CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

"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).

10 worst tracks
The Guess Who – American Woman
The Pretenders – Brass In Pocket
The Eagles – Hotel California
Pink Floyd – The Happiest Days of Our Lives / Another Brick In The Wall Part 2
The Moody Blues – Nights In White Satin
The Doors – Break On Through
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Woodstock
Don Henley – Dirty Laundry
Eric Clapton – I Shot The Sheriff
Grateful Dead -- Touch of Gray

5 albums full of deep classic rock cutz
Aerosmith, Rocks
Stones, Exile On Main St.
Van Halen, 1984
Queen, Night At The Opera
Bowie, Young Americans

you can tell i live in boston by that #1 album pick

also cmon guys fuuuuck pink floyd

fp'd u for 'brass in pocket' tho

i hate the pretenders for reflexive reasons that i don't even understand

Much as I love Young Americans I wouldn't even classify it as CR to begin with.

i can see being sick of "Brass" but damn across-the-board Pretenders hate? :(

totally have your back on "Another Brick In The Wall" though

maura i love u but besmirching pink floyd, girl idk

am i srsly the only one who hates Stroke

It made my best of list. Not high, but made it.

well of course

Aerosmith Rocks Natick, specifically

This poll is helping me refine my road trip compatibility table.

I was one of the 2 votes for Harvest in the albums poll. That album is so much more than its singles!

so are we all changing our DNs for the countdown?

That would be a no.

Billy Squier spreading his ear pollution far and wide to VG's disdain

;_;

xxxp: I'm game.

lol

True story - I have a friend who was Billy Squier's bass player at the height of his career (1982). He was touring with Foreigner and when they did "The Stroke", they'd get some of the guys from Foreigner and crew guys and any friends of the band to come onstage and sing the "stroke me, stroke me" part and do this very exaggerated jerking off hand motion. I got recruited in Pittsburgh, Philly, and Cleveland. They were my shining moments.

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i always liked "The Stroke" but i like it even more after this story.

maura, I can't handle your recoiling from the Pretenders.

CR is one of the biggest pet peeve making genres

sorry guys. i think it's hynde's voice. just do not like it

pink floyd however i'm not apologizing for, that shit has become the musical standard bearer for vaguely anti-establishment dudes who are still Part Of The Problem and i'm like nahhhh

i have a lot of baggage with Floyd, too, although for the most part Dark Side just gets to me

btw i never realized "Slow Ride" was 8 minutes before. do most stations play a single edit, or did i just never notice how long it went on?

I hate The Stroke so much but could not bring myself to vote for it for worst song because it made me the closest to a rock star I will ever be.

^ forgiven

the rest of you are on notice

Dark Side is the most boring post-Barrett PF album imo, but I realize I'm out on an island there.

i think it's hynde's voice.

That's like half the reason I love Pretenders. The other half is James Honeyman Scott's guitar playing, but he unfortunately didn't stick around as long as he should've.

Dark Side is at least very pleasant to listen to. the ways that the other albums are more 'interesting' are mostly just annoying to me.

Getting caught up after a weekend away. VegGrrl, you're not the only Stroke-hater.

ALBUMS
1. Electric Ladyland (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
2. Physical Graffiti (Led Zeppelin)
3. Who’s Next (The Who)
4. Layla (Derek and the Dominos)
5. At Fillmore East (Allman Bros. Band)

WE HATES IT FOR EVER:
1. Bob Seger - Against the Wind
2. Foreigner - Hot Blooded
3. Journey - Any Way You Want It
4. George Thorogood - Bad to the Bone
5. Boston - More Than a Feeling
6. Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
7. Styx - Lady
8. Billy Squier - The Stroke
9. Charlie Daniels Band - Devil Went Down to Georgia
10. AC/DC - For Those About To Rock

true story: Kansas would have been #7 on the most hated list if all the votes for "Carry On Wayward Son," "Dust In The Wind" and "Point Of Know Return" were pooled together

i couldn't do a list of worst songs because the worst songs bring me so much joy laughter-wise

dark side has shitty sequencing /challop

i mean, track sequencing, the synth sequencers rule obviously

OK, fuck it, some more fun with math

20 most hated artists by total 'worst' track poll point totals:
1. Eric Clapton 110
2. Billy Joel 102
3. Eagles 92
4. George Thorogood 77
5. Don McLean 68
6. Bob Seger 63
7. Bachman-Turner Overdrive 52
8. Styx 49
9. Journey 48
10. Led Zeppelin 39
11. Don Henley 38
12. Foreigner 37
13. Kansas 36
14. (tie) Glenn Frey 34 / Steve Miller 34 / Blood, Sweat & Tears 34
17. (tie ) Jimmy Buffett 33 / Supertramp 33
19. Lynyrd Skynyrd 32
20. (tie) Dire Straits 31 / The Doors 31 / The Guess Who 31

High placement for Foreignerkansasjourneystyx is very gratifying...Boston joining them would have been too much to hope for.

imo there should be a thread where everybody listens to every Billy Joel song just like w/ the Eagles

based on the above, what there really oughta be is an eric clapton listening thread.

also, kudos to don mclean for collectively coming in fifth worst pace, presumably with a single song.

Joel and the Eagles at least have some kind of consistent songwriting vision that you can engage with, for better and for worse. Clapton's solo catalog just seems like decades of coasting on covers and so-so originals.

yeah McLean, Buffett and The Guess Who each only had one hated song

PINK FLOYD RULES

you dark side haters dont get it maaaaaaan

My number one best song has showed up on someone's worst song list.

^ ILX's biggest "Dirty Laundry" fan

200 different songs were on the 'worst' ballots. a lot of them are great songs.

Joel and the Eagles at least have some kind of consistent songwriting vision that you can engage with, for better and for worse. Clapton's solo catalog just seems like decades of coasting on covers and so-so originals.

i don't disagree with any of that. but i think, as a result, there are probably a bunch of hidden things in ec's catalog, both good and bad, that very few if any people here would ever have encountered. whereas i think joel's catalog is small enough and beloved enough by people on this very board (cough cough) that there'd be very few, if any, surprises.

on the other hand, i will never turn down an opportunity to re-engage with billy, so if his thread were ever to happen, i'd be there faster than you can say "brenda and eddie."

I'm sure. And I'm sure some will place in the top 100. Xpost

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I have this corny bit of business with the manager of Table Wine around the block from my house in which I go in and ask for the "Billy Joel Special- a bottle of red, bottle of white." He pretends to laugh and go along with it, although they mostly seem to listen to Aimee Mann in there.