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.
A HOW HOW HOW HOW
― 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
i see what u did there
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
A+, Tarfumes.
― Blood Supper III: Marrow Feast (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
Sort of pissed at AC/DC atm for messing up this beautiful spotify playlist by not being available.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
Porter Wagoner ftw
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
Watching ZZ Top video in my childhood, these guys seemed a million years old. Weird to realize that Billy Gibbons was 33 when Eliminator came out.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
We've already seen "Born To Run" and "Stairway" today, how many more iconic tracks can we get out of the way?
http://i.imgur.com/QtcWPay.jpg
49. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 1050 points, 17 votes
― some dude, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
i can understand the ambivalence others have about it, but a top 5 track for me, never gets old.
― some dude, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
can pretty much tell which one of them just killed a man.
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link
it's not even remotely possible that ilm is going to rate "carry on wayward son" over both "bohemian rhapsody" and "stairway to heaven," is it? iS IT? IS IT???????????
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
Can pretty much tell which one of them just fucked a man
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
lol, that's never been in doubt. xp
― rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
I didn't realize that Dusty was about a half-foot shorter than Billy.
― pplains, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link
For ilxors who have a handle on what the culture was like pre-Wayne's World, was Bohemian Rhapsody top-tier Queen or was it elevated to some massive degree by the film?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link
it was always a pretty big deal iirc, but WW put it over the top
― sleeve, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
like, I knew most of it by heart pre-WW without ever owning a single Queen album
― sleeve, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
I remember it getting moderate play on cr radio, but it seemed to have vanished by the late 80s.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
The only Queen songs I knew as a kid/adolescent were We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions, Another One Bites the Dust and One Vision (thanks to Iron Eagle), so getting introduced to Bohemian Rhapsody in 1991 as a 17 year old was quite revelatory.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link