CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

"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

I could live with tumbling dice

Or combination

No one goes to Classic Rock radio to be surprised

Today, to mix things up, we're gonna put the Led in!

Have Beatles... for lunch!

Let’s redefine classic rock

No one goes to Classic Rock radio to be surprised

au contraire. is the next heart song on twofer tuesday going to be "magic man" or "crazy on you"? no one knows! the anticipation is excruciatingly beautiful as we wait to see if it's going to be a sustained, piercing electric guitar note or some sweet acoustic flatpicking! surprise me, classic rock drive-time dj!

heart rules

It’s “these dreams” btw

heart rules

um, yes! as i believe this very thread decisively established!

They don’t play Dog & Butterfly on the radio enough

I had to do some research on Top 500s a few months ago; if you're interested, here's a cached version of all the yearly Top 500s from '81 to '91 for CKOC, a station out of Hamilton.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Y0a2BmTRGU4J:https://kaseygraovac.tripod.com/CKOC/CKOCBig500/timeline.html&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

(At the end of each blurb, there's a "VIEW THE COMPLETE 19__ BIG 500" link you can click on.)

that is awesome

would never have suspected the love for chris de burgh or milli vanilli

complete disregard of skynyrd (which is of course fine)

certainly more inclusive than my hometown radio

Thinking about it now, I shouldn't have put that here. CKOC was an AM Top-40 station, not Classic Rock. (They're all-sports now.) They were competing, in a sense, with Q-107's countdowns--a Toronto station that was Classic Rock--but CKOC wasn't. That '90 chart with Milli Vanilli, New Kids, and Bette Midler makes that pretty clear.

Similarly, here’s the WLS list from 1981 (they continued it until the late ‘80s, iirc), which I remember listening to most of.

https://hercshideaway.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-1981-wls-rock-hall-of-fame.html?m=1

that is a lot of REO

totally support 'roll with the changes' of course

REO and Styx were local boys made good, so they were played an extremely irritating amount on WLS. I haven’t heard Styx’s “Too Much Time On My Hands” since 1981 but I could sing the whole thing from memory.

Cheap Trick also got a lot of airplay — I remember hearing “So Good To See You” — but when their popularity started to wane post-Dream Police, WLS ignored them.

The intro to "Silly Love Songs" takes me right back to rollerskating when I was 11 years old. I can't hate on it.

aw

feel like 'all right now' is the quintessential classic rock song

it's . . . decent? but i can't imagine any possible context in which it might be mentioned other than 'classic rock songs that exist'

It’s the Stanfurd Band fight song, unfortunately

(“unfortunately” b/c it’s a pretty cool song without that association)

REO and Styx were local boys made good, so they were played an extremely irritating amount on WLS.

It's hard to believe such a calamity, Tarfumes.

Hi Infidelity sold 10 million copies, I don't think it was a regional quirk or anything

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.

god, imagine preferring the MTV Unplugged version

Hi Infidelity sold 10 million copies, I don't think it was a regional quirk or anything