CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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

28 of mine have placed so far. A lot of others that have placed were last minute cuts for me.

For those keepig score, the average length of the 80 songs is 4:41. I was hoping we'd break the 5 minute barrier. We've got at least one 8 minute opus to come, but after that, who knows.

There were some heavy hitters like Paranoid and Won't Get Fooled Again that I dropped in favor of giving some love to the lesser-knowns. I regret nothing... yet.

My level of anticipation for the next bank of songs is only equalled by anticipation for MOAR awesome PHOTOES :D

I placed the Zombies (iirc) despite it verging on oldies, and despite me trying to be strict about only including 'proper' classic rock, as I just think the sound of that song works in the CR canon. I do get other people not being so sure, though.

I heard the Zombies on classic rock radio all the time in the 80s. Time of the Season and She's Not There were both in heavy rotation.

those people can always vote for Hold Your Head Up
xpost

P sure Neil Young gets daily CR airplay here.

Ugh I hate Hold Your Head Up. The Argent deep cut that the FM jocks somehow missed is Dance In The Smoke. Epic.

For those keepig score, the average length of the 80 songs is 4:41. I was hoping we'd break the 5 minute barrier. We've got at least one 8 minute opus to come, but after that, who knows.

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, July 31, 2014 7:04 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

average length of the whole top 100 is 4:39 :(

do oldies stations still exist? i wish i had an oldies station

the last time i heard an oldies station with any regularity was when i worked at a sub shop in college. if i worked a morning shift, they had oldies on, if i worked a night shift, they had classic rock on. very elemental duality.

My oldies station was "Imus in the morning, oldies all day long" :(

always had oldies on the radio at the bakery in high school

ugh yeah this is reminding me of my college togo's job where it was always classic rock and we had to listen to the manager's stupid stories/anecdotes about Don McLean and how Zeppelin was "75% acoustic" or what-the-fuck-ever

btw does this mean American Pie is not going to place

Ha, my local station offered an online Neil Young player for people to stream his most recent album when it was released.

lol at that know-somethingish Zeppelin assertion.

for the record, The AORta is the main artery of Album Oriented Rock. whether our heart beats for the Wilson sisters is a personal matter.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cVXMOa4Azh4/TzF5EwRv5uI/AAAAAAAAAeI/Sn7eG7hbuVY/s1600/ann+nancy+wilson+central+park.jpg

omg cuet

24 so far

there will be some bitter tears shed over here if ILM can't find a place for Alice Cooper and Grand Funk Railroad in its classic rock canon, but they don't seem like top 20 material the way things are going

thank goodness Phil Collins and Don Henley made it

alice cooper may suffer from vote splitting
i voted capriciously and regret not cutting a few obvious stinkers for the ac band

20 spots left and at least 40 must-place songs on my ballot. I hate to go all LJ-esque but a preemptive FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU to, uh, the universe I guess.

alice cooper this poll may suffer from vote splitting

Alice Cooper will make it. How can you say no to this face?

http://www.wolfmanjack.com/images/images/alice_cooper.jpg?0.3884963674846667

idk why it didn't embed. How can you say know this face, which you have to click on to see?

there will be some bitter tears shed over here if ILM can't find a place for Alice Cooper and Grand Funk Railroad in its classic rock canon

Aqualung too

classic ILM flute bias

if Aqualung makes the top 20 I will BURN THIS SHIT TO THE GROUND

feeling like a dead duck

Come on home girl.

Locomotive Breath, y'all

ehhhhhhhhhqualung
ehhhHHHHHHqualung!!

Jethro Tull was the band that made me love music as a kid, and I assumed Aqualung would make it somewhere in this poll, probably between 75 and 100. Sadly, I have to agree that things aren't looking so good for that poor old sod

no votes for bands that get their own poll
voted for these less popular bands
voted for bands with e in the name
voted for bands with one or more vegan members
voted for bands formed on a thursday

A man has got to have a code.

http://www.thecultureconcept.com/circle/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/doric_ionic_corinthian.jpg

never go out of style

no votes for bands that get their own poll
voted for these less popular bands
voted for bands with e in the name
voted for bands with one or more vegan members
voted for bands formed on a thursday

― Serious Men raised by the Issues Movement (darraghmac), Thursday, July 31, 2014

tbf jethro tull checks *at least* three of those boxes

smh at you 'boys of summer' ppl

It wasn't me!

is shaggy classic rock?