CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

I had never knowingly heard "Eye In The Sky" before this poll, I'm a little mystified by its placement

― some dude, Tuesday, July 29, 2014 11:04 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This.

74. Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
897 points, 14 votes

― some dude, Tuesday, July 29, 2014 11:10 AM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I could have sworn there was an ilx post from a few years back where a poster described humming white rabbit under their breath as their preferred method to signal that a drug story had gone on too long. I can't find it in search though, so maybe it was somewhere else? Anyway, I've deployed this method once or twice myself.

love this song

and Doc otm about its lamentable political/social aspects

xxp

I don't know, I just think hating Sweet Home Alabama is so predictable. Like bagging on Born In The U.S.A.

What does that "Watergate doesn't bother me" part in SHA mean? Is he saying that us Yankees have our own bad stuff going on so don't worry about us electing George Wallace down here?

garbled

I remember first hearing it on my older second cousin (from Sudbury!)'s LP when I was 12 or so. It sounded so spacey and eerie. "Silence and I" is one of my other favourites from that album. APP could be kind of great.

xposts

attn: how's life, i webmailed u

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, July 29, 2014 11:49 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

got it.

Pres. Keyes, I thought he was saying "Watergate does not bother me because at least Nixon's less of a segregationist scumbag than fucking George Wallace" but maybe that was wishful thinking?

Thing is, Van Zant said about the confederate flag backdrop, "That was strictly an MCA gimmick to start us off with some label. It was useful at first, but by now it’s embarrassing except in Europe, where they really like all that stuff because they think it’s macho American."

::two thumbs up:: xxpost

I might be projecting too much on Ronnie Van Zant, but I suspect Sund4r's interpretation is more in line with what I know about his politics.

I DON'T KNOW WHEN THAT ROAD TURNED ONTO THE ROAD I'M ON

"Running on Empty" is one of the JB songs I love.
--guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

Because it's great! Speaks to, like universal themes and stuff maaaan while David Linley just rips.

Lindley. damn this phone.

Ronnie was a pretty progressive guy

Me and my boy just put on (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd), such a great album. Incredible band.

A couple years ago, they tried to abandon the rebel flag, explicitly stating that it was to disassociate themselves from racism, but apparently got such a huge fan backlash that they caved and readopted it.

Re: eye in the sky -

"From our upstairs porch I watch my neighbor, a small town accountant with a voice like a toy keyboard, begin his walk to work in his navy blue Botany 500 suit, bought used in an L.A. consignment store while visiting his widower son-in-law and blind granddaughter, and according to my neighbor, formerly owned by Gene Rayburn, the semi-retired game show host whose grotesque aura still haunts the seven o’clock time slots of my body’s internal clock along with Merv Griffin, Don Rickles, Cloris Leachman, Bert Convy, Wink Martindale and the tenants of every Hollywood square, those horrible hucksters, sickening adults/hyenas who seem to have had their proteges on every Main Street, the men with perms, tight gray curls erupting over the alcoholic topography of their oiled faces, a legion of salesmen ruined by bad translations of an already disastrous California ideal, their eyes stinking like boiled cocktail onions as they emerged from “sleek” 1980 Thunderbirds, all marinated teeth and snowplow mustaches, fresh from invigorating divorces, dragging tawny S-shaped girlfriends by the wrist to wooden gargoyle waterbeds where stereo systems built into the headboards played “Eye in the Sky” by the Alan Parsons Project endlessly through the night.

- David C. Berman

Yessssssss Running On Empty. This one just gets better with (my) age. Already rambled about it in the voting thread, but basically I can't imagine a classic rock station that doesn't play this.

re: Watergate, yeah that line seriously needed a little more work - the ambiguity of the "you" is the problem I think. It very easily reads like: ehh, who gives a shit about Watergate, Nixon's not such a bad guy, and anybody who would get all up in arms about it is an insincere concern-troll, and that's the only reason why they criticize SWEET HOOOME AL A BAAM UUH.

Nu-Skynyrd is a complete embarrassment. xps

Eye In the Sky one of those songs permanently sutured to another song, Sirius, or as the listeners on the request line used to call it, The Chicago Bulls Theme Song.

iiiiii hate jackson brown so much

I'd never heard 'Cant You See' before we started polling -- I really love it! Am intending to dig into Marshall Tucker Band as a result, they definitely have a sound that I love

Running On Empty - another victim of the Forrest Gump Soundtrack.

Not really a fan of this one, I much prefer Doctor My Eyes.

This is the only song of Browne's that I like (totally think it's great...actually, "Somebody's Baby" is pretty good, too), but the line in "The Load Out" about "roadies workin' for that minimum wage" always pissed me off. PAY THEM MORE! YOU'RE THEIR BOSS!

I love every Jackson Browne hit, coulda voted for all of em

hey there folks, and happy tuesday to you. some dude had to run, 'cause he was running on empty, but don't sweat it because gr8080's here to run you through the afternoon & hits #'s 70-61.

let me stop running my mouth though and get back to the music, with this hit from the Doobies

http://i.imgur.com/l4fzCJi.jpg

70. The Doobie Brothers – Long Train Runnin’
926 points, 13 votes

YES! Some Doobies, finally!!!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Another act where pretty much every single is golden in my book.

I might have voted for this song if I'd known it was this song.

This was the third of the three DB tracks I voted for, but right after I sent in my ballot I knew it should've been ranked the highest of the three.

Don't get trampled under foot while you're running, gr80s.

I hate the Load-Out/Stay with an unholy passion. Ten minutes of ninniness.

ninnyness?

xp The lap steel on Running on Empty just sounds wrong to me somehow, really grating

Y'all are breaking my heart re Skynyrd, but I can see how the combination of overplay and negative associations with False Nu-Skynyrd damaged SHA in the poll ... I'm hoping we've got a few more Skynyrd tracks to come

My favorite Doobie Brothers song, such a jam.

I was maybe only vaguely familiar with that Marshall Tucker song. It's a jam!

With VG: fucking despise Jackson Browne. But at least it wasn't "The Loadout".

Dithered endlessly about which Johnston-led Doobies cut to include. It wasn't this one, but it easily could have been. Love the sound on this... the strummin', the singin' along. Something very nervous and anxious about it. No idea what it's actually about but always happy to hear it.

xp to Brad C not a huge Skynyrd fan, but there was still a track that's yet to place that I voted in my top 25. Probably more Skynyrd to come.

Ha. Hilarious to see so many xposts also excoriating "The Loadout".

Going through a periodic music collection purge, and just trimmed Jackson Browne's 2 disc greatest down to a more tolerable 10 songs. Writing These Days covers up a lot of sins though, and I adore Runnin' On Empty.
But I love Boulevard even more, and assuming it didn't get any write-in traction.

The Loadout/Stay is how I have always heard it on the radio-pretty vile, but then most songs about 'The Road' are too.

The Loadout/Stay is totally annoying but I think to me it's mostly because of the audience

Yay Marshall Tucker Band! <3

Loadout rules idc idc

The "Stay" refrain nearly induces physical revulsion. Seriously, that shit is the worst.

Had Long Train Running in my top 15. Great record, awesome sounds/rhythm/percussion/melodies/harmonies.

The ringing acoustic strings behind the funky main riff in "Long Train Runnin'" where it goes "ting dnh dnh ting ting ting" is one of my favorite things in all of classic rock.

for sure