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

lola def

xps I meant Jackson Browne's Cocaine. Clapton's might be more CR, but it is also awful.

f y'all's i ELP's "lucky man" is a jam

I would probably also vote for ''Destroyer,'' definitely would with a longer ballot. I was thinking more of the mid-sixties rockers, I love ''All Day'' etc. I guess I have to try and remember classic rock as it once was, not only in terms of songs they play now but would never have back then, but also the other way round. Not that this makes balloting any easier...

I've got my hundred, just need to order them now. Last cut: The Faces - Stay With Me. My list is now Rodless.

the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" is definitely getting a lofty position on my ballot.

also just a reminder to the thread that no song hammers as much rock 'n' roll into your ears as "Satisfaction" does

still have 40 to cut. this is horrific. the remaining survivors just had to eat quarterflash.

You'll have to harden your heart and swallow your tears.

god this is hard to watch. now they're burning robert plant's solo career to keep the wolves away for one more night.

lord of the flies

(pause for crotch pun)

I got it down to 100, although I'll probably let it marinate before sending it. I dropped some Zep/Yes/Rush to make room for more diversity, even though I probably do like "Whole Lotta Love" more than "Hot Child in the City".

I'm a little surprised that the Cars don't seem classic rock enough for some people. (I mean, I get it but.) "Just What I Needed" might actually seem like the most typique song for my local classic rock station these days!

we're voting for favorite/best, not 'song that most embodies the CR aesthetic', right

we're voting for favorite/best, not 'song that most embodies the CR aesthetic', right

― mookieproof, Saturday, July 5, 2014 1:18 AM (1 minute ago)

Different people always tackle these things differently. I use a combination of those factors. As I said a while ago, I think 'Good Vibrations' pisses over the majority of these songs, but it isn't "classic rock" as I understand/experience it, so it won't make my ballot. The Stones will definitely make my ballot, but I'm more likely to vote for 'Gimme Shelter' than 'Paint It Black', because though I prefer the latter the former seems more apt.

A mix of both approaches for me, like 85/15 or so. xp

Hrm, if others are voting for Hot Child in the City, maybe I should go for it...

Hard for me to not vote for every queen song.

― Jeff

This is my dilemma as well. Also, Tom Petty. I think I finally have them pared down to three songs each.

^^^better be voting for donnie iris

"waiting for a girl like you" is one of my favorite songs ever but to me it's more "adult contemporary" than "classic rock"

yeah foreigner is mad classic rock but 4 isn't. juke box hero would have made my list of 130 anyway.

listen you guys, hair of the dog is bitchin and all but let's be real: love hurts is the business

fuckin looooooove it

I KNOOOOOW IT ISNT TRUUUUUE

^^^better be voting for donnie iris

― mookieproof, Friday, July 4, 2014 10:36 PM (Yesterday)

Of course I am! And then I'm gonna eat a Primanti's sandwich to seal the deal!

Also: VegemiteGrrl otm about Love Hurts, I will likely wind up with both Nazareth songs on my list.

Anybody have anything nice to say about Steve Forbert? Is Adam Duritz a fan?

I tossed out a few limp words upthread. That's a nice song. Adam Duritz is plausible. I somehow recall that Ben Folds is a big fan of Dean Friedman ("Ariel") so, sure.

First cut I was merciless and I still ended up with 178. FUCK!

Even less mercy took me down to 100 (including two write-ins). Now how the hell am I going to rank these?

Also surprising (well not really in this context, but I wasn't expecting it), the only artist with three entries on my ballot is The Doobies.

we're voting for favorite/best, not 'song that most embodies the CR aesthetic', right

I'm approaching it this way, yeah - as a britisher I've never really experienced CR radio and while there's a lot of stuff on the noms list I definitely wouldn't normally think of as classic rock I'm just accepting that the CR format has its quirks.

Even less mercy took me down to 100 (including two write-ins). Now how the hell am I going to rank these?

WmC had a good technique he explained somewhere upthread. Basically go through and pull out your absolute favorites, rank them. Then go through and pull out the ones that barely made the cut, rank them. Then do whatever with the leftovers.

yeah i started my ballot from the top down

Did "Radioactive" by the Firm even make the nominations list? Cuz that's a likely write-in for me.

It's on the list.

I remember reading somewhere (Hammer of the Gods?) about how post-Zep Page had come up with Stairway II, and was rumoured for ages to be possibly even more amazing, but never managed to put together properly; then when it was released, I'm pretty sure by The Firm, sunk without trace. What song was it?

"Midnight Moonlight" was based on the Physical Graffiti outtake "The Swan Song"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB04NpFx-3Q

good lord that cheeseball fretless bass though

Going through the nominations with my wife, it's a fun exercise - she dismisses >75% of the list as either not rockin' (mostly the singer-songwriter stuff), too heavy metal (Priest, Sabbath and the 80s hair metal songs), too new wave or too oldies (the 60s stuff, Beatles/Stones/Kinks/The Who) so if I go with her condensed list it actually makes it a lot easier.

It's on the list.

― carl agatha, Saturday, July 5, 2014 12:30 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh, duh. Don't know how I missed it. Good!

got to concentrate

For all the trumpeting I did of "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" in the nominations thread, I actually forgot to vote for it.

listen you guys, hair of the dog is bitchin and all but let's be real: love hurts is the business

fuckin looooooove it

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, July 4, 2014 10:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Couldn't believe "Hair of the Dog" the first time I heard it on the radio as a child, and the talk box part still causes me to laugh uncontrollably for some reason. Definitely making my ballot over "Love Hurts"

/!\ HEAD EAST /!\

Also just realized upon re-listening that "Hair of the Dog" is the "Day Tripper" riff.

haha i'd been trying to figure out what those 2 songs resembled for ages without realizing it was each other, you just blew my mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih6XjO_fhrI

Probably exactly what you're referring to, but sorry, can't pass that up.

kramer definitely put that phrase in my vocabulary, fair game

Was just listening to Hair of the Dog in the car. Such a perfect musical distillation of the emotion of now messing with a son-of-a-bitch. Love the Beatles connection!

it kinda weirds me out that "Hair of the Dog" and "Love Hurts" are from the same band, much less the same album

kramer definitely put that phrase in my vocabulary, fair game
― some dude, Saturday, July 5, 2014

As close as the MC5 will get to this poll, or to Classic Rock Radio. Which is too bad--Back in the USA should be a staple.

/!\ HEAD EAST /!\

― guwop (crüt), Saturday, July 5, 2014

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so i've had a chance to spend some time with the playlist in a car AS GOD INTENDED.

Rising: Kansas, "Point of Know Return" (oh yeeeeeeesss it out-Styx's Styx.)
Rising: Boston, "HItch a Ride"
Falling: Rainbow, "Since You've Been Gone" (i remembered this as a banger but today it just sounded mad corny)