CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

I've Got My Own Clappin' To Do

Beginning to have doubts about my #1 making it, especially in the top 8. :(

COME ON, BARRACUDA.

― emil.y, Friday, August 1, 2014 12:13 PM

This is still my spitball pick for #1 overall.

This one's for C. Grisso, who I understand has banged a gong or two in his day. Or maybe he ganged a bong? Well, yeah.

http://i.imgur.com/KWRhEqL.jpg

8. T. Rex – Bang A Gong (Get It On)
1668 points, 28 votes

Great picture

That was probably the easiest one to assign to a song.

Burn out the day/burn out the night
I can't see no reason to put up a fight

^^^^A+++

"The Flame" isn't as bad as Huge Sellouts go.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, August 1, 2014 12:04 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkI

I think it's gotta be one of the worst songs of all time. I almost thought it was a joke the first time i heard it. So bad. Obviously a matter of opinion though.

Glad to see BOC place but there were so many better BOC songs that never got any radio airplay.

I've Got My Own Clappin' To Do

― cwkiii, Friday, August 1, 2014 9:33 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A+

feel like I've heard the Power Station version more on the radio

A rare song that has different titles in the US and UK

feel like I've heard the Power Station version more on the radio

― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes),

otm

I think you've got to have a dj who's into T.Rex or else you're never going to hear them on American CRR.

I'm starting to worry that the top 5 will be all Bowie.

Wow, "Get It On" gets plenty of play here. I've never heard of the Power Station cover.

In the 200s on the Q107 list.

The only other T.Rex i've heard on CRR is "20th Century Boy", and that only about twice

Great picture

yowza

Bang a Gong is likely the only T-Rex you'll hear. In the bay area a few weeks ago I heard it on 2 stations at the same time.

I haven't heard the Power Station version since it was a hit.

Shout out to Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, those guys are the best.

One of my least favorite T Rex songs (with this single's b-side, 'raw ramp' being my favorite) but I still voted for it. Happy to see it on the top 10.

it is sort of inexplicable that this was T. Rex's only American hit, it sounds pretty much exactly like all their other peak-period singles

Glad to see T. Rex place so high, sad that this is seemingly the sole representative of their amazing discography on CRR. Always thought "Children of the Revolution" should've been huge.

Jeepster used to be huge on CRR here well into the 80s.

Yeah, I definitely remember hearing "Jeepster" a lot.

come from the land of the ice and snow with the jigsaw jazz and the get fresh flow

"Get it on" is THE t-rex song, afaic

20th century boy had some more exposure bc of a massive car ad campaign iirc but otherwise yeah

i'm not sure i've even heard another T. Rex song. and i hear this one enough that i change the station about half the time when it comes on.

i'm not sure i've even heard another T. Rex song.

Dude. Stop what you're doing and go fix this thing.

Go HIV a listen to the slider LP it's pretty incredible throughout

yeah i've been working my way through some 70s blind spots, definitely on the to-do list

Whoa I mean give :O

lol

I'd never heard the T Rex version when I first heard the power station version when it was on the Muzak at the Gap when I worked there briefly in 2001

This one is dedicated to rogermexico. Which reminds me, I once rogered a girl in Tijuana while this song was playing.

http://i.imgur.com/QDyMlYw.jpg

7. The Who – Baba O’Riley
1681 points, 23 votes, 1 first place vote

20th Century Boy should be as big as this song, but I don't mind

xpost

I heard the oasis song "cigarettes and alcohol" before "bang a gong", it's one of their more transparent ripoffs.

The Slider is another all killer no filler album, highly recommended

feel like Old Lunch is abt to update his list again

Felt that I had no choice but to vote for this because any CR poll without WE'RE ALL WASTED totally misses the point

this was one of the biggest surprises to me as I was counting votes. Who's Next-era Who always seemed pretty divisive around here and "Baba" seemed more emblematic of what some dislike about the album and anecdotally less popular than "Won't Get Fooled Again," so I had no idea "Baba" would be in the top 10 with "Fooled" 30 spots lower.

Townshend's 9-minute instrumental "Baba O'Riley" demo:
http://youtu.be/v-layDeazY8

Obvious rad song. I'm starting to feel like a lot of CR bands made their song titles purposefully obfuscatory.

TEENAGE WAISTBAND

Baba is awesome. I thought everyone agreed on that. My 7.

ugh the top 5 really doesn't need two Heart songs

Obvious rad song. I'm starting to feel like a lot of CR bands made their song titles purposefully obfuscatory.

― Dr. Yah Mo B. There, DDS (Old Lunch), Friday, August 1, 2014 12:59 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The title of the song is derived from the combination of the song's philosophical and musical influences, Meher Baba and Terry Riley.[2]

my senior prom date walked down the aisle to an orchestral arrangement of baba when she got married, it was really lovely tbh

"burnin' for you" top 10 the most wtf moment of this entire poll for me. i like the song just fine -- it's definitely top 10 boc for me-- but wtf? never change, ilm.