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

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

Finished! 4 Write-Ins: Pat Benatar-Shadows of the Night, Jackson Browne-Boulevard, The Eagles – Lyin Eyes, & Heart-Nothin At All.
Top CR Album: Toys In The Attic
My eternal hatred top 5: Blood Sweat & Tears-Spinning Wheel, Jethro Tull-Aqualung, Eric Clapton-I Shot the Sheriff, Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky, The Moody Blues-I'm Just A Singer In A Rock And Roll Band

though i lived in new york long enough to know billy joel as a classic rock artist, and though i love billy very much and am eagerly counting the days until his own poll comes up, it's hard for me to actually think of him as classic rock. that just seems weird to me. "that was 'slow ride.' coming up next, 'piano man.'" uh, no. filling out a 50-song billy ballot will be easy, finding one of those songs to go here ... not sure i can do it. don't ask me why.

but elton "funeral for a friend/love lies bleeding," absofuckinglutely yes.

cr radio should dig up billy joel's "roberta," though. that could kinda sorta work!

Piano man has been cr radio fodder in every city I've inhabited.

up to 22 ballots now!

5 more days.

campreverb thank you! I forgot all about Eye In The Sky while making my shitlist. that one NEEDS to be there

http://rapgenius.com/2931539/Future-move-that-dope/Theres-an-eye-in-the-sky-im-tryna-let-yall-know

Eye in the Sky made my top ten because it was the first song that ever BLEW MY MIND.

The story behind the first Boston album, wow! Sneaking around the record company's back to re-create your demo tape instead of recording in a "pro" studio. someone should do a 33 1/3 book on it.

i looooove eye in the sky
so creepy

yeah the Boston album is such an odd phenomenon for its era. a nerd at MIT makes an incredible bedroom pop record with songs like "Rock And Roll Band" that create a false bar band mythology, it sells bazillions and become synonymous with corporate rock.

Everybody remember to write in
Junior's Farm
#9 Dream
Amie
Photograph (Ringo Starr)
Shambala (3 Dog Night)
Mr. Blue Sky (ELO)
!!!!!!!

Your ballot is a thumb in The Man's eye!

Take that, The Man!!!

Voted. My Worst Songs list is a thumb in everyone's eye.