CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL parking lot tailgate pre-party -- nominations, discussions, parameters, etc.

Also: there should be a subpoll for band logos.

^^^

feel like with enough campaigning (skip the first three mins) i could have gotten macho city to place in the disco poll

steve miller was music for people who didn't like music when i was in high school
tons of people would go see him and get wasted and it seemed like that was all they cared about. jimmy buffett people. some of them were nice people but they had corny taste.

a lot of the rest of this stuff (including the other mentioned Miller songs)... ugh, yeah, it has this awful earworm effect due to familiarity, one time I was in a laundromat and "Rosanna" came on and it was like living in hell for a week, it never left my head afterwards. I can hear it now, as I type this, it haunts me. Things like "Maggie May", or the works of Tom Petty, on the other hand, feel lie old friends that don't overstep their boundaries. And they don't get stuck in my head - maybe a relationship?

the former (steve miller earworms) -- the worst of these for me is "wheel in the sky" just typing it makes me tense up bc i know it's here to stay for at least a few min.
the latter (old friends) -- otm, my favorites of these songs really do feel like friends i've had my whole life (lol lonely only) they have kept me company in so many different and varied places!

I had forgotten about that aspect of Steve Miller, but you're right! There was totally a mid-90s Jimmy Buffett-esque vibe to it. White hats.

My hippie friend just went to see Steve Miller Band like a week ago and was raving about the giant LED unicorns that turned on at the beginning of "Fly Like an Eagle" just as the sun was setting.

everyone pls vote for BOC - GODZILLA

v v important

Will do. "Burnin' For You" is going to be very high on my ballot, too.

Has "Stone Cold" by Rainbow been nominated yet?

― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, June 27, 2014

amazingly, no. i second this nomination!

I love Burnin, Godzilla, and the Reaper -- will vote, no campaigning needed

Which Tom Petty songs will rise to the top? The Waiting + Refugee + Break Down are my all time favorites. I think? I think I'm going to vote for the songs I most like to sing or to turn it up, man.

is breakdown one word or two
anyway -- i love the way he says "don't" in that song

yeah Tom Petty is an interesting one where i wanna see what songs win out. i feel like "American Girl" has primacy but there's like 5-10 songs that are all major players.

Whoa, just took a closer look at the list. I nominate:

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Even The Losers

Led Zeppelin - In The Evening
Led Zeppelin - Nobody's Fault But Mine

I've never heard "Even the Losers" on CR but damn that is an exhilarating song. Basically I love Tom Petty though, fuiud

yooo bedda wadda wadda yooo say

best pic of tom petty
https://www.byebuys.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/799367-1200x1197.jpg

sorry so large

no way, shd be LARGER <3

he could've been in Children of the Corn if he'd been born later

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Even The Losers

Led Zeppelin - In The Evening
Led Zeppelin - Nobody's Fault But Mine

cosign the 1st 2, not sure about the 3rd

petty photo missing long earring. I love that time in the 80s when every old rocker (petty, dylan, keef) wore single dangly obelisk earrings.

early photo, no earring, but WHOA what a hunk:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_iRCC46ILdk/TwXelMqMnJI/AAAAAAAADeg/5vFoCynDnX4/s1600/Tom%252BPetty.jpg

looks like a still from "dazed and confused."

stoned, immaculate

fun fact, Tom Petty was considered to be in the "punk" category early on:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Whitmans-Punk-Sampler/master/478953

well he was no more punk, and was considered no more punk, than talking heads, who also seem to be on that sampler. but he was absolutely marketed, and received, as a left-of-the-dial underground taste when he started out, his (minor) pop hits notwithstanding.

...hence the quote marks

yeah it's pretty easy to imagine a world where Petty didn't keep the hits coming or get any bigger than "American Girl" and got considered some kind of new wave/power pop guy instead of a classic rock staple

I love Tom Petty, even though he's one of the worst and most notorious "disco sucks" rock dudes afaik

cosign the 1st 2, not sure about the 3rd

― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, June 27, 2014

haha i hesitated on that but then i was like fuck it this rules let the hivemind sort it out

yeah there's a lightness, a sprightliness to his early stuff that probably fit more with stuff like elvis costello or the pretenders. All three are considered "classic rock"-ish now but I imagine they sounded very separate from that thing at the time?

the funniest thing abt Tom Petty for me is that his most overtly "I am all about roots y'all" album sported his only glorious stab at synthpop as its lead single.

yeah in those days he was absolutely peers with the likes of elvis c and the pretenders. and as far as the rest of the world was concerned, all of them were way closer to the ramones than to, say, the eagles or fleetwood mac.

yup. seems crazy in retrospect because dude fukn took the castle \m/

yeah in those days he was absolutely peers with the likes of elvis c and the pretenders.

He shared the bill with Elvis Costello once or twice in 1977.

all of them were way closer to the ramones than to, say, the eagles or fleetwood mac.

Did the Ramones see it this way?

the funniest thing abt Tom Petty for me is that his most overtly "I am all about roots y'all" album sported his only glorious stab at synthpop as its lead single.

― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Friday, June 27, 2014 3:33 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The confederate flag backdrop on that tour was decidedly less-than-glorious, though.

yeah I was basically a 14 y.o. who really liked synths and exotic sounds and fantastical music videos and bought Southern Accents on the strength of DCAHNM and was like dang.

well, rock fans, i've been working all day at getting the nominations list finalized before the family and i pack up for a weekend at the beach. but there are just SO MANY new noms in this thread to sift through that it's taking longer than i anticipated. so, with apologies, i'm gonna have to put off launching the voting thread til Monday. feel free to throw a few more on the pile over the weekend. keep on rockin'!

baby baby baby

Have fun at the beach!

don't know about u guys but i have lots of chooglin' scheduled for my weekend

I have a suspicion Don't Fear the Reaper could actually take this, or at least go top ten. ILX hearts BOC, right?

Will be voting up some Petty but not American Girl - love the rhythm and the 'feel' but could never get past the lame emptiness of the title/refrain, like, wait, that's like, fifty states worth of girls. What is this supposed to connote? What associations or heartstrings exactly is this supposed to tug on? Clearly it worked, hitwise, but just seems like a missed opportunity.

Foghat's my dark horse pick to win this thing.

F all y'all's I, 107.7 THE BONE is currently playing "synchronicity ii" by The Police.

Suck it, doubters. Classic, QED. Followed by Ozzy, "no more tears" \m/

Earlier today I heard Eminence Front- kind of a quintessential Classic Rock Radio track- for years I had heard it and had no idea it was the Who. It's an uncharacteristic tune by a classic band, so I suspect it may have had that effect on alot of people. Maybe it always sounds so good because it's not on any of the Who records I have, so I only ever hear it when it pops up on CRR. For all I know they play it all the time. In any event it'll get a big vote from me.

yeah that's a classic CR track for sure

The weird thing is, "Eminence Front" didn't even make the top 40 in the US -- "Athena" was a much bigger hit (#28), and was all over AOR (and top 40) radio in 1982. Sensibly, cr radio in retrospect realized "Eminence Front" was the far better song.

Daltrey supposedly said it was the only song on It's Hard worthy of release. It's also one of two post-Moon songs the Who still play live.

they play emminence front live? What does roger do, check his email?