CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

It's impossible to imagine going to watch FM in 1980 just for Buckingham and McVie's tunes.

I would have! I like Stevie Nicks, and I love spellbinding mid-tempo pop plod-athons as much as anyone, but Buckingham's & McVie's songs are much more exciting to me.

four fm's and two stevie's in my top 100, and it would have been easy to add more of each.

i legit don't trust people who like mac "except nicks" they are shifty people who shouldn't be let outside the house

I hate her voice,sorry.

and probably dislike scarves and boots

Sandy, you hate her voice on "Dreams," "Gold Dust Woman," "Sara," and "Rhiannon"?

I've had 16 place so far. Surprised, really.

12 for me.

Also, upon consulting my ballot, I see I voted for "American Woman" before joining in to trash it in the most-hated results. I must have been drunk or very out of it the night I cast my vote.

i've had 19 place so far, including my #1 and #6. starting to worry about my #2, though, as nothing else by the same artist (who i also have at #9 and #86) has shown up yet.

3/40! starting to think I threw away a lot of votes on stuff that never stood a chance. oh well

spellbinding mid-tempo pop plod-athons

read this as "pod plop-athons"

5 so far for me, my preference for 80s rock is my undoing

Actually, I like scarves and boots and flowy skirts just fine, I shopped at Granny Takes a Trip in 1975,too.
I like her voice on Insider. I'll give her that. Otherwise, really, no. Granted, her voice is perfect for the songs she writes, but I don't like her songs!

I like her voice on Insider...
--PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy)

yeeeeesss

not to tip my hand or nothin' but when we hit pettypoll in 2016 "insider" will be very high on my ballot

good harmonies on that one

Also, upon consulting my ballot, I see I voted for "American Woman" before joining in to trash it in the most-hated results. I must have been drunk or very out of it the night I cast my vote.
--Johnny Fever

Eh, it's terrible but undeniably Classic Rock. Think I voted for it plus "no sugar tonight" and maybe "no time" too. (both of which are better, tbf)

I can understand preferring the Peter Green or Bob Welsh FM, but I don't understand liking the Buckingham-Nicks era and disliking Stevie Nicks.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, July 29, 2014 5:27 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So if forced to choose one of these Mac-associated hits from the late seventies which would it be:

John Stewart - Gold
Kenny Loggins - Whenever I Call You "Friend"
Bob Welsh - Sentimental Lady

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 8, 2012 1:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not trying to come across too creepy here, but your autocorrect could use some fixin'.

twofer tuesday today on klos. they just started a new twofer with golden earring's "twilight zone." imagine the suspense trying to figure out what they'll play next.

pplains, I don't know what you're trying to say.

if radar love doesn't make it i'm boycotting

I say there is zero chance that it doesn't make it.

Same with slow ride.

Insider is sooo great, one of my favorite Petty songs. I almost wrote it in here but I almost wrote in about 30 Petty songs.

Radar Love is dummmmmmb though energetic. Slow Ride is a lock.

pplains, I don't know what you're trying to say.

I'm saying dude was American, not from Cardiff.

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

oh my god what is that

A guy who had always sported terrible hair.

Son, if you gotta ask...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwtDqHvn714

Knew a guy who fit that look in college. Amateur photographer. Had his own tripod and lightbox and everything.

i've had 12 show up so far, including my #4 and #9

mentioned this on the nomination and/or voting thread but eminence front is one of the only tracks i can think of that sits comfortably in both the CR and balearic canons

love eminence front so so much. i think you could make a case for other tracks in this poll like "fly like an eagle" (particularly cosmic if you cut out after the intro) and a few fleetwood mac tunes, but i say this more because i see them pop up on lists etc not nec b/c i agree

majoooor <3 for "ebony eyes"! ilx has a thread for all the secret 'mac right?

I shopped at Granny Takes a Trip in 1975,too.

dying @ this, <3 u Sandy

Only 2 of mine have shown up so far (BTO, Steve Miller Band*), but my ballots tend to be exercises in defiance, so no surprise.

*It shocked the hell out of me after a day of cutting and ordering and pondering to find "Fly Like an Eagle" still hanging around on my ballot. There's no difference between Steve Miller and Dave Matthews in my mind, but "Eagle" is hard to fuck with, and the essence of what I consider to be CR.

8 of mine have placed. The highest so far is my #9, which was Stay With Me

huh so that song that i've heard a million times is by toto, who knew

hold the line is such a jam

ITS NOT IN THE WAY YOU SAY YOU'RE MIII-IIIINE OOOO OOOO
OOOOH

My highest so far was Walk Away, #11. Veg, you really are my musical soul sister.

:D

Also, I've been slacking on my stories because (1) this thread is about THE RESULTS, not my foolish behavior in my youth and (2) I'm at work and on my phone while the rollout is going on, which makes keeping up with things hard, but since The Load Out was a hot topic of conversation earlier today, I have a LOAD OUT STORY:

I was living in LA, it was 1978, and God, I hated that song so much (still do). So anyhow, my friends and I were walking down Sunset, we walked past SIR Studios (popular rehearsal space in Hollywood) and there were some roadies loading equipment into the building and standing right there, not really doing anything, was Jackson Browne. My friends and I were almost always drunk and/or on Quaaludes, so I yelled "hey Jackson, you getting the load out?" And he flipped me off.

YES!

A+++

hate Browne/love that story

Getting flipped off by Jackson Browne means you are living a right life.

Looooool

Anybody got any fun Edgar Winter stories?

I saw him signing Scientology/Hubbard/Mission Earth stuff at WorldCon 1989. I think my wife got his autograph.

HERO

If I were a woman Jackson Browne and J.D. Souther would seduce me, raid my purse for coke money, and right a song in which I'm a devil woman who inspires fountains of sorrow.