CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

ok folks, we're officially 75% through this thing... we've had a few dark horses and more than one surprise, but big number twenty-five is certainly one that is underrated by few and loved by almost all:

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25. Aerosmith – Sweet Emotion
1383 points, 20 votes, 1 first place vote

YES

this was in my top ten iirc

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet emooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooootiooooooooooon

bassline so classic

I voted for three other Aerosmith songs but I think all of their major singles from this period were pretty great.

My only Aerosmith vote. That bassline is all-time.

my favorite intro of all time possibly

*exhales*

gettin some sweet emotion from far right dude in that pic

My number one! I wouldn't have expected to vote it #1, but when I sat down to rank-order the songs it just rose and rose. I admit I was partly swayed by its perfect use in the Dazed and Confused credit sequence, but I have always always loved this song.

After all is said and done, I wanna figure out what percentage of the poll results showed up in Dazed and Confused. Assuming some dude hasn't already tabulated those results.

And the Forrest Gump soundtrack.

I have to assume there are even more Dazed tracks to come.

Love this song. It was an early contender for my #1 but ended up just outside of my top ten.

When I first got back into crr after an extended absence in my late teens early twenties, I loved making up soundtracks to imaginary movies based on the songs I heard on the radio. One day while getting stoned with my sister, I decided to outline one of my grand visions: "Okay, so it starts off with Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion and it's the 1970s and there are all these big muscle cars everywhere..." "What, like Dazed and Confused?" I hadn't seen Dazed & Confused since it was in theaters, but there you go.

never realized Aerosmith were behind that Big Ten Inch Record song

Amazing sentence from the wiki entry on Toys In The Attic:

"By this point, Aerosmith had fully matured as a band and Steven Tyler made sex the primary focus of his songwriting on the album."

My #'s 1, 2 & now 3, off the board.

"Awright, guys, we went gold. Let's really experiment, Beatles style. Let's write about sex!"

Meh. Not a huge fan of this one.

From their spotify picture, it's clear that aerosmith had a large influence on PUA style

Was not until late adolescence that I grokked the meaning of "the rabbit done died."

plz explain

so, how many till we get to #1?

twenty four before my love, you'll see I'll be there with you...

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24. Yes – Roundabout
1384 points, 23 votes, 1 first place vote

Sorry, been busy doing lines

DON: 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!

GLENN: I shit you not, the same thing happened to me. Except I was on Rodeo Drive and it was a Corvette with a brunette at the wheel and a blonde ridin' shotgun, and it was a GoGos sticker on the bumper and we all met up at the Château Marmount afterwards for a private pants party and the song I wrote was "Sexy Girl".

DON: Well, yeah.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_test

totally. yessed. out.

Trying to figure out at this point whether "Stranglehold"'s ship has sailed or whether it's an absolute lock for the top 20.

BA DA DA DOO DA DA DAP!

I didn't expect "Roundabout" to place this high. It was the third-highest Yes song on my ballot (out of five).

(By which I mean to say: good work, ILM.)

You can thank Carl for that 1st place vote.

Such a rad bassline

Roundabout is spectacularly great. I love it to death even though I'm not a prog guy. The bassline and organ performance are spectacular, but Steve Howe makes this song.

you know, in and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky, and they stand there. I'd like to know.
― trevor horn, Thursday, August 26, 2004 9:26 PM (9 years ago)

"Roundabout" is a good tune but I honestly don't know if I ever knowingly heard Yes on CRR aside from "I've Seen All Good People". Not much really sounded familiar to me when I finally got around to listening to their albums.

Thanks, poll, for inspiring me to listen to "Close To The Edge". Goodbye, next twenty minutes of my life.

I think my local CRR doesn't play "Roundabout" anymore. Too prog, not enough rawk. Trying to think if if I've ever heard Genesis; "That's All," maybe...

Roundabout feels fairly ubiquitous. This is probably my fave prog song.
I mean not enough to vote for it, but still, not unpleasant.

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23. Free – All Right Now
1409 points, 21 votes

XP Yes jams I have heard on area CRR: "Roundabout", "Long Distance Runaround", "I've Seen All Good People", "Owner of A Lonely Heart", "Changes"

I voted for this even though I couldn't decide whether I actually liked it or not, because no way are we having a CR poll without ARN on it

I had Free - All Right Now at 23 too. So that's perfect placement.

Free, along with Humble Pie, are like the most 'Classic Rock'-sounding bands that only have a couple radio staples between them.

Half the time on the radio I get really excited to hear "All Right Now," only to be severely disappointed that I'm actually listening to "Rock 'N Me" by Steve Miller Band

Is there room enough for two Steppenwolf tunes in the top 20?

Too true. Xp

was wondering about steppenwolf myself

if they ever played "fire and water" on the radio I might have placed it top-ten.

"all right now" is good though. a little played out because it's the only Free that ever gets played, but totally classic for the same reason and even if goofy and juvenile and subject to the same loooong we-don't-know-how-to-end-this fade as "feel like makin love" it's also a solid primer on why Kossoff and Rodgers are still counted among the greats.