I think most people had a 'no bands with cirque du soleil shows in vegas' rule
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 1 August 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
my theoretical Top 10 in no real order
FrankensteinFunk #49Mississippi QueenAnthem - RushNever Been any Reason - Head EastRadar LoveRoundaboutLong Train RunninDo It Again - Steely DanBad Motor Scooter - Roundabout
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 1 August 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
FrankensteinFunk #49Mississippi QueenAnthem - RushNever Been any Reason - Head EastRadar LoveRoundaboutLong Train RunninDo It Again - Steely DanBad Motor Scooter - Montrose
lol WE'RE ALL WASTED
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 1 August 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
I had two Beatles songs in my top 10 fwiw.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 1 August 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
It would be fun to know the Enthusiasm, Popularity, Hivemind, Loneliness, Top Neighbor stuff like Seandalai does for EOY polls, but that sort of datamining seems contrary to the CR spirit, so, uh, never mind hey pass me one of those beers over there ok?
― rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Friday, 1 August 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
fanfuckingtastic poll some dude and gr8080 and all voters and all commenters, even though all of you are wrong about the beatles.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Friday, August 1, 2014 1:09 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I knew the FCC was gonna get on the AORta's case
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Friday, August 1, 2014 3:15 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://cs.trains.com//emoticons/icon_smile_swg.gif
― pplains, Friday, 1 August 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
No Steppenwolf was the biggest shock for me by far. Magic Carpet Ride and Born To Be Wild were my #3 and #4!
― lol on hoosly (crüt), Friday, 1 August 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
Figured "Carry On Wayward Son" was a lock for top 100, even if people were sick of it. Around the top 5 or so, I realized it wouldn't make it. I've heard the song a million times and I still love it to death, my #1.
― Vinnie, Friday, 1 August 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
yeah "Magic Carpet Ride" in particular has i think persevered and sounded at home in '70s-heavy playlists, i think sometime just in the last decade it overtook "Born To Be Wild" in airplay. was on my ballot but i gave up hope for it pretty quickly.
― some dude, Friday, 1 August 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
"Born to Be Wild" has really suffered from getting used in so much in the media - I pretty much associate it with ads now.
― Vinnie, Friday, 1 August 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
yeah that too. too iconic for its own good.
― some dude, Friday, 1 August 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
"Next on The John Kay Group: 'Too Iconic'? What the fuck does that mean?"
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― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 August 2014 21:05 (nine years ago) link
I cant listen to Born to Be Wild again. Ever.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, 1 August 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link
goddamn the pusher man that'd make you
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 1 August 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
Great poll, loads of fun -- thanks SD and Gr80 for the work! Can't wait to see the top 500 and commiserate with the other few Thunderclap Newman fans.
― rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Friday, August 1, 2014 2:55 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
My #2.
― Lee626, Friday, 1 August 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
10 votes was pretty respectable, I guess.
Lowest placing song with a first-place vote - 368. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Crosstown Traffic 350 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote
...unless something got a first and still fell outside the top 500.
― rockist papist scissorist (WilliamC), Friday, 1 August 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
My first place was outside of the top 500: Robert Palmer - Sailin' Shoes/Hey Julia/Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley. Have to admit that it's definitely not the most "classic rock" of songs, but it squeaks in under Little Feat. I probably should have given more points to Skynyrd or something.
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Friday, 1 August 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
Yesss TWO buck dharma joints in the top 10 and that's WITHOUT me voting! This is why ilx is my home.
When I did finally get a ballot put together up to number 32 it was the Friday after the Wednesday of the deadline and I was like fuck it and didn't send it. But here it is:
Blue Oyster Cult – Don’t Fear The Reaper 1Rush – Tom Sawyer 2Electric Light Orchestra – Do Ya 3Led Zeppelin – Dancing Days 4Jethro Tull -- Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of the New Day) 5Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle 6Fleetwood Mac – The Chain 7The Cars – Let’s Go 8The Police – Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 9Don Henley – Boys Of Summer 10Steely Dan – Reeling In The Years 11Heart – Crazy On You 12Steve Miller – Fly Like An Eagle 13Blue Oyster Cult – I’m Burnin’ For You 14Van Halen – Jump 15Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street 16Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – You Got Lucky 17Creedence Clearwater Revival – Born On The Bayou 18Boston – Rock & Roll Band 19The Eagles – In The City 20AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long 21Yes – Roundabout 22Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back In Town 23The Who – Baba O’Riley 24Pat Benatar – Hit Me With Your Best Shot 25Golden Earring – Radar Love 26The Pretenders – Back On The Chain Gang 27Styx – Renegade 28.38 Special – Hold On Loosely 29Christopher Cross - Ride Like The Wind 30Kansas – Dust In The Wind 31Toto - Africa 32
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 August 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
I feel most guilty about "Do Ya" that song is THE elo jam and it needed me and I wasn't there for it.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 August 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
Also, it is dangerous to drive with radar love playing. The only song that has made me drive faster than radar love is the first track on zen arcade
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
do oakland raiders fans sing a version of radar love at games?
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
They should've played it over the end titles of the final episode of m.a.s.h.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
*raises hand*
A little shocked this was the lowest Hendrix tbh. My ultimate criterion for choosing my no.1 was how it would fit on a UK Drive Time Hour, being I think our closest relative of Classic Rock. Crosstown Traffic is the drivingest song imaginable, so.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 1 August 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
What's the name of the doc about the lady who lives in the park and thinks her lover/husband? is speaking to her through the song Radar Love being beamed directly into her head??
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
Also I was out tonight and missed the chance to deploy my Thin Lizzy story:
My student job was dogsbody in a hardware store in the South Side of Glasgow. Occasionally there'd be this old dude in the shop, buying screws or something, and whispers would go round the staff that the guitarist from Thin Lizzy's dad was in the house. I never found out which guitarist, or even tbh which old dude it was, but I did look up the members' resumes once and TL did once have a guitarist who was born in Clarkston, so the story checks out. Whether he knew it or not, old dude was our house celebrity.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 1 August 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
What's a dogsbody?
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
What's the name of the doc about the lady who lives in the park and thinks her lover/husband? is speaking to her through the song Radar Love being beamed directly into her head??― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, August 1, 2014 4:12 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, August 1, 2014 4:12 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't know, but this is once again infuriating because this is not what radar does.
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link
RADAR = RAdio Detection And Ranging, i.e. you do not communicate with radar
I know but this lady wasn't well -- it's just what she believed to be true iirc
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
I thought dogsbody was a made-up Sex Pistols word.
― clemenza, Friday, 1 August 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
Clearly she was insane to believe she could get messages via RADAR!!!!!!
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
thank you, Jon!
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
I thought they just meant the body of a dead dog.
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
Dogsbody = individual who undertakes unglamorous, menial tasks at others' whims, to no acclaim i.e. the opposite of being guitarist in Thin Lizzy
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 1 August 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
It's like a gofer, right? A general helper with whatever needs doing?
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
Xpost
Cool word!!
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
It's also the title of an awesome SF novel by Diana Wynne Jones.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
I'm really happy that crazy on you was top 10. My two favorite things about it are the cascading pull-off guitar figures that prefigure Meat Puppets and the bridge ("and you KEPT me alive with ya SWEET FLOWWIN LOOOOOVVVE") which I like to impress people by singing along with in this weird falsetto I have
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:30 (nine years ago) link
My other falsetto party trick being the "you're the right kinda sinner..." part in Heartbreaker
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
CRAZY on youCRAAA-AAAZY on YOU!!!!
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:32 (nine years ago) link
My student job was dogsbody in a hardware store in the South Side of Glasgow. Occasionally there'd be this old dude in the shop, buying screws or something, and whispers would go round the staff that the guitarist from Thin Lizzy's dad was in the house. I never found out which guitarist,
Could've been Midge Ure's dad! Cos he was from Glasgow, but I guess Thin Lizzy is the thing he's probably least famous for.
― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Friday, August 1, 2014 4:27 PM
ty for this!
― sleeve, Friday, 1 August 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
i voted for 'do ya'
also lol
266. (tie) Jethro Tull – Aqualung 472 points, 7 votes266. (tie) Billy Squier – The Stroke 472 points, 8 votes
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 August 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
Tuesday's Gone is on the list twice. Would have been top 200 otherwise. Still, it was a lot of fun and that Ian Thomas thing is the only one I don't know by name.
― Zachary Taylor, Friday, 1 August 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
The Move version was in my top five
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 1 August 2014 23:45 (nine years ago) link
Also I was out tonight and missed the chance to deploy my Thin Lizzy story:My student job was dogsbody in a hardware store in the South Side of Glasgow. Occasionally there'd be this old dude in the shop, buying screws or something, and whispers would go round the staff that the guitarist from Thin Lizzy's dad was in the house. I never found out which guitarist, or even tbh which old dude it was, but I did look up the members' resumes once and TL did once have a guitarist who was born in Clarkston, so the story checks out. Whether he knew it or not, old dude was our house celebrity.― Ismael Klata, Friday, August 1, 2014 4:16 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Ismael Klata, Friday, August 1, 2014 4:16 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
In the late 80s/early 90s my sister owned a flat in Newlands (South Side of Glasgow) and her next door neighbour was Brian Robertson's mother - a 100% working class wee Glasgow wifie, except that her flat was packed with memorabilia, photos etc of Thin Lizzy, Motorhead and tons of other rock bands and celebs. In her toilet was a framed, signed picture of Rod Stewart and he had written on it "Thanks for the bacon sandwiches, love Rod".
― everything, Friday, 1 August 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
Placement above toilet makes that dedication super gross
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
Was "Amie" the highest-placing write-in?
"Badge" placed about 10 higher.
― billstevejim, Friday, 1 August 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
Just caught up. some dude and gr80 loved the radio station concept and loved the puns/intros to the songs accompanied by the images! good fun all around.
I kinda hate a lot of songs in the top 100 :) and have only heard maybe half of the top 20!
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Friday, 1 August 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link