CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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.

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"?

― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Tuesday, July 29, 2014 3:14 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No, I meant hoosier. I know, it is weird.

While "hoosier" may still be heard in areas of the south in its original, disparaging meaning of "uncouth rustic," the term seems to be slowly loosing currency. One important pocket of linguistic resistance, however, remains. Thomas E. Murray carefully analyzed the use of "hoosier" in St. Louis, Missouri, where it is the favorite epithet of abuse. "When asked what a Hoosier is," Murray writes, "St. Louisans readily list a number of defining characteristics, among which are 'lazy,' 'slow-moving,' 'derelict,' and 'irresponsible.'" He continues, "Few epithets in St. Louis carry the pejorative connotations or the potential for eliciting negative responses that hoosier does." He conducted tests and interviews across lines of age and race and tabulated the results. He found the term ecumenically applied. He also noted the word was often used with a modifier, almost redundantly, as in "some damn Hoosier."

In a separate section Murray speaks of the history of the word and cites Baker and Carmony (1975) and speculates on why Hoosier (in Indiana a "neutral or, more often, positive" term) should remain "alive and well in St. Louis, occupying as it does the honored position of being the city's number one term of derogation." A radio broadcast took up where Murray left off. During the program, "Fresh Air," Jeffrey Lunberg, a language commentator, answered questions about regional nicknames. He cited Elaine Viets, a Post-Dispatch columnist (also quoted by Paul Dickson), as saying that in St. Louis a "Hoosier is a low-life redneck, somebody you can recognize because they have a car on concrete blocks in their front yard and are likely to have just shot their wife who may also be their sister."

http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/internet/extra/hoosier.html

Now, how did I learn the term from a bunch of dudes from Kansas City metro? Good question, I don't know. Ask the Canadian band who sang about Tom Sawyer.

Weird, folks from Indiana are gonna be pissed!

Actually one thing this poll has brought home to me is how crappy, generally, Brit Blues bassists were. John McVie a noble exception on this and countless other tracks.

"Eminence Front" was #19 on our The Who tracks poll. I promise you there are not 18 more Who songs in this countdown.

― some dude, Monday, July 28, 2014 7:47 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Can't You Hear Me Knocking" was #11 on our Rolling Stones tracks poll. I promise you there are not 10 more Stones songs in this countdown.

"Can't You Hear Me Knocking" was #11 on our Rolling Stones tracks poll.

Wow, it was really that high? I feel like I live on a different planet.

Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo better be on there

another great day! Worried about the lack of any ZZ Top, though.

no way cheap sunglasses isn't placing

I'm the worst kind of Rolling Stones fan... I kind of only like the "groovy" RS singles. I'd much rather listen to "Brown Sugar" instead of "Can't You Hear Me Knocking". There isn't a single song on "Exile on Main St." that I remember.

Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo better be on there

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, July 29, 2014 5:05 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

got your back on this one, fingers crossed. Feel like 60-40 is the last chance for any "not their 1-2 biggest hits" type songs though - there's so many HUGE heavy hitters that haven't popped up yet.