Hey man, is that Freedom Rock?
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:13 (nine years ago) link
Clapton rots but I still voted for "Layla" and a Cream song. there's no class in classic rock.
― Euler, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
Sabbath was never adequately represented on radio. At least terrestrial radio, they are all over Sirius' Boneyard and Liquid Metal stations today. Im the biggest Sabbath fan ever and Im sick of Paranoid.
Layla is the worst song of the album that shares its name.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
I consider that a Duane Allman alb
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
Sabbath is probably the biggest band with the largest catalog that only has one album as far as classic rock radio is concerned
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
Voted for this, the outro is still gorgeous, mostly because of Duane's slide.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
"Layla" is the only song I can tolerate on that album. well, I guess I wouldn't rather jump off a bridge than hear "Bell Bottomed Blues"...usually...
― Euler, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
the greatest scream ever screamed
this is obviously true about "won't get fooled again," and i used to sit through what seemed like 25 minutes' worth of the rest of the song waiting for it, and of course the "new boss/old boss" bit is essential, but "fooled again" otherwise does little for me. my least fave song on one of my top five cr albums.
and speaking of foolin, where the hell is def leppard's "foolin"? sigh.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
Wasn't aware of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IJPLcwHOes
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
That actually makes me wonder if any Def Leppard will make the poll.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
xp I heard crazy train on classic rock radio quite a bit
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
kinda shocked "lonely is the night" hasn't shown up yet had no idea ILM rated squier so high
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
My Clapton votes went to Bell Bottom Blues and Badge per someone's write-in campaign. I wish I could hear Layla as though I were listening to it the first time. I think I would like it a lot but as it stands now, there's too much cultural baggage and it just leaves me flat.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:25 (nine years ago) link
― voodoo chili, Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:21 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://www.imcdb.org/i003273.jpg
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:25 (nine years ago) link
― Euler, Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:21 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
No love for "why does love got to be so sad"? thats a pretty great song. there are some pretty great deep cuts on that thing. i just have to mentally block out the fact im listening to clapton
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:25 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKE-7M3UJfc
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:24 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not quite sure this counts
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
"Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?" is tremendous. I dig a lot of that record, and Clapton acquits himself well (for the last time, as it turned out -- dude could've/should've stopped there and then).
xxp
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
"Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?" is excellent, and I like "Thorn Tree in the Garden," which Clapton had nothing to do with
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
love love love "lido shuffle" (and "lowdown") but they were early cuts for me. never thought of them as classic rock in the way that, say, toto's "hold the line," which i did vote for, is. but now of course i wish "lido" placed higher, this poll's damn self-imposed vagaries and constraints again.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
I thought the interlude in layla was the best for awhile. I listened to a lot of moe. around that time as well.
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
If it's good enough for Scorsese, it's good enough for me.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
Oh no. Gimme Shelter's gonna be No. 1.
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
"layla" forever ruined by the unplugged version. the ony song i can think of for which this is so.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
xpost yeah my itunes genre tag for boz, dan, mac, doobies is "FM", which is not the same as CR but also not the same as Adult Contemporary.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
Quiddities and agonies of ILX classic rock tracks poll participants
― carl agatha, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
xpd nobody loves that song as much as Scorsese. I didn't vote for it.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Thursday, July 31, 2014 10:30 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I get that. I was trying to think where something like "You Sexy Thing" would go, and that about nails it.
We played Hot Chocolate, but we were also one of those Oh Leah classic rock stations.
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
pplains please post the link to the goodfellas lovefool thing
― caek, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
"fm" is a great tag!
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link
no static at all
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link
you got me on my knees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWAM3j2wQ_8
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link
Imagine if that scene was soundtracked by Lido Shuffle
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
lol at that old quote from me about You Shook Me All Night Long. I made the same mistake this time - had it at no.11, when there's no way I should be having anything else at no.1. Sorry guys, maybe I just love you too much.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
I need to see some Allman Brothers soon.
― Jeff, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
Yeah. I knew about Jim Gordon murdering his mother but did not know that he stole that piano coda.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
haha i love that LF one!
― caek, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
This is the only version of 'You Shook Me All Night Long' that I can stand. It is bloody fantastic, though.
― emil.y, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
re You Shook Me All Night Long
I love that song so much!
I also have a conflicting creepy memory associated with it. I was 14, playing a mixed doubles game of badminton with a guy who was 16. I had to wear one of those stupid fucking short skirts, and he was standing behind me singing 'knockin me out with those american thighs'. When I walked back to serve, he said 'do you know that song?' & winked at me and I gave him my most deadpan 'yes' and refused to talk to him for the rest of the game. Bleh.
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
― voodoo chili, Thursday, July 31, 2014 10:38 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha, give me 24 hours.
caek, it loves you back. While I'm looking for Lido, maybe I'll see if I've got any Letters to Cleo for ya.
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
OK folks, this concludes side 1 of your Thursday countdown, but gr80 is in the break room getting ready to turn the record over and bring you side 2...
http://i.imgur.com/oSCkkB4.jpg
31. Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing 1253 points, 22 votes, 1 first place vote
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
Yes!
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
AND HARRY DOESN'T MIND
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
xps lol emil.y wtf is that?
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
some dude could you post a recap for those of us nerds crossing tracks off our ballots?
― campreverb, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
I love love love Dire Straits. I love them. I'm so happy they're here.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
creole
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
This might be their highest entry here, but I'm excited that it could also be the lowest of three.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
London.. town
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
fcc so so otm about Layla being forever ruined by that dire unplugged version, my Clapton vote went to Bell Bottom Blues, so tortured in all the right ways.Also I find it endlessly interesting that Jim Gordon killed his mom yet Clapton still gets the fuck you votes, such is the power of his yick factor
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link