Good afternoon, listeners, thanks for tuning in to 107.7 WILX 'The Aorta.' Starting on Monday, we will be rolling out the top 100 tracks of all time, as decided by 63 voters, with beautiful images courtesy of gr80. You all voted for a total of 917 songs, and remember there were only 861 in the official nominations list, so that's a lot of write-ins.

But first, we are starting things off with our subpolls. And for a very special 'no request weekend' you told us what songs you say NO to requesting. That's right, the 10 worst classic rock songs of all time, coming up in a few minutes. ―, Saturday, 26 July 2014 16:01 (four years ago). Hahahahha okay, that's fair - but surely true of lots of 'woman, get thee gone!' Listen this one last time, etc.

But that lead guitar sound, man! Like a balloon overfilled with diesel fumes, something really great about that. DOODLE OO DOOOOOOOOO 'Margaritaville' made my 100 on principle - Jimmy Buffett filled a lot of the empty playlist slots where I wasn't hearing lower-tier Bob Seger et al. Not my favorite Buffett but it's fine. ―, Saturday, 26 July 2014 16:30 (four years ago).

Listening to the song in a big group is a lot, yes. My mandatory listening thread has totally opened my eyes on Seger, who I previously gave credit only for 'Katmandu' and 'Night Moves' (which I came to late in life). But 'Old Time Rock & Roll' still seems like a real dog to me, just forced as hell and the lyrics really miss out on chances for specificity in favor of hoary old filler lyrics. Which is sorta old time rock and roll but it would have been great if he'd really brought some Berry-like wit and imagination to the lines - 'Roll Over Beethoven' rocks harder while being more delightful and believable as the words of a man excited to rock. ―, Saturday, 26 July 2014 16:44 (four years ago).

'Hotel California' just missed worst list for me on strength of its final solo - always kinda stoked to hear those cascading guitars in sync. The rest is a snooze but usually refreshing when heard in a non-Eagles cover that people actually seem to like - I respond to enthusiasm. Is there anybody in the world who still turns on the radio and is hoping to hear the Eagles version of the song? Kinda the ultimate in CR canon wearing out an okay song until it's a detestable ubiquity. ―, Saturday, 26 July 2014 16:55 (four years ago).

Margaritaville TOO LOW ― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, July 26, 2014 1:00 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink ^ this. I used to work in an office where the bosses had Buffett playing on repeat. Heard 'Margaritaville' an average of five times a day. It was the company's hold music too, so at least once a day I'd take a call where a customer would excitedly say, 'HEY, COOL HOLD MUSIC! ARE YOU A PARROTHEAD?'

'No, sir, I am not. How may I help you?' ―, Saturday, 26 July 2014 17:03 (four years ago). 'Margaritaville', 'Old Time Rock and Roll', and 'Takin' Care of Business' are the ones I dislike from this list. Is by far my least favourite. Interesting: 10 years ago, I would have picked DSB as a top Journey song and it would have easily made my favourites list. When I listened to things this time around, I realized that there were several other Journey songs that I enjoy far more now.

Probably just a result of overplay over the last 5-8 years or so. ―, Saturday, 26 July 2014 17:37 (four years ago). Here is your Spotify playlist of (most of) the 25 worst classic rock songs of all time, should you dare to listen: 1. George Thorogood – Bad To The Bone 73 points, 9 votes, 1 worst place vote 2. Eric Claptop – Wonderful Tonight 72 points, 11 votes, 3 worst place votes 3.

Don McLean – American Pie 68 points, 8 votes, 3 worst place votes 4. Billy Joel – Piano Man 55 points, 7 votes, 2 worst place votes 5. Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Takin’ Care of Business 45 points, 7 votes, 1 worst place vote 6.

(tie) The Eagles – Hotel California 39 points, 5 votes 6. (tie) Bob Seger – Old Time Rock & Roll 39 points, 7 votes, 1 worst place vote 8. (tie) Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’ 33 points, 4 votes, 1 worst place vote 8. (tie) Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville 33 points, 5 votes 10. The Guess Who – American Woman 31 points, 4 votes, 2 worst place votes 11.

(tie) Blood, Sweat & Tears – Spinning Wheel 26 points, 3 votes, 2 worst place votes 11. (tie) Billy Joel – Captain Jack 26 points, 3 votes, 2 worst place votes 11. (tie) Glenn Frey – The Heat Is On 26 points, 7 votes 14. (tie) Joe Cocker – With A Little Help 25 points, 5 votes, 1 worst place vote 14. (tie) Eric Clapton – I Shot The Sheriff 25 points, 5 votes 14.

(tie) Led Zeppelin – D’Yer Mak’er 25 points, 4 votes 14. (tie) The Eagles – Heartache Tonight 25 points, 4 votes, 1 worst place vote 18. Styx – Come Sail Away 21 points, 3 votes, 1 worst place vote 19.

(tie) Foreigner – I Want To Know What Love Is 19 points, 3 votes 19. (tie) John Lennon – Imagine 19 points, 4 votes, 1 worst place vote 21.

(tie) Don Henley – Dirty Laundry 18 points, 3 votes 22. (tie) Billy Joel – It’s Still Rock & Roll To Me 18 points, 3 votes 22. (tie) Dire Straits – Walk of Life 18 points, 3 votes 22. (tie) Steve Miller – The Joker 18 points, 4 votes 25.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Teach Your Children 17 points, 3 votes ―, Saturday, 26 July 2014 18:00 (four years ago). Where now stands the Sake Bar Decibel on 9th Street in NYC there used to be a karaoke bar with a live backing band. They had very thick Japanese accents that were pretty much impenetrable, with which they would sing a number of their own covers now and then but would also announce the customer selections. One of these I heard as 'Where Are You, Donna?' By Eddie Cochran' which turned out to be 'Wonderful Tonight,' by Eric Clapton. That is all I have to say about that song. ―, Saturday, 26 July 2014 18:15 (four years ago).

Homages to 1950s/early 1960s rock recorded in the 1970s always sound so odd to me. It makes me wonder to what extent the '70s artists were conscious of making an up-to-date, contemporary tune with a 'Golden Oldies' subject matter versus sincerely trying to emulate or evoke a retro sound, because the results always sound more of the '70s than the '50s in terms of feel and sonics. Thinking of songs like 'Old Time Rock & Roll,' the Carpenters' 'Yesterday Once More,' or even straight-up covers like Linda Ronstadt's version of Buddy Holly's 'It's So Easy.'

―, Sunday, 27 July 2014 00:01 (four years ago). Pretty sure i voted for DSB and margaritaville in my top 100 songs. 'old time rock and roll' is horrible, it's just that kind of garbage early '80s midwest midtempo rock that kind of seemed to soundtrack my upbringing bc everybody from the generation right before mine just thought it was the most incredible hardcore shit and it just had soul and was just about the swingingest tune of all time, i swear it was played on jukeboxes more than any song in my town aside from probably 'the joker', until it was temporarily unseated by 'black velvet' for a period of about six months or so there. Then it went right back to the top. Such a shitty song, you'd never imagine the dude responsible for it was also responsible for 'ramblin gamblin man'. ―, Sunday, 27 July 2014 05:11 (four years ago).

My albums & most disliked tracks. Not sure I've ever heard 'Bad To The Bone'.

Supertramp – Breakfast In America 02. The Cars – s/t 03. Electric Light Orchestra – A New World Record 04. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 05. ZZ Top – Eliminator Ugh 01.

Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight 02. The Turtles – Happy Together 03. Foreigner – I Want To Know What Love Is 04. Peter Frampton – Baby, I Love Your Way 05. Dire Straits – Walk Of Life 06. The Beatles – Let It Be 07. REO Speedwagon – Keep On Loving You 08.

John Waite – Missing You 09. Rick Springfield – Jessie’s Girl 10. Procol Harum – Whiter Shade Of Pale ―, Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:55 (four years ago). The 'Black Betty' remix is by Ben Liebrand, one of the best remixers of all time, IMO. (Check out his remixes of 'Precious Little Diamond', 'Housequake', 'Love Can't Turn Around', the 'ALF' theme seriously!, 'Holiday Rap', etc, etc.) He sometimes gets a bad rep for the Art of Noise-sampling breakbeat remix of Bill Withers' 'Lovely Day', but I think that one's kinda cool in its own way too. He also did this other classic rock remix, which I think clearly beats the better know Sure Is Pure remix of 'Long Rain Running': ―, Sunday, 27 July 2014 19:20 (four years ago). One of my big takeaways from the Petty doc I watched a couple weeks ago is that drum sound they fine-tuned in the studio during the Torpedoes sessions (and maintained through the rest of the 80s until Jeff Lynne butted in).

It is SO IMPORTANT to the success of top-tier Petty songs. ― Johnny Fever, Sunday, July 27, 2014 12:00 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink this sounds like my kind of documentary! The 'dullness' of the albums list seems dead on IMO - 'things that are boring but good' and maybe this is the part of the poll where we really work out our acceptance of certain aspects of the relatively monolithic canon of Classic Rock: it's a pretty solid list of ten rock records worth owning and listening to if you like the genre, and if radio has worn their highs into the ground, you can at least sorta understand why, and amazingly I'm usually still stoked to hear most (not all) of the recurrents from these records. Boston is probably what I most want to listen to as an album in its own right, but only because I discovered it pretty late in life and really don't know it in and out like the others. Wow, the Cars though. Again, just never thought of them as remotely Classic Rock at all, and I think the only record I've listened to as a record is Candy-O.

Guess I should check this one out? Never would have remotely expected it to be the consensus #1, but that's why I'm reading ILM and not a Rolling Stone list. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy 2. Boston - Boston 3.

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 4. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? Van Halen - Fair Warning Worst tracks Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight Led Zeppelin – D’Yer Mak’er Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill Crosby, Still, Nash & Young-Teach Your Children Steve Miller – Take The Money Queen – Crazy Little Thing Called Love Jethro Tull – Aqualung Supertramp – The Logical Song America - Horse With No Name The Doors – Hello, I Love You ―, Sunday, 27 July 2014 19:53 (four years ago). My worst of list: 1 Billy Joel – Piano Man 2 Don McLean – American Pie 3 Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama 4 Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight 5 Led Zeppelin – D’Yer Mak’er 6 Three Dog Night - Joy to the World 7 Pink Floyd – Young Lust 8 Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends 9 Stephen Stills – Love The One You’re With 10 Kansas – Carry On Wayward Son I'm glad to see 'Margaritaville' make the list, I meant to include it on mine. Also glad to see Moving Pictures in the top 20 albums. ―, Sunday, 27 July 2014 20:08 (four years ago). Nice results!

Tbh

My worst & albums ballots: MOST HATED: 1. Toto - Rosanna 2. AC/DC - Big Balls 3. Foreigner - Urgent 4. Toto - Africa 5. John Cougar - Hurts So Good 6. Steve Miller Band - Rockin' Me 7.

Billy Joel - Big Shot 8. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Our House 9. Don Henley – Dirty Laundry 10.

The Doors – Roadhouse Blues ALBUMS: 1. The Cars - S/T 2. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes 3. Boston - S/T 4. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors 5. Led Zeppelin - III 4 outta 5 on the albums!

Led Zep III is a critic's choice anyway ―, Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:32 (four years ago). 10 worst tracks The Guess Who – American Woman The Pretenders – Brass In Pocket The Eagles – Hotel California Pink Floyd – The Happiest Days of Our Lives / Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 The Moody Blues – Nights In White Satin The Doors – Break On Through Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Woodstock Don Henley – Dirty Laundry Eric Clapton – I Shot The Sheriff Grateful Dead - Touch of Gray 5 albums full of deep classic rock cutz Aerosmith, Rocks Stones, Exile On Main St. Van Halen, 1984 Queen, Night At The Opera Bowie, Young Americans ―, Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:56 (four years ago). True story - I have a friend who was Billy Squier's bass player at the height of his career (1982). He was touring with Foreigner and when they did 'The Stroke', they'd get some of the guys from Foreigner and crew guys and any friends of the band to come onstage and sing the 'stroke me, stroke me' part and do this very exaggerated jerking off hand motion. I got recruited in Pittsburgh, Philly, and Cleveland. They were my shining moments.

― Sandy, Tuesday, June 24, 2014 5:02 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink i always liked 'The Stroke' but i like it even more after this story. ―, Sunday, 27 July 2014 23:49 (four years ago). Getting caught up after a weekend away. VegGrrl, you're not the only Stroke-hater. Electric Ladyland (Jimi Hendrix Experience) 2.

Physical Graffiti (Led Zeppelin) 3. Who’s Next (The Who) 4. Layla (Derek and the Dominos) 5.

At Fillmore East (Allman Bros. Band) WE HATES IT FOR EVER: 1.

Bob Seger - Against the Wind 2. Foreigner - Hot Blooded 3. Journey - Any Way You Want It 4.

George Thorogood - Bad to the Bone 5. Boston - More Than a Feeling 6. Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son 7. Styx - Lady 8. Billy Squier - The Stroke 9.

Charlie Daniels Band - Devil Went Down to Georgia 10. AC/DC - For Those About To Rock ―, Monday, 28 July 2014 02:32 (four years ago). OK, fuck it, some more fun with math 20 most hated artists by total 'worst' track poll point totals: 1. Eric Clapton 110 2. Billy Joel 102 3. George Thorogood 77 5. Don McLean 68 6.

Bob Seger 63 7. Bachman-Turner Overdrive 52 8. Journey 48 10. Led Zeppelin 39 11.

Don Henley 38 12. Foreigner 37 13. Kansas 36 14. (tie) Glenn Frey 34 / Steve Miller 34 / Blood, Sweat & Tears 34 17. (tie ) Jimmy Buffett 33 / Supertramp 33 19. Lynyrd Skynyrd 32 20. (tie) Dire Straits 31 / The Doors 31 / The Guess Who 31 ―, Monday, 28 July 2014 03:06 (four years ago).

Joel and the Eagles at least have some kind of consistent songwriting vision that you can engage with, for better and for worse. Clapton's solo catalog just seems like decades of coasting on covers and so-so originals. I don't disagree with any of that.

But i think, as a result, there are probably a bunch of hidden things in ec's catalog, both good and bad, that very few if any people here would ever have encountered. Whereas i think joel's catalog is small enough and beloved enough by people on this very board (cough cough) that there'd be very few, if any, surprises. On the other hand, i will never turn down an opportunity to re-engage with billy, so if his thread were ever to happen, i'd be there faster than you can say 'brenda and eddie.'

―, Monday, 28 July 2014 03:24 (four years ago). See, I voted The Wall as my #2 CR album because of how effectively classic rock radio winnows it down. I have no interest in the album as a whole, but there are like eight CR warhorses on it, and when one of them comes on the radio I pretty much never change the station even though I've heard them dozens of times before.

Ditto most of the Eagles' catalogue - enjoyable enough radio fodder, never cared to check out the albums. Ignoring the lyrics helps, too. ―, Monday, 28 July 2014 03:31 (four years ago).

I also did not grow up with this on CR - it was one of my last-minute adds based on hype on the poll threads and particularly the fcc-curated Casino listening thread. Love the change of sound for them, the stiff Who-like attempt at funk and the vague Reagan-era cocktail party dread washing around the lyrics: a personal front of pretension and deceit? A storm gathering? Or the battle lines in an icy, looming war? The thing has got great atmosphere. People forget.

―, Monday, 28 July 2014 12:21 (four years ago). While I spent a ridiculous amount of time getting my 100 and 10 worst just right, at the end of that I just threw 5 records out that I love. Which is a way of apologizing for the dullness of said list. It does seem to me that CR is, if not the creator, then the natural home of live records. So that rule bums me out. Would probably have voted in Lynyrd Skynyrd's Second Helping and Houses of the Holy in place of the 2 disqualifications. Aerosmith Toys In The Attic 2.

The Who Who's Next 3. Kiss Alive II 4.

Journey Greatest Hits 5. Pink Floyd The Wall ―, Monday, 28 July 2014 12:39 (four years ago). The Who - Live at Leeds 2. The Who - My Generation 3. The Who - Who's Next 4. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland WORST: 1. Meat Loaf – Paradise By The Dashboard Light 2. Billy Joel – Piano Man 3. George Thorogood – Bad To The Bone 4.

Jimmy Buffett – Margaritaville 5. The Doors – Peace Frog 6. Crosby, Still, Nash & Young-Teach Your Children 7. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick 8. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Our House 9.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression, Part II) 10. George Thorogood – Who Do You Love ―, Monday, 28 July 2014 13:42 (four years ago). Re: Eminence Front, nah, yeah, they do pull off what they're doing fine, I was more trying to express that I like the interaction between their baseline approach and the funkier thing they're attempting here, it makes for a cool sound.

Just heard 'Our House' for the first time recently and I thought it was pretty but can tooooootally understand why it would be hated as proto-twee hippie self-celebration. Would have been interesting if CSNY had all got laryngitis and had to focus instead on shopping these songs around to passing bubblegum acts - a little faster and a little punchier and this would be a forgettable rain-on-the-windowpane number. It seems like a good song for kids and probably even written with kids in the room - the very-very-very fine house is the kind of thing I'd have enjoyed singing at age 7 or something. It's also not so loud that it will wake up the other kid that you've just lullabyed, or get in the way of the conversation about Watergate while you're doing the dishes.

In a pre-Raffi universe, with a whole lot of boomers starting little families, these were probably a pretty big selling point to this (and a lot of other AM gold), and may also relate to why this stuff has been purged from the macho and individualist Classic Rock universe. ―, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:02 (four years ago). Eminence Front an awesome song to play around with the crossfades, for the beginner. They did a lot of good stuff with Kenny. A common re-written lyric to be sung in junior high was 'she looked at me with her one brown eye and said.' . I've got this memory of crossing the Mississippi late at night into St. Louis and hearing The Chain on KDHX. When I played bass in the second band, the drummer and I would just play that final riff over and over, and with no one there to finally go CHHAAAAAIIIIN, we'd just keep going up and up into the air until we turned into butter. ―, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:06 (four years ago).

It feels like, 'Remember that counterculture stuff we used to be into? What was THAT about? This is so much nicer! With two cats in the yard, oh shit, did the cats get out again?' Huh, yeah, that's pretty hate-able - I read it as much more like hippies coupling up in a shabby old hippie house, walls leaning, 'If it's yellow, let it mellow' in the bathroom, etc. The fact that they are yard cats seems key here, also note that all their amenities are nature-driven: flowers, sun through windows. Still totally self-satisfied and ex-activist, but closer to McCartney or even the bohemian urbanites in 'I Do It For Your Love' than sneering ex-hippie 'yeah, money rules!'

―, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:14 (four years ago). Looks like our bits of biographical ephemera are spliced, much like the song itself: According to interviews on the writing of Rumours, the final section of 'The Chain'—beginning with a bass progression—was created by John McVie and Mick Fleetwood. Stevie Nicks had written the lyrics separately and thought they would be a good match; she and Christine McVie did some reworking to create the first section of the tune. Other elements were worked in from an early project of Christine's called 'Keep Me There'.1 The blues-style piano motif was removed, and the remainder combined with a bridge from yet another piece manually using a razor blade to cut and splice the tapes. To complete the song, Buckingham recycled the intro from an earlier song from a duet with Nicks, 'Lola (My Love)', originally released on their self-titled 1973 album. Due to the spliced nature of the record - the drums and guitar were the only instruments actually recorded in each other's company - and its sporadic composition and assembly from different rejected songs, 'The Chain' is one of only a few Fleetwood Mac songs whose authorship is credited to all members of the band at the time.1 ―, Monday, 28 July 2014 16:02 (four years ago).

Due to the spliced nature of the record - the drums and guitar were the only instruments actually recorded in each other's company - and its sporadic composition and assembly from different rejected songs, 'The Chain' is one of only a few Fleetwood Mac songs whose authorship is credited to all members of the band at the time. Apologies for dragging the beatles into this, but one of the things i've always liked about 'the chain' is that it's like one of those true lennon/mccartney co-writes where you really can't tell whose song it is. It sounds like it's expressing the essence of the band, not one of its three fron people. And that chorus has always sounded to me like the central thesis of all of rumours, lyrically, emotionally, and especially in the way the three voices don't harmonize with each other so much as they wrap around each other. ―, Monday, 28 July 2014 16:26 (four years ago). I hear 'Walk on the Wild Side' reasonably often, actually (and don't know what 'Shambala' is). In fact, it was on when we turned on CR radio while setting up our apartment a couple of weeks ago.

I remember that when I was a kid and first listening to CR, I totally didn't get what the point of the song was, just some guy talking over a couple of chords. The guitar tone on 'My Sharona' is actually pretty ripping, I noticed when I heard it a little while ago!

I first heard about 'lola' on 'family ties,' so Me too! Nick's preferred wedding song iirc. Xposts LOVE 'Walk Away' ―, Monday, 28 July 2014 17:26 (four years ago). I heard 'Yoda' before I ever heard 'Lola,' and therefore always consider it sort of a novelty song.despite a deep and abiding love for all things Kinks. ― Johnny Fever, Monday, July 28, 2014 10:21 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink haha ditto, I saw gr8080 post this entry then went outside to do some gardening and the whole time I was singing 'So I used the Force! I picked up a box!' Fuck don't stop believin' forever, i will take solace in the fact that it came very near to not placing, and could very easily have been beaten by 'eminence front' loving how 'ILM' these results are, though - all the wrangling over what constitutes Classic Rock aside, we've already got at least three songs here that I am sure would not place in a top 250 of the general radio listenership.

Why I love this place! 'My Sharona' rules and was one of the few borderline new-wave/power-pop songs I let in (the main riff is really close to something like Costello's 'Pump It Up')- it just rocks so hard, has always been ubiquitous in the format in my lifetime, and MY YI YI YI YI, YI, WOO! 'Bad Moon Rising' not my favorite CCR. Reducing the turmoil and upheaval of the late 60s to an old man on the back stoop checking the wind could have maybe worked if anything about the song felt like an actual bad moon was on the rise. Wellll, don't come around tonight - we're out of beer. But come 'round on Saturday, Ed's gonna get the grill fired up around four, and the weather looks good.

It's like it wants to be 'Gimme Shelter' in vibe, but just ended up in the wrong key by accident. I did vote for 'Up Around The Bend' which I doubt we'll see, and 'Fortunate Son,' which I could see placing. ―, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:07 (four years ago). In my world of classic rock neither Genesis nor Phil Collins ever registered, because they were on top 40 / pop radio.

― Euler, Monday, July 28, 2014 10:30 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink nah Genesis/Collins were AOR staples ― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, July 28, 2014 10:31 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink I would question whether I heard much Genesis or Collins solo on classic rock radio either. Stuff like 'Follow You Follow Me' or Duke or Abacab singles are possible. Whole thing has me questioning whether there was an AOR format that was less hard rock-oriented than the station I grew up with. ―, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:07 (four years ago).

Sund4r: 'Stop Draggin' My Heart Around, 'Eminence Front,' I guess 'The Chain' and now I'd add 'Walk Away' I guess, though I don't think I even know that one (add it to the list, fcc?). Not like the public hates any of those - just that ILM types rate Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks a lot higher than I'd reckon the average CR listener does. Not dramatically - I'm just saying, A+ 'essential,' versus A- 'love 'em.' Of course, as discussed previously, our tendency to not vote a lot of songs by a given act may have vote-split some of the heaviest hitters - we'll see as the rollout continues. I think it's cool.

'Purple Haze' sounded fucking amazing to me at age 16 in the mid 90s, as rock as rock would ever get, and yeah, it's all in those opening bars. I didn't vote for it though, and came near to note voting for any Hendrix. Wish I could still hear it fresh, but I can't. ―, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:17 (four years ago). My internal list is comprised of the songs we played at the classic rock station I worked at/with for 11 years.

So far, the list is OTM. Now, some of these are fading away from radio and fast. Back when there were CR stations and 'oldies' stations, the CR would play Purple Haze or Turn Turn Turn while the oldies station would play Runaround Sue. But now, some of those songs like the ones mentioned above or even The Joker are moving from CR to Oldies.

―, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:20 (four years ago). Pop Music Scores Big With Baseball’s Champions Top teams are programming hit tunes over stadium sound-systems to keep crowds fired up between innings. By Colin Devenish New York Yankees star-pitcher David Wells is the classic ruffian, known for his after-hours antics, but he’s all business when he brings his portly frame to the mound. Or as business-like as you can be when the defiant blast of “Runnin’ With the Devil” by Van Halen is escorting you onto the baseball diamond. While Wells, an anchor in the 1998 American League Champion Yankees’ rotation, favors the fist-pumping fervor of Van Halen, each of his teammates will step into the batter’s box during this year’s World Series against the National League Champion San Diego Padres this week to the tune of their own drummers — or drum machines, as the case may be. ―, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:39 (four years ago).

Growing up there was a club in Ocean City called Scandals, and for like 10 years i would constantly hear a local rock radio ad in Delaware that was some random cover band playing the 'Runnin' With The Devil' intro with that bass pulse and the little piano tinkle, and then the drums kick in and a vocalist sings along with the guitar riff: 'SCANDAAAAAAALS' I really hear that every time I hear the VH song tbh. ― some dude, Monday, July 28, 2014 8:37 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink Yesssssssssss god that commercial rises unbidden into my forebrain every time somebody mentions the TV show Scandal, too.

SCANDAAAAAAALS EVERY ONE KNOWS ―, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:00 (four years ago). Didn't Macca claim that Steve Miller was his favorite guitarist? ― Iago Galdston, Monday, July 28, 2014 4:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink Recommendation: don't seek out their 1997 collaboration 'Used To Be Bad.' 'Runnin' With The Devil' is, ironically, god-like. OH GOD I'M RUNNINGAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! Maybe the best showcase for Roth as lead singer, a justification or mission statement for what it is that he does. 'Ain't Talkin' Bout Love' is maybe more of a song, but my heart is with this one.

―, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:11 (four years ago). The song i most regret not voting for today is 'brass in pocket.'

I rejected it on grounds of 'not sufficiently classic rock.' But i do hear it on cr radio out here, and it sounds perfect every time it comes on. Which is to say, sometimes i am an idiot. A cr countdown would make no sense without the uber-classic 'free bird,' even if lynyrd skynyrd topped it several times. It wasn't one of my three skynyrd votes but i'm glad it's on the list, and i'm glad it's low.

―, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 01:51 (four years ago). Jefferson Airplane, like CCR, were riiiight at that borderline to Oldies, but they just have so much in common with the core classic rock sound that follows. 'Dark for the era' is one way of putting it for sure. I only gave them one vote and this wasn't it, but glad to see this here, it rules.

The last few images have just been stellar. 76-74 could have plausibly been the covers to the albums in question, especially Eye in the Sky - that's great! In general, loving the kind of weird sideline choices for some of these acts - would never have expected Breakdown to make it here, but don't mind it at all. Also funny to imagine what ILM would have produced for this poll ten years ago or more - would there be so much southern rock? Lord, but i hate sweet home alabama ―, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 15:32 (four years ago). Re: Sweet Home Alabama - yeah, it's the people and the associations.

Yeah, I know now that Skynyrd themselves aren't to blame for those politics but they pretty much are inseparable - the song is the anthem of shithead southern white Republicans, and its jolly good-times feel only cements that: anybody who dislikes our ways dislikes the sweetness of home, indeed dislikes sweetness itself. This is really unfortunate because it would be perfectly good as just a fun song to have on while grilling and enjoying the things that are nice about living in the south, and I'm sure this is a huge part of why it gets played (and why Kid Rock picked it up for his shameless 'Summer!

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Remember summer! Unfortunately I just can't separate it out, which is my fault and not the song's.

I've tried to enjoy seeing it appropriated by others, as a more generic 'I sure love the place I'm from!' Song (found it oddly popular in Ohio for example), but it hasn't worked, and the state-love thing always feels like it's just a few steps (three steps, let's say) from blood-and-soil proto-fascism to me anyway, unless it's married to more specifics or some other reason for writing the song, e.g. 'Don't It Make You Wanna Go Home' where environmental destruction and urban sprawl threaten the home of childhood. Maybe this is also why I'm finding I accept road boogie joints from these bands more easily: the Breeze is explicitly refusing roots in any particular place, which strikes me as a good idea if the place you're from is draped wall to wall with the stars-n-bars. Basically I just never ever need to hear this again. In appreciation of its craft I did leave it off my 'worst' ballot but that's as much as I'd give it. ―, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 15:57 (four years ago).

It's noon, which means it's time for our 'live lunch' at The Aorta, where we bring you a classic live cut. Today, it's the title track from Jackson Browne's 1977 album Running On Empty, which was recorded at one of our favorite venues, Merriweather Post Pavilion. Jackson will be back in Maryland next month for a solo show at the Hippodrome in Baltimore, and you can bet we'll be there, waiting to hear this one. Stay tuned for more nonstop rock with gr80, who's got some really great stuff ready to go for you this afternoon. Jackson Browne – Running On Empty (Live) 921 points, 15 votes ―, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 16:03 (four years ago). I had never knowingly heard 'Eye In The Sky' before this poll, I'm a little mystified by its placement ― some dude, Tuesday, July 29, 2014 11:04 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink This. Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit 897 points, 14 votes ― some dude, Tuesday, July 29, 2014 11:10 AM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink I could have sworn there was an ilx post from a few years back where a poster described humming white rabbit under their breath as their preferred method to signal that a drug story had gone on too long.

I can't find it in search though, so maybe it was somewhere else? Anyway, I've deployed this method once or twice myself. ―, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 16:07 (four years ago). Re: eye in the sky - 'From our upstairs porch I watch my neighbor, a small town accountant with a voice like a toy keyboard, begin his walk to work in his navy blue Botany 500 suit, bought used in an L.A.

Yessssssss Running On Empty. This one just gets better with (my) age. Already rambled about it in the voting thread, but basically I can't imagine a classic rock station that doesn't play this. Re: Watergate, yeah that line seriously needed a little more work - the ambiguity of the 'you' is the problem I think. It very easily reads like: ehh, who gives a shit about Watergate, Nixon's not such a bad guy, and anybody who would get all up in arms about it is an insincere concern-troll, and that's the only reason why they criticize SWEET HOOOME AL A BAAM UUH. ―, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 16:22 (four years ago). I was one of the two #1's for 'sweet home alabama,' which is on one hand a way more complicated song than it's generally given credit for being (see also: randy newman) and on the other hand such a tight and punchy, perfectly executed rock and roll number, with the best fucking guitar sound ever put on record.

I don't think it's a song about waving the confederate flag so much as it's a song about challenging the outside world's assumptions about who these people are who are waving confederate flags. It's very self-aware, and it's begging to be unpacked and repacked ('in birmingham they love the governor / BOO HOO HOO'). It's a celebration of southern music and a counterpoint to two of neil young's worst songs, one of which unfortunately was at the time turning into one of neil young's most overplayed songs. It's merry fucking clayton on backing vocals, and her story in '20 feet from stardom' about absolutely not wanting to sing a fucking song celebrating alafuckingbama but then deciding to register her own protest by singing the fucking hell out of it is one of my favorite stories about the multitudes upon multitudes contained within these four minutes.

It's a song about being in love with american music, an art form that itself is full of 200 years of pain and joy and tension and release. I don't know, maybe i'm totally wrong about all this. I'm not from the south, and have spent very little time there.

I love tahis song though. ―, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 17:57 (four years ago).

And speaking of skynyrd and neil young, i cited this wikifact about 'sweet home alabama' in the doctor casino listening thread: There is a semi-hidden vocal line in the second verse after the 'Well, I heard Mr. Young sing about her' line. In the left channel, you can hear the phrase 'Southern Man' being sung lightly (at approximately 0:55). This was producer Al Kooper doing a Neil Young impression. According to Leon Wilkeson, it was Kooper's idea to continue and echo the lines from 'Southern Man' after each of Van Zant's lines.

'Better.keep your head'.' Don't forget what your / good book says', etc. But Van Zant insisted that Kooper remove it, not wanting to plagiarize or upset Young. Kooper left the one line barely audible in the left channel. What i have discovered since then is that while by all indications the original version of skynyrd didn't do any such young-mocking in their live shows, the current skynyrd lineup has made it a standard part of the song.

Johnny van zant: 'well i heard mr. Young sing about us' backup singers: 'southern man better.' Johnny: 'well i heard old neil put her down' backups: '.keep your head' (one backup singer pats her head) at 1:08 here, for example: ―, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 17:58 (four years ago). BOW DU DU DU!

Song rules, Toto rules. Took me a long time, and Yacht Rock to come around to these facts. Didn't vote for the Toto IV megahits (which would have sat way at the top of my ballot, but felt way too 80s), but 'Hold the Line' is great crunchy melodrama out of the mouths of studio nerds, which is a big part of this format for me. 'I'll Supply The Love' is the other amaaaazing track from this record, those clean bursts of muscley lead guitar announcing the arrival of the song (bit of a lift from 'Do Ya' I guess), the beautifully stupid chorus/premise, and then the showoffy workout at the end.

BUMP BUH BUM! ―, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 18:24 (four years ago). This was one of those weird out-of-place videos on MTV when it first came on. Missing Persons, Thomas Dolby, Rush with 'Tom Sawyer'. I knew I had exited The South when I went to a house party outside of KC and there was a band of hoosiers (small 'h', no Indiana affiliation) playing 'Tom Sawyer'. I looked around at the Midwesterners behind me and thought, 'Ohh, so THESE are the people who listen to this band.' I'm from the part of the country where traffic stops every afternoon, we get out of our cars and 'Freebird' plays over the radio speakers.

―, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:05 (four years ago). This was one of those weird out-of-place videos on MTV when it first came on. Having seen some extended blocks of early early MTV recently, it was largely composed of weird out-of-place videos. They had a lot of time to fill, and there were an awful lot of older band that were trying their awkward level best to remain on the cusp of relevance.

I wish I could remember which completely cringeworthy Starship video I saw which in no way indicated that they would someday gain a toehold in the age of music videos. ―, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:13 (four years ago).

Listening to 'Tom Sawyer' now and you know, I think of this as a song I like, but in fact its particular brand of bombasticism isn't working for me anymore. I get more actual pleasure from hearing 'Come Sail Away' or even 'Too Much Time On My Hands.' OK, skipping to 'Limelight,' always my favorite from this record. OK - NOW I'm accepting the bombasticism. Starts with a riff instead of a foreboding synthfart.

But even here! It's SLOWER than I remembered. The big reverb on the guitars in the chorus (is it a chorus?) sounds terrible now. I have switched over to 'Turn It On Again.'

No less bombastic, surely. But when Phil Collins says 'Down on my luck again.

Down on my luck again' you feel something is actually going on, while when Geddy talks about 'society' it just sounds like he's writing a term paper. ―, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:18 (four years ago).

I'm from the part of the country where traffic stops every afternoon, we get out of our cars and 'Freebird' plays over the radio speakers. ― pplains, Tuesday, July 29, 2014 3:05 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink at last, we finally understand what REM was trying to do with 'Everybody Hurts.' Gr8080's link is suuuuper key for anybody who hasn't seen it yet, still cracks me up. 'Solsbury Hill' is great, obviously, but I cut it pretty early as something I'm not sure I ever heard on CR radio. Maybe in more recent years, I guess? I know Genesis should grandfather solo Gabriel in, but IME he didn't seem to really click into where the format was going.

Eephus OTM about term-paper rock, Rush are boring but I wouldn't change the channel on 'Limelight,' which does sidestep the 'oops, a groove, better run' quality that Old Lunch identifies and which I bitched about on the other thread re: Spirit of the Radio. It's not even like they're avoiding a groove, it's like they really can't tell the difference between a groovy part and something else. ―, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:23 (four years ago).

My old roommate and pal's dad used to insist, casually, that back in his college days, his band's main rival in town was Steve Miller's, but that he didn't begrudge his former equal's success, as fame takes its toll too: 'You should see Steve these days! He's a mess!' I was never convinced the chronology or geography of this worked at all, but I would also totally respect a dude whose imagined, bogus musical rival was Steve Miller. Hard to see any write-ins making it tbh - a dozen votes is a high hurdle. ―, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:24 (four years ago). 'Rebel Rebel' one of my least favorite of Bowie's smashes. It's fine, good riff, it just sorta wears out its welcome.

Definitely feel like stations are way more likely to play Solsbury Hill now than in the 90s, say, but I have no data to back this up, just a vague sense that artier/college/iPad commercial sensibilities have trickled into the programming, if certainly not as visibly as 80s hard rock and early alt-rock megahits. Suspect 'Changes' is quietly one of Bowie's biggest CR songs. I hear 'Fame' enough though, and 'Young Americans.' ―, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:49 (four years ago).

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However, there can be skins that could be available via other methods like the purchase of Save the World, or in other promotional ways. Most skins are datamined and then released within a week or two, but others have been sitting in the files for a while and we still aren't clear how they will be released. Recently Released.,. Scorecard Emote.,.,!. Released as part of the Fortnite X Nvidia Bundle. Other Cosmetics/Skins.

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Love the content man it is the best fortnite content ever you are the man. Well just because it isn’t as common for us Americans to celebrate does not mean that its not important to other people like those who are Chinese it is kinda important to them so epic has realized that and so they make skins just for that some people don’t celebrate Christmas. Especially with the Chinese servers coming out for Fortnite Chinese New Years skins can be a special gift for those who do celebrate it. You might not and I might not but its cool to keep things fresh like they could’ve made it to where they don’t add new winter/Christmas skins. People are saying that reflex and instinct are going to be twitch prime pack 3, but no one has any proof to back this up.

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There’s a male skin with a female counterpart, usually these types o skins are in the item shop as a set. Also, they aren’t the twitch color scheme of purple and gray. But trailblazer wasn’t, so I’m not sure if that’s a good reason why. People were also convinced that Archetype was going to be the next twitch pack because of ever reason that goes against these two skins. There was only one male skin with no female counterpart and everything was basically perfect. But who knows. They could be, but they probably won’t be.

I kinda hope they aren’t, I really want instinct and if she’s twitch then everyone will have her and I’ll look like a noob. Tell me what y’all think!

It’s good to have more than one opinion. Steadfast, Rush, and Helium are probably going to be for the Chinese version o the game, because that’s what happens when you have something that isn’t blue that hasn’t been released in ages. Cloaked Star’s backbling has blue in it so I am just assuming that it will be yet another PS+ skin, even though it’s in stw.

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I am really starting to hate the amount of exclusive stuff PSN players get. I’m still really angry that royale bomber comes in a PS4 bundle, I really like that skin. And also, why on earth did they put Rogue Agent in the shop? It was a pretty cool season 3 veteran skin, and it was on the road to fame as it was never going to be available again, and they decide to completely change courses and put it in the shop!

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