CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

my #3. best drum sound EVER; when they kick in I feel my face melt every time

They've got a lotta nice girls-ah

Yeah, that definitely seems really low. Gonna chalk up the low placement to the "nobody knows the actual name of most CR staples" factor. I can't imagine that anyone would fail to recognize that riff, though.

A HOW HOW HOW HOW

Euler otm

Ha. They clearly should've just called it "A HOW HOW HOW HOW".

The only thing I don't get about this poll is that apparently 'Bad Moon Rising' is not the ur-classic rock anthem I thought it was.

Probably admitted this elsewhere, but for the longest time I thought 'Free Bird' was a fictional song made up by rock audiences solely to shout at bands.

at this point I can't help but throw in random pick squealies even on acoustic and it is all the Rev's fault

I could see ILX rating something off Eliminator higher than La Grange, which would be cool too.

bad moon rising is some corny oldies choogle-type My First Guitar michael row your boat ashore type nonsense tbrr.

most classic rock creedence = fortunate son

this song is so boss

Eliminator tracks could also conceivably miss out due to vote splitting. :(

either way it feels like maybe we just shifted into a new gear here

I don't think "Trampled Under Foot" is gonna appear in the results so just wanted to mention real quick that it rules.

that's the song that made me fall in love w/led zep.

A-hmm, hmm, hmm

yeah when it fell into place at #50 i was like yessss this is such a perfect way to kick off the top half (xp)

epic intro line to "La Grange"

La Grange is another one that's waaaayyy too short.

xps: yeah, I bet a lot of the "I don't think that's classic rock" quibbling won't be making that much of an appearance from this point.

Finally some ZZ Top.

Yeah, I feel like the last few picks have been capital-C classic rock, totally unalloyed by new wave or oldies.

La Grange is short because you can't listen to a track off Tres Hombres without listening to the whole thing

And I'm no purist around these issues (I'm pro-Beatles and pro-Cars on CR), but it feels like this poll is really moving into the platonic ideal of CR here.

the beer drinkers and hellraisers ideal

that is captured so well in the track images

sorta feel like la grange is the ur strip bar/sports radio bumper song

Missippi Queen and LaGrange are two of the most kick ass things to ever be put to wax. Agree with the poster above who gave a shout out to this lyric: "MISSISSIPPI QUEEN/IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN". That's poetry right there man.

The guitar work in both these two songs just crushes.

Tone, baby, tone. What happened to that tone.

Question I've been wondering as long as this poll's been running: do ZZ Top get groupies?

sorta feel like la grange is the ur strip bar/sports radio bumper song

― seems it never rains in west california (Hunt3r), Wednesday, July 30, 2014 7:45 PM (40 seconds ago)

Yeah, this is why I hate a lot of classic rock, tbh.

Question I've been wondering as long as this poll's been running: do ZZ Top get groupies?

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, July 30, 2014 1:47 PM (48 seconds ago)

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

btw we should have a nudie suit poll

As the only member without a hat, drummer should've been named Frank Hat.

i see what u did there

A+, Tarfumes.

Sort of pissed at AC/DC atm for messing up this beautiful spotify playlist by not being available.

btw we should have a nudie suit poll

Porter Wagoner ftw

Watching ZZ Top video in my childhood, these guys seemed a million years old. Weird to realize that Billy Gibbons was 33 when Eliminator came out.

We've already seen "Born To Run" and "Stairway" today, how many more iconic tracks can we get out of the way?

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

49. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
1050 points, 17 votes

i can understand the ambivalence others have about it, but a top 5 track for me, never gets old.

can pretty much tell which one of them just killed a man.

it's not even remotely possible that ilm is going to rate "carry on wayward son" over both "bohemian rhapsody" and "stairway to heaven," is it? iS IT? IS IT???????????

Can pretty much tell which one of them just fucked a man

lol, that's never been in doubt. xp

I didn't realize that Dusty was about a half-foot shorter than Billy.

For ilxors who have a handle on what the culture was like pre-Wayne's World, was Bohemian Rhapsody top-tier Queen or was it elevated to some massive degree by the film?

it was always a pretty big deal iirc, but WW put it over the top

like, I knew most of it by heart pre-WW without ever owning a single Queen album

I remember it getting moderate play on cr radio, but it seemed to have vanished by the late 80s.

The only Queen songs I knew as a kid/adolescent were We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions, Another One Bites the Dust and One Vision (thanks to Iron Eagle), so getting introduced to Bohemian Rhapsody in 1991 as a 17 year old was quite revelatory.