CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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Awesome that "Crazy On You" made it! I had given up hope.

I would not have been surprised to see Foghat at #1.

rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link

Always thought of this as second-tier. Biggest WTF for me so far.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link

Local station here leaves it in too.

The editing-out of "And all the colored chicks..." from "Walk on the Wild Side" over the past 40 years would make your head spin: in, out, in, out, in, etc.

clemenza, Friday, 1 August 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link

Slow Ride totally deserves top 5 xp

sleeve, Friday, 1 August 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link

didn't even know there was an edited version; fuck that

mookieproof, Friday, 1 August 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link

6. Heart – Crazy On You

yes!!! the aorta comes through! there's so much i love about this song, from the dead-on rennfair guitar intro to the simple genius of the main riff to the heart-melting tonal change between pre-chorus and chorus. this is a song of many many parts, all woven together with pop grace. my #2.

PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link

Walk on the Wild SIde - They took out the giving head part here, but left the colored girls in there,

How many of these songs mention cum by name?

pplains, Friday, 1 August 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link

"Slow Ride" is the song most linked to Dazed & Confused for me

Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link

One of those where you go, "Ha, and they had a band who called themselves 'Foghat' back then too."

pplains, Friday, 1 August 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link

"Slow Ride" is the song most linked to Dazed & Confused for me

― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes),

Same here. Used to confuse it for "Free Ride" too.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link

"Slow Ride" has an even more famous place in popular culture that Dazed & Confused, but I've already posted the relevant clips enough.

Oddly enough, a song I never really heard on the radio through the '70s.

clemenza, Friday, 1 August 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_VrQ0onXEM

°ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link

i think this thread is making me have a heart attack! Or maybe it's a stroke? Either way BRING IT ON what a great buncha songs

cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link

are these images collected anywhere so that we can look at them in greater detail without scrolling?

cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link

you youngsters and your 'dazed and confused'

mookieproof, Friday, 1 August 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link

you old people being dazed and confused

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link

so yeah, baba o'riley was my #1. when all is said and done i just couldn't find anything that was more Classic Rock to me. hits all the marks and earns the bombast.

resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link

are these images collected anywhere so that we can look at them in greater detail without scrolling?

will link to a nice & clean gallery once we get to #1

°ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link

Bet there'll be a gallery at Aorta1077fm.com complete with slideshow, real player featuring the hits and photos from the two-for-one remote they had out at Jaker's.

pplains, Friday, 1 August 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link

for such a zepcentric band, heart were surprisingly low on guitar heroics...seems like they emulated Jimmy Page's orchestrations more than anything

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee)

But is Nancy Wilson a guitar-heroic guitar player? I don't play myself, so I'm no expert, I always figured she was a decent acoustic player but here's the thing...
1980, a friend of mine did some work with Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson, so we went down to Wheeling, West Virginia to see them open for Heart. After the show, there's nothing much going on in the bar, the hotel bar band are just finishing up and some of the guys from Heart ask if they can get up and jam. Then they ask Mick Ronson to come up and play with them and Nancy throws a fit, seriously runs off to her room crying because why did they ask Mick instead of her? So a couple of people go to calm Nancy down and bring her back to the bar and everybody's like OH NANCY, we're sorry your feelings were hurt, please jam with us too. So they start playing something and maybe ten minutes pass and she throws ANOTHER fit and storms off again because "Mick's showing off."

I can't imagine it's easy to be the other guitar player in a band with Nancy Wilson.

PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link

Cant stand Crazy on You, or most of Heart's ouerve. I just dont get it.

Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link

don't forget the babe-of-the-day, pp

°ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link

"crazy on you" is more than the sum of its parts (and jeez is it stuffed with 'me) and got my highest Heart vote itp on the strength of its full-on cock rock swag.

resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link

I changed "wet t-shirt" to "two-for-one" at the last minute back there.

pplains, Friday, 1 August 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link

Ha, I've now heard the full version of "Slow Ride" for the first time in my life.

rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link

:D

°ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link

(xxxp) would love to hear a version of heart with nancy AND mick ronson in it.

PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link

will link to a nice & clean gallery once we get to #1
hi 5 my man

cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link

i'm late but i heard "surrender" on the radio last tuesday, because that's when 100.3 does twofer tuesdays and invariably play i want you to want me/surrender at least 5 times

linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 1 August 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link

I don't remember hearing "Surrender" that much. "Dream Police", "I Want You -- To Want -- ME", even the goddamm "Flame" I heard more often on CR.

pplains, Friday, 1 August 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link

Note the large jump in points from #5 to this one. The top 4 separated themselves from the pack fairly early on in the voting and never let "Slow Ride" or anything else get close to catching up. This one is for Jeff and Doctor Casino.

http://i.imgur.com/gY5cTw1.jpg

4. Boston – More Than A Feeling
2324 points, 34 votes, 2 first place votes

some dude, Friday, 1 August 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link

Of course.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 August 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link

34 votes and I was not one. Figured it didn't need the help.

voodoo chili, Friday, 1 August 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link

DAMN IT THE WAITING ISN'T GOING TO MAKE THIS LIST

PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Friday, 1 August 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link

this is pretty cool re: "all the young dudes" (via wiki)

According to an interview Bowie gave to Rolling Stone magazine in 1973, the boys are carrying the same news that the newscaster was carrying in the song "Five Years" from Ziggy Stardust; the news being the fact that the Earth had only five years left to live. Bowie explains: "All the Young Dudes' is a song about this news. It's no hymn to the youth, as people thought. It is completely the opposite."

brimstead, Friday, 1 August 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link

I fear Urgent probably isn't either. xp

Johnny Fever, Friday, 1 August 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link

(stomps off in Nancy Wilson-style hissy fit)

PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Friday, 1 August 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link

if no matter what doesn't show up i'll boycott this list all over again

linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 1 August 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link

Also, thinking it might only be two Doobies tracks in the top 100, and one of them is yacht rock.

Johnny Fever, Friday, 1 August 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link

wait a minute -- did i miss "feel like makin love" showing up?

cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 1 August 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link

this is pretty cool re: "all the young dudes" (via wiki)

According to an interview Bowie gave to Rolling Stone magazine in 1973, the boys are carrying the same news that the newscaster was carrying in the song "Five Years" from Ziggy Stardust; the news being the fact that the Earth had only five years left to live. Bowie explains: "All the Young Dudes' is a song about this news. It's no hymn to the youth, as people thought. It is completely the opposite."
― brimstead, Friday, August 1, 2014 2:05 PM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Somebody needs to translate this for me, i have no idea what this means.

Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, 1 August 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link

More Than Feeling was my number 1. That song is goddamn perfection. I probably listen to it 79 times a day. Maybe not.

Jeff, Friday, 1 August 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link

haha Bill

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 August 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link

someone give bill magill the news

°ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 1 August 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link

stomping sandy otm.

PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Friday, 1 August 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link

34 votes and I was not one. Figured it didn't need the help. Figured Boston can fuck off, they broke my head with overexposure in high school.

rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Friday, 1 August 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link

All I know is that there are three songs left and one is Barracuda.

Johnny Fever, Friday, 1 August 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link

It would be nuts to have zero Bad Company songs in the top 100, though.

Johnny Fever, Friday, 1 August 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link

one is reaper

mookieproof, Friday, 1 August 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link


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