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

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.

when I got down to 105 I considered handing Mr Veg my ballot and getting him to do the cuts for me.

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

And that's why I didn't include any Beatles

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, July 3, 2014

^^
AND WE WERE
VOTIN
VOTIN
INTO THE NIIIIIGHT

BALLOT SENT

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.

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!

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

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.")

But yeah, Archie Bell didn't seem to fit.

Will totally join the Mr. Blue Sky write-in campaign.

i have no Who, no Def Lep, i don't know how to feel

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!

otm re cutting stuff that feels 80's vs classic rock, I'm totally the same way

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)

same wrt 80s stuff though i'm really struggling with "missing you" :(

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 bringin' on the heartbreak itt

(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.)

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

can't/won't/don't wanna imagine my classic rock radio without rock blocks of scorps/priest

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.

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.

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.

Oh there will definitely be a good chunk of eighties music on my ballot. That's my childhood!

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.

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

can't/won't/don't wanna imagine my classic rock radio without rock blocks of scorps/priest

not hairbands imo

I'll probably be the dufus voting for Joe Jackson "Stepping Out" in the hairband poll too, and that dude is bald as fuk

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!

(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.)

next up: a bogan rock poll

My ballot is entirely Who. And I think some Sly.

/can't/won't/don't wanna imagine my classic rock radio without rock blocks of scorps/priest/

not hairbands imo
--polyamanita (sleeve)

Mine either :)

WRAPPED UP LIKE A DOUCHE

looooool

timing of this poll is so perfect, awesome summer/4th of july weekend music

ELO's "livin thing" on the radio right now, might need to write-in for it

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"

trying to weigh whether "I Can't Tell You Why" is worth a write-in vote

Well, yeah.

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrpP1BDCEAAw_-R.jpg

WRAPPED UP LIKE A DOUCHE

I'll write it in if you write it in xp. It's their best song, but I find it hard to imagine as a CR staple.

Yikes - I'm talking about I Can't Tell You Why of course.

If it weren't a cr staple, I would not know it. That's a good litmus test for me imo!

onto the ballot it goes

yeah I absolutely hear it on classic rock radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIHfuihoz70

^ does this version of Woodstock ever get any play or is it always the CSNY one?