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

Worst songs rollout is either going to be sooooo satisfying or suuuuuch bullshit.

Hopefully both. What's a good poll without some bullshit?

This rollout is going to be the best thing ever.

GETTING READY, ANTICIPATING LOVE AND MUSIC

Beatles 0, Dylan 0, Bon Jovi 1

Sent my albums ballot in at the last minute. Threw an old familiar favorite under the bus in the name of classic rock purity. 5 was a great number for that.

coming to terms with the fact that I'm not gonna be able to get a ballot done. deadline is basically now?

Voted a few days ago. My regrets: not voting Piano Man on my worst tracks list, and not voting for The Cars eponymous debut on my best albums list.

I mean, if the criteria for the albums is "records that have multiple tracks you always enjoy hearing on the radio," I can't really think of a better example than that first Cars album.

i think you still have 12 more hours? xp

Cars s/t, Boston s/t, best of Steve, these are the urtexts of CR

Voted for Cars!! Albums list was so easy -- I thought about it for 2 min max.

coming to terms with the fact that I'm not gonna be able to get a ballot done. deadline is basically now?

Jon just do a 20 song ballot!

so far i've entered votes for 691 different songs into the spreadsheet, and #691 is one of the maybe top 5 most played songs in the history of classic rock radio, showing up 20 something ballots in.

Guessing "Hotel California".

But maybe not, given that there's a whole ILM thread devoted to listening the Eagles' entire catalogue song-by-song.

Cars s/t, Boston s/t, best of Steve, these are the urtexts of CR

also who's next.

i would have argued for tom petty's greatest hits, too, but i decided to honor the poll's 1986 deadline for tracks by not considering any compilations released after that.

I'm not even going to look at my ballot again because I am racked with remorse over all the songs I had to cut. This must be how terrible dictators feel after genocide.

harvest!!

maybe some dude is talkin' bout "China Grove"

otm if you get torn up after a little genocide you're not going to cut it as a dictator imo xp

xxxp lol my initial cull was 113 songs. cut twelve in about two minutes w/ no regrets. been working on that last one for two weeks though...

crops will grow nice with all that blood on the ground though, so there's that

lol VG o_o

lol i just typed "here come the torpedoes"
whooboy it's gonna be a long week

Guessing "Hotel California".

No, I think you've got the right answer, but I'll go with "Another Brick in the Wall" because that song is ludicrously overplayed compared to how good it is

"stairway" and "free bird" also seem like likely candidates

cars s/t was my #6 album ;_;

I think the Cars will do fine in this poll tbrr

maybe some dude is talkin' bout "China Grove"

oh yeah, another ur text: best of the doobies.

lol i just typed "here come the torpedoes"

intended album in above typo seconded!

coming to terms with the fact that I'm not gonna be able to get a ballot done. deadline is basically now?

― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, July 15, 2014 11:58 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Do it!

I love Lynyrd Skynyrd(3 tracks in my top 100!) and couldn't vote for Freebird.

I had 7 skynyrd songs in my top 100. Including freebird.

xp No way that stairway and freebird haven't already placed on many ballots. I think Zep will have less representation on this poll than they do on actual CR radio, but Stairway is so ingrained in the fiber of CR radio that I'd be stunned if it missed this poll.

stairbird

How will Alice Cooper fare? Cutting Eighteen sucked.

I'm Eighteen was shamefully low on my ballot, but in context the fact that it made the top 100 is a small victory.

I get confused every daaaaay

I included two songs by Cooper.

Can the deadline be extended to when some dude gets up tomorrow morning? I may be stuck at work (and away from my ballot) til late tonight.

Stairway only scraped the Zep poll top ten, I wouldn't be totally surprised if it missed out here where there's so, so much gold. Never occurred to me to vote for it, I rationed my Zep jamz.

Musicology question: what is the clarinet doing in Breakfast In America to get that klezmer feel? Is there a particular mode being deployed, for example?

But maybe not, given that there's a whole ILM thread devoted to listening the Eagles' entire catalogue song-by-song.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, July 15, 2014 4:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

By the end, I'm pretty sure the participants were ready to slaughter actual eagles much less get excited enough about Hotel California to vote for it in a poll. But maybe that was just me.

Stairway was always going to be on my ballot. I love it in a vacuum, and I love in the context of CR. It just missed my top 10.

Back in the 80s I heard a radio station do a 500 Best Metal Songs of All-Time Countdown and they had "Stairway" at #500

good bets for my still-unfinished ballot:
stairway
hotel cali
funeral/love lives bleeding

medium bets:
bohemian rhapsody
jungleland

not good bets:
freebird
wayward son

(and there will be lots of skynrd on my ballot, including probably my #1)

what is the clarinet doing in Breakfast In America to get that klezmer feel?

I don't know if it sticks to it all the way through, but there's a raised fourth so I'd say it's basically alluding to the Hungarian minor scale.

OFFICIAL DEADLINE LENIENCY STATEMENT: polls technically close at midnight tonight, but I will accept any ballots I receive before I finish counting and hand off the results to gr80 to make images for, which will definitely give you all day Wednesday at the very least.

Thanks Tim. I love how that stuff works, how one note can make you draw allusions by mechanisms you never knew existed.

how fucking great is ELO?

if I get a ballot put together Do Ya is gonna be waaaaayyyyy up there.

I think anyone who doesn't think they have time to vote should at least try to slap together a top 20

totally. especially because any song being in someone's top 20 could totally be the deciding factor in that song making the poll or not, things are very close.

I much prefer the Move's version of Do Ya.