Pink Floyd in UK Classic Rock Radio poll |
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Written by Matt
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Wednesday, 29 December 2004 |
UK digital radio station Planet Rock recently asked their listeners to vote on the Top 100 Classic Rock Songs of all time. They asked them to vote for their top 5 favourite rock songs, and Pink Floyd figured well in the overall results.
As we know that many of you are interested to see how the band fare in these polls, here's how the band figured in the top 100:
13 Comfortably Numb
17 Money
21 Wish You Were Here
44 High Hopes
96 Another Brick In The Wall
For those of you interested, here's the complete run-down:
1 LED ZEPPELIN Stairway to Heaven
2 LYNYRD SKYNYRD Freebird
3 QUEEN Bohemian Rhapsody
4 DEEP PURPLE Smoke On The Water
5 BLACK SABBATH Paranoid
6 LED ZEPPELIN Whole Lotta Love
7 EAGLES Hotel California
8 LED ZEPPELIN Rock and Roll
9 AC/DC Highway To Hell
10 JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE All Along The Watchtower
11 DEREK & THE DOMINOES/ERIC CLAPTON Layla
12 LYNYRD SKYNYRD Sweet Home Alabama
13 Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb
14 GUNS N ROSES Sweet Child Of Mine
15 DOORS Riders On The Storm
16 CREAM White Room
17 PINK FLOYD Money
18 AC/DC You Shook Me All Night Long
19 DOORS Break On Through (To The Other Side)
20 DIRE STRAITS Sultans Of Swing
21 PINK FLOYD Wish You Were Here
22 LED ZEPPELIN Ramble On
23 AC/DC Hells Bells
24 WHO Won't Get Fooled Again
25 RAINBOW Since You've Been Gone
26 AC/DC Back in Black
27 ZZ TOP Gimme All Your Loving
28 HAWKWIND Silver Machine
29 BAD COMPANY Can't Get Enough
30 FREE Wishing Well
31 CREAM Badge
32 BAD COMPANY Feel Like Makin' Love
33 DEEP PURPLE Strange Kind Of Woman
34 MEATLOAF Bat Out Of Hell (Full Length Version)
35 BOSTON More Than A Feeling
36 DEEP PURPLE Woman From Tokyo
37 THIN LIZZY Waiting For An Alibi
38 AC/DC Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution
39 ZZ TOP Sharp Dressed Man
40 ROLLING STONES Sympathy For The Devil
41 WHITESNAKE Here I Go Again
42 FOCUS Hocus Pocus
43 CREAM Sunshine Of Your Love
44 PINK FLOYD High Hopes
45 GOLDEN EARRING Radar Love
46 CREAM I Feel Free
47 BLUE OYSTER CULT (Don't Fear) The Reaper
48 AC/DC Thunderstruck
49 QUEEN We Will Rock You
50 BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
51 GUNS N ROSES Paradise City
52 WHO Pinball Wizard
53 BON JOVI Livin' On A Prayer
54 ALICE COOPER School's Out
55 ARGENT Hold Your Head Up
56 QUEEN Killer Queen
57 WHO You Better, You Bet
58 DAVID BOWIE Starman
59 ROLLING STONES Brown Sugar
60 WHO Substitute
61 VAN HALEN Jump
62 T REX Get It On
63 GUNS N ROSES Welcome To The Jungle
64 WHO Who Are You
65 ZZ TOP Legs
66 RAINBOW I Surrender
67 DAVID BOWIE Rebel Rebel
68 JOE WALSH Rocky Mountain Way
69 Beatles Get Back
70 ROLLING STONES It's Only Rock And Roll
71 BRYAN ADAMS Summer Of '69
72 YES Owner Of A Lonely Heart
73 STATUS QUO Down
74 URIAH HEEP Easy Livin'
75 DAVID BOWIE Jean Genie
76 AEROSMITH Love In An Elevator
77 ROLLING STONES Let's Spend The Night Together
78 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Born To Run
79 QUEEN One Vision
80 DEF LEPPARD Let's Get Rocked
81 DAVID BOWIE Heroes
82 QUEEN Now I'm Here
83 ALICE COOPER Poison
84 RAM JAM Black Betty
85 GENESIS Mama
86 EAGLES Life In The Fast Lane
87 STATUS QUO Rockin' All Over The World
88 YARDBIRDS Heart Full Of Soul
89 BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD For What Its Worth
90 BON JOVI Keep The Faith
91 R E M The One I Love
92 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Born In The USA
93 QUEEN/DAVID BOWIE Under Pressure
94 RUSH The Spirit Of Radio
95 EUROPE The Final Countdown
96 PINK FLOYD Another Brick In The Wall
97 LED ZEPPELIN Communication Breakdown
98 U2 Pride (In The Name Of Love)
99 AEROSMITH Walk This Way
100 QUEEN Don't Stop Me Now
As with any such polls, plenty of surprises and gives rise to much debate on the relative merits (or not) of certain entries!
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