man "love ain't for keeping" is so good
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
xxp yeah, dull is what it should be I guess
― g simmel, Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
my #1 - can't wait to see what bullshit ILM thinks is more classic rock than Who's Next
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Sunday, July 27, 2014 1:01 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I hear a lot of bullshit, I hear a lot of rumors
2. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours104 points, 13 votes, 3 first place votes
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
who's next is the classic rockiest of all classic rock albums as far as i'm concerned, but i didn't vote for it because i'm way beyond sick of the two classic rockiest anthems on it.
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
there are three tracks from rumours in my top 60. it didn't even occur to me to vote for the album. i have no idea why.
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
I feel like there're three possible no.1s now, each of which will make for a radically different tracks countdown.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
fingers crossed
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
Unless it's Abbey Road, then I won't know what we're getting.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
1. The Cars – The Cars105 points, 12 votes, 5 first place votes
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
YES
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
note the razor thin margin between the top 3 in points.
<3 you ILM
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Sunday, July 27, 2014 1:17 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Dig this live version:
http://youtu.be/m5RH8HIjFD8
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
DONCHYASTOPDONCHYASTOPDONCHASTOP
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
ILM's Top 25 Classic Rock Albums
3. The Who – Who’s Next102 points, 12 votes, 4 first place votes
4. Boston – Boston80 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote
5. Led Zeppelin – IV65 points, 8 votes, 2 first place votes
6. (tie) Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon55 points, 7 votes, 2 first place votes
6. (tie) Tom Petty – Damn The Torpedoes55 points, 7 votes, 2 first place votes
8. The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers46 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote
9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced? 39 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote
10. Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy34 points, 4 votes, 1 first place vote
11. David Bowie – The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars27 points, 3 votes, 1 first place vote
12. Lynyrd Skynyrd - (Pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)26 points, 3 votes, 1 first place vote
13. The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main St. 25 points, 3 votes
14. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland24 points, 3 votes, 1 first place vote
15. (tie) Lynyrd Skynyrd – Street Survivors19 points, 2 votes, 1 first place vote
15. (tie) ZZ Top - Eliminator19 points, 3 votes
17. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here18 points, 2 votes
18. (tie) Neil Young – Harvest17 points, 2 votes
18. (tie) Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti17 points, 2 votes
20. (tie) Van Halen – 198415 points, 2 votes
20. (tie) Fleetwood Mac – Tusk15 points, 2 votes
20. (tie) Pink Floyd – The Wall15 points, 2 votes
20. (tie) Bob Seger – Night Moves15 points, 2 votes
20. (tie) Rush – Moving Pictures15 points, 2 votes
20. (tie) The Police – Synchronicity15 points, 2 votes
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:40 (ten years ago) link
My lonely crusade for The Wall continues.
― campreverb, Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:40 (ten years ago) link
s/t Van Halen wuz robbed (I didn't do an albums ballot tho)
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link
it strikes me that seven of our top 10 were basically born as classic rock albums while the other three had to immigrate to the format. cars and petty albums were very much new wave albums upon release, while fleetwood mac album was top 40.
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
Oh man I was kind of torn between ziggy stardust and dark side... REGRETS
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:44 (ten years ago) link
Argh no Back In Black, no Brothers In Arms ... at least Remain In Light isn't there
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link
yeah I didn't even think to vote for rumours.
did think to vote for the cars but it slipped off in favor of classic rockier stuff. awesome surprise finish.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:49 (ten years ago) link
lol Remain In Light.
― campreverb, Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
DON: While we were in the midst of recording The Long Run, we had the chance to hear an advance copy of the Cars' debut. It was like listening to music from an unsettling future. Garage rock with hovercrafts. We wondered where we'd fit in.
GLENN: ...And five minutes later we had "The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks" in the can, and we were back on our merry way--Which is to say I had sex with a chick named Mary!
DON: Well, yeah.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
My albums & most disliked tracks. Not sure I've ever heard "Bad To The Bone".
Albums01. Supertramp – Breakfast In America02. The Cars – s/t03. Electric Light Orchestra – A New World Record04. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours05. ZZ Top – Eliminator
Ugh01. Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight02. The Turtles – Happy Together03. Foreigner – I Want To Know What Love Is04. Peter Frampton – Baby, I Love Your Way05. Dire Straits – Walk Of Life06. The Beatles – Let It Be07. REO Speedwagon – Keep On Loving You08. John Waite – Missing You09. Rick Springfield – Jessie’s Girl10. Procol Harum – Whiter Shade Of Pale
― Jeff W, Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
since I'm very eager to show off gr80's handiwork, I'm gonna go ask the station manager if we can arrange a little preview for our Sunday faithful...
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
XP If you've seen a mainstream Hollywood film from the late '80s/early '90s, then you've heard BTTB.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 27 July 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/zInNePs.jpg
100. Ram Jam – Black Betty817 points, 14 votes
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
a note about the scoring system, btw, since I don't think I've explained it yet. your #1 track gets 109 points, each track after that gets one less point, and so on until your #100 track gets 10 points.
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
Dig the font!
― campreverb, Sunday, 27 July 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
And this is the Spotify playlist for the results:http://open.spotify.com/user/1219464571/playlist/7pw9uBSg3Vb49ONnFZEn3O
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 18:04 (ten years ago) link
Black Betty was in my top 10!
― Jeff, Sunday, 27 July 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
it's funny, i don't remember hearing that song much at all growing up, but at some point in the last 15 years it started to feel ubiquitous
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
I always think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulC0Lerkkbc
― voodoo chili, Sunday, 27 July 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link
p sure i already posted this in the noms thread, but this 90s house remix is kind of amazing http://youtu.be/UKAKKEGtPO8
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Sunday, 27 July 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
I heard the Spiderbait version about a dozen times on a Qantas flight back to L.A. from Sydney.
The song is definitely timeless, just like crossing the International Date Line from the west.
― pplains, Sunday, 27 July 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
Love the visual, it looks like any random photo from one of my FB photo albums, I lived this shit, people.Also changed my DN for the festivities.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Sunday, 27 July 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
Ram Jam owns
― brimstead, Sunday, 27 July 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
The "Black Betty" remix is by Ben Liebrand, one of the best remixers of all time, IMO. (Check out his remixes of "Precious Little Diamond", "Housequake", "Love Can't Turn Around", the "ALF" theme [seriously!], "Holiday Rap", etc, etc.) He sometimes gets a bad rep for the Art of Noise-sampling breakbeat remix of Bill Withers' "Lovely Day", but I think that one's kinda cool in its own way too.
He also did this other classic rock remix, which I think clearly beats the better know Sure Is Pure remix of "Long Rain Running":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOcrI6LAVWA
― Tuomas, Sunday, 27 July 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
One of my big takeaways from the Petty doc I watched a couple weeks ago is that drum sound they fine-tuned in the studio during the Torpedoes sessions (and maintained through the rest of the 80s until Jeff Lynne butted in). It is SO IMPORTANT to the success of top-tier Petty songs.― Johnny Fever, Sunday, July 27, 2014 12:00 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, July 27, 2014 12:00 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this sounds like my kind of documentary!
The 'dullness' of the albums list seems dead on IMO - "things that are boring but good" and maybe this is the part of the poll where we really work out our acceptance of certain aspects of the relatively monolithic canon of Classic Rock: it's a pretty solid list of ten rock records worth owning and listening to if you like the genre, and if radio has worn their highs into the ground, you can at least sorta understand why, and amazingly I'm usually still stoked to hear most (not all) of the recurrents from these records. Boston is probably what I most want to listen to as an album in its own right, but only because I discovered it pretty late in life and really don't know it in and out like the others.
Wow, the Cars though. Again, just never thought of them as remotely Classic Rock at all, and I think the only record I've listened to as a record is Candy-O. Guess I should check this one out? Never would have remotely expected it to be the consensus #1, but that's why I'm reading ILM and not a Rolling Stone list. Always always will remind me of this post:
no no you guys this one's pretty easy"I look outside my window and I watch the Cars" - Paul is in London where Roy Thomas Baker is producing their debut, he sees them arriving at the studio daily for tracking"I fear I'll do some damage one fine day" - he is thinking of covering one of their songs in his own style"but I would not be found guilty by a jury of my peers" - old hippies will love my Cars cover no matter what it sounds like"still crazy after all these years" - I am an axe murderer― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, August 30, 2011 12:57 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"I look outside my window and I watch the Cars" - Paul is in London where Roy Thomas Baker is producing their debut, he sees them arriving at the studio daily for tracking"I fear I'll do some damage one fine day" - he is thinking of covering one of their songs in his own style"but I would not be found guilty by a jury of my peers" - old hippies will love my Cars cover no matter what it sounds like"still crazy after all these years" - I am an axe murderer
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, August 30, 2011 12:57 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 27 July 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
I'm not sure I ever heard "Black Betty" til I moved to Ohio, and at that time I figured it was much later than it is - has this revivalist feel, like it could be the Black Crowes or even Jet. It's fine, but I can't really pull much of it to mind besides the refrain.
Loving the font and feel here, great job on the graphics.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 27 July 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
If you watched MTV Europe back in the early 90s, there was this classic rock compilation ad that played there literally for years, and it started with "Black Betty"... The tune was burned to my mind forever based on that ad alone! Though I think the house remix also did kinda revive it, at least in Europe, IIRC it was often played at discos etc.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 27 July 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
Was hoping to see Led Zeppelin II in the albums poll. Not my favorite Zep record, and not the best one, but the one that feels the most CR to me.
― intheblanks, Sunday, 27 July 2014 19:34 (ten years ago) link
…probably due to my home station having 6 of its tracks in heavy rotation throughout my childhood.
― intheblanks, Sunday, 27 July 2014 19:35 (ten years ago) link
The Petty documentary is fantastic, a must-see. Long, but worth every minute.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Sunday, 27 July 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
Albums
1. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy2. Boston - Boston3. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours4. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?5. Van Halen - Fair Warning
Worst tracks
Eric Clapton – Wonderful TonightLed Zeppelin – D’Yer Mak’erPeter Gabriel – Solsbury HillCrosby, Still, Nash & Young-Teach Your ChildrenSteve Miller – Take The MoneyQueen – Crazy Little Thing Called LoveJethro Tull – AqualungSupertramp – The Logical SongAmerica - Horse With No NameThe Doors – Hello, I Love You
― how's life, Sunday, 27 July 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
My worst of list:1 Billy Joel – Piano Man2 Don McLean – American Pie3 Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama4 Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight5 Led Zeppelin – D’Yer Mak’er6 Three Dog Night - Joy to the World7 Pink Floyd – Young Lust8 Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends9 Stephen Stills – Love The One You’re With10 Kansas – Carry On Wayward Son
I'm glad to see "Margaritaville" make the list, I meant to include it on mine. Also glad to see Moving Pictures in the top 20 albums.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Sunday, 27 July 2014 20:08 (ten years ago) link
Oh I had assumed that was a typo, and ILM meant Making Movies.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 27 July 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link
don't be a sore Wenner
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
a Knopf shutout is my worst-case scenario for this poll
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 27 July 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
inspired by Sandy I too have changed my DN
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 July 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link