CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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

that picture raises many questions

and here's me as ace:

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

damn I'm at a bar and can't you hear me knockin just came on and it's the best song in the world right now

"right now"

my next door neighbors had one of those official "Kiss makeup" sets and I went over to their house all excited for them do paint my face like Ace Frehley but they painted my face like Peter Criss and I was SO mad. I came home crying and Mum was very confused by the whole thing. "But you like cats..."

― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, August 29, 2014 2:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3 <3 <3

I just looked at that playlist and now it's completely empty, 0 songs.

― Malibu Stasi (WilliamC), Thursday, August 28, 2014 9:44 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

anyone else having that problem? i put in 469 songs over an hour ago and that's what i see there right now. xp

― birdman junior dad (some dude), Thursday, August 28, 2014 9:50 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hmm, strange. Restarted Spotify, no help. Could you repost the link to the playlist?

― Malibu Stasi (WilliamC), Thursday, August 28, 2014 10:00 AM (4 days ago)

I think maybe the playlist got changed from a public to a private one somehow? It doesn't show up in the list of your public playlists. I dunno.

http://www.tmz.com/2014/09/01/jimi-jamison-dead-survivor/

Survivor's post "Eye of the Tiger" singer has died.

ok try the playlist now

Still empty. Oh well, it is a mystery as they say but no biggie if I'm the only one who can't see the tracks.

anyone else having issues w/ this?
http://open.spotify.com/user/1219464571/playlist/7pw9uBSg3Vb49ONnFZEn3O

says empty for me too

how bout now

same

weird, that sucks. here's a backup playlist, hopefully that works: http://open.spotify.com/user/1219464571/playlist/72GWmPDLjPf6Ah90RDlHXs

says empty as well :( :(

And in the streets, the children screamed
The lovers cried and the poets dreamed

wtf

i have a ton of playlists i've shared w/ other people w/ no such complaints so i know it's not just me

SATURDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY

READING PENNSYLVANIA ARE YOU READ-Y

ARE YOU IN THE MOOD

IS THE RHYTHM RIGHT

FOR

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ByJK-tmIMAIQCtM.jpg

Read that as "First Enemy Stadium!"

just heard crack the sky's 'from the greenhouse' for the first time in 25 years

weirton, wv ftw

Crack the Sky! I forgot about them completely.

They regularly played somewhere that advertised on the radio a lot when I was a kid and when I see the name all I can think is the radio commercial announcer guy's manly voice saying CRACK THE SKY.

i had always assumed they were a pittsburgh thing, but wiki says they were mainly popular on baltimore radio

'from the greenhouse' is very late-floyd/queensryche with huge gated drums and a children's choir. i love it

Crack The Sky are still enduringly beloved in Baltimore (and nowhere else). they co-headlined a show with Boston recently, and the local classic rock station plays "She's A Dancer" and "Hot Razors In My Heart" pretty regularly.

bless

this poll was so goddamn legit btw. i have thought back on it a few times lately as one of the most fun things i've done this year.

otm

Hot Razors in My Heart! Yes!

I knew some dude would have first hand knowledge of CRACK THE SKY.

OMG YES CRACK THE SKY

They were pretty much hometown boys (Weirton being only about a 45 minute drive from Pittsburgh). They were awfully popular here in the mid 70s (Hot Razors in My Heart and Rangers at Midnight especially) but their popularity didn't endure here the way it did in Baltimore.

And yes, this poll was so much fun, it makes me a little bit sad that it couldn't have lasted forever.

Oh, and Surf City, too. That was the song from their first album that was waaaaay more popular on Pittsburgh radio in 1975 than She's a Dancer was.

http://i.imgur.com/EFAjVB6.jpg

✓ indeed

Our venerable classic-rock station here, Q-107, is in the midst of some kind of identity crisis. (Declining ratings, I would assume.) First I heard Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)" a few months back, now I'm hearing "1979" and "Creep." They've closed the gap from being 30 years behind to maybe 20. (Putting aside that there's much better stuff from the early '90s than those two particular songs..."1979"'s good.) Maybe one, two, or all three of those wouldn't be unusual on an American classic-rock station--for Q-107, they're very unusual, and, for me, egregiously wrong. Worlds colliding; if I tune into Q-107, I want to stay inside the cocoon. I'd almost rather they stick with their old idea of new music, Nickleback and such, as godawful as that stuff it is. It at least makes sense in context.

That is horrid. I can't imagine WDRV in Chicago - "The Drive" - which I listen to all of the time - doing that.

My dream station plays everything, of course (not really; "everything" from the subset of music I love...), but there's something so sad and desperate about hearing Simple Minds and "1979" there.

CR playlists seem so set in stone that there's always a tiny thrill whenever I hear something for the first time since its original release. Today -- "Jazzman" by Carole King and the Elton cover of "Pinball Wizard."

A massive stone edifice with a typical CR playlist would make a pretty sweet piece of public art actually.

Not quite what you're talking about, but it was the first thing I thought of:

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

http://onlineathens.com/images/101702/ten.jpg

let there be drums
there were drums
let there be guitar
there was guitar

Why Classic Rock Isn’t What It Used To Be

(bizarrely, neither the words "lynyrd" nor "skynyrd" show up in this article, and "eagles" appears only once. some interesting stats nonetheless.)

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/james-gang-interview-2015

great piece, thanks for sharing!

makes me happy to know they were working so well together, that album is so damn good

and i dig that joe seems like a decent guy. kinda like a dog ...a dog that is a guitar genius

I literally thought they were singing "Well now look/We're the Doobies now"

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, July 31, 2014 12:02 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This now cracks me up every time I heard this song.

i love this poll so much

last week i looked up the doobie brothers wiki page to find out what the deal was with them switching singers

i got the gist of it but man it's long. srsly the War & Peace of wiki pages

and i never knew they started in San Jose! i always thought they were from florida or something

I recently discovered this album cover:

http://i.imgur.com/U0n2ISr.jpg

I mean...

hahaha yeah

That's a good album though - fine starting point if you're curious about McDonald-era Doobies beyond the singles.

...which I am not

thx anyway, Doc :)

Well now look / Veg you're missing out