CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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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?

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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.

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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.

Also, I voted for Donnie Iris! Although I'm afraid a showing this high is doubtful.

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!

all true of course, and all huge throughout the '70s, but a lot of his big, beefier, spacier rock jams, the down by the rivers and like a hurricanes, always seemed to me to be second-tier fm radio fodder, and by the time classic rock was being codified as a thing in the 1980s, he didn't have quite the catalog of automatic rock party favorites that the aerosmiths and skynyrds had. plus, for whatever it's worth, his songs tend to sound sadder than theirs do. more minor keys and stuff (and that voice of his). maybe that's part of the problem for cr programmers? really just guessing here, though.

i threw donnie iris some love but maybe not enough

tbf i haven't heard ah! leah on the radio since back in the day and tommy tutone probably gets more and isn't any less classic rock (which is to say, not very) but hell if i'm going to miss a chance to vote for it anyway

The big Alice Cooper track on CR radio in Belgium/Netherlands was Halo Of Flies, which to this day continues to be a listeners favourite with the same status as Stairway To Heaven and Bohemian Rhapsody. Wasn't even released as a single anywhere else. Another oddity is Child In Time which was similarly inescapable on rock radio and to this day continues to enjoy all-time top 5 status in a select number of European countries only.

Conversely, many US classic rock stalwarts like Skynyrd, Journey, .38 Special, Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker, Styx and Boz Scaggs failed to made much of an impact here. And obviously, CR radio here had/has dozens more Scorpions and Golden Earring songs on their playlist than the few tracks nominated here. Still, it's pretty remarkable that (even locally) there were so few non-anglophone CR classics.

24 songs of mine so far. So glad I don't have to work today!

Of course I voted for Donnie Iris but I can't imagine him placing this high, will be interesting to see where he falls in the top 500 though.

I think when it's finished we should do it all over again.

^^LABOR DAY WEEKEND

fwiw, the airplay lists i've seen have very little Neil Young (just "Rockin' In The Free World" in the top 500, not even any CSNY). I thought that was kind of odd, though, I definitely hear "Cinnamon Girl" and "Southern Man" on the radio enough to be sick of them, maybe he's a stronger presence in some regions than others.

I think when it's finished we should do it all over again.

― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Friday, August 1, 2014 3:51 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^LABOR DAY WEEKEND

― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, August 1, 2014 4:13 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha there's definitely a part of me that wants to just go "hey gr80, can you make images for 101-200?" but i think we'd all start growing sideburns and quitting our jobs if that happpened.

now we begin our ALL REQUEST FRIDAY to finish the countdown. This one goes out to one way street, askance johnson, and staggerlee, who all had this song at #2.

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20. The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
1496 points, 18 votes

*exhales with an open mouth to make a sound similar to a stadium crowd*

My favourite song ever. Wasn't going to vote for it in *this* poll but I caved in the end. My no.69.

Until 20 Feet From Stardom I always thought the female vocals were singing "Hey children, it's just a step away" but it's actually "Rape, Murder." Eww.