CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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
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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?

nah, he hosted the top 40 countdown, remember

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.

i will take it very personally if this aorta doesn't have a tight connection to my heart.

neil young has always lived on the outskirts of classic rock; he's a quirky, boutique-y, collegiate taste compared to skynyrd or zeppelin or aerosmith. but the outskirts are still within classic rock's rather large municipal borders, and some of his riffs are all-time, and none more so than "cinnamon girl." top 10 for me.

So upsetting that the stones stole his mr soul riff

22 so far for me, though I have a feeling that a lot of what I voted for will end up in the top 20

how is sweet emotion the only aerosmith song on here?????

also my ballot is so lol compared to this :\

a couple other Aerosmith songs juuuuuuust missed the list. the full top 500 will be posted after the countdown ends.

I've occasionally heard "Mr. Soul" and "Cowgirl In The Sand" on CR radio.

Not sure i've heard "Time of the Season" though - that's oldies.

I noted in the nomination thread that no Yardbirds tracks were listed. More than any other band I can think of, the Yardbirds fall through the Oldies/Classic Rock cracks. To CR radio program managers, "For Your Love", "Shapes of Things", and "Heart Full of Soul" sound like oldies so they don't play them. To oldies radio program managers, they sound like classic rock so they don't play them.

I know it varies from station to station, but the Yardbirds get occasional airplay here: "Shapes of Things," "Heart Full of Soul," "For Your Love" (but I don't think I've ever heard "Over, Under, Sideways, Down" on the radio. And Neil Young is possibly the 5th or 6th most played artist after Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones. But, you know, Toronto.

Songs I've never heard: "Walk Away," "Twilight Zone" (I don't think, anyway), one or maybe both of the .38 Special songs, "Jane."

Songs that would never in a million years get played on the station here: "Jane," "Lido Shuffle."

In the early-mid '70s, the only time I was ever on-air on 1050 CHUM, the dominant Top 40 station, was requesting "Mississippi Queen."

neil young has always lived on the outskirts of classic rock; he's a quirky, boutique-y, collegiate taste compared to skynyrd or zeppelin or aerosmith. but the outskirts are still within classic rock's rather large municipal borders, and some of his riffs are all-time, and none more so than "cinnamon girl." top 10 for me.

This is true to an extent, but Harvest was a #1 record with a #1 single ("Heart of Gold")! After the Gold Rush was a top 10 album too, and Ohio was a top 20 hit. He was in a hugely popular supergroup!

This doesn't make him less quirky--obviously he's a weirdo. But I think that "boutique-y" understates Young's pretty broad success in the early 70s, before he "headed for the ditch." I also feel that others (not you, fcc) are writing him out of classic rock because he's too liberal or an acquired hipster taste or whatever are actually underestimating the fact that he's a beloved classic rock artist.

Totally agree on classic rock's municipal borders, though. And the RIFFS!

i am growing concerned that despite the best efforts of johnny fever and i, and perhaps la lechera and sandy, the recognition and glory due to donnie iris may not be forthcoming

I think Neil was one of those guys who had a bunch of big FM radio tracks from before there were airplay charts, so stuff eventually fell through the cracks.

In the midwest circa 70's & 80's, Cinnamon Girl was just as ubiquitous on CR radio as any Zeppelin or Rush song. I can recall lots of dudes who looked like the guys in gr8080's pictures playing Cinnamon Girl covers at keg parties.