CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4voMB-jlSQQ

Also today, I learned geocities is alive and well in Japan:

http://www.geocities.jp/leotardskynyrd/

just came from my eyeglasses store, where "lonely is the night" was playing when i walked in. saleswoman looked up and, unprompted, said, "we're rockin' the classic rock today." "i know the feeling," i said.

sure, but how does she feel about the stroke

I just listened to "Shambala". Pretty sure I've never heard it before.

the song i most regret not voting for today is "brass in pocket." i rejected it on grounds of "not sufficiently classic rock." but i do hear it on cr radio out here, and it sounds perfect every time it comes on. which is to say, sometimes i am an idiot.

a cr countdown would make no sense without the uber-classic "free bird," even if lynyrd skynyrd topped it several times. it wasn't one of my three skynyrd votes but i'm glad it's on the list, and i'm glad it's low.

freebird is great

personally I dig the piano-heavy studio version on skynyrd's first, but i love the guitar solo in the live version, and ronnie's stage banter

"WHAT IS IT YOU WANNA HEAR?"

sure, but how does she feel about the stroke

i think the fact she was playing "lonely is the night" tells you all you need to know.

^^^btw you should probably sign yrself up for a bo diddley beat poll

also it's WHAT SONG IS IT YOU WANNA HEAR

smdh

fp-ing myself right now

^^^btw you should probably sign yrself up for a bo diddley beat poll

ooh, i like that idea,

Why does half of ILM seem to hate Steve Miller Band? They're a pretty good band and still sound more modern than most of the bands on the "classic rock" canon. Songs like the joker or flae could have been released this year and they wouldn't sound weird.

People slag Steve Miller. I put on Serenade, drop the mic and walk away.

My old roommate and pal's dad used to insist, casually, that back in his college days, his band's main rival in town was Steve Miller's, but that he didn't begrudge his former equal's success, as fame takes its toll too: "You should see Steve these days! He's a mess!" I was never convinced the chronology or geography of this worked at all, but I would also totally respect a dude whose imagined, bogus musical rival was Steve Miller.

steve miller & sammy hagar occupy the same terrible-lyrics circle of hell for me...and both have at least a couple of songs that I hate myself for liking

Steve Miller is Classic Rock's CheeseChief.

otm

abra abra cadabra

iwannareachoutngrabya

*slow clap*

"The Joker" irritates me because it's full of all these references to other songs, except no station plays those songs anymore, and they all just play "The Joker" 50 times a day. it's like the world has willed the song into seeming even more nonsensical than it already is.

That seems like a reason to love it tbh

Grady kept talking about this poll when we kicked it the other day so I got hooked reading this thread. Observations:

1. The cars as number one classic rock album is so bizarre to me, I know just what I needed is a staple but it's so new wave

2. How did "love the one you're with" not make worst songs list?

"The Joker" irritates me because it's full of all these references to other songs, except no station plays those songs anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQNGHMf15I4

No one playing that anymore, that's for sure.

"Love The One You're With" did get a vote in that poll. I am a fan of it, personally.

there are worse songs QED

i'm not a big fan of "love the one you're with" but i do quite like bob seger's cover, which is on myonga's seger comp. the isley brothers did a nice version too.

I think the "The" is typically added to European pressings.

For whatever reason I've owned 2 copies of "Learning to Crawl" since I was single-digits age (likely acquired from yard sales) and I'm pretty sure both have the word "The" on the cover.

in the USA

I just looked at all the scans on RYM and it looks like "The" was added universally for both Learning to Crawl and Get Close from the time of release until they were reissued in deluxe versions in 2007, when the covers were altered to just say Pretenders to match all the rest of their albums.

in THE usa (xp)

i'm glad Johnny Fever is finally teaching us how to properly listen to classic songs like "Back On Chain Gang" and "Middle Of Road."

brass in the pocket

lol I'm taking it easy on you guys. I once got involved in a week-long argument about this on last.fm (when people gave a shit about last.fm) over whether or not "Pretenders" or "The Pretenders" was the correct artist id. It got ugly.

Love the one you're with just seems like such a questionable life lesson lol

"Life Lessons by Stephen Stills"

Love the one you're with just seems like such a questionable life lesson lol

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, July 29, 2014 1:07 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh totally. for years i just kind of glossed over the song as being a generic hippie anthem about loving thy neighbor, and then one day i thought about it for more than 5 seconds and was like wait, is this song just about settling and/or cheating when you're horny?

it's about cheating when you're horny ... with stephen stills.

Tbf, he wasn't ugly yet.

I think it's specifically about cheating when you're a horny rocker on the road - or maybe the girlfriend of said rocker, receiving disingenuously-framed advice via Western Union. And yet - it sounds so nice! If you pay only half attention you can maybe assume it's a really garbled, low-level conversation about a potentially healthy polyamorous situation, if that makes it easier to enjoy the happy-seeming vibes.

it's weird growing up thinking of CSN as 100% hippie peace love songs That Defined A Generation and then realizing it's just stills making crosby and nash sing his creepy sex poetry

yeah otm

"Chicks dig crutches"

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_04kZGR_ltmE/THjzshxFFXI/AAAAAAAAILg/p6F2s2_A67A/s1600/Stephen-Stills-Rolex-1972.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Stephen_Stills_2011.jpg/220px-Stephen_Stills_2011.jpg

please love the one you're with pleeeease

there's a rose in a fisted glove

ohhh its a hemorrhoids metaphor now i get it

TS: "Love the One You're With" vs. "Triad"

Where's Nash's skeevy jam? Is "Marrakesh Express" code for something?

I always figured Love the One You're With was a hippie love jam and yet "rose in a fisted glove" was just disturbing enough to suggest something gross at the center of the song. Then I had life experiences with the kind of hippie dudes who cloak their ill treatment of women in a mantle of free love unfettered by the restrictions of society and now I think that song is garbage.

Maybe if it had more parts.

Read that as "more pants".

Sure.