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

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

big chill soundtrack is more oldies imo but it was my first exposure to legit pop music, dancing in the streets vividly the first song I can recall hearing in my head when it wasn't playing (my parents didn't play much pop/rock when i was growing up)

Come Sail Away also has to be a huuuuge odds-on favorite here, I'm imagining it in a lot of people's top tiers and almost everybody's ballots somewhere. Plus it's itching for the rematch after "Come Sail Away" vs. "More than a Feeling" vs. "Don't Stop Believing" - it's tough, it's hungry, it's ready.

on that "I Know Where You're Going..." song by James Gang, Joe Walsh totally effs up the guitar rhythm at one part. what's that song really called, btw?

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, July 30, 2004 12:05 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ have never been able to shake this post re "Funk #49." I have no idea if the mistake is there or what kind of thing "ken taylrr" is even talking about but even as a fantasy it's always kinda deflated the song for me, like it's this sort of "ta-da, guitar song for our axe-man" song and he's just screwing up the tempo everywhere. Nonetheless I love the vocals and the main riff to death. James and/or the Gang should have sued Loggins over "Footloose."

my post-sopranos disdain for "don't stop believin'" is firm but damn if it shouldn't be top 10 here

funk #49 is a masterpiece warts and all

mississippi queen has a fucking monster riff and doesn't wear it out. launching point for böc, and not just for the cow bell

funk no.49 is why we dearly beloved are gathered here today in this church of classic rock music

BEEEWWWW
B-BEWWWWW-BEWWWWWW
BEWWWW-BEWWWWW-BEWWWWWW
BEEDLEOooooooo
SKWROWWWWWNK
SKWROWWWWWWNK-SKWROWWWNK

I stan for a few Styx classics, but Come Sail Away is not one of them.

cmon johnny fever, loosen up

I'd set my computer on fire before I'd vote for Styx.

you babies

i will be voting for "Renegade" in this poll.

I'd set my computer on fire before I'd vote for Styx.

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you're fooling yourself

Thing is, I'm old enough to have gotten drenched in that stuff daily on its first go-round. Bostonkansasforeignerstyxtriumphtotojourney was way overplayed around here. There's a lot of 70s rock that I look back at with fondness, but not Bostonkansasforeignerstyxtriumphtotojourney.

boston fking rules

mississippi queen has a fucking monster riff and doesn't wear it out. launching point for böc, and not just for the cow bell

― mookieproof, Friday, June 27, 2014 11:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agree. That song is of nuclear strength for its time. Mountain had other killer songs but this is the only one with CR legacy.