CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

Haha I was literally just sitting here wondering if gr80 was going to make the same dad joke I would've

First appearance of the dink-dink-dink piano!

please please please tell me there are more to come.

Dude is totally holding the line in that pic.

xxxxxpost you're sure it's not G?

note: this is an old joke. "sweet home alabama" is in either G or D but it's unresolvable and better theory-heads than myself have gone to war on both sides of the question.

here's a representative thread on the subject. it's currently at 40 pages:
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=845618

Hold the Line also on my most-hated list.

better theory-heads than myself have gone to war on both sides of the question

which side is robert e. lee on?

No one in Alabama cares about what some dead old Virginian thinks.

High 5 fcc! Good analysis of the complexities and simplicities of "Sweet Home Alabama," mine was the other #1 vote

LIE YINE! BOW DU DU DU!

Song rules, Toto rules. Took me a long time, and Yacht Rock to come around to these facts. Didn't vote for the Toto IV megahits (which would have sat way at the top of my ballot, but felt way too 80s), but "Hold the Line" is great crunchy melodrama out of the mouths of studio nerds, which is a big part of this format for me.

"I'll Supply The Love" is the other amaaaazing track from this record, those clean bursts of muscley lead guitar announcing the arrival of the song (bit of a lift from "Do Ya" I guess), the beautifully stupid chorus/premise, and then the showoffy workout at the end. BUMP BUH BUM! Love it.

particularly enjoy fez's rendition of 'hold the line' on that 70s show

The thingsthatyousaythatyou do

Hold the line!

I didn't order a lime! No no no.

(xp) thanks brad! (my #1 vote, however, is now contingent on the song being in G. if it's in D, that changes everything.)

lol

"I'll Supply The Love" is the other amaaaazing track from this record, those clean bursts of muscley lead guitar announcing the arrival of the song (bit of a lift from "Do Ya" I guess)

otm

heard it in a love song > can't u see

"hold the line" is the rockinest toto but lol at it placing over AC/DC, Skynyrd and Zep. bodes well for "never been any reason"!

Toto is the worst of all these bands

note: this is an old joke. "sweet home alabama" is in either G or D but it's unresolvable and better theory-heads than myself have gone to war on both sides of the question.

yeah yeah I know this is an old joke but the only reason it's debatable at all is because of the solo. the song is still three chords ad nauseam.

Toto is the worst of all these bands

I actually disagree and think there are a lot of really good Toto songs, even well into the 80s. The most surprising thing is that they weren't dropped immediately in 1978 after someone at CBS heard "Georgy Porgy".

note: this is an old joke. "sweet home alabama" is in either G or D but it's unresolvable and better theory-heads than myself have gone to war on both sides of the question.

here's a representative thread on the subject. it's currently at 40 pages:
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=845618

There was some good discussion on the IMM theory thread.

yeah yeah I know this is an old joke but the only reason it's debatable at all is because of the solo. the song is still three chords ad nauseam.

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 29 July 2014

i had no doubt. just figured i'd share with the studio audience =D

What you say about the Key of G,
Is what you say about the Key of D

http://i.imgur.com/bjb3XWb.jpg

65. Rush – Tom Sawyer
972 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote

Yessssss voted this high for my family!

Not 1st pl high tho

65??????????????????

Oh Carl is going to be disappointed with this placement.

BOW NOW NOW weeny weeny weeeee

the only Rush I couldn't deny for a classic rock poll

I'm starting to realize that my only real beef with prog bands is that they'll occasionally lock into a real tight groove only to abandon it a minute and a half later for something far less compelling. "Tom Sawyer" is definitely an occasion when they maintain the focus and bring it home, though.

I totally blew out my voice singing "Hold The Line" on SingStar. That should give an indication of my feelings for that song.

My #1! I know it isn't the most CR of CR tunes, but I can't help myself, I love me some Rush.

This is another track where you could poll individual drum fills like "In the Air Tonight," but fuck Neil Peart showing off imo. Phil's fills are tasteful.

This was one of those weird out-of-place videos on MTV when it first came on. Missing Persons, Thomas Dolby, Rush with "Tom Sawyer"....

I knew I had exited The South when I went to a house party outside of KC and there was a band of hoosiers (small 'h', no Indiana affiliation) playing "Tom Sawyer". I looked around at the Midwesterners behind me and thought, "Ohh, so THESE are the people who listen to this band."

But hey. I'm from the part of the country where traffic stops every afternoon, we get out of our cars and "Freebird" plays over the radio speakers.

but fuck Neil Peart showing off imo

don't put him down as arrogant

i definitely thought "Tom Sawyer" would (and should) be in at least the top 20, was disappointed by how low it ended up. but then, if there's one thing more classic rock than loving Rush, it's hating Rush.

I'm from the part of the country where traffic stops every afternoon, we get out of our cars and "Freebird" plays over the radio speakers

this should be turned into a tv series. would be better than "the leftovers."

http://i.imgur.com/bwlfl1u.jpg

64. Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill
974 points, 16 votes

This was top 20 for me. "Tom Sawyer" was top 5 obv.

This was one of those weird out-of-place videos on MTV when it first came on.

Having seen some extended blocks of early early MTV recently, it was largely composed of weird out-of-place videos. They had a lot of time to fill, and there were an awful lot of older band that were trying their awkward level best to remain on the cusp of relevance. I wish I could remember which completely cringeworthy Starship video I saw which in no way indicated that they would someday gain a toehold in the age of music videos.

Solsbury Hill is a good song, but the impact has been somewhat weakened by its appearance in every movie trailer ever.

I'd guess "Jane" or "Miracles".

At this point, I'm convinced the No. 1 song of this ilxor.com/ILM poll will be "Cars" by Gary Numan.

I think the CR radio I've experienced has been much...beefier? brawnier? bro-down-ier? than that with which some of you are familiar. Much as I love "Solsbury Hill", it has absolutely no association with CR radio in my brain.

this one being the best: http://youtu.be/KmkVWuP_sO0

xxp

a whole lot of these songs have baggage now from soundtracks/trailers, but for the most part i'm able to shake it off

Listening to "Tom Sawyer" now and you know, I think of this as a song I like, but in fact its particular brand of bombasticism isn't working for me anymore. I get more actual pleasure from hearing "Come Sail Away" or even "Too Much Time On My Hands."

OK, skipping to "Limelight," always my favorite from this record. OK -- NOW I'm accepting the bombasticism. Starts with a riff instead of a foreboding synthfart.

But even here! It's SLOWER than I remembered. Less urgent. The big reverb on the guitars in the chorus (is it a chorus?) sounds terrible now.

I have switched over to "Turn It On Again." No less bombastic, surely. But when Phil Collins says "Down on my luck again. Down on my luck again" you feel something is actually going on, while when Geddy talks about "society" it just sounds like he's writing a term paper.

ditto xp to old lunch

I have a feeling that if any of the songs that got a lot of write-in talk are going to show up, it'll be soon. Hard to imagine any of them making the top 40.

I thought about playing "Sweet Home Alabama" to try to catch the faint "Southern Man" quote, but that would mean I'd have to listen to SHA and, and, NAW.

Please let all the Blue Sky related songs place.

PINK FLOYD RULES

But hey. I'm from the part of the country where traffic stops every afternoon, we get out of our cars and "Freebird" plays over the radio speakers.

― pplains, Tuesday, July 29, 2014 3:05 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

at last, we finally understand what REM was trying to do with "Everybody Hurts."

gr8080's link is suuuuper key for anybody who hasn't seen it yet, still cracks me up. "Solsbury Hill" is great, obviously, but I cut it pretty early as something I'm not sure I ever heard on CR radio. Maybe in more recent years, I guess? I know Genesis should grandfather solo Gabriel in, but IME he didn't seem to really click into where the format was going.

eephus OTM about term-paper rock, Rush are boring but I wouldn't change the channel on "Limelight," which does sidestep the "oops, a groove, better run" quality that Old Lunch identifies and which I bitched about on the other thread re: Spirit of the Radio. It's not even like they're avoiding a groove, it's like they really can't tell the difference between a groovy part and something else.

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.

I love this.

Hard to see any write-ins making it tbh - a dozen votes is a high hurdle.