true story, 107.7 was originally going to use THE SHOCKER as its alias before we settled on THE AORta
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
classic rock: EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
(xxxpost)
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
"All the Young Dudes" won a competition as the song that everyone on ILM liked at one time iirc!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
This one's for Ari and cwkiii. Oh, and Jesus, too, although he told me once that he always gets this confused with "La Grange" until he hears his name in the lyrics.
http://i.imgur.com/CY3lOIi.jpg
12. Norman Greenbaum – Spirit In The Sky 1608 points, 22 votes, 2 first place votes
― some dude, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
I'd honestly be okay with Bowie taking all of the remaining slots.
― Dr. Yah Mo B. There, DDS (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:35 (ten years ago) link
THE song that everyone on ILM likes
xpost WTF; p sure I've never heard this on CRR.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:35 (ten years ago) link
the bombest
― Euler, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:35 (ten years ago) link
YES YES YES
― cwkiii, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:35 (ten years ago) link
(Context: Find a song that everybody on ILM likes )
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
Good job ILX on Spirit in the Sky.
― Jeff, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
Looks like Van Morrison is going to get the shaft. Brown Eyed Girl might be too much of an oldie, and then there would be vote splitting between his others.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, August 1, 2014 10:32 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Van is in my top 5!
― Lee626, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
See what I love about this poll (which I didn't vote in, sorry) is that it's not all Stones / Who, it really has those songs I remember encountering on CR radio as a child and going "WHOA WHAT IS THAT" and maybe never really knowing. "Radar Love" and "All the Young Dudes" for example. Those songs are IN ME.
Of course, "Come Sail Away" has the same status in my heart and is surely not going to place.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
this song is still my #1 candidate for:
hits from the eighties or whenever that have yet to been turned in to brand-spanking psychedelic "edits" by Todd Terje or some other charming moustach-parading Scandanavian wag filling in fo
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:38 (ten years ago) link
Isn't there a third CR song with that "Spirit In The Sky"/"La Grange" guitar thing going on?
― Dr. Yah Mo B. There, DDS (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:38 (ten years ago) link
I was starting to worry that "Spirit in the Sky" had somehow missed out. I love that song so much, and it really is the essence of "classic rock" to me.
― cwkiii, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
"shake your hips" which is itself a cover obv xp
― een, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
I really like Old Lunch's "Classic Rock for Dummies"--worth a separate thread.
― clemenza, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
Spirit in the Sky, placed where it belongs. Amazing song.
― voodoo chili, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link
YES THAT'S THE ONE, thank you, een.
― Dr. Yah Mo B. There, DDS (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
"Come Sail Away" has the same status in my heart and is surely not going to place.
never say never
― sleeve, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
Wait -- is there no #13? Is this poll like an apartment building?
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
also Mookie! DVE just played some horrible banjoey pseudocountry bullshit that I did not know so I went to their website to look at the "now playing" list and it's the newest from The Clarks. UGH.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
Oh, and Jesus, too, although he told me once that he always gets this confused with "La Grange" until he hears his name in the lyrics.
^Jesus actually gets his own song on Tres Hombres, so he shouldnt be too bummed.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
styx/kansas/reo fans begin an anxious vigil. death by vote-split?
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
clemenza, I think there may be a thread like that floating around somewhere. If not, I have scads of Song Titles For Dummies in my repertoire.
― Dr. Yah Mo B. There, DDS (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
"C'mon man, Number 14, y'know where you really placed"
― nxd, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:45 (ten years ago) link
seriously Spirit in the Sky? Fuuuuuuck that
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:45 (ten years ago) link
Fingers crossed that the missing #13 is Cheap Sunglasses
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
I need Survivor to show up soon.
― Jeff, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:48 (ten years ago) link
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Friday, August 1, 2014 10:45 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
smh @ this ignorance
― lol on hoosly (crüt), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:48 (ten years ago) link
OTM
― sleeve, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
I find the dynamics of this poll to be the most fascinating yet. There's so much going on beyond merely which songs we like; also worked in are things like "is it CLASSIC ROCK enough?" or "this artist needs some recognition in an ILM poll" or "it was used to great effect in a crucial flick".
― Lee626, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
I've been thinking my #1 has a pretty decent shot of actually making #1. And it's a band that hasn't shown up yet.
Also just sayin, it would just feel weird to see a classic rock Top 10 without Pink Floyd or Led Zep. Due to the vote splitting, I'm thinking this might be the first classic rock list in history of mankind to exclude these 2.
― billstevejim, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link
Prove me wrong please.
From the song's Wikipedia page:
Of the song, Greenbaum observed: "It sounds as fresh today as when it was recorded. I’ve gotten letters from funeral directors telling me that it’s their second-most-requested song to play at memorial services, next to 'Danny Boy'.".
Also, this:
in a VH1 episode about famous one-hit wonders, Alice Cooper said that he was surprised to hear someone with a Jewish-sounding last name performing a song that seemed to be about Jesus
― voodoo chili, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link
I don't see any more Floyd coming. w/ Zep who knows
― Euler, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, August 1, 2014 9:43 AM (6 minutes ago)
praying hard that this is the case
crüt & sleeve OTM, "Spirit" deserves every vote it gets + more
― rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Friday, August 1, 2014 10:45 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, this. Such a bland non-entity of a song. It's the unflavored ice milk of cr.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
Mine too. I know mine is 100% guaranteed to show up, it's just a question of where.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
brb going to get some unflavored ice milk
― cwkiii, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
styx/kansas/reo fans begin an anxious vigil.
Nothing I've ever read on ILX suggests that people here feel the same way I do about "Point of Know Return," so all my vigilance is focused on Tommy, Dennis, and those nice Panozzo boys.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
I must be a superstitious architect, because I just skipped #13! Sorry folks, we've got some, uh, strong coffee in the station this morning. This one's for Darin:
http://i.imgur.com/pCsMqV4.jpg
13. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son1605 points, 23 votes
― some dude, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
imo there is no more classic rock CCR than "fortunate son." whether that was enough for it to make my ballot or this rollout, only the rock gods know.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, July 28, 2014
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
Hooray, my number 4!
― Jeff, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
my mom refused to let me sing "spirit in the sky" because it gave her the creepstherefore, i loved to sing it
i know the reaper hasn't made his/her final appearance…
Fortunate Son RUUUULES
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
eephus! i could have sworn i lobbied for point of know return in the tailgate party thread but i can't find any trace of those posts. dust in the wind...
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 1 August 2014 15:02 (ten years ago) link
oh man, I forgot about the reaper!
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 1 August 2014 15:02 (ten years ago) link
i am legit excited for the rest of the rollout, even knowing the results already lol
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 1 August 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link
Fortunate Son is my number 4 as well. So badass.
Seriously though, fuck the Forrest Gump soundtrack.
― voodoo chili, Friday, 1 August 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link
"Fortunate Son" was my only CCR vote. Such a jam.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 1 August 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link