the Rock Report

Geez … talk about makin’ a guy feel old alluvasudden:

Metallica’s song, Enter Sandman, has been voted the top classic all-time rock song by listeners of 106.1 Rock Radio(touted as Manchester [UK]’s first classic rock station).

CLASSIC?!?  Ouch!!

Then, ummmm, wh … what does that make the hot sounds of The Sixties??  Are we now antiques or, even worse, old (godforgivemeferusin’thisword) Relics??

Waitaminnit:  That … that would include (gulp!)  … THE BEATLES!
Sacrilege …

‘Course, it helps to know that only about 13,000 cast their votes — and that’s only in the Man area. If you included, say, every state in America and whatever’s up in Canada besides elk (heh-heh … sorry. Didn’t mean to open a Canada worms there. I’ve toured there and love the people. Can tolerate the elk), not to mention other countries, living or dead, ya might just see a different list.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m a humongomendous fan of Hetfield & Co. (my fave is also from the “black album”. Song’s called Don’t Tread On Me) … but, by the time ES came out, I was already entering childhood (second stage, not including wife, sons and taxes).

Anyway, the 106.1 final top 20 looked like this:

1 – Enter Sandman, Metallica
2 – Back In Black, AC/DC
3 – Stairway To Heaven, Led Zeppelin
4 – Freebird, Lynyrd Skynyrd
5 – Sweet Child O’ Mine, Guns N’ Roses
6 – Comfortably Numb, Pink Floyd
7 – Whole Lotta Rosie, AC/DC
8 – Kashmir, Led Zeppelin
9 – Ace Of Spades, Motorhead
10 – One, Metallica
11 – Run To The Hills – Iron Maiden
12 – Welcome To The Jungle, Guns N’ Roses
13 – Paranoid, Black Sabbath
14 – Master Of Puppets, Metallica
15 – Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana
16 – Won’t Get Fooled Again, The Who
17 – Bat Out Of Hell, Meat Loaf
18 – Highway To Hell, AC/DC
19 – Nothing Else Matters, Metallica
20 – Hotel California, The Eagles

I dunno … maybe I’ll be on there next (WAIT!! FOUR TIMES,Jim?? Don’tcha think yer overdoin’ it a bit?? lol).

Anyway, that’s it for this edition. Right now, the nurse is wheelin’ us old antique relics into the nursing-home cafeteria for our soup and soft cookies. Maybe somebody’ll play When I’m 64 on the pie-any in the corner …

See ya on the flip side …

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