CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

I voted "Edge" high, but would vote it even higher in a poll of the greatest rock-song intros.

"Edge of Seventeen," "Talk to Me," and "Stop Draggin'" were the only Nicks songs I heard on CR radio ("Stand Back" and "Leather and Lace" and once in a while "If Anyone Falls" on AC or eighties radio).

Not said enough: the excellent relationship Nicks has with her backup singers of 30 years. Note how well they trade lines or echo them.

I never knew what this song was. It's great.

so many great songs piling up agh i cant take it

edge of seventeen is so gorgeously spooky -- gypsy and rhiannon are fine and all but she goes so far into the eternal divine feminine magical mystery you really wonder if she'll come back.

(putting the broom down and riding waddy wachtel's guitar all the way. make of that what you will.)

i learned on "jeopardy" last night that there is a medical term for fear of the number 17: heptadecaphobia

COME AWAY COME AWAY

what a relief to get to a classic rock staple that's about unabashed lust for a young dude

maybe "Bohemian Rhapsody" counts but

i love edge of seventeen so much

MAYBE
I WILL GO
AGAIN
TOO
MORROW

he was no more than a baby then xxp

EYES

ON

HIYUM

Dave Marsh put the live version in his 1001 singles book.

my favorite story abt this song is when a friend who DJs weddings professionally received a typed-up request list from a bride and groom a month before their wedding which had a few inaccuracies including:

Fleetwood Mac - One-Winged Dove

A+

also the photo for this song is part one of a two-part super-easy photo-scavenger-hunt, (pt 2 in our next result)

"Edge of Seventeen" c/d

Ooooh, nice teaser! (xpost)

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

46. Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
1067 points, 13 votes

I need to make a list of what I at one time would have guessed that these songs were called.

Stevie Nicks - "Just Like The Wild Wing-uh (Seems Like The Song Sounds Like She's Singin' (Ooh Baby Ooh Ooh))"

and she's got another song called "Ooh My Love."

Guitar solo

i spun edge of seventeen in between disco records a lot circa 07/08 to moderate dancefloor success

"Comfortably Numb" is prob my least favorite song in this whole countdown. I love "Wish You Were Here" and enjoy some other slow Floyd tracks but this one just makes me wanna vomit.

That photo is insanely perfect.

RULES

Fleetwood Mac - One-Winged Dove

Funny they couldn't get Joan Jett's name right.

seems I'm not alone in having heard "Edge of Seventeen" about a million times but only finding out that's the name of the song right now

Pink Floyd was this band I only vaguely knew of growing up - Money, Another Brick in the Wall, Learning to Fly was all I was familiar with - but knew of their godlike reputation. Really didn't get why they were so well regarded or special based on those songs. In college, a friend got me way into the Orb and other ambient music, downloaded near half his computer. I noticed he had one lone Pink Floyd song, Comfortably Numb. Within half a listen I understood exactly what I was missing. #5 on my ballot

I thought it was called "Bootylicious"

I thought it was called "I Don't Think You're Ready For This Jelly"

I have become comfortably numb ... to this song's charms and merits. Just too familiar. (Partly because my high school garage band played it, badly, so I've heard that solo way too many times.)

comfortably numb was a top-ten track for me purely on the strength of gilmour's solos, which are pretty much indelible if you learned to play guitar after 1980 and aren't planning to play like Vai or Satch (and maybe even if you are)

xpost lol yeah I can't imagine this one being fun to cover for anyone but whoever's on lead guitar

It's probably fun to go "There'll be no more AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"

i swear nothing makes me lunge for the radio dial faster than "Hello (hello hello hello) is there anybody in there?"

(Partly because my high school garage band played it, badly, so I've heard that solo way too many times.)

Ha, mine did too, but we played it double-speed so it was like "Comfortably Numb" with a Bowie "Hang Onto Yourself" tempo/arrangement. Our guitarist just atonally shredded for the solos.

PINK FLOYD RULES

Best to reduce the solo to two notes a la "Boredom" imo

the verse vocals are so dopey

The song is one of two tracks on The Wall which are free-standing and do not fade into or out of an adjacent track.

http://img.pandawhale.com/94290-I-did-not-know-that-gif-Waynes-Eu3m.gif

xpost lol yeah I can't imagine this one being fun to cover for anyone but whoever's on lead guitar

Definitely a snoozer on the drums, I can tell you that.

I cant stand this song. This poll has gone downhill since LaGrange.

only possible direction it could go tbf

so true

weird, he is clearly saying "I was not aware of that in that" in that gif
xp

graphics interchange fail

I personally think this is indeed a big improvement over the last song, and I hope you'll agree...

http://i.imgur.com/dVO6xFQ.jpg

45. The Pretenders – Back On The Chain Gang
1084 points, 16 votes

the verse vocals are so dopey
--David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton)

Everything non-gilmour in this track is meh, but everything gilmour is the best thing he ever did.

As much as I love looking at photos of young David Gilmour* I really really do not care for Pink Floyd. I like Meddle all right, but everything else just makes me feel sad. I think it's a combo of overexposure from the stoners I hung out with in high school/college, watching The Wall while on acid and developing an abiding hatred of everyone and everything involved in that movie, and living underneath a bunch of butthead fratty potheads who would listen to Dark Side of the Moon REALLLLLLLY LOUD for HOURS AND HOURS every night.**

*I mean...

http://www.legendarytones.com/GilmourDSOM.jpg

**Not really every night, I'm sure.