HOW IS THIS NOT IN THE TOP 10 OMG YOU SAVAGES
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
My favorite dumb couplet in rock: "MISSISSIPPI QUEEN/IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN". Sorry, no, I don't. But your song rocks it.
― Blood Supper III: Marrow Feast (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:04 (ten years ago) link
if my quick count is correct, 46 of the top 50 songs got between 12 and 16 votes.
the #51 song got exactly one more vote than the #100 song.
the two most extreme vote getters so far are "twilight zone" with 11 and "werewolves of london" with 19.
we are all equal in the eyes of the classic rock gods.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link
"Twilight Zone" was an easy Top 10 for me. I guess other people agreed?
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
hell yes MOUNTAIN. this is my kind of classic rock... i did not vote in this thing but i'm rooting for either free or funk #49 in the top ten, more '70s rawk with sloppy / kickass rhythm sections plz
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
the difference in points/votes only gets crazier from here on out. you'll see a little later today that #46 got NINE fewer votes than #47.
― some dude, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
60 people voted right? so no song has gotten a simple majority vote yet (25% gets you to 51).Poor somedude these ballots must be insane.
― campreverb, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
63 voters. only 4 songs were on more than half the ballots.
― some dude, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
WOW.
― campreverb, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
Okay THIS ONE is my favorite graphic so far.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, July 30, 2014 1:02 PM (15 minutes ago)
OTM! Finally one of mine from the "omg this could be my #1" chunk of ballot.
― rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
Just listened to "Mississippi Queen". How the fuck is that thing only two and a half minutes long?! It's so epic in my brain, with long, squalling solos that just go on forever. That, my friends, is economy of songcraft.
― Blood Supper III: Marrow Feast (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
I did not vote in this magnificent poll, but La Grange would have been my #1. Mississippi Queen would have been #2. I hope the former made it into the top 50 anyhow.
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
I don't think "Trampled Under Foot" is gonna appear in the results so just wanted to mention real quick that it rules. thx
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah I mean fuck YES if Heart is #1, hoped it was clear
― Euler, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:23 (ten years ago) link
Sufjan Grafton gets our prescience award for the day...
http://i.imgur.com/XZFdNVq.jpg
50. ZZ Top – La Grange1049 points, 17 votes
― some dude, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:26 (ten years ago) link
HOW HOW HOW HOW
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
yes!!
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
Excellent! I was worried the Top wound up victims of vote splitting.
― cwkiii, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
Sufjan Grafton gets our prescience award for the day...*50. ZZ Top – La Grange1049 points, 17 votes* --some dude
*50. ZZ Top – La Grange1049 points, 17 votes* --some dude
A HOW HOW HOW HOW
*pinch harmonic pinch harmonic pinch harmonic*
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
my #3. best drum sound EVER; when they kick in I feel my face melt every time
― Euler, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
They've got a lotta nice girls-ah
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that definitely seems really low. Gonna chalk up the low placement to the "nobody knows the actual name of most CR staples" factor. I can't imagine that anyone would fail to recognize that riff, though.
― Blood Supper III: Marrow Feast (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
Euler otm
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
Ha. They clearly should've just called it "A HOW HOW HOW HOW".
The only thing I don't get about this poll is that apparently 'Bad Moon Rising' is not the ur-classic rock anthem I thought it was.
Probably admitted this elsewhere, but for the longest time I thought 'Free Bird' was a fictional song made up by rock audiences solely to shout at bands.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
at this point I can't help but throw in random pick squealies even on acoustic and it is all the Rev's fault
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
I could see ILX rating something off Eliminator higher than La Grange, which would be cool too.
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
bad moon rising is some corny oldies choogle-type My First Guitar michael row your boat ashore type nonsense tbrr.
most classic rock creedence = fortunate son
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
this song is so boss
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
Eliminator tracks could also conceivably miss out due to vote splitting. :(
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
either way it feels like maybe we just shifted into a new gear here
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
I don't think "Trampled Under Foot" is gonna appear in the results so just wanted to mention real quick that it rules.
that's the song that made me fall in love w/led zep.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:37 (ten years ago) link
A-hmm, hmm, hmm
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:37 (ten years ago) link
yeah when it fell into place at #50 i was like yessss this is such a perfect way to kick off the top half (xp)
― some dude, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:37 (ten years ago) link
epic intro line to "La Grange"
― skip, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
La Grange is another one that's waaaayyy too short.
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
xps: yeah, I bet a lot of the "I don't think that's classic rock" quibbling won't be making that much of an appearance from this point.
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
Finally some ZZ Top.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:39 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I feel like the last few picks have been capital-C classic rock, totally unalloyed by new wave or oldies.
La Grange is short because you can't listen to a track off Tres Hombres without listening to the whole thing
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:40 (ten years ago) link
And I'm no purist around these issues (I'm pro-Beatles and pro-Cars on CR), but it feels like this poll is really moving into the platonic ideal of CR here.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:40 (ten years ago) link
the beer drinkers and hellraisers ideal
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
that is captured so well in the track images
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
sorta feel like la grange is the ur strip bar/sports radio bumper song
― seems it never rains in west california (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:45 (ten years ago) link
Missippi Queen and LaGrange are two of the most kick ass things to ever be put to wax. Agree with the poster above who gave a shout out to this lyric: "MISSISSIPPI QUEEN/IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN". That's poetry right there man.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:45 (ten years ago) link
The guitar work in both these two songs just crushes.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
Tone, baby, tone. What happened to that tone.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
Question I've been wondering as long as this poll's been running: do ZZ Top get groupies?
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
― seems it never rains in west california (Hunt3r), Wednesday, July 30, 2014 7:45 PM (40 seconds ago)
Yeah, this is why I hate a lot of classic rock, tbh.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link