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

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

So much loool in Dale Baker's letter.
Also, fuck him for thinking that people from Pittsburgh do not take their rock seriously. We just jumped off that crappy George Thorogood train around 1979.

"Everybody's funny...now Pittsburgh's funny too"

We just jumped off that crappy George Thorogood train around 1979

oh, i don't think that's true at all

http://www.theonion.com/articles/bad-to-the-bone-to-be-used-in-film,3903/

nice!

haha I think of that article every time I hear that song, though in my memory the soundtracked scene involved a baby putting on sunglasses.

shhh, mookieproof... I'm gearing up to have a WDVE listening marathon this weekend while I do my ballot and I'm trying to manifest a reality in which I can get through 3 days without having to hear that shit.

I just noticed that Fleetwood Mac - Never Going Back Again is not on the list. I might write that one in.

251 after the second cut

ooh good catch, i may have to as well

I think I love every single by Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship.

Also, if you don't know "Starship Trooper", pls listen thx.

I hadn't heard Atlanta Rhythm Section's "so into you" before, what a nice southern groove.

can't believe i didn't put Supertramp's "Bloody Well Right" in the list, that's the song of theirs i really love

Alright I have never knowingly heard Asia before this moment. My goodness, this is silly.

one thing led to another; they were young

Listening to some of these songs through a sound system better than the one in a 1978 Pinto is a weird revelation. The bass in "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" really throbs!

Jumping around in some dude's Spotify playlist and hitting re-recordings is depressing as hell.

Yeah, "takin care of business" just doesn't sound as good if it's not a) on a slightly distorted radio or b) on the pa system after a memphis grizzlies home game victpry

Just realized that Spill the Wine is some sort of inspiration for Guided by Voices "Hot Freaks". Pollard must have been guided by Burdon that day:

"I was taken to a place
The hall of the mountain kings
I stood high by the mountain tops
Naked to the world"

"i walked into the house of miraculous recovery
and stood before king everything
and he asked me to join him in the red wing
took me to pie land
said, "i'm a thigh man"
i will be eternally hateful"

i am pleased to say that the Spotify playlist of nominated tracks is DONE and fully stocked with 59 hours of music: http://open.spotify.com/user/1219464571/playlist/54fE6NUiIkUpeR4WENZWWr

Jumping around in some dude's Spotify playlist and hitting re-recordings is depressing as hell.

― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Thursday, July 3, 2014 10:28 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

been trying to avoid those, but obviously spotify is a minefield for that kind of thing. feel free to point out songs that have the wrong version in the playlist and i'll try to fix 'em (maybe also tell me what album to search for to get the right one if you can).

thanks for the list. been listening for the last couple days

Wish I'd thought to nominate "And We Danced" and "All You Zombies" by The Hooters, even though I'd probably be the only person who'd consider voting for either.

i'd consider voting for them in an 80s poll

I hit three rerecordings this morning in the A's and thought the list might have a lot of them throughout, but haven't caught any since. Here are those 3 --

The Animals -- both tracks. Grab the ones on The Animals Retrospective, the 2nd album in their band overview.

Atlanta Rhythm Section - "So Into You" - scroll down to the 20th Century Masters: The Millenium Collection and that's the good one. That one on 70s Classics is pretty good -- almost had me fooled.

I don't want to pick nits too hard though -- that playlist is a great piece of work, thanks for assembling.

nah picking nits is good and helpful in this sitch. thanks!

would have definitely voted for The Hooters

Both Badfingers are rerecordings, but looks like the original versions aren't available at all.

Blondie's "One Way or Another" is rerecorded. Weirdly, the only place I could find the original is on the Mean Girls soundtrack album.