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Poll Question: Which of these classic rock smash hits is your favorite?
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    Posted: May 08 2021 at 14:00
Five of the greatest classic rock songs of all time.  Which one of these is your favorite?
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I've overplayed all these songs LOL
No vote, I hardly play them anymore. Big smile
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I'm on the same page as Cristi here; I think I could only hear these once a year (or twice!), but no more.
I will, however, dare to cast the first vote for 'Purple Haze'.
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Hmmm...starting to look as though I should have asked the poll question: if you could go back in time and hear one of these songs for the first time again which one would it be?  LOL
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I know only two of the songs, so I’m not sure I’m eligible to vote.
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Originally posted by nick_h_nz nick_h_nz wrote:

I know only two of the songs, so I’m not sure I’m eligible to vote.

wow, really?! 
these are very famous songs. I'm surprised you only know two of them. Which ones do you know? 
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Originally posted by nick_h_nz nick_h_nz wrote:

I know only two of the songs, so I’m not sure I’m eligible to vote.
That is surprising.  Somehow I could see Paul not having heard any of these songs  Wink...but I would have figured that these are 5 songs that pretty much everyone else would be very familiar with.
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I know of them all, because they are all, as you say, very famous songs.

Hotel California I’ve heard many times, as it was often played on the radio station my dad listened to.

I knew the main riff from Smoke on the Water because it was used in an ad for the local racecourse. But I’d never heard any more than that riff, or any Deep Purple music at all (that I’m aware of), until a few years back, when someone told me I really ought to give them a listen. In fact, I can pretty much date when I listened to them, because I added them to my Amazon wish list, as I liked them enough to think about buying them. I’ve not listened to any Deep Purple since, but I added them to my wishlist on 24 November 2016.

I’ve never heard anything but the opening riff from Stairway, as played in Wayne’s World.

Purple Haze is, I believe the “touch the sky” song, that people hear as “‘kiss this guy”, but I don’t believe I’ve ever heard it. Yeah, I know, I suck. I know a few Hendrix songs, but I don’t believe this is one of them.

Free Bird is the song people call out to hear in concerts, but to the best of my knowledge I’ve never heard it either. As far as I know, the only Lynyrd Skynyrd song I’ve heard is Sweet Home Alabama (which was played on the same radio station as Hotel California).
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From these, DP would be my first choice.
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Originally posted by nick_h_nz nick_h_nz wrote:

I know of them all, because they are all, as you say, very famous songs.

Hotel California I’ve heard many times, as it was often played on the radio station my dad listened to.

I knew the main riff from Smoke on the Water because it was used in an ad for the local racecourse. But I’d never heard any more than that riff, or any Deep Purple music at all (that I’m aware of), until a few years back, when someone told me I really ought to give them a listen. In fact, I can pretty much date when I listened to them, because I added them to my Amazon wish list, as I liked them enough to think about buying them. I’ve not listened to any Deep Purple since, but I added them to my wishlist on 24 November 2016.

I’ve never heard anything but the opening riff from Stairway, as played in Wayne’s World.

Purple Haze is, I believe the “touch the sky” song, that people hear as “‘kiss this guy”, but I don’t believe I’ve ever heard it. Yeah, I know, I suck. I know a few Hendrix songs, but I don’t believe this is one of them.

Free Bird is the song people call out to hear in concerts, but to the best of my knowledge I’ve never heard it either. As far as I know, the only Lynyrd Skynyrd song I’ve heard is Sweet Home Alabama (which was played on the same radio station as Hotel California).

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Purple Haze all through my brain...
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird   I never tire of listening to it.
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Probably Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water, with The Eagles Hotel California pulling a close second.
Never really liked Stairway to Heaven all that much or that particular Lynard Skynyrd tune.
Hendrix is always a classic, but he has better songs.
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Originally posted by Gentle and Giant Gentle and Giant wrote:

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird   I never tire of listening to it.


Same here, which has baffled some of my friends.
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Stairway To Heaven > Purple Haze > Hotel California 
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Stairway to Heaven, but I have not spun that in 6 months. I've been more into the Eagles lately......
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I am not familiar with Lynyrd Skynyrd at all; all I know about them is that almost all of the band died in a plane crash. The other songs are all well known to me. The riff of "Smoke on the Water" is the mother of all riffs.


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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Originally posted by nick_h_nz nick_h_nz wrote:

I know only two of the songs, so I’m not sure I’m eligible to vote.
That is surprising.  Somehow I could see Paul not having heard any of these songs  Wink...but I would have figured that these are 5 songs that pretty much everyone else would be very familiar with.
I know all of these songs, and surprisingly, I voted for the Eagles, even though it's the least psychedelic or progressive of all five songs. 


Edited by Psychedelic Paul - May 09 2021 at 01:07
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Jean and I just listened to "Free Bird". Jean says she heard that song before many times when she still lived in the USA. I heard it for the first time and am not really impressed.


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