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
is 'centerfold' classic rock?
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
never realized Aerosmith were behind that Big Ten Inch Record song
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:51 (ten years ago) link
Amazing sentence from the wiki entry on Toys In The Attic:
"By this point, Aerosmith had fully matured as a band and Steven Tyler made sex the primary focus of his songwriting on the album."
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:55 (ten years ago) link
My #'s 1, 2 & now 3, off the board.
― campreverb, Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
"Awright, guys, we went gold. Let's really experiment, Beatles style. Let's write about sex!"
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:57 (ten years ago) link
Meh. Not a huge fan of this one.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link
From their spotify picture, it's clear that aerosmith had a large influence on PUA style
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link
Was not until late adolescence that I grokked the meaning of "the rabbit done died."
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
plz explain
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
so, how many till we get to #1?
twenty four before my love, you'll see I'll be there with you...
http://i.imgur.com/ONIfLCb.jpg
24. Yes – Roundabout 1384 points, 23 votes, 1 first place vote
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:06 (ten years ago) link
Sorry, been busy doing lines
DON: I was driving down the San Diego freeway and got passed by a $21,000 Cadillac Seville, the status symbol of the Right-wing upper-middle-class American bourgeoisie – all the guys with the blue blazers with the crests and the grey pants – and there was this Grateful Dead 'Deadhead' bumper sticker on it!
GLENN: I shit you not, the same thing happened to me. Except I was on Rodeo Drive and it was a Corvette with a brunette at the wheel and a blonde ridin' shotgun, and it was a GoGos sticker on the bumper and we all met up at the Château Marmount afterwards for a private pants party and the song I wrote was "Sexy Girl".
DON: Well, yeah.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:06 (ten years ago) link
It is a common misconception that the injected rabbit would die only if the woman was pregnant. This led to the phrase "the rabbit died" being used as a euphemism for a positive pregnancy test. In fact, all rabbits used for the test died, because they had to be surgically opened in order to examine the ovaries.[citation needed] While it was possible to do this without killing the rabbit, it was generally deemed not worth the trouble and expense.[citation needed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_test
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:08 (ten years ago) link
totally. yessed. out.
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:08 (ten years ago) link
Trying to figure out at this point whether "Stranglehold"'s ship has sailed or whether it's an absolute lock for the top 20.
― Kool-Ranch! flavor Kool-Aid® drink mix (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link
BA DA DA DOO DA DA DAP!
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
I didn't expect "Roundabout" to place this high. It was the third-highest Yes song on my ballot (out of five).
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
(By which I mean to say: good work, ILM.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:14 (ten years ago) link
You can thank Carl for that 1st place vote.
― Jeff, Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
Such a rad bassline
― brimstead, Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link
Roundabout is spectacularly great. I love it to death even though I'm not a prog guy. The bassline and organ performance are spectacular, but Steve Howe makes this song.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:17 (ten years ago) link
you know, in and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky, and they stand there. I'd like to know.― trevor horn, Thursday, August 26, 2004 9:26 PM (9 years ago)
― sleeve, Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:19 (ten years ago) link
"Roundabout" is a good tune but I honestly don't know if I ever knowingly heard Yes on CRR aside from "I've Seen All Good People". Not much really sounded familiar to me when I finally got around to listening to their albums.
― Kool-Ranch! flavor Kool-Aid® drink mix (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:20 (ten years ago) link
Thanks, poll, for inspiring me to listen to "Close To The Edge". Goodbye, next twenty minutes of my life.
― Kool-Ranch! flavor Kool-Aid® drink mix (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
I think my local CRR doesn't play "Roundabout" anymore. Too prog, not enough rawk. Trying to think if if I've ever heard Genesis; "That's All," maybe...
― Both Jandek and Authenty (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link
Roundabout feels fairly ubiquitous. This is probably my fave prog song.I mean not enough to vote for it, but still, not unpleasant.
― campreverb, Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:29 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/IeK1bY1.jpg
23. Free – All Right Now1409 points, 21 votes
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
XP Yes jams I have heard on area CRR: "Roundabout", "Long Distance Runaround", "I've Seen All Good People", "Owner of A Lonely Heart", "Changes"
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
I voted for this even though I couldn't decide whether I actually liked it or not, because no way are we having a CR poll without ARN on it
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:36 (ten years ago) link
I had Free - All Right Now at 23 too. So that's perfect placement.
― Jeff, Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:37 (ten years ago) link
Free, along with Humble Pie, are like the most 'Classic Rock'-sounding bands that only have a couple radio staples between them.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
Half the time on the radio I get really excited to hear "All Right Now," only to be severely disappointed that I'm actually listening to "Rock 'N Me" by Steve Miller Band
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
Is there room enough for two Steppenwolf tunes in the top 20?
― Kool-Ranch! flavor Kool-Aid® drink mix (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
Too true. Xp
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Thursday, 31 July 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link