CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

Neil Young should do a covers album of CRR staples. Imagine him doing Sultans of Swing for instance

Neil Young Gets Yesssssed Out

idk I just don't like a lot of hippie flakes in my classic rock granola

HIPPIE FLAKES ARE THE MAIN INGREDIENT IN CLASSIC ROCK GRANOLA

Neil Young is all over Classic Rock, from Ohio to The Free World.

Hell, though All That It's Worth in there too.

I GOT THE HIPPIE HIPPIE FLAKES

Neil Young has at least 5 CR fixtures,

Plus Helpless and Ohio

Neil ain't no hippie. He's a million miles away from that helicopter day.

I'm not saying he's not actually classic rock, it's just my tastes with this poll find me leaning much more to muscle car guitar joe walshyness and neil just doesn't fit that well in my mind with this stuff

it's weird!

i find myself getting v picky about what I want in my classic rock granola, a lot of my peccadilloes are surprising even to me

I feel bad though because Neil's my guy, I love him to death!!! he's gonna be so mad at me

But there was that time he went to the radio interview and ended up alone at the microphone

Ironically, Neil Young has owned more muscle cars than Joe Walsh has.

He just hasn't driven in them

Still gettin work done at the ranch

Neil young is 1000x more classic rock than fucking "under pressure" (which i like a lot)

just not very toned or swole muscle cars

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/5/29/1338289971421/Neil-Young-008.jpg

as far as CSNY goes I only heard "Ohio" and "Helpless." Which raises the total of songs with Neil Young on them I heard to a half dozen.

Rust never sleeps, man. xp

I get what VG is saying, though. Neil is a cut above some of the CR staples. But so is fleetwood mac, etc.

Neil Young has at least 5 CR fixtures,

Plus Helpless and Ohio

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, July 31, 2014 5:56 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sugar Mountain as well

xps ALLLLLL RITE NOW, god such an amazing breakdown/solo/bass groove sequence halfway through. been getting heavy into free lately, of course this is the big hit but it still owns

neil young is definitely classic rock, a necessary counterbalance to all the muscle car machismo. never been huge into cinnamon girl tho

Swear I've heard needle and the damage done as well

and Tonight's the Night

I just entered a contest to win Tom Petty tickets for next Thursday, wish me luck ILX

Voodoo Poll (Slight Recap)

21. Neil Young – Cinnamon Girl 1445 points, 21 votes
22. Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure 1425 points, 21 votes
23. Free – All Right Now 1409 points, 21 votes
24. Yes – Roundabout 1384 points, 23 votes, 1 first place vote
25. Aerosmith – Sweet Emotion 1383 points, 20 votes, 1 first place vote
26. The Zombies – Time Of The Season 1372 points, 22 votes
27. Don Henley – Boys of Summer 1347 points, 25 votes, 1 first place vote
28. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along The Watchtower 1332 points, 18 votes, 2 first place votes
29. Jefferson Starship – Jane 1330 points, 20 votes
30. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – American Girl 1296, 20 votes, 2 first place votes
31. Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing 1253 points, 22 votes, 1 first place vote
32. Derek & The Dominos – Layla 1238 points, 20 votes
33. Black Sabbath – Paranoid 1213 points, 20 votes
34. Boz Scaggs – Lido Shuffle 1203 points, 15 votes
35. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Child (Slight Return) 1179 points, 17 votes
36. AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long 1176 points, 16 votes
37. The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again 1172 points, 16 votes
38. Van Halen – Panama 1165 points, 16 votes
39. Nazareth – Hair of the Dog 1161 points, 17 votes
40. Rod Stewart – Maggie May 1149 points, 19 votes, 1 first place vote
41. Led Zeppelin – Kashmir 1132 points, 16 votes
42. Boston – Peace of Mind 1123 points, 13 votes
43. James Gang – Funk #49 1111 points, 20 votes, 1 first place vote
44. .38 Special – Hold On Loosely 1090 points, 16 votes
45. The Pretenders – Back On The Chain Gang 1084 points, 16 votes
46. Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb 1067 points, 13 votes
47. Stevie Nicks – Edge of Seventeen 1065 points, 22 votes
48. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Refugee 1054 points, 19 votes
49. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 1050 points, 17 votes
50. ZZ Top – La Grange 1049 points, 17 votes
51. Mountain – Mississippi Queen 1042 points, 15 votes
52. .38 Special – Caught Up In You 1041 points, 17 votes
53. Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven 1040 points, 14 votes, 2 first place votes
54. Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run 1033 points, 18 votes
55. Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street 1018 points, 15 votes
56. The Who – I Can See For Miles 1012 points, 16 votes
57. Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London 1007 points, 19 votes
58. The Band – The Weight 1002 points, 14 votes
59. Fleetwood Mac – Dreams 993 points, 15 votes
60. The Doobie Brothers – What A Fool Believes 991 points, 15 votes
61. (tie) Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon 986 points, 16 votes
61. (tie) The Rolling Stones – Can’t You Hear Me Knocking 986 points, 13 votes
63. David Bowie – Rebel Rebel 984 points, 16 votes
64. Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill 974 points, 16 votes
65. Rush – Tom Sawyer 972 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote
66. Toto – Hold The Line 944 points, 15 votes
67. Led Zeppelin – Ramble On 937 points, 13 votes
68. Electric Light Orchestra – Don’t Bring Me Down 930 points, 13 votes
69. The Faces – Stay With Me 928 points, 15 votes
70. The Doobie Brothers – Long Train Runnin’ 926 points, 13 votes
71. Jackson Browne – Running On Empty (Live) 921 points, 15 votes
72. The Marshall Tucker Band – Can’t You See 910 points, 14 votes
73. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama 904 points, 14 votes, 2 first place votes
74. Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit 897 points, 14 votes
75. The Alan Parsons Project – Eye In The Sky 896 points, 13 votes
76. The Allman Brothers Band – Midnight Rider 892 points, 13 votes
77. Electric Light Orchestra – Evil Woman 890 points, 15 votes
78. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Breakdown 885 points, 15 votes
79. Red Rider – Lunatic Fringe 880 points, 14 votes
80. AC/DC – Highway To Hell 877 points, 14 votes
81. Edgar Winter – Frankenstein 872 points, 13 votes
82. Golden Earring – Twilight Zone 864 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote
83. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Free Bird 861 points, 13 votes
84. The Pretenders – Brass In Pocket 859 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote
85. Van Halen – Runnin’ With The Devil 858 points, 14 votes
86. Steve Miller – Fly Like An Eagle 857 points, 15 votes
87. Crosby, Stills & Nash – Suite: Judy Blue Eyes 854 points, 13 votes
88. (tie) The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze 853 points, 14 votes
88. (tie) Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising 853 points, 12 votes
90. James Gang – Walk Away 846 points, 12 votes
91. Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight 839 points, 14 votes
92. Lou Reed – Walk On The Wild Side 837 points, 16 votes
93. (tie) The Knack – My Sharona 834 points, 13 votes
93. (tie) Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty – Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around 834 points, 16 votes
93. (tie) Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’ 834 points. 14 votes, 1 first place vote
96. The Kinks – Lola 833 points, 15 votes
97. Fleetwood Mac – The Chain 832 points, 13 votes
98. Bachman-Turner Overdrive – You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet 826 points, 13 votes
99. The Who – Eminence Front 818 points, 12 votes
100. Ram Jam – Black Betty 817 points, 14 votes

21 of my picks have placed so far- but looking back at my ballot it must have been selected in some kind of weird fever dream. There's some shit on there I wouldn't have even admitted to myself that I liked before voting started. Such is the power of Classic Rock

tbh Eminence Front is my favorite discovery from this poll so far. had never heard that song, and it is awesome.

I had apparently never heard Frankenstein before, it was pretty cool!

lol so far no placing track has received more votes than "boys of summer"

SUCK IT HATERS

boys of summer a classic, rogermexico. otm

love it but it's totally AC.

A rough day for my ballot, given how high we are now - only four matches. "Sweet Emotion" and "Lido Shuffle" both very high on mine, though, so that's cool. I will say that the very high appearance of "Jane," though it kinda makes me shrug in confusion (gave it an honest go in the fcc thread but I just find it shrill and headache-inducing), is heartening: weird ILMer-type picks can totally make it in this poll! Figured we'd be kinda done with stuff like that way down in the 90s, but this is definitely not your everyday classic rock poll, and it's more interesting for that.

I do feel pretty good about most of my top ten, if not my top twenty, showing up here. Maybe not "Drift Away," though I'd really like to see it place.

Agreed with brimstead - I hear that song at the grocery store, but not between car ads.

boys of summer plays on crr here 5 times a day

19 so far for me.

Surprised by some of the tunes/bands that haven't shown up so far.

Henley Jams* I Have Heard On Area CRR: "Dirty Laundry", "Boys of Summer", "All She Wants To Do Is Dance", "The Sunset Grill", "The End of The Innocence", "The Last Worthless Evening", "The Heart of The Matter".

*Well, yeah.

In general, I always heard "Dirty Laundry" a lot more than "Boys of Summer." Not sure on which stations tbh.

"All She Wants to Do is Dance" is typical stupid ho Henley condemnation but man Kootch and Campbell made great synth grooves for him.

Boys of Summer is fine. I don't hate it. I might even like it. I just look at my list, of which 17 songs have placed so far, and think of all the amazing songs that could have made this list instead. Also Don Henley is gross.

https://twitter.com/movingsideways/status/453943890622812161

7/50

Surprised that every major cr standard (bo rap,layla,stairway,freebird, watchtower,comfortably numb) placed. The only ones missing are smoke on the water and well, The Eagles.

The #1 will end up being, like, "Only God Knows Why"

irl lol

wwwwwwwooooooooow lotsa great jams today (<3 <3 cinnamon girl, under pressure, jane)

i was the #1 for sultans of swing because it was my very first favorite song -- i was 3 or 4 and my mom noticed that i liked it and i asked her what it was and it thereby became my favorite. then i learned how to work the record player and got lots of new favorite songs but the sultans of swing were my first favorite song in my life. it did not ignite a love for dire straits -- i've never owned a dire straits album -- but for songs, yesssss.

where's dust in the wind?

There were 4 bands I had multiple tracks for-Fleetwood Mac, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who and Heart.
Where are Ann & Nancy?! Oh god.

oh they're coming up -- it's the AORTA

xpost on reflection I'd vote for only god knows why over smoke on the water

hahaha me too but not in an OG classic rock poll

Boys of Summer is fine. I don't hate it. I might even like it. I just look at my list, of which 17 songs have placed so far, and think of all the amazing songs that could have made this list instead. Also Don Henley is gross.

https://twitter.com/movingsideways/status/453943890622812161

― carl agatha, Thursday, July 31, 2014 6:41 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahaha irl lol @ that tweet

I've got 19 so far. My only rule for voting was no voting for anyone who had or is scheduled to have their own poll. So no Stones, Who, etc.

That tweet is one of those things I just sit and think about to cheer myself up when I'm feeling blue. xp