wasn't there a 'punk' remake of this?
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link
The Ataris. It was terrible.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
not a bad single for an ex-Eagle, but insufficiently classic or rock for this ranking
(shakes head, furrows brow, revs Chevy Nova pensively)
― Brad C., Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
would you rather hear the Eagles?! hehe.
― campreverb, Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
#1 five weeks on album rock radio in '84/85 btw
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
It'll be interesting to see whether The Eags make an appearance here
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
When I heard this song as a kid, I assumed the Boys of Summer were serial killers or something: "Out on the road today I saw a dead head sittin' on a Cadillac/A little voice inside my head said don't look back, you can never look back". And just keep running, Don!
― Kool-Ranch! flavor Kool-Aid® drink mix (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
then you realized the killer was Don
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
well, yeah.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link
UGH work is getting in the way of this poll today.AMERICAN GIRL my #1, my favorite song ever. I've heard it a million times and I never tire of it. So much history with this song, so much history with this band.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
hey, my upper lip is feeling prickly.
and it reeks of bacon in here...
that can only mean one thing:
http://i.imgur.com/x6obIJu.jpg
26. The Zombies – Time Of The Season1372 points, 22 votes
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
took this song for granted until Miguel's interpolation in 2012.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
...Wait, what? I love (LOVE) the Zombies, but...classic rock?
― Kool-Ranch! flavor Kool-Aid® drink mix (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
Love this song. Such an oldie though.
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
feel like this oldies station song (but I love this song)
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
ha, yeah. what how's life said.
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link
gettin weird up in here. need something CLASSIC to settle us down
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link
Interesting that this is a year younger than "I Can See For Miles," but no one called that an oldie.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
Well, it doesn't particularly rock, either.
― Kool-Ranch! flavor Kool-Aid® drink mix (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
True story, I thought I had finalized the top 50 last week and sent it to gr80 to make images when I realized i'd neglected to do the count for "Time of the Season" and it leaped into the top 30. Countdown woulda been better without it afaic but the people have spoken.
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
it's fun watching the age and regional differences mess with everyone's minds ... "Time of the Season" was low on my ballot due to limited rock content, but it squeezed in, while "Boys of Summer" bombed the big-on-MTV test
― Brad C., Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
"What's your name? Who's your daddy?" will never stop bringing the lols for me.
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
Next song is like the epitome of classic rock fwiw
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
Good song, great organ solo, great band. Didn't vote for it though.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
Long organ solo definitely the most classic rock element of the song.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
voodoo chili OTM, particularly 'good song, great band'. Decent but definitely on the low end of my esteem in comparison to the rest of their output.
― Kool-Ranch! flavor Kool-Aid® drink mix (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
at the height of my CRR listening years, circa 1991-95, Time of the season still got a lot of airplay, as did CCR, Janis, and other 60s stuff that got phased out to make way for the stuff that was big on modern rock radio then that is on CRR now.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
is 'centerfold' classic rock?
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
we'll find out
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link
didn't vote for this Zombies song, but it's def more cr than that Henley tune.
― Darin, Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:31 (ten years ago) link
Boys of Summer WTF
― carl agatha, Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
is 'centerfold' classic rock?― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, July 31, 2014 2:29 PM (3 minutes ago)
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, July 31, 2014 2:29 PM (3 minutes ago)
what about "centerfield"?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:34 (ten years ago) link
dunno but I'm ready to play
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:35 (ten years ago) link
(centerfold on spotify, that is)
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
yes
― sleeve, Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
ok folks, we're officially 75% through this thing... we've had a few dark horses and more than one surprise, but big number twenty-five is certainly one that is underrated by few and loved by almost all:
http://i.imgur.com/Y64jJPE.jpg
25. Aerosmith – Sweet Emotion1383 points, 20 votes, 1 first place vote
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link
YES
― sleeve, Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:38 (ten years ago) link
this was in my top ten iirc
sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet emooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooootiooooooooooon
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:38 (ten years ago) link
bassline so classic
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
I voted for three other Aerosmith songs but I think all of their major singles from this period were pretty great.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
My only Aerosmith vote. That bassline is all-time.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
my favorite intro of all time possibly
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
*exhales*
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:43 (ten years ago) link
gettin some sweet emotion from far right dude in that pic
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:44 (ten years ago) link
My number one! I wouldn't have expected to vote it #1, but when I sat down to rank-order the songs it just rose and rose. I admit I was partly swayed by its perfect use in the Dazed and Confused credit sequence, but I have always always loved this song.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:44 (ten years ago) link
After all is said and done, I wanna figure out what percentage of the poll results showed up in Dazed and Confused. Assuming some dude hasn't already tabulated those results.
― Kool-Ranch! flavor Kool-Aid® drink mix (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
And the Forrest Gump soundtrack.
― Jeff, Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
I have to assume there are even more Dazed tracks to come.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link
Love this song. It was an early contender for my #1 but ended up just outside of my top ten.
When I first got back into crr after an extended absence in my late teens early twenties, I loved making up soundtracks to imaginary movies based on the songs I heard on the radio. One day while getting stoned with my sister, I decided to outline one of my grand visions: "Okay, so it starts off with Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion and it's the 1970s and there are all these big muscle cars everywhere..." "What, like Dazed and Confused?" I hadn't seen Dazed & Confused since it was in theaters, but there you go.
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link