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

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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-classic-rock-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/

Beginning to think ILX is the rest of the internet's lab rat.

Fuck "R.E.M. is now classic rock."

Will be interesting to see how our countdown lines up with those top tracks.

“We start from a set of artists and use a lot of complicated math to extrapolate the rest of the universe if those artists are the the center of it,” McDonald said. In order to define a genre, first McDonald has to find out the relationships among different artists. To do that, he relies on a mountain of data that The Echo Nest collects from users and elsewhere. “We have listening histories and machines that go read the web,” he said. “We read charts, we read reviews, we read blog posts, we read news articles, Wikipedia entries, pretty much anything we’re legally allowed to read.”

reading between the lines: your ILX poll votes matter!

:D

lool u know that's an ILX poster being quoted, right?

Whoops, didn't notice that. Hi Glenn!

Oh ha, totally didn't make that connection either!

I should have nom'd Zep's take on "Traveling Riverside Blues", since for years the only place you could hear it was during "deep cuts" on classic rock radio

was thinking about that as I consider cutting all Zep except "Hey Hey What Can I Do" for similar reasons

otm, the thing is I really cannot imagine a classic rock station of any merit not playing "When the Levee Breaks" - but yeah, if it had to be only one, "Hey Hey What Can I Do" would kinda be the right one.

also how tf did Fairport Convention's "Genesis Hall" make this but T. Rex's "20th Century Boy" get cut

i was more likely to leave in a song i haven't heard on the radio if the same band didn't also already have other songs that were clearly far more popular.

Have never heard any T-Rex on CR besides "Bang a Gong" but my status as an expert on this kind of thing has more or less been torn to tatters.

I've heard "20th Century Boy" occasionally.

"20th Century Boy" entered the US consciousness when it was in a Mitsubishi commercial 12-15 years ago.

tbh I've never managed to get it straight vs. "21st Century Digital Boy," which I heard probably once, at age 12 or 13, in a parked car at Atlanta's Toco Hills shopping center. Not on Classic Rock Radio.

xxxpost yes! "hey hey what can I do" is the most Classic Rock Radio zep

Fuck "R.E.M. is now classic rock."

agreed, but "The One I Love" is still classic rock canon.

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Glad to see Seattle gets all Yessed out.

I left in hey hey what can I do and one other zeppelin song that I consist to be particularly crr.

I'm pleased to note that I've already received 14 ballots and we're less than 50% through the voting period. I've responded to every e-mail I've gotten, so let me know if you sent one and haven't heard back from me.

I used to hear "Jeepster" a lot, almost as much as "Bang a Gong." Never heard "20th Century Boy" publicly aired except for that car ad.

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

^^^ this needs to be repeated frequently.

FRANKENSTEIN, ppl

and Free Ride.

AND Slowbird

omg slowbird

Writing in slowbird

Danger: slowbird

is there anything more classic rock than being called 'the florida guitar army'

The master list of songs from the fivethirtyeight article:
https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/classic-rock/classic-rock-song-list.csv

Correction (1:23 p.m., July 7, 2014): A previous version of this article misspelled Thin Lizzy.

the classic rock canon sorted by year of release can only be modelled as a bell curve centered on 1975 IMO

looks more like 78 tbh

free ride so awesome!!!!

I always get it muddled up in my head with Free's 'All Right Now', just bc of 'free' appearing in both.

'All right now' is one of those trap songs, where you remember it being cool and you dig hearing it after a long time and then you're like OH WAIT THIS SONG GOES FOR 900 YEARS FUCK OFFFFFFFFF

rong

in fact it's exactly opposite

way rong

"all right now" is so so hot

"Let's move before they raise the parking rates!"

I didn't listen to any classic rock today. I feel like a failure.

Considering all the babes in classic rock songs, for some reason I feel the one in "All Right Now" to be the hottest.

I have no grounds for this.

I actually go through huge oscillations with "All Right Now" - sometimes I'm so stoked and sometimes I'm super bored; this can probably be tracked inversely based on how much I'm in the mood for "Free Ride" and/or "Slow Ride."

It's definitely on the ballot but it might be a coin-toss whether it's in the top 30 or the bottom...

i was luke-warm on 'all right now' until a stretch in the mid-90s when i became invincible at pool when it was playing in a particular anchorage bar

i'm really into the 'favorite classic rock album' category, Rumours, at least half those songs are deserved staples. and the first led zeppelin album, i want to believe that DJs just played the whole thing uninterrupted

my dad was a bit of a jazzbo -- he saw coltrane in '63 -- and otherwise into classical, such that i attended the symphony as a kid (tympani rule iirc) and have vivid memories of listening to shostakovich while playing yahtzee

so he didn't really get into classic rock until i did, which happened because school + pittsburgh. at some point he heard something on the radio that he liked and called the station to find out what it was, and wdve's herschel told him, with no condescension, that it was 'sympathy for the devil'

i think his first CR album was 'get yer ya-ya's out' on cassette, but ultimately ac/dc became his favorite. he appreciates absurd over-the-top lyrics. pretty sure he heard 'thunderstruck' before i did

i love that

tympani rule iirc

hell yeah. tympani are basically the classic rock section of an orchestra.