nice results!
my worst & albums ballots:
MOST HATED:1. Toto - Rosanna2. AC/DC - Big Balls3. Foreigner - Urgent4. Toto - Africa5. John Cougar - Hurts So Good6. Steve Miller Band - Rockin' Me7. Billy Joel - Big Shot8. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Our House9. Don Henley – Dirty Laundry10. The Doors – Roadhouse Blues
ALBUMS:1. The Cars - S/T2. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes3. Boston - S/T4. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors5. Led Zeppelin - III
4 outta 5 on the albums! Led Zep III is a critic's choice anyway
― sleeve, Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
"Fame"/"Space Oddity"/"Changes"/"Under Pressure" are definitely the dominant Bowie radio recurrents but "Suffragette" and "Ziggy" get play and the Ziggy feels like his biggest AOR cornerstone album (although Young Americans is gaining on it).
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
10 worst tracksThe Guess Who – American WomanThe Pretenders – Brass In PocketThe Eagles – Hotel CaliforniaPink Floyd – The Happiest Days of Our Lives / Another Brick In The Wall Part 2The Moody Blues – Nights In White SatinThe Doors – Break On ThroughCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Woodstock Don Henley – Dirty LaundryEric Clapton – I Shot The SheriffGrateful Dead -- Touch of Gray
5 albums full of deep classic rock cutzAerosmith, RocksStones, Exile On Main St.Van Halen, 1984Queen, Night At The OperaBowie, Young Americans
― maura, Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:56 (nine years ago) link
you can tell i live in boston by that #1 album pick
also cmon guys fuuuuck pink floyd
― maura, Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
fp'd u for 'brass in pocket' tho
― mookieproof, Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
i hate the pretenders for reflexive reasons that i don't even understand
― maura, Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
Much as I love Young Americans I wouldn't even classify it as CR to begin with.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
i can see being sick of "Brass" but damn across-the-board Pretenders hate? :(
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
totally have your back on "Another Brick In The Wall" though
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
maura i love u but besmirching pink floyd, girl idk
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
am i srsly the only one who hates Stroke
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
It made my best of list. Not high, but made it.
― Jeff, Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
well of course
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
Aerosmith Rocks Natick, specifically
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
This poll is helping me refine my road trip compatibility table.
I was one of the 2 votes for Harvest in the albums poll. That album is so much more than its singles!
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
so are we all changing our DNs for the countdown?
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
That would be a no.
― Jeff, Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
Billy Squier spreading his ear pollution far and wide to VG's disdain
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link
;_;
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
xxxp: I'm game.
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:45 (nine years ago) link
lol
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link
True story - I have a friend who was Billy Squier's bass player at the height of his career (1982). He was touring with Foreigner and when they did "The Stroke", they'd get some of the guys from Foreigner and crew guys and any friends of the band to come onstage and sing the "stroke me, stroke me" part and do this very exaggerated jerking off hand motion. I got recruited in Pittsburgh, Philly, and Cleveland. They were my shining moments.
― Sandy, Tuesday, June 24, 2014 5:02 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i always liked "The Stroke" but i like it even more after this story.
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
maura, I can't handle your recoiling from the Pretenders.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
CR is one of the biggest pet peeve making genres
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
sorry guys. i think it's hynde's voice. just do not like it
pink floyd however i'm not apologizing for, that shit has become the musical standard bearer for vaguely anti-establishment dudes who are still Part Of The Problem and i'm like nahhhh
― maura, Monday, 28 July 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
i have a lot of baggage with Floyd, too, although for the most part Dark Side just gets to me
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 00:46 (nine years ago) link
btw i never realized "Slow Ride" was 8 minutes before. do most stations play a single edit, or did i just never notice how long it went on?
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
I hate The Stroke so much but could not bring myself to vote for it for worst song because it made me the closest to a rock star I will ever be.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Monday, 28 July 2014 00:56 (nine years ago) link
^ forgiven
the rest of you are on notice
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 28 July 2014 01:25 (nine years ago) link
Dark Side is the most boring post-Barrett PF album imo, but I realize I'm out on an island there.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
i think it's hynde's voice.
That's like half the reason I love Pretenders. The other half is James Honeyman Scott's guitar playing, but he unfortunately didn't stick around as long as he should've.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 02:19 (nine years ago) link
Dark Side is at least very pleasant to listen to. the ways that the other albums are more 'interesting' are mostly just annoying to me.
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 02:22 (nine years ago) link
Getting caught up after a weekend away. VegGrrl, you're not the only Stroke-hater.
ALBUMS1. Electric Ladyland (Jimi Hendrix Experience)2. Physical Graffiti (Led Zeppelin)3. Who’s Next (The Who)4. Layla (Derek and the Dominos)5. At Fillmore East (Allman Bros. Band)
WE HATES IT FOR EVER:1. Bob Seger - Against the Wind2. Foreigner - Hot Blooded3. Journey - Any Way You Want It4. George Thorogood - Bad to the Bone5. Boston - More Than a Feeling6. Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son7. Styx - Lady8. Billy Squier - The Stroke9. Charlie Daniels Band - Devil Went Down to Georgia10. AC/DC - For Those About To Rock
― rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Monday, 28 July 2014 02:32 (nine years ago) link
true story: Kansas would have been #7 on the most hated list if all the votes for "Carry On Wayward Son," "Dust In The Wind" and "Point Of Know Return" were pooled together
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 02:44 (nine years ago) link
i couldn't do a list of worst songs because the worst songs bring me so much joy laughter-wise
― brimstead, Monday, 28 July 2014 02:51 (nine years ago) link
dark side has shitty sequencing /challop
― brimstead, Monday, 28 July 2014 02:52 (nine years ago) link
i mean, track sequencing, the synth sequencers rule obviously
― brimstead, Monday, 28 July 2014 02:54 (nine years ago) link
OK, fuck it, some more fun with math
20 most hated artists by total 'worst' track poll point totals:1. Eric Clapton 1102. Billy Joel 1023. Eagles 924. George Thorogood 775. Don McLean 686. Bob Seger 637. Bachman-Turner Overdrive 528. Styx 499. Journey 4810. Led Zeppelin 3911. Don Henley 38 12. Foreigner 3713. Kansas 3614. (tie) Glenn Frey 34 / Steve Miller 34 / Blood, Sweat & Tears 3417. (tie ) Jimmy Buffett 33 / Supertramp 3319. Lynyrd Skynyrd 3220. (tie) Dire Straits 31 / The Doors 31 / The Guess Who 31
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 03:06 (nine years ago) link
High placement for Foreignerkansasjourneystyx is very gratifying...Boston joining them would have been too much to hope for.
― rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Monday, 28 July 2014 03:11 (nine years ago) link
imo there should be a thread where everybody listens to every Billy Joel song just like w/ the Eagles
based on the above, what there really oughta be is an eric clapton listening thread.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Monday, 28 July 2014 03:11 (nine years ago) link
also, kudos to don mclean for collectively coming in fifth worst pace, presumably with a single song.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Monday, 28 July 2014 03:12 (nine years ago) link
Joel and the Eagles at least have some kind of consistent songwriting vision that you can engage with, for better and for worse. Clapton's solo catalog just seems like decades of coasting on covers and so-so originals.
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 03:13 (nine years ago) link
yeah McLean, Buffett and The Guess Who each only had one hated song
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 03:14 (nine years ago) link
PINK FLOYD RULES
you dark side haters dont get it maaaaaaan
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 28 July 2014 03:16 (nine years ago) link
My number one best song has showed up on someone's worst song list.
― Jeff, Monday, 28 July 2014 03:20 (nine years ago) link
^ ILX's biggest "Dirty Laundry" fan
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 03:22 (nine years ago) link
200 different songs were on the 'worst' ballots. a lot of them are great songs.
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 03:22 (nine years ago) link
i don't disagree with any of that. but i think, as a result, there are probably a bunch of hidden things in ec's catalog, both good and bad, that very few if any people here would ever have encountered. whereas i think joel's catalog is small enough and beloved enough by people on this very board (cough cough) that there'd be very few, if any, surprises.
on the other hand, i will never turn down an opportunity to re-engage with billy, so if his thread were ever to happen, i'd be there faster than you can say "brenda and eddie."
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Monday, 28 July 2014 03:24 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure. And I'm sure some will place in the top 100. Xpost
― Jeff, Monday, 28 July 2014 03:25 (nine years ago) link