CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL voting thread -- deadline July 15 -- VOTING CLOSED

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

"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, 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.

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

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.

Not directed at you personally, JF, but I believe that first sentence is the seventh sign of the apocalypse.

Haha

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

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.

lol I don't remember those videos thankfully....and i'm not going to look them up because i love those songs so much

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.

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.

pretty sure I thought Toto and Asia were the same band until this poll

Would be funny to hear Asia do Africa.

Foolin' is so awesome. The song has something like 5 distinct sections which is kind of crazy for a pop metal tune.

Right? And it never feels forced. It just moves along exactly the way it should.

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.

Don't mind me. Just bringing the mountain (erm) to Vegemitegrrl.

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<3

joe wtf are u wearing

This seems pertinent: http://gawker.com/styx-and-foreigners-tour-buses-catch-fire-in-philly-par-1599334914

ha! beat me to it...alright, which one of you "hot blooded" folks are responsible for this "cold as ice" classic rock arson

I don't see any "All That It's Worth" by Buffalo Springsteen. Worst poll ever.

― 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.

I can't get an accurate bead on the extent to which you can't tell that pleasant plains is hella joking.

Buffalo Springsteen Again

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.

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?

Unfair, untrue, uninformed

fair point. xp

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, 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.

xxpost myonga speaks the truth. Another way to phrase it would be: rong, rong and rong.

all the REO on the list rules obv. "keep on loving you" is my karaoke ace in the hole

oh man.. i haven't listened to "sweet emotion" in a long time. so cool, such a cool bassline.

Roll With the Changes is good stuff, but Take it on the Run where I spend my REO dollars.

idk maybe you'd better listen to roll with the changes again.

Heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from another you've been overhyping Roll With the Changes.

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

I'll be here when you are ready to vote for Roll with the Changes. xp

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.

It's a shame Ridin' the Storm Out didn't make the list. pre-Cronin REO is definitely more "classic rock" classic rock.

No Mario Meatwagon for me, thank you

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.

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

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, 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.

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.

I decided to stop myself at top 50 because of those micro distinctions between 51 and 301

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.

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.

feeling a little bad about cutting Triumph but man, getting this down to 100 is brutal

first pass = 300

ugggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

is this what ranking your children feels like? ;_;