CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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.

no joke i had a dream last nite that some dude walked in to the studio at The Aorta and caught me looking at pr0n

is it a dream if two different people had it? ::Bon Scott cackle::

http://i.imgur.com/p2UiRrh.jpg

80. AC/DC – Highway To Hell
877 points, 14 votes

^this photo is a special one

wait...

there's a space in the img url that's messing it up I think

should be good now.

::thumbs up::

who's the other guy? or is he just a long-time listener?

he was the 77th caller and scored VIP passes to last weekend's Aorta Resort-a Getaway™

the photo for #1 should be the "So Not Gonna Happen" one

Well, folks, after I entered the twilight zone, met Frankenstein, and took a drive on the highway to Hell, I do believe I'm ready to join the lunatic fringe. But I think I worked out the technical issues (too much "coffee" in the studio) and am ready to resume the countdown.

http://i.imgur.com/O5Yf5AE.jpg

79. Red Rider – Lunatic Fringe
880 points, 14 votes

MMM-HMMM

lol @ the lady's expression on the far left
she has beautiful hair!!

A+ centre lady with the can on her head

I'm a little behind but the only worthwhile version of "Love The One You're With" is by Luther Vandross, who because it was Luther Vandross made the gross message rather sad and almost stiff-upper-lip pathetic.

Definitely surprised Lunatic Fringe came in higher than Freebird. (I voted for Lunatic Fringe (98) and did not vote for Freebird at all so I'm part of the problem but still.)

Also I had a dream last night that Chicago stalwart "adult album alternative" station WXRT changed their format to classic rock.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are releasing their 13th album today, but we're gonna take it back to 1976 right now with a little ditty from album numero uno...

http://i.imgur.com/1IgVj73.jpg

78. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Breakdown
885 points, 15 votes

This song doesn't get much play down here; nor does "Don't Do Me Like That." It's all "American Girl," "Refugee," "Even the Losers," and "The Waiting" from this period.

i'm genuinely baffled lunatic fringe placed at all

oh man, that pic reminds me of the 8-Way Santa cover.

Breakdown reminds me a lot of Pretzel Logic by Steely Dan.

i'm genuinely baffled lunatic fringe placed at all

can-con lurkers

Another cover better than the original, imo.

I voted for Lunatic Fringe. It's one of those songs I heard on CR for years and years before I found out who it was by, so there was some mystery in its appeal for me.

Yeah, Lunatic Fringe was included in my ballot (albeit nearly in last place) because I don't think I can imagine crr without it. Also mysterious. Of an ilk with Twilight Zone.

also contains the word "twilight" in the lyrics.

Aretha's "Love the One you're With" kills:
http://youtu.be/X5oTJl4VTmU

Yeah, I don't know what you would call the weirdos who voted for Red Rider. I know they're out there, though.

http://i.imgur.com/88b3yMI.jpg

77. Electric Light Orchestra – Evil Woman
890 points, 15 votes

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2927/14458566238_4e91edf70f.jpg

FUCK WRONG THREAD> I AM NOT A CLASSIC ROCK COVER.

I need to stop drinking.

lol we should def have everyone post a wdyll drinking itt

Evil Woman is ok, I've never thought of it as more than a novelty song. Still, I usually don't change the station when it comes on.

"novelty song"?

http://i.imgur.com/sX89e0n.jpg

76. The Allman Brothers Band – Midnight Rider
892 points, 13 votes

"Breakdown" was my highest Petty vote, because its groove seems custom-built for classic rock radio. Like Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench and Stan Lynch foresaw the entire format and realized there was a slinky little piece missing in its foundation.

it's all roght

argh

speaking of grooves, I'm surprised and delighted to see "midnight rider" place

Half of these results have basically been "songs I know well but never had any idea what the titles were".

also: since "highway to hell" went generally unremarked lemme just say for the record that Malcolm Young is a genius. get well soon man.

Amen. I hope AC/DC get in one last hurrah with a tour and album.

"novelty song"?

― some dude, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 14:17 (18 minutes ago) Permalink

A lot of this is my 90s baby perspective. The first time I heard "Evil Woman" was in Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

re "lunatic fringe": that's a top ten jam for me. never not stoked to hear it. still ominous after all these years, nice gilmourish solo riding the edge of 80s-ness. file with "twilight zone" for sure, but it's a cut above imo.