CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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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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.

Oh god I hate that song too.

great song

heard swingtown in hale & hardy soup today

yeah, I put 4 doobies songs on my ballot and i hate that song.

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.

I have a strange story about that song. When I was growing up, the Doobie Brothers were scheduled to put on a concert at my high school. But the tickets went so fast, I couldn't get any. Then this guy named Al gave me some great seats. I don't know how he scored them. Anyway, the one condition was I bring in a tape recorder and record the show. I was a little worried, but Al assured me it was OK.

So I get to the show, and they start playing Black Water. I start dancing around like a madman and wouldn't ya know it, my tape recorder falls out of my shirt, and smashes onto the floor. The Doobie Brothers stopped the music and glared at me furiously. What made it particularly awkward was the fact that I had just interviewed them for my school newspaper, and they said the number one problem they faced was illegal concert bootlegs.

Fortunately, we figured out a way to catch Al Dunbar in a sting operation, and he got a life sentence for illegal bootlegging. So it had a happy ending.

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

― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Wednesday, August 13, 2014 3:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Come and Take Me By The Hand

― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, August 13, 2014 3:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously, this song gives me brain damage. it's pretty cool up until the acapella crap, then it's like 'what the fuck just happened, now i have to break a chair or something'

the unspooled cassette tape that littered highways all those years ago: Doobies Greatest Hits, ejected & chucked out windows at that ecact moment on the exact same song every time

:D

I'm surprised that youtube doesn't turn up more versions of the song by high school choirs.

<i>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

― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 23:02 (2 days ago) Permalink</i>

All that but you left out WANNA DANCE WITH YOUR DADDY ALL NIGHT LONG

Heard yesterday and I believe overlooked during nominations:

CAUSE YOUR EYES HAD A MIST FROM THE SMOKE OF A DISTANT FIRE

No idea what the actual title is but I used to hear it all the time when I was a kid

I've singing "Funky Dixieland (Pretty Mama)" around the house (bc of this thread dammit) and now my youngest, who's never heard the song except from me these last few days, is singing it too. thanks Pretty Mama

kornrulez, your doobies anecdote sounds strangely familiar

HEY HEY HEY

xxxpost "Smoke From a Distant Fire", Sanford-Townsend Band

i heard "let my love open the door" on the radio yesterday and it sounded GREAT
it started right as i turned on my car and i felt like the sun was shining right on me

the phrase "funky dixieland" remains one of the most repulsive musical collocations i can think of

lol otm

I'm pretty anal about musical categorizing and therefore don't believe that dixieland can even BE properly funky (didn't even have a bass or drums much of the time!)

yall are mad, "Black Water" is good

who let this guy in

:)

i blame pretty mama

It sounds like a horrible drug party as experienced by the kid of the hosts.

pretty mother dance with your father

the phrase "funky dixieland" remains one of the most repulsive musical collocations i can think of

especially when the song is neither funky nor dixieland

thx thread for evoking a hideous earworm, must seek treatment immediately

To have smoked grass in 1976, start going, "hey, this song has a nice little groove going," and then get hit with that extended acappella funky dixieland breakdown from out of nowhere must've been alarming.

How did the Oak Ridge Boys never cover this. They've done Seven Nation Army, for godssakes.

i'm gonna post this here instead of the furgeson thread bc hell yeah

http://i.imgur.com/XuHz8mj.png

oh man that is awesome