Music List A Month (April): Top Classic Rock Tracks

 How do you narrow 800 tracks to 100?  Impossible as I found out when I first participated in this 2014 poll.  In this poll, you had to take 800 selected Classic Rock tracks and pick a Top 100.  So, what I decided to do was pick 1 song per artist.  So, only 1 Zep, Stones, etc.  It's kind of foolish, but it made squeezing as many songs as possible a lot easier.

  For the first 20 years of my life, Top 40 hits radio was all I listened to.  Even though I knew the names from other genres, thanks to subscribing to Billboard and Rolling Stone in the late 70's. By the time the 80's came around I started to branch out into R&B, Country, Classic Rock and AOR. 

So, below are a ranked Top 100 of songs that define the Classic Rock Radio format:

1. Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
2. Derek & The Dominos - Layla
3. Beatles - Come Together
4. Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash
5. Boston - More Than A Feeling
6. Doors - Light My Fire
7. Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
8. Aerosmith - Dream On
9. Eagles - Take It Easy
10. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
11. CCR - Bad Moon Rising
12. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
13. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
14. Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
15. AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
16. Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love
17. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Refugee
18. Elton John - Rocket Man
19. Journey - Lights
20. Pink Floyd - Money
21. Peter Frampton - Show Me The Way (live)
22. Steve Miller - Fly Like An Eagle
23. Rush - Tom Sawyer
24. Van Halen - Runnin' With The Devil
25. Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'
26. Foreigner - Feels Like The First Time
27. Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
28. Bob Seger - Night Moves
29. Cars - Just What I Needed
30. Heart - Crazy On You
31. Allman Brothers - Ramblin' Man
32. Free - All Right Now
33. John Mellencamp - Hurts So Good
34. Santana - Oye Como Va
35. Who -  I Can See For Miles
36. Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
37. ZZ Top - La Grange
38. ELO - Evil Woman
39. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
40. Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
41. .38 Special - Hold On Loosely
42. Kinks - Lola
43. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
44. Styx - Come Sail Away
45. Steely Dan - Reeling In The Years
46. Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
47. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
48. Guess Who - American Woman
49. Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way
50. Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love
51. Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
52. Neil Young - Heart of Gold
53. Eric Clapton - I Shot The Sheriff
54. Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
55. Thin Lizzy - Boys Are Back In Town
56. Yes - Roundabout
57. REO Speedwagon - Keep On Lovin' You
58. Foghat - Slow Ride
59. Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
60. T. Rex - Bang A Gong
61. Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee
62. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pride and Joy
63. Rick Derringer - Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo
64. Police - Roxanne
65. Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band
66. Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
67. Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin
68. David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
69. Jackson Browne - Running On Empty
70. CSN - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
71. Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
72. Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me  (live)
73. Billy Squier - Everybody Wants You
74. Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
75. Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run
76. Def Leppard - Photograph
77. Bad Company - Can't Get Enough
78. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
79. Grateful Dead - Truckin'
80. Rod Stewart - Maggie May
81. Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side
82. Kiss - Rock and Roll All Nite (live '75)
83. Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See
84. Knack - My Sharona
85. Robert Palmer - Bad Case of Loving You
86. Alice Cooper - Eighteen
87. Supertramp - Logical Song
88. U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
89. Don Henley - Boys of Summer
90. Faces - Stay With Me
91. Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
92. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - From the Beginning
93. Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
94. Toto - Hold The Line
95. Genesis - Abacab
96. Don McLean - American Pie
97. Pretenders - Brass In Pocket
98. Eddie Money - Two Tickets to Paradise
99. Van Morrison - Domino
100. Joe Cocker - Feelin' Alright