CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

not sure if it's good or bad that this song now makes me think of the ad with the drum-playing gorilla

isn't it named after him? xp

off-topic but any fan of this song who's never heard the '88 remix really really needs to: http://youtu.be/On3jqw-tZsk

One of my great unused thread ideas is to poll those five fills.

lol

any fan who's never heard it skrewed really needs to as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnweKclCLRk

Have never liked SITAT, despite being a pretty big Phil Collins/Genesis fan for a couple years in the 1980s. Doesn't really fit into my concept of classic rock either. Nevertheless, I'm listening to the whole damn thing again for drum fill purposes.

HATE don't stop believing. My Sharona would be an amazing track if it wasn't for that hook, back half of the song is really fun.

Best about 'walk on the wild side' is that it's responsible for 'can i kick it'

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90. James Gang – Walk Away
846 points, 12 votes

Cool images grady! Y'all shoulda hit me up for old Sh1pley family photos to add to the mix!

I hear "Walk on the Wild Side" reasonably often, actually (and don't know what "Shambala" is). In fact, it was on when we turned on CR radio while setting up our apartment a couple of weeks ago. I remember that when I was a kid and first listening to CR, I totally didn't get what the point of the song was, just some guy talking over a couple of chords.

The guitar tone on "My Sharona" is actually pretty ripping, I noticed when I heard it a little while ago!

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

Me too! Nick's preferred wedding song iirc.

xposts LOVE "Walk Away"

Sharona guitars are so good.

ITAT is a monster. never considered voting for it due to it's almost, like, anti-classic rock but imo this track can't be praised enough. changed everything. Phil Collins on LEAD DRUMS, motherfuckers.

My #9!

my sharona's lyrics are pretty uncomfortable if you sing them out loud

in my world of classic rock neither Genesis nor Phil Collins ever registered, because they were on top 40 / pop radio. I think?

yeah I hate "My Sharona" for the lyrics; but "My Bologna" is a classic

Lol

xpost

nah Genesis/Collins were AOR staples

ooh... seems to me "walk away" is the first track on my ballot to place. the Aorta is making Monday at the tool and die shop fly by.

I cut "Walk Away" pretty late, despite loving it; I remember hearing "Rocky Mountain Way" on classic rock radio but no James Gang.

Something about ITAT seems to draw inspiration from Wall-era Pink Floyd as well as laying the foundation for later Floyd music that came after Waters departed. Are Collins and Gilmour buddies? Seems like they would be.

"walk away" is sublime.

and it seems to me VG should be here for this moment.

deeply regret not voting 4 this

i didn't know the james gang was from cleveland!

DADDY'S HOME

gr80, you wanna do one more song before i get in the booth and finish out today's broadcast?

can i go both tracks from this tie we have coming up?

do*

Assumed I'd know every song on the Top 100, but here's one I don't. (Don't know anything except "Funk #49.") Yesterday, at the HOF inductions, there was a dead ringer for Joe Walsh was sitting right behind Greg Maddux's family. Unless it really was Joe.

i didn't know the james gang was from cleveland!

Might explain why Joe Walsh was on the Drew Carey Show.

sure, do the whole tie

http://i.imgur.com/h7j7hS4.jpg

88. (tie) Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising
853 points, 12 votes

tbh before this poll i really didn't have any concept of James Gang having more than one hit "Funk #49" and "Walk Away" just blended together as a vague cloud of 'Joe Walsh songs that I don't like as much as "Life's Been Good"'

never knew the title or band behind "Walk Away" till now

Go to the 4-minute mark on this video...That's him, that's Joe!

Bad Moon Rising was my top Creedence pick.

Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like we're in for nasty weather.
One eye is taken for an eye.

the whole james gang rides again album is fabulous.

throughout the poll there were a few CCR songs getting several votes but not enough to be a lock for the top 100, i was pleased when "Bad Moon Rising" got a late surge of support to make the cut.

There's a bathroom on the right

Will be bummed if that's the only one. No other band for me sounds as classic rocky as CCR does.

i'll say no more on the topic

"Bad Moon Rising" was my CCR vote. I stuck with a one-vote-per-artist rule (with exceptions for the greats i.e. Nazareth).

I'm in line to do a CCR ballot poll but there are 10 others ahead of me.

what's crazy is it wouldn't be any harder to come up with 100 songs by 100 different bands for this poll xp

I only voted for one CCR track, and I suspect it may be coming up, but upon reflection today and I think "Up Around the Bend" might be the most CR of all CCR tracks.

yeah my ballot is more or less completely arbitrary

ok one more from me & its back to some dude, been real cool hanging with y'all

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88. (tie) The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze
853 points, 14 votes

"bad moon rising" is one of the most haunting songs any rock band has ever come up with.

I remember hearing "Rocky Mountain Way" on classic rock radio but no James Gang

Huh. This is another one of those songs that I literally have only ever heard on CRR -- I have never owned any James Gang (even though probably I should), but every second of this and "Funk #49" are deeply imprinted on my musical cortex.