Chez 106's Top 10

10) Lynyrd Skynyrd (sp?) - "Sweet Home Alabama"

9) The Animals - "The House of the Rising Sun"

8) AC/DC - "You Shook Me All Night Long"

7) Dire Straits - "The Sultans of Swing"

6) Led Zeppelin - "Stairway to Heaven"

5) Jimi Hendrix - "All Along the Watchtower"

4) David Bowie - "Space Oddity"

3) Pink Floyd - "Comfortably Numb"

2) Led Zeppelin - "Black Dog"

1) Van der Graaf Generator - "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers"

Sorry, just dreaming for a second there . . .

1) The Eagles - "Hotel California"

Discuss. Compare and contrast to all the recent ILM and other lists.

Notes: i) I realized while listening that I now like a lot of classic rock I wrote off before. I found myself loving the Byrds, the Stones, the Band, even some CCR and Eric Clapton's playing on "Cocaine." I still hate Pink Floyd and the Eagles. (But I want to give Syd Barrett-era stuff another chance.) I hate Supertramp more than I'd realized. Overall, I think classic-rock-radio taste is pretty impeccable as far as anything pre-1976 goes.

ii) I wonder whether Canadian content regulations influenced the makeup of the list at all. That would explain the presence of two Guess Who songs in the top 25.

iii) I'd post the top 15 but I don't know the names of tracks 11 and 13. I didn't recognize them right away and I must have missed it if they announced them.

iv) I wonder how many people voted for some of the songs in the bottom 200 (e.g. Alannah Myles - "Black Velvet")

v) No, I didn't sit through every song. Didn't even listen at all the first day.