CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

So many great things about The Chain, especially that final section with the awesome bass riff, and "RUNNING IN THE SHADOWs!"

It feels like, "Remember that counterculture stuff we used to be into? What was THAT about? This is so much nicer! With two cats in the yard, oh shit, did the cats get out again?"

Huh, yeah, that's pretty hate-able - I read it as much more like hippies coupling up in a shabby old hippie house, walls leaning, "If it's yellow, let it mellow" in the bathroom, etc. The fact that they are yard cats seems key here, also note that all their amenities are nature-driven: flowers, sun through windows. Still totally self-satisfied and ex-activist, but closer to McCartney or even the bohemian urbanites in "I Do It For Your Love" than sneering ex-hippie "yeah, money rules!" anthems.

(Two cats may also indicate two couples: this may not look like a family to anybody else, but our house is a very fine house.)

Loving the photos.

(Sorry, I have nothing to say about "The Chain" - always enjoy it when it's on, nicely shaded, cool opening, just never connected with me beyond that.)

http://i.imgur.com/M7P2uWl.jpg

96. The Kinks – Lola
833 points, 15 votes

So many great things about The Chain, especially that final section with the awesome bass riff, and "RUNNING IN THE SHADOWs!"

THIS

I heard "Yoda" before I ever heard "Lola," and therefore always consider it sort of a novelty song...despite a deep and abiding love for all things Kinks.

i first heard about 'lola' on 'family ties,' so

I read it as much more like hippies coupling up in a shabby old hippie house, walls leaning, "If it's yellow, let it mellow" in the bathroom, etc.

haha, yeah, I never thought of it like that, but that totally makes sense.

at some point in the last few years "Gypsy" became my go-to FMac radio jam, but for a number of years "The Chain" was my shit, glad it made the cut.

on the cassette of it's hard that i had, the end of eminence front was abruptly cut off

scarred me for lyfe

love the chain but kinda wish the bass/runnin in the shadows part rocked harder

i'm 0/5 so far

heads up, folx: believe it or not, we've got a three-way tie coming up for the ninety-three spot...

http://i.imgur.com/GGJraHM.jpg

93. (tie) Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’
834 points. 14 votes, 1 first place vote

love these crazy thin point margins. This poll is going to be so unpredictable.

xxpost i'm still not sure whether i love or hate "lola," which i guess is just right.

gr80 that pic is amazing and OTM

Yeah there were several more songs in the 800 point range that just missed the cut. For a while I was sure "Don't Stop Believin'" was out of the running entirely, which woulda kept people guessing a bit more.

i still believe

honestly a little stunned by DSB coming in so low.

High five to the one first place voter!

That's me.

I had it at 28.

it's no stone in love

the first track from the top 100 to also appear on our "worst" list.... will it be the last??

Hopefully not! I need "Takin' Care of Business" to make this poll.

it's no stone in love

― mookieproof, Monday, July 28, 2014

it's not even "wheel in the sky"

wonder if either of those will make the cut...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpGVUuvPKmk

SS at the top there stands for "Steve Smith" naturally.

that little turnaround they do on 'niiiiight' at the end of the chorus before it goes back to the intro chords drives me insane.

Heaven is a funky moose.

I do kind of wish I felt the same way now about "Don't Stop Believin'" as I did when I first heard it.

You stopped belevin'!

Believin' too!

Feel like a poll of the same people 10 years ago would have led to far higher placement for Don't Stop Believin

Expecting a few more Detroit shout-outs before poll is through

this is still one of my favorite viral videos ever (it is also from, like, 2000, pre-viral)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fCWD1PFkFQ

2001 iirc!

Expecting a few more Detroit shout-outs before poll is through

Probably no more for South Detroit, tho.

shout out to windsor ontario

ehh, I love both big universal sentiment songs and concept albums, I'm kind of an outlier.

I still love this song, have never gotten burned out on it.

93/900 seems about right

lets drag out another hit....

http://i.imgur.com/kti9OJu.jpg

93. (tie) Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty – Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around
834 points, 16 votes

"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" has a particular statistical significance to the poll that I will explain later in the week...

I love this woman and like this guy but this song bores the hell out of me.

good song! I didn't vote for it though.

The Chain and SDMHA are two of the few times I can tolerate Stevie Nicks, obv because they aren't her dopey songs.

she wrote most of "The Chain."