CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

Because Genesis was all about balls-out rock satori?

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.

― Butthole Phlebotomy (Old Lunch), Tuesday, July 29, 2014 3:13 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was it "No Way Out"?
http://youtu.be/LQijT1lcR68

(maybe not, since this is from 1984. But I remember it being on MTV all the goddamn time that summer)

Solsbury Hill definitely sounds more mannered and arty than most of what's on CRR playlists, but it's an acceptable outlier at this point.

This and the Ziggy Stardust singles, "Modern Love," and "Changes" were the only Bowie singles I heard on my CR station.

REBEL REBEL

this is the only Bowie I voted for

"Rebel Rebel" one of my least favorite of Bowie's smashes. It's fine, good riff, it just sorta wears out its welcome.

Definitely feel like stations are way more likely to play Solsbury Hill now than in the 90s, say, but I have no data to back this up, just a vague sense that artier/college/iPad commercial sensibilities have trickled into the programming, if certainly not as visibly as 80s hard rock and early alt-rock megahits.

Suspect "Changes" is quietly one of Bowie's biggest CR songs. I hear "Fame" enough though, and "Young Americans."

I've heard "Space Oddity" quite a bit on Classic Rock.

"Rebel Rebel" one of my least favorite of Bowie's smashes. It's fine, good riff, it just sorta wears out its welcome.

This, basically. I would have zero issues with it if it felt like something more than a faded carbon copy of the big guns he'd brought out on the previous two albums.

Because Genesis was all about balls-out rock satori?

― EveningStar (Sund4r)

touche

I'm all about the endlessly circling riff.

"Solsbury Hill" was a staple of AOR/CR in the '80s, at least where I grew up. It has a weird time signature, totally classic rock!

reminds me of being a v little kid

love when i hear "amie" on the radio it's always so surprising

this thread is impossible to keep up with i think i need a desk job

I heard "Amie" while I was waiting in line at Walgreens on Saturday. I sang along.*

*I was carrying an infant, which excuses a significant amount of public singing.

It has a weird time signature, totally classic rock!

If only this were the criteria!

This and the Ziggy Stardust singles, "Modern Love," and "Changes" were the only Bowie singles I heard on my CR station.

plus "fame" plus "space oddity" plus "heroes" in my cr experience.

...all of which i like a lot more than "rebel rebel," the greatness of the basic "rebel rebel" riff notwithstanding.

"Space Oddity" def. "Heroes" too odd and "Fame" too funky.

I've heard "Young Americans" and "Let's Dance" plenty as well

Bowie played most of the riff himself too.

lol how much of it exactly

apparently he couldn't play the bend at the end

I went to a house party outside of KC and there was a band of hoosiers (small 'h', no Indiana affiliation)

I've been mulling this comment over in my head for a while, but being married to an actual Hoosier from Indiana, I decided to ask my wife if there was such a thing as a hoosier not from Indiana. She says no, hoosier specifically means someone from Indiana. Did you maybe mean "hesher"?

from the Bowie blog:

The “Rebel Rebel” riff seems crafted for obsession. A shuttle from D to E,*** the riff’s made of three parts—an opening burst (four notes, the first bent), a centerpiece (two quickly strummed E chords) and a resolution, five descending notes that end back with the riff opening. Its structure’s reminiscent of the “Ziggy Stardust” riff, while its tone has a taste of “Jean Genie.” Bowie makes the riff inescapable—in the four-plus minutes of the original “Rebel Rebel,” the riff is only absent in the two bridges and in the two-bar tags at the end of each chorus.

Alan Parker played the riff on the record, using a Les Paul standard and a Fender reverb amp with a single Wharfedale speaker. He later said Bowie had about three-fourths of the riff down when he played it for Parker on an acoustic guitar: he told Parker to make it a bit more Rolling Stones. Parker replayed the riff on his electric, adding some clang and bends (Bowie credited Parker with the three final notes of the riff: Ab, D and E). Its godfather was Keith Richards, who’d made a lifetime habit of compelling two-chord riffs; its target was Mick Ronson, who Bowie seemed to be trying to outdo.

"Fame" too funky

i think it gets extra cr points for john lennon involvement.

ok folks, two more to go before we wrap up today's results... and oh, what's this? why its another tie.

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

61. (tie) The Rolling Stones – Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
986 points, 13 votes

"Amie" is a great song but isn't it more of a straight oldies radio staple?

At your win-dah!

Quaaludes were big once.

would like to read more rock writing along the lines of the bowie blog post above. i love that stuff.

God how many Stones songs are ahead of us if this one's made the top 100?

"Amie" is a great song but isn't it more of a straight oldies radio staple?

― Manilow's Farm-Fresh Razzamatazzberries (Old Lunch), Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:15 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No way. It was released in 1972 and is more of a gentle country rock cowboy anthem than an oldie.

Can't You Hear Me Knocking was my one Stones vote and it was in my top 10.

i'm pretty sure every single song by white people that was released before the year 1990 is eligible for this poll so i think "amie" is eligible

There was a brief concerted push to write-in "Amie" during the voting period, but I don't know how many people might've been inclined to participate.

"can't you hear me knocking" top 10 for me, though i struggled with it because it's not a song i hear very often on cr. but i do hear it on occasion, and it's the definitive rolling stones groove for me. it's also probably my favorite keith richards/mick taylor guitar collabo, and definitely one of my favorite all-time examples of pop songs in which the lead guitar and lead vocal are doing the exact same thing. and i love the way the chorus is just an alternatve/inverse vocal take over the same music as the verse, with jagger playing call-and-response with the guitar during the verse and singing along with it during the chorus.

every single song by white people that was released before the year 1990

before 1987 actually, but ha ha yes.

this is the only Bowie I voted for

― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Tuesday, July 29, 2014 9:48 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I only voted Tattoo You-era Stones. Seems more CR to me.

I only voted Goat's Head Soup-Some Girls era Stones.

Hot tramp! I loooove Rebel Rebel. Great song, fun memories.

I'd really like to do an edit of the It's Only Rock n Roll album - cut straight to the vocal, lop off one verse and chorus from each track, no codas. I could totally see myself voting for Dance Little Sister or something.

ugh at that stones song

My top 10 was all stones and rod the mod but never cared for this one or stay with me.

if they did a fade at the end of the last chorus instead of that interminable outro it would probably be my favorite song ever.

last one for today

http://i.imgur.com/fqpY4YI.jpg

61. (tie) Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon

986 points, 16 votes

So many great live versions of this

After the results can we get a tally of how many pics have beers in them (so far my count is all but like 3).
Great job

My #1 vote in the Mac poll and voted it high here, too. Such a great groove, and Stevie at her Stevie-est.