CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

I don't have anything against Boys of Summer really, but I'm a bit shocked it came up so high.

Yeah, don't understand the new wave dig upthread.

It was a prediction, not a dig.

Would have never guessed there was that much love for it.

I'm not one of the people who thinks that new wave is not CR, btw. I gave high votes to the Police and the Cars and ranked a synth-heavy Peter Gabriel song in my top 10.

wasn't there a 'punk' remake of this?

The Ataris. It was terrible.

not a bad single for an ex-Eagle, but insufficiently classic or rock for this ranking

(shakes head, furrows brow, revs Chevy Nova pensively)

would you rather hear the Eagles?! hehe.

#1 five weeks on album rock radio in '84/85 btw

It'll be interesting to see whether The Eags make an appearance here

When I heard this song as a kid, I assumed the Boys of Summer were serial killers or something: "Out on the road today I saw a dead head sittin' on a Cadillac/A little voice inside my head said don't look back, you can never look back". And just keep running, Don!

then you realized the killer was Don

well, yeah.

UGH work is getting in the way of this poll today.
AMERICAN GIRL my #1, my favorite song ever. I've heard it a million times and I never tire of it. So much history with this song, so much history with this band.

hey, my upper lip is feeling prickly.

and it reeks of bacon in here...

that can only mean one thing:

http://i.imgur.com/x6obIJu.jpg

26. The Zombies – Time Of The Season
1372 points, 22 votes

took this song for granted until Miguel's interpolation in 2012.

...Wait, what? I love (LOVE) the Zombies, but...classic rock?

Love this song. Such an oldie though.

feel like this oldies station song (but I love this song)

ha, yeah. what how's life said.

gettin weird up in here. need something CLASSIC to settle us down

Interesting that this is a year younger than "I Can See For Miles," but no one called that an oldie.

Well, it doesn't particularly rock, either.

True story, I thought I had finalized the top 50 last week and sent it to gr80 to make images when I realized i'd neglected to do the count for "Time of the Season" and it leaped into the top 30. Countdown woulda been better without it afaic but the people have spoken.

it's fun watching the age and regional differences mess with everyone's minds ... "Time of the Season" was low on my ballot due to limited rock content, but it squeezed in, while "Boys of Summer" bombed the big-on-MTV test

"What's your name? Who's your daddy?" will never stop bringing the lols for me.

Next song is like the epitome of classic rock fwiw

Good song, great organ solo, great band. Didn't vote for it though.

Long organ solo definitely the most classic rock element of the song.

voodoo chili OTM, particularly 'good song, great band'. Decent but definitely on the low end of my esteem in comparison to the rest of their output.

at the height of my CRR listening years, circa 1991-95, Time of the season still got a lot of airplay, as did CCR, Janis, and other 60s stuff that got phased out to make way for the stuff that was big on modern rock radio then that is on CRR now.

is 'centerfold' classic rock?

we'll find out

didn't vote for this Zombies song, but it's def more cr than that Henley tune.

Boys of Summer WTF

is 'centerfold' classic rock?

― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, July 31, 2014 2:29 PM (3 minutes ago)

what about "centerfield"?

dunno but I'm ready to play

(centerfold on spotify, that is)

is 'centerfold' classic rock?

yes

ok folks, we're officially 75% through this thing... we've had a few dark horses and more than one surprise, but big number twenty-five is certainly one that is underrated by few and loved by almost all:

http://i.imgur.com/Y64jJPE.jpg

25. Aerosmith – Sweet Emotion
1383 points, 20 votes, 1 first place vote

YES

this was in my top ten iirc

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet emooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooootiooooooooooon

bassline so classic

I voted for three other Aerosmith songs but I think all of their major singles from this period were pretty great.

My only Aerosmith vote. That bassline is all-time.

my favorite intro of all time possibly

*exhales*

gettin some sweet emotion from far right dude in that pic

My number one! I wouldn't have expected to vote it #1, but when I sat down to rank-order the songs it just rose and rose. I admit I was partly swayed by its perfect use in the Dazed and Confused credit sequence, but I have always always loved this song.