CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

Fun fact: there is a song called "Teenage Wasteland" that Townshend demoed but the Who never recorded:
http://youtu.be/tmbaWtQoLM0

I had china grove high. Not sure though.

I didn't get the pee thing on the Who's Next cover until fairly recently

I remember having a hard time reconciling the violin coda with what had come before in early listens

xp Feel like Crazy on You might not place. I have what I feel is a pretty good guess on what's in the top 6, and it'd be shocked if Crazy on You were in there.

In a perfect world both Crazy on You AND Barracuda place in the top 10.

otm

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

not otm

Fun fact: there is a song called "Teenage Wasteland" that Townshend demoed but the Who never recorded:

"Hey you! Don't step on my turnips/ Oh lord, when will they ever learn it?" didn't have quite the same lyrical punch.

Freaks and Geeks had scene with Rogen correcting Lindsay on the song title

The cover artwork shows a photograph, taken at Easington Colliery, of the band apparently having just urinated on a large concrete piling protruding from a slag heap. According to photographer Ethan Russell, most of the members were unable to urinate, so rainwater was tipped from an empty film canister to achieve the desired effect. The partially cloudy sky seen above the site was also composited from a separate image. The photograph is often seen to be a reference to the monolith discovered on the moon in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, which had been released only about three years earlier.[10] Pete Townshend stated it was an ironical answer to Stanley Kubrick turning down the direction of Tommy.[11] In 2003, the United States cable television channel VH1 named Who's Next's cover one of the greatest album covers of all time.[12]

I like to imagine that the cover of "Ace of Spades" was taken at the same location

Ace of Spades cover shows the dudes who were hired to track down the people who peed on the thing.

Another great classic rock band that isnt' represented on crr playlists.

The Who's discography has never been polled?

I know where you've peed
The only card I need
is the ACE OF SPADES
THE ACE OF SPADES

song i'm happiest to see in the top 20: "night moves." sad that "still the same" missed the poll, but i get that. "night moves" is a cr epic done right: platonically ideal composition and a lyric that rings completely true.

I didn't get the pee thing on the Who's Next cover until fairly recently

― brimstead, Friday, August 1, 2014 1:03 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Me neither - didn't look closely, that those were just shadows

I passed over Won't get Fooled & Baba but am happy that they placed, they're certainly about as CR as it gets.

This was the original idea for the WN cover:

http://www.coverdude.com/covers/the-who-whos-next-1995-inlay-cover-78091.jpg

My prime classic rock radio years were in the early-2000s and at the time you'd get so much Who Are You.

Baba O'Riley was my number 2. Anthem.

early-2000s and at the time you'd get so much Who Are You.

such a terrible album.

My mom definitely saw the pee cover right off, and young me got a talking to about that album.

People have been going crazy on the prospect of this one showing up for a little while now. A dedication to our fact checking cuz...

http://i.imgur.com/fKNexR6.jpg

6. Heart – Crazy On You
1711 points, 22 votes

"Who Are You" is still The Who's top song airplay-wise but I don't think I've even heard another track from that album on the radio

"Radar Love" is amazing. Yet another karaoke song that has destroyed my voice (so worth it). I was pleasantly surprised a little while back to discover that Golden Earring had been around since the '60s and that their earlier stuff isn't half bad.

― Dr. Yah Mo B. There, DDS (Old Lunch), Friday, August 1, 2014 4:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I voted "Baba O'Riley" #1 in AG's 70s rock poll, #4 in this.

Crazy On You at #6 just where I placed it!

didn't CSI do wonders for "Who Are You"s popularity?

When I was a little kid, my kid sister made friends with two girls from the neighborhood. They were always running around, shrieking, laughing, drooling, babbling...they were just these utter savages. Anyway, around the same time when I first heard Ann's howls on the chorus of this song, they were those kids were the first people I thought of. The were going crazy on me!

I love this song. My number 3.

Crazy On You at #6 just where I placed it!

― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion)

and I look pretty crappy sometimes!

so Heart have 3 of the top 20....holy shit!
...a realistic representation of the CR ethos I guess but man, does that guitar work on "Magic Man" drag.
"Crazy" pretty flawless, though.

looks like my guesses for the top 6 are not as accurate as I hoped!

man, does that guitar work on "Magic Man" drag

rong

didn't CSI do wonders for "Who Are You"s popularity?

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, August 1, 2014 1:26 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it probably boosted its iTunes sales but it's popularity on radio seems eternal and unaffected

Yeah, "Crazy on You" is constructed and performed really well imo.

for such a zepcentric band, heart were surprisingly low on guitar heroics...seems like they emulated Jimmy Page's orchestrations more than anything

"Crazy On You" is one of those songs that I don't think I love when I see the title and think of the chorus, but when it's on and I hear all the other parts of it I'm like yeah, this song has tons of great stuff.

"Who Are You" is something I loved as a teenager ("They swore!") and can't switch off fast enough now.

What I wanna know about "Who Are You" is why it never gets the F word bleeped out on radio like everything else

forever redeemed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6E-NXGJTqU

There's a scene in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle where Kumar fantasizes about living his life married to a large bag of weed, soundtracked by "Crazy On You." So obviously, that's all I can think about when I hear it.

man, does that guitar work on "Magic Man" drag
rong

― mookieproof, Friday, August 1, 2014 10:28 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, this is just the rongest

Heart indeed had tight pop sensibilities, but the hired gun solo on "Magic Man" is total guitar villainry imo....

What I wanna know about "Who Are You" is why it never gets the F word bleeped out on radio like everything else

― Lee626, Friday, August 1, 2014 1:35 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It does, to the point that stations now edit out that whole line.

(There's also a "who the hell are you?" version, which I've never heard)

My local CR station still plays the unedited version

'funky kicks goin' down in the city'

Here's one for mookieproof. Take it easy, dude!

http://i.imgur.com/J2leU2T.jpg

5. Foghat – Slow Ride
1916 points, 28 votes, 3 first place votes

yesssssssss

ILM OTM

8min version or gtfo