CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

caught up in you is great, not as great as hold on loosely

When this poll was still a ways off, I envisioned being able to stuff like a dozen TL songs into my ballot. It was really the only disappointment of the nomination process for me, but I like the way it's working out regardless.

i wish i voted in this now, i'd have had trouble narrowing down this random list of songs to 100

Oh, and I realized when doing my ballot that Montrose didn't make it in either. That was a small bummer.

Montrose fell out of CRR favor a while back, at least where I've lived. I couldn't tell you the last time I heard anything from that first album on the radio.

Aside from "You Ain't Seen Nothin Yet, "Don't Stop Believing" and the Skynyrds, the results so far are kinda kicking ass.

I've never heard Montrose on the radio, so it totally doesn't surprise me.

incorrect but also otm :) xpost

Not sure how this is "a random list of songs" if you listened to classic rock stations enough times.

Poll rules. More stoked than ever for the aggregated artist data though - think it'll paint a very different picture than the main countdown.

y'all too good for whiskey in the jar

― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, July 30, 2014 12:39 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Because the others really don't get played on the radio. :(

― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Wednesday, July 30, 2014 12:40 PM (3 minutes ago)

jailbreak imo

I suppose if people somehow avoided those types of stations for most of their lives, then I suppose I see how this could be a random list of "songs by white people prior to 1987" and nothing more.

LITTLE GIRL

I suppose I see how this could be a random list of "songs by white people prior to 1987" and nothing more.

this is p much what it looks like to me but I hate the radio and haven't listened to it since I was a child

i listen to crr all the time and don't hear half these songs

listening to caught up in you for the first time

how can you hate the radio? That's like saying, "I hate toast."

very easily...? it's an awful medium controlled by people that loathe me and my tastes and vice versa. also the repetition of playlists drives me insane. I'll listen to freeform/pirate/college radio if I have no other options (ie I am in a car without a CD player/mp3 player/tape player in the middle of nowhere)

ads, deejays, bumpers ugh go die in a fire

save us some dude!

tbf, the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anaesthetize the way that you feel.

but then again, so is the toast industry, probably.

i love them both.

We need a Party Wagon STAT!

It's time for a little queen. No, not that queen, this queen.

http://i.imgur.com/tVst0kw.jpg

51. Mountain – Mississippi Queen
1042 points, 15 votes

toast & radio, love em both

anyone hear a "Just What I Needed" influence on "Caught Up in You"?
--guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

Yes! Discussed in the voting thread!

MORE COWBELL

Possibly my favorite Beastie Boys sample.

BOY I BEG YO PARDON

my wife *loves* this song, such a great guitar sound. maybe my favorite guitar break.

Kinda weird that "Mississippi Queen" mostly reminds me of Howard Stern and the Beastie Boys.

re: Caught Up In You, amazingly, a Southern Rock and Pop masterpiece simultaneously. #2 on my ballot.

it's an awful medium controlled by people that loathe me and my tastes and vice versa. also the repetition of playlists drives me insane

Loathe the people, love the songs -- that's not so hard. If the playlists repeat, change the station.

first song i ever sang on rockband
had never heard it til then, but mr veg was v excited about it

Handsome Dan and The Scream can go fuck off.

HOW IS THIS NOT IN THE TOP 10 OMG YOU SAVAGES

My favorite dumb couplet in rock: "MISSISSIPPI QUEEN/IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN". Sorry, no, I don't. But your song rocks it.

if my quick count is correct, 46 of the top 50 songs got between 12 and 16 votes.

the #51 song got exactly one more vote than the #100 song.

the two most extreme vote getters so far are "twilight zone" with 11 and "werewolves of london" with 19.

we are all equal in the eyes of the classic rock gods.

"Twilight Zone" was an easy Top 10 for me. I guess other people agreed?

hell yes MOUNTAIN. this is my kind of classic rock... i did not vote in this thing but i'm rooting for either free or funk #49 in the top ten, more '70s rawk with sloppy / kickass rhythm sections plz

the difference in points/votes only gets crazier from here on out. you'll see a little later today that #46 got NINE fewer votes than #47.

60 people voted right? so no song has gotten a simple majority vote yet (25% gets you to 51).
Poor somedude these ballots must be insane.

63 voters. only 4 songs were on more than half the ballots.

WOW.

Okay THIS ONE is my favorite graphic so far.

HOW IS THIS NOT IN THE TOP 10 OMG YOU SAVAGES

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, July 30, 2014 1:02 PM (15 minutes ago)

OTM! Finally one of mine from the "omg this could be my #1" chunk of ballot.

Just listened to "Mississippi Queen". How the fuck is that thing only two and a half minutes long?! It's so epic in my brain, with long, squalling solos that just go on forever. That, my friends, is economy of songcraft.

I did not vote in this magnificent poll, but La Grange would have been my #1. Mississippi Queen would have been #2. I hope the former made it into the top 50 anyhow.

I don't think "Trampled Under Foot" is gonna appear in the results so just wanted to mention real quick that it rules. thx

yeah I mean fuck YES if Heart is #1, hoped it was clear

Sufjan Grafton gets our prescience award for the day...

http://i.imgur.com/XZFdNVq.jpg

50. ZZ Top – La Grange
1049 points, 17 votes

HOW HOW HOW HOW