FREE HOT DOGS! FIFTY CENT BUD LIGHT DRAFTS!
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
i still plan on doing this but can't finalize til tonight.
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
tonight is good! do it!
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
ok then
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
Can I still vote on this then? Just got internet set up at the new place.
― Yoga Knives (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
Yes! There is still time, please vote! If both you send me ballots that will put us over the line to 60!
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
VOTER SIXTY GETS TO TICKETS TO SUPERTRAMP!
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
I've been dialing since 8am, line is permanently jammed wtf I WANT SUPERTRAMP TICKETS GODDAMMIT
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQgP1I64AE4
1:28 forward
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
I am sad the Rock Legends Cruise is sold out.
http://rocklegendscruise.com/
Featuring:
The Doobie Brothers, Alice Cooper, Paul Rodgers,.38 Special, The Marshall Tucker Band, Don Felder, WAR, Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam, Blue Oyster Cult, Uriah Heep, The Outlaws, Molly Hatchet, Rik Emmett, The Edgar Winter Band, Ten Years After, Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown, Pat Travers Band, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Melvin Seals & JGB, The Artimus Pyle Band, Swamp Da Wamp, Steve Rodgers, The Blue Lords, Citizens Band Radio
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
wow
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
Al, did I read correctly that we can still send you lists today?
― thomasinskeep, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
Do it, Thomas!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Yes, go for it!
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Doing it, Paul.
― thomasinskeep, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
Oh man, Foreplay/Longtime you guys.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
^ ad-libs on the coda to my no.17
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
This song is so unruly.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
Shoulda included WAY more Boston on my ballot.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
I am a big, big fan of foreplay. I mean "Foreplay." Well, yeah.
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
Won't be able to rank the whole thing. Top 20 or 25 maybe.
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
But that's the most difficult part to rank! I've got like twenty viable no.1s up top.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
The number of points your #25 song is getting is still pretty high, just list 'em and they'll all get a nice boost
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
lol @ Swamp Da Wamp
― guwop (crüt), Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link
Top 50: sent! Can't wait to see this poll. Al, you're a giant for compiling it.
― thomasinskeep, Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
Have been having ridiculous computer trouble - it doesn't wantto cut & paste 100 lines. Think I've sorted through it now & am sending ballot. Pologies for lateness.
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:44 (nine years ago) link
I won the Supertramp tickets!
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link
Haha wow just got 3 ballots in the space of 20 minutes! Any more stragglers? I'll give you Thursday too, lotta counting left to do.
― some dude, Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:59 (nine years ago) link
letting the deadline slide is so classic rock
wait was five man electrical band's (or tesla's ffs) 'signs' nominated?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 July 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
cover was post-86 and nobody nommed the original.
I let the deadline slide on all my polls, usually because i'm anxious for more voters, in this case because the turnout was so huge that it just seems fair to give people an extra window of opportunity while I'm counting.
― some dude, Thursday, 17 July 2014 01:48 (nine years ago) link
tbh that entire post was rhetorical
<3 some dude, thanks for running the show that never ends. it's guaranteed to blow our heads apart
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 July 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
btw I should just you guys the gist now, the top 100 will probably run mon-fri the week AFTER next, starting July 28. thread will kick off with subpolls sometime next week I reckon. all tentatively, obviously gr80 have our work cut out for us and doing it right is more important that doing it quickly.
― some dude, Thursday, 17 July 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
rocktaugust
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 July 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link
so that would be oxt week.
http://www.vox.com/2014/7/16/5901883/oxt-new-word-weekend
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 17 July 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
I call for a literal, month-long Rocktaugust, just because more than five songs a day is hard to have a proper drunken argument about.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 July 2014 03:25 (nine years ago) link
ugh xp
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 July 2014 03:28 (nine years ago) link
just realized we missed "You're So Vain"
― Euler, Saturday, 19 July 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
great song obv but i can't recall ever hearing it on a classic rock station
― some dude, Saturday, 19 July 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
I dunno I think I remember it as a staple but I have no other evidence.
― Euler, Saturday, 19 July 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
Thirty seven Decembers ago, pop songstress Carly Simon tore up the record charts with her single "You're So Vain." The song captured the number-one slot on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Adult Contemporary charts, and to this day remains one of the most popular classic rock songs of all time.
from a Carly Simon press release, qed
― Euler, Saturday, 19 July 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
Yup: Billboard Hot 100 x Adult Contemporary.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
I've heard it on classic rock radio before, for sure.
― how's life, Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
I never have, I don't think--which is not to say CR stations elsewhere don't play it. Great song, but it doesn't really fit my amorphous definition of CR; for one thing, my guess is it would have been considered pop by Creem readers at the time (as they lusted after Carly herself...).
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I think that's OTM. Singer-songwriter, not noted as an instrumentalist as such, James Taylor connection, other hits are all definite AM pop stuff, and...a girl?!! Feel like the deck woulda been stacked against her. I'm totally down with the idea that some CR stations could have gone with it though. It does basically rock, kinda. And it's undoubtedly classic.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
fwiw this was *precisely* why I didn't nominate any Carole King
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
I would've voted for You're So Vain til the cows came home though
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
yeah there's a lot of '70s soft rock that's borderline classic rock, and where you put the border is subjective. speaking of James Taylor, i definitely would've nominated "Fire And Rain" if i'd thought about it, although it's in that gray area where i doubt it would've gotten many votes.
― some dude, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
There will be a singer-songwriter poll one sweet day, and Kris Kristofferson will get the acclaim he deserves
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
I heard "You're So Vain" on a car radio (*) the other day and the solo + 70s Stones subtext made me think it HAD to have been a CR staple, like in between "Beast of Burden" and "Rock and Roll Never Forgets"
(*) counterpoint: I was in Britain
― Euler, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
It could fit, musically, but, yeah, I don't hear it on CR radio, even though I hear it a tonne or other formats. Doesn't turn up on the couple all-time lists I checked.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link