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

break the rules and vote both imo

I understand about indecision

Midnight Rider IMO

xxxp yeah but that would mean cutting something else that I love.

crut OTM in my heart tho I don't feel like I ever hear midnight rider on the tadio

speaking of: "i'm no angel" may not make my 100 but damn

crut OTM in my heart tho I don't feel like I ever hear midnight rider on the tadio

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, July 9, 2014 1:07 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I heard a rock block on CR of "Elizabeth Reed", "Leave MY Blues at Home" (which was shocking) and "Nobody to Run With". Surprising choices, but deeply satisfying.

Elizabeth Reed is my favorite (the live version), but the classic rock stations I listen to usually don't go for 14-minute jazz influenced instrumentals. I prefer the live versions of almost all Duane-era Allman tracks.

once or twice long ago i remember hearing 'don't want you no more/not my cross to bear' on the radio <3

gregg's yell just after the segue is one of the better examples of the genre imo

sent!

Elizabeth Reed is my favorite (the live version), but the classic rock stations I listen to usually don't go for 14-minute jazz influenced instrumentals. I prefer the live versions of almost all Duane-era Allman tracks.

― voodoo chili, Wednesday, July 9, 2014 1:39 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It was the studio version. I assume you mean the Fillmore version. That is a mindblowing performance.

It'll come down to Chuck Leavell's piano solo on Jessica vs. Dickie Betts' guitar solo on Blue Sky.

― voodoo chili, Wednesday, July 9, 2014 12:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think both Duane and Dickey trade solos here, and they are pretty tough to tell apart. Duanes second to last song on wax, the last being the sublime "Little Martha".

I think Duane takes the first solo, and Dickey takes the final solo.

both end too soon. wish that song was 20 minutes long.

VOTED. And thank you WilliamC for the ranking suggestions, it made it actually doable.

Write-ins that made my final cut: "Mr. Blue Sky," "Blue Sky," "Amie," and UFO "Too Hot to Handle."

And in the spirit of CRR, lots of two-fers, and 8 bands got ROCK BLOCKS.

in the wild: after seven innings of classic modern rock on the fenway park p.a. at tonight's red sox game (matthew sweet, they might be giants, living colour, etc.), the fenway dj switched to "stairway to heaven" when the previously sleepy red sox started rallying in the eighth inning. the red sox went on to complete a miraculous comeback in the ninth (with further assistance from dropkick murphys, who might as well be classic rock as far as boston is concerned). "stairway to heaven" potentially moving up my ballot as a result.

Ugh, how did I miss the two Uriah Heep tracks in the noms list?

Just voted! Also did a worst poll and albums poll.

participation has been very high for the subpolls, which is great

I didn't feel like it at the time, but I should probably throw together a quick albums ballot.

I'm kind of burned out on classic rock. Only 369 more songs to review.

yeah feel free to submit subpoll ballots later if you've already sent in the main tracks ballot btw

I don't think I can bring myself to vote for any songs as the worst. Even "American Pie."

Worst tracks is where I wish I had a 50 song ballot. Got a lotta hate to purge.

Oh yea, I coulda gone forever with that one.

Even "American Pie."

Does this mean I can double-vote for it?

the songs i chose for my most hated are the 10 that overwhelm me with the desire to flee with the most intensity
like, i'm generally a very peaceful person, and these are 10 of the songs that make me wonder if i am secretly a monster

My number one worst is like that. People like it & the artist a lot and listening to it makes me want to scream. I put it on before I submitted my votes to be sure and I think I made it through 20 seconds.

glad to know everyone hates margaritaville as much as i do

which to be fair i've never heard on crr but it plays forever at
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I think I've concluded that all the space in Atlanta's playlists that was not taken up with rockers from Detroit and Delaware was instead given over, not to southern rock proper (as this might have overpowered all the Yankee transplants from the 60s and 70s), but to Jimmy Buffett. Margaritaville is not my favorite but I'm tempted to keep it in my 100 as a token of the fondness I have for his golden age.

For some reason I got mixed up and thought we only had five worst tracks, so I am stoked to luxuriate in the full 10, although yes, I could certainly go on longer. Though there is honestly a big gap in this format, down from "just drives me up a wall" to "boring and heard it too many times."

Already regretting cutting Piano Man from my worst songs ballot. Please vote for Piano Man everybody else! It's the worst.

I'm a Joel fan so that won't happen, but certainly of his noms here it's the one I have the least need to ever, ever hear again. "Captain Jack," against all odds, has grown on me, though that requires pretending not to hear some of the most groan-inducing attempts at crowd-pleasers.

"Movin' Out" is kinda essential though, juuuust enough oomph to qualify for the format and the setting/plot is soooo classic rock. Hackensack!

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"Movin' Out" is definitely, to me, Joel's most AOR hit, the one that real classic rock heads are big on that wasn't an MTV or pop radio staple.

"Captain Jack" and "Miami" definitely in that zone too though

Both arguably more rockin' (or at least swarthier), but only in their live versions - the studio editions of both are wannabes.

"Only the Good Die Young" is arguably more a pop song than a CR song, but I'm voting for it anyway because it's awesome. (And they definitely used to play it on my hometown CR station.)

It's also in line with the CR mandate that songs be about either existential angst or trying to get laid.

Or ~the road~.

Only the Good Die Young is great, Piano Man is rancid

xp That qualifies as existential angst AND trying to get laid

the road to existential angst

aka, "Slow Ride"

Movin' Out was on my tracks list and Piano Man is going on my most hated, so I got y'alls backs

Every time Slow Ride comes up it just takes over my brain and blots out everything else. SLOW RIDE!

I also love how nobody involved seems to be "taking it easy" in any way.

"Movin' Out" is definitely, to me, Joel's most AOR hit, the one that real classic rock heads are big on that wasn't an MTV or pop radio staple.

― some dude, Thursday, July 10, 2014 1:49 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

using this logic to winnow down Elton John (who's already had his own poll anyway) to, probably, "Levon" and "Funeral For A Friend." "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" is rockin' enough I reckon, but...

"Levon" is def prime AOR Elton imo although "Funeral" has the virtue of being the long album cut championed by rock radio.

actually, what was i saying the other day about how i like all the really long 8+ minute rock staples and wouldn't want a single edit? i kinda hate "Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding."

you are wrong though