CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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

yes!!

Excellent! I was worried the Top wound up victims of vote splitting.

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

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*50. ZZ Top – La Grange
1049 points, 17 votes*
--some dude

A HOW HOW HOW HOW

*pinch harmonic pinch harmonic pinch harmonic*

my #3. best drum sound EVER; when they kick in I feel my face melt every time

They've got a lotta nice girls-ah

Yeah, that definitely seems really low. Gonna chalk up the low placement to the "nobody knows the actual name of most CR staples" factor. I can't imagine that anyone would fail to recognize that riff, though.

A HOW HOW HOW HOW

Euler otm

Ha. They clearly should've just called it "A HOW HOW HOW HOW".

The only thing I don't get about this poll is that apparently 'Bad Moon Rising' is not the ur-classic rock anthem I thought it was.

Probably admitted this elsewhere, but for the longest time I thought 'Free Bird' was a fictional song made up by rock audiences solely to shout at bands.

at this point I can't help but throw in random pick squealies even on acoustic and it is all the Rev's fault

I could see ILX rating something off Eliminator higher than La Grange, which would be cool too.

bad moon rising is some corny oldies choogle-type My First Guitar michael row your boat ashore type nonsense tbrr.

most classic rock creedence = fortunate son

this song is so boss

Eliminator tracks could also conceivably miss out due to vote splitting. :(

either way it feels like maybe we just shifted into a new gear here

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

that's the song that made me fall in love w/led zep.

A-hmm, hmm, hmm

yeah when it fell into place at #50 i was like yessss this is such a perfect way to kick off the top half (xp)

epic intro line to "La Grange"

La Grange is another one that's waaaayyy too short.

xps: yeah, I bet a lot of the "I don't think that's classic rock" quibbling won't be making that much of an appearance from this point.

Finally some ZZ Top.

Yeah, I feel like the last few picks have been capital-C classic rock, totally unalloyed by new wave or oldies.