Fun poll

[kellinator]

I was driving through Birmingham a few weeks ago while the DJ was discussing this and I thought it was a pretty interesting question.

[Poll #339825]

(By classics, I mean in the "classic rock" sense, not the "classical music" sense.)

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[sujata.livejournal.com]

I answered off the top of my head, and, the more that I think about it, the more I feel I did a disservice to a number of truly gifted artists.

Thus, a more considered response:

Tracey Chapman -- "Fast Car" and "One Good Reason" are both definitely future classics.

Stevie Nicks -- Too many to name, really, but here at least is a representative sampling: "Landslide," "Gypsy," "Rhiannon," "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You," "Stand Back"

U2 -- "With or Without You," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," "Where the Streets Have No Name" (hey, the greatest hits were released in the past 10 years, it qualifies!)

Alanis Morissette -- "Uninvited," "You Learn," "That I Would Be Good"

Tori Amos -- "Girl," "Crucify," "Silent All These Years," "God," "The Waitress" (how can the song that made "I believe in peace, bitch!" common parlance not become a classic? *grin*), "A Sorta Fairytale," "Scarlet's Walk," "Your Cloud"

The Cure -- "Jupiter Crash" and a couple of others from Wild Mood Swings

Pink -- Shows a lot of promise. I daresay "Don't Let Me Get Me" is already destined to be a classic, and I suspect "Just Like a Pill" will be too.

Bruce Springsteen seems to be making a comeback; I expect some of his new work to become classics too.

With even more thought, I'm sure I'd come up with others. ;-)