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

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)

"Point of Know Return" is my shiiiiiiiit

i have this feeling that the big guns with lots of track noms are going to fall surprisingly low due to vote-splitting across the catalog. not that it bothers me - if Head East ends up in the top spot* that's just all right with me. by the same token i'm having a lot of trouble deciding which Doors is my most hated.

*i assume the top spot in this poll is technically #3 since regardless of the ballots Stairway and Freebird are always #1 and #2 on any Classic Rock Countdown.

hitch a ride is gorgeous

RIP brad delp you sang like an angel and sold rock'n'roll platitudes like your life depended on them and i'm sorry they weren't enough ;_;

rogermexico otm, super-sad

REST IN PEACE BRAD
WE MISS YOU SO BAD

AMANDA

Can someone pls explain this Amanda joke?

Boston - Third Stage

there has not been nearly enough discussion of heart on this thread. a quintessential classic rock band in so many ways: the voice that sounds like it's going to burst through the roof at any moment, the gigantic earworm riffs, the perfectly calibrated acoustic/electric guitar interplay, and really ambitious songwriting..

the acoustic guitar intro to "crazy on you" and the way it opens up into the song is an all-time favorite rock moment for me.

also, "straight on" sounds like a talking heads song.

OOOOOOH BARRA CUDA

"barracuda" was the only ringtone i ever bought.

I would've liked to have voted for one 70s Heart track and one 80s Heart track, but the stuff from the s/t album didn't make it to the final list. ;_;

Barracuda is my #4, though.

Yes, Heart has stood the test of Classic Rock time and passed it with flying colors

/!\ HEAD EAST /!\

Falling: Rainbow, "Since You've Been Gone"
Didn't Head East do this tune first?

I see. :-/

Did you look at the whole thread? There's some truly great ones in there.

Didn't Head East do this tune first?

― Riot In #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, July 5, 2014

They did! Part of the Russ Ballard secret history of rock'n'roll. The Head East version is sillier iirc and probably better for it.

Xp I saw sthg about a wank and that was enough. When I was in 8th gr boys screamed lewd parody verses of that song in the hallway and honestly that was enough! What a shitty song.

I was wondering why I kept thinking I knew 'Jane' from somewhere besides the background sounds of my youth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjs9eUlv2AQ

As I get closer to 100, my cuts seem more and more insane. Bohemian Rhapsody, Tangled Up In Blue, Up On Cripple Creek. Bound and determined to keep some room in the bottom 20 for this to remain an 'interesting' hypothetical radio station. Plus, if I'm honest with myself, those songs don't need Classic Rock radio anymore, but "Do You Know What I Mean?" could really use the boost. It would be awesome if these stations had, like, Forgotten Fridays where they actually weren't permitted to play any of their top 200 songs.

don't feel too bad. I can't remember ever hearing "tangled up in blue" or "up on cripple creek" on classic rock radio. seriously though don't sleep on Kansas.

Long gone.

I've got 531 more songs to review.

No thanks to Point of Know Return

I'm not voting for anything from the 80s, most of that stuff just feels wrong. I mean, much love for Mellencamp but that's totally reactionary roots reenactment rock, And the post-Boston power rock stuff is a different flavor as well. Boston s/t and Journey's Infinity are kind of as far as I'm willing to go in that direction.

Mellencamp will die of vote splitting

"barracuda" was the only ringtone i ever bought.

Hahaha me too!

Listening to Crazy on You right now- that is a singular vocal performance.

Mellencamp will die of vote splitting

We can avoid this and also address the concern about the '80s by all agreeing to vote for "I Need a Lover" (1978!).

AGREED

btw the "games without frontiers" in the playlist is... not the "games without frontiers" you know.

My local station is doing Fourth of July Four-Play, four-in-a-row of your favorite artists. I was kinda stoked about this because their four for the Who were "Baba O'Riley," "You Better, You Bet," "Getting In Tune," and.... "Long Live Rock" ! Unfortunately, it turned out that the four-play does not apply to the whole weekend but only, I guess, to random rock blocks within it. Huge missed opportunity IMO, particularly since the next act they played was BOC; I was convinced they were going to be forced to play something not in the normal rotation. Sigh.

There was so much classic rock on the 4th. All from very loud sound systems not at my location however (we went to a local fireworks show at a small bay close to our house). So the wind would blow in one direction and I'd catch some Boston, or another direction and there'd be some Scorpions. I did catch a relatively uninterrupted Don't Fear the Reaper. But the guy who was setting off the fireworks nearest to us had a small CD boombox with some sort of post-Sublime white reggae and it was skipping. Anyway, he brought in a lot of fireworks on his own dime so I couldn't complain too much, but like, come on man.

102.5 WDVE now playing "Rain on the Scarecrow," writing it in

I will get a larf or two if some write-ins make the rollout.

You and me and people yet to be determined will get "Junior's Farm" on there.

My CR station is doing a song each from the top 10 albums of each year. I heard 1975 and 1979 in the car today

You and me and people yet to be determined will get "Junior's Farm" on there.

― clemenza, Sunday, July 6, 2014 2:37 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

take me down, clemmy

I will get a larf or two if some write-ins make the rollout.

I don't know how many people are planning to vote, but "Amie" might get a significant amount of write-in love.

I'm sure everyone here has seen The Midnight Special TV clips on YouTube. Tons of live 70s classic rock. Where else can you see Little Richard introduce Golden Earring?

Was just looking at the Zeppelin poll rollout and came across this possibly prophetic post:

PG is the weakest double album in the classic rock canon imo
― some dude, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 8:07 PM (2 years ago)

was proven with science too: best big iconic classic rock studio double LP of the 1960s and 1970s

I remember a stoner dude in my school reading aloud from his essay on why Physical Graffiti was Zeppelin's first bad album.

there's no way i'm gonna find room for solo Robert Plant on my ballot given how little space i even have for prime Zep but i can't believe you guys are riding for "Big Log" over "In The Mood"

my CR station is, at this very minute, playing Boston's "Peace of Mind"

PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION

RIP Brad Delp indeed

love u Braf

ugh BRAD even