"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
HOW IS THIS NOT IN THE TOP 10 OMG YOU SAVAGES
― 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
Question I've been wondering as long as this poll's been running: do ZZ Top get groupies?― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, July 30, 2014 1:47 PM (48 seconds ago)
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, July 30, 2014 1:47 PM (48 seconds ago)
http://i.imgur.com/BAaYMqJ.jpg
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
btw we should have a nudie suit poll
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link
As the only member without a hat, drummer should've been named Frank Hat.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link