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

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?

CSNY won that war.

boo!

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.

just vote for other Thorogood. "Move It On Over" and "One Bourbon" are more proper AOR songs.

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

oops did not mean that as a block quote

George deserves no love since he removed "Delaware" from George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers. And even before that he sucked so no worries.

Respect the Rock,

Dale Baker

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

"SIT DOWN? What is this, an Eagles show or something?"

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, July 3, 2014 5:01 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, it's really a pity he backed down from his promise to destroy Delaware

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i guess you guys have never lived in/near cleveland

new DN

i'm going to try and get the guy who wrote this letter to assist in the poll rollout.

As I said, my wife and I went to what we thought was going to be the Classic Rock party of the summer. Unfortunately, our hopes were dashed moments into the first song.

Some rotten bastard had the stones tell us to “Sit down”.

Sit down?

Sit down for George Thorogood? Sit down for Rock N’ Roll? Sit down while George tore into a blistering opening opus. This somehow did not compute in my thinking machine.

I texted my friend and brother in Rock to ask for advice. Do we sit and be respectful to the crowd behind us or do we stand? He texted back and said that Rock N’ Roll has become complacent and that we needed to do what was right.

Well, this thing was bigger than the moment.

The more we break it down, the more beautiful this letter gets.

it led to a lunchtime discussion of whether one could truly rock in dockers or not. Photographic evidence was sought

yeah, it's really a pity he backed down from his promise to destroy Delaware

― some dude, Thursday, July 3, 2014 9:05 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I always read it as Destroyers from Delaware, but really either way...

JUST KIDDING I LOVE YOU DELAWARE

I saw Neil Young awhile back and somebody nearby continued to pass gas.
Now that is a problem.

<---- 50+ and will definitely have Def Lep/Priest/Scorps on my list.

xxpost more like bore-ogood amirite?

<---- 50+ and will definitely have Def Lep/Priest/Scorps on my list.

― Sandy, Thursday, July 3, 2014 2:16 PM

^^ gets it \mm/

Anybody remember these guys? They were all about the ribfests.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Classic_Rock_All-Stars