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.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 10 July 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
"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...
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 10 July 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
"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."
― some dude, Thursday, 10 July 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
you are wrong though
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 10 July 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
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 AtticMy 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
― campreverb, Thursday, 10 July 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
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.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
but elton "funeral for a friend/love lies bleeding," absofuckinglutely yes.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
cr radio should dig up billy joel's "roberta," though. that could kinda sorta work!
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
Piano man has been cr radio fodder in every city I've inhabited.
― Neil Sekada (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
up to 22 ballots now!
― some dude, Thursday, 10 July 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
5 more days.
― how's life, Thursday, 10 July 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
campreverb thank you! I forgot all about Eye In The Sky while making my shitlist. that one NEEDS to be there
― g simmel, Thursday, 10 July 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
http://rapgenius.com/2931539/Future-move-that-dope/Theres-an-eye-in-the-sky-im-tryna-let-yall-know
― some dude, Thursday, 10 July 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
Eye in the Sky made my top ten because it was the first song that ever BLEW MY MIND.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 11 July 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
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.
― brimstead, Friday, 11 July 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
i looooove eye in the skyso creepy
― La Lechera, Friday, 11 July 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Friday, 11 July 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link
Everybody remember to write in Junior's Farm#9 DreamAmiePhotograph (Ringo Starr)Shambala (3 Dog Night)Mr. Blue Sky (ELO)!!!!!!!
Your ballot is a thumb in The Man's eye!
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 00:55 (nine years ago) link
Take that, The Man!!!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 July 2014 01:05 (nine years ago) link
Voted. My Worst Songs list is a thumb in everyone's eye.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 01:12 (nine years ago) link
Is "American Pie" on it?
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 July 2014 01:12 (nine years ago) link
nope
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 01:21 (nine years ago) link
Eye in the sky is like the most politely sung song in history. Only if Kermit's nephew robin sang it could it be more polite. This of course enhances its creepiness.
― Neil Sekada (Jon Lewis), Friday, 11 July 2014 01:21 (nine years ago) link
Shit. Shit. Okay. If "Shambala" write-in campaign is happening I might need to make room for it. I mean in the last year it has become one of my favorite songs period. But...but...am I being true to my life experience, in that I don't think I ever heard it at all before two years ago, and certainly not on the radio? Augh.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 July 2014 04:54 (nine years ago) link
Buhhhh. Just dunno. Is it "classic rock"? It sure should have been.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 July 2014 04:55 (nine years ago) link
My experience with "Shambala" is hearing it a lot on classic rock radio in the 90s when I lived in N. Alabama, and then later when I moved to Nashville. Maybe its appeal really is confined to a specific region, but I have no qualms writing it in based on real world experience with it.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 July 2014 04:59 (nine years ago) link
never heard this song in my life. can only think of three dog night as a novelty band though once again there's a Russ Ballard/Argent connection
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 11 July 2014 05:19 (nine years ago) link
Three Dog Night are great. They picked really good material and performed it enthusiastically, if not always with great subtlety. Having three lead vocalists came in handy sometimes. They also tended to go for a soft-verse, loud-chorus thing which has probably orphaned them on radio more than their megahit status (twenty-one top forty songs! hardly a novelty act!) would have anticipated: the loud parts are considerably throatier and more raucous than the easy AM gold verses. In 1971 that all kinda fit together in the woolly rock landscape but I feel like those things diverged a lot more later on. The choruses of Shambala, Never Been To Spain, Joy to the World, Eli's Coming, Liar and Mama Told Me Not To Come are all in that kinda scratchy, textured, yellowing-photos campfire Woodstock mode that I think is a key part of the Classic Rock matrix. Admittedly some other stuff hasn't dated as well and there is something about them that doesn't really suggest they are actually a 'rock and roll band' in any way, but ehh, I'll take my groovy positive-vibed singalongs where I can find them.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 July 2014 05:40 (nine years ago) link
it felt so good to put billy squier & eric clapton's names on my most hated list
NAME & SHAME
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 July 2014 05:47 (nine years ago) link
just for that i'm moving "lonely is the night" up 10 spots
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 11 July 2014 05:50 (nine years ago) link
but billy squier is awesome
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 July 2014 05:51 (nine years ago) link
yes but Stroke is a turd
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 July 2014 05:55 (nine years ago) link
oh. yeah. if it's "the stroke" we're talking about here do what you gotta do.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 11 July 2014 05:57 (nine years ago) link
i hate that song with the force pf a thousand suns
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 July 2014 06:01 (nine years ago) link
you disgust me
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 11 July 2014 06:28 (nine years ago) link
re: Three Dog Night, not crazy about them, but voted Mama Told Me Not To Come in my top 100, because it gave me a back door way to vote for Randy Newman, and also TDN gave us one of the BEST Behind The Music's ever.
― campreverb, Friday, 11 July 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
i wrote about "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)" this week for the boomer paper of record! http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/20-biggest-songs-of-the-summer-the-1970s-20140709
that list a good example of how different the pop charts were in the '70s from what became the classic rock canon, though.
― some dude, Friday, 11 July 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
I think Clapton will feature pretty heavily on most hated lists. And his least favorite song of mine is not even eligible for this poll
― Vinnie, Friday, 11 July 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
though i am not much of a clapton fan, and though i thought the film "august osage county" was about as bad a film as has ever been made, the usage of "lay down sally" in the film got me to like it quite a bit. it's a realy nice laid-back groove.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 11 July 2014 13:36 (nine years ago) link
no boomer's rep has dropped more drastically than Clapton's. VH1 did two 'greatest artists of all time' lists a decade a part, and Clapton went from #15 to not mentioned at all: artists that were on VH1's 1998 "Greatest Artists of All Time" list but not the 2010 list
― some dude, Friday, 11 July 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
You're far more likely to hear "Shambala" on an AM oldies station than on an FM classic-rock station. (I voted for it anyway.) I think Q-107 here generally sticks to "Mama Told Me Not to Come," "Easy to Be Hard," or "One"...um, early Dog, before they really became a full-fledged Top 40 band with "Joy to the World." If you've never heard B.W. Stevenson's countryish "Shambala," released a week before Three Dog Night's and not nearly as big a hit, it's excellent too.
youtube.com/watch?v=EyOqUX4eUpo
― clemenza, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
you guys i have news:i loathe "shambala" and would only write-in for most hated (but only if there were like 50 spots on the most hated ballot, not otherwise because fortunately i never have to hear it)
― La Lechera, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
Shot through the heart, and you're to blame.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
Ouch.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
I gave it a write-in spot as thanks for the write-in support I'd gotten upthread. Checked my ballot, found a song that I dug less than "Shambala," made the switch. Sorry, Nick Gilder!
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
2014 is a rough time to be a lover of Three Dog Night, I suppose. And that's what I am. I can't think of any other 20-track compilation besides The Best of 3 Dog Night where I love love love each of the 20 tracks.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
i'm sorrythey are just too cheesy for me! i can't take it now any more than i could take it when i was a kid. it's just not how i like things to sound. it hasn't repulsed me + my sensibilities in the way the eagles (or jimmy buffett) have, so it's not like i run around hating it actively. blame my heart of stone.
― La Lechera, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
I've just passed a band of buskers playing Abracadabra. This is taking over my life.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 11 July 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
P. sure I've never heard "Shambala". I think I heard "Joy to the World" in a doctor's office once?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
I always feel like I'm the biggest Clapton defender on ILM and I'm not even that big of a fan.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link