CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

I figured they had an Apple iPhone they planned to hack in order to use unauthorized web apps.

One of them had a song called "Piss on the Wall" and the other one didn't, that's how I keep it straight.

― pplains, Monday, August 4, 2014 12:23 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and also has a song called "River Blindness" which is one of the weirdest fucking things ever tracked on an AOR LP

Tonight there's gonna be a City Council meeting...
Somewhere in this town

We built this city council
On Rock and Roll!

I put Jailbreak at #4, god bless whoever put it at #15 and got it into the top 500.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Sunday, August 3, 2014 1:30 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have so much goodwill toward whoever that is, that is such an incredible song, I could listen to it forever.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Sunday, August 3, 2014 1:31 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sup

inspired by this thread, I checked the "James Gang" section on my weekly record store trip, and picked up a nice best-of LP for 3 bucks. As I was walking into the building where I do my radio show with the record, some guy in his 20's (not part of the radio iirc) pointed and said "James Gang! Cool!"

synchronicities are fun

so gr8080 tell us more about the pics
aloha friday
internet k-hole?
ship fam?

plz remind me to answer this on monday. don't have the time/not sure how i want to go about doing so until then.

i'm djing a wedding for two early 30's art professors tomorrow at a beautiful louisville mansion and despite the carefully curated playlist i've got ready to go, i'm totally fighting the urge to just let our top 100 rip all nite
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, August 1, 2014 10:22 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

WE DEMAND ANSWERS

I wish I could go back and listen to these songs to where they "feel like the first time." Heck, maybe one day I'll even go back and read this thread from the beginning to see if anyone else had previously made that joke.

But I'll say this: I listened to "Born To Run" on the earbuds the other day and it never really occurred to me how similar that stuff and ... wait for it... Meatloaf have in common. The same kind of bombastic theatrical horns and rippin' gee-tars with some wild and rebellious lead singer swinging some swagger.

I mean, Meatloaf happily kept his bar low, beginning with goofy dialogues in between songs about wolves eating fingers and calling himself Meatloaf, for crying out loud while The Boss successfully adopted his persona of somehow being Al Pacino mixed with Brando in The Wild One, but laying all that aside and boiling it down to the E Street Band vs Jim Steinman & Todd Rundgren, it's all from the same cloth.

And I was typing that and double-checking Wikipedia, I notice "Bat Out of Hell is often compared to the music of Bruce Springsteen, particularly the Born to Run album. Steinman says that he finds that "puzzling, musically", although they share influences; "Springsteen was more an inspiration than an influence."[5] A BBC article added, "that Max Weinberg and Roy Bittan from Springsteen's E Street Band played on the album only helped reinforce the comparison."[7]" SO NEVER FUCKING MIND, THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD'S KNOWN ABOUT THIS FOR 40 YEARS. DID I EVER TELL YOU ABOUT THE TIME I GAVE MICHAEL SCHENKER A LIFT FROM THE BUS STATION?

lost innocence is v. classic rock

does "the dock of the bay" get classic rock airplay? did it in the 80s/early 90s?

no

i love you pplains

mongrel love
it's driving him mad
it's making him crazy

i hate that sonnnngggggg ragh

;_;

HATE

IT

no crate of papayas for you then

good

...and no poem either!

Used to think it was ''a grade-A papaya.'' Also when I first *first* heard it (weekending at Lake Lanier), I got it mixed up with ''Gimme Gimme Good Lovin''' and a DuckTales plotline, yielding ''Gimme gimme the gold, it's makin' me crazy.'' My friend Natalie, I later learned, heard the title as ''Chug-a-Lug.'' ''Jungle Love'' rules.

Grade-A papaya totally unbelievable. Steve Miller is definitely the kind of guy who would scratch the sell by date off a crate of papaya he picked up at the dollar store in Quito.

plz remind me to answer this on monday. don't have the time/not sure how i want to go about doing so until then.

***most links in this post will likely contain NSFW photos if you click/scroll around on them long enough**

my fascination w/ finding old photos of people partying began with this sandbox thread, after which (with the thread-starter's permission) i started a tumblr which i updated pretty furiously for a few years, during which time i started a second tumblr that acted as a depository for all the great stuff i found that didn't have any booze/partying element to it. most of what i found came from hours and hours spent spelunking on flickr, some of the older stuff was from picasa (before google effectively boarded up that goldmine by folding it in to google+, R.I.P.), and some were the result of good old fashioned google image searches. the draw for me was always amateur snapshots, as if i were assembling a facebook feed from the past.

i don't really keep up with either of those tumblrs anymore, but i should quickly note here that it was this new hobby/internet addiction that led me to take up film photography in 2009, and the overall hazy-good-times-house-party aesthetic definitely has influenced a lot of my work (this is a photo album that changes daily with 500 randomly selected photos, and here is my website-website.

when i heard that some dude was not planning on doing images for this poll, i immediately knew that volunteering to use stuff from my "collection" would be a no-brainer. however, i wanted to try and hone the aesthetic of these 100 images to a particular era/feel and avoid stuff that was pre-70s/post-80s/too fratty etc, and i didn't quite have enough to fit the bill. so i went back on the flickr hunt and uncovered lots a new gems, while also poaching more than a few from some other like-minded collectors (the former of those two has gotten plenty of internet fame, the latter is way underrated and would be loved by all itt). i also dipped back in to this MUST SEE WEBSITE for quite a few of what made it in to the 100 images. i tried to keep 100% of the images amateur/not professional/commercial, but did relax this rule for three or four.

also, a hat-tip to pplains, who's work on the steely dan poll earlier this year was a huge inspiration (and for sharing the photoshop files he had leftover, which helped my photoshop-illiterate self get going). seriously, if you for some reason missed that poll, take a minute to look at his images. also a second hat-tip to pp for pointing out how i'd basically copied the opening credits to wet hot american summer without knowing it at all.

thanks again to some dude who kept me supplied with likely contenders up to and after the polls closing so that we could have a short turnaround, and to everyone who voted/posted: this was a shitload of fun and i'm already missing this thread.

it's a well-honed aesthetic

Wow, gr80 I knew you were a DJ, hotelier, and international playboy but I had no idea you were also a talented photographer! Your pictures are fantastic! I could look at them all day.

his photo zine is wonderful

I'd stress WHAS intro more of a Cover Connection than a copy.

xp and totally off topic - crut I had a dream about you last night that you got a really large and weird tattoo but I can't remember what it was. It incorporated a large, round scar that dream-you had on the front of your right shoulder.

my voodoo is working

"White Wedding" got robbed (I forgot to vote for it too)

handling of the 80s was pretty difficult in this poll. Had I voted, I would have probably limited it to 60s and 70s.

and I'm not saying that the classification of the 80s stuff as classic rock is incorrect. it's my own problem.

xposts thank u carl

"White Wedding" got robbed (I forgot to vote for it too)
--Euler

A very late cut for me and, like "missing you," would be a top-ten contender in my fantasy Glory Days of AOR poll.

It's classic, and it rocks, but it's not really classic rock.

whereas "never been any reason," that shit got ROBBED

yeah gr8080 yr photography is legit gr8 -- one of the reasons I lurk on the ILP 'what do you see like' thread :)

the classic rock images though, such an awesome curatorial job, just as far as research and eye for detail goes.

I'd never seen pplains Steely Dan images, fkn great stuff there!!!

one of the reasons I lurk on the ILP 'what do you see like' thread

!! bookmarked

whereas "never been any reason," that shit got ROBBED

for real!

ok srsly no one's looked at the inland vans berdoo site yet

I did. ZS needs to watch out.

And hey! Our old friend Mr. Cooper.

check out this photo of a dude wearing a joe walsh sweatshirt:
http://www.northernsteam.com/assets/images/Usual/RR1.jpg

awesome post, gr8080

currently switching back and forth between the "classic vinyl" and "deep cuts" sirius stations.
np: bohemian rhapsody (-_-)

heard "Surrender" on the drive home. still doesn't make sense to me as a top 10 song, even given the ILM demographic. good but middling in the big picture.

Surrender is one of the BIG THREE Cheap Trick singles from the 70s, and the one which probably has the longest legs on CR radio. Makes total sense to me.

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

Favorite music clip in YouTube, bar none.

I think the studio version is better than the Budokan version fwiw. It just seems like a really great pop song to me: really energetic with punchy guitars + sweet synths on top, indelible melody, hilarious bizarre lyrics with a lot of detail.

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XP Imagine the collective sighs of relief from keyboard dudes when the keytar was introduced.

Maybe because the idea of my parents smoking pot and listening to KISS records is funnier than it is for some people?
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