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
gr8080 big ups on visuals preview! looks super sweet!
tip of the hat to the Shipley Family Archive for the photos as well
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
Hell yeah VegemiteGrrl I knew you would be with me on totally embracing the spirit of this thing
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:01 (ten years ago) link
I'm pleased with that album list-- Boston and Petty made the top ten, Bowie and Beatles did not. Very much in the spirit of CR. (Do they even play songs from "Ziggy Stardust" much? When I hear Bowie on the radio these days it's usually "Space Oddity," "Fame" or "Heroes")
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link
"Suffragette City" is still huge on CR in Pittsburgh
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:31 (ten years ago) link
nice results!
my worst & albums ballots:
MOST HATED:1. Toto - Rosanna2. AC/DC - Big Balls3. Foreigner - Urgent4. Toto - Africa5. John Cougar - Hurts So Good6. Steve Miller Band - Rockin' Me7. Billy Joel - Big Shot8. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Our House9. Don Henley – Dirty Laundry10. The Doors – Roadhouse Blues
ALBUMS:1. The Cars - S/T2. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes3. Boston - S/T4. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors5. Led Zeppelin - III
4 outta 5 on the albums! Led Zep III is a critic's choice anyway
― sleeve, Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link
"Fame"/"Space Oddity"/"Changes"/"Under Pressure" are definitely the dominant Bowie radio recurrents but "Suffragette" and "Ziggy" get play and the Ziggy feels like his biggest AOR cornerstone album (although Young Americans is gaining on it).
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link
10 worst tracksThe Guess Who – American WomanThe Pretenders – Brass In PocketThe Eagles – Hotel CaliforniaPink Floyd – The Happiest Days of Our Lives / Another Brick In The Wall Part 2The Moody Blues – Nights In White SatinThe Doors – Break On ThroughCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Woodstock Don Henley – Dirty LaundryEric Clapton – I Shot The SheriffGrateful Dead -- Touch of Gray
5 albums full of deep classic rock cutzAerosmith, RocksStones, Exile On Main St.Van Halen, 1984Queen, Night At The OperaBowie, Young Americans
― maura, Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
you can tell i live in boston by that #1 album pick
also cmon guys fuuuuck pink floyd
― maura, Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:57 (ten years ago) link
fp'd u for 'brass in pocket' tho
― mookieproof, Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
i hate the pretenders for reflexive reasons that i don't even understand
― maura, Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
Much as I love Young Americans I wouldn't even classify it as CR to begin with.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:01 (ten years ago) link
i can see being sick of "Brass" but damn across-the-board Pretenders hate? :(
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:02 (ten years ago) link
totally have your back on "Another Brick In The Wall" though
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link
maura i love u but besmirching pink floyd, girl idk
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:08 (ten years ago) link
am i srsly the only one who hates Stroke
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:09 (ten years ago) link
It made my best of list. Not high, but made it.
― Jeff, Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:10 (ten years ago) link