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

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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.

Not huge into Allmans but I would've considered "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" for a write-in.

I love that your story involves Herschel! Herschel was awesome!

all of you who think Ride Like The Wind doesn't belong on your lists are wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0HzWMqLeiE&feature=kp

just cooked up some early polling data to help gr80 get started on the graphics and wow u early voters have great taste

:D

all of you who think Ride Like The Wind doesn't belong on your lists are wrong

The parts where the arrangement blows up and the backing vox go BA DA DA DUP! DUP DUP DUP DUUUUP! And cross goes RIIIIDE! make me feel super insane. Those bits really feel like he is being driven before a cavalry of demons.

xp I'm just glad I'm finally being recognized for it

It's funny xp, I was reading the backstory where he had the idea of a man on the run, then dropped acid and sat down and wrote it, and I was all 'pah this is no acid song, it's hardly the Green Manalishi'. But you make a convincing case.

Whoa, that is pretty good. never heard this before. dismissed christopher cross out of hand during my pre-ballot listening. I think I might have confused him with someone else.

No, you didn't. Ride Like the Wind is kind of an anomaly.

yeah, lol, listening to Sailing right now.

What is that classic rock song that references Sgt Pepper's Band playing? is that Spinning Wheel? Man I hate that song so much.
Didn't realize how much I liked that Boz Scaggs track, Lido Shuffle.

'High on PCP, Cross claimed he felt the oppressive weight of moving to New York was crushing him, and his only escape was to stand on his rooftop, with the full moon beckoning him ever closer to the precipitous edge. As he was coming down he took to the piano to write what would ultimately romantic ballad rather than the intense psych voyage he had believed he was working on.

"Summer Rain," Johnny Rivers?

What is that classic rock song that references Sgt Pepper's Band playing? is that Spinning Wheel? Man I hate that song so much.
Didn't realize how much I liked that Boz Scaggs track, Lido Shuffle.

He wrote it on acid? Good to know!

Green manalishi into RLTW is a good covers medley idea

Oh pcp lol xpost

Ride Like The Wind has a cool mini-epic intensity, only partially deflated by my being unable to picture it without the SCTV clip as posted above, god that shit is hilarious. I also totally rep for Sailing, different kinda song but man: Just a dream of wind to CARRY me!, never before has a bourgeois leisure activity been rendered so transcendent. TBH I don't hear either of them as "classic rock" at all, either sonically or in terms of airplay.

Wow, I always forget "Summer Rain" exists, yeah, that's a little...much. Nice atmosphere in the verses, knockoff Mamas & the Papas sixties emo thing, but Johnny Rivers has a unique knack for overdoing it on every damned recording. His "Memphis" is a travesty, "Secret Agent Man" is at best okay-ish but would still be way better with almost anybody singing on it.

my childhood marked by the unfortunate mishearing of SE-CRET ASIAN MAN!