CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

man, eliminator really did suffer from vote splitting

AC/DC are pretty huge, but they suffered from vote-splitting and I think also the feeling that once you put your favorite one or two tracks on your ballot you've kinda covered their 'range' so to speak and don't need to vote for several songs.

I want to believe that 'vote splitting' is real, but then we have 3 heart songs (the only 3 heart songs) in the top 11!

"Junior's Farm" (write in) made the top 500 as well.

("Painted Ladies" was also one of the more blatant Neil Young imitations from that era.)

― clemenza, Friday, August 1, 2014 3:23 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sounds way more like America than Neil to my ears

will be doing some 'top artists by points totals' breakdowns that will shed some light on the vote-splitting question.

cosign on the Heart thing. And both those 38 special songs, upon reflection, kinda suck.

but overall, a playlist to get me through the next week's commute with a smile.

Lee--yes; should have said blatant-America-imitating-Neil-Young songs. But you're right.

Gary Wright - "Love Is Alive", another glaring omission. I wanna try compiling an alternate universe CRR playlist comprised only of stuff that didn't make the top 500.

Gary Wright - "Love Is Alive", another glaring omission. -- 100x better than "Dream Weaver"

Looking at the list, the band whose absence from the top 100 most strikes me is Supertramp. They are intrinsic to my sense of Classic Rock.

To mine too. I voted for "Hide in Your Shell" and "School". I've never seen them get much love on ILM so I wasn't that surprised. If I squint a little, I can sort of see those songs as anticipating Radiohead in a weird way.

Another band that did me in with first-run overexposure. I never lumped them in with Bostonkansasforeignerstyxtriumphtotojourney because they sounded SO different, though.

Didn't know they weren't there, but thirded. They seem crucial to me in terms of my sense of the timeline, what I listened to then, and what still gets played now (they're on Q-107 a lot). I'd put forth Crime of the Century and Even in the Quietest Moments as their two key CR album, though Breakfast in America gets more play.

i've been getting "magic man" stuck in my head every day this week, it happens anytime i just look at one of these 70s party photos.

Clearly we need a stand alone Supertramp poll

you're bloody well right

Lee--yes; should have said blatant-America-imitating-Neil-Young songs. But you're right.

― clemenza, Friday, August 1, 2014 3:38 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, now that i think about it, America made a career out of imitating Neil Young

fanfuckingtastic poll some dude and gr8080 and all voters and all commenters, even though all of you are wrong about the beatles.

"Painted Ladies" is by Ian Thomas

Brother of SCTV's Dave Thomas btw

Holy fuck, I never knew this was not a Neil Young song!

It gets played all the time in Canada, yeah.

fanfuckingtastic poll some dude and gr8080 and all voters and all commenters, even though all of you are wrong about the beatles.

― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Friday, August 1, 2014 1:09 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I knew the FCC was gonna get on the AORta's case

this poll rocked into the night

I think this poll clearly demonstrates how bands that aren't on spotify don't actually exist anymore.

is no Beatles in the top maybe another victim of 'not Classic Rock enough'? Every CR station seems to have periodic Beatles blocks at certain times, but I don't hear them much during regular programming.

top = top 100

Yeah when the Beatles are on CRR it always feel obligatory to me, like paying tribute to ancestors. Obviously Abbey Road and Let It Be are CR enough in both spirit and timeline, but they still seem like a separate thing to me.

would like to add in my thanks as well, fantastically run poll.
looking forward to seeing the artist tally.

"School"

Also one of the songs (along with "Another Brick in the Wall pt 2" and "The Headmaster Ritual") that used to make me wonder what the UK education system was like in the 60s and 70s.

I think most people had a 'no bands with cirque du soleil shows in vegas' rule

my theoretical Top 10 in no real order

Frankenstein
Funk #49
Mississippi Queen
Anthem - Rush
Never Been any Reason - Head East
Radar Love
Roundabout
Long Train Runnin
Do It Again - Steely Dan
Bad Motor Scooter - Roundabout

my theoretical Top 10 in no real order

Frankenstein
Funk #49
Mississippi Queen
Anthem - Rush
Never Been any Reason - Head East
Radar Love
Roundabout
Long Train Runnin
Do It Again - Steely Dan
Bad Motor Scooter - Montrose

lol WE'RE ALL WASTED

I had two Beatles songs in my top 10 fwiw.

It would be fun to know the Enthusiasm, Popularity, Hivemind, Loneliness, Top Neighbor stuff like Seandalai does for EOY polls, but that sort of datamining seems contrary to the CR spirit, so, uh, never mind hey pass me one of those beers over there ok?

fanfuckingtastic poll some dude and gr8080 and all voters and all commenters, even though all of you are wrong about the beatles.

― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Friday, August 1, 2014 1:09 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I knew the FCC was gonna get on the AORta's case

― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Friday, August 1, 2014 3:15 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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No Steppenwolf was the biggest shock for me by far. Magic Carpet Ride and Born To Be Wild were my #3 and #4!

Figured "Carry On Wayward Son" was a lock for top 100, even if people were sick of it. Around the top 5 or so, I realized it wouldn't make it. I've heard the song a million times and I still love it to death, my #1.

yeah "Magic Carpet Ride" in particular has i think persevered and sounded at home in '70s-heavy playlists, i think sometime just in the last decade it overtook "Born To Be Wild" in airplay. was on my ballot but i gave up hope for it pretty quickly.

"Born to Be Wild" has really suffered from getting used in so much in the media - I pretty much associate it with ads now.

yeah that too. too iconic for its own good.

"Next on The John Kay Group: 'Too Iconic'? What the fuck does that mean?"

http://www.barriewentzell.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=2536&g2_serialNumber=3

I cant listen to Born to Be Wild again. Ever.

goddamn the pusher man that'd make you

Great poll, loads of fun -- thanks SD and Gr80 for the work! Can't wait to see the top 500 and commiserate with the other few Thunderclap Newman fans.

― rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Friday, August 1, 2014 2:55 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My #2.

10 votes was pretty respectable, I guess.

Lowest placing song with a first-place vote -
368. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Crosstown Traffic 350 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote

...unless something got a first and still fell outside the top 500.

My first place was outside of the top 500: Robert Palmer - Sailin' Shoes/Hey Julia/Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley. Have to admit that it's definitely not the most "classic rock" of songs, but it squeaks in under Little Feat. I probably should have given more points to Skynyrd or something.

Yesss TWO buck dharma joints in the top 10 and that's WITHOUT me voting! This is why ilx is my home.

When I did finally get a ballot put together up to number 32 it was the Friday after the Wednesday of the deadline and I was like fuck it and didn't send it. But here it is:

Blue Oyster Cult – Don’t Fear The Reaper 1
Rush – Tom Sawyer 2
Electric Light Orchestra – Do Ya 3
Led Zeppelin – Dancing Days 4
Jethro Tull -- Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of the New Day) 5
Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle 6
Fleetwood Mac – The Chain 7
The Cars – Let’s Go 8
The Police – Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 9
Don Henley – Boys Of Summer 10
Steely Dan – Reeling In The Years 11
Heart – Crazy On You 12
Steve Miller – Fly Like An Eagle 13
Blue Oyster Cult – I’m Burnin’ For You 14
Van Halen – Jump 15
Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street 16
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – You Got Lucky 17
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Born On The Bayou 18
Boston – Rock & Roll Band 19
The Eagles – In The City 20
AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long 21
Yes – Roundabout 22
Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back In Town 23
The Who – Baba O’Riley 24
Pat Benatar – Hit Me With Your Best Shot 25
Golden Earring – Radar Love 26
The Pretenders – Back On The Chain Gang 27
Styx – Renegade 28
.38 Special – Hold On Loosely 29
Christopher Cross - Ride Like The Wind 30
Kansas – Dust In The Wind 31
Toto - Africa 32

I feel most guilty about "Do Ya" that song is THE elo jam and it needed me and I wasn't there for it.

Also, it is dangerous to drive with radar love playing. The only song that has made me drive faster than radar love is the first track on zen arcade

do oakland raiders fans sing a version of radar love at games?