CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

btw, at the conclusion of the top 100 on Friday, i will start a ballots thread, and will encourage people to hold off on posting their ballots for the poll and subpolls until then

She's A Beauty?

it got literally 1 point on the worst poll. it is the least worst.

my most hated:

Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Takin’ Care of Business
Jimmy Buffett – Margaritaville
Blood, Sweat & Tears - You've Made Me So Very Happy
Bob Seger – Old Time Rock & Roll
The Eagles – Hotel California
Billy Joel – It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me
Van Halen – Hot For Teacher
Sammy Hagar – I Can’t Drive
Loggins & Messina-Your Mama Don't Dance
Little River Band - Reminiscing

"Still Rock and Roll to Me" got robbed

the song Billy Joel wrote after his bandmates convinced him that there was a hip new musical genre called "Funny Butt"

Reminiscing was right on the bubble for me. so dreadful.

She's A Beauty?

Mostly for the execrable, misogynist video, which was on heavy rotation on Philadelphia's home grown video show Video Rock and was egregious even for the early 80s.

i like "old time rock n roll" a lot, it sounds more pissed off than joyous to me.

It's definitely not that joyous but I don't find the reactionary grumpiness particularly compelling, even as someone who generally prefers rock to disco: is this really what we listen to rock and roll for? More importantly, I don't feel like the obvious chug-along music makes a very strong case for rock and roll. American heartland rock is my blind spot, though. (I voted for one Springsteen song.)

More importantly, I don't feel like the obvious chug-along music makes a very strong case for rock and roll.
Think there was a thread about this kind of song but can't seen to find it

All I could find was this Not liking old music doesn't make a young person stupid. Liking new music doesn't make an old person smart.

haha i am listening to the 'worst' playlist and GROOVING. "Captain Jack" and Cocker's "With A Little Help" are a-OK with me.

fuck, even the drums on "I Shot The Sheriff" kind of knock

Good enough for epmd

Homages to 1950s/early 1960s rock recorded in the 1970s always sound so odd to me. It makes me wonder to what extent the '70s artists were conscious of making an up-to-date, contemporary tune with a "Golden Oldies" subject matter versus sincerely trying to emulate or evoke a retro sound, because the results always sound more of the '70s than the '50s in terms of feel and sonics. Thinking of songs like "Old Time Rock & Roll," the Carpenters' "Yesterday Once More," or even straight-up covers like Linda Ronstadt's version of Buddy Holly's "It's So Easy."

"Bad to the Bone" is such shit. It comes on the radio every single car trip, and I want to die.

So glad I wasn't the only one to vote for Brown Sugar. Ugh. Cannot imagine the people for whom it is, apparently, preferable to ''Teach Your Children,'' ''Walk of Life'' and motherfucking ''Come Sail Away.'' However, the entire exercise has probably been worth it for 'Eric Claptop.'

Clappin' your troubles away with the Claptop.

''I Shot The Sheriff's'' drums are also, I think, sampled on King Biscuit Time's ''I Walk The Earth,'' which rides the loop for like six minutes or something without getting old. So I'll give that to ol' Claphand.

I don't understand why no-one nommed The goddamed stupid Stroke & why it isn't #1

hate u guys so much right now

*kicks dirt*

My votes for worst (nothing in the top ten)

Asia - Heat of the Moment
Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is
Don Henley - Dirty Laundry
The Eagles - Heartache Tonight
Journey - Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'
Loverboy - Working for the Weekend
Meatloaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Quiet Riot - Cum on Feel the Noise
Rick Derringer - Rock & Roll Hootchie Koo
Toto - Africa

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is gets extra points for stupid pseudo-philosophical gibberish lyrics. I know what time it is: time to stop playing this song forever.

Oh I totally voted for Heat of the Moment

hate that stupid song

I think about this tweet at least once a week.

http://i.imgur.com/6ljismA.png

lol

tayngoooooow

Oh fuck, I totally meant to vote against The Stroke. Wtf? Sorry Veg.

Heat of the moment is positively hilarious

that tweet is wrong, bob's just like a roots rocker in the 90s bitching about the swing revival

his message is "fuck all these 'dance moves' and shit lef's break bottles and holler"

it's "get off my lawn" in song form

pretty sure i voted for DSB and margaritaville in my top 100 songs.

'old time rock and roll' is horrible, it's just that kind of garbage early '80s midwest midtempo rock that kind of seemed to soundtrack my upbringing bc everybody from the generation right before mine just thought it was the most incredible hardcore shit and it just had soul and was just about the swingingest tune of all time, i swear it was played on jukeboxes more than any song in my town aside from probably 'the joker', until it was temporarily unseated by 'black velvet' for a period of about six months or so there. then it went right back to the top. such a shitty song, you'd never imagine the dude responsible for it was also responsible for 'ramblin gamblin man'.

or, for that matter, "2+2=?"

there's two bob segers

Yeah, but I thought the other one did "Shakedown".

My votes for worst (nothing in the top ten)

Asia - Heat of the Moment
Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is
Don Henley - Dirty Laundry
The Eagles - Heartache Tonight
Journey - Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'
Loverboy - Working for the Weekend
Meatloaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Quiet Riot - Cum on Feel the Noise
Rick Derringer - Rock & Roll Hootchie Koo
Toto - Africa

― that's not my post, Saturday, July 26, 2014 10:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

six great songs here

i'm gonna stay out of this thread i don't think i understand it

"Heat of the Moment" is great IMO

Everybody's worst list is like 50/50 "oh yeah, good call" and "WTF that was in my top twenty on the main poll." Bodes well for a super unpredictable and fraught rollout. Still wish this could be like, one song a day for the next three months.

that tweet is wrong, bob's just like a roots rocker in the 90s bitching about the swing revival

To be fair, Seger stole that lyric from Chuck Berry ("Rock and Roll Music"). At least the tango - despite Bob's gringo pronunciation thereof - is an actual dance, unlike such inventions as the "congo" (from Chuck Berry) or the "mamba" from Starship's "We Built This City."

this was my worst list:

The Beatles – Get Back
Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight
Golden Earring – Twilight Zone
Europe – The Final Countdown
Steve Miller – The Joker
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
Red Rider – Lunatic Fringe
Styx - Renegade
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Karn Evil 9 (First Impression, Part II)
John Lennon – Imagine

holy shit @ "Lunatic Fringe", are you a madman

Piano Man is the perfect example of a failed song. what is it supposed to be? perceptive? no, not an original line in sight. nostalgic? again, these characters are too terrible for anyone to ever care. anthemic? "Oh, la la la, di da da" oh for fuck sake!

holy shit @ "Lunatic Fringe", are you a madman

― Euler, Sunday, July 27, 2014 6:49 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, i am a lunatic and the song hits too close to home for me

I think it's supposed to be a "magical stranger" story (like Mr. Bojangles or whatever), only Joel casts himself in the role of the magical stranger which is dumb.

it's a magical tale where people put bread in jars

What's wrong with Twilight Zone?

Man, what are you doing here?

http://the-toast.net/2014/01/03/coda-piano-man-paul-davey/

High 5 to whoever else voted for Captain Jack as worse!

I don't think I know that song? obviously I don't want to listen to find out though