CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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also the photo for this song is part one of a two-part super-easy photo-scavenger-hunt, (pt 2 in our next result)

"Edge of Seventeen" c/d

Ooooh, nice teaser! (xpost)

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

46. Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
1067 points, 13 votes

I need to make a list of what I at one time would have guessed that these songs were called.

Stevie Nicks - "Just Like The Wild Wing-uh (Seems Like The Song Sounds Like She's Singin' (Ooh Baby Ooh Ooh))"

and she's got another song called "Ooh My Love."

Guitar solo

i spun edge of seventeen in between disco records a lot circa 07/08 to moderate dancefloor success

"Comfortably Numb" is prob my least favorite song in this whole countdown. I love "Wish You Were Here" and enjoy some other slow Floyd tracks but this one just makes me wanna vomit.

That photo is insanely perfect.

RULES

Fleetwood Mac - One-Winged Dove

Funny they couldn't get Joan Jett's name right.

seems I'm not alone in having heard "Edge of Seventeen" about a million times but only finding out that's the name of the song right now

Pink Floyd was this band I only vaguely knew of growing up - Money, Another Brick in the Wall, Learning to Fly was all I was familiar with - but knew of their godlike reputation. Really didn't get why they were so well regarded or special based on those songs. In college, a friend got me way into the Orb and other ambient music, downloaded near half his computer. I noticed he had one lone Pink Floyd song, Comfortably Numb. Within half a listen I understood exactly what I was missing. #5 on my ballot

I thought it was called "Bootylicious"

I thought it was called "I Don't Think You're Ready For This Jelly"

I have become comfortably numb ... to this song's charms and merits. Just too familiar. (Partly because my high school garage band played it, badly, so I've heard that solo way too many times.)

comfortably numb was a top-ten track for me purely on the strength of gilmour's solos, which are pretty much indelible if you learned to play guitar after 1980 and aren't planning to play like Vai or Satch (and maybe even if you are)

xpost lol yeah I can't imagine this one being fun to cover for anyone but whoever's on lead guitar

It's probably fun to go "There'll be no more AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"

i swear nothing makes me lunge for the radio dial faster than "Hello (hello hello hello) is there anybody in there?"

(Partly because my high school garage band played it, badly, so I've heard that solo way too many times.)

Ha, mine did too, but we played it double-speed so it was like "Comfortably Numb" with a Bowie "Hang Onto Yourself" tempo/arrangement. Our guitarist just atonally shredded for the solos.

PINK FLOYD RULES

Best to reduce the solo to two notes a la "Boredom" imo

the verse vocals are so dopey

The song is one of two tracks on The Wall which are free-standing and do not fade into or out of an adjacent track.

http://img.pandawhale.com/94290-I-did-not-know-that-gif-Waynes-Eu3m.gif

xpost lol yeah I can't imagine this one being fun to cover for anyone but whoever's on lead guitar

Definitely a snoozer on the drums, I can tell you that.

I cant stand this song. This poll has gone downhill since LaGrange.

only possible direction it could go tbf

so true

weird, he is clearly saying "I was not aware of that in that" in that gif
xp

graphics interchange fail

I personally think this is indeed a big improvement over the last song, and I hope you'll agree...

http://i.imgur.com/dVO6xFQ.jpg

45. The Pretenders – Back On The Chain Gang
1084 points, 16 votes

the verse vocals are so dopey
--David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton)

Everything non-gilmour in this track is meh, but everything gilmour is the best thing he ever did.

As much as I love looking at photos of young David Gilmour* I really really do not care for Pink Floyd. I like Meddle all right, but everything else just makes me feel sad. I think it's a combo of overexposure from the stoners I hung out with in high school/college, watching The Wall while on acid and developing an abiding hatred of everyone and everything involved in that movie, and living underneath a bunch of butthead fratty potheads who would listen to Dark Side of the Moon REALLLLLLLY LOUD for HOURS AND HOURS every night.**

*I mean...

http://www.legendarytones.com/GilmourDSOM.jpg

**Not really every night, I'm sure.

xpost lol yeah I can't imagine this one being fun to cover for anyone but whoever's on lead guitar

the back-and-forth vocals are fun. especially if you get to play crazy Roger Waters. "That'll keep ya going for the show..." "they'll be no more AAAA" i swear it's dope fun.

"Back on the Chain Gang" is one of my very favorite songs of all-time, but I couldn't in good faith rank it higher than #12 because I've probably only heard it twice or three times on CR radio.

Back On The Chain Gang, is there a sadder song in the CR canon once you know the backstory?

"Comfortably Numb" would have been top ten for me if I'd been making my ballot at age 17, and DSOTM in the top albums easy. Today, I didn't vote for any Floyd at all. Teenage angst has worn off well, now I just want easy-going summertime jams or horned-up rock motorcycle pyrotechnics. Or Boston.

I kinda don't get how "Welcome to the Machine" got so heavily canonized. I love it, but it's so fucking weird and unconventional compared to almost everything else on those stations.

palate cleanser, a weird little break before we return you to your previous rocking

back on the chain gang is a good'un imo and yeah, a gutpunch for sure

I spent a good portion of the semester I discovered the Pretenders untangling DESCENDING THE EYES AND DESCENDING LIKE FLIEZ or whatever she sings

Wikipedia: In an interview with Guitar Player in 1992, George Harrison claimed that "Back On The Chain Gang" utilizes a chord that he had "invented" and incorporated into the Beatles song "I Want to Tell You": "That's an E7 with an F on top and I'm really proud of that because I invented that chord… There's only been one other song, to my knowledge, where somebody copped that chord - Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders on 'Back On The Chain Gang.'"

When does that happen? At the turnaround at the end of the bridge?

best bridge ever

otm

I don't know. I just think it sounds fishy for anybody to say that they invented a guitar chord. xp

yeah but it's George!

Bohemian Rhapsody was the first use of that chord