CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

Paul Rodgers seems basically like the official voice of Classic Rock, to the point where if you lose Robert Plant or Freddie Mercury you can just hire him as your singer

"all right now" is also quintessential b/c when it's on in a car or at the beach or sth it sounds dope and you wanna sing along to the chorus and nod yr head to the verses, but if you like just sit down to listen to it it's kinda boring and too long and unvaried but still kinda good

The bass playing is too funky for classic rock.

The bass playing on Free's "All Right Now"? It never jumped out at me as being funkier than any number of other classic rock songs?

I guess compared to the unyielding plod of any Bad Company song it could almost be construed as semi-funky but it sounds more like somebody trying to grasp the concept of syncopation for the first time. Simon Kirke is surely the least interesting drummer to have ever attained that level of success, though.

Half the time on the radio I get really excited to hear "All Right Now," only to be severely disappointed that I'm actually listening to "Rock 'N Me" by Steve Miller Band

― voodoo chili, Thursday, July 31, 2014 3:38 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me otm

hahaha

All Right Now is good for about a minute...but it feels like it’s 20 min long & by the end it’s just annoying

For a minute I was thinking maybe the single edit was really short, and that it's been harmed a bit by MP3s/streaming putting the spotlight back on the album version. Nope - the album track is 5:31 and the single only cut it down to 4:14. Which surely makes a difference, but it's one of those songs that would be massively improved by being, say, 2:30.

who even are you people

devotees of ILM's all-time greatest thread

On the topic of classic rock basslines, I never really thought much about the reggae-tinged bassline to "Hotel California" until I taught some bass but it's a surprisingly syncopated groove and fun to play.

it's like you people don't want to strut around for 5 minutes like you are the cock of the block. sure you could strut for 2 and a half minutes but that is only half the strut.

Simon Kirke is surely the least interesting drummer to have ever attained that level of success, though.

Ahem...

https://theconcertdatabase.com/sites/theconcertdatabase.com/files/don_henley.jpg

well, yeah.

singing drummers get like a half-exception imho, that shit seems like it'd be really hard. plus he has a really distinctive and fun-to-imitate voice.

it's like you people don't want to strut around for 5 minutes like you are the cock of the block. sure you could strut for 2 and a half minutes but that is only half the strut.

― L'assie (Euler)

really feeling this post

Can't get over that Henley's got such a Neil Peart-esque kit in that photo.

don henley really looks like bob pollard there

bob pollard sitting at a drumset looking confused, that is

I guess compared to the unyielding plod of any Bad Company song it could almost be construed as semi-funky but it sounds more like somebody trying to grasp the concept of syncopation for the first time. Simon Kirke is surely the least interesting drummer to have ever attained that level of success, though.

Well, Andy Fraser was like 16 at the time! In fact the whole band were teenagers I think. Anyway, dude was an excellent bass player.

"all right now" is also quintessential b/c when it's on in a car or at the beach or sth it sounds dope and you wanna sing along to the chorus and nod yr head to the verses, but if you like just sit down to listen to it it's kinda boring and too long and unvaried but still kinda good

― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, December 7, 2018

All Right Now is good for about a minute...but it feels like it’s 20 min long & by the end it’s just annoying

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, December 7, 2018

speaking purely as a former bar band singer DC + VG very OTM

could never convince the other guys to go for Fire and Water tho lol

Feel like 'Slow Ride' may best answer the question posed by the revive.

Or like a 'Slow Ride'/'Free Ride' Two-For-Tuesday. Something with 'ride' in the title.

"slow ride" took #5 in the poll and imho is actually a little closer to the CR essence than DFTR at #1

The appeal of "Slow Ride" is a bit mysterious to me tbh.

where do you come down on cowbell generally speaking?

"Don't Fear the Reaper" was my #1!

slow ride rules, always

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― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, July 28, 2014 5:52 PM


reposting bc this is stilk the best thing i have ever posted imo, i am proud to have posted it in this, the greatest ilx poll + thread ever of all time

I can't hate Steve Miller for the simple reason that I feel like he's just begging you to hate him with every song

― rip van wanko

awww come on he's an ok sf hippie, side two of "journey from eden" is classic

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partially my fault, but 'roll with the changes' deserved better than 138th

- pick slide/scrape
- barreling piano
- multiple whoos and yeahs from singer
- regular guitar solo
- female backing vocals
- ORGAN SOLO
- call-and-response dueling guitar solos
- goes on maybe just a little too long

give it a sax solo and it's almost a platonic ideal

SO IF YOU!RE TIIIIIE YERD OF THE SAAAAAAME OLD STORAAAAAY

def classic

“Changes” could be an Elton John b side

well now look…we’re the doobies now

reading back a chunk of this thread (the last big revive) over breakfast really warmed up this chilly winter morning.

happy classic rock szn dudes

my hometown rock radio station is once again counting down the 'memorial day 500' greatest songs of all time, as voted on by you, the listener (or so i'm told)

when i was a kid, 'stairway' was always first and 'freebird' was always second. last year 'bohemian rhapsody' won and 'freebird' wasn't even the top skynyrd song. fuckin kids these days

wtf lame

This year it’ll be Africa and Running up that Hill at 1 and 2

lol or Nirvana

lol it will never ever be k8

it *should* be 'ah leah' every single year, but so it goes

summertime, summertime

it was always July 4th here, the Firecracker 500 on WNEW. There's a thread for it.

One year i glued myself to the radio and wrote down as much of the list as i could, i brought it with me to the roof to watch the fireworks and everything. Stairway was always first, but that year it was second and Layla was first. the following year they split the Layla votes into original Layla and EC unplugged, and both made the top 10, but this ensured Stairway would be first. Then when it was over they played DSotM in full and i taped it. Good times.

WCBS also had one of these countdowns every year and In the Still of the Night was always first. i think Mack the Knife was often second.

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Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion" topped @971TheDrive's #MemorialDay500. It ended about 90 minutes ago. The full list is here. https://t.co/cVr3e17sB5 pic.twitter.com/ynDG2WoUa0

— Andy Beebe 🟧 (@Andy_Beebe) May 30, 2023

Ugh. I'll say this for that station, though: the "Rock & Roll Roots" DJ Bob Stroud was someone I listened to a lot as a kid. The first time I heard a lot of Stax, Chicago soul, less-obvious Motown tracks, garage rock, girl groups, and early rock & roll was on his show, and many of those songs I haven't heard on the radio since (almost 40 years).

hometown station completed its 500 and indeed, stairway was #1 and freebird was #2 once again

the most recent song on the list was, at #310, green day's when i come around (1994)

gotta throw the kids a bone

Ugh, these winners are so boring