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

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

Ballot sent, not a deep cut on it. So joyous to get to cast a vote for Supertramp, Bryan Adams, et al.

These are my write-in votes:
• Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
• Fleetwood Mac - Hypnotized
• Cream - Badge
• Chris Rea - Josephine
• Survivor - Burning Heart
• The Eagles - I Can't Tell You Why
• Genesis - Tonight Tonight Tonight
• Chris Rea - On The Beach
• Paul Simon - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
• Dire Straits - So Far Away

I ranked by imagining my platonic ideal Classic Rock station: K-LATA if you will. If I was in the mood for Classic Rock, like really in the mood, and I turned it on at random, what would it be playing to scratch that itch?

Abracadabra is a good one

Ah "So Far Away" definitely gets enough spins that it shoulda been nommed

in the wild: "d'yer maker" (speaking of songs that obviously should have had different titles when I was a kid) followed by "night moves" at meatpacking district bar just now. one of these two songs has an excellent chance to be on my ballot; the other does not.

and now "the waiting." i think i shall stay here awhile.

In the wild, getting dinner:

Maggie May > Livin' in the USA (Ronstadt) > Don't Stop Believin' > Come Sail Away

I like one and voted for it, I like another but not enough to vote for it, and I wouldn't clean up cat puke with the other two.

agree: night moves and maggie may are all-time

I always remember "Night Moves" as the song Pete sings at the end of American Pop

In the wild (sort of): went to the back yard to have a smoke and a guy rode by on his Harley blasting "Gimme Three Steps," thank you kind biker.

In the final stages of paring down my list/programming my dream CR station and fuuuuuuuuck, which is better? "Lights" or "Lovin' Touchin" Squeezin"?

i used to think "Lights" but now i lean toward "Squeezin'." but the top Journey on my ballot will be "Any Way You Want It" and "Separate Ways." i may include all four. and "Stone In Love." and "Don't Stop Believin'." and a write-in vote for "Feeling That Way." fuuuuck Journey has got jams.

heard "rock and roll never forgets" and "main street" 20+ times on my uncle's motorboat tape deck one summer

"Lights" is my favorite Journey song these days, it's very "driving home on early sunday morning" evocative

yeah, "Lights" is pretty dreamy. even thought i know it's about San Francisco, in my mind the city by the bay is Baltimore.

stone in love and wheel in the sky are the most classic rock Journey. faithfully is the greatest ballad Journey.

lights is sublime but living in the bay area I can't separate it from the local narcissism that end in Train.

i love 'wheel in the sky'

"endS in Train," obv

I'm curious about this soundtrack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream,_After_Dream
It's Journey in 81 but it's supposed to be more progier/jammier like the early stuff. Love that first album a bunch.

"Wheel in the Sky" is already safe on my list, trying to decide what the second Journey song is gonna be! Nobody gets more than a three song rock block and I can only spare a handful of those, Journey can only have a two-fer! This is starting to make me cry!

agree: night moves and maggie may are all-time

yes: of the two songs i mentioned in my "night moves" post, "night moves" was indeed the all-time one.

xp

As your Journey sommelier, let me recommend "Stone in Love" -- it's from a good vintage but easily overlooked. You could call it the Journey lover's Journey song.

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As your Journey sommelier, let me recommend "Stone in Love" -- it's from a good vintage but easily overlooked. You could call it the Journey lover's Journey song.

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra)

YOU PEOPLE.

Now I am remembering how great Stone in Love is! The blue jean girl! He'll keep her forever!

Also: having to choose between Caught Up in You and Hold On Loosely is too cruel. It's Sophie's Choice. I can't do it.

Just want to make sure that everybody is voting for "Spirit In the Sky." That is all.

I wanted to have so many rock blocks - i think i only ended up with 1 and it was not 38 special ;_;

Sandy, check out this classic thread:

"Stone in Love" - Classic or Greatest 4:25 In The History Of The Bay Area?

weird poll for me -- like, 'it's only rock 'n' roll' is nowhere near my favorite stones song, but it seems to fit ~classic rock~ more perfectly than the others

i can assure you that 'stone in love' was very high on my list tho

Yeah, there's a strong chance my only Stones will be "It's Only Rock And Roll" and "Heartbreaker" for this reason. "Wild Horses" and "Beast of Burden" are also very classic rock, but I'm just not as attached to 'em.

also while i <3 in a big country, for example, that ain't CR imo so

my #1 stones right now, and this is subject to change, is "can't you hear me knocking," which is probably my favorite post-'70s stones (except for maybe "happy," which isn't on the list). i do hear it on cr radio. but i don't hear it a lot on cr radio, certainly not as much as some of the tracks mentioned above (except "heartbreaker," which i never hear). so it's not the MOST classic rock of classic rock tracks, but it IS classic rock, and it's the one i like most, and if i were running this cr station, every time a dj wanted to play "it's only rock and roll," i'd run into the booth and make him play "knocking" instead. otherwise, djs would have lots of freedom at my station, but on this particular point, they would not.

Included on my ballot, but probably underrated: That Smell. The backing vocals alone on that are so immense. "You fool you!"

WHISKEY BOTTLE
BRAND NEW CAR
OAK TREE YOU'RE IN MY WAY

that's how you open a song

FUCK YES.

I've been sitting on my ballot since Thursday thinking I might revisit it and switch some stuff around, but I've decided to just ship it. I pulled it together very quickly and I'm sure that I'll regret my picks and order, but what can you do? I definitely gave priority to tracks that I personally like even if they don't fit the Classic Rock format very well, we'll see how that goes...

yeah even second-tier skynyrd is monstrous. you could justify a ROCK BLOCK on the ballot even without "sweet home" and "freebird"

How have I never noticed the bongos in "Two Tickets to Paradise" before?

And I did! xp

absolutely xxp

Doing the final look-over of my list today before submitting and Skynyrd might be the one band that breaks my no-more-than-three-songs-per-artist rule. And Free Bird isn't even one of the four songs on my short list.

green grass and high tides is such a (literal) jam

Just submitted because I figured there's no way I'm gonna have time to hear the ~400 songs I don't know. Narrowed it down to 55 songs that cross the "is great song" and "is classic rock" thresholds. Barely spent time ordering apart from the top five picks, which I felt was in the spirit of radio

haha "spirit of radio"

Just want to make sure that everybody is voting for "Spirit In the Sky." That is all.

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^^^ Not much of a classic rock radio listener, but I'm pretty sure my local doesn't play this anymore, if they ever did.

such a weird song. one of the coolest, sleaziest-sounding riffs ZZ Top never wrote, and then homeboy starts singing about having a friend in Jesus.