CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

thanks again, some dude & gr8080. i already want to go back and read all three threads (noms, poll, and results).

cool stories!

It turns out I actually know very little about the genre, as has been fairly systematically shown, but I love the stuff I know (and have known since childhood, or possibly since before birth), and it's been a really great joy to a) get some educatin' (go to school!) from ILM and b) just revel in other people's joy and memories and unabashed excitement for music that, you'd think, we'd have all been just become totally inured to through ubiquity. It's infectious.

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This is me m/l

Sandy, a book of your stories would make the world a better place, imo

An iron fist in a velvet fog.

Thanks to everyone for going all in on this. It's made this extra tedious work week much better.

And how have I gone my whole life without hearing Lido Shuffle?! This song is the best! I think I always thought Boz was some sort of heartland rocker, and not a guy who writes songs as amazing as Lido Shuffle.

yr gonna wanna listen to the rest of silk degrees too

Oh, no question! I think I'll probably spend much of tomorrow digging through his catalog.

mookie, I would be so up for having a beer with you at Christmastime (plz make it a Rolling Rock tho, Iron City is so horrible). We could meet up at the Lava Lounge on Carson Street, they have awesome rock karaoke. I am hungry to karaoke Lido Shuffle. And they sell Mad Dog in paper bags there, lol.

In her toilet was a framed, signed picture of Rod Stewart and he had written on it "Thanks for the bacon sandwiches, love Rod".

I can't begin to describe how bizarre that sounds to an American....

if this poll has taught me anything it's that ILMers don't love The Eagles nearly as much as they say they do.

we didn't survive that listening thread out of love

you can't know what we went through *stares into the distance, trembling hand holding an unlit cigarette*

"You get used to never leaving...it's the checking out any time you like part that gets to you."

I found ILM when you guys were about midway through that listening thread, it was my first view into this world of yours and I was looooooling on my bus rides every day.

I am capping off the day by watching Almost Famous and it reminds me of two songs that I so wish I had repped for: The Allman Brothers "One Way Out" and Elton John "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters"

the Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker.

new best sandy story ever.

two songs that I so wish I had repped for: The Allman Brothers "One Way Out" and Elton John "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters"

really surprised by the total absence of elton john from this poll (highest song: #261). between that and the relatively thin showing of the thin white duke ("space oddity" at #296???), i thought maybe all of ilm's glam fans had secretly decided to boycott the poll, but then again "bang a gong" and "all the young dudes" both finished quite high, so i don't really have a theory. rather, i'm just sitting in a tin can of confusion.

Only song I'm disappointed didn't show is "What's Your Name" by Skynyrd.

Well, it's eight o'clock in Boise...Id-a-ho!

"Suffragette City" was my #1, as dictated by its being the song I'm gladdest to hear on classic rock radio. Surprised by its relatively poor showing, as it's maybe Bowie at his most CR.

Was too busy and tired from work-related stuff to submit a ballot or really get involved in the roll-out, but checking in on the results every so often has def been a lot of fun.
Excellent songs that I've discovered through the rollout - Eminence Front, Fly Like An Eagle, Solsbury Hill, Funk #49, Jane, Night Moves, Magic Man. (I get that for most of the voters the idea of these songs being new to anyone older than about 4 must be weird, but chalk it up to lol US/UK differences I guess).

Songs I was particularly pleased to see make it - Frankenstein, Midnight Rider, Roundabout, Fortunate Son (though the last one was never in much doubt I suppose).
Songs I hadn't heard for years and was reminded how much I liked - Suite Judy Blue Eyes, Werewolves Of London, Time Of The Season, Spirit In The Sky

Good times all round. :)

Bowie and Elton both subjects of their own polls too - mightve suffered from some number of posters going the ''give someone else a chance to shine'' route. And/or some number of their most beloved tracks being seen as oldies or 80s or w/e. ''Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters'' did well on the Elton poll though, IIRC...

Great poll, guys, great poll. Even though I am something of a classic rock outsider I had an excellent time. Thanks to the organisers and the AORta. And count me as another massive Sandy fan.

Well, we think you've got an idea of what the top 2 is going to be. But let's get it all out there. I was rooting all along for it to take #1, but in the end the gap in points was far too big to overcome. This one's for emil.y.
2. Heart – Barracuda

*sniffle*

Missed the top 3 due to being on the road, but gr8080 and some dude did such an amazing job with this!

the Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker.

New board description.

And I was waiting for "Reaper" to post this...

(apologies for repetition, because I'm pretty sure I've posted this on like nine threads)

About 6 or 7 years ago I was working the counter at an auto salvage yard. I was chatting with a customer who noticed my Clash t-shirt and said, "Hey, you like their album Give 'Em Enough Rope? My partner produced that." Looked at his credit card slip, I realized I was talking to Murr4y Krugm4n, and he confirmed that he was referring to his former producing partner Sandy Pearlman. "Yeah, we worked on a lot of stuff together, a lot of Blue Oyster Cult stuff..." Not wanting to let the opportunity slip away I said, "So...you worked on 'Don't Fear The Reaper'..." That was all I said. He let out an exasperated sigh, looked at the ground and said, "Yeah...yeah. I think I'm the only person on earth who doesn't think that sketch is funny."

he is not the only person on earth!! what did you say?

I think I just said "hm" or something; I got the feeling it was a sensitive subject, so I dropped it.

hahaha that is awesome!

When I get a chance, I'll have to recount the time in the late '70s when I had a threesome with the Wilson sisters. I'm on my way to the library right now, though.

gross!
xp i would have probably gone on and on and then someone would have been like "this isn't what we pay you for" and i'd shut up

I would give my left arm to be able to grill pearlman and krugman about BOC and the whole imaginos mythology and all of that. I dream of writing a secret treaties 33 1/3 with tons of new interview content.

Sandy Pearlman is one of the more fascinating characters in rock history imo. His academic career alone is enviable!

I think the 'more cowbell' sketch is hilarious but I suspect that most people who repeat that line don't actually get why it's funny.

(Ha, the classic rock station just started playing "Reaper".)

Sandy's Lynott story is also great!

gr8080 and some dude did such an amazing job with this!

OTM.

thank you all for the love and appreciation, sincerely. it was a lot of work but you all made it a pleasure.

Sandy Pearlman is one of the more fascinating characters in rock history imo. His academic career alone is enviable!
^this is otm.

Kudos to gr8080 and some dude.

It's our privilege some dude. Being given a whole genre with fresh ears is the biggest gift ILM has to offer, and you guys delivered.

This Marshall Tucker Band track is great. It's weird how classic rock has a fresh feel when not played over the radio.

Adding james gang to the list of bands that cut awesome sounding records

it's sad that some of Hendrix's stuff doesn't sound so good

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i mean, i totally wish Jimi had lived to make records with some of the more sophisticated developments in rock production that came about in the '70s, but the kind of outsized, almost tacky ambition with which he attacked the limits of '60s recording are a pretty integral aspect of the whole charisma and texture of the Experience albums.

I feel that

Jimi was kind of hitting his head against the ceiling of what was possible in the late '60s the same way The Who were -- i can't even imagine how amazing the Jimi equivalent of Who's Next would have been.

I guess we always have SRV records :-o

and john mayer's continuum

I'm really interested in this recording-technology stuff - can any of y'all elaborate? I mean, I hear huge differences between 60s and 70s rock records but I can't articulate them, or tell how much is "what's possible" versus "what was seen as a good sound" - for example, as I was saying about the Who upthread, the drums in 60s records always strike me as really quiet compared to how rockin' the songs sound in my head.

I think it's as much about the development of the rock aesthetic as the technology. "My Generation" is an amazing sounding record in its own way, but it seems pretty clear that nobody was really sure yet how to harness a band that played like that in the studio yet. or, like, those early Stones records where the tambourine is practically drowning out the drums.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neve_8078

I'm no expert but the tape op dudes seem to point to this frequently.

Tape Op interviews are perhaps my favorite thing to read

Dudes like Walter Sear would argue that nothing changed I think, though

Which supports some dude's post, I think