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

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.

Or you could submit a top 2 poll of Blue Sky and Mr. Blue Sky.

Been going through ELO's catalog as a result of this poll and man "A New World Record" is such a solid album.

The crazy fusion of Bee Gees and Boston on tracks like "So Fine" is a thing of beauty.

A New World Record is their best IMO.

Might have to listen to it now.

really weirding me out rn how much Aldo Nova's "Fantasy" sounds like Jefferson Starship's "Jane"

I think every rock band had at least one song in the eighties with that power chords vs. "dink dink dink dink" keyboard construction.

It's Two for Tuesday on 97.9 The Loop.

echoing the "just do a top 20" get out the vote push, u can do it ppl

A New World Record is their best IMO.

otm

ok i've done the "do i actually like this song y/n", "is this really CR y/n" and "have I ACTUALLY ever heard this on the radio y/n" culls and I'm down to 179. But now I'm banging my head against the wall. I'm gonna have to institute a per-artist limit I think. Why do I feel like I can't strike out any of these fucking Journey songs?!?!

wait we weren't allowed to vote for greatest hits albums right?

really weirding me out rn how much Aldo Nova's "Fantasy" sounds like Jefferson Starship's "Jane"

yeah, they were both doing something that was relatively common at the time (see also toto's "hold the line," for example) but it's still amazing how close those two in particular got.

meanwhile, "jane" is easily on my ballot and "fantasy" is not and if you put a gun to my head and asked me to explain i'd probably have to ask you to shoot.

Yep, no greatest hits albums

There are plenty of studio albums that function as greatest hits as far as CR Radio is concerned (Who's Next, The Cars, Rumours).

jane is the best

I forgot to vote for Who's Next, probably should have.

Goats Head Soup is the greatest album ever made

after Making Movies anyway