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