CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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."

Ugh so fun to listen to twice and sing one part each time. I do the TP part best. Love the lyrics too, esp the stuff about knocking on the door. Who hasn't known, etc. Excellent song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmfc67NfwOw

Thing I always notice about the video is that TP doesn't show up until 45 seconds in: http://youtu.be/6UD0c58nNCQ

sorry for the youtube embed, I meant to link it but didn't realize the https thing had been fixed

I thought she only wrote the lyrics to The Chain, and even Christine helped with those.

Looks like our bits of biographical ephemera are spliced, much like the song itself:

According to interviews on the writing of Rumours, the final section of "The Chain"—beginning with a bass progression—was created by John McVie and Mick Fleetwood. Stevie Nicks had written the lyrics separately and thought they would be a good match; she and Christine McVie did some reworking to create the first section of the tune. Other elements were worked in from an early project of Christine's called "Keep Me There".[1] The blues-style piano motif was removed, and the remainder combined with a bridge from yet another piece manually using a razor blade to cut and splice the tapes. To complete the song, Buckingham recycled the intro from an earlier song from a duet with Nicks, "Lola (My Love)", originally released on their self-titled 1973 album.

Due to the spliced nature of the record - the drums and guitar were the only instruments actually recorded in each other's company - and its sporadic composition and assembly from different rejected songs, "The Chain" is one of only a few Fleetwood Mac songs whose authorship is credited to all members of the band at the time.[1]

Well then, to be on the safe side, I hate The Chain, too.

>:(

a personal favorite coming up here

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

93. (tie) The Knack – My Sharona
834 points, 13 votes

too low

i'd imagine a lot of voters cut it from their ballots under some "too new-wave" criteria?

Woo I love that song. Also fun trivia: it was the number one song the day Jeff was born.

lol at all the boozecentric jpegs up in here

"My Sharona" was kinda the new wave meeting classic rock halfway (Bonham drums) same as the Cars' debut xpost

lol at all the boozecentric jpegs up in here

baby, you aint seen nothin' yet

Hey, I did vote for one FM song! One of Lindsey's!

I prefer "My Bologna"

Yeah, we could probably fill out a good Weird Al playlist based on the parodies just from these results.

I had a relatively 80s-, and by extension, new wave-friendly ballot here. Had it at 79 here.

These images are fantastic.

http://i.imgur.com/A9kgZPL.jpg

92. Lou Reed – Walk On The Wild Side
837 points, 16 votes

Due to the spliced nature of the record - the drums and guitar were the only instruments actually recorded in each other's company - and its sporadic composition and assembly from different rejected songs, "The Chain" is one of only a few Fleetwood Mac songs whose authorship is credited to all members of the band at the time.

apologies for dragging the beatles into this, but one of the things i've always liked about "the chain" is that it's like one of those true lennon/mccartney co-writes where you really can't tell whose song it is. it sounds like it's expressing the essence of the band, not one of its three fron people. and that chorus has always sounded to me like the central thesis of all of rumours, lyrically, emotionally, and especially in the way the three voices don't harmonize with each other so much as they wrap around each other.

Still not buying this one as a CR radio staple, but maybe that's just the case where I'm from. Many of y'all had never even heard Shambala before, so I get it.

I first heard "Walk On The Wild Side" through CRR, but IME it's in super light rotation