CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

Alfred I mentioned earlier that I am going through a purge of my greatest hits collections, and your Rod Stewart post made me think of the Standells. While most of these follow the form of:
Early Great Stuff>Complete lack of direction>ballad>some attempt at recapturing early magic, The Standells never deviated from trying to write Dirty Water #2, and I love them for it.

Fantastic image

Hair of the Dog WAAAY too low. Conversely, I had no reason to think Panama would make it. 1984 doesn't seem like a classic rock album at all, and neither do any of its singles.

"Panama" is their #1 most played track and its other 3 singles still get spins too

lol at Won't Get Fooled Again photo

"Hair of the Dog" represents my first "Oh THAT song????" moment on this poll so far.

"Panama" represents my first feeling of true disappointment. There are so many Van Halen songs that are so much better gah.

GNR's "Hair" cover was a mnor radio hit (rock radio embraced it after the only video they made for Spaghetti Incident was for "Since I Don't Have You"). For years I only knew the cover, until I started listening to a station that plays the Nazareth one a lot.

"Panama" is their #1 most played track

Surprised. I had no idea.

Was anyone as confused as I was as a kid about all the Fleetwood Mac solo stuff? I knew Buckingham as the guy who did the Vacation theme song, so I thought he was a Dr. Demento type ("Go Insane" also) and I knew Stevie's "Lips like a One Wing Dove" song, but she was part of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, right? So then these videos with Stevie & Lindsey started showing up credited to someone named "Fleetwood Mac." Who was that? The other blonde girl?

"Hair of the Dog" too low. You voters done messed with the wrong song.

Hair of the Dog is like one of the bricks in the foundation on which CRR stands. It was my #2, but only because there was one song I liked even more.

If you have a sex machine, please keep the motor clean, failing to do so may violate the warantee, and trust me, those things can be expensive to replace.

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

36. AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long
1176 points, 16 votes

boner killer song

YES. My Brian-era AC/DC song, never gets old.

Panama is fucking fantastic. Top 25 for me.

Won't Get Fooled Again is too long, but I had to vote for it cause of Daltrey and Moon.

"Won't Get Fooled Again" TOO LOW.

What a weird song. The guitar is pretty sparse (sometimes only playing one or two notes per line), the bass is trying to make up for the sparseness while simultaneously sparring with the drums which manage to lay down new rules that no one to this day has yet picked up on while flailing into hitherto-unexplored territory all while keeping perfectly swinging time with the organ/synth...and then a solid 60 seconds of supercharged Terry Riley, Moon laughing through the warning shots, and the greatest scream ever screamed.

http://cow.org/csi/

Absolutely one of my favorite AC/DC songs. Didn't make my cut just due to the vagaries and constraints of the poll, but I'll love this song no matter how overplayed it is. I met one of my best friends on a Boy Scout campout because one of us was singing this under our breath.

From the ILM : The Top 100 Metal/Heavy Rock Tracks Of All Time poll:

59
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long (1980) (348 Points, 8 votes)
http://www.youtube.com/v/Bomv-6CJSfM&fs=1&hl=en

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, August 4, 2010 9:37 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Gah, I feel responsible for this placing so low - I gave it about twenty points, but should've gone double that. Wonderful, uplifting song.

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, August 4, 2010 9:56 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If only more strippers voted. Would have been #1.

― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, August 4, 2010 10:05 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sad that EZ Snappin is traveling right now. His contributions to this thread are missed.

This was actually the only AC/DC track I voted for, but please know it's not the only AC/DC track I think worthy of inclusion in a classic rock poll. I just had to choose to vote for only a single track from some big names to make room for everything else.

Haha what vagaries and constraints of the poll stopped you from putting a song you love in your personal top 100?

I had to leave room for things like Survivor and Red Rider and Donnie Iris, who will never have a shot at making any other ilm poll.

xp: sorry, that would have been better expressed as "the sheer number of good songs along with personal choices about how many songs certain bands could get". didn't mean it as a snub on you or the poll logic at all.

You might think that this far into the countdown, you wouldn't be seeing any more deep cuts. But you'd be wrong. This is The Aorta, and we go DEEP.

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

35. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
1179 points, 17 votes

By the way, I'm still making monthly payments to the IRS for filing a slight return a few years ago.

I fucking love this song. Maybe you can tell.

#7 for me.

so I don't have perfect pitch, but I have pretty good relative pitch, and at this point I can basically tune a guitar by playing the intro to "you shook me all night long" in my head for a reference G. As good as a pitch pipe.

(AC/DC heads will now point out that it's recorded off a quarter-step or something...)

We're all out of Toto songs for the countdown, but if you want a song featuring multiple future members of Toto, we've got one for the road...

http://i.imgur.com/hZ3tvog.jpg

34. Boz Scaggs – Lido Shuffle
1203 points, 15 votes

TOO HIGH

https://vine.co/v/MuOWP7ezWHQ

^otm

6 months ago I didn't know what the song was called or even who it was by, but "Lido Shuffle" ended up in my top ten

This poll is getting weird. I'm not feeling good for about 70 of my remaining 77 unplaced songs.

Unexpected!

i never really bothered w/ boz beyond "lowdown" but this poll has made me love this track

Boom!

I think I've always been unfairly biased against Boz Scaggs because my aunt, who was 12 years older than me and pretty much the epitome of cool, always made fun of his name. I voted for Lowdown anyway because that song rules.

I joined this band once, and as an "introduction", gave them all a mix CD of some songs that kinda shaped what I play. Not saying my life was changed by Boz Scaggs or anything, but I threw that one on there since I like the intro.

I was already the Mick Mars of the group, having been born in the Nixon years while they were all Carter children and subsequently, I earned the nickname Lido. But it's cool, they were all good dudes, and besides, Lowdown probably has the better intro anyway.

I'm sure to be in the minority here, but I find the 'woahs' in Lido to be the best part

I kind of feel that way about the Oos and Ahhs on Back On The Chain Gang.

when the synth drops in its a nice surprise

Oh the woahs are essential. Almost as essential as the shuffle itself.

also i'm a big fan of shuffles that have "shuffle" in the title but it never appears in the lyrics

Nice close-ups of Porcaro and the boys:

http://youtu.be/8Brlp57fZ6A

When I ran cross country in high school, my friend and I would frequently skip our runs during practice. We'd buy slurpees from 7 Eleven and walk up and down nearby Panama St. One of use would bust into 'Panama' every time. Then we'd run through a sprinkler and jog back to school.

I will have to check with our research department, but I am pretty sure no future members of Toto were involved in the recording of this next song...

http://i.imgur.com/p4vJzTZ.jpg

33. Black Sabbath – Paranoid
1213 points, 20 votes

Lido Shuffle SO GREAT.

I love Lido Shuffle but have never heard it on CR radio

omg dying at "we're the Doobies now!"

LIDO!!!!!!! Too low oh OHHHHH!