CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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.

2xpost

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?
xpost

More pre-Keytar era action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8f-Qb-bwlU

Yeah. The Heaven Tonight version of Surrender being the famous version is good in the way the Budokan version of I Want You to Want Me is the famous version. History shook that one out correctly.

Ha, I actually prefer the studio version of that too.

"can't find the judge" is cool but i think my familiarity with it is mostly thanks to t.i.

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.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, August 7, 2014 6:24 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there are a bazillion bigger and better bands that had 0 songs in the top ten of the poll tho. it would've made total sense to me tucked away at #86 or something.

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.

Lost most of my weekend to that Internet K-hole site. Just want to pass that on along with a bit of a note that it is PLENTY nsfw.

spent my third consecutive weekend in Boston/Metro West for the ailing mother in law; CR notes for this most recent stint:

first thing heard upon turning on CR station: Jungle Love
most surprising thing heard on CR station: The Tide is High
best thing heard on CR station: Stand Back
Worst guitar solo of weekend: All Right Now (yes the chordal riff rules but what a shitty solo)
REM played on CR station y/n: y (the most recently recorded thing I heard all weekend actually)

What is the general consensus concerning the Doobie Brothers Black Water? It was always the top NY CR go to Doobie song, yet it got totally hosed in the poll. Is Black Water a regional thing? I smell a dissertation!

when i was a growing up, "black water" was up there with "suite judy blue eyes" as a song i woud impatiently sit through, waiting for the ending, which was the only part i cared about. and i cared a lot. (i might have said this somewhere upthread, actually.) i can't think of any other major hit song from that era that sound anything like it. i don't hear the doobies on la cr radio all that much these days though, and when i do, that's rarely the one they play. and i'm not sure how much i'd care anymore if they did.

"Black Water" is close to my heart, but it's hard to distinguish between how much i heard it on the radio and how much my dad played his Doobies best-of

Doobies Jams I still hear (or recently heard) on CR radio*: "China Grove", "Jesus Is Just Alright", "Long Train Runnin'", "Take Me In Your Arms", "Listen To The Music", "Rockin' Down The Highway", "Black Water", "It Keeps You Runnin'", "Taking It To The Streets", "What A Fool Believes"

DEEP CUT ACTION: "Eyes of Silver", "The Captain & Me"

*We used to have to stations here--one a Clear Channel, the other Cox. The former was folded last New Year's, and of the two they were more Doobie-centric, although the remaining station still rides hard for the bigger hits.

What is the general consensus concerning the Doobie Brothers Black Water? It was always the top NY CR go to Doobie song, yet it got totally hosed in the poll. Is Black Water a regional thing? I smell a dissertation!

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, August 12, 2014 12:50 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My first exposure to "Black Water" was via an a cappella singalong of the end part in a school bus. I thought it was an 1930s negro spiritual or something.

ha the last post's talk of "a cappella singalong" made me wonder "pretty mama come and take me by the hand" song, and lo & behold it's the song you're talking about

one of the odder moments of classic rock in pop culture: Owen Wilson muttering the lyrics of "Black Water" after crashing his fighter jet in Bosnia (at 1:42)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-oT36mWdI

Oh, THAT song. ("funky dixieland") Yeah, major CR airplay up here in Canada.

That shoulda been "(Play Some) Funky Dixieland (Pretty Mama)"

Come and Take Me By The Hand

^^Their first #1 on the Hot 100!

i hate that song so much

I was keeping my mouth shut because positivity but lol

you guys that song suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks

and I can't believe I forgot to nom it on most hated but

DIXIELAND COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND PRETTY MAMA SING SOME FUNKY DIXIE LAND PRETTY MAMA COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND DIXIELAND COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND PRETTY MAMA SING SOME FUNKY DIXIE LAND PRETTY MAMA COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND DIXIELAND COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND PRETTY MAMA SING SOME FUNKY DIXIE LAND PRETTY MAMA COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND DIXIELAND COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND PRETTY MAMA SING SOME FUNKY DIXIE LAND PRETTY MAMA COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND DIXIELAND COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND PRETTY MAMA SING SOME FUNKY DIXIE LAND PRETTY MAMA COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND

The movie looks good though.