get done easily in between writing assignments and has been a fun distraction. tabulating a lot of ballots ahead of the deadline so i can tell gr80 some song titles to work up graphics for has been a good way to motivate me to spread the work out over time. the excitement of seeing how every ballot dramatically effects the results makes it fun.
― some dude, Sunday, 13 July 2014 01:01 (nine years ago) link
re: Three Dog Night
My friend's father used to often talk about how he helped write "Joy to the World" when he hung around with Hoyt Axton. Dunno if it's true.
I remember "Shambala" mostly from this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de8h27wsxpY&feature=kp
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Sunday, 13 July 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link
doesn't seem like the kind of thing you'd make up
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Sunday, 13 July 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
Didn't know The Three Dog Night recorded "Never Been To Spain"; I only knew it from Elvis' overwhelming live version:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PHp_o7zNp4
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 13 July 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
x-post
Oh, I don't doubt that he was friends with Hoyt Axton, but as for helping write the song... The guy was a bit of a storyteller; he also claimed that he slept with Linda Ronstadt while he was her limo driver.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Sunday, 13 July 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
just hit 30 ballots! keep 'em comin'!
― some dude, Sunday, 13 July 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
I'm under 150 songs to review. I may actually get through this.
― Jeff, Sunday, 13 July 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
Ranking has been a slow process, but I'll definitely get a ballot in.
― Brad C., Sunday, 13 July 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
I'm down to about 130. But then I gotta rank them all...
― first is the worst (askance johnson), Sunday, 13 July 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
i prefer ranked ballots because i think it makes the process more interesting and makes the results reflect people's passions more accurately, but if all you can do is an unranked ballot i'll accept it.
― some dude, Sunday, 13 July 2014 16:16 (nine years ago) link
I won't accept it. Send me all unranked ballots and I'll rank them for you, then submit.
― Jeff, Sunday, 13 July 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
I think I can rank everything pretty quickly. It won't be perfect, but it will generally reflect my preferences/passions.
― first is the worst (askance johnson), Sunday, 13 July 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
Can i make a last minute push for "Centerfield" in the 'worst' category? Soooooo tinny, tacky and awful, so obviously pitching to be used as soundtrack music on sports broadcasts but sounding more like a test-drive for the America's Funniest Home Videos theme... those wretched little digital claps, and the general rinky-dink atmosphere - and "new grass on the field"??! GROSS GROSS GROSS. Also, easily the biggest drop here from someone's 'classic' work to their late work, it almost justifies the mummification of the playlists: can't let anything else like THIS get through!
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 13 July 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
agreethat song sucks and i have always hated it at least as much as i hated playing sports
― La Lechera, Sunday, 13 July 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
It's bad. But not as bad as American Pie.
― Jeff, Sunday, 13 July 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
i have a fondness for that song simply because when i was a kid my cousin Matthew misunderstood the lyric "put me in coach" as being sung from the perspective of an airplane passenger
― some dude, Sunday, 13 July 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
omg, i might actually have this done. some dude, is it easier to compile text lists or spreadsheets?
I actually just cut American Pie from my worst list (or rather, bumped it down to #15). I've always been bored by it, and I bet if I heard it right now I'd remember how long it is and hate it more. But there are shittier songs.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 13 July 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
"Centerfield" is the worst of the singles from the Centerfield album for sure. "The Old Man Down the Road" and "Rock and Roll Girls" should definitely be the CR staples instead.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 13 July 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
hahaha, i have always preferred "Centerfield" as a pitch for an airline ad!
I love baseball but pretty much hate that song. It wasn't dud enough to make my Wurst-list though.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Sunday, 13 July 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
I also associate it very much with a friend of mine in Georgia having it stuck in her head for something like two weeks straight, it was relentless. "Cat Scratch Fever" ultimately defeated it, but man, that was a rough time for her.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 13 July 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
I mean...I'm not wrong that it's supposed to be a really labored innuendo right?
Q-107 will still occasionally surprise me. Today they played "Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown" (Tonight's the Night version) on "Psychedelic Sundays." Not especially psychedelic, I know. The DJ even recited some of the lyrics afterwards.
― clemenza, Sunday, 13 July 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
some dude, is it easier to compile text lists or spreadsheets?
i prefer just text, i count it all up in a spreadsheet but anything sent to me in a spreadsheet is just going to be extracted into a word doc where i keep all the ballots.
― some dude, Sunday, 13 July 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
uggghhh. some last-minute trigger-pulling down here at #100. sending 'er off - thanks again to some dude for the work on what is bound to be one of the most epic rollouts of all time! I suspect the results are going to end up being pretty weird - realizing how many arbitrary, vote-splitting decisions I made in the course of this thing, and how many things I just decided early on were top twenty, no discussion to be had. I think those decisions are true to how I relate to the songs but man...it's a weird-looking ballot is all I can say.
Bonus thanks to fact checking cuz and crew - in the end I added THREE songs that I did not know before the poll. They're low, on principle (gotta go with the lifelong barbecue playlist) but they're there!
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 13 July 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
moving in stereo - the cars
i would like to put in a last minute pitch for this one, the most classic rock track in the cars' catalog for my money. evocatively weird lyrics ("life's the same except for my shoes / life's the same, you're shaking like tremolo") and a great (and heavily processed) benjamin orr vocal that straddles an ever-shifting line between empathy and menace. and then that epic synth-and-guitar instrumental.
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 13 July 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
so happy to hear that! and total respect to the lifelong-barbecue-playlist principle, which is, yeah, pretty much the essence of all of this.
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 13 July 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
I'm treating it like I moved to a new town - there's a few new tracks that are in the standard rotation round these parts, the locals are all sick of them but to me it creates the illusion that I've got a really dynamic, unpredictable station on my hands, and I'm excited about those tracks.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 13 July 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
an ever-shifting line between empathy and menace part of what i love about the cars!
someone to feedsomeone to bleeeeeed
― La Lechera, Sunday, 13 July 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
Voted.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 13 July 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
down to, um, 400 tracks.
track that hurt to cut today but that i cut nonetheless: chicago "25 or 6 to 4." an all-time fuzz riff, obviously, but i couldn't shake the feeling that the whole thing is more am gold than fm rock. i've successfully done a lot of cutting that way. boz scaggs, i fear you may be next.
track that i realized i'm not at all sick of and needs to be top 25-ish: the who "behind blue eyes." who's next is probably the album that has always best defined classic rock for me. but whereas the album's two overplayed synth epics seem to be consciously aiming for the iconic, generational-anthem status that they achieved, "behind blue eyes" sounds much more personal and organic and lived-in. it's also prettier and rocks harder. it belongs to classic rock more exclusively than the other two, and it belongs to me in a way they never could.
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 13 July 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
i turned on the local classic rock station the other day and heard "25 or 6 to 4" and it just sounded incredible to me, like it does every single time.
― some dude, Monday, 14 July 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
fcc, dig this at 1:50:http://youtu.be/GhxqdhFpk2E
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 14 July 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
that's awesome, tarfumes. thanks!
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 14 July 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
25 or 6 to 4 is probably their most CR-sounding song IMO, though Saturday In The Park (which sonically could slot in with the Turtles or Lovin Spoonful) is more key to a CR afternoon vibe.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 14 July 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link
i agree it's their most cr-sounding, but it still isn't enough cr-sounding for my ears. or, rather, it's borderline, and when your list still has 400 tracks on it two days before ballots are due, borderline tracks are not going to be treated kindly!
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 14 July 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
This would only make sense to a Torontonian my age, but I've always thought of "25 or 6 to 4" as the definitive CNE song. (The CNE, or "Ex," was the Six-Flags-type carnival I grew up with.) Whenever I think of going to the Ex as a kid in '70 or '71, and think of the rides and the crooked games and the sea of people wandering around, "25 or 6 to 4" is the soundtrack.
― clemenza, Monday, 14 July 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
As always, someone's posted my memory on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx_HP2PgqTs
― clemenza, Monday, 14 July 2014 00:21 (nine years ago) link
speaking of borderline songs, i've been wanting to write in david bowie's "life on mars?" but i just checked and noticed it hasn't been mentioned even once on either this thread or the nominations thread. i've always thought of it as a late-bloomer that eventually became a classic rock standard, but my mind may be playing tricks on me, and maybe i only hear it on noncommercial dad-rock stations that act sort of like classic rock but aren't (kcsn in northridge, ca., i'm talking to you).
does anyone's classic rock station actually play it?
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 14 July 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
I didn't hear Life on Mars until college at least - first clear memory is of people doing it at karaoke. The cool new girl in town did a great version of it (she kinda ruled at everything she sang) but balls also raised the roof, I remember being in the audience with cool new girl, coming up with interpretive dances (mainly for the 'fighting in the dance hall' bit). I imagine for UK audiences it's much more ubiquitous...?
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 14 July 2014 00:43 (nine years ago) link
I think I'd only heard it a couple of times before the Bowie ballot poll, and never on the radio.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Monday, 14 July 2014 00:46 (nine years ago) link
Songs that referenced drugs were given a priority on my ballot, so 25 or 6 to 4 made the cut.
― campreverb, Monday, 14 July 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
Ballot in. Had to just code my eyes and pull the trigger, knowing that I'll immediately think of 15 things I should have added, pulled, moved up, moved down. Whatever. It's all classic. This rollout is going to rule.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 14 July 2014 01:04 (nine years ago) link
er, close my eyes. hate u so much autocorrect.
I was just browsing around the nominations Spotify playlist, and had a couple of semi-panicked "oh crap, I hope I voted for that" moments. They turned out to be my #10 and #11.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Monday, 14 July 2014 01:17 (nine years ago) link
if i code my eyes forever
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 July 2014 01:45 (nine years ago) link
One of the highlights of my weekend: I inadvertently deeply insulted a passionate fan of "Wonderful Tonight" at a shitty brewery.
Still have a lot of work to do to get this damn ballot in order...
― cwkiii, Monday, 14 July 2014 02:38 (nine years ago) link
I looked out this morning, my ballot was doneTurned on some music to start my dayRealized I had to vote for a familiar tuneI code my eyes, and it slipped awayyyyyy
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 14 July 2014 03:03 (nine years ago) link
25 or 6 to 4 has one of the all time great guitar solos. Beginnings and Make Me Smile also great CR tunes. Later stuff is AM gold
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Monday, 14 July 2014 03:51 (nine years ago) link
making one last campaigning post for BOC's "GODZILLA" since i just noticed it was left off the official noms
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 14 July 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
Voted!
― Brad C., Monday, 14 July 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
Godzilla is totally on the official list
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 14 July 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
some dude, you want me to change the thread title to "CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL voting thread -- deadline July 15 -- POLL CLOSES TOMORROW" or something?
― how's life, Monday, 14 July 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
sure, that would be great!
― some dude, Monday, 14 July 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
obv you'd have to change it on Tuesday to "TODAY" if you did it like that, but whatever works.
― some dude, Monday, 14 July 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
"new grass on the field"??! GROSS GROSS GROSS.
oh come the fuck on!
― guwop (crüt), Monday, 14 July 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
xp: will do.
― how's life, Monday, 14 July 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
Is there a full list of all the nominated songs?
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 14 July 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
top of this thread
― some dude, Monday, 14 July 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
Godzilla is totally on the official list― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, July 14, 2014 9:29 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, July 14, 2014 9:29 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh my bad, i was looking at a c+p'd list w/o realizing i'd already c+p'd that one!
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 14 July 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
not calling you out - just didn't want you to think it got snubbed!
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 14 July 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
ballot sent!
beatles - 0stones - 0 springsteen - 0 doors - 0fleetwood mac - 0pink floyd - 0zeppelin - 2steve miller - 7
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 14 July 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
beatles - 0badfinger - 3
― guwop (crüt), Monday, 14 July 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
kind of regretting all of my votes now and wishing I could just replace my entire list with the collected works of Roy Wood
― Darin, Monday, 14 July 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
I'm having a lot of weird buyer's remorse on this ballot. Like, I cut Dixie Chicken without really listening to it again because I felt burned out on it and then I listened to it yesterday and that song is a totally raucous jam and I should have included it!!! And now today I feel like I should have kept Do Ya (ELO version).
And of course my failure to write in Amie, which will haunt me for my remaining days.
Speaking of - everybody who hasn't submitted a ballot yet write in Amie! Don't live to regret it like I did!
― carl agatha, Monday, 14 July 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
your ballot's already been counted, so no takebacks :(
i am practicing some lenience with people who ask to revise their ballots soon enough after sending them that i haven't tabulated 'em yet, though.
― some dude, Monday, 14 July 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
btw i was just in the car and my local classic rock station played Rick Derringer after America with this howler of a transition: "have you ever done the rock and roll hoochie koo with a horse with no name?"
― some dude, Monday, 14 July 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
if i'm gonna go the rock and roll hoochie koo with a horse, i ALWAYS ask what it's name is.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 14 July 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
btw i recently realized that Rick Derringer produced most of "Weird Al" Yankovic's early albums. it's amazing we never got a Charo-themed parody of that song or anything.
― some dude, Monday, 14 July 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
Oh, I don't want to change anything! It's like a tattoo. Once it's finished, I might as well learn to live with it.
― carl agatha, Monday, 14 July 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
xp Derringer plays the "Eat It" solo!
― guwop (crüt), Monday, 14 July 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
haha wow
― some dude, Monday, 14 July 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
btw Grand Funk Railroad and .38 Special are both playing the Maryland State Fair this year, who's going with me?
― some dude, Monday, 14 July 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
oh fuck the fabulous thunderbirds got left off OHHH FUCCCCK
― Euler, Monday, 14 July 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
I thought about that the other day, but then I remembered how much hate there is for the Fabulous Thunderbirds on ilm.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 July 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
I'm writing them in, THIS ATROCITY MUST NOT STAND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyVcSkSnPjA
― Euler, Monday, 14 July 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
done. Now I need to reset my brain from classic rock.
― Jeff, Monday, 14 July 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
tbh i was appalled at myself for not pre-nominating several Thunderbirds singles myself and my write-in a couple on my own ballot
― some dude, Monday, 14 July 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
Have only ever encountered them as filler on VH1's More of the Big 80's.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 14 July 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
Hey what happened to Itchycoo Park?
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 14 July 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
sent! now I have to catch up on this thread.
― Euler, Monday, 14 July 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
challop: Jimmie Vaughan way more interesting guitarist than Stevie Ray ever was.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 July 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
guitar dudes will disagree, everyone else will file under: damning with faint peaise
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 14 July 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
oh great, now autocorrect decides to back off
steve miller - 7
OTM
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Monday, 14 July 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
friend of mine just got tickets to see foreigner + styx at the iowa state fair next month
tbf, foghat was already playing county fairs in the late 80s
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
XP Welcome To Swingtown! Population: YOU.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
last night when i couldn't fall asleep until 5am i found myself comparing and contrasting the 'whoa ohs' in 'swingtown' and 'lido shuffle'
so, bad day today
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 01:06 (nine years ago) link
the other night i fell asleep with "eee-eeevil woman!" sounding over and over in my head and when i woke up it was still there, so i can only conclude that my brain dedicated all the potentially restorative aspects of my entire sleep cycle to keeping that on loop
― guwop (crüt), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 01:13 (nine years ago) link
i love the support group tone that posts in this thread have taken on
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
otm
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 01:22 (nine years ago) link
ha ha yeah this poll has got me listening to Mountain and Wishbone Ash live albums. Nearing rock bottom.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 01:25 (nine years ago) link
program directors of radio stations with 100 active songs on their playlists probably don't sweat nearly as much as any of us have sweated over this.
i've got 50 slots solid, and 250 songs competing for the other 50 slots. all 250 are great.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link
bye bye "in the city."
249 songs competing for 50 slots now.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 01:34 (nine years ago) link
I just heard "Maggie May" again and kinda wish I could redo my ballot and get rid of it. Those drums...so plodding... on the other hand, the guitar solos are strange and wonderful.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link
"Gasoline Alley" kicks its ass imo.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 01:43 (nine years ago) link
Dag, I forgot Maggie May on my worst songs list.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 01:44 (nine years ago) link
I seriously thought about putting Maggie May on 'worst' but was worried I might get kicked off the board.
Still think this might have been the rare poll that truly could have gone to 125 or 150 without losing meaningful ranking and hard choices. But that might have scared some people off I reckon.
Surely this is going to be one of the most unpredictable rollouts in ILM history, though! I remember Tuomas contemplating excluding "I Feel Love" from the disco poll since it would be expected to take #1. He didn't, and it didn't, but I can't imagine anything like that even being discussed with this nominations list, even after weeks of discussion over what ILM does and doesn't see as core to classic rock. I also can't guess whether the results for the 'big' acts will be vote-split, or whether it won't matter because die-hards will vote for many songs by the one act, high on their ballots. Oh man I can't wait.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 01:48 (nine years ago) link
when i was younger Rod Stewart was the one classic rocker beloved by my mother that i just found totally offputting. have softened up on him now but dunno if anything besides "Stay With Me" will make my ballot.
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 02:47 (nine years ago) link
http://rlv.zcache.com/i_rocked_the_vote_tees-r7373a553911d4b06919be4e1be98b6c1_804gs_512.jpg?bg=0xffffff
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 03:34 (nine years ago) link
Not totally satisfied with my ballot, but it got close to distilling whatever I think of as classic rock. Didn't vote for lots of songs and artists I love, because they aren't quite in that zone for me. And a lot of artists, I didn't necessarily vote for my personal favorite songs of theirs, but my favorite classic rock songs of theirs -- which can be very different. Anyway, it was fun trying to narrow it down.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 03:36 (nine years ago) link
Also, couldn't resist one conceptual rock block in my top 10.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 03:37 (nine years ago) link
How did this escape the net during the noms process?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhbRlhQgj_Y
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 05:02 (nine years ago) link
true, that song is pretty awesome. 4 out of 5 of Squier's biggest songs ain't bad, though.
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 10:56 (nine years ago) link
Not totally satisfied with my ballot, but it got close to distilling whatever I think of as classic rock. Didn't vote for lots of songs and artists I love, because they aren't quite in that zone for me.
Tried my best to adhere to this but there were some things I felt like I couldn't pass up. I'm a little concerned that my #1 pick actually belongs in a completely different poll, but looking at upcoming polls, it certainly won't end up on any noms lists in the next few years, so I went for it.
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 11:24 (nine years ago) link
it really is amazing how unpredictable this thing is going. so far i've entered votes for 691 different songs into the spreadsheet, and #691 is one of the maybe top 5 most played songs in the history of classic rock radio, showing up 20 something ballots in.
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 11:35 (nine years ago) link
Despite my foundering campaign for 'Shadows of the Night', I have discovered the original writer has a power pop album judged by Allmusic to be essential. Has anyone heard it?http://www.allmusic.com/album/this-day-and-age-mw0000828132
― campreverb, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
@some dude what's the deadline tonight? I want to make sure I get my ballot in, but also have to do my actual job throughout the day.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 13:27 (nine years ago) link
should have listened to BTO re:self-employment.
word.
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link
yeah w the x. how much sleep i get before it's time to fake a ranking?
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
I didn't vote for more than 2 songs by any individual band or artist, but if you count collaborations or solo projects, I had 4 Eagles-related votes (or6, if James Gang counts as Eagles-related).
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 13:37 (nine years ago) link
TS rock career advice: BTO, Dire Straits, Todd Rundgren, Loverboy
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
almost done! my most hated list is so toxic that i could barely stand to consider a station that would play all of those songs in that order. i'd probably have a stroke.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
Stroke! Stroke!
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
that song is not on my most hated list! it's mostly forced nostalgia, "relaxing", hfcs, and misogyny
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
voted!! it was particularly satisfying to imagine hearing them in order.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
Worst songs rollout is either going to be sooooo satisfying or suuuuuch bullshit.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
Hopefully both. What's a good poll without some bullshit?
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
This rollout is going to be the best thing ever. GETTING READY, ANTICIPATING LOVE AND MUSIC
Beatles 0, Dylan 0, Bon Jovi 1
― Sandy, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
Sent my albums ballot in at the last minute. Threw an old familiar favorite under the bus in the name of classic rock purity. 5 was a great number for that.
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
coming to terms with the fact that I'm not gonna be able to get a ballot done. deadline is basically now?
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
Voted a few days ago. My regrets: not voting Piano Man on my worst tracks list, and not voting for The Cars eponymous debut on my best albums list.
I mean, if the criteria for the albums is "records that have multiple tracks you always enjoy hearing on the radio," I can't really think of a better example than that first Cars album.
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
i think you still have 12 more hours? xp
― guwop (crüt), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
Cars s/t, Boston s/t, best of Steve, these are the urtexts of CR
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
Voted for Cars!! Albums list was so easy -- I thought about it for 2 min max.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
Jon just do a 20 song ballot!
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
so far i've entered votes for 691 different songs into the spreadsheet, and #691 is one of the maybe top 5 most played songs in the history of classic rock radio, showing up 20 something ballots in.
Guessing "Hotel California".
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:16 (nine years ago) link
But maybe not, given that there's a whole ILM thread devoted to listening the Eagles' entire catalogue song-by-song.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
also who's next.
i would have argued for tom petty's greatest hits, too, but i decided to honor the poll's 1986 deadline for tracks by not considering any compilations released after that.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
I'm not even going to look at my ballot again because I am racked with remorse over all the songs I had to cut. This must be how terrible dictators feel after genocide.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
harvest!!
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
maybe some dude is talkin' bout "China Grove"
― guwop (crüt), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
otm if you get torn up after a little genocide you're not going to cut it as a dictator imo xp
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
xxxp lol my initial cull was 113 songs. cut twelve in about two minutes w/ no regrets. been working on that last one for two weeks though...
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
crops will grow nice with all that blood on the ground though, so there's that
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
lol VG o_o
― guwop (crüt), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
lol i just typed "here come the torpedoes"whooboy it's gonna be a long week
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
No, I think you've got the right answer, but I'll go with "Another Brick in the Wall" because that song is ludicrously overplayed compared to how good it is
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
"stairway" and "free bird" also seem like likely candidates
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
cars s/t was my #6 album ;_;
I think the Cars will do fine in this poll tbrr
― guwop (crüt), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah, another ur text: best of the doobies.
lol i just typed "here come the torpedoes"
intended album in above typo seconded!
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
coming to terms with the fact that I'm not gonna be able to get a ballot done. deadline is basically now?― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, July 15, 2014 11:58 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, July 15, 2014 11:58 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Do it!
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
I love Lynyrd Skynyrd(3 tracks in my top 100!) and couldn't vote for Freebird.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
I had 7 skynyrd songs in my top 100. Including freebird.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
xp No way that stairway and freebird haven't already placed on many ballots. I think Zep will have less representation on this poll than they do on actual CR radio, but Stairway is so ingrained in the fiber of CR radio that I'd be stunned if it missed this poll.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
stairbird
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
How will Alice Cooper fare? Cutting Eighteen sucked.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
I'm Eighteen was shamefully low on my ballot, but in context the fact that it made the top 100 is a small victory.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
I get confused every daaaaay
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
I included two songs by Cooper.
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
Can the deadline be extended to when some dude gets up tomorrow morning? I may be stuck at work (and away from my ballot) til late tonight.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
Stairway only scraped the Zep poll top ten, I wouldn't be totally surprised if it missed out here where there's so, so much gold. Never occurred to me to vote for it, I rationed my Zep jamz.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
Musicology question: what is the clarinet doing in Breakfast In America to get that klezmer feel? Is there a particular mode being deployed, for example?
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, July 15, 2014 4:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
By the end, I'm pretty sure the participants were ready to slaughter actual eagles much less get excited enough about Hotel California to vote for it in a poll. But maybe that was just me.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
Stairway was always going to be on my ballot. I love it in a vacuum, and I love in the context of CR. It just missed my top 10.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
Back in the 80s I heard a radio station do a 500 Best Metal Songs of All-Time Countdown and they had "Stairway" at #500
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
good bets for my still-unfinished ballot:stairwayhotel califuneral/love lives bleeding
medium bets:bohemian rhapsodyjungleland
not good bets:freebirdwayward son
(and there will be lots of skynrd on my ballot, including probably my #1)
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
what is the clarinet doing in Breakfast In America to get that klezmer feel?
I don't know if it sticks to it all the way through, but there's a raised fourth so I'd say it's basically alluding to the Hungarian minor scale.
― timellison, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
OFFICIAL DEADLINE LENIENCY STATEMENT: polls technically close at midnight tonight, but I will accept any ballots I receive before I finish counting and hand off the results to gr80 to make images for, which will definitely give you all day Wednesday at the very least.
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Thanks Tim. I love how that stuff works, how one note can make you draw allusions by mechanisms you never knew existed.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
how fucking great is ELO?
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
if I get a ballot put together Do Ya is gonna be waaaaayyyyy up there.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
I think anyone who doesn't think they have time to vote should at least try to slap together a top 20
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
totally. especially because any song being in someone's top 20 could totally be the deciding factor in that song making the poll or not, things are very close.
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
I much prefer the Move's version of Do Ya.
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
Or you could submit a top 2 poll of Blue Sky and Mr. Blue Sky.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
Been going through ELO's catalog as a result of this poll and man "A New World Record" is such a solid album.
― Darin, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
The crazy fusion of Bee Gees and Boston on tracks like "So Fine" is a thing of beauty.
― Darin, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
A New World Record is their best IMO.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
Might have to listen to it now.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
really weirding me out rn how much Aldo Nova's "Fantasy" sounds like Jefferson Starship's "Jane"
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
I think every rock band had at least one song in the eighties with that power chords vs. "dink dink dink dink" keyboard construction.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
It's Two for Tuesday on 97.9 The Loop.
― first is the worst (askance johnson), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
echoing the "just do a top 20" get out the vote push, u can do it ppl
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
ok i've done the "do i actually like this song y/n", "is this really CR y/n" and "have I ACTUALLY ever heard this on the radio y/n" culls and I'm down to 179. But now I'm banging my head against the wall. I'm gonna have to institute a per-artist limit I think. Why do I feel like I can't strike out any of these fucking Journey songs?!?!
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
wait we weren't allowed to vote for greatest hits albums right?
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
yeah, they were both doing something that was relatively common at the time (see also toto's "hold the line," for example) but it's still amazing how close those two in particular got.
meanwhile, "jane" is easily on my ballot and "fantasy" is not and if you put a gun to my head and asked me to explain i'd probably have to ask you to shoot.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
Yep, no greatest hits albums
― Sandy, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
There are plenty of studio albums that function as greatest hits as far as CR Radio is concerned (Who's Next, The Cars, Rumours).
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
jane is the best
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
I forgot to vote for Who's Next, probably should have.
― guwop (crüt), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
Goats Head Soup is the greatest album ever made
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
after Making Movies anyway
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
sent mine!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
Wheel in the sky keeps on tuh-nin! Don't know where I'll be tomorroo-ooooo-ooooow.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
up to 47 ballots now, definitely will be crossing the 50 line! let's make it 60!
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
GO FOR ONE HUNDRED ILM YOU CAN DO IT
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
KEEP ON POLL-IN
OOOOOOO
OOOOOO
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
CAN'T FIGHT THIS POOOOLLLLLLLIN ANYMOOOORE
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
hmm maybe POLLLLLLLLLLIN is better than POOOLLLIN
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/Monkees-Pool-It!.jpg
criminally overlooked in the noms
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
I won't stan for anything on that record, but "That Was Then, This Is Now" from a year or two before was really nice.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
crap, I voted a Greatest Hits album thinking it was fully in the spirit of the poll.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
Me too. Also a live album not by Frampton. Tbh I could pick at least five equally valid top fives, with no overlap.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
I just sent in a ballot. Heavy on Aerosmith and Zeppelin maybe.
here's what didn't make it. 101. Pink Floyd - Time / Breath (Reprise)102. Eddie Money - Two Tickets To Paradise103. Judas Priest - You've Got Another Thing Comin'104. Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster105. Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone106. Paul McCartney & Wings - Jet
― Zachary Taylor, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
Live albums disallowed too?
― campreverb, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
cuts that have hurt my heart so far today:
--tom petty "don't do me like that" ("you were in the public eye/givin' someone else a try" is an all-time fave line)--thin lizzy "the boys are back in town" (penalized for reminding me too much of the hold steady)--all of billy joel--pat benatar "heart breaker"
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
if live albums *aren't* allowed (i voted for one, but i don't really care) an exception should be made for frampton because c'mon
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
Ballot sent. There are a few artists for whom I just can't separate my fav. songs of theirs into rankings. So, in the spirit of CR radio, my ballot contains some Rock Blocks.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
Nice
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link
i left out a bunch of great songs mainly because they just don't vibe strongly with my radio memories, for some reason. certain stones and zep songs, for example. and stuff i associate more with oldies. i did vote for one new discovery: cheap tricks's "i want you to want me" from budokhan. my god, pure euphoria!
― brimstead, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
sent in my ballot, can't wait to see how this shakes out.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 01:03 (nine years ago) link
going to do this now, watch some MLB All Star game and try to order this thing. haven't cut down my ballot either.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 01:36 (nine years ago) link
cheap tricks's "i want you to want me" from budokhan. my god, pure euphoria!
Pretty sure this is the only version I've ever heard -- first on the immortal Rock 80 Ktel comp, then on the radio. (I voted for it, along with two other Rock 80 tracks.)
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 03:04 (nine years ago) link
Ballot sent! My ranking was done really quickly, but it turned out okay.
― first is the worst (askance johnson), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 03:11 (nine years ago) link
first cut 287 songs, lol.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 03:23 (nine years ago) link
the deepest. baby i know
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 03:26 (nine years ago) link
xxxp i hadn't heard the studio version before either. I listened to it the other day, it has a piano playing the chunk-a-chunk riff instead of guitar bleeeghh not feeling it.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 03:31 (nine years ago) link
studio version is better. not as needy.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 03:33 (nine years ago) link
Studio version isn't enhanced by 10000 Japanese Girl Audio Hormones.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 03:35 (nine years ago) link
it's already nerdy enough
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 03:38 (nine years ago) link
studio version doesnt have
I WANT YOU
TO WANT ME
I WANT
YOU
TO WANT
ME
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 03:54 (nine years ago) link
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, July 15, 2014 8:35 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hah otm, the part where they all sing 'didn't i didn't i didn't i see you crying' is amazing
― brimstead, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 04:08 (nine years ago) link
Since I finally got their debut out of storage, I hope voters remembered a little band called VAN HALEN while building ballots.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 04:10 (nine years ago) link
I made a last-minute substitution when I realized I really couldn't live without "Runnin' With the Devil."
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 04:31 (nine years ago) link
heard one of my VH votes on classic rock radio this morning
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 04:31 (nine years ago) link
Van Halen are in my top 5 favorite bands ever ever, but I only made room for them to appear once on my ballot. (I'm running a VH poll in about 3 years or so, and I'll make up for it then.)
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 04:33 (nine years ago) link
twice for me and je ne regrette rien
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 04:39 (nine years ago) link
ballot not yet submitted, but three vh songs are locked in. i've got a few three-peats in my ballot, as classic rock is meaningless without two-fers and rock blocks. classic rock is a not a one-hit-wonder format. it's a careerist format.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 04:41 (nine years ago) link
Van Halen's first 4 albums were such transcendent, ecstatic experiences. They reach previously unknown realms of joy and sonic sensuality. Dave's voice is the sound of freedom. [/youtube comment]
― brimstead, Wednesday, June 25, 2014 3:41 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― brimstead, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 04:41 (nine years ago) link
classic rock is a not a one-hit-wonder format. it's a careerist format.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, July 15, 2014
i'm not going to come right out and say Red Rider made my top ten but let's just agree there's room for both
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 04:43 (nine years ago) link
oh red rider will most definitely be on my ballot. and the georgia satellites. there's definitely room for both, but i think the format really does generally aim at artists/bands rather than songs, much more than other oldies-based formats do.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 04:49 (nine years ago) link
oh indeed. just checked: 14 twofers and 8 rock blocks on my ballot
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 04:53 (nine years ago) link
I had a few twofers, but only one block...DOOBIES
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 04:55 (nine years ago) link
Ballot sent; I mostly left off obvious Beatles/Zep/Hendrix/Floyd etc. to make room for acts that will never get their own poll.
In my parts bands like Toto don't make CR playlists (too soft-rock/AC) nor the Turtles or Tommy James (too 'oldies').
Also WTF no Yardbirds nominated?
― Lee626, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 05:17 (nine years ago) link
I nearly plotzed when I heard my local station drop "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" into an afternoon set minus fanfare about 10 years ago.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 05:20 (nine years ago) link
"hold the line" fucking rocks
― brimstead, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 05:30 (nine years ago) link
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 05:33 (nine years ago) link
VOTED
cut out all New Wave type of stuff so no Clash, Blondie and Talking Heads...
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 05:49 (nine years ago) link
i'm looking forward to reading memories of hearing songs in storms, heat waves, traffic jams, on friday nights, sunday mornings, etc
― brimstead, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 05:57 (nine years ago) link
just recollections and moments in general
― brimstead, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 05:58 (nine years ago) link
can we find some frequency to broadcast the results & we can all blast it from our trans-ams at the saturday night beer bust
puhleeeeeeze
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 06:00 (nine years ago) link
Wishing now I'd voted for Peace of Mind instead of More Than a Feeling. Fuck More Than a Feeling.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 06:10 (nine years ago) link
Sorry, More Than a Feeling. I didn't really mean that.
otm. except for the cars.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 06:18 (nine years ago) link
I just want to say I love Deep Purple so much. They make me feel good.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 06:24 (nine years ago) link
i left the Cars in as well, they were much more Classic Rock than KROQ. so it felt OK to leave them in.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 06:28 (nine years ago) link
voted!
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 07:50 (nine years ago) link
my b's:bowie 4beatles 3boston 2bon jovi 2black sabbath 1blue oyster cult 1bto 0 (with regrets)
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 07:54 (nine years ago) link
SENT!
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 08:02 (nine years ago) link
heard part of a Cars rock block yesterday while driving. I caught Moving in Stereo and Good Times Roll. Then I went into a store and when i came out it was Right Now by Van Hagar.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 09:18 (nine years ago) link
Damn, just heard Fly Like an Eagle into Sledgehammer. That was a buzzkill.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 10:24 (nine years ago) link
there were 6 more ballots in my inbox when I woke up this morning, good stuff! voting is officially closed, although as I said yesterday, so if you've got a last minute ballot, shoot it over to me ASAP and if i'm not done counting i will accept it. i really have no idea how long it will take me and gr80 to get everything up and running, so we would appreciate your patience. it will definitely be worth the wait.
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 10:50 (nine years ago) link
Ack, didn't sort out a ballot for this in the end. Oh well.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 11:08 (nine years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, July 16, 2014 6:10 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Got you covered on this front. "Peace of Mind" has always been my Boston jam. (If I'd voted for a second Boston song, it would have been "Rock n Roll Band.")
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 11:15 (nine years ago) link
emil.y! send one today! even tomorrow should be fine! it's all good!
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 11:39 (nine years ago) link
Edited the thread title to reflect the official status but hopefully anyone who's a serious classic roxor and hasn't submitted the ballot will come here and see your post.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 11:42 (nine years ago) link
and yes, so stoked that this poll is in yours and gr8080s capable hands.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 11:43 (nine years ago) link
Is it okay if I just send a top ten? I don't have much time to go through stuff but it'd be nice to take part.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 12:04 (nine years ago) link
top 20 minimum. c'mon you can freestyle that in like 2 minutes!
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 12:16 (nine years ago) link
my advice would be, think about the songs that you'd be angry to see miss the top 100. because right now, having tabulated more than half the ballots, i still have no idea how this is really gonna end up. a lot of huge songs are not safe at the moment. there are bands with tons of hits that have nothing guaranteed in the top 100 yet.
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 12:20 (nine years ago) link
how many ballots do you have?
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 12:22 (nine years ago) link
Okay, I scanned my longlist and threw together a top... 26? It's not a particularly interesting ballot but at least I'm throwing some love at a few favourites.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 12:46 (nine years ago) link
*opens photoshop* *cracks knuckles*
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 12:51 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure you guys have some awesome stuff planned for rollout, but I think a podcast where you do a radio countdown with DJ banter in between songs would be perfection
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 13:00 (nine years ago) link
I'd be willing to chip in to enlist Steven Wright for that.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 13:24 (nine years ago) link
yessss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mto3YoSIEM
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 13:26 (nine years ago) link
You've reminded me that K Billy was more of a K-Tel/AM Gold kind of guy--though he does get in a "keep on truckin'", and has an excellent way of saying "The Behemoth."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 13:34 (nine years ago) link
I heard my four-year-old absent-mindedly singing Abracadrabra to himself as he wandered the floor this morning otherwise doing his four-year-old stuff
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
current total is 58 ballots but I am still accepting votes from my fellow workaholics and procrastinators! bring em on!
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
can we do worst first?
― campreverb, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
yes, subpolls will roll out first
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
Carson City Fairgrounds
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
FREE HOT DOGS! FIFTY CENT BUD LIGHT DRAFTS!
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
i still plan on doing this but can't finalize til tonight.
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
tonight is good! do it!
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
ok then
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
Can I still vote on this then? Just got internet set up at the new place.
― Yoga Knives (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
Yes! There is still time, please vote! If both you send me ballots that will put us over the line to 60!
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
VOTER SIXTY GETS TO TICKETS TO SUPERTRAMP!
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
I've been dialing since 8am, line is permanently jammed wtf I WANT SUPERTRAMP TICKETS GODDAMMIT
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQgP1I64AE4
1:28 forward
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
I am sad the Rock Legends Cruise is sold out.
http://rocklegendscruise.com/
Featuring:
The Doobie Brothers, Alice Cooper, Paul Rodgers,.38 Special, The Marshall Tucker Band, Don Felder, WAR, Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam, Blue Oyster Cult, Uriah Heep, The Outlaws, Molly Hatchet, Rik Emmett, The Edgar Winter Band, Ten Years After, Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown, Pat Travers Band, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Melvin Seals & JGB, The Artimus Pyle Band, Swamp Da Wamp, Steve Rodgers, The Blue Lords, Citizens Band Radio
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
wow
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
Al, did I read correctly that we can still send you lists today?
― thomasinskeep, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
Do it, Thomas!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Yes, go for it!
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Doing it, Paul.
― thomasinskeep, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
Oh man, Foreplay/Longtime you guys.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
^ ad-libs on the coda to my no.17
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
This song is so unruly.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
Shoulda included WAY more Boston on my ballot.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
I am a big, big fan of foreplay. I mean "Foreplay." Well, yeah.
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
Won't be able to rank the whole thing. Top 20 or 25 maybe.
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
But that's the most difficult part to rank! I've got like twenty viable no.1s up top.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
The number of points your #25 song is getting is still pretty high, just list 'em and they'll all get a nice boost
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
lol @ Swamp Da Wamp
― guwop (crüt), Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link
Top 50: sent! Can't wait to see this poll. Al, you're a giant for compiling it.
― thomasinskeep, Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
Have been having ridiculous computer trouble - it doesn't wantto cut & paste 100 lines. Think I've sorted through it now & am sending ballot. Pologies for lateness.
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:44 (nine years ago) link
I won the Supertramp tickets!
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link
Haha wow just got 3 ballots in the space of 20 minutes! Any more stragglers? I'll give you Thursday too, lotta counting left to do.
― some dude, Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:59 (nine years ago) link
letting the deadline slide is so classic rock
wait was five man electrical band's (or tesla's ffs) 'signs' nominated?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 July 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
cover was post-86 and nobody nommed the original.
I let the deadline slide on all my polls, usually because i'm anxious for more voters, in this case because the turnout was so huge that it just seems fair to give people an extra window of opportunity while I'm counting.
― some dude, Thursday, 17 July 2014 01:48 (nine years ago) link
tbh that entire post was rhetorical
<3 some dude, thanks for running the show that never ends. it's guaranteed to blow our heads apart
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 July 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
btw I should just you guys the gist now, the top 100 will probably run mon-fri the week AFTER next, starting July 28. thread will kick off with subpolls sometime next week I reckon. all tentatively, obviously gr80 have our work cut out for us and doing it right is more important that doing it quickly.
― some dude, Thursday, 17 July 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
rocktaugust
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 July 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link
so that would be oxt week.
http://www.vox.com/2014/7/16/5901883/oxt-new-word-weekend
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 17 July 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
I call for a literal, month-long Rocktaugust, just because more than five songs a day is hard to have a proper drunken argument about.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 July 2014 03:25 (nine years ago) link
ugh xp
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 July 2014 03:28 (nine years ago) link
just realized we missed "You're So Vain"
― Euler, Saturday, 19 July 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
great song obv but i can't recall ever hearing it on a classic rock station
― some dude, Saturday, 19 July 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
I dunno I think I remember it as a staple but I have no other evidence.
― Euler, Saturday, 19 July 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
Thirty seven Decembers ago, pop songstress Carly Simon tore up the record charts with her single "You're So Vain." The song captured the number-one slot on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Adult Contemporary charts, and to this day remains one of the most popular classic rock songs of all time.
from a Carly Simon press release, qed
― Euler, Saturday, 19 July 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
Yup: Billboard Hot 100 x Adult Contemporary.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
I've heard it on classic rock radio before, for sure.
― how's life, Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
I never have, I don't think--which is not to say CR stations elsewhere don't play it. Great song, but it doesn't really fit my amorphous definition of CR; for one thing, my guess is it would have been considered pop by Creem readers at the time (as they lusted after Carly herself...).
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I think that's OTM. Singer-songwriter, not noted as an instrumentalist as such, James Taylor connection, other hits are all definite AM pop stuff, and...a girl?!! Feel like the deck woulda been stacked against her. I'm totally down with the idea that some CR stations could have gone with it though. It does basically rock, kinda. And it's undoubtedly classic.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
fwiw this was *precisely* why I didn't nominate any Carole King
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
I would've voted for You're So Vain til the cows came home though
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
yeah there's a lot of '70s soft rock that's borderline classic rock, and where you put the border is subjective. speaking of James Taylor, i definitely would've nominated "Fire And Rain" if i'd thought about it, although it's in that gray area where i doubt it would've gotten many votes.
― some dude, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
There will be a singer-songwriter poll one sweet day, and Kris Kristofferson will get the acclaim he deserves
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
I heard "You're So Vain" on a car radio (*) the other day and the solo + 70s Stones subtext made me think it HAD to have been a CR staple, like in between "Beast of Burden" and "Rock and Roll Never Forgets"
(*) counterpoint: I was in Britain
― Euler, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
It could fit, musically, but, yeah, I don't hear it on CR radio, even though I hear it a tonne or other formats. Doesn't turn up on the couple all-time lists I checked.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
don't get me wrong, ysv wouldn't have made my first round of cuts itp.
― how's life, Saturday, 19 July 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
I've heard more Joni* than Carly on CR radio.
*Court and Spark singles.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 July 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
tonne or other formats
"on other formats"
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 July 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
Adult Contemporary at the time of You're So Vain would have meant the much less hip Easy Listening. Classic Rock at the time would have been AOR. Nice spin by Simon's publicist though.
― campreverb, Saturday, 19 July 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
Joni gets a lot of CR airplay here. It's hard to say how of that has to do with Cancon requirements. Absent that, she'd still have gender bias and the singer-songwriter tag to contend with, but not as much as King or Simon, probably. Think she was more accepted by the rock audience back then.
A singer-songwriter poll down the road with a window from about '68 to '72 would be great.
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 July 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
i was going to vote for Donovan's "Season of the Witch" but it was not nominated either.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 20 July 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
Really? I don't hear her much on CR. "Big Yellow Taxi" does turn up at #482 on the Q107 list.xpost
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 20 July 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
yeah...the classic rock canon is funny, women were allowed in, but they had to rock pretty hard most of the time, whereas there's lots of mellow acoustic staples by the guys. some of the mellower Fleetwood Mac hits probably the most significant exception.
― some dude, Sunday, 20 July 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
I've been hearing the Court and Spark singles semi-regularly on Q-107 for years, Sund4r. I can only seem to find the 2007 list online, which has "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Raised on Robbery."
― clemenza, Sunday, 20 July 2014 00:26 (nine years ago) link
I can believe it. CHEZ has become pretty limited even compared to the Q, probably.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 20 July 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link
I think Joni has more CR street cred via her Zeppelin endorsements over the years (plus more shared Zep DNA if you consider her influence on III and IV).
― Darin, Sunday, 20 July 2014 05:16 (nine years ago) link
^^Not to mention the CSNY connections.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 20 July 2014 05:24 (nine years ago) link
ICYMI, the results have begun: CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link