CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

My Clapton votes went to Bell Bottom Blues and Badge per someone's write-in campaign. I wish I could hear Layla as though I were listening to it the first time. I think I would like it a lot but as it stands now, there's too much cultural baggage and it just leaves me flat.

Voted for this, the outro is still gorgeous, mostly because of Duane's slide.

― voodoo chili, Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:21 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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"Layla" is the only song I can tolerate on that album. well, I guess I wouldn't rather jump off a bridge than hear "Bell Bottomed Blues"...usually...

― Euler, Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:21 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No love for "why does love got to be so sad"? thats a pretty great song. there are some pretty great deep cuts on that thing. i just have to mentally block out the fact im listening to clapton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKE-7M3UJfc

xp I heard crazy train on classic rock radio quite a bit

― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:24 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not quite sure this counts

"Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?" is tremendous. I dig a lot of that record, and Clapton acquits himself well (for the last time, as it turned out -- dude could've/should've stopped there and then).

xxp

"Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?" is excellent, and I like "Thorn Tree in the Garden," which Clapton had nothing to do with

love love love "lido shuffle" (and "lowdown") but they were early cuts for me. never thought of them as classic rock in the way that, say, toto's "hold the line," which i did vote for, is. but now of course i wish "lido" placed higher, this poll's damn self-imposed vagaries and constraints again.

I thought the interlude in layla was the best for awhile. I listened to a lot of moe. around that time as well.

If it's good enough for Scorsese, it's good enough for me.

Oh no. Gimme Shelter's gonna be No. 1.

"layla" forever ruined by the unplugged version. the ony song i can think of for which this is so.

xpost yeah my itunes genre tag for boz, dan, mac, doobies is "FM", which is not the same as CR but also not the same as Adult Contemporary.

Quiddities and agonies of ILX classic rock tracks poll participants

xpd nobody loves that song as much as Scorsese. I didn't vote for it.

xpost yeah my itunes genre tag for boz, dan, mac, doobies is "FM", which is not the same as CR but also not the same as Adult Contemporary.

― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Thursday, July 31, 2014 10:30 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I get that. I was trying to think where something like "You Sexy Thing" would go, and that about nails it.

We played Hot Chocolate, but we were also one of those Oh Leah classic rock stations.

pplains please post the link to the goodfellas lovefool thing

"fm" is a great tag!

no static at all

you got me on my knees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWAM3j2wQ_8

Imagine if that scene was soundtracked by Lido Shuffle

lol at that old quote from me about You Shook Me All Night Long. I made the same mistake this time - had it at no.11, when there's no way I should be having anything else at no.1. Sorry guys, maybe I just love you too much.

I need to see some Allman Brothers soon.

Wasn't aware of this:

Yeah. I knew about Jim Gordon murdering his mother but did not know that he stole that piano coda.

haha i love that LF one!

This is the only version of 'You Shook Me All Night Long' that I can stand. It is bloody fantastic, though.

re You Shook Me All Night Long

I love that song so much!

I also have a conflicting creepy memory associated with it. I was 14, playing a mixed doubles game of badminton with a guy who was 16. I had to wear one of those stupid fucking short skirts, and he was standing behind me singing 'knockin me out with those american thighs'. When I walked back to serve, he said 'do you know that song?' & winked at me and I gave him my most deadpan 'yes' and refused to talk to him for the rest of the game. Bleh.

Imagine if that scene was soundtracked by Lido Shuffle

― voodoo chili, Thursday, July 31, 2014 10:38 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha, give me 24 hours.

caek, it loves you back. While I'm looking for Lido, maybe I'll see if I've got any Letters to Cleo for ya.

OK folks, this concludes side 1 of your Thursday countdown, but gr80 is in the break room getting ready to turn the record over and bring you side 2...

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31. Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing
1253 points, 22 votes, 1 first place vote

Yes!

AND HARRY DOESN'T MIND

xps lol emil.y wtf is that?

some dude could you post a recap for those of us nerds crossing tracks off our ballots?

I love love love Dire Straits. I love them. I'm so happy they're here.

creole

This might be their highest entry here, but I'm excited that it could also be the lowest of three.

London.. town

fcc so so otm about Layla being forever ruined by that dire unplugged version, my Clapton vote went to Bell Bottom Blues, so tortured in all the right ways.
Also I find it endlessly interesting that Jim Gordon killed his mom yet Clapton still gets the fuck you votes, such is the power of his yick factor

Was gonna save the recap for the end of the day today

argh I had mercifully forgotten about that slow turgid unplugged version of Layla, ick

"layla" forever ruined by the unplugged version. the ony song i can think of for which this is so.

― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz)

it's not quite ruined for me but yeah the unplugged version is such a piece of shit

clapton sounds like an old man nodding off during the whole performance

When they found Clapton unplugged, he was frozen so stiff it took them three days to thaw him out for the autopsy.

I registered to a guitar forum using my irl name when I was in elementary school. Now a post about how I think 'Sultans of Swing' is the best 'guitar song' will forever be a top google search result for my name.

The "and a crowd of young boys, they're just foolin' around in the corner" verse is Knopf's Dylanest moment

young SG otm

This is one of the few times Knofler's schtick works.

I dont seem to be getting the pictures anymore.

sultans is sublime

knopfler's schtick works extremely well for the entirety of Dire Straits