CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

The Petty documentary is fantastic, a must-see. Long, but worth every minute.

Albums

1. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
2. Boston - Boston
3. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
4. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
5. Van Halen - Fair Warning

Worst tracks

Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight
Led Zeppelin – D’Yer Mak’er
Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill
Crosby, Still, Nash & Young-Teach Your Children
Steve Miller – Take The Money
Queen – Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Jethro Tull – Aqualung
Supertramp – The Logical Song
America - Horse With No Name
The Doors – Hello, I Love You

My worst of list:
1 Billy Joel – Piano Man
2 Don McLean – American Pie
3 Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
4 Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight
5 Led Zeppelin – D’Yer Mak’er
6 Three Dog Night - Joy to the World
7 Pink Floyd – Young Lust
8 Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends
9 Stephen Stills – Love The One You’re With
10 Kansas – Carry On Wayward Son

I'm glad to see "Margaritaville" make the list, I meant to include it on mine. Also glad to see Moving Pictures in the top 20 albums.

Oh I had assumed that was a typo, and ILM meant Making Movies.

don't be a sore Wenner

a Knopf shutout is my worst-case scenario for this poll

inspired by Sandy I too have changed my DN

gr8080 big ups on visuals preview! looks super sweet!

tip of the hat to the Shipley Family Archive for the photos as well

Hell yeah VegemiteGrrl I knew you would be with me on totally embracing the spirit of this thing

I'm pleased with that album list-- Boston and Petty made the top ten, Bowie and Beatles did not. Very much in the spirit of CR. (Do they even play songs from "Ziggy Stardust" much? When I hear Bowie on the radio these days it's usually "Space Oddity," "Fame" or "Heroes")

"Suffragette City" is still huge on CR in Pittsburgh

nice results!

my worst & albums ballots:

MOST HATED:
1. Toto - Rosanna
2. AC/DC - Big Balls
3. Foreigner - Urgent
4. Toto - Africa
5. John Cougar - Hurts So Good
6. Steve Miller Band - Rockin' Me
7. Billy Joel - Big Shot
8. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Our House
9. Don Henley – Dirty Laundry
10. The Doors – Roadhouse Blues

ALBUMS:
1. The Cars - S/T
2. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes
3. Boston - S/T
4. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
5. Led Zeppelin - III

4 outta 5 on the albums! Led Zep III is a critic's choice anyway

"Fame"/"Space Oddity"/"Changes"/"Under Pressure" are definitely the dominant Bowie radio recurrents but "Suffragette" and "Ziggy" get play and the Ziggy feels like his biggest AOR cornerstone album (although Young Americans is gaining on it).

10 worst tracks
The Guess Who – American Woman
The Pretenders – Brass In Pocket
The Eagles – Hotel California
Pink Floyd – The Happiest Days of Our Lives / Another Brick In The Wall Part 2
The Moody Blues – Nights In White Satin
The Doors – Break On Through
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Woodstock
Don Henley – Dirty Laundry
Eric Clapton – I Shot The Sheriff
Grateful Dead -- Touch of Gray

5 albums full of deep classic rock cutz
Aerosmith, Rocks
Stones, Exile On Main St.
Van Halen, 1984
Queen, Night At The Opera
Bowie, Young Americans

you can tell i live in boston by that #1 album pick

also cmon guys fuuuuck pink floyd

fp'd u for 'brass in pocket' tho

i hate the pretenders for reflexive reasons that i don't even understand

Much as I love Young Americans I wouldn't even classify it as CR to begin with.

i can see being sick of "Brass" but damn across-the-board Pretenders hate? :(

totally have your back on "Another Brick In The Wall" though

maura i love u but besmirching pink floyd, girl idk

am i srsly the only one who hates Stroke

It made my best of list. Not high, but made it.

well of course

Aerosmith Rocks Natick, specifically

This poll is helping me refine my road trip compatibility table.

I was one of the 2 votes for Harvest in the albums poll. That album is so much more than its singles!

so are we all changing our DNs for the countdown?

That would be a no.

Billy Squier spreading his ear pollution far and wide to VG's disdain

;_;

xxxp: I'm game.

lol

True story - I have a friend who was Billy Squier's bass player at the height of his career (1982). He was touring with Foreigner and when they did "The Stroke", they'd get some of the guys from Foreigner and crew guys and any friends of the band to come onstage and sing the "stroke me, stroke me" part and do this very exaggerated jerking off hand motion. I got recruited in Pittsburgh, Philly, and Cleveland. They were my shining moments.

― Sandy, Tuesday, June 24, 2014 5:02 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i always liked "The Stroke" but i like it even more after this story.

maura, I can't handle your recoiling from the Pretenders.

CR is one of the biggest pet peeve making genres

sorry guys. i think it's hynde's voice. just do not like it

pink floyd however i'm not apologizing for, that shit has become the musical standard bearer for vaguely anti-establishment dudes who are still Part Of The Problem and i'm like nahhhh

i have a lot of baggage with Floyd, too, although for the most part Dark Side just gets to me

btw i never realized "Slow Ride" was 8 minutes before. do most stations play a single edit, or did i just never notice how long it went on?

I hate The Stroke so much but could not bring myself to vote for it for worst song because it made me the closest to a rock star I will ever be.

^ forgiven

the rest of you are on notice

Dark Side is the most boring post-Barrett PF album imo, but I realize I'm out on an island there.

i think it's hynde's voice.

That's like half the reason I love Pretenders. The other half is James Honeyman Scott's guitar playing, but he unfortunately didn't stick around as long as he should've.

Dark Side is at least very pleasant to listen to. the ways that the other albums are more 'interesting' are mostly just annoying to me.

Getting caught up after a weekend away. VegGrrl, you're not the only Stroke-hater.

ALBUMS
1. Electric Ladyland (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
2. Physical Graffiti (Led Zeppelin)
3. Who’s Next (The Who)
4. Layla (Derek and the Dominos)
5. At Fillmore East (Allman Bros. Band)

WE HATES IT FOR EVER:
1. Bob Seger - Against the Wind
2. Foreigner - Hot Blooded
3. Journey - Any Way You Want It
4. George Thorogood - Bad to the Bone
5. Boston - More Than a Feeling
6. Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
7. Styx - Lady
8. Billy Squier - The Stroke
9. Charlie Daniels Band - Devil Went Down to Georgia
10. AC/DC - For Those About To Rock

true story: Kansas would have been #7 on the most hated list if all the votes for "Carry On Wayward Son," "Dust In The Wind" and "Point Of Know Return" were pooled together

i couldn't do a list of worst songs because the worst songs bring me so much joy laughter-wise

dark side has shitty sequencing /challop

i mean, track sequencing, the synth sequencers rule obviously