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View Poll Results: Vote for one from each pair
6 Comfortably Numb Pink Floyd
72 69.90%
11 We Will Rock You Queen
26 25.24%
3 Sunshine of your Love Cream
56 54.37%
14 Highway to Hell AC/DC
42 40.78%
7 Born to Run Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
48 46.60%
10 Gimme Shelter The Rolling Stones
52 50.49%
2 Whole Lotta Love Led Zeppelin
68 66.02%
15 Crazy Train Ozzy Osbourne
29 28.16%

04-28-2011 , 07:53 PM
this one's pretty easy. faves all the way.
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04-28-2011 , 07:58 PM
i'd go with gimmie shelter over springsteen but the rest is going right.
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04-28-2011 , 07:59 PM
Anyone who takes Sunshine of Your Love over Highway to Hell or Comfortably Numb over We Will Rock You needs to have their rock license suspended.
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04-28-2011 , 08:01 PM
no you have it backwards.

maybe i'm just biased because on my 3 classic rock stations highway to hell and we will rock you are played about 20 times a day so i've come to hate them...But seriously, Sunshine and Comfortably Numb are incredibly better songs in just about every way (lyrically, especially, lol, and obviously musically with any music done by Cream being better than music done by any band (obviously) and ****ing We Will Rock you barely has music in it).
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04-28-2011 , 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Clare Quilty
Anyone who takes Sunshine of Your Love over Highway to Hell or Comfortably Numb over We Will Rock You needs to have their rock license suspended.
ACDC incredibly overrated and borderline not classic rock. We Will Rock You is a tired sports event chant.
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04-28-2011 , 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by General Tsao
no you have it backwards.

maybe i'm just biased because on my 3 classic rock stations highway to hell and we will rock you are played about 20 times a day so i've come to hate them...But seriously, Sunshine and Comfortably Numb are incredibly better songs in just about every way (lyrically, especially, lol, and obviously musically with any music done by Cream being better than music done by any band (obviously) and ****ing We Will Rock you barely has music in it).
Right, b/c you never hear Cream or Floyd on classic rock radio.

I can always guess which songs you're going to pick in this thing. If they're genteel and boring, don't really rock, and have a sixties hippie pedigree, they seem to be up your alley. Bonus points if Eric Snoozefest Clapton is wanking all over them of course.

Also, ****ing We Will Rock You barely has any music in it besides maybe the most recognizable drum beat and the coolest guitar solo ever.
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04-28-2011 , 08:10 PM
I will say that We Will Rock You, once it gets past the chant and into the guitar solo is ****ing amazing. But Comfotably Numb is just too good a song.
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04-28-2011 , 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by fsoyars
ACDC incredibly overrated and borderline not classic rock. We Will Rock You is a tired sports event chant.
Omg ACDC is not overrated and how in the **** is it not classic rock?
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04-28-2011 , 08:15 PM
I like Comfortably Numb fine as a song, but picking it over We Will Rock You is insane. We Will Rock You is one of the songs that defines classic rock as a genre, and Comfortably Numb is not.

ETA: and having heard it a million times at sporting events is immaterial and actually ammunition for my argument.
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04-28-2011 , 08:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Clare Quilty
Omg ACDC is not overrated and how in the **** is it not classic rock?
They are borderline. There's a lot of grey area in this genre obv. I'd say they skew more towards stadium rock/early metal than classic rock. You mention 60's hippie pedigree, I think that's an element that should be present in all classic rock, even if just as an influence. It's absent in ACDC. In general, I just never found their music that interesting. I've never listened to them in depth, so maybe I'm wrong, but they seem a bit one dimensional to me. It's jock rock.
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04-28-2011 , 08:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Clare Quilty
ETA: and having heard it a million times at sporting events is immaterial and actually ammunition for my argument.
I guess. I mean to me, overexposure detracts from the value of the song. Might not be fair, but it's true. Some songs I'm just sick of.
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04-28-2011 , 08:22 PM
Born to Run versus Gimme Shelter is such a hard match up....Gimme Shelter just imo.

What is it with the thread titles? None of these are from Cleveland.
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04-28-2011 , 08:29 PM
If you don't like AC/DC, you don't like rock imo. Also, the big part of the classic rock bell curve is mid to late seventies--the original programming was intended for that era specifically, not the sixties. So imo stuff like AC/DC is more legit classic rock than a lot of late sixties stuff that's almost more baby boomer programming.

Watch this clip and tell me AC/DC wasn't ****ing awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1iR2Wi3u5o
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04-28-2011 , 08:37 PM
I mean, they're good. I don't hate them. They're just not on par with most of these other bands imo. That song, while decent, sounds like most of their songs. Cue electric guitar riff... cue thumping drum beat... cue laughably bad lyrics.

And it's not really relevant that the mid-late 70's make up the bulk of classic rock (assuming that's true). Almost all classic rock bands are clearly and overtly influenced by 60's music.
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04-28-2011 , 08:51 PM
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Originally Posted by NoJacket

What is it with the thread titles? None of these are from Cleveland.
Come on - the heart of rock and roll is there -
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04-28-2011 , 09:03 PM
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Originally Posted by fsoyars
laughably bad lyrics.
I defy you to find me a Pink Floyd or Cream lyric that beats, "She had the body of Venus, with arms."
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04-28-2011 , 10:19 PM
If Born To Run goes out in the first round I'm going to burn this place down
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04-28-2011 , 10:42 PM
I love me some Scorsese but I wish he would stop using these songs in his movies. He almost ruined Comfortably Numb for me the way he used it in Departed. But I still voted for it. That guitarwork is just too sick. And he needs to stop using Gimme Shelter in every ****ing movie.
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04-28-2011 , 10:44 PM
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Originally Posted by mikekelley
If Born To Run goes out in the first round I'm going to burn this place down
Why? If it survives it's certainly going out in the second. It's not that big of a deal.
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04-29-2011 , 12:20 AM
Queen is absolutely awful... all their songs are f'ckn crappy.

Obvious winners are obvious:

• comfortably numb
• sunshine of your love
• gimme shelter
• whole lotta love
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04-29-2011 , 12:49 AM
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Originally Posted by ninetynine99
Queen is absolutely awful... all their songs are f'ckn crappy.

This one is pretty good
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fsoyars: "Cue electric guitar riff... cue thumping drum beat... cue laughably bad lyrics. "

That's pretty funny. I remember years ago when I realized AC/DC might be the GOAT at opening a song. But then the 3 minutes of middle was kind of repetetive crap, then they'd end the song really well. Look at almost all of their songs, they open up and you're like "**** YEAH ACDC BROHEIM!" then 45 seconds in you're like "what happened?"
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04-29-2011 , 01:29 AM
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Originally Posted by prohornblower
meh... I can't stand all Queen songs pretty much equally – except Bohemian Rhapsody, which I absolutely hate with a vengeance.
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04-29-2011 , 01:31 AM
I will live and die with AC/DC, especially with Bon Scott. It's meat-and-potatoes hard rock that is also spare and stylized. Close to perfect.
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04-29-2011 , 01:36 AM
I nominated both Comfortably Numb and We Will Rock You, but the former >>> the latter
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