CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL parking lot tailgate pre-party -- nominations, discussions, parameters, etc.

Ha, if Cancon is acceptable, then this is a necessity:
Crowbar - Oh What a Feeling

I've heard all the usual Byrds stuff on "classic rock" radio many times.

(multiple xps)

Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky
George Harrison - What Is Life

the Band - Up On Cripple Creek

John Fogerty - The Old Man Down the Road

are we allowed to add regional hits? if so,

Donnie Iris -- Oh! Leah
Michael Stanley Band -- My Town

The Move - Do Ya
T-Rex - 20th Century Boy
Gregg Allman - I'm No Angel
Allman Brothers - Statesboro Blues
Little Feat - Oh Atlanta
Little Feat - Willin'
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone
Elvis Presley - Burning Love
Bob Seger - Still The Same

Problems I'll have with this poll:

One is age, and having heard and fallen in love with a lot of these songs when they first came out. Everything I suggest, I have to back up a step and ask "do I ever hear these in a classic rock radio context, or am I just remembering the first time I heard 'Muskrat Love' in 1976 on the way to baseball practice?"

Another one is also about age -- potentially having difficulty with a hard delineation between the definitions of Classic Rock Radio and Oldies Radio, because when I first started getting into Classic Rock as a radio format I could live with (mid 80s), it included tons of pre-1964 material that I guess is going to be excluded here.

But these are my problems, and I'm not lobbying for changes (yet).

omg "i'm no angel" -- i loved that song when i was a kid! rating these songs is going to be like the summer olympics of skeezy lyrics.

Lee Michaels - Do You Know What I Mean?

Another one is also about age -- potentially having difficulty with a hard delineation between the definitions of Classic Rock Radio and Oldies Radio, because when I first started getting into Classic Rock as a radio format I could live with (mid 80s), it included tons of pre-1964 material that I guess is going to be excluded here.

Yeah, this. I remember when I first heard the term "classic rock" (1986) applied to a radio format (or anything else, for that matter). One of the stations I listened to gradually morphed into a "classic rock" station, but there was a lot of overlap, so you'd literally hear "What's Going On," "Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again," and scads of Motown/Stax right up alongside Foghat and Nazareth.

J. Geils Band - Must Of Got Lost
J. Geils Band - Land of 1,000 Dances (Live)

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Michael Jackson - Beat It

(granted, only heard these on a northeast "classic rock" station after MJ died, but they stayed in the station's rotation thereafter)

never in my life have i heard "Eight Miles High" on the radio. i never even heard that incredibly famous song until i looked it up on Spotify like a year ago.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Even The Losers

The Who - Another Tricky Day
The Who - Magic Bus
The Who - Summertime Blues (live)
The Who - Join Together
The Who - Long Live Rock

yes to "Even The Losers"

Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley
Derek & the Dominos - Bell Bottom Blues

The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Boston - Peace of Mind
Fleetwood Mac - You Make Loving Fun
Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Ballad of Curtis Loew

One potentially useful option: turn the song list into a Google doc that only you can edit & throw the link out there regularly. Will keep from having to post and repost long song lists in this thread.

― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Monday, June 16, 2014 2:56 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

reposting the list itt over and over is not my style fwiw. i posted it here once, we'll discuss revisions, and then i'll post the revised list on the voting thread. i may try to get more into spreadsheet stuff this time around but honestly it's always felt like more work to me and i just stick with my more backwards methods.

gonna add one myself that i can't believe i missed:

Procol Harum - Whiter Shade Of Pale

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Michael Jackson - Beat It

(granted, only heard these on a northeast "classic rock" station after MJ died, but they stayed in the station's rotation thereafter)

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, June 16, 2014 3:25 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

interesting. i'm disinclined to put these in, though. one song i did think about on a similar tip that has become more and more of a classic rock staple over the years: Stevie Wonder's "Superstition."

btw if i don't respond to a suggestion itt that probably means i agree and am adding it to the list with no argument.

Procol Harum (with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra) - Conquistador
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man

ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man

interesting. i'm disinclined to put these in, though. one song i did think about on a similar tip that has become more and more of a classic rock staple over the years: Stevie Wonder's "Superstition."

― some dude, Monday, June 16, 2014 3:31 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I hear you. I'll grant that it was an anomaly among "classic rock" stations, probably along the lines of "the fuck? We've been playing Steve Winwood's 'Higher Love' all these years but no Michael Jackson?!"

(and good call on "Superstition")

Speaking of hair metal though, the Motley Crue and Ratt tracks feel out of place here.

― how's life, Monday, June 16, 2014 3:05 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's a slippery slope. hair metal is one of the reasons the 1987 cutoff worked for me, even if it means it's kind of arbitrary that "Girls, Girls, Girls" is out but earlier Crue is in. but i'm generally pretty inclusive of metal (and, for that matter, punk and new wave) if i've heard it enough on classic rock. if people don't consider its inclusion valid, they can just not vote and the results will speak for themselves.

re: Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive probably gets more classic rock airplay nowadays than Runaway.

I love Crim but have never heard them on commercial radio. But "Conquistador," yeah, good one there.

xp: that's a good point. like as if people are gonna be voting for Home Sweet Home over Barracuda or anything anyway.

I've heard King Crimson on the radio, but only as a "deep cut" almost apologetically intro'd.

xp

Speaking of deep cuts apologetically intro'd,

The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane

Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side

ooh yeah, "Wanted Dead Or Alive" is from a 1986 album so it's good to go.

Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
Asia - Only Time Can Tell
Asia - Heat of the Moment

^^ these are songs that I associate with classic rock radio because that's how i know of them, but it's possible they were just rock songs of the time and now are filed under "80s"?

also where's the solo Lou Reed? Vicious? Walk on the Wild Side?

whoops

"Heat of the Moment" totally belongs here. (The other two probably do too but I've never heard them!)

Queen - Keep Yourself Alive
Blue Oyster Cult – Godzilla
Brownsville Station - Smokin' in the Boy's Room

The Faces - Stay With Me

if those Asia songs are ok (& I think they are), then Europe's "The Final Countdown" belongs too (1986).

Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl

who does "ride captain ride"?

some thoughts from the middle of the alphabet

Fairport Convention -- Genesis Hall
Grateful Dead -- Touch of Gray
Iron Maiden -- Aces High
Jethro Tull -- Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of the New Day)
Jethro Tull -- Thick as a Brick
The Kinks -- Big Sky
The Kinks -- Waterloo Sunset
Moody Blues-- The Story in Your Eyes

crut, you've heard Eye in the Sky surely.

Humble Pie - I Don't Need No Doctor
Humble Pie - 30 Days in the Hole

Jethro Tull - Mother Goose
Jethro Tull - Bungle In The Jungle

Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home

Thinking these need to be here:

Tina Turner - Better Be Good to Me
John Waite - Missing You

missing beatles: "the end," or whatever you call that part of the abbey road medley

missing southern rock (though maybe this one has been lost to time, but it was huge in my youth): the outlaws "green grass and high tides"

missing neil: "like a hurricane"

missing lou reed/velvets: "walk on the wild side," "sweet jane," "rock and roll" (or was that only classic rock if you lived on a coast?)

maybe too "oldies," but I still hear these occasionally on "classic rock" radio:

The Yardbirds - Over Under Sideways Down
The Yardbirds - Heart Full of Soul
The Yardbirds - Shapes of Things

Lou was big down south too, but I don't remember hearing any Velvets on classic rock radio

I'm curious as to what Boston hits make the poll, outside of "More Than a Feeling" which has to be a lock for somewhere in the top 100.

I feel a little bad about not voting for any others. "Hitch a Ride" might actually be my favourite from that album, I thought while listening the other day.

I voted for the album in the albums poll, though.

voted for two from boston's debut, felt quite bad about not voting for at least two others. throwing two darts at the album and voting for whatever titles they hit would have been as satisfying, and maybe as useful, as choosing the two i chose.

i'm hashing out the top 100, getting it ready to send to gr80 to do images. you crazy bastards voted for 918 different songs!

Top 500

Top 500

otm

i will tabulate the list to the top 500 and post it at the end of the countdown. but i think a top 100 will be best because then a) every song will have the weight of a dozen votes or more and b) enough huge songs missed the top 100 completely that there will be some genuine suspense and surprises.

500?! that's gotta be at least half the nomination list

A dozen to make the list! My number one isn't gonna make it I don't think :(

Good turnout

you crazy bastards voted for 918 different songs!

how many bastards were crazy enough to vote?

Sub polls soon?

yeah the final nominations list was 800!

CLASSIC ROCK POLL, EVERYBODY'S WAITING
GETTING READY, ANTICIPATING
LOVE AND MUSIC

^

Sandy so otm

Sub polls soon?

― Jeff, Thursday, July 24, 2014 8:44 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we're not rolling out the main poll til monday, was gonna do subpolls over the weekend just because it seems like dragging out the thread for 3-4 days before the top 100 seems like too much. maybe if you guys want something for friday i can have it ready.

No rush, just curious.

I won't be on ilx this weekend. I'm not really invested about the best albums poll, but I do think a worst songs rollout might be more fun with more ilxors in the mix. No pressure though. Really just psyched for the big show.

CLASSIC ROCK POLL, EVERYBODY'S WAITING
GETTING READY, ANTICIPATING
LOVE AND MUSIC

― Sandy, Thursday, July 24, 2014 10:42 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Poll, POLL, POOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL YEAH YEAH YEAH YAYUHHHHHH

interested to see what sd comes up with for the thread title

would love to see worst too! sentence first!

tbh i've never been big on the poll puns (and will never top "I Just Wanna Poll U (Ballot 2 Me)" for the Jay-Z/Neptunes voting thread) so i have no idea if i'm even going to do one.

Saturday night I was downtown, pollin' for the ILX

(rolls up sleeves) imma give this one some thought, no ''POLLIN' A Feeling'' or ''POLLtunate Songs'' type shenanigans for this one

(Don't Fear) The Rollout

When listening back to songs on my list, I found that "(Don't Fear) the Reaper" (my #10) actually gave me the most pleasure.

^was my #1 in my failed ballot (I only made it to #32 and by then it was days too late)

The classical music nerd's classic rock anthem obv.

Yeah lol I will compare my suppressed top 10 to yours when ppl show their hands afterward