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

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?

well what do you know, thanks youtube

eminence front was the leadoff track on some balearic/loft style mix cd by some tokyo dj that i listened to on repeat circa 06/07. i think this was what it mixed in to.

and my dark horses are mississippi queen and hair of the dog

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

He plays guitar!
http://youtu.be/XU87294pVx8

I'll definitely give Miss. Queen some help.

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hadn't thought to look up "Classic Rock" on wiki, some interesting history of the format here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_rock

Hoping Funk No. 49 makes the top 10

What you tryin' to haaayyynd meehh!?

Without ever having really thought about it, I guess I kinda assumed that Classic Rock as a format was something that grew out of the success of The Big Chill soundtrack. There were precedents, of course (American Graffiti), but wasn't that really the first time that anyone realized that there was a real market in catering to boomer nostalgia?

that was definitely a watershed - all the kids in my senior high school class were singing along to the Temptations - but as the Wiki link notes the real push came in '82 from Lee Abrams

btw I just rocked out and played air guitar to "Come Sail Away"

mandatory imo

Mississippi Queen is peculiar in that it's one of the most iconic riffs in all of classic rock, but its 2:30 length is basically a sneeze compared to the excess inherent in the format.

Mississippi Sneeeeeze

mississippi queen is gonna/had better be way up there

never got it tbh

smdh

http://beyondthebarbell.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/haters-gonna-hate-panda-300x225.jpg

lol

that said, the YouTube recommendation mosaic that pops up when "mississippi queen" ends is 100% OTM and lol

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/841/9i1a.png