CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

tbrr that "bustle in your hedgerow" business gets a little twee for my comfort

Pretty sure that's a reference to crabs.

Or at least it is when I say it.

like as a kid I'd heard about the "occult" in rock, "Reaper", AC/DC, "Stairway", "Mr Crowley"; and then when I finally heard these songs & these bands, it was like, you people were worked up about this?

crue circa "shout at the devil" fit right into this

Yeah, having grown up in the church and then leaving and actually figuring out how things take place in the real world, the church's view of "the occult" is pretty damn comical.

"we have assumed control" at the end of 2112 was supposed to be "I sing for Satan" backwards.

but def part of the identity of classic rock, at least circa 1985 or so. like it was funny when I heard Metallica and Slayer a couple of years later, like, ohhhh ok I see now, like, you were worried about Van Halen?

Pretty sure if you play Stairway backwards, you can hear Page repeatedly whisper "I ripped this off from Spirit"

There was a book in my church's library about satan's influence on rock music, and it was a handy resource for me as a young sheltered person to seek out interesting bands.

the music video has candles in it = occult imagery
the album art has a figure wearing a cape = occult imagery
there is a woman = occult imagery

http://i.imgur.com/6afgj0t.jpg

52. .38 Special – Caught Up In You
1041 points, 17 votes

doctor casino otm, i remember hearing "whole lotta love" and "ramble on" far more but would take them over stairway in a heartbeat. it kinda takes itself too seriously for the choolgin good times vibes i really want when i turn the dial to CR radio

I'm caught up in those peach fuzz mustaches.

come for the chooglin, stay for the devil worship : 107.7 WILX "The Aorta"

oh fuck if the name of the station means we're heading toward Heart as #1

I've grown to love "Caught Up in You" so much.

Can we have a favorite rollout image poll after this poll wraps up?

placement bodes well for hold on loosely

speaking of which... we're close enough to #50 to say the top half of the poll has been a blast so far. Lots of stuff I voted for that I'm happy to see place. Lots of stuff I didn't vote for that I'm happy to see place. Good times out at the lake.

It's about to get real up in here though. We still haven't seen any Boston/Foreigner/Cars/Queen/Eagles/Heart, barely any Zep/Stones/Who, let alone Free/Bad Co/Kansas/REO Speedwagon/BOC/Steve Miller et al. And we could fill 50 slots with just those guys easy.

It's gonna be a lot of sacred cows bleeding in the streets by the time the last card's turned over.

THIS POLL RULES

Assuming "Hold On Loosely" is somewhere higher up, this seems like the right placement.

And yeah, what roger said.

rogermexico OTM

Hold On Loosely will be the highest placing 38 Special track for sure, but if Caught Up In You makes it instead of Rockin' Into the Night then a pox upon you all.

oh fuck if the name of the station means we're heading toward Heart as #1

oh fuck YES if the name of the station means we're heading toward Heart as #1.

that's better.

Today's run is slightly disappointing because it means that some of the bands who only have the one shot at CRR fame are more likely to get shut out in favor of bands we typically talk about all the time (too often, even?).

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 16:23 (1 hour ago) Permalink

I intentionally skewed my ballot towards bands that would never get their own poll for this reason

anyone hear a "Just What I Needed" influence on "Caught Up in You"?

I have a really good feeling about Barracuda perhaps taking the top spot, but this whole poll is mysterious. xps

I am flabbergasted to realize that people like 38 Special enough to want one, let alone three of their songs in a list of only one hundred great classic rock songs. I mean....they're fine, filler bar band stuff of their time, but c'mon!

Dunno why, but I could never get into .38 Special. They just sounded so stiff and clinical next to Skynyrd and...well, pretty much everyone else. The songs never really lift off, and the singer sounds afraid to let his freak flag fly. Presuming he is in possession of one in the first place.

Confederate Freak Flag

how did only one thin lizzy song get nominated

y'all too good for whiskey in the jar

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

Stairway to Heaven was always the last song played at our Junior High School dances -- usually a B-104 dj. It was a weird but popular choice, and the black kids would exit en masse as it started. This vignette of race relations in mid-80s Maryland has been brought to you by...

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)