CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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

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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

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

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.

lol great photo

Heard Stairway to Heaven just now while shopping for groceries.

Speaking of cortexes

There's a bathroom on the right

― voodoo chili, Monday, July 28, 2014 1:59 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

'scuse me while I kiss this guy!

xp Always had trouble reconciling the ominous lyrics of BMR with its happy, jaunty sound ... Not my fave CCR track

imo there is no more classic rock CCR than "fortunate son." whether that was enough for it to make my ballot or this rollout, only the rock gods know.

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.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, July 28, 2014 10:21 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha ditto, I saw gr8080 post this entry then went outside to do some gardening and the whole time I was singing "So I used the Force! I picked up a box!" to myself.

fuck don't stop believin' forever, i will take solace in the fact that it came very near to not placing, and could very easily have been beaten by "eminence front"

loving how "ILM" these results are, though - all the wrangling over what constitutes Classic Rock aside, we've already got at least three songs here that I am sure would not place in a top 250 of the general radio listenership. Why I love this place!

"My Sharona" rules and was one of the few borderline new-wave/power-pop songs I let in (the main riff is really close to something like Costello's "Pump It Up")- it just rocks so hard, has always been ubiquitous in the format in my lifetime, and MY YI YI YI YI, YI, WOO!

"Bad Moon Rising" not my favorite CCR... reducing the turmoil and upheaval of the late 60s to an old man on the back stoop checking the wind could have maybe worked if anything about the song felt like an actual bad moon was on the rise. Wellll, don't come around tonight - we're out of beer. But come 'round on Saturday, Ed's gonna get the grill fired up around four, and the weather looks good. It's like it wants to be "Gimme Shelter" in vibe, but just ended up in the wrong key by accident. I did vote for "Up Around The Bend" which I doubt we'll see, and "Fortunate Son," which I could see placing...

basically, what brad said

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

― Euler, Monday, July 28, 2014 10:30 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah Genesis/Collins were AOR staples

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, July 28, 2014 10:31 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I would question whether I heard much Genesis or Collins solo on classic rock radio either. Stuff like "Follow You Follow Me" or Duke or Abacab singles are possible. Whole thing has me questioning whether there was an AOR format that was less hard rock-oriented than the station I grew up with.

also, shit, how did I not vote for "Green River"

we've already got at least three songs here that I am sure would not place in a top 250 of the general radio listenership.

Which ones? I don't think I've seen anything especially surprising so far?

(V. possible, Tim. I hear them plenty too.)