But yeah, Archie Bell didn't seem to fit.
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
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
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrpP1BDCEAAw_-R.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
Yikes - I'm talking about I Can't Tell You Why of course.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
If it weren't a cr staple, I would not know it. That's a good litmus test for me imo!
― La Lechera, Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
onto the ballot it goes
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
yeah I absolutely hear it on classic rock radio
― guwop (crüt), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIHfuihoz70
^ does this version of Woodstock ever get any play or is it always the CSNY one?
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
CSNY won that war.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
boo!
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
I'm trying to extract "Bad to the Bone" the song from "Bad to the Bone" the cultural wallpaper and it's not making it any better. Screw that song.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
just vote for other Thorogood. "Move It On Over" and "One Bourbon" are more proper AOR songs.
― some dude, Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Perfect Timing!
http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2014/07/02/this-george-thorogood-fan-is-not-happy-with-the-crowd-at-least-nights-show
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
oops did not mean that as a block quote
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
George deserves no love since he removed "Delaware" from George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers. And even before that he sucked so no worries.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
Respect the Rock,Dale Baker
Dale Baker
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
this gem from the comments:
A lot of bands don't even want to play here because there are times where Cleveland Rockers have the attitude "you gotta prove to me you are good" --for example-Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes about it
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link