CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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oh man we need C. Grisso now

"Boys of Summer" -- one of my favorite synthesized backing tracks ever. Love that seagull sound before the last verse, interrupted by Mike Campbell's little three-second solo.

Boys of Summer shockingly too high

as a kid i swore this song was called "Poison Summer"

In an interview with Knoxville.com, Neil Giraldo, Pat Benatar's guitarist and husband, says that Henley came in the studio while he was in the process of recording the song "Love Is a Battlefield" using an up tempo beat, and asked Giraldo if he could steal the sound for use in his song, "The Boys of Summer", to which Giraldo gave his permission.[7]

ILM <3s synthpop iirc.

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"Gypsy Eyes" never really stood out to me tbh, as much as I love Electric Ladyland through and through.

also this is a GREAT end-of-the-night-everyone's-wasted-but-still-dancing-2nd-or-3rd-to-last-song

also this is a GREAT end-of-the-night-everyone's-wasted-but-still-dancing-2nd-or-3rd-to-last-song

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don't look back
you can never look back

Boys of Summer was my no.3. I had a Jimi track higher though.

I'm guessing that the #1 song will be something that is tagged as 'new wave' by Wikipedia and/or AMG.

wonder what boys of summer would have been if petty hadn't passed on it...

Sund4r don't like it

Kind of stunned there hasn't been any Aerosmith yet. I voted for what are probably the 3 most famous 70s Aerosmith songs iirc, but none have shown yet.

Anyhoo boys of summer pretty much redeems Henley's existence imo. maybe the Eagles too. more proof of mike campbell's greatness. a chart of his influence on the entire classic rock playlist would be telling.

I don't mind "Boys of Summer", although I'm not that passionate about it.

was catching up, and going 'Jane'?! then saw 'Boys of Summer'. so happy.

I'm starting to worry about Eddie Money.
If there was a pool I'd be betting BOC wins.

Yeah, don't understand the new wave dig upthread. I get it with the Cars or the Knack, even if I disagree, but are Don Henley's CR bona fides really in dispute because there are synths on the track?

I'd put my money on Boston, but BOC feels like a lock for top 5

hey Don the asshole is you:

"I was driving down the San Diego freeway and got passed by a $21,000 Cadillac Seville, the status symbol of the Right-wing upper-middle-class American bourgeoisie – all the guys with the blue blazers with the crests and the grey pants – and there was this Grateful Dead 'Deadhead' bumper sticker on it!"[

I don't have anything against Boys of Summer really, but I'm a bit shocked it came up so high.

Yeah, don't understand the new wave dig upthread.

It was a prediction, not a dig.

Would have never guessed there was that much love for it.

I'm not one of the people who thinks that new wave is not CR, btw. I gave high votes to the Police and the Cars and ranked a synth-heavy Peter Gabriel song in my top 10.

wasn't there a 'punk' remake of this?

The Ataris. It was terrible.

not a bad single for an ex-Eagle, but insufficiently classic or rock for this ranking

(shakes head, furrows brow, revs Chevy Nova pensively)

would you rather hear the Eagles?! hehe.

#1 five weeks on album rock radio in '84/85 btw

It'll be interesting to see whether The Eags make an appearance here

When I heard this song as a kid, I assumed the Boys of Summer were serial killers or something: "Out on the road today I saw a dead head sittin' on a Cadillac/A little voice inside my head said don't look back, you can never look back". And just keep running, Don!

then you realized the killer was Don

well, yeah.

UGH work is getting in the way of this poll today.
AMERICAN GIRL my #1, my favorite song ever. I've heard it a million times and I never tire of it. So much history with this song, so much history with this band.

hey, my upper lip is feeling prickly.

and it reeks of bacon in here...

that can only mean one thing:

http://i.imgur.com/x6obIJu.jpg

26. The Zombies – Time Of The Season
1372 points, 22 votes

took this song for granted until Miguel's interpolation in 2012.

...Wait, what? I love (LOVE) the Zombies, but...classic rock?

Love this song. Such an oldie though.

feel like this oldies station song (but I love this song)

ha, yeah. what how's life said.

gettin weird up in here. need something CLASSIC to settle us down

Interesting that this is a year younger than "I Can See For Miles," but no one called that an oldie.

Well, it doesn't particularly rock, either.

True story, I thought I had finalized the top 50 last week and sent it to gr80 to make images when I realized i'd neglected to do the count for "Time of the Season" and it leaped into the top 30. Countdown woulda been better without it afaic but the people have spoken.

it's fun watching the age and regional differences mess with everyone's minds ... "Time of the Season" was low on my ballot due to limited rock content, but it squeezed in, while "Boys of Summer" bombed the big-on-MTV test

"What's your name? Who's your daddy?" will never stop bringing the lols for me.

Next song is like the epitome of classic rock fwiw

Good song, great organ solo, great band. Didn't vote for it though.