CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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.

What is it about the internet and misspelling?

so I yelled "hey Jackson, you getting the load out?" And he flipped me off.

― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Tuesday, July 29, 2014 10:15 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This fucking rules.

What is it about the internet and misspelling?

― Dr. Winston O'Boogie Chillen' (James Redd and the Blecchs)

what is about phones and Autocorrect?

Yes, that in fact is the correct answer :)

What is it about the internet and misspelling?

― Dr. Winston O'Boogie Chillen' (James Redd and the Blecchs)

lol I misread that as being dr. morbs complaining

"Cookie"

Mrs. Redd claims to have superior autocorrect on her phone, an android.

Can it autocorrect misread posts?

Think that is coming with the next zing upgrade.

Sorry can we all just pause and read Sandy's story again? Because yesssssssssss

am i the only one who hears the screams and the strangled cries of ILMers in love?

I was at a club tonight and got behind the drums and sat in on a jam session for a bit and...for the first time in my life, "FREE BIRD!" was yelled at me while I was onstage playing music.

this poll is cursed, man.

a+

this thread/poll rules. party on, everyone, and a huge thank you to some dude and gr8080

because of this thread i just totally killed at REO Speedwagon & 38 Special on Rockband <3

Good morning, folks. It's time to recreate what has yet to be created, whatever the hell that means.

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

60. The Doobie Brothers – What A Fool Believes
991 points, 15 votes

So many great keyboard sounds. So many great beard sounds.

This is the one time in the poll where I will join in on the "is this classic rock enough?" handwringing. In my mind Michael McDonald-era Doobies is less CR than pre-MM Doobies, and even then "Takin' It To The Streets" is the most classic rock MM single, this feels like much more of a crossover pop hit, don't think I've heard it on rock radio in a long time.

Agreed

This song's rhythm was as often imitated as totos dink dink dink piano

Robbie Dupree 'hot rod hearts' etc

Yesterday we left off with Fleetwood Mac, and this morning we started with the Doobie Brothers. I guess this means we've got a Doobie Mac sandwich here...reminds me of the time I got pulled over by the cops and had to hide a joint in my McDonald's burger.

http://i.imgur.com/M2OqgE3.jpg

59. Fleetwood Mac – Dreams
993 points, 15 votes

lol

This song's rhythm was as often imitated as totos dink dink dink piano

― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, July 30, 2014 7:41 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Robbie Dupree's "Steal Away," Pablo Cruise's "Love Will Find a Way," the Spinners' version of "Working My Way Back to You"...

speaking of dreams, is everyone still in bed today or what

c'mon ppl it's HUMP DAY

How's the traffic looking on the 67/167?

Two in a row for me + evil woman yesterday makes it 3/50. Still enough space for all of them!

So far this thing belongs to Stevie Nicks

The traffic heading into Nazareth is heavy this morning, hopefully you won't be feeling half past dead when you pull in.

http://i.imgur.com/6WAU6hz.jpg

58. The Band – The Weight
1002 points, 14 votes

A Band hater wore me down over the years and now I look at their shtick as no better than that of Eages...can't hear the music for the overall ickiness (of RR mainly)

What on earth?

totally gonna start referring to the Eagles as Eages though.

Eagles! C'mon, there's a well known subset of people who find them pretentious and phony baloney with all the Civil War get ups, etc. But now every hipster asshole in the world looks like them ca. 68.

riffin' and beboppin' over a typo is pretty inventive stuff, though, how's life. Algonquin Round Table-level, well-done

Xposts alfred otm I meant steal away not hot rod hearts.

That photo is infinity times better than the actual song

Some dude and gr8080 in fine form this morning.

I thought the weight would at least be in the top 50. I had it at 6.

A Band hater wore me down over the years

http://lunaticfaith.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/b-combatting_cult.jpg

I had The Weight at Number 3. Who are these Band haters and what happened to their souls?

Or lack thereof

I think they are people who saw the Last Waltz and assumed that, since everyone in that movie looks like awful phonies or complete wastes, all the members of the band were like that all of the time instead of the reality, which is that the complete wastes could really play well and dreadful phony Robertson was never as important a part of the group as he portrayed himself to be.

It takes a Grade-A stick in the mud to resist the charms of Levon Helm

that's what his girlfriends said

"Fool" was on my ballot, quite high, till pretty late. I cut it, not for not being CR, but for not being as CR as the two Doobies cuts I had in there. I'm sure I've heard it on these stations, but would concede that a station trying to fight down a reputation as being 'soft' might purge it. Fantastic song and recording though, never gets old.

"The Weight" is great too, though I have heard it a few too many times, especially in the last decade or so, since that one cell phone commercial where the dude is driving across the country and birds, trees, whatever are gracefully aligning in cell phone bar patterns to this tune. Feel like its profile has gone up considerably, and while a solid song, it can't quite bear the, uh, burden. It also feels weirdly long for 4:34. Needs a bridge or something to mix up the verse-chorus thing.

Ugh The Weight is such a good song. I had it pretty low in my ballot and it was one of my voter's remorse placements.

The verses are all great though, and switching up the singers varies it enough for me.

I figure I'll probably 'get' the Band some day?

Do you have to deal with solo Robbie Robertson in the US?