CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

that is just great.

sandy i don't know if i'll ever hear "kashmir" again without thinking of your friend tossing the PG 8track out the window, your friend otm

xxpost gr8080 you gotta!!

sandy, i seriously think you might be my spirit animal/ long lost cool older sister

omg phil

(mookieproof, it was the Stanley)

not the syria mosque?

so i'm still about three days behind on this thread, can't wait to read it.

for some reason "ride like the wind" makes me think of driving while having to go to the bathroom really bad

I was gonna suggest a Sandy Stories poll, but now I think it's pretty clear what would win. Holy shit.

via lyrics.wikia.com, i offer you the quintessential classic rock lyrics:

Woo!

Slow ride, take it easy
Slow ride, take it easy
Slow ride, take it easy
Slow ride, take it easy

I'm in the mood
The rhythm is right
Move to the music
We can roll all night

Oooh slow ride
Oooh

Slow ride, take it easy
Slow ride, take it easy

Slow down, go down, got to get your lovin' one more time
Hold me, roll me, slow ridin' woman you're so fine

Woo!

I'm in the mood
The rhythm is right
Move to the music
We can roll all night

Oooh
Slow ride, take it easy
Slow ride, take it easy

Slow down, go down, got to get your lovin' one more time
Hold me, roll me, slow ridin' woman you're so fine

Slow ride, easy, slow ride, sleazy
Slow ride, easy, slow ride, sleazy

Slow down, go down, got to get your lovin' one more time
Hold me, roll me, slow ridin' woman you're so fine

Slow ride, take it easy
Slow ride, take it easy

Slow down
Go down
Slow down
Go down

Come on, baby
Take a slow ride with me
Come on, baby
Take a slow ride

Oh, feel good
Mmmm, feels so good
I like it, yeah
I feel good
Oh, I feel all right

You know the rhythm is right
You know the rhythm is right
We've got to rock all night
We've got to rock all night

You know the rhythm is right
We've got to rock all night
You know the rhythm is right
We've got to rock all night
You know the rhythm is right
Woah, come all night

Slow ride!

i just gotta say, the guitar solo in "sultans of swing" is the absolute bomb.

both of em i mean

Slow Ride lyrics just don't convey any sense of how cool ''SLOW RIDE!!!'' sounds coming from them. There's like, extra H's in there or something. Can't be duplicated.

SLOOOOWWWWRRRIIIIIIIDE

everyone knows it's one word, not two

holy shit sandy!

not the syria mosque?

― mookieproof

No, DiCesare/Engler bought the Stanley a few months before I started working for them and they were doing all of their theatre-size shows there. Danny Kreske and some other smaller promoters still did shos at the Mosque until they tore it down. The Mosque was so beautiful, but the Stanley was pretty sweet other than the ancient backstage.

Veg, you are totally my rock little sistah.

I love that you guys enjoy these stories, I've thought about writing a book but I don't know. I have this weird thing about monetizing things that are so precious to me. We had this code back then. We were there because we needed to be around music, not because we wanted anybody's fame or money (although we didn't turn down Ahmet Ertegun's champagne lol). Almost Famous was so otm about that aspect of it.

My favorite Thin Lizzy-related experience: About a week after that show in Pittsburgh, I went up to see them in Cleveland. After the show, Brian Robertson got ahold of some PCP and he was a mess. He was a mess to begin with - a sweet, lost kid. He carried around a stuffed-animal dog for comfort. I'm always still surprised that it was Phil that died and not him. Anyhow, we were all taking turns keeping him occupied so he wouldn't get too disruptive, and it was about 4 AM, and it was my turn to babysit. I am the worst person in the world to put in a position of responsibility for another, nobody ever listens to me, lol. So within 5 minutes I had lost all control of the situation and he was out in the hall yelling and kicking around the room service trays that people had left for housekeeping to pick up. I'm trying to talk him into going back into his room and the man who was staying in the room across the hall came out of his room and yelled at us for making so much noise and called us motherfuckers. And that man was Mel Torme. He had also done a show in Cleveland that night and EVERYBODY stayed at Swingos, it was THE celebrity hotel. So yeah, the Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker.

bwahahah

omg

omg yesssssssssss

i am not one of ilm's fancy pants music writers, but if you wanted to write short stories/blog posts (toward writing a book or not) there are some such who might be interested, i dunno

omg

yeah i understand the reluctance, and the code, but at the same time i think your stories really deserve to be told sandy!

also i would buy you an imp + iron when i'm home for xmas

thanks again, some dude & gr8080. i already want to go back and read all three threads (noms, poll, and results).

cool stories!

It turns out I actually know very little about the genre, as has been fairly systematically shown, but I love the stuff I know (and have known since childhood, or possibly since before birth), and it's been a really great joy to a) get some educatin' (go to school!) from ILM and b) just revel in other people's joy and memories and unabashed excitement for music that, you'd think, we'd have all been just become totally inured to through ubiquity. It's infectious.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, August 1, 2014 5:35 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is me m/l

Sandy, a book of your stories would make the world a better place, imo

An iron fist in a velvet fog.

Thanks to everyone for going all in on this. It's made this extra tedious work week much better.

And how have I gone my whole life without hearing Lido Shuffle?! This song is the best! I think I always thought Boz was some sort of heartland rocker, and not a guy who writes songs as amazing as Lido Shuffle.

yr gonna wanna listen to the rest of silk degrees too

Oh, no question! I think I'll probably spend much of tomorrow digging through his catalog.

mookie, I would be so up for having a beer with you at Christmastime (plz make it a Rolling Rock tho, Iron City is so horrible). We could meet up at the Lava Lounge on Carson Street, they have awesome rock karaoke. I am hungry to karaoke Lido Shuffle. And they sell Mad Dog in paper bags there, lol.

In her toilet was a framed, signed picture of Rod Stewart and he had written on it "Thanks for the bacon sandwiches, love Rod".

I can't begin to describe how bizarre that sounds to an American....

if this poll has taught me anything it's that ILMers don't love The Eagles nearly as much as they say they do.

we didn't survive that listening thread out of love

you can't know what we went through *stares into the distance, trembling hand holding an unlit cigarette*

"You get used to never leaving...it's the checking out any time you like part that gets to you."

I found ILM when you guys were about midway through that listening thread, it was my first view into this world of yours and I was looooooling on my bus rides every day.

I am capping off the day by watching Almost Famous and it reminds me of two songs that I so wish I had repped for: The Allman Brothers "One Way Out" and Elton John "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters"

the Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker.

new best sandy story ever.

two songs that I so wish I had repped for: The Allman Brothers "One Way Out" and Elton John "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters"

really surprised by the total absence of elton john from this poll (highest song: #261). between that and the relatively thin showing of the thin white duke ("space oddity" at #296???), i thought maybe all of ilm's glam fans had secretly decided to boycott the poll, but then again "bang a gong" and "all the young dudes" both finished quite high, so i don't really have a theory. rather, i'm just sitting in a tin can of confusion.

Only song I'm disappointed didn't show is "What's Your Name" by Skynyrd.

Well, it's eight o'clock in Boise...Id-a-ho!

"Suffragette City" was my #1, as dictated by its being the song I'm gladdest to hear on classic rock radio. Surprised by its relatively poor showing, as it's maybe Bowie at his most CR.

Was too busy and tired from work-related stuff to submit a ballot or really get involved in the roll-out, but checking in on the results every so often has def been a lot of fun.
Excellent songs that I've discovered through the rollout - Eminence Front, Fly Like An Eagle, Solsbury Hill, Funk #49, Jane, Night Moves, Magic Man. (I get that for most of the voters the idea of these songs being new to anyone older than about 4 must be weird, but chalk it up to lol US/UK differences I guess).

Songs I was particularly pleased to see make it - Frankenstein, Midnight Rider, Roundabout, Fortunate Son (though the last one was never in much doubt I suppose).
Songs I hadn't heard for years and was reminded how much I liked - Suite Judy Blue Eyes, Werewolves Of London, Time Of The Season, Spirit In The Sky

Good times all round. :)

Bowie and Elton both subjects of their own polls too - mightve suffered from some number of posters going the ''give someone else a chance to shine'' route. And/or some number of their most beloved tracks being seen as oldies or 80s or w/e. ''Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters'' did well on the Elton poll though, IIRC...

Great poll, guys, great poll. Even though I am something of a classic rock outsider I had an excellent time. Thanks to the organisers and the AORta. And count me as another massive Sandy fan.

Well, we think you've got an idea of what the top 2 is going to be. But let's get it all out there. I was rooting all along for it to take #1, but in the end the gap in points was far too big to overcome. This one's for emil.y.
2. Heart – Barracuda

*sniffle*

Missed the top 3 due to being on the road, but gr8080 and some dude did such an amazing job with this!

the Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker.

New board description.

And I was waiting for "Reaper" to post this...

(apologies for repetition, because I'm pretty sure I've posted this on like nine threads)

About 6 or 7 years ago I was working the counter at an auto salvage yard. I was chatting with a customer who noticed my Clash t-shirt and said, "Hey, you like their album Give 'Em Enough Rope? My partner produced that." Looked at his credit card slip, I realized I was talking to Murr4y Krugm4n, and he confirmed that he was referring to his former producing partner Sandy Pearlman. "Yeah, we worked on a lot of stuff together, a lot of Blue Oyster Cult stuff..." Not wanting to let the opportunity slip away I said, "So...you worked on 'Don't Fear The Reaper'..." That was all I said. He let out an exasperated sigh, looked at the ground and said, "Yeah...yeah. I think I'm the only person on earth who doesn't think that sketch is funny."

he is not the only person on earth!! what did you say?

I think I just said "hm" or something; I got the feeling it was a sensitive subject, so I dropped it.

hahaha that is awesome!

When I get a chance, I'll have to recount the time in the late '70s when I had a threesome with the Wilson sisters. I'm on my way to the library right now, though.