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

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

sent mine!

Wheel in the sky keeps on tuh-nin! Don't know where I'll be tomorroo-ooooo-ooooow.

up to 47 ballots now, definitely will be crossing the 50 line! let's make it 60!

GO FOR ONE HUNDRED ILM YOU CAN DO IT

KEEP ON POLL-IN

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CAN'T FIGHT THIS POOOOLLLLLLLIN ANYMOOOORE

hmm maybe POLLLLLLLLLLIN is better than POOOLLLIN

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criminally overlooked in the noms

I won't stan for anything on that record, but "That Was Then, This Is Now" from a year or two before was really nice.

crap, I voted a Greatest Hits album thinking it was fully in the spirit of the poll.

Me too. Also a live album not by Frampton. Tbh I could pick at least five equally valid top fives, with no overlap.

I just sent in a ballot. Heavy on Aerosmith and Zeppelin maybe.

here's what didn't make it.
101. Pink Floyd - Time / Breath (Reprise)
102. Eddie Money - Two Tickets To Paradise
103. Judas Priest - You've Got Another Thing Comin'
104. Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster
105. Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone
106. Paul McCartney & Wings - Jet

Live albums disallowed too?

cuts that have hurt my heart so far today:

--tom petty "don't do me like that" ("you were in the public eye/givin' someone else a try" is an all-time fave line)
--thin lizzy "the boys are back in town" (penalized for reminding me too much of the hold steady)
--all of billy joel
--pat benatar "heart breaker"

if live albums *aren't* allowed (i voted for one, but i don't really care) an exception should be made for frampton because c'mon

Ballot sent. There are a few artists for whom I just can't separate my fav. songs of theirs into rankings. So, in the spirit of CR radio, my ballot contains some Rock Blocks.

Nice

i left out a bunch of great songs mainly because they just don't vibe strongly with my radio memories, for some reason. certain stones and zep songs, for example. and stuff i associate more with oldies.
i did vote for one new discovery: cheap tricks's "i want you to want me" from budokhan. my god, pure euphoria!

sent in my ballot, can't wait to see how this shakes out.

going to do this now, watch some MLB All Star game and try to order this thing. haven't cut down my ballot either.

cheap tricks's "i want you to want me" from budokhan. my god, pure euphoria!

Pretty sure this is the only version I've ever heard -- first on the immortal Rock 80 Ktel comp, then on the radio. (I voted for it, along with two other Rock 80 tracks.)