OK, kids, before we start up the eternal all-request weekend, I just wanna get things rolling with a nomination and discussion thread.
I have prepared a list of over 500 songs to start with -- drawing from airplay data as well as some classic rock stations' Memorial Day/Labor Day weekend countdowns -- which I will post in a minute. I wanted to give you guys a chance to request additions, point out errors or misspellings, etc., before I get started. I'll make all the final decisions but will try to hear out everyone's opinion and explain if I disagree with a suggestion.
a few notes:
- I am going with a vague definition of classic rock radio as it existed in America (and probably Canada, maybe other places but I really have no idea) during my youth and continues to exist in a slightly different form today: '60s rock beginning with the Beatles/Stones/etc., and running into some point in the 1980s at which things stop feeling like "classic rock." There are classic rock stations now playing Nirvana and Pearl Jam, but the arbitrary cutoff point that I've been going with is that songs from albums released in 1986 or earlier are OK, 1987 is not. Appetite For Destruction/The Joshua Tree/Hysteria/etc. just don't feel right to me for inclusion. Similarly, pre-Beatles rock seems to be relegated to "oldies" radio as opposed to classic rock radio, and unless anyone can think of any good arguments for exceptions, will probably stick with that. Even in the case of the Beatles, the mop top era has mostly fallen out of fashion on classic radio in favor of Sgt Peppers-onward Beatles, which my nominations list reflects.
- Songs that you generally hear on the radio as live versions will be nominated in that form and no other. Likewise, songs that are almost always paired together on the radio, like "We Will Rock You" and "We Are The Champions," can only be voted for together, and will take up one song spot on your ballot.
- After this thread has run its course and I officially open voting, I'm thinking of a 2 week voting window, with ballots consisting of a minimum of 20 songs and a maximum of 100 songs.
- Am open to ideas for subpolls. One idea I like is "top 5 classic rock albums" -- albums that always have several songs in classic rock rotation that you are happy to hear (Who's Next, Led Zeppelin IV, Dark Side Of The Moon, that kind of thing).
- I have usually done pretty no-frills poll results rollouts, but if anyone has ideas about graphics or whatever they want to contribute or help with, lemme know.
― some dude, Monday, 16 June 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
and here is the preliminary songs list:
.38 Special – Caught Up In You.38 Special – Hold On Loosely.38 Special – Rockin’ Into The NightAC/DC – Back In BlackAC/DC – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt CheapAC/DC – For Those About To RockAC/DC – Have A Drink On MeAC/DC – Hells BellsAC/DC – Highway To HellAC/DC – It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll)AC/DC – Rock ‘n’ Roll AIn’t Noise PollutionAC/DC – Shoot To ThrillAC/DC – T.N.T.AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night LongAerosmith – Back In The SaddleAerosmith – Come TogetherAerosmith – Dream OnAerosmith – Same Old Song And DanceAerosmith – Sweet EmotionAerosmith – Train Kept A-Rollin’Aerosmith – Walk This WayAlice Cooper – No More Mr. Nice GuyAlice Cooper – School’s OutThe Allman Brothers Band – JessicaThe Allman Brothers Band – Midnight RiderThe Allman Brothers Band – Ramblin’ ManAutograph – Turn Up The RadioBachman-Turner Overdrive – Let It RideBachman-Turner Overdrive – Takin’ Care of BusinessBachman-Turner Overdrive – You Ain’t Seen Nothing YetBad Company – Bad CompanyBad Company – Burnin’ SkyBad Company – Can’t Get EnoughBad Company – Feel Like Makin’ LoveBad Company – Ready For LoveBad Company – Rock ‘N’ Roll FantasyBad Company – Shooting StarThe Band – The WeightThe Beach Boys – Good VibrationsThe Beatles – A Day In The LifeThe Beatles – Back In The USSRThe Beatles – Come TogetherThe Beatles – Get BackThe Beatles – Let It BeThe Beatles – RevolutionThe Beatles – Strawberry Fields ForeverThe Beatles – While My Guitar Gently WeepsBig Brother And The Holding Company – Piece Of My HeartBilly Idol – Dancing With MyselfBilly Idol – Rebel YellBilly Idol – White WeddingBilly Joel – Big ShotBilly Joel – Captain JackBilly Joel – It’s Still Rock And Roll To MeBilly Joel – Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)Billy Joel – New York State Of MindBilly Joel – Only The Good Die YoungBilly Joel – Piano ManBilly Joel – You May Be RightBilly Squier – Everybody Wants YouBilly Squier – Lonely Is The NightBilly Squier – My Kinda LoverBilly Squier – The StrokeBlack Sabbath – Iron ManBlack Sabbath – ParanoidBlack Sabbath – War Pigs Blue Oyster Cult – Don’t Fear The ReaperBlue Oyster Cult – I’m Burnin’ For YouBob Dylan – Knockin’ On Heaven’s DoorBob Dylan – Like A Rolling StoneBob Dylan – Rainy Day Women #12 & 35Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick BluesBob Seger – Against The WindBob Seger – Fire Down BelowBob Seger – Her StrutBob Seger – Hollywood NightsBob Seger - KatmanduBob Seger – Mainstreet Bob Seger – Night MovesBob Seger – Old Time Rock & RollBob Seger – Rock & Roll Never ForgetsBob Seger – Turn The PageBon Jovi – Livin’ On A PrayerBon Jovi – Runaway Boston – Don’t Look BackBoston – Feelin’ SatisfiedBoston – Foreplay/Long TimeBoston – Hitch A RideBoston – Let Me Take You Home TonightBoston – More Than A FeelingBoston – Rock & Roll BandBoston – Smokin’Boston – Something About YouBruce Springsteen – Badlands Bruce Springsteen – Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen – Born To RunBruce Springsteen – Dancing In The DarkBruce Springsteen – Hungry HeartBruce Springsteen – The RiverBruce Springsteen – Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)Bruce Springsteen – Tenth Avenue Freeze-OutBruce Springsteen – Thunder RoadBuffalo Springfield – For What It’s WorthBryan Adams – Cuts Like A KnifeBryan Adams – Run To YouBryan Adams – Summer Of ‘69The Cars – Bye Bye LoveThe Cars – Good Times RollThe Cars – Just What I NeededThe Cars – Let’s GoThe Cars – My Best Friend’s GirlThe Cars – Shake It UpThe Cars – You’re All I’ve Got TonightCharlie Daniels Band – The Devil Went Down To GeorgiaCheap Trick – I Want You To Want Me (Live)Cheap Trick – Surrender The Clash – Rock The CasbahThe Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I GoThe Clash – Train In VainCream – CrossroadsCream – Sunshine Of Your LoveCream – White RoomCreedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon RisingCreedence Clearwater Revival – Born On The BayouCreedence Clearwater Revival – Down On The CornerCreedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate SonCreedence Clearwater Revival – Have You Ever Seen The Rain?Creedence Clearwater Revival – Proud MaryCreedence Clearwater Revival – Who’ll Stop The Rain Crosby, Stills & Nash – Suite: Judy Blue EyesCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young – OhioCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Woodstock David Bowie - ChangesDavid Bowie – FameDavid Bowie – Let’s DanceDavid Bowie – Modern LoveDavid Bowie – Rebel RebelDavid Bowie – Space OddityDavid Bowie – Suffragette CityDavid Bowie – Young AmericansDavid Bowie – Ziggy StardustDavid Essex – Rock OnDeep Purple – Hush Deep Purple – Smoke On The WaterDef Leppard – Bringin’ On The HeartbreakDef Leppard – Foolin’ Def Leppard - PhotographDef Leppard – Rock Of AgesDef Leppard – Too Late For LoveDerek & The Dominoes – LaylaDio – Rainbow In The DarkDire Straits – Money For NothingDire Straits – Sultans of SwingDire Straits – Walk Of LifeDon Henley – Boys Of SummerDon Henley – Dirty LaundryDon McLean – American PieThe Doobie Brothers – Black WaterThe Doobie Brothers – China GroveThe Doobie Brothers – Jesus Is Just AlrightThe Doobie Brothers – Listen To The MusicThe Doobie Brothers – Long Train Runnin’The Doobie Brothers – Takin’ It To The StreetsThe Doobie Brothers – What A Fool BelievesThe Doors – Break On ThroughThe Doors – Hello, I Love YouThe Doors – L.A. WomanThe Doors – Light My FireThe Doors – Love Her MadlyThe Doors – Love Me Two TimesThe Doors – Peace FrogThe Doors – People Are StrangeThe Doors – Riders On The StormThe Doors – Roadhouse BluesThe Doors – Touch MeThe Eagles – Already GoneThe Eagles – Heartache TonightThe Eagles – Hotel CaliforniaThe Eagles – In The CityThe Eagles – Life In The Fast LaneThe Eagles – The Long RunThe Eagles – One Of These NightsThe Eagles – Peaceful Easy FeelingThe Eagles – Take It EasyThe Eagles – Take It To The LimitEddie Money – Baby Hold OnEddie Money – Shakin’Eddie Money – Take Me Home TonightEddie Money – Two Tickets To ParadiseEdgar Winter – FrankensteinEdgar Winter – Free RideElectric Light Orchestra – Don’t Bring Me DownElectric Light Orchestra – Do YaElectric Light Orchestra – Evil WomanElectric Light Orchestra – Fire On HighEmerson, Lake & Palmer – Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression, Part II)Elton John – Bennie And The JetsElton John – Funeral For A Friend – Love Lies BleedingElton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick RoadElton John – LevonElton John – Rocket ManElton John – Saturday Night’s Alright For FightingElton John – Tiny DancerEric Clapton – CocaineEric Clapton – I Shot The SheriffEric Clapton – Lay Down SallyEric Clapton – Wonderful TonightFleetwood Mac – The ChainFleetwood Mac – Don’t Stop Fleetwood Mac – DreamsFleetwood Mac – Gold Dust WomanFleetwood Mac – Go Your Own WayFleetwood Mac - RhiannonFree – All Right NowFocus – Hocus PocusForeigner – Blue Morning, Blue DayForeigner – Cold As IceForeigner – Double VisionForeigner – Feels Like The First TimeForeigner – Head GamesForeigner – Hot BloodedForeigner – Juke Box HeroForeigner – Long, Long Way From HomeForeigner - UrgentFoghat – Slow RideGary Wright – Dream WeaverGenesis – AbacabGenesis – Follow You Follow MeGenesis – Invisible TouchGenesis – Land Of ConfusionGenesis - MisunderstandingGenesis – No Reply At AllGenesis – That’s AllGenesis – Turn It On AgainGeorge Thorogood – Bad To The BoneGeorge Thorogood – I Drink AloneGeorge Thorogood – Move It On OverGeorge Thorogood – One Bourbon, One Scotch, One BeerGeorge Thorogood – Who Do You LoveThe Georgia Sattelites – Keep Your Hands To YourselfGolden Earring – Radar LoveGolden Earring – Twilight ZoneGrand Funk Railroad – Closer To Home (I’m Your Captain)Grand Funk Railroad – Some Kind Of WonderfulGrand Funk Railroad – We’re An American BandGrateful Dead – Casey JonesGrateful Dead – Truckin’ The Greg Kihn Band – The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)Guess Who – American WomanHead East – Never Been Any ReasonHeart – BarracudaHeart – Crazy On YouHeart – Magic ManHeart – Straight OnThe Hollies – Long Cool Woman In A Black DressJackson Browne – Doctor My EyesJackson Browne – The Load-Out / Stay (Live)Jackson Browne – The PretenderJackson Browne – Running On Empty (Live)Jackson Browne – Somebody’s BabyJackson Browne – Stay James Gang – Funk #49Janis Joplin – Me And Bobby McGeeJefferson Starship – JaneJethro Tull - AqualungJethro Tull – Locomotive BreathJ. Geils Band – CenterfoldJ. Geils Band – Freeze FrameJ. Geils Band – Love Stinks The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along The WatchtowerThe Jimi Hendrix Experience - FireThe Jimi Hendrix Experience – Foxey LadyThe Jimi Hendrix Experience – Hey JoeThe Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple HazeJimmy Buffett – MargaritavilleJoan Jett – Crimson & CloverJoan Jett – I Love Rock ‘N RollJoe Walsh – All Night LongJoe Walsh – Life’s Been GoodJoe Walsh – Rocky Mountain WayJohn Fogerty – CenterfieldJohn Lennon – ImagineJohn Lennon – Instant Karma (We All Shine On)John Mellencamp – Authority SongJohn Mellencamp – Hurts So GoodJohn Mellencamp – I Need A LoverJohn Mellencamp – Jack & DianeJohn Mellencamp – Pink HousesJohn Mellencamp – Small TownJourney – Any Way You Want ItJourney – Don’t Stop Believin’Journey – LightsJourney – Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’Journey – Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)Journey – Stone In LoveJourney – Wheel In The SkyJudas Priest – Breaking The LawJudas Priest – Livin’ After MidnightJudas Priest – You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’ Kansas – Carry On Wayward SonKansas – Dust In The WindKansas – Point Of Know ReturnThe Kinks – All Day And All Of The NightThe Kinks – LolaThe Kinks – You Really Got MeKiss - BethKiss – Rock And Roll All Nite (Live)Kiss – Shout It Out LoudLed Zeppelin – All My LoveLed Zeppelin – Black DogLed Zeppelin – Dancing DaysLed Zeppelin – Dazed & ConfusedLed Zeppelin – D’Yer Mak’erLed Zeppelin – Fool In The RainLed Zeppelin – Going To CaliforniaLed Zeppelin – Good Times Bad TimesLed Zeppelin - Heartbreaker / Living Loving Maid (She’s Just A Woman)Led Zeppelin – Hey Hey What Can I DoLed Zeppelin – Houses Of The HolyLed Zeppelin – Immigrant SongLed Zeppelin – KashmirLed Zeppelin – Misty Mountain HopLed Zeppelin – The OceanLed Zeppelin – Over The Hills And Far AwayLed Zeppelin – Ramble OnLed Zeppelin – Rock & RollLed Zeppelin – Stairway To HeavenLed Zeppelin – Trampled UnderfootLed Zeppelin – What Is And What Should Never BeLed Zeppelin – Whole Lotta LoveLoverboy – Working For The WeekendLynyrd Skynyrd – Call Me The BreezeLynyrd Skynyrd – Free BirdLynyrd Skynyrd – Gimme Three StepsLynyrd Skynyrd – Saturday Night SpecialLynyrd Skynyrd – Simple ManLynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home AlabamaLynyrd Skynyrd – That SmellLynyrd Skynyrd – What’s Your NameMannfred Mann – Blinded By The LightMarshall Tucker Band – Can’t You SeeMeat Loaf – Paradise By The Dashboard LightMolly Hatchet – Flirtin’ with DisasterMott The Hoople – All The Young Dudes The Moody Blues – Nights In White SatinMotley Crue – Home Sweet HomeMotley Crue – Smokin’ In The Boys RoomMountain – Mississippi QueenNazareth – Hair Of The DogNazareth – Love HurtsNeil Young – Cinnamon GirlNeil Young – Heart Of GoldNeil Young – Southern ManOutfield – Your LoveOzzy Osbourne – Crazy TrainOzzy Osbourne – Flying High AgainOzzy Osbourne – Over The MountainPat Benatar – HeartbreakerPat Benatar – Hit Me With Your Best ShotPaul McCartney & Wings – Band On The RunPaul McCartney & Wings – Jet Paul McCartney & Wings - Live And Let DiePaul McCartney & Wings – Maybe I’m Amazed (Live)Peter Frampton – Baby, I Love Your Way (Live)Peter Frampton – Do You Feel Like We Do (Live)Peter Frampton – Show Me The Way (Live)Peter Gabriel – Shock The MonkeyPeter Gabriel – Solsbury HillPete Townshend – Let My Love Open The DoorPhil Collins – I Don’t Care AnymorePhil Collins – In The Air TonightPink Floyd – Breathe (In The Air) / On The RunPink Floyd – Brain Damage / EclipsePink Floyd – Comfortably NumbPink Floyd – The Happiest Days of Our Lives / Another Brick In The Wall Part 2Pink Floyd – Have A CigarPink Floyd – Hey YouPink Floyd – MoneyPink Floyd – Run Like HellPink Floyd – Time / Breathe (Reprise)Pink Floyd – Us And Them / Any Colour You LikePink Floyd – Welcome To The MachinePink Floyd – Wish You Were HerePink Floyd – Young LustThe Police – Don’t Stand So Close To MeThe Police – Every Breath You TakeThe Police – Every Little Thing She Does Is MagicThe Police – Message In A Bottle The Police – RoxanneThe Police – Spirits In The Material WorldThe Police – Synchronicity IIThe Pretenders – Back On The Chain GangThe Pretenders – Brass In PocketThe Pretenders – Don’t Get Me WrongThe Pretenders – Middle Of The RoadQueen – Another One Bites The DustQueen – Bohemian RhapsodyQueen – Crazy Little Thing Called LoveQueen – Fat Bottomed GirlsQueen – Killer QueenQueen – Somebody To LoveQueen – We Will Rock You / We Are The ChampionsQueen – You’re My Best FriendQueen & David Bowie – Under PressureQuiet Riot – Cum ON Feel The NoizeRam Jam – Black BettyRatt – Round And RoundRed Rider – Lunatic FringeREO Speedwagon – Roll With The ChangesREO Speedwagon – Take It On The RunREO Speedwagon – Time For Me To FlyRick Derringer – Rock And Roll, Hoochie KooRobert Palmer – Addicted To LoveRobert Palmer – Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)Rod Stewart – Maggie MayThe Rolling Stones - AngieThe Rolling Stones – Beast of BurdenThe Rolling Stones – Brown SugarThe Rolling Stones – Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)The Rolling Stones – Gimme ShelterThe Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk WomanThe Rolling Stones – (I Can’t Get No) SatisfactionThe Rolling Stones – It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll (But I Like It)The Rolling Stones – Jumpin’ Jack FlashThe Rolling Stones – Let’s Spend The Night TogetherThe Rolling Stones – Miss YouThe Rolling Stones – Paint It, BlackThe Rolling Stones - ShatteredThe Rolling Stones – Start Me UpThe Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The DevilThe Rolling Stones – You Can’t Always Get What You WantThe Romantics – What I Like About You Rush – Closer To The HeartRush – Fly By NightRush - FreewillRush – LimelightRush – Spirit Of RadioRush - SubdivisionsRush – Tom SawyerRush – Working ManSammy Hagar – I Can’t DriveSantana – Black Magic WomanSantana – Evil WaysSantana – Gypsy QueenSantana – Oye Como VaThe Scorpions – No One Like YouThe Scorpions – Rock You Like A HurricaneSimon & Garfunkel – The Sound Of SilenceStealers Wheel – Stuck In The Middle With YouSteely Dan – Deacon BluesSteely Dan – Do It AgainSteely Dan – Kid CharlemagneSteely Dan – My Old SchoolSteely Dan – Reeling In The YearsSteely Dan – Rikki Don’t Lose That NumberStephen Stills – Love The One You’re WithSteppenwolf – Born To Be WildSteppenwolf – Magic Carpet RideSteve Miller – Fly Like An EagleSteve Miller – Jet AirlinerSteve Miller – The JokerSteve Miller – Jungle LoveSteve Miller – Rock’n MeSteve Miller - SwingtownSteve Miller – Take The MoneyStevie Nicks – Edge of SeventeenStevie Nicks – Stand BackStevie Ray Vaughan - CrossfireStevie Ray Vaughan – Pride And JoyStyx – Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)Styx – Come Sail AwayStyx – Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)Styx – Grand IllusionStyx - LadyStyx – RenegadeStyx – Too Much Time On My HandsSugarloaf – Green-Eyed LadySupertramp – Breakfast In AmericaSupertramp – Give A Little BitSupertramp – Goodbye StrangerSupertramp – The Logical SongSupertramp – Take The Long Way HomeTalking Heads – Burning Down The HouseTalking Heads – Life During WartimeTalking Heads – Take Me To The RiverTed Nugent – Cat Scratch FeverTed Nugent - StrangleholdThin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back In TownTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – American GirlTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – BreakdownTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Don’t Come Around Here No MoreTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Don’t Do Me Like ThatTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Here Comes My GirlTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – RefugeeTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – The WaitingTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – You Got LuckyToto – Hold The LineToto – Rosanna T. Rex – Bang A Gong (Get It On)Twisted Sister – We’re Not Gonna Take ItU2 – New Year’s DayU2 – Pride (In The Name Of Love)U2 – Sunday Bloody SundayVan Halen – And The Cradle Will Rock…Van Halen – Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love Van Halen – Beautiful GirlsVan Halen – Dance The Night AwayVan Halen – Dancing In The StreetsVan Halen – Eruption / You Really Got MeVan Halen – Finish What Ya StartedVan Halen – Hot For TeacherVan Halen – I’ll WaitVan Halen – Jamie’s Cryin’Van Halen – JumpVan Halen - PanamaVan Halen – (Oh) Pretty WomanVan Halen – Runnin’ With The DevilVan Halen - UnchainedVan Halen – Why Can’t This Be LoveVan Morrison – Brown Eyed GirlWar – Low RiderWarren Zevon – Werewolves Of LondonThe Who – Baba O’RileyThe Who - BargainThe Who – Behind Blue EyesThe Who – Eminence FrontThe Who – I Can See For MilesThe Who – Love Reign O’er MeThe Who – My GenerationThe Who – Pinball WizardThe Who – Squeeze BoxThe Who – Who Are YouThe Who – Won’t Get Fooled AgainThe Who – You Better You BetYes – I’ve Seen All Good PeopleYes – Owner Of A Lonely HeartYes - RoundaboutZZ Top – Cheap SunglassesZZ Top – Give Me All Your Lovin’ZZ Top – Got Me Under PressureZZ Top – I’m Bad, I’m NationwideZZ Top – I Thank YouZZ Top – La GrangeZZ Top - LegsZZ Top - Tush
they're ready
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― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 June 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
Are the Byrds classic rock?
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 June 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
if people think "Turn! Turn! Turn!" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" should be on there i'd be up for adding them.
― some dude, Monday, 16 June 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
Wooohoo, le rock du classique!
I can think of quite a few songs that I think should be added -- stuff that would be in my personal top 10 -- but will make notes and try to present them in a chunk instead of dribbling them out one at a time.
One potentially useful option: turn the song list into a Google doc that only you can edit & throw the link out there regularly. Will keep from having to post and repost long song lists in this thread.
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Monday, 16 June 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
Eight Miles High!
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 June 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
but the arbitrary cutoff point that I've been going with is that songs from albums released in 1986 or earlier are OK, 1987 is not.
This does lead to a problem of being able to vote for Why Can't This Be Love but not When It's Love, which probably get about equal classic rock airplay in my experience.
― how's life, Monday, 16 June 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
I think I'm more excited about this thread than the actual voting / results
here are a few nominations (many more coming I expect):
.38 Special – If I'd Been The OneDobie Gray - Drift AwayWet Willie - Keep On Smilin'The Tubes - She's a Beauty
― Euler, Monday, 16 June 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
Oh nevermind, I'll just vote for it in my hair metal poll. Forget I said anything.
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― how's life, Monday, 16 June 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
Request additions:The Allman Brothers Band - Whipping PostGenesis - The Lamb Lies Down on BroadwayTriumph - Magic PowerRush - Red BarchettaThe Guess Who - No TimeArgent - Hold Your Head Up
xpost Huh, I don't know any of Euler's except the Tubes song, which I've heard once iirc. Maybe these Triumph and Guess Who songs get less play stateside?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
James Gang - Walk Away
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
one of the things I'm interested in seeing is how regional differences play out. I grew up in the south & so my classic rock leans that way, because that's what they played on florida & georgia radio, alongside the stones, ac/dc, zep, floyd etc.
but like I never heard "Strawberry Fields Forever" or "Good Vibrations" on classic rock radio. the only beatles I remember hearing regularly was "Come Together", except on beatles rock blocks or two-fer Tuesdays when you'd get "let it be" or "hey jude". but def post 68 beatles. I don't reckon much classic rock comes before 68: a few stones cuts, the who, "you really got me" (though usually that's van halen).
― Euler, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
Rainbow -- Since You've Been Gone
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of hair metal though, the Motley Crue and Ratt tracks feel out of place here.
― how's life, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Lucky Man, From the Beginning
Obligatory CanCon from me:
The Kings -- This Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide
― Funk autocorrect (cryptosicko), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
Ha, if Cancon is acceptable, then this is a necessity:Crowbar - Oh What a Feeling
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
I've heard all the usual Byrds stuff on "classic rock" radio many times.
(multiple xps)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the SkyGeorge Harrison - What Is Life
― cwkiii, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
the Band - Up On Cripple Creek
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
John Fogerty - The Old Man Down the Road
― cwkiii, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
are we allowed to add regional hits? if so,
Donnie Iris -- Oh! LeahMichael Stanley Band -- My Town
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
The Move - Do YaT-Rex - 20th Century BoyGregg Allman - I'm No AngelAllman Brothers - Statesboro BluesLittle Feat - Oh AtlantaLittle Feat - Willin'Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's GoneElvis Presley - Burning LoveBob Seger - Still The Same
― Euler, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
Problems I'll have with this poll:
One is age, and having heard and fallen in love with a lot of these songs when they first came out. Everything I suggest, I have to back up a step and ask "do I ever hear these in a classic rock radio context, or am I just remembering the first time I heard 'Muskrat Love' in 1976 on the way to baseball practice?"
Another one is also about age -- potentially having difficulty with a hard delineation between the definitions of Classic Rock Radio and Oldies Radio, because when I first started getting into Classic Rock as a radio format I could live with (mid 80s), it included tons of pre-1964 material that I guess is going to be excluded here.
But these are my problems, and I'm not lobbying for changes (yet).
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
omg "i'm no angel" -- i loved that song when i was a kid! rating these songs is going to be like the summer olympics of skeezy lyrics.
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
Lee Michaels - Do You Know What I Mean?
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, this. I remember when I first heard the term "classic rock" (1986) applied to a radio format (or anything else, for that matter). One of the stations I listened to gradually morphed into a "classic rock" station, but there was a lot of overlap, so you'd literally hear "What's Going On," "Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again," and scads of Motown/Stax right up alongside Foghat and Nazareth.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
J. Geils Band - Must Of Got LostJ. Geils Band - Land of 1,000 Dances (Live)
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
Michael Jackson - Billie JeanMichael Jackson - Beat It
(granted, only heard these on a northeast "classic rock" station after MJ died, but they stayed in the station's rotation thereafter)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
never in my life have i heard "Eight Miles High" on the radio. i never even heard that incredibly famous song until i looked it up on Spotify like a year ago.
― some dude, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Even The Losers
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
The Who - Another Tricky DayThe Who - Magic BusThe Who - Summertime Blues (live)The Who - Join TogetherThe Who - Long Live Rock
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
yes to "Even The Losers"
― polyamanita (sleeve), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
Rod Stewart - Gasoline AlleyDerek & the Dominos - Bell Bottom Blues
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
The Animals - House of the Rising SunBoston - Peace of MindFleetwood Mac - You Make Loving FunLynyrd Skynyrd - The Ballad of Curtis Loew
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Monday, June 16, 2014 2:56 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
reposting the list itt over and over is not my style fwiw. i posted it here once, we'll discuss revisions, and then i'll post the revised list on the voting thread. i may try to get more into spreadsheet stuff this time around but honestly it's always felt like more work to me and i just stick with my more backwards methods.
― some dude, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
gonna add one myself that i can't believe i missed:
Procol Harum - Whiter Shade Of Pale
― some dude, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, June 16, 2014 3:25 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
interesting. i'm disinclined to put these in, though. one song i did think about on a similar tip that has become more and more of a classic rock staple over the years: Stevie Wonder's "Superstition."
― some dude, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
btw if i don't respond to a suggestion itt that probably means i agree and am adding it to the list with no argument.
― some dude, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
Procol Harum (with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra) - ConquistadorKing Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
― cwkiii, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
― some dude, Monday, June 16, 2014 3:31 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I hear you. I'll grant that it was an anomaly among "classic rock" stations, probably along the lines of "the fuck? We've been playing Steve Winwood's 'Higher Love' all these years but no Michael Jackson?!"
(and good call on "Superstition")
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
― how's life, Monday, June 16, 2014 3:05 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's a slippery slope. hair metal is one of the reasons the 1987 cutoff worked for me, even if it means it's kind of arbitrary that "Girls, Girls, Girls" is out but earlier Crue is in. but i'm generally pretty inclusive of metal (and, for that matter, punk and new wave) if i've heard it enough on classic rock. if people don't consider its inclusion valid, they can just not vote and the results will speak for themselves.
― some dude, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
re: Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive probably gets more classic rock airplay nowadays than Runaway.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
I love Crim but have never heard them on commercial radio. But "Conquistador," yeah, good one there.
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
xp: that's a good point. like as if people are gonna be voting for Home Sweet Home over Barracuda or anything anyway.
― how's life, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
I've heard King Crimson on the radio, but only as a "deep cut" almost apologetically intro'd.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of deep cuts apologetically intro'd,
The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane
Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
ooh yeah, "Wanted Dead Or Alive" is from a 1986 album so it's good to go.
― some dude, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the SkyAsia - Only Time Can TellAsia - Heat of the Moment
^^ these are songs that I associate with classic rock radio because that's how i know of them, but it's possible they were just rock songs of the time and now are filed under "80s"?
also where's the solo Lou Reed? Vicious? Walk on the Wild Side?
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
whoops
"Heat of the Moment" totally belongs here. (The other two probably do too but I've never heard them!)
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
Queen - Keep Yourself AliveBlue Oyster Cult – GodzillaBrownsville Station - Smokin' in the Boy's Room
― cwkiii, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
The Faces - Stay With Me
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
if those Asia songs are ok (& I think they are), then Europe's "The Final Countdown" belongs too (1986).
― Euler, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl
― Euler, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
who does "ride captain ride"?
some thoughts from the middle of the alphabet
Fairport Convention -- Genesis HallGrateful Dead -- Touch of GrayIron Maiden -- Aces HighJethro Tull -- Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of the New Day)Jethro Tull -- Thick as a BrickThe Kinks -- Big SkyThe Kinks -- Waterloo SunsetMoody Blues-- The Story in Your Eyes
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
crut, you've heard Eye in the Sky surely.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
Humble Pie - I Don't Need No DoctorHumble Pie - 30 Days in the Hole
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
Jethro Tull - Mother GooseJethro Tull - Bungle In The Jungle
― Euler, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
Thinking these need to be here:
Tina Turner - Better Be Good to MeJohn Waite - Missing You
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
missing beatles: "the end," or whatever you call that part of the abbey road medley
missing southern rock (though maybe this one has been lost to time, but it was huge in my youth): the outlaws "green grass and high tides"
missing neil: "like a hurricane"
missing lou reed/velvets: "walk on the wild side," "sweet jane," "rock and roll" (or was that only classic rock if you lived on a coast?)
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
maybe too "oldies," but I still hear these occasionally on "classic rock" radio:
The Yardbirds - Over Under Sideways DownThe Yardbirds - Heart Full of SoulThe Yardbirds - Shapes of Things
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link
Lou was big down south too, but I don't remember hearing any Velvets on classic rock radio
― Euler, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah "Walk On The Wild Side" definitely needs to be on there but i am skeptical of Velvets inclusion
― some dude, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
ok yeah I have heard "Eye in the Sky." good song!
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
Rod Stewart - Hot Legs
― Euler, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
Can't say I've ever heard VU on a classic rock station either.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
Velvets only after CR retooled post alternative stations.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
Ha, I was chewed out for claiming the same thing some time ago.xpost
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
Velvets on classic rock radio might be an coastal thing only. Only Velvets/Lou song I ever heard was "Walk on the Wild Side"
― intheblanks, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
I've heard them, but only "Sweet Jane," and always referred to as "Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground."\
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
Only neil I've ever heard on CR stations were the 3 in the original list. Never heard Fairport or Iron Maiden on any CR station ever.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
Anyway, I've heard "Schizoid Man" a few times but I won't pretend that it's in heavy rotation or anything. Fair enough if you want to exclude it.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
idk if I'll be adding anything myself, I was kinda psyched over the original list and now the flood of suggestions I'm like O_O
but cosign Rainbow 'since You've been gone' for sure, for sure, for sure
rock on, evrahbody!!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
The Kinks -- Big SkyThe Kinks -- Waterloo Sunset
i would love to live in a world where those are considered classic rock, but i don't think i do. but maybe:
kinks - sunny afternoon
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
Ace - How Long Has This Been Going On
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
OMG, way more Neil Young songs than that get heavy CR airplay in Canada at least.xposts
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, some people are privy to cooler classic rock stations than ones I've ever encountered. Waterloo Sunset? sh'yeah right.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
Maybe that's too AM, memory's getting hazy
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 16 June 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
I didn't hear Velvets on the radio at all as a kid. I was super confused about the difference between Pete Townshend, The Kinks and Lou Reed and my friend's older brother gave me shit because of it. That's not something I'd forget!
Is Come Dancing on here? That's a song I definitely heard on the radio.
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
Only Kinks songs I ever hear: "You Really Got Me", "All Day and All of the Night", "Lola", "Rock and Roll Fantasy"
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
I've heard "Waterloo Sunset," but only once, and only on this one DJ's show where he occasionally could sneak in some rarely-heard shit.
Never heard "Rock and Roll Fantasy." Heard "Superman," "Catch Me Now I'm Falling," and "Do It Again" (as well as "Come Dancing").
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
Styx - Suite Madame Blue
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit, Somebody to LoveJefferson Starship - Miracles
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
Deep Purple - Highway Star, Space Truckin
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
Jefferson Starship - JaneJefferson Starship - Find Your Way Back
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 June 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
Electric Light Orchestra – Fire On High
i don't believe i've ever heard this song in my life! and i kinda like elo!
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 16 June 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
Blondie - One Way Or AnotherNight Ranger - Sister ChristianThe Firm - RadioactiveScandal - The Warrior
― Euler, Monday, 16 June 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
The Warrior always seems like a cool song nostalgia-wise and then I hear it and it just goes on foreveeeer
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
Great song, too many refrains of the chorus.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 June 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
"Against the Wind" is the one I can't stand for that reason.
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
Goodbye to You is probably the Scandal song you're more likely to hear now anyway.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 June 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
Gerry Rafferty - "Baker Street"Ozzy Osbourne - "Bark at the Moon"
― Vinnie, Monday, 16 June 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
More Neil Toung songs too -- Old Man, Like a Hurricane, is Ohio on there? Probably others.
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 June 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
Young! Ugh!
But Neil Tongue would be a funny alias.
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 June 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
Neil Tse-tung
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 June 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
Quarterflash - Harden My HeartHeart - Bebe Le Strange
― Euler, Monday, 16 June 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Monday, June 16, 2014 3:52 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
On classic rock radio?
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
Maybe some sort of 80's Lite FM or something.
Blue Cheer - Summertime BluesIron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 June 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Heard "Old Man" by Neil Young approximately one million times on classic rock radio as a child. Feels like canon to me for sure.
― intheblanks, Monday, 16 June 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
Xps For a while, "Fire On High" was one of the only ELO songs you'd here down here (the others being "Evil Woman" and "Don't Bring Me Down".)
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
Well, yeah noms "Witchy Woman" & "New Kid In Town"
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'
This one's borderline, I'm sure, but I've heard it mixed in between more standard classic rock fare before.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 June 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
One more Well, yeah..."Desperado"
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
WitchAY Woman
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
the other neil that seems CR canon to me is "rockin' in the free world."
and this may be a new york/LA thing, but the ramones' "i wanna be sedated" seems pretty comfortably CR to me too.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 16 June 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
Todd Rundgren - Hello It's MeTodd Rundgren - I Saw the LightThunderclap Newman - Something in the AirThe Raspberries - Go All the WayBooker T. and the MG's - Green Onions (one of those pre-Beatles tracks that def should be included imo)The Box Tops - The LetterPaul McCartney/Wings - Junior's FarmPaul McCartney/Wings - Another DayPaul McCartney/Wings - Uncle Albert/Admiral HalseyPaul McCartney/Wings - My LovePaul McCartney/Wings - Listen to What the Man SaidPaul McCartney/Wings - Silly Love SongsPaul McCartney/Wings - Let 'Em InPaul McCartney/Wings - With a Little LuckPaul McCartney/Wings - London TownPaul McCartney/Wings - Coming UpJohn Lennon - Whatever Gets You Through the NightJohn Lennon - #9 DreamJohn Lennon - Watching the WheelsRingo Starr - It Don't Come EasyRingo Starr - PhotographGeorge Harrison - My Sweet LordGeorge Harrison - What Is LifeArchie Bell & the Drells - Tighten UpSly & the Family Stone - Dance to the MusicSly & the Family Stone - Everyday PeopleSly & the Family Stone - Hot Fun in the SummertimeSly & the Family Stone - Family AffairDerek & the Dominos - Bell Bottom BluesEric Clapton - After MidnightSteely Dan - Peg
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
I Wanna Be Sedated is every CR station's token punk song. God Save the Queen is still a little too aggravating.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 June 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
Badfinger - No Matter WhatBadfinger - Baby BlueBadfinger - Day After DayBadfinger - Come and Get It
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
Train in Vain is the only British punk song I've ever heard on a CR station.
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
I Wanna Be Sedated is every CR station's token punk song.
lol, heard this on the CR station while driving to work this morning and it made me raise an eyebrow
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
Used to hear both "Should I Stay or Should I Go" and "Train in Vain" on classic rock stations.
― intheblanks, Monday, 16 June 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
I hear "London Calling" sometimes.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
Can't get away from these guys...
Don Henley: "Sunset Grill", "All She Wants To Do Is Dance", and "Not Enough Love In The World"
Glenn Frey: "Smuggler's Blues", "You Belong To The City", and "The Heat Is On"
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
Blood, Sweat, and Tears - "You've Made Me So Very Happy"
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
This is skewed, but I live in Texas, and SRV is a Deity of sorts on our CR radio, so:
Texas FloodLook At Little SisterCouldn't Stand The WeatherChange ItTightropeThe House Is Rockin' (these two, like Crossfire, are from '89)
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
"watching the wheels" is such a jam. good call
Chicago -- Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?Chicago -- Feeling Stronger Every Day
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
Robert Plant: "Big Log", "Little By Little"
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Orleans - "Still the One"
― Vinnie, Monday, 16 June 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
Chicago - Make Me SmileChicago - BeginningsChicago - Old Days
Chicago "classic rock" stations leaned heavily on Chicago -- sounds similar to what Grisso/McCain pointed out about Texas/SRV.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 June 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
<3 badfinger!!
Are the Turtles/Raspberries oldies or classic rock?
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 June 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
I hear the Raspberries (well, just "Go All The Way") all the time, but never the Turtles.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 June 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
(on classic rock, that is)
I guess one is prob former and one latter. 60s-70s were a blur to me during my prime classic rock radio years. I was mostly a little kid.
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 June 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
I don't know where I'm going to start voting in this thing. So much to choose from!
― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Monday, 16 June 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
ZZ Top: "Sharp Dressed Man", "Tube Snake Boogie", "Pearl Necklace", "Arrested For Driving While Blind", "Sleeping Bag"
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 June 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
The SRV that got played to death on rural IL classic rock radio was "Pride and Joy"
― intheblanks, Monday, 16 June 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
will second the Robert Plant solo nominations
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 June 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
I am definitely all for nominating regional staples and giving them a shot at some votes. I didn't put any Little Feat in the initial list because Maryland/DC is a big support base for them and I never know how much airplay they get elsewhere, so it was cool to see someone else throw their name into the mix (although I hear "Dixie Chicken" more than the 2 songs mentioned).
― some dude, Monday, 16 June 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
Guess Who - UndunGuess Who - No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature
― Brad C., Monday, 16 June 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
Zombies - Time of the Season
― Brad C., Monday, 16 June 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
The Guess Who -- "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature"The Zombies -- "Time of the Season"
xpost -- holy shit!
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 16 June 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
seriously that's fucking
uncanny
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 16 June 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
will second the Robert Plant Glenn Frey solo nominations― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, June 16, 2014 4:19 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, June 16, 2014 4:19 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Fixed.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 June 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
omg
― Brad C., Monday, 16 June 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
gotta make Don 'n' Glenn happy
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 June 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
that's completely crazy. gonna test this out ~
Fleetwood Mac -- "Big Love"Fleetwood Mac -- "Gypsy"Fleetwood Mac -- "Hold Me"Fleetwood Mac -- "Little Lies"Fleetwood Mac -- "Monday Morning"Fleetwood Mac -- "Over My Head"Fleetwood Mac -- "Sara"Fleetwood Mac -- "Say You Love Me"Fleetwood Mac -- "Sentimental Lady"Fleetwood Mac -- "World Turning"
phew!
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 16 June 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
DON: Our bands wound down around the same time, so to me it was both educational and inspirational to see Robert Plant in a solo career that both made a pull from his past while moved forward into a realm Zeppelin never occupied.
GLENN: We were all about the pulling of our own "Big Logs" back then, ifyoucatchmydrift.
DON: Well, yeah.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 June 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
Chilliwack - "Fly at Night"
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 June 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
I am super excited about this poll.
― carl agatha, Monday, 16 June 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 June 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
Aerosmith - Last ChildApril Wine - Sign of the Gypsy QueenArgent - Hold Your Head UpJoe Cocker - Feeling Alright David & David - BoomtownFleetwood Mac - Hypnotized Head East - Never Been Any ReasonJudas Priest - The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)[Unleased in the East]Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's GoneDave Mason - Only You Know and I KnowMolly Hatchet - Whiskey ManMontrose - Bad Motor ScooterThe Outlaws - Green Grass and High TidesPure Prarie League - AmieRossington-Collins Band - Don't Misunderstand MeSaga - On The LooseThe Scorpions - The ZooSnif 'n' the Tears - Driver's SeatSpirit - I Got a Line on YouSpirit - Fresh GarbageAl Stewart - The Year of the CatSweet - Love Is Like OxygenBilly Thorpe - Children of the SunTriumph - Fight the Good FightTriumph - Magic PowerPat Travers - Snortin' WhiskeyTrapeze - Black CloudUFO - Too Hot To HandleUriah Heep - Easy Livin'Zebra - Who's Behind The Door
― Zachary Taylor, Monday, 16 June 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link
Sniff 'n' the Tears - Driver's Seat
― brimstead, Monday, 16 June 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
Traffic - Feelin' AlrightQuicksilver Messenger Service - Fresh Air
― brimstead, Monday, 16 June 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
Stevie Nicks - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
― brimstead, Monday, 16 June 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
Sugar Loaf - Green Eyed Lady
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 16 June 2014 22:56 (nine years ago) link
Intro/Sweet Jane (Rock 'n' Roll Animal Version)-Lou Reed
― Arthur, Monday, 16 June 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
at the end of the poll everyone gets a wizard van and a stack of eight-tracks
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 June 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
That got radio play? xp
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Monday, 16 June 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
Heard that way more than "Walk on the Wild Side" back then.
― Arthur, Monday, 16 June 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I "Intro/Sweet Jane" all the time. I guess having Alice Cooper's guitar players playing standard hard rock made it more acceptable to program managers.
― Zachary Taylor, Monday, 16 June 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
I heard that all the time.
― Zachary Taylor, Monday, 16 June 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
Blood, Sweat & Tears-Lucretia Macevil
― Arthur, Monday, 16 June 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
Traffic-Low Spark of High Heeled BoysKing Crimson-I Talk to the WindMoody Blues-I'm Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band)
― Arthur, Monday, 16 June 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
These may be a bit "AM Gold" but I hear stuff from America on CR stations all the time, esp. these --
America - Horse With No NameAmerica - Ventura HighwayAmerica - Lonely PeopleAmerica - Tin ManAmerica - Daisy JaneAmerica - I Need You
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Monday, 16 June 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
Starship - We Built This City
― sarahell, Monday, 16 June 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
Foreigner - I want to Know What Love Is
― sarahell, Monday, 16 June 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link
Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
― sarahell, Monday, 16 June 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
Do we have any April Wine in here yet? "Rock and Roll is a Vicious Game" is the only one I ever really knew and cared about, but some of you guys probably remember them much better than I do.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Monday, 16 June 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
MY SHARONA
― mookieproof, Monday, 16 June 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
I wonder how many songs I'll vote for that I don't even like but have to admit that they're perfect specimens of their type.
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
like MY SHARONA
2nd Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4My local Classic Rock station plays "Your Song" by Elton John.
― jetfan, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:02 (nine years ago) link
Cheap Trick - Surrender
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
That's on the original list.
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
Loggins & Messina-Your Mama Don't DanceArlo Guthrie-Alice's RestaurantDr. John-Right Place Wrong TimeCrosby, Still, Nash & Young-Teach Your ChildrenJoe Cocker/Mad Dogs & Englishmen-Cry Me a River
― Arthur, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
xpost
Ah, crap. Thought only "I Want You To Want Me" was on there. My apologies.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along The WatchtowerThe Jimi Hendrix Experience - FireThe Jimi Hendrix Experience – Foxey LadyThe Jimi Hendrix Experience – Hey JoeThe Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze
It would be so awesome if we could get Voodoo Child (Slight Return) on here.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
Free - Wishing Well
does soft rock or singer/songwriter stuff belong here? if so:
Joni Mitchell - Help MeGordon Lightfoot - SundownCarole King - It's Too LateBread - Make It With YouFirefall - You Are The WomanPlayer - Baby Come BackChris Rea - Fool (If You Think It's Over)
― g simmel, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
seconding these suggestions:
Animals - House of the Rising SunARGENT - HOLD YOUR HEAD UPAsia - Heat of the MomentAsia - Only Time Can TellBlind Faith - Can't Find My Way HomeBlue Oyster Cult – GodzillaDONNIE IRIS - AH! LEAHFaces - Stay With MeGerry Rafferty - Baker StreetHumble Pie - 30 Days in the HoleIron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida (don't vote for it, tho, jeez)Joe Cocker - Feeling AlrightNight Ranger - Sister ChristianNorman Greenbaum - Spirit in the SkyOutlaws - green grass and high tidesProcol Harum - Whiter Shade Of PalePure Prarie League - AmieRobert Plant - Little by LittleRobert Plant - Big LogTubes - She's a BeautyWho - Magic Bus
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida (don't vote for it, tho, jeez)
this is totally gonna be #1 on my ballot fyi
― sarahell, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:21 (nine years ago) link
would add:
AC/DC - Big BallsBruce Springsteen - JunglelandChicago - BeginningsDoors - The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)Foghat - Fool for the CityJohn Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band - On the Dark SideKinks - Do It AgainKnack - My SharonaRod Stewart - (I Know) I'm Losing YouTen Years After - I'd Love to Change the WorldThin Lizzy - JailbreakTriumph - Lay It On the LineUriah Heep - Stealin'
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:21 (nine years ago) link
xp lol my mom has it on vinyl wtf mom
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link
lol you guys are totally going to double the size of my list, I love it
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Cowgirl In The SandNeil Young & Crazy Horse - Down By The RiverVan Morrison - DominoVan Morrison - Wild NightVan Morrison - And It Stoned MeVan Morrison - MoondanceVan Morrison - CaravanVan Morrison - Into The Mystic
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
no soft rock! this is classic rock. unless air supply is your idea of "classic rock"
if that's the case, i have some air supply songs to nom
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:37 (nine years ago) link
lol me too
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
I'm relieved -- I was afraid you'd be ill at the avalanche of noms. xp to sd
"Heart of Gold" is as soft rock as they come, but how could it be excluded?
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:40 (nine years ago) link
because it's played on classic rock radio
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, as much as I love "Baby Come Back", I'm out if Bread and Player are in.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:42 (nine years ago) link
(Not really but I don't think they fit in here.)
Americans nominating Triumph songs = heartwarming
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:43 (nine years ago) link
good to see that michele michaels is still running the electric lunch on dve <3
miss u herschel
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link
xp and red rider on the original list!
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:46 (nine years ago) link
Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It RightBoz Scaggs - LowdownBoz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle
I don't necessarily want to nominate this, but driving through central Illinois last year I hit a CR station and they surprised me with Leo Sayer's "Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)". Hadn't heard that in 20 years at least.
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:48 (nine years ago) link
yeah, I have no idea what qualifies and what doesn't. will vote though cause the list is beautiful already
― g simmel, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:52 (nine years ago) link
yes lido please we need some boz
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
Bowie suggestion: "Jean Genie" over either of the '80s hits
― col, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 01:04 (nine years ago) link
Donovan - AtlantisDonovan - Hurdy Gurdy ManDonovan - Sunshine SupermanDire Straits - Tunnel Of LoveDire Straits - Romeo and JulietBob Dylan - Tangled Up In BlueEric Clapton - Let It RainU2 - Bad (Live)
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 01:16 (nine years ago) link
Modern English -- "I Melt with You"War -- "Spill the Wine"
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 01:22 (nine years ago) link
The Animals: "The House of The Rising Son", "We've Got To Get Out of This Place", "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", "It's My Life"
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 01:29 (nine years ago) link
when voting everyone should designate the locations and call letters of the classic rock stations in their lives imo
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 01:37 (nine years ago) link
is this the thread that will break ILX?
going to put some thought into this and come up with some later.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
― La Lechera, Monday, June 16, 2014 7:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Double cosign. Also cosign Donnie Iris - Ah Leah (note: that is my ringtone).
And I would like to nominate:
Joe Jackson - Stepping OutMarshall Crenshaw - Whenever You're on My Mind; Someday, Someway
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 01:51 (nine years ago) link
Oh and 93.3 WMMR
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
(note: that is my ringtone)
<3 <3 <3
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
104.3 Gold FM in Melbourne was my australian variation on the 'classic rock' station
but my first true American classic rock station was KSEG 96.9 'THE EAGLE' SO MUCH JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 01:57 (nine years ago) link
Amboy Dukes -- Journey to the Center of the MindIggy Pop -- Lust for Life, The PassengerIggy & the Stooges -- Search and DestroyKiss -- Detroit Rock CityPaul Revere and the Raiders -- Indian ReservationThem -- Gloria, Here Comes the Night, Mystic EyesTommy James – Draggin’ the LineTommy James and the Shondells -- Mony Mony, Crimson and Clover, Crystal Blue PersuasionThe Troggs -- Wild Thing, I Can’t Control MyselfYardbirds -- I’m a Man, Happenings Ten Years Ago
― Brad C., Tuesday, 17 June 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
Mr Veg would like me to give a shout out to his classic rock station 98.5 KZAP
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 02:04 (nine years ago) link
a proper station identification would be KZAP Sacramento
just make sure to mention it within six minutes of the top of the hour iirc
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 02:07 (nine years ago) link
Don't think I saw any J.J. Cale above:- After Midnight- Cocaine- Call Me the Breeze
A couple more from Joe Cocker- With A Little Help From My Friends- The Letter
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
WKLS Atlanta, 96 Rock
― Brad C., Tuesday, 17 June 2014 02:27 (nine years ago) link
Eddie Rabbit - I Love A Rainy Night
not sure if it counts, they played the shit out of it in Australia on the classic rock station
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 02:41 (nine years ago) link
Sub poll idea: can we do a top 10 tracks we never ever want to hear again?
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 02:41 (nine years ago) link
Had the same thought when someone posted "Green Eyed Lady"
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 02:50 (nine years ago) link
I second the idea of an "ENOUGH ALREADY!" side poll.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 02:54 (nine years ago) link
Otm re: green eyed lady
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 02:55 (nine years ago) link
lynyrd skynyrd's "call me the breeze" and eric clapton's "cocaine" are both on the original list, and ec's "after midnight" was nominated somewhere along the way. does any classic rock station actually play j.j. cale, though?
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 03:07 (nine years ago) link
Hawkwind -- "The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke)"
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 03:16 (nine years ago) link
green eyed lady blehhhh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 03:23 (nine years ago) link
definitely gonna be a 'worst' subpoll.
you guys are crazy, though, "Green-Eyed Lady" rules.
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 03:44 (nine years ago) link
blehhhhhh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 03:47 (nine years ago) link
it sounds like Neil Diamond singing a weedy psych rock song, i love it
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 03:53 (nine years ago) link
Predicting a strong showing for "Hey Jude" on the worst poll (hell, I'll be voting for it).
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 04:01 (nine years ago) link
it's the bloopy organ that kills it for me
that and he sounds like a piano bar singer "heyyyyy there try the steak"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 04:09 (nine years ago) link
David Bowie - White Light/White Heat
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 04:17 (nine years ago) link
Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 04:18 (nine years ago) link
Ike & Tina Turner - Nutbush City LimitsCanned Heat - Let's Work TogetherRedbone - The Witch Queen Of New OrleansMontrose - Rock the NationSuzi Quatro - Devil Gate DriveDwight Twilley Band - I'm on FireThe Romantics - Talking in Your SleepThe Outfield - All the Love in the WorldThe B-52's - Private IdahoStatus Quo - Down DownStatus Quo - Rockin' All Over the World
― cock chirea, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 04:20 (nine years ago) link
Man, I had no idea that there were CR stations out there playing the Stooges, Eno, and Bowie covers of VU songs
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 04:34 (nine years ago) link
WXRX 104.9 Rockford, IL certainly never touched these tracks
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 04:35 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, the classic rock stations I grew up with--first in London, Ontario and then in Detroit--were way more conservative than what some of you guys must've had. Like, even the Clash's big hits were something I'd never encounter on them.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 04:39 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, where exactly are these classic rock stations with impossibly deep playlists?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 04:40 (nine years ago) link
Unless "classic rock" has been significantly redefined since the 90s, which is conceivably the last time I ever turned on a classic rock station.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 04:42 (nine years ago) link
maybe we need some veteran classic rock djs to veto our final list
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 04:51 (nine years ago) link
PLease point me to the classic rock station that has ever played Eno or Hawkwind. The first time I ever heard hawkwind on the radio was a week ago on KALX.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 05:14 (nine years ago) link
I'm not sure if this poll is for the songs that I heard on regular Rock radio back when it existed in the '70s and '80s, Classic Rock radio as it existed in the '80s and '90s, or Classic Rock radio as it exists today.
If we are going with Classic Rock radio as it exists today, then just vote on "More Than a Feeling", "Gimme Three Steps", and "Magic Man" and be done with it.
On the other hand, I never heard Eno or Hawkwind on rock radio. Eno productions, "Love Is the Drug", and Fastway are the closest that made it here.
101 KLOL, or 97 Rock, or 93.7 the Arrow, or whatever The Eagle is now.
― Zachary Taylor, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 05:35 (nine years ago) link
the green eyed lady riff rules, idk about the song itself
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 05:42 (nine years ago) link
These guys need to be on here:
Three Dog Night - Joy to the WorldThree Dog Night - Mama Told Me Not To ComeThree Dog Night - One
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 05:56 (nine years ago) link
Los Angeles radio:
had:KMET - went Jazz (turned into The Wave)KLSX - had an incredibly deep playlist (turned into a JACK-FM type of station down the dial)
Still around:KLOS - (was Disney owned Cynthia Fox, "Uncle Joe" Benson, Jim Ladd)KSWD - the Sound
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 06:00 (nine years ago) link
Keep Your Hands to Yourself by the Georgia Satellites needs to be on here. It just squeaks in by virtue of being released in '86, but it will probably be in my top 10.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 06:18 (nine years ago) link
Oh, nm...it's in some dude's big list.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 06:19 (nine years ago) link
I vote Donnie Iris x10 in the worst side poll.
― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 06:37 (nine years ago) link
Congratulations. You're the first person I've ever encountered who doesn't like that song. I hope you're proud of yourself, creep. ;)
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 06:47 (nine years ago) link
2 songs i remember hearing (occasionally) on whatever station we had for classic rock in spokane, wa c. 1980. not saying they were staples or anything, but i remember being completely mesmerized the first time i heard "baby's on fire" on the radio, trying to get my parents' attention because it was so weird. they weren't impressed.
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 08:15 (nine years ago) link
in the same spirit, i never heard no damn hawkwind on the radio ever
never heard Eno on classic rock, wtf.
if that's on there since this is ILM corny motherfuckers are gonna vote it #1 which would be laaaaaaaaaaaaaame
― Euler, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 08:57 (nine years ago) link
yeah, true. rescind baby's on fire nom. though they really did useda play it sometimes.
i wasn't gonna vote for it though. classic rock to me = "gimme three steps", "when the levee breaks", "you shook me anl", "takin' care of business", "sweet emotion", "carry on wayward son", etc.
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 09:05 (nine years ago) link
― intheblanks, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 12:34 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah i haven't been able to keep up with the thread and respond to everything individually, but i am definitely vetoing most of the stuff in this vein. doesn't really fit the spirit of the poll. a LOT of different stuff was played on 'progressive' AOR radio back in the day that's not considered classic rock now, and a lot of those stations ultimately turned into modern rock/alternative stations, like WHFS here in Maryland, so i feel like that's a different lineage.
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 09:51 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, a lot of confusion with oldies radio and progressive radio. For the most part, I could construct a proper ballot out of your original part. People have added a couple Stevie Nicks songs that I might vote for, but B52s for example is ridiculous.
― how's life, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 09:55 (nine years ago) link
"you shook me anl"
is this an abbreviation of "You Shook Me All Night Long" or "You Shook Me Anal"? both great songs.
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 09:56 (nine years ago) link
yes
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 10:06 (nine years ago) link
You shook me anal down, sport.
― how's life, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 10:31 (nine years ago) link
Electric Light Orchestra - Livin' Thing
+ while I'm not sure we need too much F Mac in this poll, I definitely second "Gypsy". That and "Boys of Summer" sum up US classic rock radio for me.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 11:50 (nine years ago) link
private idaho was a huge FM staple during the 80s. if some dude is stretching the limits as to include supertramp and steely dan (?) i guess we should also allow some classic new wave stuff that did pretty well on rock radio.
― cock chirea, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:13 (nine years ago) link
Some special Canadian nominations for Myonga (all excellent, all '70s, all played regularly on Q-107 here):
April Wine -- Tonight Is a Wonderful Time to Fall in LoveFludd -- Get Up, Get Out and Move OnGoddo -- Sweet Thing (greatest lyric ever: "You like the fact I'm in the Goddo band")Guess Who -- Albert FlasherGuess Who -- Rain DanceMainline -- Get Down ToPagliaro -- Lovin' You Ain't EasyPagliaro -- Some Sing, Some DanceThundermug -- AfricaValdy -- Rock and Roll Song
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:27 (nine years ago) link
Supertramp, Stevie Nicks, and Steely Dan are not stretches – heard them all in the eighties and early nineties on "album rock radio."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:31 (nine years ago) link
I'd include "Abracadabra" with the other Steve Millers.
Supertramp and Steely Dan are huge on Classic Rock radio. They'll play Logical Song and Do It Again like every day. I've only heard B-52s on something progressive/modern like WHFS or some kind of variety programming like JACK-FM.
― how's life, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:32 (nine years ago) link
Supertramp and Steely Dan are classic-rock-radio staples--a whole bunch of songs for the former, basically three for Steely Dan (first two hits + "Rikki").
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:34 (nine years ago) link
where do we draw the line tho? YES to supertramp and steely dan and NO to inxs or huey lewis? thinking about the stuff i was exposed to growing up, "what you need" and "the heart of rock & roll" scream classic rock to me now but idk.
― cock chirea, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:40 (nine years ago) link
I def heard "The One Thing," "What You Need," and "Listen Like Thieves" on that station. Never Huey Lewis.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:41 (nine years ago) link
Never heard INXS. Maybe heard that one specific Huey Lewis song? Fuck, this is complicated!
― how's life, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:45 (nine years ago) link
And subjective.
― how's life, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:46 (nine years ago) link
Probably impossible to draw a clear line, because it will vary from station to station. Here, INXS and Huey Lewis would never be played now--but there was probably a brief window in the '90s where Q-107 would have played one or both. There are staples on classic-rock radio that never go away, and then part of the playlist changes from decade to decade.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:46 (nine years ago) link
I don't think Huey Lewis or INXS should be included. I liked INXS a lot but there's no way my local classic rock stations would have played them. Too modern. And Huey Lewis was too cheesy.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
I would argue, though, that Huey Lewis belongs far more to the "classic rock" tradition than INXS, or certainly Talking Heads (who have a few songs on the master list), do. Not that I'd be voting for anything by him anyway.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, the outliers will get filtered out anyway.
― how's life, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
Yes: before getting ensnared in a big debate, remember that Huey's probably get zero votes anyway. (I interviewed him in 1986, even though I knew almost nothing of his music. Quote I still love: "Now you take the Clash--great band, wonderful thing.")
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
I agree with Carl. Early to mid 80s New Wave and New Wave Lite have just been hitting the Good Time Oldies playlists in the last 3-4 years and never really were part of that mythical Classic Rock beast.
xp -- hadn't noticed the Talking Heads songs on the orig. list -- hmmm
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, like for me "classic rock" = stuff my stoner uncle listens to, and I just can't ever see him jamming to Talking Heads or INXS.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
Head "And She Was" and "Wild Wild Life" a lot on my classic rock station, but again, it was a mix of "album rock" and "new stuff that will soon become album rock."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link
Point in favor of the inclusion of Talking Heads - Circus magazine ran the lyrics to "Burning Down the House" in their song lyrics section.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 13:08 (nine years ago) link
But I also remember thinking it was weird that they would include that.
Why I can remember the contents of a 30 (jesus...) year old magazine but not my phone number at work, I can't tell you.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 13:10 (nine years ago) link
Except maybe Circus magazine was more important to me at 11 than my career is to me at 41.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 13:11 (nine years ago) link
WNCX in Cleveland will play, say, U2 now, but they definitely wouldn't have in 1986. They miiiiight play, say, "Take Me To The River" or "Once In A Lifetime" now, but again, would not have done say when those songs were contemporary.
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 13:16 (nine years ago) link
Any band who ever had a video played on 120 Minutes should probably be excluded.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
lol carl
i'm having a hard time separating CR from oldies/Freedom Rock (turn it up, man)if it's on Freedom Rock (and in this commercial) is it automatically enshrined as CR?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eGWW8KOQio
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 13:41 (nine years ago) link
Some of the stuff in the Freedom Rock commercial veers into "AM Gold" territory for sure.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, and then I think about stuff like The Outsiders "Time Won't Let Me", which was on the classic rock radio station all the time, but probably only bc it was Cleveland.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Monday, June 16, 2014 9:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Monday, June 16, 2014 9:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
FP'd u for this nonsense
― polyamanita (sleeve), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
Strictly Chicago stations, but
The Blues Brothers - Sweet Home Chicago
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 14:05 (nine years ago) link
Yes, put that on the list so I can definitively not vote for it.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 14:09 (nine years ago) link
Haha, I seriously hate that song so much, not for the song itself so much (which is just bland, and you wish everyone singing it at large gatherings would stop now), but for the usual reasons of "this station will play the Blues Brothers but not Magic Sam (to say nothing of Robert Johnson)."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
George Thorogood to thread. I wont nominate him though because i cant stand that shit.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
Have the Fabulous (not at all fabulous) Thunderbirds made an appearance yet? They were super gross in that same way.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 14:44 (nine years ago) link
Damn is that a long and intimidating list of nominations. Are we definitely doing a "Worst Of" side poll?
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
Thunderbirds also mirror the Blues Brothers by having a hit with a Sam & Dave song played by stations that would never play Sam & Dave. Ditto the Black Crowes.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
oh man i am totally adding all of THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS CERTIFIED HOOD CLASSICS to the list
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
campaigning for "Abracadabra" to be voted worst
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:06 (nine years ago) link
Is Greg Kihn classic rock?
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
take heart -- for all of the stuff that doesn't get included, there's a whole huge sandbox of classic rock awesomeness still left to play with!
I woke up with 'Hold On Loosely' playing in my head so I take that as a positive omen
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
hahaha now i know how to annoy Crüt
there should be a battle of the worst lyricssteve miller cooing about panties is def top 10, but there is a LOT to choose from
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:12 (nine years ago) link
Time to get a bunch of blatant CanCon out of the way:
Loveryboy - Turn Me LooseBachman-Turner Overdrive - Hey YouGuess Who - These EyesChilliwack - My GirlTrooper - Here For A Good Time (Not a Long Time)Trooper - Raise a Little HellMax Webster - Paradise SkiesMax Webster - Let Go The LineApril Wine - OowatanitePrism - ArmageddonFive Man Electrical Band - Signs
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
also "telephone line"
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
Van Halen - Ice Cream Man
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
Greatest songs of all time list from my current local station and the one I grew up with (Chez 106, Ottawa's Best Rock, natch):http://www.chez106.com/2013/01/01/chez-106-listener-advisor-top-106-favourite-songs-of-all-time/
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
("London Calling" = #91 fwiw)
And, yeah, they were more of a progressive album-oriented station when they were playing stuff like "21st Century Schizoid Man" (and Zappa and Babe Ruth).
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
About time the Who topped one of those lists.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
re: Talking Heads: I've definitely heard Life During Wartime and Burning Down the House on a couple CR stations.
They're not classic rock like Foghat is classic rock, but CR plays some of their tunes anyway.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link
Interesting to note that Jethro Tull is completely absent from that list now. The modern rock station was actually playing them the other day, citing them as an influence on Mumford & Sons and neo-Britfolk.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
lol
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
from sund4r's current local station's list, this seems particularly deserving of an add:
rolling stones - wild horses
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
It's probably partly true, but no less crazy.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
lol - "neobritfolk like mumford & sons" makes me want to die and laugh at the same time
on a similar note, it never fails to blow my mind just how many of these songs insinuated themselves into my brain permanently without my cooperation. I just looked over this list and calculated that I could sing at least 80% of this list if you pointed to me and said "Sing the first line of _____ that comes to your mind". I couldn't sing the whole thing and there would probably be some made-up lyrics but I could at least give you an accurate vocal melody. That's crazy!
I can only conclude that I was listening to the radio every waking minute of my childhood.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
and/or that most of these songs were kinda good!
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
it never fails to blow my mind just how many of these songs insinuated themselves into my brain permanently without my cooperation
^^^ this
When I suggested stuff like green eyed lady, or Rock On it was more a reflection of that stuff being played constantly more than actually wanting to hear it, let alone rep for it
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
One of the stations I grew up with wasn't "classic rock," but in the 80s couldn't face the competition and became a talk station. This is the top 100 from their last "Top 500 of All Time!" countdown:
http://user.pa.net/~ejjeff/wlsrr1.html
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, me too. I also listened to a lot of oldies stations growing up, so I can sing along to an astounding number of heavy rotation good times, great oldies hits.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
Oh whoa, this is like a mix of classic rock and oldies (which is mostly a defunct format up here).
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:06 (nine years ago) link
In retrospect, it was a weird station, but at the time it seemed completely normal to hear "Johnny B. Goode" right after "When Doves Cry." It was Top 40, but that meant the top 40 from every year since 1955 or so.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
Thanks, Marko--my favourite BTO song, generally overlooked.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of Tull, I nominate "Bungle in the Jungle" if it hasn't already been mentioned yet. I think I heard that one 10x for every one occurrence of "Aqualung."
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
plus, "bungle in the jungle" more influential on mumford & sons, obvi.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
yeah iirc pre-Beatlemania music was still in the mix on a good amount of "rock" stations in the 80s and well into the 90s. nowadays the only thing earlier than 1967 that i hear regularly is "My Generation" and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." but i'm up for earlier stuff being nominated, honestly, i just didn't want to presume it should be in off the bat and put it in the pre-nominated pile.
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
speaking of beatlemania, some pre-67 beatles tracks that i think are relevant here:
eleanor rigbyticket to rideday tripperpaperback writer
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
So Hollies, Turtles and Zombies are ok?
If so,
Hollies - Bus StopTurtles - Happy TogetherZombies - She's Not There
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
"She's Not There" DEFINITELY is still in rotation on a lot of stations
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
otm, borderline oldies should be able to qualify, but shouldn't get fast-track nomination status.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hangin On
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
xp to sdIn that case...
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
Tempting to go overboard with pre-64 stuff, but even back in the mid 80s, there seemed to be an Oldies vs. CR divide, and stuff like "Jailhouse Rock" just doesn't feel right here.
Another nom:
Edwin Starr - War
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
(xp) i love hollies, turtles and zombies, but that all seems like a different poll to me esp. that hollies and that turtles.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
Do Rare Earth or Blood Sweat and Tears get played on Classic Rock stations or they more Oldies?
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
i kinda feel the same way, and i don't care either way -- i just know that i heard those songs on the radio and it took me roughly two decades to figure out which song was by which two-syllable one word group that was not beatles
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
Hollies: Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress
^^Still in microwave rotation.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
it took me roughly two decades to BELIEVE "long cool woman in a black dress" was by the hollies. i knew it was a hollies song pretty early on, but that made no sense to me, so i doubted my own knowledge for a good 20 years until i finally gave in and accepted it.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
ultimately, i'm gonna let most stuff in and just pull out the occasional thing that doesn't pass my personal smell test or got convincing objections itt. when it gets to a point where it feels like we're no longer nominating anything that could possibly get into a top 100 or even top 200 and are just debating irrelevant outliers for the sake of it, i'll give the 24 hour notice that i'm closing down nominations and will start prepping the voting thread.
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
xp - ikr?!?!
i found out when i finally found the hollies greatest hits and was like huh? ew.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
Canned Heat - On The Road Again
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
(many xps)
Rare Earth shamed into oblivion in '71? (AFAIK now only rated by crate diggers). But I'd add all of these Blood Sweat & Tears hits to the poll:
You've Made Me So Very HappySpinning WheelAnd When I Die
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
Don McLean – American Pie
Just a warning. Anyone who votes for this vomitous piece of shit will forever be subject to my wrath.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
Good to have on the list anyway for Worst Tracks reference.
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
Second Blood Sweat & Tears noms.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
spinning wheel is key
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
Wouldn't vote for it, but I love "American Pie," then and now.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
^ dead to me
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
The father, son, and the holy ghost--plus Clemenza--they caught the last train for the coast.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
10cc - Good Morning Judge
(not a hit in US or Canada I'll admit but, sound-wise, fits right into this poll)
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
10cc - The Things We Do For Love
(I didn't know it was by 10cc until last week -- I always thought it was by Steve Forbert or someone like that)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
What is a Steve Forbert song I might know? I've seen the name around for years and years, but have never listened to him as far as I know.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
American Pie is more fun when you get rolling drunk and act out the lyrics with handmotions in a nearly-empty pub to a handful of regulars
ymmv
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
What is a Steve Forbert song I might know?
"romeo's tune"
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
yeah that should be on here
― polyamanita (sleeve), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
Okay, I might have heard this before. Either way, I like it!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
ELO - Sweet Talkin' WomanDeep Purple - Child in Time
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Our House
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
Yes – I’ve Seen All Good PeopleYes – Owner Of A Lonely HeartYes - Roundabout
Are "Yours Is No Disgrace" and "Starship Trooper" too deep for this poll? I think they got radio airplay but I could be confusing classic rock radio with the music of my eternal soul.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link
Supertramp - School
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
(xp) plus "long distance runaround." or did that get classic rock dropped at some point?
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
I've heard "Yours Is No Disgrace" many times on classic rock radio
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
Used to hear Long Distance Runaround on 97.1 FM Chicago, The Drive.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
…which has a specific "mellow" classic rock format that I don't think I've heard elsewhere. Playlists heavier on the Jackson Browne side of things than the AC/DC side, but still not soft-rock.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
I've totally heard all those Yes songs (Long-Disgraced Trooper) on CR radio.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
Then I would like to add them and Long Distance Runaround to the nomination list, please, and thank you all for the confirmation.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
"wonderous stories" gets play, too
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
i've never had the pleasure of classic rock radio so these could be way off target:
Patti Smith - Because The NightToto - AfricaThe Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Would "Gloria" work for this poll? I swear I've heard it on Q104.3.
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
Yes Patti Smith (and that's the ONLY Patti Smith I can think of having heard) no to the other 2 IMP
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
I don't know about Africa, but Because the Night and She Sells Sanctuary (and Love Removal Machine) got play on the classic rock stations of my adolescence.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
I've heard Dancing Barefoot on the CR station in the last few years
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
i think? now i feel like i'm going crazy.
Them's original "Gloria" should probably make the ballot though.
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
Some special Canadian nominations for Myonga (all excellent, all '70s, all played regularly on Q-107 here):April Wine -- Tonight Is a Wonderful Time to Fall in LoveFludd -- Get Up, Get Out and Move OnGoddo -- Sweet Thing (greatest lyric ever: "You like the fact I'm in the Goddo band")Guess Who -- Albert FlasherGuess Who -- Rain DanceMainline -- Get Down ToPagliaro -- Lovin' You Ain't EasyPagliaro -- Some Sing, Some DanceThundermug -- AfricaValdy -- Rock and Roll Song― clemenza, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 8:27 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark
― clemenza, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 8:27 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark
I don't know if I've ever heard Fludd, Pagliaro or Thundermug! I don't listen to Q-107 if I can help it. But I'll add
Streetheart - HollywoodMax Webster - Toronto TontosHarlequin - Thinking Of YouPrism - Spaceship SuperstarDoucette - Mama Let Him PlayZon - Astral Projector OK, I've never actually heard this on the radio. But I sure would like to.
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
I wish I heard "Starship Trooper" on the radio more often!
(I don't know Fludd, Pagliaro, or Thundermug either btw!)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
If we're including Harlequin, then we def need "Innocence".
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I remember you stanning hard for that song in two previous threads, I think!
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
I don't think I've ever heard "Toronto Tontos" get radio play.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
Tbh, I'm not sure I've ever heard Max Webster in my life.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
OK I hate to derail but I'm gonna do it anyway:
sund4r subramanian wrote this on thread forgotten/understated 'classic' pop songs of the 80s and 90s on board I Love Music on Sep 30, 2002Harlequin - "Innocence"Queensryche - "Another Rainy Night"Warrior Soul - "Losers"sund4r subramanian (sund4r) wrote this on thread 100 Can-Pop Classics on board I Love Music on Dec 11, 2002Oh sorry, these were supposed to be more obscure?Is A Foot In Coldwater's "Anything You Want" any better? Or Harlequin's "Innocence"sund4r subramanian (sund4r) wrote this on thread You mean they're NOT Canadian?!? on board I Love Music on Dec 13, 2002Chuck, I have a feeling you'd like "Innocence" by Harlequin.Foreigner, Queensryche.EveningStar (Sund4r) wrote this on thread Pfunkboy, Viceroy & emil.y productions present: the most rockingest tracks of the 1980s poll NOMINATIONS THREAD (Closes Sunday 11:59 p.m. UK time) on board I Love Music on Aug 1, 2012(Tim was convincing me.)Harlequin - Innocences woods wrote this on thread 100 Can-Pop Classics on board I Love Music on Dec 11, 2002"Tonite is a Wonderful Time" - April Wine"Some Sing, Some Dance" - Pagliaro I just noticed Harlequin's "Innocence" on the list--amazing track. sund4r (sund4r) wrote this on thread ***OMFG IT'S THE TOTALLY TUBULAR ILX 1980s NOMINATIONS SUGGESTION THREAD*** on board I Love Music on Sep 1, 2005Harlequin's "Innocence" rivals any track from SWW (which should be there, yes)!Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee) wrote this on thread Pop and Inflation on board I Love Music on Oct 8, 2004You and that darn Harlequin song, sund4r - I swear I'm gonna buy that "Over 60 Minutes With Harlequin" CD next time I'm in the mall!(Fondly recall not only "Innocence" but "Thinking Of You" and a few more. Musical tastes regressing even further into the past - pathetic.)sund4r subramanian (sund4r) wrote this on thread I appear to be against the 80s on board I Love Music on Aug 25, 2003Harlequin - "Innocence"Grapes of Wrath - "All the Things I Wasn't" is pretty organic and I bet you haven't heard it. I haven't either in maybe a decade but I remember liking it. sund4r subramanian (sund4r) wrote this on thread Favorite song you don't have a copy of on board I Love Music on Nov 11, 2003Want to buy my copy of 77? Email if interested.To answer the thread, probably either "Fly At Night" by Chilliwack or "Innocence" by Harlequin. I don't have a high-speed connection at home.
Harlequin - "Innocence"Queensryche - "Another Rainy Night"Warrior Soul - "Losers"sund4r subramanian (sund4r) wrote this on thread 100 Can-Pop Classics on board I Love Music on Dec 11, 2002
Oh sorry, these were supposed to be more obscure?Is A Foot In Coldwater's "Anything You Want" any better? Or Harlequin's "Innocence"
sund4r subramanian (sund4r) wrote this on thread You mean they're NOT Canadian?!? on board I Love Music on Dec 13, 2002
Chuck, I have a feeling you'd like "Innocence" by Harlequin.Foreigner, Queensryche.
EveningStar (Sund4r) wrote this on thread Pfunkboy, Viceroy & emil.y productions present: the most rockingest tracks of the 1980s poll NOMINATIONS THREAD (Closes Sunday 11:59 p.m. UK time) on board I Love Music on Aug 1, 2012
(Tim was convincing me.)
Harlequin - Innocence
s woods wrote this on thread 100 Can-Pop Classics on board I Love Music on Dec 11, 2002
"Tonite is a Wonderful Time" - April Wine"Some Sing, Some Dance" - Pagliaro I just noticed Harlequin's "Innocence" on the list--amazing track.
sund4r (sund4r) wrote this on thread ***OMFG IT'S THE TOTALLY TUBULAR ILX 1980s NOMINATIONS SUGGESTION THREAD*** on board I Love Music on Sep 1, 2005
Harlequin's "Innocence" rivals any track from SWW (which should be there, yes)!Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee) wrote this on thread Pop and Inflation on board I Love Music on Oct 8, 2004
You and that darn Harlequin song, sund4r - I swear I'm gonna buy that "Over 60 Minutes With Harlequin" CD next time I'm in the mall!(Fondly recall not only "Innocence" but "Thinking Of You" and a few more. Musical tastes regressing even further into the past - pathetic.)sund4r subramanian (sund4r) wrote this on thread I appear to be against the 80s on board I Love Music on Aug 25, 2003
Harlequin - "Innocence"Grapes of Wrath - "All the Things I Wasn't" is pretty organic and I bet you haven't heard it. I haven't either in maybe a decade but I remember liking it.
sund4r subramanian (sund4r) wrote this on thread Favorite song you don't have a copy of on board I Love Music on Nov 11, 2003
Want to buy my copy of 77? Email if interested.To answer the thread, probably either "Fly At Night" by Chilliwack or "Innocence" by Harlequin. I don't have a high-speed connection at home.
Hahaha.
xpost - You've probably heard "A Million Vacations" or "Let Go The Line"
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
I hear "Let Go The Line" and "Paradise Skies" pretty often on Canadian Classic Rock stations.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
Oh, I thought "Million Vacations" was solo Kim Mitchell.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
for the most part if an artist is already on the list, i'm happy to grandfather in any other songs people suggest by that artist (at least, if it's someone with several radio staples like Yes, "Walk On The Wild Side" does not automatically crack the door open for other Lou Reed songs).
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
Can we make one 1987 exception for "Midnight Blue"?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
This poll ain't cherry red.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
It's midnight blue.
(Also, wow you have a good memory for 02/03 posts!)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:43 (nine years ago) link
If that's the case, I want Benjamin Orr's Stay the Night to be included. The least appreciated Car!
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
Stay the Night is from 1986, so it's in without exception imo.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
David Robinson is surely the least appreciated Car, though, because he's the only one whose name I had to look up.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
I'm willing to hear out possible post-1986 nominations (although i appreciate them being noted as such when brought up). i think of "Midnight Blue" as kind of an adult contempo track, but it does seem fortuitous that it was released in January of 1987 and "Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic calls the song the 'last great single of the album-rock era.'"
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
My classic rock stations were NY's WNEW, 102.7 FM and WXRK, 92.3 K-ROCK.
For your consideration:Bruce Springsteen - The Promised LandRolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking Led Zeppelin - Ten Years GoneThe Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie DownJohn Mellencamp - Lonely Ol' Night
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
imo the most played post-86 classic rock jam is Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" Don't know if it belongs on the poll, but feel like it's a staple
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
Opening it up to 1987 would make Appetite For Destruction eligible. That's classic rock by now, isn't it?
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
yeah but we're going off what WAS classic rock back in the day, not what is being played as classic rock now
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
OK. But back in the day, anyone foolish enough to suggest Toto was classic rock would have gotten a well deserved beatdown.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link
What about Lenny Kravitz???
― Jeff, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
Jeff and I were just discussing G-n-f'n-R and they were definitely embraced by the classic rock stations and listening audience.
Toto definitely not.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
This poll just got Kravitzed.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 4:09 PM
HE WAS IN THE MODERN LOVERS, YOU SAVAGE
(just kidding, JF, u r awesome)
― polyamanita (sleeve), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
I never knew that!
About Robinson, I mean. I knew I was awesome.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
did "Baker Street" get mentioned? G. Rafferty needs his spot in the canon (see also, "Stuck in the Middle w/You")
― col, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 00:59 (nine years ago) link
yes on Baker Street, the constant soundtrack to my 7th grade beach vacation of 1978
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
yeah definitely should be in the mix
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:06 (nine years ago) link
and -- arguably -- "Right Down the Line"
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:06 (nine years ago) link
No no no on GNR, wtf
― brimstead, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:28 (nine years ago) link
Aldo Nova -- FantasyLoverboy -- Turn Me LooseLoverboy -- Lovin' Every Minute of It
Glad to see Donnie Iris has been nominated, saves me the trouble.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:29 (nine years ago) link
i said i might budge on the '87 thing, but not for GNR.
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:31 (nine years ago) link
I understand the hesitation regarding Toto, but "hold the line" is undeniable fm gold
― brimstead, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link
please no lenny kravitz
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:40 (nine years ago) link
If we're including Styx up to Paradise Theatre (I see "Too Much Time on My Hands" on the list) then clearly
Styx -- Rockin' the Paradise
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:40 (nine years ago) link
^^^ xp no lenny
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:40 (nine years ago) link
Lenny's debut album was in late '89, so you're all safe
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:43 (nine years ago) link
if we're going there, i'd add "i won't back down" and "runnin' down a dream" and maybe a couple more. but that opens a can of worms ("where the streets have no name," cough cough), doesn't it?
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:45 (nine years ago) link
Re Lenny -- the fact that LK's career was (at least at first) a deliberate "classic rock" pastiche would in my opinion disqualify it even if it had been released in 1986. By the same logic, I don't really think we should consider B Joel's "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me" or B Seger's "Old Time-uh Rock and Roll" but I can't deny that these sour little eructations were actually played a lot on classic rock stations, so I just implore people not to vote for them.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:46 (nine years ago) link
I know 1989 is totally pushing it, and this song was already casually mentioned upthread, but I'll throw it out there as an official nomination since the door (floodgate?) has been opened:
Neil Young - Rockin' in the Free World
― cwkiii, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:48 (nine years ago) link
No "Free Fallin." Not classic rock in the same sense as "American Girl." Huge hit of course but already heard in the spirit of "old guy who's still around" and we should no more include it than we should include "Kokomo" or "Touch of Gray."
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:48 (nine years ago) link
No "Free Fallin." Not classic rock in the same sense as "American Girl." Huge hit of course but already heard in the spirit of "old guy who's still around"
that's crazy talk.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
i guess my issue is that there's not really much of anything post-86 that you could nominate here that isn't also played by a lot of "new rock" stations that put Joshua Tree/Appetite For Destruction/Full Moon Fever hits alongside the latest Foo Fighters or whatever.
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, T
and "Jammin' Me" actually hit #1 AOR.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:54 (nine years ago) link
I still stand by my "if the band ever had a video played on 120 Minutes, then they aren't the kind of 'classic rock' we're considering" rule.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:40 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I didn't know if this was another Chicago-specific heavy-rotation dealie, but yeah, this should probably be included.
Man, Chicago radio really liked to show its hometown pride for some shitty bands.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
yeah...one pre-87 song that on a lot of CR airplay lists i found that just felt too 'generation X' to me was Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)."
there are Talking Heads/Cars/Clash songs that are just too ubiquitous to leave out, though.
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 02:02 (nine years ago) link
Well Billy Idol was originally asked to record that song....
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 02:07 (nine years ago) link
haha well played
i wouldn't be averse to taking Idol, out, honestly, his stuff feels slightly less AOR to me than Combat Rock-era Clash or whatever.
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 02:12 (nine years ago) link
an addendum to johnny fever's "120 minutes" rule: if john hughes used it, it's probably not classic rock.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 02:27 (nine years ago) link
Idol should definitely be in. I'd actually add "Hot in the City," which is the first Idol song that got heavy rotation on my local AOR station.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 02:28 (nine years ago) link
Idol may have been played on on AOR at the time, as well as Top 40, but he seemed to be at the front of a style rather than at the back end of one (which is where a lot of the 80s material on the poll will be focused).
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 02:35 (nine years ago) link
I won't poo poo anyone's votes for Idol. It's your ballot! He just won't be on mine.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 02:36 (nine years ago) link
where do the sweet fit into this? "ballroom blitz"? "fox on the run"?
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 02:46 (nine years ago) link
what about the stray cats? too overtly retro for the poll?
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 02:49 (nine years ago) link
I think I'll put "Ballroom Blitz" on the list. my local station plays it pretty regularly.
I don't feel like the 2 or 3 Stray Cats hits survived as recurrents in radioland, i only know them from VH1 Classic and retrospectives of what videos were on early MTV.
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 02:54 (nine years ago) link
"Rock This Town" belongs in this poll, I'm not sure about any other Stray Cats songs.
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:06 (nine years ago) link
o shit yeah, "ballroom blitz" is must
"pictures of matchstick men"?
i tend to agree abt drawing the line not only @ 1987, but also @ most punk/postpunk/new wave stuff, 120 minutes buzzbin candidates, alt canon artistes, etc.
that said, you did include a number of cars hits in you OP, sd. and the only cars track i remember getting AOR classix airplay back in the day was "moving in stereo" (which sounded appropriate next to the likes of "tom sawyer" & "burning for you").
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:07 (nine years ago) link
on my current hometown classic rock station, klos, the cars are in heavy heavy rotation, right up there with boston, van halen, the eagles and the red hot chili peppers. sometimes i wonder if boston and los angeles are the only two american cities klos is aware of.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah Cars are basically as classic rock as Tom Petty when you get down to it
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:15 (nine years ago) link
i honestly figure if you can't reasonably imagine some long-haired, aviator-shaded freedom rock burnout sneaking parking lot tokes in the band's t-shirt outside a foghat show c. 1980, then it probably doesn't belong. but then again, it ain't my poll...
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:15 (nine years ago) link
I think classic rock as we know it ended the day Nevermind came out. On a completely unrelated note, I'm glad nobody is nominating acts like Big Star, Gram Parsons or Gene Clark, who, great as they are, were never on the radio, and hence cannot be classic rock.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:24 (nine years ago) link
yeah in earlier planning stages i thought of 90/91 as the cutoff point instead of 86/87. so many classic rock stations outright playing Nevermind and Achtung Baby singles now, though. Kenny Wayne Shepherd's "Blue On Black" now shows up in the top 500 airplay stats for the format, and that's from 1997!
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:28 (nine years ago) link
my local station has recently taken to playing new singles by old acts in the middle of regular daytime programming, and even if the occasional new Paul McCartney or Joan Jett track is actually not bad, it really feels weird in that context
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:32 (nine years ago) link
X postKenny Wayne Shepherd is NO Johnny Lang!
Who is everyone's favorite classic rock DJ? Scott Muni 4EVA!!!!!!!!
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:34 (nine years ago) link
"Blue on Black" was the #1 Album Rock Track in 1998, the before NuMetal broke.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:35 (nine years ago) link
The YEAR before, even
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:36 (nine years ago) link
I really like a lot of the 60s / 70s stars current music. One of my favorite songs by The Who is Mike Post Theme from their 2006 record.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:38 (nine years ago) link
My dad was reminiscing about KZAP (sacramento) today, talked about how they would play 11 minute Traffic album cuts and stuff late in the evening. I distinctly remember them enforcing a Led Zeppelin ban for some reason?!?
― brimstead, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:38 (nine years ago) link
o hey yeah, traffic. "dear mr. fantasy"
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:41 (nine years ago) link
I got to say I heard Detroit Rock City and some of the other early Kiss classics way more than Beth on the radio. Maybe it was an Indiana thing, but at night they would sometimes even do the long intro. on Detroit Rock City. I'd say maybe more regional hits, but ones that got played a ton back when I was in high school along the usual staples.
Joe Walsh- The ConfessorAldo Nova- FantasyBilly Thorpe- Children of the SunBlackfoot - Train, TrainThe Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another, Saved by ZeroThe Outlaws- Green Grass and High TidesDio- Rainbow in the Dark, Holy Diver, The Last In LineRainbow- Man on the Silver Mountain Ten Years After- I'd Love to Change the World
― earlnash, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:51 (nine years ago) link
God, "man on the silver mountain" kicks so much ass
― brimstead, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 03:53 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it's the best and i thought abt nominating it earlier. but i never heard it on the radio, not even back in the 70s. did hear tons of dio once upon a time, esp "rainbow in the dark".
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 04:22 (nine years ago) link
Feel like this debate has already been settled, but The Cars debut album is one of those records where every track but one or two has become a classic rock staple. First Boston album is the same way.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 04:38 (nine years ago) link
Also feel like Appetite for Destruction is the bellwether that makes the '86 cutoff so crucial. I take back even mentioning "Free Fallin'"
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 04:40 (nine years ago) link
By the time Slash played a solo in "Sweet Child O Mine" with full blown wah pedal, it already felt like a reappropriation of another era. It's definitely the line between the old guard and the new at the time.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 04:42 (nine years ago) link
There's a strain of Hard Classic Rock mini formats that include GNR and Def Leppard and stuff but that's another dope animal. That whole mid-late 80s hard rock scene scared me as a young kid, all these depraved demons screaming about sex while guitar lava exploded everywhere
― brimstead, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 04:48 (nine years ago) link
one more from the great robert palmer: you're gonna get what's coming
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 05:12 (nine years ago) link
harry nilsson - jump into the fire (even as i nominate it, i'm unclear on whether this is revisionist classic rock history or actual classic rock history. thoughts?)
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 05:15 (nine years ago) link
i get why we might want to force a cutoff point, and '87 seems as good (and as arbitrary) as any. so fine. but including songs that were swept under the "classic rock" umbrella well after that '87 cutoff while still policing the release date itself is sort of bizarre and leads to perversities like arguing that "shake it up" and "i want a new drug" are legit, time-hallowed classic rock jams while "free fallin'" and "sweet child o' mine" aren't. no biggie, but it's strange.
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 05:25 (nine years ago) link
first time i ever heard "jump into the fire" was in goodfellas. it was pretty obscure at that point, certainly not a classic rock staple. may have snuck into a few playlists since?
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 05:27 (nine years ago) link
Okay, I came up with a handful to add
Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Jackie BluePaul Simon - Late in the EveningHamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds - Don't Pull Your LovePilot - MagicJohn Stewart - Gold
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 05:28 (nine years ago) link
i have no idea if "gold" qualifies as classic rock or not -- seems more AM/oldies to me-- but damn that is a great song that deserves as much love as it can possibly get. the first time i found myself "driving over kanan" after i moved to LA was a huge moment for me.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 05:32 (nine years ago) link
yeah I wasn't sure about Gold...but since Stevie & Fleetwood Mac are already a lock, it seemed worth a shot :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 05:40 (nine years ago) link
i mean...i pre-nominated "Beth" and someone else nominated "Detroit Rock City" days ago, but it doesn't really mean anything or matter when different things were nominated. it's all in there now, and people can voice their opinions about them with their ballots.
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 10:03 (nine years ago) link
Robert Cray- Smoking GunRobert Cray- Right Next Door
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 10:19 (nine years ago) link
moreso than "strong persuader", or did someone already nom that?
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 10:37 (nine years ago) link
I think right next door is same song
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 10:43 (nine years ago) link
By which I mean "Strong Persauder" is actually called "Right Next Door (Because of Me)"
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 10:48 (nine years ago) link
lol, okay duh. that one!
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 10:59 (nine years ago) link
as you can tell, i don't know anything abt rbt cray, but i do like that song. only track of his i've ever heard on the radio, tho it was NPR.
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 11:00 (nine years ago) link
Two different songs.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 11:24 (nine years ago) link
Also: YES on the Cars. Every song from the debut I heard at some point in the eighties and earll nineties on classic rock radio.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 11:25 (nine years ago) link
oh duh sorry: I read "Strong Persuader" as "Smoking Gun" for some reason.
Someone with more time than me, please Spotify all these noms.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 11:28 (nine years ago) link
Cray was interesting to me, as he seemed the only black artist besides Hendrix and Living Colour that I ever heard on my local classic rock station.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 11:29 (nine years ago) link
o yeah, good point - "cult of personality"
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 11:54 (nine years ago) link
I will make a master Spotify playlist of all nominated tracks, will be posted in the voting thread after the noms are done.
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:16 (nine years ago) link
Bless you.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:21 (nine years ago) link
Off topic question that I'm curious about:When people make Spotify playlists for things like this, is it done manually by looking up each individual song or is there a quicker way?
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:25 (nine years ago) link
How 'bout Joe Cocker? "Feelin' Alright" and "With A Little Help From My Friends" are staples.
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:36 (nine years ago) link
You can c+p a list of songs into http://www.ivyishere.org/ivy and it will do its best to give you a Spotify playlist back xp
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:42 (nine years ago) link
Joe Walsh - MeadowsDeep Purple - Woman from TokyoGrand Funk - Bad Time
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
Lol, or you could turn on the radio for a couple of days.:P [ / ducks]
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:48 (nine years ago) link
wow, seandalai, great tip, will def give that a try
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
I tried it during the Motown poll with some ridiculous list of songs -- close to 1000 I think -- and it churned and churned away at it. I thought I'd broken something but it finally generated a decent playlist. (Completely forgot about it after that.)
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
it's a tragedy that Great White's "once bitten" is disqualified due to its 1987 release as it's my own personal quintessential CR track
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:53 (nine years ago) link
1989 even! damn.
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:55 (nine years ago) link
I don't own a radio!
― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
once bitten twice shy is a cover.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, the original would qualify chronologically but did it actually get that much airplay in North America?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:01 (nine years ago) link
Nick Gilder - Hot Child in the City
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:03 (nine years ago) link
Gilder's a good one, might make my Hot Hundred.
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:11 (nine years ago) link
are covers disqualified?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:14 (nine years ago) link
never heard the ian hunter version on the radio iirc
Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?Bruce Hornsby - The Way It Is
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
xp: too true.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
Covers are fine if it's the version that gets radio airplay. Will generally stick with the most appropriate version of the song unless there are 2 really big ones (Kinks as well as Van Halen for "You Really Got Me" is the only example that springs to mind).
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
at any rate, you will have a chance to vote for Once Bitten, Twice Shy in the hair metal poll, coming up in about 6 months or so.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:24 (nine years ago) link
whew
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:25 (nine years ago) link
Rod Stewart - You Wear It WellRod Stewart - Reason to BelieveWarren Zevon - Excitable Boy
60's cult(ish) classics to maybe consider:
Bob Seger - Two Plus TwoFleetwood Mac - Oh Well Love - 7 and 7 IsMove - I Can Hear The Grass GrowPaul Revere - KicksLaura Nyro – Wedding Bell BluesLeft Banke - Pretty Ballerina
don't know where to start or stop with the Stones nominations.
― g simmel, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:33 (nine years ago) link
I love (love love) Love but have never, ever heard them on the radio, except the time I played "7 and 7" at my college station. (Never heard the Move either.)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
not even "Do Ya"? or is it the ELO version that gets played?
― Euler, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
I didn't realize a hair metal was up so soon in the queue. With that in mind I'm tempted to trim the Crue/Ratt/Quiet Riot stuff out of the noms, and possibly also expand the timeframe into 87, 88 and maybe 89 (my concern with that era was partly how hair metal-heavy the 87-89 selections would be).
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
what else was new classic rock in 87-89 besides hair metal? fuckin life is a highway?
― Euler, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link
Well, we could also push the hair metal poll until whenever. I don't mind.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link
Full Moon Fever and The Joshua Tree have been the big examples thus far
wasn't implying that the hair metal poll is too soon or too close to this one, definitely looking forward to it!
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:59 (nine years ago) link
Keep on Rockin in the Free World?
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link
One that gets played down here a lot: Head East-Never Been Any Reason
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
Left Banke - Pretty Ballerinawhere was this on classic rock radio?!
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link
It's totally your call obv but I don't really see the justification for including late-80s Tom Petty and U2 but excluding hair metal. I'd be in favour of either sticking with the original cutoff (which made sense to me) or just including anything that gets CR airplay regardless of chronology.
xposts (Also, has Laura Nyro ever been played on CR radio?)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
I see, yeah. I don't know about the late 80s though; in those years WKLS Atlanta, 96 Rock played the shit out of Melissa Etheridge and Drivin N Cryin. Are those classic rock? they're not monsters like Tom Petty, for whom "classic rock" was as much a brand by 1989 as it was a genre or style----meaning, whatever he did was gonna appeal to classic rock fans.
but what's more fun to me about this poll is thinking about nuggets like "Drift Away" and "Can't You See", by artists who weren't monsters of rock but hit the pocket a few times.
― Euler, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
Never heard that Head East song until a coupla years ago, despite ILMers and irl people insisting "of course you know it! 'Save my life I'm goin down' etc"
Great song...it's bizarre that I never encountered it.
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I'm pretty interested to see how these artists with one or two staples fare against the dozen Zep or dozen Stones songs.
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:13 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, Euler otm. Obviously one could make their entire list Zep/Beatles/Stones/Hendrix/Fleetwood Mac and it'd be an incredible list of songs. But as I'm putting my shortlist together, I feel like I can't call it a classic rock list without a healthy dose of Nugent/Mountain/Foghat/Golden Earring-type acts with 1-3 iconic songs.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
i have this spacey, submariney, hazy guitar/keys (rhodes maybe?) riff stuck in my head but cant fucking place what song it is.... kind of sounds like "fly like an eagle" but its not that... anyone?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
and also fwiw there shld be zero beatles on this poll imo
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
Really interested in seeing how all this will shake out in the poll
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
FYI I turned on the classic rock station (97.1 The Drive) when I got to work and they were playing Africa by Toto. LOL?
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
It's been mentioned already, but people, please don't forget the tremendous power of James Gang's Walk Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo0vBdlWQs0&feature=kp
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:53 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I used to hear "My Little Red Book" every so often on WLUP's "Rock & Roll Roots" show in Chicago in the 80s -- that dj played a pretty even mix of garage, Stax, Motown, and British Invasion (plus an inordinate amount of awful Chicago bands like the Buckinghams).
Only Move I ever heard was "Do Ya" once or twice; and once after a news report about the bombing of MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, these schmuck djs (the same ones behind "Disco Demolition") played "Fire Brigade."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
I like The Loop 97.9 for classic rock in Chicago
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
ew xp
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:24 (nine years ago) link
FYI I turned on the classic rock station (97.1 The Drive) when I got to work and they were playing Africa by Toto. LOL?― carl agatha, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:20 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― carl agatha, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:20 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
imo The Drive isnt a tru CLASSIC ROCK station, they're operating on a little bit different format that emerged about a decade ago that is more focused on catch-all white baby boomer nostalgia-- there's lots of overlap of course
97.9 THE LOOP is the chicago station i'd tune in to for this poll (i'm sure they play TOTO on occasion)
xposts!
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:27 (nine years ago) link
also they have a "babe of the day"
http://www.wlup.com/common/page.php?pt=Babe+of+the+Day&id=10131&is_corp=1
feel free to ignore the Nyro/Banke/Move/Love suggestions if they really don't fit the "actually played on the radio" criteria
Guess Who - Share the Land
― g simmel, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
not even "Do Ya"? or is it the ELO version that gets played?― Euler, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:54 AM (17 minutes ago)
― Euler, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:54 AM (17 minutes ago)
I'm not sure which is which but yeah I forgot it either way. Oh, and WRIF-FM in Detroit ("The RIFF!") was my go-to station back in the day.
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
The Loop was my go-to station for a couple of years in the 80s. They used to play "Beat It" (which was still relatively new), Prince, Marvin Gaye, and Sly alongside the usual suspects. They also jumped on U2 and R.E.M. relatively early -- "Superman" got tons of airplay.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
Genesis - Mama
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
Putting on Chez in tribute to this thread.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
Supertramp - Bloody Well Right
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:37 (nine years ago) link
Last three songs:Jimi Hendrix - "Fire"Bryan Adams - "Run to You"Heart - "Kick It Out"
Apparently, I was lucky enough to miss Live and Tom Cochrane. Oh, now they've moved on to Phil Collins - "In the Air Tonight".xpost Oh, that one's OTM.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:38 (nine years ago) link
Did anyone else here grow up listening to NY classic rock, mainly WNEW and WXRK?
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 7:01 AM (25 minutes ago)
voting for the shit out of "never been any reason". and "space truckin"
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By the Light
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
Obviously one could make their entire list Zep/Beatles/Stones/Hendrix/Fleetwood Mac and it'd be an incredible list of songs. But as I'm putting my shortlist together, I feel like I can't call it a classic rock list without a healthy dose of Nugent/Mountain/Foghat/Golden Earring-type acts with 1-3 iconic songs.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 7:19 AM (22 minutes ago)
would like to say i'm not gonna vote for any "Zep/Beatles/Stones/Hendrix/Fleetwood Mac", but i may not be able to do without "when the levee breaks" and "immigrant song"
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
uriah heep - "gypsy"
^ lol at the idea of this getting airplay, but if it did, i wish to vote for it
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:44 (nine years ago) link
My rule for voting: if I remember ever hearing it on CR radio, I'm voting for it. The Clash and the Pretenders are two of my favourite bands of all time, but I don't recall ever encountering them in this format, so I won't be repping for them this time out.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
Mountain/Foghat/Golden Earring-type acts
yesssssss
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
hey, question for people that still pay attention to the format: did or do metallica's "master of puppets" and/or "welcome home (sanitarium)" ever get classic rock airplay? cuz the former sure as hell seems like it'd fit in...
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
The Guess Who - Clap For The WolfmanStevie Ray Vaughan - Cold Shot
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
"Mountain/Foghat/Golden Earring-type acts"
― mookieproof, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 7:48 AM (3 minutes ago)
o shit yeah
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
Ooh good call on Heep - not "Gypsy", but "Easy Livin'" and "Wizard" get their share of plays
Also Canned Heat "On the Road Again"
xpost - WRIF in Detroit played "Fade To Black" occasionally in '85, but I never heard any other Metallica on radio 'til the black album.
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
depends on if the station implemented "mandatory metallica" blocks probably
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
― some dude, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:13 AM (40 minutes ago)
Thunderclap Newman ftw.
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
chronologically, Metallica starts with "One," at least on the classic rock station my dad listens to. never heard anything from Puppets.
― col, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
in re: Beatles shouldn't be on list point made earlier, i think there's a very limited CR beatles pool: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Get Back" and "Come Together." those are quintessential CR Beatles, though obviously a good chunk of the post-'66 catalog gets played a lot.
― col, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
xps okay then i'm nominating "welcome home (sanitarium)". 198666 fukkaz!
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
^ imaginary classic rock nom to be axed
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
At this point I'm planning on leaving the Beatles off my ballot entirely. Maybe one or two Stones and Who songs. But this is going to be a ballot full of "oh shit turn that up I haven't heard that in ten years" *gives self whiplash*
xp happy to have the Beatles basics on the noms list though, I just gotta do what I gotta do
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
glad to see Living Colour's "Cult of Personality" mentioned as post-87 classic rock ... I heard that in the car yesterday and immediately thought of this poll
― Brad C., Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
The Sweet - Little Willy(I know I've heard this on the radio a lot, but I can't recall if I've heard it on Classc Rock or just Oldies)
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
Fwiw, CHEZ is playing the Beatles' "Revolution" right now.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
I wonder if a slow version/fast version mashup would sound like anything.
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
Would only be on board if "Revolution #9" were also part of the mash-up.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
I understand the antipathy to the Beatles-as-classic-rock in this thread, but I've heard Revolution, While My Guitar…, and Come Together consistently on classic rock stations throughout the past 20 years. They have tracks in the canon, even if their overall image doesn't scream "classic rock!" like, say, Zeppelin.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, plus there's Clapton overlap in there.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
I am genuinely puzzled as to how the Beatles could be a controversial inclusion in a classic rock poll.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
at least post-1965
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
i think my guideline for this will be "songs that the guys in fu manchu probably like"
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
probably because a number of people on this thread (myself included) were shaped by classic rock as a radio format from, about 1989-2000, and during that time the Beatles fit best on the oldies format, with a handful of their late rockers included on classic rock stations.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
"songs that the guys in fu manchu probably like"
Not a bad metric at all.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
hey, question for people that still pay attention to the format: did or do metallica's "master of puppets" and/or "welcome home (sanitarium)" ever get classic rock airplay
Metallica were not played on classic rock. Even "One", which is as close as the 80s got to a huge FM epic, was never on classic rock when it came out.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
like, what are these guys listening to?
http://www.larryny1.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/charlie-jimmy.jpg
hint: it is not the beatles
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
dudes.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
That dude is listening to Freedom Rock (turn it up, man). All Freedom Rock is classic rock, but not all classic rock is freedom rock. So of course the Beatles are eligible.
The 3 Beatles songs that were in every Memorial Day Top 500 List alongside Born To Run, Layla and Stairway were A Day In The Life, Let It Be and Hey Jude.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
xxp They're listening to "Frankenstein"http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcsp6r7Y0M1ruxwvqo1_500.png
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
Feel lie some of the comments here defines CR more narrowly than radio stations do.
A lot of the acts that have been disputed on some level (Beatles, Cars, Talking Heads, The Clash) have had classic rock staples for two decades. They may be less hard-rocking or hirsute or macho, and their careers fall at the edges of 70s. But if you listen to 24 hours of a classic rock station you'll hear all these acts--multiple times in the case of the Beatles and the Cars.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
"Feel like" I mean
A few more nominations.
Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown TrafficBuffalo Springfield - Mr. SoulBuffalo Springfield - Rock and Roll WomanBuffalo Springfield - Bluebird
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
Sweet-Fox On The RunBob Seger - Ramblin Gamblin ManTed Nugent -Great White BuffaloBabe Ruth - Wells Fargo
― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
didn't come up in a search but since i just heard it on the classic rock station yesterday:
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
― Mordy, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
I want to include Whitesnake's original version of "Here I Go Again" because it still makes me laugh that he used "hobo" instead of "drifter," but I know full well that shit never got played on the radio.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
i think those two stations are right on the rock/classic rock divide that have flummoxed a lot of us in trying to remember what did or didn't get played on classic rock radio back in the day. to me, the wnew of scott muni, dave herman and carol miller was a "rock" station, playing beatles/stones/zep but also '60s AM nuggets (motown, girl groups, some actual nuggets) and also plenty of new stuff that lifted from both traditions (petty and mellencamp on one hand, smithereens and elvis costello on the other hand). wxrk, if memory recalls, came later and was much more self-consciously "classic rock," zeroing in on the zeppelin/skynyrd/acdc/vanhalen piece of the format and dispensing with anything that smelled "alternative" or "black" (and adding, of course, howard stern). i think wxrk is much truer to the spirit of this poll.
another station like wnew was boston's wbcn in the '70s and '80s, which played a ton of new wave and weirdo one-hit wonders and local rock along with the beatles and stones and phil spector and sly stone and marvin gaye, and love's "alone again or" was a staple, and i think of it as classic and as rock, but not as classic rock, and i think there's a big difference there.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
metallica is a good example, i think, of a band that classic rock radio wouldn't have touched in the '80s but which has become classic with age, in a legitimate "classic" "rock" sense. "enter sandman" and "unforgiven," for example, are full-on cr staples now, aren't they? they completely belong next to foghat and edgar winter.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
would the cast of Mask turn it off in disgust or turn it up man? that's my metric for CR or no. also did i hear it on the radio y/n
http://api.ning.com/files/Jx8KmtZz6Stx-3DtvAGCuiHBampEt8e2lRAH7Q8EWbAybEU1sSAa*kTzHIhDHwQJSTZE0QH2P5-E7DYnBqDOurAd4UzqU4Mu/l9.jpg
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
I never realized that Mask was about bikers.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
classic rock rumble: cast of mask vs. cast of dazed and confused.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
i have this spacey, submariney, hazy guitar/keys (rhodes maybe?) riff stuck in my head but cant fucking place what song it is.... kind of sounds like "fly like an eagle" but its not that... anyone?― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:19 AM (2 hours ago)
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:19 AM (2 hours ago)
guys help this is driving me crazy
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
Wild Mountain Honey?
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
http://www.q1043.com/common/top_songs/2013.html
Songs from the top 100 of this poll that have not been mentioned
Grateful Dead - Sugar MagnoliaBilly Joel - Miami 2017David Bowie - HeroesThe Beatles - Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club BandTraffic - Empty Pages
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
Wild Mountain Honey?― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:21 AM (2 minutes ago)
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:21 AM (2 minutes ago)
no, its a heavy song
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
what about gary glitter "rock and roll part 2"? or has he earned himself a lifetime ban from public airplay and, therefore, this poll?
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
i'd vote rock n roll pt 2
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
xxpost "Children of The Sun" by Billy Thorpe?
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
I'm not able to get Q104.3 to play on my browser but it does seem like a better, and much more classicist, station than CHEZ, where Foo Fighters and Kings of Leon are part of the mix. (US CR stations tend to be more classicist ime.) Wow, they like Close to the Edge! Do they actually play the title track in regular rotation?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
Ha, CHEZ is playing the Beastie Boys now.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
The Q1403 was a reader request list, so maybe the baby boomers of the tri-state area loooove Yes. I've only ever heard the Yes tracks listed on some dude's original list, though I think I might have heard "Close to the Edge" on when the DJ had to go to the bathroom, or during one of their special "album sides" hours.
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Run Through the JungleCreedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin Out My Back Door
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
I just heard Love in an Elevator on WLUP and my god I hate that song so much.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
Here's one that might make my ballot--
Elvin Bishop - Fooled Around and Fell In Love
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
I'd nominate the Move's excellent "Message from the Country," but no, they never ever get played on Q-107--ditto Love (maybe once in a blue moon on "Psychedelic Sundays").
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
I'll nominate it anyway:
Move - Message from the CountryWishbone Ash - Blowin' Free (greatest power-pop/junky-metal song ever)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
I really wish my local cr station had a psychedelic show. Dig this playlist from WBLM* Portland, Maine's "Psychedelic Breakfast":
http://wblm.com/your-psychedelic-breakfast-playlist-for-saturday-11302013/
(and yes, they play "The blimp! The blimp!" from Trout Mask multiple times an hour but never play any Beefheart records)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
"2nd floor...hardware, children's wear, lady's lingerie. Oh, good morning Mr. Tyler, going down?"
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
Tarfumes --
http://psychedelicized.com/
For whenever you want to get your psych on.
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
Cool! Thanks!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
xxpost "Children of The Sun" by Billy Thorpe?― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:29 AM (48 minutes ago)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:29 AM (48 minutes ago)
nope.
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
I also heard Proud Mary and dang if that's not one of the best songs ever. Makes me want to spend the summer chooglin'.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
I can't even think about CCR now without thinking of aero's hilarious hate-on for them.
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 12:20 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Steve Miller-My Dark Hour
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
xp: that was a great thread. I was reading through it just last week.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
Les Dudek who played on Ramblin Man is presumably somewhere in that Mask photo. I'd bet the cast of Mask were big Allman Bros fans.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
oh, wait, that's because it was revived.
i have this spacey, submariney, hazy guitar/keys (rhodes maybe?) riff stuck in my head but cant fucking place what song it is.... kind of sounds like "fly like an eagle" but its not that... anyone?― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:19 AM (2 hours ago)guys help this is driving me crazy― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 12:20 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkSteve Miller-My Dark Hour― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 12:52 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 12:52 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not that either... its closer to the sound on ted nugent's "stanglehold"
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
I know it won't happen, but "Hair of the Dog" should really win this thing
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
speaking of that:
allman bros - melissa
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
xxpost Deep Purple 'Highway Star', gr8080?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
jesus christ, Google autocorrected my choogle search to Google.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
I know it won't happen, but "Hair of the Dog" should really win this thing― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 12:59 PM (25 seconds ago)
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 12:59 PM (25 seconds ago)
top 5 at least
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
xxpost Deep Purple 'Highway Star', gr8080?― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 1:00 PM (48 seconds ago)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 1:00 PM (48 seconds ago)
nope & i already played that this morning thinking it could be it!!
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
definitely xp
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link
The version of Highway Star on Made in Japan is probably the best song ever put to tape.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 1:59 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Just checked, Dudek is the guy with the facial furniture kneeling in front.
Has "Blue Sky" been mentioned yet? What a great song.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
Front right.
Can't be, cause the live "Space Truckin" on Side 4 is the best
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
Hair of the Dog will be in my top 10 no question. a worthy number one for this poll surely
― g simmel, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
Did Rainbow's 'Stargazer' ever get much US "classic rock" airplay? 'Cuz if it did, it deserves to be in there.
It's hard to participate in this part of the poll, because I have no idea what was and what wasn't played in the US on classic rock stations. We didn't really have classic rock radio here, at least not until the digital radio era.
― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
I have the same problem. the criteria is up to the U.S. radio listeners to figure out
― g simmel, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
ok guys here is me singing/humming this fucking riff i cant figure out, help me out here:
http://shoutkey.com/risqu%C3%83%C2%A9
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
fwiw i would encourage you guys and others in a similar position to vote on your favorite songs anyway. we're handwringing about criteria now but ultimately it's just gonna be about what people like best out of the songs that meet the criteria. xp
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
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The URI you submitted has disallowed characters.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
wait lets try that again
http://shoutkey.com/eject
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
ok, no fucking idea.
It sounds awesome though.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
oh shit I know this god damn it what is it
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
it was the "bloo, bloo, bloo" part that kicked my memory in
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
sounds like ZZ Top's "Cheap Sunglasses" to me
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
YES!!!
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
btw gr8080 is now going to beatbox riffs from the top 100 songs during the poll results rollout
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
oh dude, that will be so necessary.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
blooo, bloooo!
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
yes!!! cheap sunglasses! i even listened to that this morning and must have lost my patience before it got to the blooo blooo keyboard part
fun fact: i played "cheap sunglasses" in my set when deej and i DJ'd a loft party together in summer 2010
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
and thank you, some dude!
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
Cheap Sunglasses a strong contender for my #1 spot
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
I lose my patience with ZZ Top all the time.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
no prob! (xp)
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
are ppl voting for santana?
oye como va gonna be high on my ballot
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
def. going to be voting for Santana, probably that track
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
songs that are primarily a groove+solos are one of the best kinds of classic rock. Same reason Cheap Sunglasses is a high contender for me.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
Santana-related, from the Ween thread
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
how many songs are we putting in our ballots? i know we haven't got to that yet but I was wondering
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
347.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
100???
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
Except for the decade polls, this will be the first time I feel confident I can full a 100-track ballot pretty easily.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
420
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
I think the results from this poll are gonna be super hella interesting and contentious.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
if people think 100 is insane i can dial it down to 50 but i kinda want the option there for those of you (us) that wanna go whole hog. i just look at all these songs and the hundreds of them i've enjoyed, and i'd like to be able to really vote for everything i feel strongly about, be able to vote for as many Who songs as i want and still have room for the one hit wonders, etc.
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
whatever wins, we should start a movement, maybe through one of those whitehouse.gov petitions, to have that song replace "freebird" as the song that people are required to shout out at concerts.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
this is prob gonna be one of the hardest polls to predict ever. i don't even want to venture a guess at a #1 or a like top ten.
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
^ never. even though it is better than 99% of songs on there.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
I'm excited to do a 100-song poll, don't dial it down to 50 please!
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
Guessing "Baba O'Riley" for top 5.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
Everybody's going to have a different criteria for voting. For me, this poll is the place where songs like More Than A Feeling get their due.
If the band/singer already had their own dedicated poll, I'm not going to vote for them. That means no Stones, Who, Dylan, Zeppelin, Springsteen etc. So while I normally like Gimme Shelter more than Radar Love, I don't here.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
I like that approach, will consider
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
it barely made top 5 of the who poll!
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSsssssssss! So stoked for this one, a long time coming. Will flip through the list in a second with suggestions in a second. Really glad it's a long ballot, too.
I vote yes on 'regional hits' - or at least, on "Ah! Leah," which I never heard until I moved north - great song.
I would agree with purging Motley Crue and Ratt - that's something else, new hard rock music at the time that these stations were becoming officially closed-door 'classics' affairs, at least from what I've gathered on other threads. I NEVER heard these on classic rock radio growing up.
I think Asia's top couple of hits should DEFINITELY be here. Not quite as convinced by Europe but YMMV.
Agreed with WilliamC that Horse With No Name absolutely should be here, only format in which I've ever heard it and they play it a LOT. Never heard any of America's other hits on CR though. MAYBE Tin Man, MAYBE Ventura Highway.
Beatles: yeah it's a limited list, but actually almost anything on the last few albums is fair game. I'm sure I've heard "Here Comes The Sun" on these stations. Hell, even "Drive My Car" back in the day. "Birthday" gets played, etc..
basically intheblanks is right - we all know what the ultimate stereotypical Classic Rock would end up sounding like, but this radio format has always been a LITTLE broader than that, and includes lots of things on the basis of decades of inertia and momentum that really don't make sonic sense next to each other. Nonetheless I'd say "Fooled Around and Fell In Love" is pushing us too far into soft AM territory.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
"Birthday" gets played, etc..
^ this or Come Together are the classic rockiest of Beatles songs.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
Someone upthread mentioned never hearing Pretenders on CR radio. I'm almost positive I've heard "Brass In Pocket" jammed in between the likes of Journey and the Doobies, but no other Pretenders songs ever.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
I like the 100-song ballot idea. If you're willing to compile that much data, I'm willing to throw that much data at you.
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
Testing the waters here - some of these may be 'borderline' and I may be mashing up things I used to hear as "oldies" versus "classic rock." Not sure any are really staples these days. Kinda picking up the woodstockier end of things, I think.
The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie DownBlood Sweat & Tears - Spinning WheelBlues Image - Ride Captain RideCanned Heat - Going Up The CountryDoobie Brothers - Black WaterEddie Money - Think I'm In Love (maybe)Eric Clapton - After MidnightFaces - Ooh La La (maybe?)Genesis - Paperlate (once in a blue moon, played to show their deep-cut cred)Guess Who - These EyesJaggerz - The RapperJoe Cocker - Feelin' AlrightJoe Cocker - She Came In Through the Bathroom WindowLittle Feat - Dixie ChickenRobert Plant - In The MoodRolling Stones - Tumblin' Dice (might be imaginging this)Rolling Stones - Wild Horses (not that we need more Stones)Three Dog Night - Joy To The WorldThree Dog Night - Mama Told Me Not To Come (maybe more "oldies"? see also "Celebrate." Does "Shambala" get play?)War - Cisco Kid (maybe?)War - Spill The Wine
Does Ace Frehley - Back In The New York Groove have any CR purchase? Just heard it for the first time recently but people seem to know it. Similarly, I know I heard Cheap Trick - Dream Police at SOME point in my youth but god knows on what station.
Overall I think the initial list is already pretty great, and does have the virtue of not including anything that absoLUTEly doesn't get played on these stations. As balls said a while back, "bemoaning the lack of choices is a key part of the classic rock radio experience" - it would be better for the noms list to be too restrictive than to see votes get soaked up by awesome songs that, like it or not, just aren't part of the 1,000 song Labor Day Extended Weekend Rock Block. I'm surprised for example at This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide, which I would be stoked to vote very high - but it feels very "new wave" and definitely did not hear it growing up. This again might be a Southern regional exclusion though.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
Does "Shambala" get play?
Any song prominently featured in the film Joe Dirt should be grandfathered in.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
"Back on The Chain Gang" and "Middle of The Road" are pretty big on classic rock radio here.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
Re:Pretenders obvs.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
Brass In Pocket is absolutely within these parameters, I heard it all the time when it came out
I was 13 in 1979 and had just started getting into music, taping cassettes off of the radio. So many flashbacks already w/these lists & suggestions. It is mind-boggling to me how much stuff from the 1979-82 era is canonized now, so many things that I thought I'd never hear past high school that have essentially been embedded in the American id at this point.
the station I listened to (WWWV in central VA) would play Cars, Talking Heads & Elvis Costello songs alongside Led Zep & ZZ Topp, I gather this was a bit of an outlier for the time.
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
How does yacht rock and derivatives, or that smooth west coast sound, intersect with this aesthetic? Because I'm another Briton w/no experience of classic FM radio, but one song that really makes sense to me is:
Christopher Cross - Ride Like The Wind
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
If there was one Christopher Cross song that might be heard on typical CR radio, that would be the one.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
look at that photo from "mask" that someone posted above, and ask yourself if a majority of the dudes in that photo could play the song on a jukebox without the rest of the dudes beating them up, "ride like the wind" fails that test. if bob seger had released it, the results might be different. but the identity of the artist matters here.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
Are we drawing a line between pre-Michael McDonald Doobies and Michael McDonald Doobies?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
Because I'm voting for Takin' It to the Streets by gum!
takin it to the streets absolutely yes.
but probably not minute by minute or what a fool believes.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
basically anything on best of the doobies qualifies, while nothing on best of the doobies 2 qualifies, methinks.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
(that, at least, is what this fool believes.)
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
only know what a fool believes because of classic rock radio
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
movie bikers be damned
That's a good call.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
disco poll was 100 tracks and was awesome
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
A lot of the acts that have been disputed on some level (Beatles, Cars, Talking Heads, The Clash) have had classic rock staples for two decades. They may be less hard-rocking or hirsute or macho, and their careers fall at the edges of 70s. But if you listen to 24 hours of a classic rock station you'll hear all these acts--multiple times in the case of the Beatles and the Cars.― intheblanks, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:42 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkDid anyone else here grow up listening to NY classic rock, mainly WNEW and WXRK?i think those two stations are right on the rock/classic rock divide that have flummoxed a lot of us in trying to remember what did or didn't get played on classic rock radio back in the day. to me, the wnew of scott muni, dave herman and carol miller was a "rock" station, playing beatles/stones/zep but also '60s AM nuggets (motown, girl groups, some actual nuggets) and also plenty of new stuff that lifted from both traditions (petty and mellencamp on one hand, smithereens and elvis costello on the other hand). wxrk, if memory recalls, came later and was much more self-consciously "classic rock," zeroing in on the zeppelin/skynyrd/acdc/vanhalen piece of the format and dispensing with anything that smelled "alternative" or "black" (and adding, of course, howard stern). i think wxrk is much truer to the spirit of this poll.another station like wnew was boston's wbcn in the '70s and '80s, which played a ton of new wave and weirdo one-hit wonders and local rock along with the beatles and stones and phil spector and sly stone and marvin gaye, and love's "alone again or" was a staple, and i think of it as classic and as rock, but not as classic rock, and i think there's a big difference there.― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:03 AM (5 hours ago)
― intheblanks, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:42 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:03 AM (5 hours ago)
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
also, great post, fcc
Foghat: Fool For The City
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
Kim Mitchell - Go For a SodaTrooper - Boys in the Bright White Sports CarHeadpins - Don't It Make You FeelToronto - Your Daddy Don't Know
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
0 for 4 there imo
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link
I don't know about everyone else, but I WANT to do a 100 song ballot. I mean, just looking at that list, a 100 song ballot is going to be enough of a challenge.
― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
"Go for Soda" apparently was HUGE in Houston, a big staple of all request hours/weekends/marathons.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
Todd Rundgren - Bang the Drum All Day
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
idk, it's not like it was only in the past 10-15 years that Beatles/Cars/whoever crept onto these playlists through the relaxation of standards. My rural Illinois home station was playing that stuff when I started listening in 1993.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
nothing on the wiki about the Led Zeppelin ban mentioned upthread but Mr Veg confirmed it. I will dig up some more & see what I can find
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZAP_(defunct)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
i think i was probably 20 by the time i realized "Bang The Drum All Day" wasn't by Talking Heads
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
local nomination
Y&T - forever
:D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
My key CR radio years probably from, say, 89 to 99 or so, everything from hearing it in the background in my dad's workshop or at picnic-type events, to teenage years in a friend's car convinced Led Zeppelin were a major world-shifting revelation. Most of the stuff in this thread is okay by my memories, but most of the ones that have been flagged up as questionable I also question (though I'm down to check 'em out!). It's definitely a way bigger picture than Freedom Rock wooly boogie. On some previous thread I started parsing out some major 'eras' of CR sonically but the thing is they all got played side by side, so you kinda had to dig to realize Steppenwolf and Asia are a decade or more apart. That's kind of the fun of it, it's a canon but it's a weird, contingent, melange of a canon and people's experience varies a bit. The NYC station did a big voter-driven countdown a while ago and ''Joe's Garage'' was in there, never would've expected that.
SD - are we gonna get a 'worst' ballot?
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
yeah definitely
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
There will be a worst side poll, yes.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
Marillion - Kayleigh?
― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
oooh yes
I made a playlist of as much of the stuff as I had in my own itunes (a lot, lol) and it's the best because I freaking love every single song
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
(xpost)
I've noticed no Whitesnake tracks have been added yet!
― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
With 1987 being the cutoff, you're stuck with Whitesnake (except for "Slide It In") that never got played on the radio.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
Pretenders 100% on classic rock radio -- including My City Was Gone (in NEOH)
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:32 (nine years ago) link
agreed
how else would my dad have developed his crush on chrissie hynde
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
her vegan restaurant did ok iirc
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link
Did Golden Earring get an official nomination? If not I hereby nominate "When the Bullet Hits the Bone" and "Radar Love."
Also, thank you LL and gr80. I will switch to The Loop for the remainder of this poll, even though I generally like The Drive a little better I think.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:45 (nine years ago) link
Golden Earring 4 EVA
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
psst the first song is 'Twilight Zone' <3
Yeah, I was listening to this format a lot in late childhood/pre-adolescence in the late 80s/early 90s. I was definitely familiar with the late Beatles songs and Cars/Police/Talking Heads + the biggest hits by the Clash and Pretenders via this station. I think they actually did a whole feature on Sgt Pepper for its 25th anniversary in 1992. And certainly softer stuff like Fleetwood Mac/Steely Dan/Tom Petty/Eagles/Supertramp/ELO was as much a part of the format as Skynyrd/BTO/Foghat. Has it ever been otherwise? I feel like contenderizer is describing a classic proto-metal stoner rock format that would be awesome but is a bit removed from the reality of classic rock radio.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
I know all of those bands were rotation staples on the station I was listening to in 1980
― polyamanita (sleeve), Thursday, 19 June 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
Dylan Poll/CR Synergy Dept.: I'd never listened much to Bootleg V5, so I started it up and The Cars totally swiped that "It Ain't Me Babe" arrangement for "Touch and Go"! I guess Ocasek or Orr or somebody went to one of the Rolling Thunder shows. Or I'm pulling this theory out my behind.
― WilliamC, Thursday, 19 June 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
reminds me -
Bob Dylan - Hurricane
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link
Whoops! Thank you!
― carl agatha, Thursday, 19 June 2014 01:12 (nine years ago) link
iirc there was kind of a moment for sgt peppers' 20th anniversary in '87, but yeah i don't think the beatles were played much apart from like weekend morning 'beatles breakfasts' or something
the less synthy cars stuff, tho, totally
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 June 2014 01:15 (nine years ago) link
This may be more regional, but: Artful Dodger - Wayside
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 June 2014 01:31 (nine years ago) link
I would believe that CR Beatles play has sort of expanded and contracted. Would make sense that there wasn't as much of it in the late 80s and into the 90s, because "oldies" stations (that reached back as far as the 50s, so much more Elvis and Chuck and Fats and stuff that you never hear now) were still playing the shit out of them. The CDs coming out had to put some kind of new spotlight on them but I don't know who took up that torch really. By the time I was in high school in the late 90s, my sense is that the oldies stations were shifting their chronologies forward, the early Beatles were sort of left in the dust, and the late stuff became Classic Rock property even moreso than it was already. This was also the time of the Anthologies and a lot of interest in them. But I might be really talking out of my ass here.
They're a weird case though because it's not like the Beatles were ever unpopular really. It's hard for me to imagine a world where the kind of people that like "classic rock" aren't gonzo for White Album and Abbey Road. The real question is what becomes of Rubber Soul through Pepper's.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:06 (nine years ago) link
The Beatles were always played here. In the car today, for some reason it was Paul McCartney day.
we got a sequence of "Band on the Run", "We Can Work It Out", "Love Bites", "One Way or Another" (never on real classic rock in the past), "Proud Mary", "Working for the Weekend", "Don't Bring Me Down", "Mysterious Ways", "Feeling Stronger Every Day", "Captain Fantastic (never heard on radio before today), "Wanted Dead or Alive", "Love the One You're With", "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", "Somebody Save Me" (Cinderella? I don't know why), "Fame", "Fantasy" (ALDO NOVA!!), "Here Comes My Girl", "Jealous Again", "Bad Case of Loving You", "Night Moves", "The Boys of Summer", "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Go Your Own Way", "Yesterday", "Junior's Farm" I copied this list from the website. I didn't have a notepad handy in my new car. In a rainstorm on the way to the doctor appointment.
I know that's just a long list of cool songs, but I was impressed. I don't drive much these days so I hadn't been listening. I'm sure The Eagle is programmed nationally by a computer, but back when they were competing with The Arrow, neither station had this wide of a range (of white guy rock music from a 20 year time span).
― Zachary Taylor, Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:07 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, to be clear, I wasn't advocating for "Michelle" or "And I Love Her" to be part of this poll. There are a bunch of CR staples in the 1967- Beatles catalogue, though, ime, and I had the impression that people were arguing that even these don't really fit, which seemed bizarre to me. Were oldies stations ever playing much from Pepper or the white album??
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:20 (nine years ago) link
I feel like contenderizer is describing a classic proto-metal stoner rock format that would be awesome but is a bit removed from the reality of classic rock radio.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 4:56 PM (1 hour ago)
yeah, my sense of "classic rock" was formed between 1978 and 1985, during my preteen & early-mid teen years in spokane wa, citywide heavy metal parking lot to the western united states. el caminos & novas, feathered roach clips under black light, chew rings & sleeveless denim. that is the type of shit. so my view may not reflect that of your "mainstream".
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:21 (nine years ago) link
*spits, shrugs*
listen, you can go outside and smoke a J when we're going through the Stephen Stills parts of the countdown, it's all good
― some dude, Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:25 (nine years ago) link
In the car today, for some reason it was Paul McCartney day.
it be his birthday.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:30 (nine years ago) link
DA NANA NA NANA
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:31 (nine years ago) link
Has "Low Rider" been mentioned? that's gotta be one of the few tracks by a legit funk band that gets classic rock play. (Cousin of mine useta think it was Santana)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:57 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it's in the OP. also a mean fighter.
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:59 (nine years ago) link
I'm just voting for songs on the Dazed and Confused soundtrack.
― Jeff, Thursday, 19 June 2014 03:17 (nine years ago) link
Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 19 June 2014 04:15 (nine years ago) link
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, June 18, 2014
yeah i'm not making any hard and fast rules but acts that transcend classic rock are less likely to get my vote than acts that only get played there
head east, red rider and golden earring own this thing \m/
(and yeah gotta get "when the bullet hits the bone" on the list and la lechera otm wrt "since you been gone")
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 19 June 2014 05:06 (nine years ago) link
i have had "Since You Been Gone" in my head for DAYS now
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 05:08 (nine years ago) link
duh duh-duh DUH
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 19 June 2014 05:10 (nine years ago) link
Re: the Beatles ... the classic rock station I listened to in the late 70s/early 80s (WQDR, Raleigh NC) used to do Beatles A to Z weekends every once in a while.
― that's not my post, Thursday, 19 June 2014 05:15 (nine years ago) link
Any guesses about where Stairway to Heaven, Hotel California, and Free Bird will end up??
― that's not my post, Thursday, 19 June 2014 05:17 (nine years ago) link
later-period Beatles, like Get Back, Hey Jude, Revolution to me are all classic rock radio staples...cannot really picture those not being part of the pantheon
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 05:31 (nine years ago) link
uranus?
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 June 2014 06:05 (nine years ago) link
Well, yeah.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 19 June 2014 06:11 (nine years ago) link
^just as long as they aren't going to Uranus on some spaceship as an example of Earth culture
― that's not my post, Thursday, 19 June 2014 06:17 (nine years ago) link
I def heard "One Way or Another" on classic rock radio in the day
I also heard Gene Loves Jezebel, so who knows
― Euler, Thursday, 19 June 2014 07:30 (nine years ago) link
There's a band I had completely forgotten about until just now.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 19 June 2014 10:54 (nine years ago) link
The Spotify playlist for nominations is going to be crucial, because I bet I know so many more of these songs by ear than I do by name and I can't wait to find out which ones I love but didn't recognize by name.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 19 June 2014 10:55 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, June 19, 2014 1:08 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I kinda want to do a poll of Rainbow's "Since You Been Gone" vs. Kelly Clarkson "Since U Been Gone" vs. The Outfield's "Since You've Been Gone" vs. "Since You've Been Gone" by Weird Al vs. . . . oh, there are so many.
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 June 2014 12:10 (nine years ago) link
listened to a miniblock of local classic rock this morning on the way home from work. broke down thusly:
Bad to the Bone - George ThorogoodBang a Gong - T RexTake Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money <sounds like eddie moneySweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd SkynyrdBlinded by the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth BandVan Halen - You Really Got MeCocaine - Eric Clapton <fucking JAM that should not be overlooked no matter how bad clapton sucks in general
takeway, i think is that my hirsute, boogie van ensconced version of classic rock is still pretty much otm, even 30 years down the road. eddie money and manfred mann are outliers, detailing. core is still freedom rock, man.
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 June 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
Oh shit. You know what's not on here?
Rick Springfield - Love is Alright
Is that too much of a deep cut?
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 12:54 (nine years ago) link
Queen - Tie Your Mother DownRolling Stones - She's So ColdAmerica - Sister Golden Hair
― MarkoP, Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:19 (nine years ago) link
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, June 19, 2014 12:15 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Never heard this on cr radio, but heard it a LOT on a Vermont oldies station in the mid-90s. They were literally playing it every other day for three weeks straight. I somehow never got sick of it.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
Neil Young - My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)
― MarkoP, Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:26 (nine years ago) link
REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving YouSupertramp - Hide in Your ShellRod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link
Rolling Stones - She's So ColdYes! Love this song.
Also it reminded me how I used to get "Shattered" totally confused with "Vicious".
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:34 (nine years ago) link
@contenderirzer I guess I agree that a ton of what's played on CR is awesome hirsute Freedom Rock. I was just saying that classic rock as a radio format is broader than that, and as far as I can tell it always has been. Probably a quarter to a third of playlists aren't stuff like that, which is borne out by your experiment where 2 of 7 songs don't fit your criteria.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:39 (nine years ago) link
Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb, She's a Rainbow
xpost intheblanks otm
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link
xxxp fwiw the best Since You've Been Gone is by Aretha Franklin
― g simmel, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
i had forgotten how much of a jam Romantics' "what i like about you" was
what other stuff is in the CR/new-wave crossover... "my sharona"?
"steppin' out" got mentioned upthread-- does this count? it has electronic drums and no guitar...
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:15 (nine years ago) link
Oh man, I love that song. It's hella AOR.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
But like, no biker ever...
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
― how's life, Thursday, June 19, 2014 8:54 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Would vote for.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
(though it's "Love is Alright Tonite," isn't it?)
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
i dunno man, i can see a biker jamming to "steppin' out" after a few lines of blow in the right context
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
I could see someone on maybe a Yamaha or something....
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
and wearing a tux.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
Well I was looking at the recent playlist of a nearby Classic Rock station and saw Split Enz's "I Got You" on it, which I've understood was a bigger hit here in Canada than in the US, but it seems too new wavey to me to want to suggest.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:37 (nine years ago) link
i dunno man, i can see a biker jamming to "steppin' out"
Steppin' Out is a slippery slope leading to Hungry Like The Wolf. Scott Muni will be rolling in his grave, people!
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
Nooooo Steppin' Out is so good and perfect and gets CR radio play I swear.
It's going to go on the same "mellow out" mix as Steely Dan that the bikers listen to when they've taken Valium to come down from their multi-day meth binge.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
I'd veto Joe Jackson but accept the Cars
In other news, I listened to The Cars' Shake It Up (the record, not just the song) yesterday and it reminded me-- The Cars are so gd good: music, lyrics, general vibe, love it all-- even though the s/t is a total hit parade and indispensable, their other albums were totes solid and not to be missed if you like The Cars
I also listened to "Burnin' for You" yesterday and what a weird song that is. Time to play ~b-sides~
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
Steppin' Out doesn't really lead to Hungry Like The Wolf. it's the difference between Elton John and the Monkees. surely the bikers know this?
― g simmel, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
What does and doesn't get played on cr radio can be confusing and frequently infuriating. Boz Scaggs' very-disco "Lowdown"? Sure! How about some Funkadelic? Nope!
Ditto Steve Winwood's guitarless "Higher Love." Hey, can you guys maybe play "Let's Go Crazy" instead? WHAT?! NO! THAT'S NOT CLASSIC ROCK!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
i think the artist's general image has something (a lot) to do with whether or not he (usually he) is embraced by CR
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I don't think anyone here would argue that.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
Oh totally, I'm not suggesting anyone itt would rep for "Higher Love" as a major cr song or anything; just that the way the radio format is programmed is suspect.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link
that's a polite way of putting it!
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
LL otm re The Cars -- i've been obsessed with the song 'Magic' for like, a year now
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
^ me too
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
I was thinking about that the other day, Tarfumes (xxpost) classic rock = music for racist bikers i guess idk
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
Eh they'll probably listen to Thin Lizzy but they don't know what Phil Lynott looked like.
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
I feel like I tried to make this point on a classic rock thread last summer and people thought I was crazy.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
I dunno, I don't think it's the audience necessarily, but the programmers; they could gradually sneak something like Funkadelic's "Super Stupid" into rotation and within a year or two it'd be part of the cr canon. Maybe not. I just want a station to try that and see what happens.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
Also, wasn't sure about adding this, but according to my local station's playlist, it's in medium rotation:
The Kinks - Victoria
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
benjamin orr looks like debbie harry's twin in this performancehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsPh-EgH65M
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
Sund4r, probably this thread:
comparing the evolution of 'classic rock' between uk and usa
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, June 19, 2014 3:36 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ugh that song was in HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY MTV rotation the first summer that we had cable, and thus MTV, and all I wanted in the whole known universe were DEF LEPPARD videos and every time I turned on MTV, it was stupid Ric Ocasek walking across a pool singing about magic.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
I'll bet that got you twisted and you couldn't calm down.
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
it had a hold on you
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
(Does this get played at all?> 小=☞ David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 19 June 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
It absolutely gets played.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
radio format in playing-white-appropriations-of-black-music-but-not-black-music-itself shockah.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 19 June 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
y'all keep talking about this in such black and white terms when there's a whole Gray area in between
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIuyDWzctgY
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 19 June 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
<3 oh Dobie
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
Will def be in the top 10 if there's any justice in the world
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 19 June 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, Drift Away is huuuuge barbecue-at-the-lake Classic Rock staple for me. Gimme the hot dogs, and cream soda.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
doesn't answer the real question of whether a biker would murder you while it's playing
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
Or if it's a Twofer Tuesday, rape and murder
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
...
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
stay classy xp
― polyamanita (sleeve), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
all TOTALLY UNFUNNY jokes aside, yeah, that's definitely biker bar jukebox ish.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
meant my biker comment as a light tease of all the hypothetical biker talk, because I truly enjoyed Doc Casino's positing of a more realistic space where classic rock is enjoyed
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
i'd like to disavow the rape joke that followed
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
understood.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
FP'ed the rape joke
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
I dunno if Dobie Gray's gonna make my top 10, but it'll be top 20 for sure
also shout out to Johnny Fever, 100% with you on Georgia Satellites and Lou Gramm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
Oh for crying out loud people, relax. Nobody is pro rape. Goodness gracious.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
yes and yes. especially the ga satellites. there is no one who disapproves of them -- not bikers, not softies, not poxy fules.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
I don't think anyone seriously thinks you're "pro rape", kornrulez6969, but "oh, for crying out loud people, relax" is probably not the way to appease any of the people who you pissed off.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
Xxpost this isn't really the subject matter of this thread, but rape jokes aren't funny, and they affect who feels comfortable participating in a given conversation/community, so yeah, i draw a line around them although i do charitably assume that you are not ''pro-rape''
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
GA satellites was one where I remember genuinely being surprised to find out it came from the latter half of the 80s, and not a full decade earlier.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
Georgia Satellites have kind of a telltale late 80s reverb sound to me
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
intheblanks - me too! Just figured it was 'southern rock' a la Skynyrd. I do hear the 80s sound now that I know, and generally it's a little too 'clean' but everything else is there.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
Rio--Duran Duran
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of which:
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Back My Bullets (Live)
...some other southerners back me up on this, CR wise?
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
I'm not even a Southerner, but yes. I've totally heard that on CR radio.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
Don't know if I've heard that one, but one of the interesting things about going through the original list some dude posted is that there are total classic rock canon songs that I've never heard because the stations I've listened to just don't play them.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
xp don't know if it was the live or studio version I heard most, but yes on Gimme Back My Bullets
― Brad C., Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
Like I just listened to Skynyrd's "Simple Man" on Spotify, a song that as far as I can tell I've never heard in my whole life. But I feel like I've heard "Gimme Three Steps," "Freebird," "Mr. Saturday Night Special," etc. about a million times each.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, agreed - in particular, once you get past the top three airplay songs for people like Seger it becomes this land of total mystery.
I think I'm going to treat my ballot like a dream radio station, what I really would like to hear in my Labor Day countdown - which might mean one or two Beatles/Stones/Zep, but not a lot, because I'm happy to hear those on the LPs. Whereas I count on the radio to hit me up with some of this other stuff, and it's pleasing when it does. I learned my lesson buying the Rick Derringer album.
xpost you are so fucking lucky re: "simple man"
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
Did you ever see a she-gator protect her youngOr a fish in a river swimming free
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
it might be depressing but I would love some "where are they now" addendums once we get to the rollout, esp for the acts like Aldo Nova.
e.g.
rock stars who went back work.
― polyamanita (sleeve), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
listening to Autograph - "Turn Up The Radio" right now - not that i imagine this will be a big vote-getter but no wayyyy is this classic rock IMO. Skimming the list again, I'm realizing how unfamiliar much of it actually is - don't know half the Seger, Bad Company, Boston songs. Maybe the second-tier hits really did fade out in the 90s, replaced by the 80s stuff that was starting to get accepted? To me, Bad Company is "Bad Company," "Feel Like Making Love," "Rock & Roll Fantasy," and at a push, "Can't Get Enough of Your Love" - that's it! Ironically, the classic rock nominations list is turning out to be a great source of new songs for me to check out...
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
Without checking, I think Aldo Nova did OK, mostly doing session work for people like Celine Dion and Michael Bolton?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
Good approach -- that's pretty much how I'll work my ballot too.
At its best, Classic Rock works such a devious one-two punch -- the comfort of familiarity plus regular bracing shocks of cold water in the face with stuff you know but haven't heard in x number of years. All in one listening session.
WAKE UP!Lemme rock ya' to sleep...WAKE UP!Lemme rock ya' to sleep...
Unfortunately, the last few years I've heard a lot of "rock ya' to sleep" and not much WAKE UP!
― WilliamC, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
Bad Company is the first three plus Shooting Star I mean come on Doctor Casino.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/aldo-nova-mn0000618713/credits
xposts
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
how's life otm
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
Re:Simple Man. I generally like the Skynyrd hits, but that one sounded like Staind or something to me. Childhood radio stations otm for avoiding that one.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
Simple Man is one of my favorite Skynyrds
along with ALL OF THE LYNYRD SKYNYRD :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
intheblanks I am FPing you for that
listening to shooting star right now - it's good but definitely not ringing any bells, IDK!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
I'm just going to vote for the songs I like most fwiw. All these voting systems/strategies seem so complicated to me.
xposts Dr. Casino, I bet you'll recognize most of the Boston songs when you hear them.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
Unfortunately my formative CR station played all those Bad Company songs, so I know them all too well.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
Wasn't "I Don't Like Mondays" always sort of a classic rock staple? I'm sure they don't play it now for obvious reasons...
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
"Shooting Star" reminds me of being 8 years old
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
I'm just going to vote for the songs I like most fwiw.
otm. this is a poll that should require no research, no re-evaluating, no nothing, maybe not even any listening. if it ain't already in your head, it ain't classic.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
What obvious reasons?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
Oh sorry, over here in America we have school shootings like every other day. Part of what makes us so especially sick!
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
Simple Man is as classic as it gets you insane people
― g simmel, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
Wasn't "I Don't Like Mondays" always sort of a classic rock staple? I'm sure they don't play it now for obvious reasons...― Iago Galdston, Thursday, June 19, 2014 2:55 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, June 19, 2014 2:55 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I heard it a few times on 98 Rock.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
― how's life, Thursday, June 19, 2014
not "simple man" and never really got airplay afaik but K-CLASSIC skynyrd imo despite these dopey dopey lines.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
re: Boston - I know the first-album stuff well, everything else is a mystery. Not to spam the thread into oblivion - but from the initial list, these are the ones that I'm not sure I've ever heard, period, let alone on CR radio. Not trying to hard-sell anything here, just I think it establishes how much variety there is between stations (and I suspect, time periods) because I listened to Atlanta's Z93 a lot. My best guess is that, you know, you make room in the rotation for "Free Fallin'," you gotta cut something, and it'll be a lower-status Bad Company hit, or w/e.
AC/DC – Have A Drink On MeAC/DC – It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll)AC/DC – Rock ‘n’ Roll AIn’t Noise PollutionAC/DC – Shoot To ThrillAerosmith – Train Kept A-Rollin’Alice Cooper – No More Mr. Nice GuyAutograph – Turn Up The RadioBad Company – Burnin’ SkyBad Company – Ready For LoveBilly Squier – Everybody Wants YouBilly Squier – My Kinda LoverBob Seger – Against The WindBob Seger – Fire Down BelowBob Seger – Her StrutBob Seger – Hollywood NightsBob Seger – Rock & Roll Never ForgetsBoston – Feelin’ SatisfiedBruce Springsteen – BadlandsBruce Springsteen – The RiverBruce Springsteen – Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)Bruce Springsteen – Tenth Avenue Freeze-OutBryan Adams – Cuts Like A KnifeBryan Adams – Run To YouThe Cars – Bye Bye LoveThe Doors – Peace FrogThe Doors – Roadhouse BluesThe Doors – Touch MeThe Eagles – Heartache TonightEddie Money – Shakin’Electric Light Orchestra – Fire On HighEmerson, Lake & Palmer – Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression, Part II)Eric Clapton – Wonderful TonightFocus – Hocus PocusForeigner – Blue Morning, Blue DayForeigner – Long, Long Way From HomeForeigner - UrgentGeorge Thorogood – I Drink AloneGeorge Thorogood – Move It On OverGeorge Thorogood – One Bourbon, One Scotch, One BeerGeorge Thorogood – Who Do You LoveGrateful Dead – Casey JonesJackson Browne – The Load-Out / Stay (Live)Jackson Browne – The PretenderJackson Browne – StayJefferson Starship – JaneJethro Tull – Locomotive BreathJoe Walsh – All Night LongJoe Walsh – Rocky Mountain WayJourney – LightsJourney – Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’Journey – Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)Journey – Stone In LoveJudas Priest – You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’Kiss – Shout It Out LoudLynyrd Skynyrd – Call Me The BreezeMarshall Tucker Band – Can’t You SeeMolly Hatchet – Flirtin’ with DisasterNazareth – Love HurtsNeil Young – Southern ManOutfield – Your LoveOzzy Osbourne – Over The MountainPete Townshend – Let My Love Open The DoorThe Pretenders – Don’t Get Me WrongThe Pretenders – Middle Of The RoadRatt – Round And RoundREO Speedwagon – Time For Me To FlyRush – Closer To The HeartRush – Fly By NightRush - FreewillRush – LimelightRush – Spirit Of RadioRush - SubdivisionsThe Scorpions – No One Like YouSteely Dan – Deacon BluesStevie Nicks – Stand BackStevie Ray Vaughan - CrossfireStevie Ray Vaughan – Pride And JoyStyx – Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)Styx – Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)Styx – RenegadeStyx – Too Much Time On My HandsTalking Heads – Life During WartimeTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Here Comes My GirlTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – You Got LuckyVan Halen – I’ll WaitVan Halen – (Oh) Pretty WomanVan Halen - UnchainedThe Who – Eminence FrontThe Who – Love Reign O’er MeYes - RoundaboutZZ Top – Give Me All Your Lovin’ZZ Top – Got Me Under PressureZZ Top – I’m Bad, I’m NationwideZZ Top – I Thank You
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
Marshall Tucker Band - Heard It In A Love SongGreg Kihn Band - Jeopardy (on the "Take Me Home Tonight" principle, half-hearted grandfathering of old schmoes even if they're drifting away)
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
(add to the poll i mean, not to my psychotic list above)
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
it blows my mind that you've never heard any of those songs on the radio, most of them I ONLY know from radio
― polyamanita (sleeve), Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
"Wonderful Tonight" the most mind-boggling entry on that list for some reason.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
that song sucks so bad
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, wow, most of those are total staples ime. I can't imagine a classic rock station that doesn't play these:
AC/DC – Shoot To ThrillBryan Adams – Cuts Like A KnifeBryan Adams – Run To YouThe Doors – Roadhouse BluesThe Eagles – Heartache TonightEric Clapton – Wonderful TonightForeigner - UrgentJoe Walsh – Rocky Mountain WayJourney – Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’Rush – Fly By NightThe Scorpions – No One Like YouStyx – Renegade
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
not "simple man" and never really got airplay afaik but K-CLASSIC skynyrd imo despite these dopey dopey lines.― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, June 19, 2014 3:05 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, June 19, 2014 3:05 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That's right, it's All I Can Do Is Write About It. And yeah it's dopey, but sweetly so and there aren't that many expressly environmental classic rock songs. One of my favorites. Agreed that it has never been a radio hit.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
yeah, not advocating for "Wonderful Tonight". Just feel like in any situation with slow-dancing (weddings, school dances, etc.), you're going to hear it.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
in any situation with slow-dancing (weddings, school dances, etc.), you're going to hear it.
oh god, yes
― polyamanita (sleeve), Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
Also, feel like regional differences coming to the fore in Doc's list. For example, the Atlanta station seems to have totally avoided Rush.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
OTM re "Wonderful Tonight". Tbh, I'm also pretty surprised that someone who listens to a lot of classic rock and reads message board threads on the subject would have never heard "Roundabout". I can understand hating it but it seems like the sort of thing a classic rock listener would have an opinion on.
xposts Yeah, is there a North/South divide there re Rush? They seem to be a total staple on CR stations in the Northern US.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
I live in Atlanta and Rush definitely get played on CR radio now. I can't speak for Z93 in the 80s/90s because I can only barely remember it.
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
I've only heard Roundabout a few times in my life and I can't remember anything except the intro.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
Huh, maybe I'm wrong about "Roundabout".
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
I guess they've dropped off CHEZ's all-time greatest songs list too.
yeah, I've never heard "Roundabout" on the radio & I can't really remember how it goes, though I've listened to it before
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
same -- maybe i've heard it, but i never knew what it was
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
We definitely used to hear "Tom Sawyer" but I kinda think that was the beginning and end of it. Atlanta's a weird test case - the population's mostly transplants from the north in the 50s and 60s, so I imagine a more "southern" city would be even more down-the-line, and probably load up on obscure Skynyrd. Atlanta probably got the middle of the road, not too much of anything in particular, which makes it kind of bland. Clearly prog didn't thrive down there, but even some of the northern meat-and-potatoes acts (again, Seger) seem to have not had the same depth of CR play, but their big songs were totally huge. I wish I'd had access to this more diverse playlist!
Listening to Don't Look Back reminds me though why the "hairy bikers" angle isn't quite right either - this is aspirational theme music for sensitive heroes who are going to take you sailing through the sky on prismatic guitars. There's this huge utopian hangover from the 60s, taking different forms than the rugged rebel on the motorcycle. I believe what we achieved / will soon be left behind! Classic rock is as dreamy as it is anything else.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
i could easily program a classic rock station with nothing but you list of songs you've never heard, dr. casino. i'm intrigued by this. i'd love to do that and force you to listen, preferably in a laboratory setting with you all wired up and machines recording your physical and emotional responses. or maybe just start a thread where you have to listen to one of these per day and say something about each one, in real time. i have a feeling science could learn from this.
i have a separate feeling that you'd find yourself repeatedly saying, "oh wait, i know that one, i just never knew what it was." but maybe i'm entirely wrong about that. regional/generational/etc differences fascinate me.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
i dunno about dreamy
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
*resisting urge to post "dream weaver" video*
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
hahah i am down for this experiment but you may be right about at least some of them. I checked "Wonderful Tonight" at least - I totally know that (boring) song. "Urgent" - I got up to the chorus going "yeah, don't know this, but it's pretty cool at least until dude starts singing, I like the spacy creepy sound, sorta Sunglasses At Night, would be a good dystopian sci-fi soundtrack song" - and then he starts going URRG ENT URRG ENT and I realized I heard this on an XM station a few months ago or something. Definitely did not hear it growing up though.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
You should all listen to Roundabout right now.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link
i've heard it, i just don't know it very well!
i wish i could say the same for basically every Foreigner song
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
These are my songs off the OG list that I have no idea about whatsoever.
The Greg Kihn Band – The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)Head East – Never Been Any ReasonMarshall Tucker Band – Can’t You SeeOutfield – Your Love
I'm gonna give them a listen and report back with gasface/yayface for all 4
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
I never realized how much I actually love Foreigner. Lou Gramm's voice just kinda hooks me I guess. Except Dirty White Boy. I can't really get into that one for some reason.
You should all listen to it right now even if you've heard it, I meant. It will be like that scene in Magnolia except we'll all listen to Roundabout and hopefully it won't rain frogs.
xp I would be folding money you know The Breakup Song and the Marshall Tucker Band song.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
I'm singing The Breakup Song to my computer monitor like you can hear me, this is how sure I am of it.
The Breakup Song is really good!
uh uh uh uhuh uhuhuh
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
Oh shit VG these are all STONE CLASSIX you will be pleased
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
"Your Love" is a song that until a few years ago had always assumed was either by The Police or Men at Work.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
This thread is definitely beginning to eat itself, but there's no way I'm going to be able to assemble the final list until after the weekend, so you guys will be able to continue tailgating until Monday at the absolute earliest. Please play nice, though, kids, I don't want us to have an Altamont situation before the show has even begun.
― some dude, Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
Ha, I knew "The Breakup Song" by heart but didn't know the title or artist until someone played it in plug some months back.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
I don't want us to have an Altamont situation before the show has even begun
hey bikers, i know we've been talking about you a lot in this thread, but we did not mean to summon you here. please leave now. we'll hire our own security, thank you very much.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
And please keep in mind that I'm more interested in nominating em all (that aren't clearly somehow outside the scope of the poll) and letting the electorate sort em out, so I would hate for the debates over what deserves just to be on the noms list get too ugly.
― some dude, Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
In Which Doctor Casino Listens to Classic Rock Classics for the First Time
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
The Greg Kihn Band – The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)yayfaceohhhhhhhhhhhh that song. Kinda like a low-rent cross between Billy Idol + Springsteen. I like it! Except the drums/etc sound really kinda dead, it's a shame
Head East - Never Been Any Reason --- (yayface & a bit of gasface)the keyboard is kinda gross & jarring & annoying. But I like the rest of the song a lot! never heard this before in my life
Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See --- (yayface!!!!) omg loving it from the flute intro right away. I don't think I've heard it or them before but the song also sounds kinda familiar...might be just the classik southern rock structure. LOVE THIS. Right in my skynyrd/allman bros wheelhouse. I will be seeking out more Marshall Tucker for sure
Outfield - Your Love(yayface)ohhhhhhhhhhhh this song yeah I have heard this song a thousand times on the radio here and I never had any idea who sang it. dude sounds like Sting kinda? the only thing I don't like is that it gets kinda boring after you hear the chorus like a hundred times. but it's good!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
Marshall Tucker definitely my favorite discovery of these, I'm hooked
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
Wondering if Head East were more a regional thing? They were from IL, I'm in MN, so I've heard this song a million times.
― wild-eyed, high-volume bursts of pious indignation (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
the keyboard in "never been any reason" is one of those things that's real awkward at first but becomes more endearing the more you hear it
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
There's an actual biker who lives a few houses down from me and when he rides around the streets in the morning he plays his radio loud--usually it's the Moody Blues.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
"Stone in Love" - Classic or Greatest 4:25 In The History Of The Bay Area?
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
oh damn wrong thread. well, the point stands :)
Weird, never heard this Head East song before, not even on Chicago stations.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
I'm putting on Head East now to see if I recognize it. (Answer: not so far)
Also, no joke, this is at the end of my street, about a 10s walk from my place: http://www.bikerschurch.com/
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, June 19, 2014 12:31 PM (17 minutes ago)
completely otm, and (as usu) damn well said. i was pushing the knuckle-dragging riff rock thing w/ tongue in cheek to some extent, but admitting in the back of my mind that the troo kvlt CR palette was a hell of a lot broader. black light wizard posters hardly belong to bikers alone. yr aspirational dream weavers have to figure in, too.
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
OK, I like the keyboards in the Head East.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
was just listening to jason and the scorchers - "white lies", "last time around". both good songs. can't imagine they ever got any CR radio play, then or now, though they deserve it abt as much as the georgia satellites.
skynyrd's "simple man" is beautiful and dopey and beautiful. surprised anyone's questioned it.
same goes for the head east track. though it don't know the band in general or the song by name, it was an instant "o hell yeah, THIS song!" for me. maybe you have to be be of a certain age...
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
when jason and the nashville scorchers started out (i refuse to omit the nashville), they were alt radio all the way (and they eventually became basically an alt-country taste, didn't they?), whereas the georgia satellites were mainstream rock radio and mtv from the start.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
xpost There was a period where AOR stations were playing rootsy stuff like Steve Earle, the Bodeans and Los Lobos alongside the Zep and Floyd, but that music never really made the leap to the classic rock format alongside Georgia Sat. etc. Not popular enough I guess.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
xp yeah, i gesso. i just think of them both as MTV bands.
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
I wish I could say with any certainty that I'd heard Hot Chocolate's "Every 1's A Winner" on CR radio before, because I want to vote for it, but I think the chances that happened are very slim. Even though it's kind of disco/funk, I always lump it in with Billy Squier and the like.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
Ugh, "Copperhead Road" is a staple on CHEZ.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See ---(yayface!!!!) omg loving it from the flute intro right away. I don't think I've heard it or them before but the song also sounds kinda familiar...might be just the classik southern rock structure. LOVE THIS. Right in my skynyrd/allman bros wheelhouse. I will be seeking out more Marshall Tucker for sure
oh mannn check out "Heard It In A Love Song" if you don't know it, flute is all over it and it's basically a big meditation on making poor/asshole love/life decisions because of the subconscious influence of pop music, aka the ILM manifesto
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
"breakup song" is the shit though, they just don't write 'em like that anymore ;_;
Copperhead Road is awesome fuid
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
In honor of classic rock I had some guys deliver a refrigerator to my house today
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 June 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
what was playing on the truck radio?
― polyamanita (sleeve), Thursday, 19 June 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
I had to check in with SF's own 1077 the Bone and the last half hour has beenThe StrokeNew Years DaySweet EmotionWorking Man
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 19 June 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
I really dig The Bone, they play good stuff
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
lol pun not intended
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
threefer reefer with the weedman, what's not to like
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 19 June 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
lol otm
i thought it was joke when I first heard Steven Seaweed's name
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
Is THE BONE the one with the morning jocks you can't figure out why they haven't been put in sacks and dropped in the bay?
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 19 June 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
cf every classic rock station everywhere
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
no these guys are definitively worse
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 19 June 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
I hope they use "When The Bullet Hits The Bone" for station IDs, at least.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
another brief listen on my way in to work, trying to get a feel for what does/doesn't get played these days:
"Here Comes My Girl" - Tom Petty"Come Together" - The Beatles"Free Will" - Rush"Double Vision" - Foreigner"Too Much Time On My Hands" - Styx
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Friday, 20 June 2014 00:39 (nine years ago) link
last few songs on my station:
Whitesnake- Here I Go AgainEddie Money- Shakin'ZZ Top- La GrangeBeastie Boys- Fight For Your Right to PartyPaul McCartney- Maybe I'm AmazedPink Floyd- Brain DamageBilly Idol- White WeddingOzzy- No More TearsNirvana- Smells Like Teen SpiritAersmith- Draw the LineKiss- Love GunRush- Closer to the HeartStyx- The Grand Illusion
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 20 June 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
Tonight I got:
Boz Scaggs: Lido ShuffleFoghat: Slow RideTom Petty: Free Fallin'Kansas: Carry On My Wayward SonLed Zeppelin: Black Dog
felt like I got classic rock radio Yahtzee, lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 June 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
in some alternate universe Jason and the Nashville Scorchers are classic rock and everybody is really tired of hearing "Absolutely Sweet Marie" and "Broken Whiskey Glass" over and over again
― Brad C., Friday, 20 June 2014 01:11 (nine years ago) link
i wish I could add Oz rock to the mix. so much cheesy pub rock demanding to be unleashed lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 June 2014 01:13 (nine years ago) link
Doctor Casino OTM about "Heard It in a Love Song" ... the first six Marshall Tucker Band albums are a pretty solid run
― Brad C., Friday, 20 June 2014 01:18 (nine years ago) link
Santana - No One to Depend OnThin Lizzy - Whiskey in the Jar
― Ari (whenuweremine), Friday, 20 June 2014 01:38 (nine years ago) link
Cream - Badge
― Ari (whenuweremine), Friday, 20 June 2014 02:03 (nine years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, June 19, 2014 4:21 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Wow. I grew up in Chicago and this song was massive
People not familiar with Marshall Tucker should check out "Take the Highway". It's a jam especially the various live versions.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, 20 June 2014 02:57 (nine years ago) link
Dave Mason -"You Know and I Know". Not sure if that's the right title.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, 20 June 2014 02:59 (nine years ago) link
Only one Thin Lizzy song??
ONE?
― Dreamland, Friday, 20 June 2014 05:51 (nine years ago) link
and Cat Stevens should be on here with at leaaaast 2 tracks. First Cut Is The Deepest, Wild World.
But besides that, I like.
― Dreamland, Friday, 20 June 2014 05:56 (nine years ago) link
I feel like I've been hearing Cat Stevens on the radio forever but who knows
― Dreamland, Friday, 20 June 2014 05:57 (nine years ago) link
There are a couple other Thin Lizzy nominations in the thread itself, and I think some dude mentioned hearing Cowboy Song on his local cr station the other day, so that should be in there.
Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song
― how's life, Friday, 20 June 2014 08:54 (nine years ago) link
speaking of thin lizzy, why isn't "wild one" a classic rock radio staple?
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Friday, 20 June 2014 09:01 (nine years ago) link
I've never heard Cowboy Song on the radio, but I don't care, that's a serious contender for number one for me.
― voodoo chili, Friday, 20 June 2014 11:59 (nine years ago) link
someone saying that of a song is a huge red flag for me to NOT have it on the nominations list, to be honest.
― some dude, Friday, 20 June 2014 12:15 (nine years ago) link
trolling around a few rust belt classic rock station web pages looking for playlists, I'm disappointed a) that so many of them have "babes of the day" and b) how many of them have THE SAME "babe of the day"
― Euler, Friday, 20 June 2014 12:26 (nine years ago) link
Never heard "Cowboy Song" on the radio before, CR or otherwise.
― WilliamC, Friday, 20 June 2014 12:29 (nine years ago) link
ditto, though I wish I had!
― Euler, Friday, 20 June 2014 12:32 (nine years ago) link
can i just
http://i.imgur.com/SiRscpM.jpg
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 20 June 2014 13:14 (nine years ago) link
i have heard Cowboy Song on the radio you bastards
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 June 2014 13:26 (nine years ago) link
lol gr8080
hahahahaha
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 20 June 2014 13:37 (nine years ago) link
Is THE BONE the one with the morning jocks you can't figure out why they haven't been put in sacks and dropped in the bay?― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, June 19, 2014 3:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkcf every classic rock station everywhere― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, June 19, 2014 3:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkno these guys are definitively worse― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, June 19, 2014 3:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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Dropping these guys into the bay is too good for them.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 20 June 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
christ
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 20 June 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
D:
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 June 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
The weekday on-air staff at The Bone consists of Lamont & Tonelli (with "Super Producer" Sully, Baby Huey & Chasta), Steven Seaweed, Tim Jeffreys, Nikki Blakk.
― how's life, Friday, 20 June 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
Re: Cowboy Song. I've never heard it on the radio, but it's a rock song released in 1976 by a classic rock band, from an album (Jailbreak) with two classic rock radio staples ("The Boys Are Back in Town" and the title track) and was released as the third single in the US behind the first two songs. I understand leaving it off if the poll is meant to be a survey of the best songs of "classic rock radio," but "Cowboy Song" unquestionably belongs to genre of Classic Rock as we understand it today and should be included if this is a genre poll.
― voodoo chili, Friday, 20 June 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
it's not a genre poll. it's a radio format poll.
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Friday, 20 June 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
I think my criterion for voting is going to be whether I want to turn it up or turn it off
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 20 June 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
xp then there you have it. it might be a little too deep for the poll
― voodoo chili, Friday, 20 June 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
And if we're including the Clash, maybe "I Fought the Law"?
― voodoo chili, Friday, 20 June 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
OK: I plan to read this whole fucker and digest what's been said, but looking at the initial list, it reminds me why listening to classic rock at, say, my father in law's house over the holidays or some place where everybody else enjoys it or doesn't pay attention to it drives me fuckin' crazy.
probly 3/4s of those songs I like or love or are among my favorite songs ever made. but taken as an unchanging canon, the soundtrack of the mid-late 20th century overclass, Lee Abrams' legacy and the body of popular music held up as, like, when music wuz good, before african americans and MTV and so forth forgot their place, makes my skin crawl. Maybe the fact that I'm 43 accounts for a lot of this, but any five songs above played together, combined with Schmucky and FuckFace talking about how great Seger is and that there will be dollar drafts at Patty O Furniture's this Tuesday, is infuriating.
I live in Ditmas Park, BK and don't have a car. But after FCC urged me to contribute to this thread, I walked over to my friends house and picked up his car as he will be going away for a week. Got in the car, thought of this thread, held my breath and turned on Q104.3, Clear Channel's NYC flagship. And there was "I don't care any more" a now overlooked Phil Collins tune. "In the air tonight" has no power any longer, but this tune retains to me how eccentric his shit could be.
And then "Come together" came on. Fuck if I was gonna listen to that! Spent the rest of the hour listening to pop/r&b/the new NYC country station. Listened to three tunes on the latter about trucks and chicks and drinking that probly annoy people who live in the south, but sounded great to me, as I think pop music should always have songs about partying and wanting to fuck or fucking chicks/guys but am not regularly exposed to the likes of Florida Georgia Line or Jason Aldean or Miranda Lambert. Also heard Tre songz "Na Na," Katy Perry "Birthday" Icona Pop "I Love it" which I love, and a bunch of IDM/Avicii-sounding songs which I don't. But they all sound alive. Unlike the effect of listening to Classic rock.
later we should talk about how there really was no classic rock until, say, 1986 (preceded by AOR, which did play new shit, but only by "rock artists." That's when the door was slammed shut, and only GnR, Metallica, U2, a few Clash songs, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Green Day and the Red Hot Chili Peppers were allowed in.
― veronica moser, Friday, 20 June 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
not only is "Come Together" the most played Beatles song on contemporary CR radio, the Aerosmith version is played more than the original. it's kind of a perfect emblem for what sucks about the format.
― some dude, Friday, 20 June 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
the Aerosmith version is played more than the original.
...ugh, really?
― WilliamC, Friday, 20 June 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
not gonna get in the habit of spilling out the airplay stats i have, but yeah
― some dude, Friday, 20 June 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
tbf, Aerosmith's version is just as classic as the film it's from.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 20 June 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 June 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
some dude, don't hold back on yr stats
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 June 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
I hope to hell he saves them for the rollout.
― how's life, Friday, 20 June 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
ooh good point
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 June 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
as you were
that is astonishing! I have never, ever heard the Aerosmith version on CR radio. I can't even hear it in my head.
― veronica moser, Friday, 20 June 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
i hear it all the time
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 June 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
i think the cutoff for the the fully-ossified CR format hits earlier than '86, if only cuz it was familiar to me by the time i graduated (note: not graduated) in '85. and yeah, the stinkblanket of rockist conservatism (if not outright racism & homophobia) hangs over this thread whether or not we care address it, though i'm not sure what might be said here that hasn't been well explored elsewhere on ILM. it's a fucked-up, deeply tainted format, and though that goes w/out saying, i don't suppose it can be allowed to go w/out saying.
Spent the rest of the hour listening to pop/r&b/the new NYC country station. Listened to three tunes on the latter about trucks and chicks and drinking that probly annoy people who live in the south, but sounded great to me, as I think pop music should always have songs about partying and wanting to fuck or fucking chicks/guys but am not regularly exposed to the likes of Florida Georgia Line or Jason Aldean or Miranda Lambert.
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Friday, 20 June 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
I've been listening to 97.9 The Loop all day for this poll and you know what? I knew that "Reach down between my legs, ease the seat back" was about sex, but seriously until just now I though he was telling her to reach down between his legs to the floor where the lever that leans the seat back is located, so she can lean the seat back and they can do it. It's like I couldn't process that David Lee Roth was straight up saying, "Hey, grab my dick!" in the middle of this song, so I just turned it into a vehicle operation instruction.
― carl agatha, Friday, 20 June 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
When I was a kid, I thought Hot Dog & a Shake was about lunch at Hardee's.
― how's life, Friday, 20 June 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
Just, you know, speaking of David Lee Roth and his dick...
― how's life, Friday, 20 June 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
I never even knew Aerosmith covered Come Together. That's probably for the best
― Dreamland, Friday, 20 June 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
Aerosmith also covered "I'm Down" and "Helter Skelter".
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 June 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
It means both those thing, though. Double entrendre.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 20 June 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
but speaking of conservative formats & the soundtrack of the american overclass...
country radio??? no way. i mean, it's conservative in the same way that most commercial radio formats are innately conservative, but otherwise, no. it's a relentlessly current and relentlessly pop format that makes room for taylor swift and hunter hayes and florida georgia line and eric church, and still allows for the occasional tim mcgraw or george strait tune while otherwise rejecting its elders with the same enthusiasm and quickness that, say, mtv does.
and it's no more the soundtrack of the american overclass than iggy azalea or lil jon is.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 20 June 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
veronica's fantastic post for some reason made me think of kid rock's "all summer long," which took two classic rock staples and wrestled them out of classic rock's usual context. country radio played it. pop radio played it. do classic rock stations ever play it, or any kid rock for that matter?
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 20 June 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
my hunch is that if any Kid Rock song ever makes it onto CRR playlists it'd be "Only God Knows Why"
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Friday, 20 June 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
I seem to hear "All Summer Long" a lot
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 20 June 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
but that might be a BOB/JACK format thing, I dunno
FCC: I think that not living in the, ahem, flyover parts of the country like you and I do prevents us from understanding how prevalent country is (or do you hear modern country in the wild in LA?) Your average self-identified music fan, which for this purpose includes Wilco-ites/pitchforkites/ your smug Dero substitute at the bar as well as the ILM-erati, encounters country all the time, and I think associates it with the very worst of suburban thoughtlessness—maybe people who think the World Cup is for foreign faggots, for instance. Me, I just look at all those country videos with hot white chicks and…um really like it. that the country radio format is being recognized as being dynamic in pop-ist nests and by Jody Rosen probly does not short-circuit the resentment people who live in the south, west, midwest and shit probly everywhere except the Northeast feel for what it represents.
― veronica moser, Friday, 20 June 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
Are you guys sure that classic rock is not the soundtrack of the American proletariat?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 20 June 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
Yeah calling country music and classic rock the soundtrack of the "overclass" whatever that is is some sort of sub-Berkeley freshman thesis crap.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, 20 June 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
Or somebody who's never been to the Midwest or the south.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, 20 June 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
I think classic rock is just a catch-all term for " rock music for baby boomers" just as 'alternative rock' will be (already is?) a catch all term for people my age (20s/30s) who listened to rock. "Alternative radio" is pretty big in St. Louis.
― Dreamland, Friday, 20 June 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
There's nothing more dire than "alternative radio"
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, 20 June 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
i think they're both badges of exclusion.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 20 June 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, perhaps "overclass" isn't right. More like a proto tea party soundtrack, where it represents a perfected form that appeals to folks that are discomfited by modernity. My peers and myself, scions of the overclass of lville ky, tended to go for sst, Amrep, misfits, skater shit. The very rich kids, tho, thought they were really counter culture for becoming deadheads. Pre punk 60s music was seen by prep school kids whose dads ran the CIA as real rebel music opposed to frivolous false 80s pop music. So the offspring of the overclass did go for classic rock, despite being oblivious to conservative this predeliction is.
― veronica moser, Friday, 20 June 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
relevant post from this thread: So what is this BUTT ROCK, anyway?
"i also think of this stuff as workingman's rock. to the extent the lyrics are about anything other than girls, partying and rock'n'roll, they have a lot of casual references to clock-punching, bossmen, weekends, etc -- the stuff of 1970s blue-collar union-dues life.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 14 April 2009"
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 20 June 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I tend to agree. I really don't get the overclass thing.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 20 June 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
when I'm watchin' my TVand a man comes on and tells mehow white my shirts can bebut he can't be a mancos he doesn't smokethe same cigarettes as me
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Friday, 20 June 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
It's for people who like life in the fast lane.
― La Lechera, Friday, 20 June 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
...and are not a man or machine, just something in between.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 June 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
Definitely tons of retrograde and conservative stuff in the classic rock canon, and it's interesting to think of the development/practice of the radio format as related to a specific set of cultural ideas gaining primacy in the 80s and enduring to today.
But I'd stop short of saying that its audience is fundamentally the affluent and powerful, or the impulse/ideology/whatever CR radio serves is somehow miles and miles away from country radio.
― intheblanks, Friday, 20 June 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
Though I think FCC's analysis of the pop orientation of country radio is really smart, willingness to quickly discard elders is only part of the story there, I think. When I listen to country radio, the values espoused therein don't seem that distinct from CR, and tons of observers smarter than me have made the point that a ton of the last 20 years of country would have been called "country-rock" in the 70s.
I will say you're way more likely to hear a female voice on country radio than CR radio, though.
― intheblanks, Friday, 20 June 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
fwiw I really enjoy modern mainstream country radio, not trying to pitch it as some big corporatized evil that's preventing us from listening to Steve Earle or something.
― intheblanks, Friday, 20 June 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link
If you mean "conservative" in the sense of "resistant to change", then I could see how the CR format is conservative. I also share some of the criticisms of how the format is defined. I don't really agree that the actual lyrical content of Springsteen or Jethro Tull or U2 songs leans to the political right, though, if that's what you're saying, even compared to what you're likely to find on country stations.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 20 June 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
Jesus, what became of this thread? How many posts til someone name-drops Adorno?
― how's life, Friday, 20 June 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 20 June 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
"but speaking of conservative formats & the soundtrack of the american overclass..."
country radio??? no way. i mean, it's conservative in the same way that most commercial radio formats are innately conservative, but otherwise, no.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, June 20, 2014 12:46 PM (3 hours ago)
i mean culturally conservative, at the very least generally in line with conservative tastes & values
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Friday, 20 June 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
and yeah, lol
T/S Twofer Tuesdays or Block Party Weekends
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 20 June 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
Moving on from academic discussion , I heard Molly Hatchets version of Dreams by the Allmans on atlanta's classic rock station (97.1 the river) the other day. Never heard the Allmans version on radio. Both versions are great.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Saturday, 21 June 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
i'm sure there's a built-in truth to that simply because country stations tend to be more prevalent in red markets than in blue ones, and any radio station is going to reflect the sensibilities of its local market if it wants to survive, and your song about the flyover states is probably more likely to get more traction in nashville than in new york. but most of the songs they play are about partying and/or getting laid and/or not getting laid but wishing you were.
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 21 June 2014 00:42 (nine years ago) link
but most of the songs they play are about partying and/or getting laid and/or not getting laid but wishing you were.
like all* the other songs
― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 June 2014 00:46 (nine years ago) link
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Most tea partiers are too stupid to realize that they are not part of any "overclass".
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Saturday, 21 June 2014 00:50 (nine years ago) link
Friday night research: Stonehenge on WREK
― Brad C., Saturday, 21 June 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
Country stations are a bit of a hybrid between hit radio & CR in that it seems like half of the songs they play are over ten years old
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Saturday, 21 June 2014 01:45 (nine years ago) link
i'm sure there are all sorts of flavors of country stations, but the ones i'm most familiar with, the ones that play current hits, play almost nothing over five years old, never mind 10 years old.
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 21 June 2014 02:08 (nine years ago) link
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obv people are free to look up top 500 lists and airplay data if they can find it, but i'm not gonna dump any numbers on you guys, i feel like it would muddy the waters of discussion in some way. and they won't be part of the rollout just because i have such selective data that it would be silly to be like "btw this was the #14 most played song in 2011/2012" (which is when a lot of my data is from). maybe i'll drop some of that stuff in casually, though.
― some dude, Saturday, 21 June 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
yeah the country stations i listen to are like 95% recent stuff, 5% Toby Keith and Brad Paisley songs that are 10+ years old
@some dude: I actually prefer the random fun facts route I've seen on this thread (Aerosmith's "Come Together" being the more played track, the enduring success of Kenny Wayne Shepherd, etc.), i hope you continue dropping gems like that, but I don't necessarily need to see the raw stats
― intheblanks, Saturday, 21 June 2014 02:22 (nine years ago) link
oh, there will be a lot of trivia, in rambling FM disc jockey tradition
― some dude, Saturday, 21 June 2014 02:31 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 June 2014 02:40 (nine years ago) link
"Surrender" - Cheap Trick"For Those About to Rock" - AC/DC"Come Sail Away" - Styx
then i got bored, plus bad reception, so i switched to "a mix of great music":
"Dynamite" - Taio Cruz"Counting Stars" - One Republic"Always Something There to Remind Me" - Naked Eyes
classic rock - 3great music - 1.5
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Saturday, 21 June 2014 03:00 (nine years ago) link
I'm putting in for this since it popped up on my local cr station's playlist (between Mellencamp's "Small Town" and Stone Temple Pilots' "Vasoline"):
The Pretenders - Mystery Achievement
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 21 June 2014 03:07 (nine years ago) link
looooooooooove that song but as per discussion upthread Pretenders on CR is really just "Brass In Pocket," the Learning To Crawl singles, maybe "Don't Get Me Wrong"
― some dude, Saturday, 21 June 2014 03:14 (nine years ago) link
contendo u mad
ship u otm
― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 June 2014 03:17 (nine years ago) link
(xp) taio cruz's "dynamite" is great, and his "break your heart" has been covered by borderline (mentioned once in this thread, now twice) classic rockers blondie.
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 21 June 2014 03:20 (nine years ago) link
I know, I guess I was just excited to see something not-overwhelmingly-predictable on my station's playlist.
xxp
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 21 June 2014 03:21 (nine years ago) link
xp yeah, taio got 1 of those 1.5 points (other half went to naked eyes)
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Saturday, 21 June 2014 03:41 (nine years ago) link
"Don't get me wrong" rules
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Saturday, 21 June 2014 05:01 (nine years ago) link
^^^
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 June 2014 05:16 (nine years ago) link
on lunch run, i switched to another station: TOS "the mountain of pure rock" (delivered in comically badass softspoken he-main voice). not CR as such, a more general hard rock format. was not aware such a thing existed:
"California" - Alice In Chains <- so awesome to actually hear this on the radio"Night Train" - Guns 'n Roses"Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers" - ZZ Top"Weak" - Seether"Painkiller" - Three Days Grace"Girls Girls Girls" - Motley Crue
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Saturday, 21 June 2014 06:21 (nine years ago) link
Nice to see the fourth most famous song on Tres Hombres get some radio shine.
― intheblanks, Saturday, 21 June 2014 06:43 (nine years ago) link
also lol at "the mountain of pure rock"
My local country station throws in 90s-early 00s stuff by Strait, Garth, Brooks & Dunn, Alan Jackson, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Sara Evans, Shania etc. like every other song
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Saturday, 21 June 2014 09:53 (nine years ago) link
a more general hard rock format. was not aware such a thing existed.
This is this format, right?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_rock
Our active rock station very recently switched to a 'non-stop hits' format.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 21 June 2014 11:23 (nine years ago) link
yeah, that sounds about right. otoh, the wiki page for WTOS doesn't mention "active rock", instead describing the programming as "album-oriented rock", like back in the old days. listened for a while this morning:
Foxy Lady - HendrixSomething Beautiful - NeedtobreatheImmigrant Song - ZepBattle Born - Five Finger Death PunchFree for All - Ted NugentGuilty All the Same - Linkin ParkSilent Lucidity - Queensryche <- barfOutshined - SoundgardenFace to the Floor - ChevelleLayla - Derek & the DominosThis Is the Time (Ballast) - Nothing More
interesting mix. seems p democratically split between 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s, with more willingness to go for deep cuts in all eras than most CR stations. also closer in spirit to my longhaired, deep toking, headbanging ideal. that said, it's pretty damn douchey (in inevitable corollary, perhaps), a point driven home by the horrible morning show jocks, who seem to have been hired on the basis of their ability to wax obliviously gross and stupid. jokes today about having big dicks and lol casey casem is dead. suppose this is the format that will hallow tomorrow's classic rock staples, "outshined" being the most recent shoo-in from the list above, tho i have to admit i did kind of like the nothing more track.
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Saturday, 21 June 2014 12:19 (nine years ago) link
Active rock?
― clemenza, Saturday, 21 June 2014 13:19 (nine years ago) link
sounds like something you listen to on the toilet
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Saturday, 21 June 2014 14:05 (nine years ago) link
I don't think Toronto has one. My impression is that in most of the country, active rock stations (usually named "The Bear", "The Wolf", or "The Fox") and JACK/BOB-FM stations are becoming more common than faith-keeping Q107-style CR stations.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 21 June 2014 14:13 (nine years ago) link
Ha, I enjoyed blowing students' minds in the Prairies by explaining that Toronto has no country station.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 21 June 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
C&P from last year's thread:
After spending the last three days driving across the Upper Midwest and Northern Ontario, I am feeling qualified to speak on FM rock radio formats in this stretch of mostly small-town North America. I am wondering if this might help clarify some of the discussions/arguments earlier.So:i) Proper bona fide classic rock stations that e.g. play Styx or Kansas on the hour and play nothing since the mid-80s and are well-described by this thread are still a staple pretty much everywhere in the US along this stretch. I don't think I actually came across one along this stretch in Ontario. They seem to have largely been phased out in favour of either a) stations named after carnivorous mammals (wolf, fox, or bear) that play Rush alongside Sam Roberts or the Tragically Hip or the Black Keys or b) stations named after monosyllabic male first names that play Golden Earring alongside Abba and Kool and the Gang.The Wikipedia list of radio stations in Ontario (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Ontario) lists 5 classic rock stations but 16 'classic hits' stations, 18 'active rock' stations, and 16 'adult hits' stations. Of those classic rock stations, I know that at least the Ottawa one plays plenty of 90s and 00s music as well. On the other hand, this list lists 22 classic rock stations, 32 classic hits stations, 7 adult hits stations, and 4 active rock stations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Michiganii) In the same way that a St Louis accent sounds more 'neutral' to me than my own, your classic rock format seems more 'normal' to me on some level. (Your classical music stations are kind of lame though.)iii) I am a little intrigued as to whether this difference is indicative of a trend that will eventually spread to the US or whether it is due to the fact that Canadian stations have to play a quota of Canadian music, which didn't really come into its own until after rock's classic period.iv) The White Stripes and Black Keys have a remarkable ability to blend in so well on the a) sort of station that until the obvious hook enters, I sometimes can't tell whether I'm hearing a 70s song or a recent one.v) Most interestingly, oldies stations that plays 50s and 60s pop are still a real thing on FM radio in the US. I haven't come across one in Canada in 20 years, I don't think. (According to Wiki, they still exist on the AM dial.) Some stations CALL themselves oldies stations but are basically in this format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_hits― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 26 August 2013 15:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
So:
i) Proper bona fide classic rock stations that e.g. play Styx or Kansas on the hour and play nothing since the mid-80s and are well-described by this thread are still a staple pretty much everywhere in the US along this stretch. I don't think I actually came across one along this stretch in Ontario. They seem to have largely been phased out in favour of either a) stations named after carnivorous mammals (wolf, fox, or bear) that play Rush alongside Sam Roberts or the Tragically Hip or the Black Keys or b) stations named after monosyllabic male first names that play Golden Earring alongside Abba and Kool and the Gang.
The Wikipedia list of radio stations in Ontario (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Ontario) lists 5 classic rock stations but 16 'classic hits' stations, 18 'active rock' stations, and 16 'adult hits' stations. Of those classic rock stations, I know that at least the Ottawa one plays plenty of 90s and 00s music as well. On the other hand, this list lists 22 classic rock stations, 32 classic hits stations, 7 adult hits stations, and 4 active rock stations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Michigan
ii) In the same way that a St Louis accent sounds more 'neutral' to me than my own, your classic rock format seems more 'normal' to me on some level. (Your classical music stations are kind of lame though.)
iii) I am a little intrigued as to whether this difference is indicative of a trend that will eventually spread to the US or whether it is due to the fact that Canadian stations have to play a quota of Canadian music, which didn't really come into its own until after rock's classic period.
iv) The White Stripes and Black Keys have a remarkable ability to blend in so well on the a) sort of station that until the obvious hook enters, I sometimes can't tell whether I'm hearing a 70s song or a recent one.
v) Most interestingly, oldies stations that plays 50s and 60s pop are still a real thing on FM radio in the US. I haven't come across one in Canada in 20 years, I don't think. (According to Wiki, they still exist on the AM dial.) Some stations CALL themselves oldies stations but are basically in this format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_hits
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 26 August 2013 15:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 21 June 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
Two late additions to the master list:
Deep Purple - Fireball (best organ solo ever?)Golden Earring - When the Lady Smiles
― ArchCarrier, Sunday, 22 June 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
So are we doing the Made in Japan version of Highway Star or the album version? Live Highway Star is a prime contender for my number one spot, but the album version might not make my ballot.
― voodoo chili, Sunday, 22 June 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
I think I've only ever heard the studio version on the radio
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Sunday, 22 June 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
me too
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 June 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (1000 of them)
― Bee OK, Sunday, 22 June 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
what? you think this thread has "run its course"?
― g simmel, Sunday, 22 June 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
nope, not at all. in fact if this thread is already 1000 posts the actual results thread will be massive, as it should.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 22 June 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link
― voodoo chili, Sunday, June 22, 2014 4:06 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Made in Japan by far the best version but I've never heard it on radio
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Monday, 23 June 2014 03:06 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bINvvAwE5mM&feature=kp
better version
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 23 June 2014 04:40 (nine years ago) link
On the aforementioned Psychedelic Sundays yesterday, the DJ said he was coming back after the break with the first #1 from a group that would have two more, and that this song came out in the spring of '66. I started guessing, trying to figure out who it was. Thought about the Monkees, but I figured they had more than three. Then the Byrds, but I knew that was earlier and that they only had a couple. Settled on Simon & Garfunkel, figurng "Sounds of Silence," "Mrs. Robinson," and "Bridge Over Troubled Water." As odd as it sounds, they'll get played on Psychedelic Sundays.
Wasn't them, but I was close: all three were #1, but the first was '65, not '66. It was the (Young) Rascals.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 June 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link
the Rascals are to me one of pop/rock's great lost bands, like I can never see them being "in" again, but their discography is so great
― Euler, Monday, 23 June 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
listened to hell summer rock-blocks on WLUP this weekend
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 23 June 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
hella*
same but on WZBA
― some dude, Monday, 23 June 2014 16:04 (nine years ago) link
ts:
Block Party Weekend vs. Twofer Tuesday
Get The Led Out vs. Rock-It to ZepTune
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 23 June 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
#1 in both cases, easy
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 23 June 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
Memory's blurry here - does CR have any use for "The Heat Is On" or was that abandoned to stations that play Huey Lewis and 80s Loggins early on?
(70s Loggins really should be in the CR universe - "Vahevala" has the right pedigree as a bottom-up college hit with a convincingly live/rough sound to it - but clearly these stations can smell the AM smoothness and 80s soundtrack on him.)
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 23 June 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
KSEG has lunchtime 'Cafe Rock' complete with restaurant chatter & kitchen sounds & a 'Blue Plate Special' :/
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 June 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
ts: breakfast with the beatles v. get the led out
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 23 June 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
breakfast with the beatles, more of a rarity the rest of the week
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 23 June 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
Never heard anyone say "Rock-It to ZepTune" in my life. Is that really a thing?
― intheblanks, Monday, 23 June 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
no clue. never heard it either
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 23 June 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
I'm told that it is, in Grand Rapids, MI.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 23 June 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
twofer tuesday, because if you run into a block of a band you hate on a block party weekend, that means you can potentially be locked out for 20 minutes or more, whereas on twofer tuesday you can live for the hope that something better will come along in only seven or eight minutes.
on the other hand, if it's a block party weekend, then it's ... the weekend. so there's that.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 23 June 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
i like the a-z countdowns, those are fun
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 June 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
yes!!!
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 23 June 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
76. "Roll The Bones" weekends (DJ "throws" the "dice", number that comes up is how many tunes by whatever band gets played. Funny how when it's Blue Oyster Cult it's always a "1" but when it's Pink Floyd or The Who it's generally a "6".)
― henry s, Sunday, August 11, 2013 3:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^ painfully OTM post on the "On Every AOR classic rock station ever" thread. I feel the same way about twofers and rock blocks, they're precalibrated to which bands the station is prepared to play two versus five songs of. If they actually did rock blocks for bands where you're used to only ever hearing one song, these stations would be so much better.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 23 June 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
Being a classic rock deejay, if you're lucky enough to even still have a live-in-the-booth job, has got to be one of the most soul crushing jobs around. You probably like a great deal of music, but you have to play the same three Boston songs every three hours or else people will complain.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 23 June 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
don't wanna play a Boston songbeen doing this too longAMANDA
― Euler, Monday, 23 June 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
haha
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 23 June 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
Never gets old...
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 June 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
Worst song!
― La Lechera, Monday, 23 June 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
:(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 June 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
Being a classic rock deejay, if you're lucky enough to even still have a live-in-the-booth job, has got to be one of the most soul crushing jobs around. You probably like a great deal of music, but you have to play the same three Boston songs every three hours or else people will complain.― Johnny Fever, Monday, June 23, 2014 1:24 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Monday, June 23, 2014 1:24 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
One of our area pacifica DJ's used to moonlight as a substitute jock at a (now defunct) Clear Channel CR station. He later dished that they work from a shifting* 400 (iirc) song playlist culled from a much bigger masterlist, which generally couldn't be altered by on-air talent, which irked him because he is a big FM-era radio rock buff, wanted to spin stuff by Johnny Winter and Rory Gallagher.
*Shifting in that around 50-100 tracks (usually one hit wonders and lesser cuts from A-Team artists like the Beatles, Stones, Eagles, Zep, Floyd etc.) are cycled in and out of rotation every month or so against the constants ("Stairway" "Hotel" "Money" etc).
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 June 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
The Knack - My Sharona
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 11:35 (nine years ago) link
i've heard Get The Led Out also referred to as "the Zep Set"
― some dude, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 12:15 (nine years ago) link
Yes, Zep Set. Also "Rock Blocks" for four songs in a row when it's not a weekend.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 12:33 (nine years ago) link
I don't know if any stations still do Zeptember (followed by the epic Blocktober) but that was definitely a thing when I was listening to alot of CR radio
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
Blocktober? Rocktober, surely!
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
Foghatuary never really caught on.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
― how's life, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
Just listened to Yes – I’ve Seen All Good People. Had never heard that one before. Not sure how it ended up as canon. Reminds me of a lesser Doobie Brothers or something.
― how's life, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
;_;
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
blocktober, like a block party weekend except ALL MONTH LONG
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
I always wonder if CR employees get excited about these things, and have, ilk, a "Blocktober" kick-off party or celebrate the success of the "Get the Led Out" initiative.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
like, not ilk.
I am in a coin operated laundromat in Framingham ma, a break from my ailing mother in laws apartment. Played so far in here:Hotel California Jumping Jack FlashLeather and LacePeace Of MindBenny & The JetsSweet Emotion
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
I thought "I've Seen All Good People" was pretty unique, actually. (It was released before the first Doobie Brothers album fwiw, although I don't know that I see the comparison, unless you're only talking about the second, lesser, movement.) The closest thing I could compare it to is CSNY but the hymn-like quality distinguishes it imo. It mostly works on the prettiness of the melody, Anderson's delivery, and the interaction with the counter-melodies. It's a pretty early prog track, not especially sophisticated in terms of compositional structure, compared to what Yes would go on to do (or even some other things on the same album, perhaps). There's not a terribly strong connection between the two movements, aside from the basic contrast. Yes's backing vocals can let them down a bit sometimes.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
my local station has a lot of these things. "the vinyl frontier," every night at 11, they play one side of a classic album, at 5pm they play a live recording, on sunday mornings they play acoustic versions of songs, PLUS they get the led out and do twofer tuesdays and all that.
― some dude, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
sunday we get Get the Led Out at 8-9, then Elwoods' Bluesmobile at 10-11 which I've never listened to but I think is a syndicated thing
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
"i've seen all good people" > "white rabbit" > "dirty work" in the category of classic rock chess references.
and, yeah, i've never much cared for the second half of "i've seen all good people" either.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
Yes hits not getting enough love itt, i worry for my beloved "Roundabout."
― some dude, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
"long distance runaround" is the yes song most likely to get my vote, though it's another one where i often check out somewhere in the middle of the wtf second half.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
I do like the second part of "I've Seen All Good People" btw! I just think the first part is the real stunner; also, that the way the two parts are integrated is pretty crude compared to what they would become capable of.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
CSN works too.
― how's life, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
xps Definitely voting for Roundabout. There's a live version floating around that I like better than the studio version (mainly because it removes the intro), but even the studio version is great. Classic "DJ needs to go number 2" track.
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
Reading this I was like, "I think I'll listen to Yes" and I opened Spotify and it was still on Fragile from the last time I was reading this thread and thought, "I think I"ll listen to Yes."
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
I forget what all Yes songs we've nominated, but they'll probably all get a place on my ballot.
Straight bragging: Yes follows me on twitter because I tweeted something once about nobody liking Fragile as much as I like Fragile.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
It was seriously the highlight of pretty much my entire Twitter experience.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
^^ gets it
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
As always, I remain sooo envious of those of you whose classic rock stations play whole album sides and stuff, that would be so great.
Not CR, but I turned on the radio today to hear a DJ say "It's a Retro Tuesday here and we've been playing some lesser known bands for ya - - " (music starts playing) " - - that's Elton John, we play a lot of him, but, that's okay, because he's great! From 1983, here's 'I'm Still Standing.'"
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
This might be getting crazy, but I could almost imagine best/worst Classic Rock Artists subpolls - though the main rollout will obviously reflect this to some extent, I could see vote-splitting diluting the impact of some of the big-catalog figures.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky
― Jeff, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
Never used to hear that much, but I feel like it's gotten a new lease on life with post-2000 movie and TV use.
Where's "Turn To Stone" in CR terms?
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
In no universe have I heard long distance runaround or any 70s yes other than roundabout on the radio
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
This is a bad thing ftr
Also I want to note that after 90 minutes in that laundromat I now hate classic rock radio
I will get over it
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, June 24, 2014 6:14 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah, part of the reason i want a top 100 ballot is so people don't feel limited to a single token favorite Zep or favorite AC/DC song is they love several. definitely gonna do point totals for artists in the stats breakdown afterwards.
― some dude, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
jon otm, the worst kind of classic rock exposure is when you are forced to listen to a lot of songs in a row without the ability to turn it off or leave etc
and honestly, that's usually when the universe conspires to play you the shittiest rock block ever
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
point totals for artists would do it! Nice.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
Xpost it was just so utterly surpriseless even by CR radio standards. The most out there track I heard was that one john cougar mellencamp song I don't know the title of. (That's when a smoke was a smoke and groovin was groovin say yeah yeah)
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
"Cherry Bomb"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
probably the 1987 track i'm most remorseful about cutting out of the poll's chronological purview, love that song.
― some dude, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link
haha! i used to call that song "laughin' laughin'" -- my friend and i used to lol and lol when we heard him sing that parti can't even remember why aside from i think we thought the song was lame
being stuck listening to "love in an elevator" is among the worst classic rock experiences. i'd rather hear "don't fear the reaper" 5x in a row. also forgot to mention that i got in the car the other day and "sultans of swing" was playing and it was HEAVEN (that was my first favorite song that i heard on the radio) and then the dumb DJ cut off the solo at the end! wtf?! disgusting and savage behavior.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
I love Sultans so much!!! such a great song. criminal to cut the solo :( that whole Dire Straits album is such hardcore time/place music for me --- always think of a time in my life where every boy tried to wear a terrycloth headband because they wanted to be Knopfler. lol Was there ever a more unrock-guitar rockgod than him?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link
also forgot to mention that i got in the car the other day and "sultans of swing" was playing and it was HEAVEN
Haha this exact thing happened to me yesterday when I took ailing mother in laws car on an errand by myself. It was the first time I had been alone in days and one of the tasty licks sections of sultans was playing.
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
At my high school "post-prom," I won a DVD player for correctly IDing Sultans of Swing during "Name that Tune." The song is forever linked in my memory to this triumph.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link
Important to note that DVD players were still quite uncommon in rural illinois 15 years ago.
...as was Dire Straits apparently.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
Do we need john parr "naughty naughty" in this poll? It may have been more of a top 40 thing but it feels like CR to me and its era is correct. Also it is super gross in that inimitable CR way.
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
lol totally!
that song is hilarious
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
the nominating process has been disappointing so far. we need more stuff!
can i just nom "music" by john miles or is it too AOR for the poll?
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
y-y-y-y-yes please
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 00:40 (nine years ago) link
(xpost obv)
going through this list has made me realize how corny I am
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 00:49 (nine years ago) link
it's kinda liberating really
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 00:55 (nine years ago) link
no one to please but yourself, don't worry about it
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 01:00 (nine years ago) link
another nomination:
Journey - Who's Crying Now
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 01:08 (nine years ago) link
Linda Ronstadt - You're No GoodBlack Oak Arkansas - Jim DandyAtlanta Rhythm Section - So In to YouWhitesnake - Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 01:17 (nine years ago) link
i love "you're no good" to death, and i feel like i would love any classic rock station that actually played it to death too. are there any?
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
pretty amazing we had gotten this far without any mention of black oak arkansas!
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
have I ever mentioned how great I think "Another Brick in the Wall" is? it still sounds ominous to me.
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 01:21 (nine years ago) link
Jethro Tull - TeacherCrosby Stills & Nash - Southern CrossSteve Winwood - Back in the High LifeBruce Springsteen - Prove It All NightQueen - Bicycle RaceAtlanta Rhythm Section - SpookyThe Jimi Hendrix Experience - The Wind Cries MaryRod Stewart - Young TurksRolling Stones - Waiting on a FriendGenesis - Man on the CornerThe Cars - Dangerous TypeThe Allman Brothers Band - Blue SkyThe Allman Brothers Band - RevivalThe Kinks - Catch Me Now I'm FallingThe Kinks - Celluloid HeroesJonathan Edwards - SunshineTed Nugent - Free For AllMoody Blues - Ride My See-SawDave Edmunds - I Hear You KnockingAl Stewart - Time Passages
Maybe too AM gold? but feel like CR to me:Stories - Brother LouieShocking Blue - VenusJim Croce - Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown
These probably have aged over to oldies radio at this point, but they were def played on CR radio 15 years ago:The Easybeats - Friday on My MindThe Human Beinz - Nobody But MeThe Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today
Too new wavey maybe? But I don't think I really get the distinction if the Cars and Talking Heads qualify:Big Country - In a Big CountryThe Fixx - Red SkiesTimbuk 3 - The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
These may seem more like "deep cuts", but I swear they were played on CR radio (at least in the Bay Area) in the late 90's:Bruce Springsteen - Spirit in the NightJoe Jackson - Look SharpMott the Hoople - All the Way From MemphisPete Townshend - Rough BoysElton John - Grey SealRod Stewart - Mandolin WindVan Morrison - Jackie Wilson SaidThe Who - Pure and EasyT. Rex - Children of the Revolution
― Ari (whenuweremine), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 05:31 (nine years ago) link
Is the only restriction for the songs to be released before 1987 and be player in rock stations?
Do alternative or "electronic" artists count if they meet these parameters like say, New Order or Depeche Mode who are popular with the rockist crowd?
― Moka, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 07:43 (nine years ago) link
I'm not sure if they qualify or if they've already been mentioned but here's my list of noms if you wish to include them:
Jesus & the mary chain - just like honeyThe Standells - dirty waterHawkwind - Silver MachineStealers Wheel - Stuck in the MiddleGrauzone - EisbarThe Seeds - Can't Seem to Make You MineLove - a House is not a MotelDave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Hold TightRheingold - dreiklangs-dimensionenLos Saicos - DemolicionThe Animals - It's My LifeThe Zombies - Time of the SeasonXTC - Plans for NigelThe Cramps - Human FlyGang of Four - damaged goodsThe Undertones - Teenage KicksThe Modern Lovers - RoadrunnerNew Order - CeremonyNew Order - Age of Consentthe Cure - boys dont cry
Rheingols and Grauzone where big "rock" hitsin Germany. Not sure if they count as american classic rock but they do count as german classic rock.
― Moka, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 07:58 (nine years ago) link
I'm not sure of American CR radio but in Mexico artistslike Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa shared air time with Pink floyd and Led Zepellin
― Moka, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 08:01 (nine years ago) link
Shocking Blue - VenusThe Easybeats - Friday on My MindThe Human Beinz - Nobody But MeBig Country - In a Big Country
― Ari (whenuweremine), miércoles 25 de junio de 2014 6:31 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
These are definitely popular on the CR radio over here.
― Moka, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 08:04 (nine years ago) link
The problem about the broadcast parameter is that a song like The Standells - Dirty Water is well known with the Boston sports crowd and is considered a classic but someone from say, Texas might not know anything about it.
― Moka, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 08:10 (nine years ago) link
It's on the rock and roll hall of fame as one of the songsthat shaped the scene. The whole list is filled with good recommendations and we could simply have a poll based around it.
http://rockhall.com/exhibits/one-hit-wonders-songs-that-shaped-rock-and-roll/
― Moka, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 08:13 (nine years ago) link
"Dirty Water" is known in Texas.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 09:20 (nine years ago) link
― Moka, Wednesday, June 25, 2014 3:43 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah...most of your nominations are totally out of the realm of what this poll is about. Jesus And Mary Chain and New Order will not be included.
― some dude, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 11:35 (nine years ago) link
They were just suggestions. I've never lived in America so I'm not sure how popular these are in your Classic Radio stations. Mary Chain and New Order per example had plenty of radio play in stations or rock bars which played the sort of songs in your list when I lived in Barcelona. They loved them more than any country I've lived in.
This is your poll so I'm not complaining about what you want to include on the nomination list, just trying to help in case you missed something!
― Moka, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 12:36 (nine years ago) link
Oh! Speaking about Spain here's a suggestion from a Spanish band which actually was hit in UK and America and I think is eligible for a Classic Rock radio list by all means:
Los Bravos - Black is Black
There's also:Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie
Similar to Creedence and I remember hearing it first on a classic rock station in Dallas.
― Moka, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 12:42 (nine years ago) link
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), miércoles 25 de junio de 2014 10:20 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This makes me happy! I was trying to make a point about how CR stations might have different "classics" depending on the zone you live in but I honestly have no idea how popular "dirty water" actually is asides knowing that the Boston sports teams play it on their stadiums and people from Boston ought to identify the song.
― Moka, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 12:47 (nine years ago) link
"sultans of swing" is my "dont fear the reaper"
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 14:38 (nine years ago) link
Me too if you mean that you can't stand to listen to Sultans of Swing.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
"My Kind of Lover" was just on the radio. I always forget how much I like Billy Squier (or the hits anyway, since that's all I know) until I hear his songs.
I always associate The Stroke with the Himalaya amusement park ride, which I used to ride mostly to hear The Stroke.
Also Billy Squier is looking good in his old age.
http://d36jiqg3u1m7g0.cloudfront.net/artistas/338x236/v2_338x236_thumb_55937_imagen_1.jpghttp://swearingin.com/wcontent/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/billy-squier1.png
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
I hate Sultans of Swing to death. I want to stab that song through its heart.
― how's life, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
i'm ok w/ it lately but for years it was hands-down my least favorite song in the CR canon
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link
Alan Parsons Project - I Wouldn't Want to Be Like YouWalter Egan - Magnet & SteelBilly Idol - Eyes Without a Face
― Ari (whenuweremine), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
oh man i love sultans of swing and i always willmy mom told me that when i was a toddler i would start clapping when it came on. i really liked "the devil went down to georgia" too, so i think i just liked that sound. i remember asking my mom what that sound was and she didn't know. next time you hear that deedle eedle deedle eedle deedle eedle deedle of the solo in sultans of swing, think of little tiny me clapping with glee.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
man I love eyes without a face so muchit feels too far over the top 40 side of the fence to me tho. idk.magnet & steel OTM
y'all need to stop with this reaper-baiting itt. That song is is untouchable IMO, like "Eight Miles High" "Buzzards and Dreadful Crows" "Queen of Eyes" "Dancing Days" untouchable. I don't think I'm just blinded by my BOC fandom either, I mean I don't want Godzilla on this fkin poll even though it well qualifies.
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
charlie daniels "In America" was one of the first 45s I ever bought, luckily I did not take its sentiments on board in my developing brain. I wish I'd heard "Wooly Swamp" when I was little instead.
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
I can't look at the full list rn but all three of those C Daniels joints need to be on here if they aren't already
"Devil...Georgia""The Legend of Wooly Swamp""In America" (CR Grossness in excelsis)maybe "Stroker Ace" too?
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
like "Eight Miles High" "Buzzards and Dreadful Crows" "Queen of Eyes" "Dancing Days" untouchable
would love to listen to that classic-rock station at my laundromat.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
Heart - These DreamsPat Benatar - Love Is A BattlefieldPhD - I Won't Let You Down
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
fuck yeah these dreamsi assume Hit Me With Your Best Shot is already on? (all-time CR guitar solo on there, I can still sing every note from memory)
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
y'all need to stop with this reaper-baiting itt. otm AND reaper-baiting in general is not a good idea! every time hear that song i kinda space out and then i hear "don't fear the reaper, don't be afraid, take my hand" and i'm momentarily terrified that i am going to get into a car wreck within a matter of seconds. it's a reminder that i should probably fear the reaper.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
I love "Reaper," but it was years before I knew it had a scary-ass midsection solo; the AM radio edit didn't have that.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
DON'T BAIT THE REAPER
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
love that midsection solo, so great
I wish there were more BOC songs to nom but really most of their FM gems didn't quite break through the way they should have. Oh fuck it.
Blue Oyster Cult - Shooting Shark
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
Never heard it.
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
It was an AOR hit for several years. idk.
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
I'm just being contrary. It is The ILX Way.
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
Did Molly Hatchet have any popular CR tracks or did everyone just buy them for the covers?
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
(vague memories of whoa-ohhh-oh-oh BACK STABBA!)
Flirtin' With Disaster needs to be on here if it's not already
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
Only one I've ever heard is "Flirtin' with Disaster." The vocalist sounds like a Muppet, but the rest is 4th-rate Skynyrd meh.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
how dare you, they are def a 2nd rate Skynyrd, give some credit ;)
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
I don't know if they still play it but Black Betty by Ram Jam was a CR staple for years
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
That gets heavy rotation on Chicago CR stations, that's for sure. I heard it yesterday and once today, two different stations.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
oh totally, it was in my list of nominations right off the bat!
― some dude, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
i have a 12" of Black Betty with a pretty lol but also pretty cool 90s house mix of it
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
John Parr - St Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)Fischer-Z - So LongHerman Brood & His Wild Romance - Saturday NightStatus Quo - Rockin' All Over The WorldStatus Quo - Whatever You WantStatus Quo - The WandererStatus Quo - In The Army NowBill Wyman - (Si Si) Je Suis Un RockstarREO Speedwagon - Don't Let Him GoStevie Nicks - Rooms On FireForeigner - Waiting For A Girl Like YouForeigner - I Want To Know What Love IsSlade - Cum On Feel The NoizeSlade - My Oh MySlade - Mama Weer All Crazee NowSlade - Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
Don Johnson - HeartbeatAlan Parsons Project - Old And WiseVandenberg - Burning Heart
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
Still love that guitar solo at the end of Burning Heart - sums up the whole "classic rock" thing:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGSrv1GnXMM
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
Landed him the job in Whitesnake too, I guess...
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
there is a conspic absence in your slade noms siegbran. Do you have some kind of problem with Terms of Psychic Warfare Run Runaway?
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
(xp) Yeah, awesome! We need more Dutch music in this poll!
For your consideration:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1pCWToiDL8Cuby and the Blizzards - Appleknockers Flophouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTXVN6VOHa0Brainbox - Doomsday Train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzHRLTHoU38Earth & Fire - Ruby is the One
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
John Miles - MusicJoe Walsh - In the CitySaxon - Strong Arm of the LawSad Café - My Oh MyBilly Idol - Flesh For FantasyRoger Hodgson - Had a DreamCharlie Sexton - Beat's So LonelyStray Cats - (She's) Sexy and 17Power Station - Some Like It HotDire Straits - Twisting by the PoolThe Call - Everywhere I GoThe Rainmakers - Let My People Go-Go
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
some of these recent noms seem more like songs that were once played on rock radio, but that didn't make the jump to Classic Rock status
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
I feel like some dude has been pretty clear, this is All American USA Classic Rock (tm) that we're talking here
I am going with a vague definition of classic rock radio as it existed in America (and probably Canada, maybe other places but I really have no idea)
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
"Rooms on Fire" def too late.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link
Earth & Fire cracks me up for some reason, even though they actually pre-date Earth, Wind & Fire.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
Rare Earth - I Just Want To Celebrate
― guwop (crüt), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I was just thinking they really changed their sound after they added Wind to the group.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
Or it's like Crosby & Nash, where their temperaments were better fits for each other, and they made some records together between EW&F records.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
So many potential supergroups. Earth, Stills & Fire would be something.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
Bummer when Neil Young split midway through his tour with Wind in '76.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
Emerson, Wind & Young
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
Roger Hodgson - Had a Dream
I was super into this when it came out, haven't thought about it in decades
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
Seals, Crofts, Crofts, Seals, Crofts & Crofts
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
Earth, Wind, Lake & Fire - that group had everything
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
Hamilton Joe Frank Reynolds Seals Crofts Earth Wind Fire Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Titch
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
to be clear, one of the areas in which i'm probably going to give some leeway in allowing nominations is songs that are considered classic rock outside the US or were rock radio staples of yesteryear that don't necessarily get played anywhere in 2014. if those stay in the nominations list and get a few votes, i see no harm. i'm far more interested in weeding out a) post-1986 songs, b) proto-alternative type stuff that got progressive radio play but was never really in the classic rock lineage and c) well loved but rarely played cuts like Thin Lizzy's "Cowboy Song" that people might be tempted to vote for even if they never heard it on the radio.
― some dude, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
Anderson, Buford, Fire, Palmer and the Family Stone
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
Crosby with Wind is the worst combination ever
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
the exclusions are super key IMO - esp b) and c) otherwise it just becomes the list of ILM's favored 70s rock music. I wish half this shit had jumped from current-rock play to classic-rock playlists, but it just didn't.
I do get Status Quo coming in on principle - - I've never once heard their music on the radio but I'm sympathetic to the idea that if the UK has anything like a classic rock format (even if it's one hour on alternate Wednesdsays, after tea), Status Quo is what they would play. Also, the Bavarian bus driver I used to ride with when I chaperoned study abroad trips was big on "Rockin' All Over The World," and nothing says classic rock like what a professional bus or truck driver would choose to blast over the speakers when cruisin' down the open road.
Btw, have y'all heard the stuff Rare put out after Earth hit the road with Wind? Fuckin' wild, though not very CR.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
otm, i hope some dude is ruthlessly precise w/ what makes the Official Nominations list
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
::brandishes scalpel::
― some dude, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
actually, it looks like I should be able to get the voting thread into gear tomorrow or early Friday, so let me just make an official announcement:
nominations closing on Thursday, so get in any remaining suggestions ASAP
― some dude, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
do any of these grateful dead songs, not yet mentioned itt, get classic rock play anywhere these days?
shakedown streetuncle john's bandu.s. bluesfire on the mountainfriend of the devilplaying in the band
there was a time when they were rock radio staples, at least in my native northeast, but i'm not sure if "rock" dead ever successfully transitioned to "classic rock" dead.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
I've never heard any Grateful Dead song on the radio besides "Touch of Grey."
― guwop (crüt), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
"Casey Jones" is a classic rock staple too, but I've never heard any of the ones on fcc's list on classic rock radio
― Euler, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
I've only heard "Grey," "Casey Jones, "Truckin'," "Uncle John's Band," and yeah, that's it.
Used to hear "Jack Straw" all the time on WXRT in Chicago (years before I knew it was a Dead song), but that's not a "classic rock" station.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
Status Quo are definitely definitely UK classic rock. If I manage to vote, I will be attempting to organise my ballot in 'best and most fitting style' - e.g. while I think 'Good Vibrations' is amazing, it does not fit my idea of true Classic Rock, so would be unlikely to make the cut.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
another nom: Linda Ronstadt, "When Will I Be Loved"
― Euler, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
Only Quo I've heard on US cr radio was "Pictures of Matchstick Men," and only on a deep-cut throwbacky show, and only once.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
I wouldn't vote for them because I hate them, but the Quo tracks for this poll would be 'Rockin All Over the World' and 'In the Army Now'. 'Pictures of Matchstick Men' gets play, but I kind of think of it as their pre-CR stage.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
But yeah, if you guys want to keep it All American, then go ahea, it makes it simpler. But to me Status Quo completely fit the remit.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
*ahead
I've heard Touch of Grey and Box of Rain both recently.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
while I think 'Good Vibrations' is amazing, it does not fit my idea of true Classic Rock, so would be unlikely to make the cut.
madness! "good vibrations" may not sound exactly like skynyrd or zep or styx, but it was a spiritual godfather, and template provider, and inspiration to so many of classic rock's most epic moments, the pele to their neymar.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
I remember because imo Box of Rain is one of those songs specifically designed to make people cry.. That's something else I think about with this songs -- they have been on the radio my whole life. How many people's monumental life moments occurred while they were listening to CR radio? Probably a lot! Imagine how much crying these songs have inspired and you will drown in tears. That's poignant. I'll take it.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
i love box of rain.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
i hate touch of grey
so so so much
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
also i heard "hot for teacher" yesterday on my way home at like 1am and it sounded atrocious, like the worst song ever. i can't stand the harmonies or basically anything about that song.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
I don't feel tardy.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
it's not just that song tbh - aside from maybe "ain't talkin bout love" and "panama" i don't think i like any of their songs. the chipmunk harmonies are really grating to me for some reason.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, June 25, 2014 10:06 PM (12 minutes ago)
Well, to me classic rock is emphatic head nodding in a car, or air guitaring, or just... choogling away. 'Good Vibrations' doesn't connote any of those activities to me.
I mean, I'm from the UK so haven't had first-hand experience of the true American classic rock stations, so I have to go with my own exposure and gut feelings about this stuff.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
xp haha chipmunk harmonies, yes.
I just heard Panama again today. I'm tired of hearing about David Lee Roth's wang, guys.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
Had a similar experience with some song I barely know, or don't know at all, by (what turned out to be) Triumph over the weekend. Wretched on every level.
― wild-eyed, high-volume bursts of pious indignation (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
I think if I were to vote for any Van Halen it'd be "Running with the Devil." PANAMA! is really fun in a cartoonish way but it's hard for me to take tit seriously.
emil.y otm about "Good Vibrations" - I love that song, and it might end up on my list, but not near the top. My ballot is heavily weighted by how close songs hew to my own vague ideal of "classic rock."
― guwop (crüt), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
TS: Classic Rock Wangs- Roth vs. Jagger vs. Plant vs. Mercury vs. Rogers vs. Bowie vs...
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
"The Lizard King"
― guwop (crüt), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
xpost Bon Scott cmon
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
it's hard for me to take tit seriously
My next dn.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
If we're talking peacocks, you cannot exclude Bruce
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
who wants to do the ballot poll
― guwop (crüt), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
I remember because imo Box of Rain is one of those songs specifically designed to make people cry.
Freaks and Geeks sort of cemented this effect forever for me
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
I listened to 1984 from beginning to end a couple of weeks ago for the first time since it was new and had some sort of ecstatic experience. It's like a gold played Irish setter that wants to lick your face til your forehead eye gets exposed. Just really love the way that album sounds.
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
Agreed. Drop Dead Legs, House of Pain and Top Jimmy have all aged really well.
― Darin, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
Van Halen's first 4 albums were such transcendent, ecstatic experiences. They reach previously unknown realms of joy and sonic sensuality. Dave's voice is the sound of freedom. [/youtube comment]
― brimstead, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
rad youtube
― some dude, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
Bowie in Labyrinth >>>>>>>>>>> Plant >>>>>>>>>>> infinity over all other CR Wangs.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:56 (nine years ago) link
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― carl agatha, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
nominating:
rolling stones - street fighting man (which i was reminded of just now when "jumping jack flash" came on the radio and for a few seconds i thought it was "street fighting man," and i see it hasn't been mentioned yet)
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
my local classic rock radio has also in the past hour reminded me of what a fantastic song eddie money's "baby hold on" is.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
PANAMA! is really fun in a cartoonish way but it's hard for me to take tit seriously.
I don't think it takes itself seriously, which is part of the fun. Yeah, Roth's a total buffoon (and the tension between "does he know he's a buffoon?" "no, he doesn't know he's a buffoon" is 90% of his appeal), but Alex' snare sound makes up for so much in their catalog.
I remember Eddie saying in an interview that he wanted VH to mean to kids what Zep did. Well, no. VH doesn't do that. You're fun-time asshole party schmucks. That's what you do.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
irl lol @ CR Wangs
I'm pretty stoked to vote for the majority of the Halen singles here, fuckin' love all of those, so much energy. And the backing vocals are perfect, Johnny Fever OTM a decade ago: "The thing Michael Anthony gets the least credit for is his backing vocals... dude sings like a little cherub." Dance the Night Away would be nothing without those elevating ahhh-AHHH-AHHHs, they seem to understand instinctively that when you're a lusty teenager, lust can include the deep-seated but inarticulable believe that the lust object is also the angel, in whose presence all that is evil vanishes to nothing. This line runs directly back to the Beach Boys and so I think "Good Vibrations" is fine here, and I do think I've heard it on classic rock, more than anything else by them surely. It's a shame the format turned its backs on their 70s stuff; "Surf's Up" and "Sail On Sailor" would be kinda great leavening in the CR mix. If they'd been by other bands, maybe.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
"Surf's Up" and "Sail On Sailor" would be kinda great leavening in the CR mix. If they'd been by other bands, maybe.
"sail on sailor" pretty much WAS by another band! they just forgot to change the band name.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
reading DLR's autobio is transcendent
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link
YES, Crazy From The Heat easily one of the best rock memoirs ever
― some dude, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
YES. Love this one. Also very good for singing to an actual baby.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
any beach boys, whether the early 60s hits or Pet Sounds or Carl running shit afterwards or whatever, has never been germane to the classic rock gestalt whatsoever. CR radio might as well play Phil Spector or MoTown if they fuck with the Beach Boys.
Status Quo has not one thing to do with classic rock radio as it has existed in the US, because no one in the US other than rock nerds know who they are. If the UK had classic rock radio, then they would be like Boston or Eddie Money or BOC. But that ain't the case. the Grateful Dead's CR tunes are "truckin" "Casey Jones" and "Friend of the Devil" and other songs I would cite were I not puking mu guts out.
Do you guys know who Jim Ladd is? He is or was a DJ for some LA radio station, and is like the most classic rock guy that's ever existed. He's a caricature.
― veronica moser, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
I always forget that 'baby hold on' is Eddie Money
great song
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
"Baby Hold On" iirc has a kind of cool mellotron or something delivering a hook that caught my exotica inclined grade school ear.
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
I said UH
clap!
Hold on
UH
Hold on to me tight
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
<3
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
second thought, Status Quo is really like the Doobie Bros or Skynnyrd for the UK. maybe there were other UK bands like that, but 1977/year zero erased them from memory? Or do Foghat count as such? makes me think that Humble Pie were HUGE in the UK and U.S., boogie warlords, but their shit doesn't get played on CR radio.
― veronica moser, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:32 (nine years ago) link
"Cowboy Song"
???
― Dreamland, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
Humble Pie is decidedly underserved by US CR radio. You might hear "30 Days In The Hole" once in a while, but that's it.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
any beach boys, whether the early 60s hits or Pet Sounds or Carl running shit afterwards or whatever, has never been germane to the classic rock gestalt whatsoever
agreed vis-a-vis the early 60s hits, pet sounds and carl running shit, but completely disagree vis-a-vis "good vibrations," which is none of those things. it is a foundational track of the proggy multi-part epic school of classic rock, up there with "a day in the life," and if you can't segue "good vibrations" out of "roundabout" or "don't stop believin'" or "carry on wayward son," well then i'll just find me another classic rock dj who can.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
carl otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
here's a list of Q104.3's top 1043 songs of all time:
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link
never ever heard any Beach Boys on any classic rock format, whether any song should be therein in a rock critic-approved sense of influencing prog or not. as far as clear channel is concerned, they are oldies.
SO! how about ariana grande and Iggy azalea's "problem?" I like it more than "fancy."
― veronica moser, Thursday, 26 June 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link
Never ever heard Good Vibrations or ANY BB track on classic rock radio. Come on guys, that's oldies and fits more in line (radio-wise) in between motown and other 60s pop, no matter how infulential it eventually was
― Dreamland, Thursday, 26 June 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link
+ stealin'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 June 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
i feel like "Good Vibrations" is pretty solidly their token album rock canon moment, but if people really don't think it should be nommed i'll consider taking it out
― some dude, Thursday, 26 June 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
beach boys never her
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 June 2014 00:28 (nine years ago) link
i hereby nominate every song listed on this webpage:
http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/how-many-beach-boys-songs-have-you-heard-379
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 26 June 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
really think that the poll should be based on what CR radio is, not what it should be. idiot classic rock DJs and Clear Channel market research/ data clearly agree that Beach Boys are squaresville. Like, say, all music made by african americans other than J Hendrix during the same period of 1968-1985 (to me the shitty CR era is Sgt Peppers to Born in the USA).
goddamn there's so much hot pussy in EDM videos! I will take EDM over Mumsford discontents every GD time.
― veronica moser, Thursday, 26 June 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
fucking love it. and vaguely relevant to this thread, sort of, i will note that azalea appears to have eclipsed pop as the person one is assumed to be referring to when one mentions "iggy."
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 26 June 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
"good vibrations," meanwhile, is #300 on the q104.3 poll linked above, right behind "school's out" and "dust in the wind," and just ahead of "crimson and clover" and "custard pie."
(though i might accept the proposition that new york city doesn't completely count as an arbiter of classic rock.)
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 26 June 2014 00:42 (nine years ago) link
Toronto's Q107 ranked it #341 fwiw: http://archive.today/OjCc
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 26 June 2014 00:51 (nine years ago) link
NRBQ are playing a biker festival near my house this weekend, and I always figured there was a super-famous classic rock song by NRBQ that I just never realized was theirs, since I've been hearing their name forever. But apparently this is not the case! I've kinda been using "would play a biker festival" as one of my criteria for determining which bands are classic rock for a while now.
― cwkiii, Thursday, 26 June 2014 01:00 (nine years ago) link
very coincidentally, as a native of LVille ky who took huge pride in NRBQ, they were my Grateful Dead and as such one of my favorite acts to have ever existed, they have absolutely nothing to do with classic rock. Bonnie Raitt did "me and the boys," they were popular as a live act in the Northeast and in pockets in the U.S., but my guess is that those bikers are not going to be into Terry Adams and whichever weird record nerds can play passably on the gig.
― veronica moser, Thursday, 26 June 2014 01:06 (nine years ago) link
I don't know, there are a bunch of older mellow bikers these days.
― earlnash, Thursday, 26 June 2014 02:07 (nine years ago) link
rock radio staples of yesteryear that don't necessarily get played anywhere in 2014
Nominating these, though I think that's the category most of them are in:
Jeff Beck - Freeway JamSantana - She's Not ThereThe Ides of March - VehicleLeon Russell - Tight RopeRobert Palmer - Sailin' Shoes/Hey Julia/Sneakin' Sally Through the AlleyThe Grass Roots - Temptation Eyes
― Ari (whenuweremine), Thursday, 26 June 2014 02:40 (nine years ago) link
If anyone thinks bikers are blaring "Caroline, No" they have another thing coming
― Dreamland, Thursday, 26 June 2014 03:02 (nine years ago) link
The Santana "She's Not There" is still one of his heavier played numbers. Which reminds me:
Santana: "Winning"
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 26 June 2014 03:24 (nine years ago) link
Does Motorhead's Ace of Spades get played on Classic Rock?
― MarkoP, Thursday, 26 June 2014 04:07 (nine years ago) link
Like up to 10 times a week on St. Louis classic rock stations at least, yes
― Dreamland, Thursday, 26 June 2014 04:10 (nine years ago) link
i had no idea i was such a billy squier fan until this poll
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 26 June 2014 10:52 (nine years ago) link
― MarkoP, Thursday, June 26, 2014 5:07 AM (6 hours ago)
This would be another entry for making up the UK classic rock playlist. But I'm guessing probably not for the Americans?
― emil.y, Thursday, 26 June 2014 10:55 (nine years ago) link
I hear Robert Palmer p regularly on CR radio. Just heard Bad Case of Loving You yesterday and have definitely heard Sailing Shoes, etc.
I'm not sure about Vehicle (toes the line of oldies IMO) but I hope it counts bc I love that song.
I'm on zing and can't search but Joan Jett is nominated, right?
― carl agatha, Thursday, 26 June 2014 11:07 (nine years ago) link
Johnny and Mary never gets played on the radio does it
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 26 June 2014 11:13 (nine years ago) link
I am no longer on Zing and have confirmed that Joan Jett is nominated. Thank you for your time.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 26 June 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
If you love Joan Jett, don't forget to tune into the hair metal poll that I'll be running 6 months to a year from now, where you will absolutely be able to vote for "I Hate Myself for Loving You" if you please.
― how's life, Thursday, 26 June 2014 12:59 (nine years ago) link
I am looking forward to this poll.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:03 (nine years ago) link
The Ides of March - Vehicle
Yes! My hs marching band played this song and I still remember the routine.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:41 (nine years ago) link
Weird, I didn't know that was heard/played outside of Chicagoland.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:44 (nine years ago) link
a good side-poll would be best songs ruined by tv commercial licencing
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:45 (nine years ago) link
Does Off Broadway's "Stay In Time" get any classic rock play?
(for reference: http://youtu.be/zJOTXWoeIew)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:45 (nine years ago) link
oldies win the songs ruined by commercials -- i think i remember seeing cats kicking up their poop to "nobody but me" ;_;
― La Lechera, Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
We played Vehicle in high school jazz band!
― carl agatha, Thursday, 26 June 2014 14:05 (nine years ago) link
April Wine - You Could Have Been a Lady
― MarkoP, Thursday, 26 June 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link
can we have "This Is Not America" and "Putting Out Fire (With Gasoline)"? These were both in album rock rotation when I was in middle school.
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 26 June 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
I hear "Vehicle" all the time but I never knew the name or the band. thank you!
― guwop (crüt), Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link
I thought about nomming it but I've never once heard it on CR radio. Feel like it must get some radio play somewhere in the US though.
― Vinnie, Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
Heard "Stay With Me" by the Faces on the radio this morning and holy crap is that a great song. Too bad the Faces never really caught on on CR radio.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
Same here. Thread delivers! xps
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
Robert Palmer - Sailin' Shoes/Hey Julia/Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley
the station in my Little Feat-loving region definitely still plays this
― some dude, Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
since this is ilx, every Bowie song nominated means one more Bowie song in the top 20 results
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
"vehicle" was a huge hit! strikes me as strictly AM/oldies though. frontman jim peterik went on to form the band survivor, of "eye of the tiger" fame. more important, for purposes of this thread, he co-wrote .38 special's "hold on loosely" and "caught up in you."
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
would vote for many robert palmer songs if given the chance.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link
Hold on, we almost forgot:
Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible
― cwkiii, Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
I think that's from 1988.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, June 26, 2014 11:38 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, knew that about Peterik/Survivor, and "Vehicle"'s great.
Another one that sprang to mind: Steam's "Na Na, Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)" -- definitely on oldies stations, but I swear I've heard it a few times on cr, too.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
xp Yeah I just realized that. Dammit!
― cwkiii, Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
ok so jim peterik is the dr luke of classic rock?!
― La Lechera, Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
i did not know that! makes sense though!
huh never heard of peterik! Those are all super-echt Classic Rock joints especially the 0.38 Special ones
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
Those two huge Survivor songs must be CR staples, not that I can remember their titles right now.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
Survivor - Eye Of The TigerSurvivor - Burning Heart (might be 1988, idk)
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
The Search is Over
― La Lechera, Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
no, it's 1985
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
Also, um, guys, we have totally forgotten one of THEE most CR bands of all.
Little River Band - "Lonesome Loser"Little River Band - "Help Is On Its Way"Little River Band - "Reminiscing"
I mean come the fuck on!!!
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
HE'S A LOOOOOSUH BUT HE STILL KEEPS ON TRYYYYYINNNNNN
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
Setting aside all the borderline and not-so-borderline non-CR oldies, what was the ruling on the 80s hard rock and party acts (post-Halen)? Dunno how many votes they'd get anyway but just IMO, Ratt and Scorpions were never part of the CR landscape.
DEFINITELY opposed to Bowie miscellaney that has never, ever been played on CR. Again, would be cool if staions said, ehh, let's pull Spaceoddity and Suffragette City out of the rotation and replace them with some cool album tracks, but to my knowledge they...don't. The poll should help us determine whether ILX prefers Foghat or Bad Company; it would not be news that ILX likes Bowie.
Lonesome Loser is a great call!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/P5RDn5Y0D_0/hqdefault.jpg
HURRY DON'T BE LATE, YOU NEED TO NOMINAAAATE
― some dude, Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
When do nominations close?
― how's life, Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
whenever i start the voting thread, sometime friday
― some dude, Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
"Rock You Like A Hurricane" is tooootally CR and always has been. Ratt I could see omitting.
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
Peter Wolf - Lights Out!
would be top 40 category except for the sporting events aspect which makes it CR IMO
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
agree wholeheartedly with DC's post above
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
if anything i'd just push the cutoff point back to end of '84. are there any super essential '85 and '86 songs we'd be losing?
― some dude, Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
whatever MBV released in those years
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
Messina, Bachman and Vera?
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
xxp I wouldn't mind-- I'd rather see less nominees because it more accurately reflects the restrictions of the format. And in a way I'm more interested in what songs could survive several decades of constant, mindless rotation and still be something you're going to want to actually listen to- this list should be about the survivors, because whatever tops this poll deserves to win... as opposed to proving that more people like Baby's On Fire than Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
I feel like '85 cannot be dispensed with. '86 maybe.
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
'86 brought us "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" and "Wanted Dead or Alive," but if we had to lose those I could live with it.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
haha just those 2 are argument enough for me to keep the year in play
― some dude, Thursday, 26 June 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
And in a way I'm more interested in what songs could survive several decades of constant, mindless rotation and still be something you're going to want to actually listen to- this list should be about the survivors, because whatever tops this poll deserves to win... as opposed to proving that more people like Baby's On Fire than Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 26 June 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
what kind of car would you drive around listening to Baby's On Fire in anyway? Because Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo is like this:
http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/4/305/3181/38261590001_original.jpg?v=1
― how's life, Thursday, 26 June 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Opel_Kadett_B_Lahti.JPG
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 26 June 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
yep. There we go.
― how's life, Thursday, 26 June 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
Baby's On Firemobile:
http://static.cargurus.com/images/site/2008/06/11/00/40/1970_volkswagen_karmann_ghia-pic-62871.jpeg
lol xpost
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Thursday, 26 June 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
I'm more interested in what songs could survive several decades of constant, mindless rotation and still be something you're going to want to actually listen to- this list should be about the survivors
To that end, "Eye of the Tiger" still pumps me up after hearing it probably many thousands of times. Survivor indeed.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
Nice Karr, mann... (xpost)
― wild-eyed, high-volume bursts of pious indignation (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 26 June 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
the Ghia is a perfectly functional classic rock vehicle ... just needs to be painted red
― Brad C., Thursday, 26 June 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
Planning to give a serious ballot position to ''Rock and Roll, Hoochie-Koo'' (note punctuation!) - so fun to sing along to, jumping from the low to the high part and back, it's the Hunger Strike of the 70s. Also love Rick's kinda awkward but probably effective attempt to get the potheads in the audience to go ''yeahhhhh!!'' at a point in the song that doesn't really leave room for that.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
One of the entertaining things about this ballot period has been putting on CR Radio when I'm out doing errands. Today I heard Bad to The Bone in its near-entirety, a feat I haven't pulled off in 20 years or so. I have always hated this song, and today's audition didn't change my overall dislike but at least I could do 2 things: appreciate it for it's bar-band-done-good vibe and thorogood's decent tone throughout, and understand what specifically I never liked about the song- though George sings the lyrics with supreme confidence, he still comes off like he's full of shit. You're not bad to the bone, guy, like not at all. I mean he pledges fidelity to the object of his affection for god's sake.
On the other hand I've always had a soft spot for 'I Drink Alone', I don't know why.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
I know it makes me a traitor to my geographic origins but man do I hate George Thorogood.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
haha i was just about to say spending several formative years in Delaware has ensured that there will be a few Thorogood tracks on my ballot
― some dude, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
best thing about "bad to the bone" is bo diddley in the video.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
Re: '85 and '86 - I don't think cutting these would cut much that I consider "core" classic rock - with the massive exception of Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits being the last band (and the first CD?) that Dads everywhere added to their collection, unless they were Graceland types.
Dire Straits aside, I think these are the years whose introduction at some point really started to test the format. In 2014, "classic rock" would be completely adrift without Slippery When Wet, Appetite For Destruction, and The Joshua Tree. But there are very, very few songs by "core" classic rock acts that came out in '85 or later and actually stayed in play - maybe "Amanda"? I would miss "Keep Your Hands To Yourself," but only because, as discussed, I thought it was older and it does sound at home in the format. And, okay, I would be sorta sad not to be able to throw "Centerfield" into my "worst" ballot - god, that's bad. Everything else past this date is either not really all that classic in sound (the records I just mentioned), or something that the format by rights should have absorbed into the long-term rotation, but didn't ("Mixed Emotions" etc. etc.).
Unrelated suggestion - do CR stations play Tom Petty - Listen To Her Heart? I learned it from the greatest hits but other people seem to know it. Perhaps they also know the greatest hits! It seems to come packaged with most CD-based jukeboxes in my experience.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
Without 1986, all those Genesis singles from Invisible Touch would be gone.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
haha true. it was just a thought but i've moved on.
― some dude, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
Defend the Indefensible: "Bad to the Bone" This thread was my introduction to "defend the indefensible." I would later attempt the song at karaoke on Blount's birthday. He withdrew his defense.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
(xxp) "listen to her heart" gets occasional classic rock play here in LA, but they go pretty deep on petty and that one is more of an outlier. but in general, petty's greatest hits is kind of a slightly more modern eagles greatest, impact-wise. i take it for granted everyone in america knows all those songs.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
eagles greatest hits, that is.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
Another thing the breakout data from this poll might settle: what is, once and for all, the best ubiquitous classic-rock greatest hits album? (Correct answer: Steve Miller Band.)
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
could be a good side poll actually.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
Better: polling jukebox perennials.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
Not sure how I missed it all these years, but the main riff in "Roundabout" by Yes is just ripped from "Love Machine".
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
Or wait, I guess "Roundabout" came first.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
Just heard on 107.7 THE BONE:Steve Miller - Take the MoneyGreen Day - When I Come AroundBad Company - Bad CompanyGuns 'N Roses - Live and Let Die
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
never even really dug "take the money" personally but that is some easy shit for everyone to sing along to in a car and damn if I won't be voting for hella steve miller in this polI
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
one too many claps for me to effectively clap along
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
That reminds me, this might be a good thread to ask a song ID question. Back in the mid 70s there was another song that had "take the money and run" in the lyrics, and it wasn't the Steve Miller song. Kind of slick El Lay rock iirc, verse structure went something like
Take the money and runsomething something something somethingTake the money and runsomething something something something
Does this ring any bells with anyone?
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
Steve Miller's just a non-playing motherfucker with one or two sorry-ass albums out.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTMqrAnn-N8
?xp
― how's life, Friday, 27 June 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
Mmmm, nope, not it.
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:30 (nine years ago) link
Aha, it's David Crosby/Graham Nash! From Wind on the Water, 1975. Spotify, what would I do without you.
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
That Crosby/Nash was inspired by the CSNY Doom Tour of '74!
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, June 26, 2014
as far as classic rock radio's concerned he only has one, and it's sold more copies than Purple Rain and slightly fewer than Bat Out of Hell...
http://www.stevemillerband.com/images/GreatestHits7478-400.jpg
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
that's what made it fun!
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 June 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
i'm ok with the joker & take the money but jungle love & rockin me & fly like a stupid feed the childen eagle can FUCK RIGHT OFF
i went from phoenix arizona all the way to tacoma philadelphia atlanta LA ... you and huey lewis and your stupid catalog of rhyming cities BLAH in wrestling they call that a cheap pop you corny fucks ughhhhhhhh i hate it so much
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 June 2014 01:32 (nine years ago) link
"Fly Like An Eagle" is pretty breathtaking from a production standpoint, can take or leave most of the rest of his stuff
― some dude, Friday, 27 June 2014 01:51 (nine years ago) link
fly like an eagle rules forever
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 27 June 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
The words "steve miller" make my hackles rise but "breathtaking from a production standpoint" is otm for that song.
Gotta figure out what my hackles are someday.
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Friday, 27 June 2014 01:57 (nine years ago) link
Lol, that's the second time someone's accused Yes of ripping off or writing a lesser version of something that came later than their song.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:00 (nine years ago) link
Fly Like An Eagle and Wild Mountain Honey are the only ones I can really enjoy hearing at this point
a lot of the rest of this stuff (including the other mentioned Miller songs)... ugh, yeah, it has this awful earworm effect due to familiarity, one time I was in a laundromat and "Rosanna" came on and it was like living in hell for a week, it never left my head afterwards. I can hear it now, as I type this, it haunts me. Things like "Maggie May", or the works of Tom Petty, on the other hand, feel lie old friends that don't overstep their boundaries. And they don't get stuck in my head - maybe a relationship?
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:03 (nine years ago) link
feel like old friends
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:04 (nine years ago) link
i would like fly like an eagle 100% more if it was instrumental
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:05 (nine years ago) link
what if the eagle had the face of Glenn Frey
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:13 (nine years ago) link
the lyric "I don't want to get caught up in any of that funky shit going down in the city" annoys me
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:15 (nine years ago) link
his lyrics rival duran duran for sheer stupidity
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
great, now I have "Jetliner" stuck in my head, better go listen to Merzbow
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link
When I was a kid, I thought "shoe the children, no shoes on their feet" was THE FUNNIEST SONG LYRIC EVER. I would just ROFLMAO every time I heard it. Shoe the children! Hilarious! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Then high school happened and good christ did everybody want to listen to this stupid stupid greatest hits record and now I more or less can't stomach any of those songs.
― carl agatha, Friday, 27 June 2014 02:45 (nine years ago) link
yep
abracadabra was my favorite song when i was 6
now "black panties with an angel face" make me dry heave :(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:47 (nine years ago) link
This oddity was a huge AOR hit in '86 but went nowhere pop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1iFTE-u7Gg&feature=kp
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:53 (nine years ago) link
Let's not forget "Bongo Bongo". Steve Miller is to some extent a dude who buys toys and then makes records with them.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 June 2014 03:03 (nine years ago) link
ughhhhhh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 June 2014 03:05 (nine years ago) link
best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz5grDqllnQ
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 27 June 2014 03:57 (nine years ago) link
Haha, I totally remember that Steve Miller song Al posted. The local AOR station played it for about a week and then decided enough of that shit.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 27 June 2014 03:59 (nine years ago) link
"Abracadabra" is a song I wish wasn't so gross, because otherwise it would be totally in my comfort zone.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 June 2014 04:13 (nine years ago) link
yeah I will defend Macho City as well
Merzbow didn't work so I turned to Chumbawamba to get Jetliner out of my head, very effective
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 04:14 (nine years ago) link
hey now "jet airliner" got paul pena paid!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjr5U7g6aiA
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 04:28 (nine years ago) link
now say "jungle love" and all i can hear is OEEYOEEYO
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 04:30 (nine years ago) link
Jesus, "Macho City" makes me yearn for "Fly Like an Eagle", a song I loathe with every fibre of my being.
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Friday, 27 June 2014 05:04 (nine years ago) link
"Serenade" is trippy as hell
― brimstead, Friday, 27 June 2014 05:55 (nine years ago) link
Wait.. I mean the song with all the synths and drum machines
― brimstead, Friday, 27 June 2014 05:56 (nine years ago) link
"Wild Mountain Honey"
― brimstead, Friday, 27 June 2014 05:59 (nine years ago) link
Wild Mountain Honey is prob the best thing Steve Miller ever did
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 27 June 2014 06:30 (nine years ago) link
I've spent the last couple of days trying to figure out if that was the lyric and eventually concluded "no it ... can't be"
The last two minutes are kind of slightly atonal and weird though - I assume they never, ever get played on Classic Rock Radio?
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 27 June 2014 06:57 (nine years ago) link
It gets played, albeit not as much as the earlier hits, even though it was a bigger hit (#1 Pop in the US).
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 27 June 2014 07:53 (nine years ago) link
Europe - The Final Countdown
― Siegbran, Friday, 27 June 2014 08:14 (nine years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-aqc14tIy6E/SbCUiDAEdTI/AAAAAAAAABg/oHwqqbKLi3Y/s320/gob+bluth.jpg
― carl agatha, Friday, 27 June 2014 11:25 (nine years ago) link
Revelation: there's an outline of a woman's body in that horse's head!
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 27 June 2014 11:35 (nine years ago) link
''Take the Money and Run'' and ''Fly Like an Eagle'' have both always fallen a little flat with me, studio slickness and ''ah-OOOOOO lawd!'' aside. But man... ''Jet Airliner,'' ''Jungle Love'' and ''Swingtown,'' that's what I want my mid-to-late-period classic rock to sound like, all top 30 in my ballot for sure.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 27 June 2014 11:39 (nine years ago) link
I don't see a woman's body in that horse, but there's maybe a couple different ways I could see a penis, I guess.
― how's life, Friday, 27 June 2014 11:47 (nine years ago) link
She's looking behind her, like if she was laying down, right? Or maybe I'm just seeing shit too
― Dreamland, Friday, 27 June 2014 12:15 (nine years ago) link
Has "Stone Cold" by Rainbow been nominated yet?
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 27 June 2014 12:16 (nine years ago) link
Also: there should be a subpoll for band logos.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 27 June 2014 12:17 (nine years ago) link
― how's life, Friday, 27 June 2014 12:20 (nine years ago) link
feel like with enough campaigning (skip the first three mins) i could have gotten macho city to place in the disco poll
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 27 June 2014 12:32 (nine years ago) link
steve miller was music for people who didn't like music when i was in high schooltons of people would go see him and get wasted and it seemed like that was all they cared about. jimmy buffett people. some of them were nice people but they had corny taste.
the former (steve miller earworms) -- the worst of these for me is "wheel in the sky" just typing it makes me tense up bc i know it's here to stay for at least a few min. the latter (old friends) -- otm, my favorites of these songs really do feel like friends i've had my whole life (lol lonely only) they have kept me company in so many different and varied places!
― La Lechera, Friday, 27 June 2014 13:38 (nine years ago) link
I had forgotten about that aspect of Steve Miller, but you're right! There was totally a mid-90s Jimmy Buffett-esque vibe to it. White hats.
― how's life, Friday, 27 June 2014 13:43 (nine years ago) link
My hippie friend just went to see Steve Miller Band like a week ago and was raving about the giant LED unicorns that turned on at the beginning of "Fly Like an Eagle" just as the sun was setting.
― cwkiii, Friday, 27 June 2014 13:49 (nine years ago) link
everyone pls vote for BOC - GODZILLA
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 27 June 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
v v important
Will do. "Burnin' For You" is going to be very high on my ballot, too.
― cwkiii, Friday, 27 June 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, June 27, 2014
amazingly, no. i second this nomination!
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link
I love Burnin, Godzilla, and the Reaper -- will vote, no campaigning needed
Which Tom Petty songs will rise to the top? The Waiting + Refugee + Break Down are my all time favorites. I think? I think I'm going to vote for the songs I most like to sing or to turn it up, man.
― La Lechera, Friday, 27 June 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
is breakdown one word or twoanyway -- i love the way he says "don't" in that song
yeah Tom Petty is an interesting one where i wanna see what songs win out. i feel like "American Girl" has primacy but there's like 5-10 songs that are all major players.
― some dude, Friday, 27 June 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
Whoa, just took a closer look at the list. I nominate:
Led Zeppelin - In The EveningLed Zeppelin - Nobody's Fault But Mine
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
I've never heard "Even the Losers" on CR but damn that is an exhilarating song. Basically I love Tom Petty though, fuiud
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 June 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
yooo bedda wadda wadda yooo say
best pic of tom pettyhttps://www.byebuys.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/799367-1200x1197.jpg
― La Lechera, Friday, 27 June 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
sorry so large
no way, shd be LARGER <3
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 June 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
he could've been in Children of the Corn if he'd been born later
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 June 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
cosign the 1st 2, not sure about the 3rd
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
petty photo missing long earring. I love that time in the 80s when every old rocker (petty, dylan, keef) wore single dangly obelisk earrings.
― brimstead, Friday, 27 June 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
early photo, no earring, but WHOA what a hunk:http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_iRCC46ILdk/TwXelMqMnJI/AAAAAAAADeg/5vFoCynDnX4/s1600/Tom%252BPetty.jpg
― brimstead, Friday, 27 June 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
looks like a still from "dazed and confused."
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 June 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
stoned, immaculate
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
fun fact, Tom Petty was considered to be in the "punk" category early on:
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Whitmans-Punk-Sampler/master/478953
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
well he was no more punk, and was considered no more punk, than talking heads, who also seem to be on that sampler. but he was absolutely marketed, and received, as a left-of-the-dial underground taste when he started out, his (minor) pop hits notwithstanding.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 June 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
...hence the quote marks
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
yeah it's pretty easy to imagine a world where Petty didn't keep the hits coming or get any bigger than "American Girl" and got considered some kind of new wave/power pop guy instead of a classic rock staple
― some dude, Friday, 27 June 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
I love Tom Petty, even though he's one of the worst and most notorious "disco sucks" rock dudes afaik
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, June 27, 2014
haha i hesitated on that but then i was like fuck it this rules let the hivemind sort it out
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
yeah there's a lightness, a sprightliness to his early stuff that probably fit more with stuff like elvis costello or the pretenders. All three are considered "classic rock"-ish now but I imagine they sounded very separate from that thing at the time?
― brimstead, Friday, 27 June 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
the funniest thing abt Tom Petty for me is that his most overtly "I am all about roots y'all" album sported his only glorious stab at synthpop as its lead single.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
yeah in those days he was absolutely peers with the likes of elvis c and the pretenders. and as far as the rest of the world was concerned, all of them were way closer to the ramones than to, say, the eagles or fleetwood mac.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 June 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
yup. seems crazy in retrospect because dude fukn took the castle \m/
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
yeah in those days he was absolutely peers with the likes of elvis c and the pretenders.
He shared the bill with Elvis Costello once or twice in 1977.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
all of them were way closer to the ramones than to, say, the eagles or fleetwood mac.
Did the Ramones see it this way?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Friday, June 27, 2014 3:33 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The confederate flag backdrop on that tour was decidedly less-than-glorious, though.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
yeah I was basically a 14 y.o. who really liked synths and exotic sounds and fantastical music videos and bought Southern Accents on the strength of DCAHNM and was like dang.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 June 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
well, rock fans, i've been working all day at getting the nominations list finalized before the family and i pack up for a weekend at the beach. but there are just SO MANY new noms in this thread to sift through that it's taking longer than i anticipated. so, with apologies, i'm gonna have to put off launching the voting thread til Monday. feel free to throw a few more on the pile over the weekend. keep on rockin'!
― some dude, Friday, 27 June 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
baby baby baby
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
Have fun at the beach!
― carl agatha, Friday, 27 June 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
don't know about u guys but i have lots of chooglin' scheduled for my weekend
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 27 June 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
I have a suspicion Don't Fear the Reaper could actually take this, or at least go top ten. ILX hearts BOC, right?
Will be voting up some Petty but not American Girl - love the rhythm and the 'feel' but could never get past the lame emptiness of the title/refrain, like, wait, that's like, fifty states worth of girls. What is this supposed to connote? What associations or heartstrings exactly is this supposed to tug on? Clearly it worked, hitwise, but just seems like a missed opportunity.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 27 June 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
Foghat's my dark horse pick to win this thing.
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Friday, 27 June 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
F all y'all's I, 107.7 THE BONE is currently playing "synchronicity ii" by The Police.
Suck it, doubters. Classic, QED. Followed by Ozzy, "no more tears" \m/
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
Earlier today I heard Eminence Front- kind of a quintessential Classic Rock Radio track- for years I had heard it and had no idea it was the Who. It's an uncharacteristic tune by a classic band, so I suspect it may have had that effect on alot of people. Maybe it always sounds so good because it's not on any of the Who records I have, so I only ever hear it when it pops up on CRR. For all I know they play it all the time. In any event it'll get a big vote from me.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 27 June 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
yeah that's a classic CR track for sure
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
The weird thing is, "Eminence Front" didn't even make the top 40 in the US -- "Athena" was a much bigger hit (#28), and was all over AOR (and top 40) radio in 1982. Sensibly, cr radio in retrospect realized "Eminence Front" was the far better song.
Daltrey supposedly said it was the only song on It's Hard worthy of release. It's also one of two post-Moon songs the Who still play live.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 28 June 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link
they play emminence front live? What does roger do, check his email?
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 28 June 2014 00:21 (nine years ago) link
well what do you know, thanks youtube
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 28 June 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link
eminence front was the leadoff track on some balearic/loft style mix cd by some tokyo dj that i listened to on repeat circa 06/07. i think this was what it mixed in to.
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Saturday, 28 June 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
and my dark horses are mississippi queen and hair of the dog
He plays guitar!http://youtu.be/XU87294pVx8
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 28 June 2014 00:40 (nine years ago) link
I'll definitely give Miss. Queen some help.
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Saturday, 28 June 2014 00:40 (nine years ago) link
***
― polyamanita (sleeve), Saturday, 28 June 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
hadn't thought to look up "Classic Rock" on wiki, some interesting history of the format here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_rock
― polyamanita (sleeve), Saturday, 28 June 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link
Hoping Funk No. 49 makes the top 10
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 June 2014 01:43 (nine years ago) link
What you tryin' to haaayyynd meehh!?
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 28 June 2014 01:44 (nine years ago) link
Without ever having really thought about it, I guess I kinda assumed that Classic Rock as a format was something that grew out of the success of The Big Chill soundtrack. There were precedents, of course (American Graffiti), but wasn't that really the first time that anyone realized that there was a real market in catering to boomer nostalgia?
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Saturday, 28 June 2014 01:45 (nine years ago) link
that was definitely a watershed - all the kids in my senior high school class were singing along to the Temptations - but as the Wiki link notes the real push came in '82 from Lee Abrams
― polyamanita (sleeve), Saturday, 28 June 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
btw I just rocked out and played air guitar to "Come Sail Away"
― polyamanita (sleeve), Saturday, 28 June 2014 01:51 (nine years ago) link
mandatory imo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 June 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
Mississippi Queen is peculiar in that it's one of the most iconic riffs in all of classic rock, but its 2:30 length is basically a sneeze compared to the excess inherent in the format.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 28 June 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
Mississippi Sneeeeeze
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 June 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
mississippi queen is gonna/had better be way up there
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 June 2014 02:06 (nine years ago) link
never got it tbh
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 28 June 2014 02:18 (nine years ago) link
smdh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 June 2014 02:19 (nine years ago) link
http://beyondthebarbell.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/haters-gonna-hate-panda-300x225.jpg
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 28 June 2014 02:26 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 June 2014 02:27 (nine years ago) link
that said, the YouTube recommendation mosaic that pops up when "mississippi queen" ends is 100% OTM and lol
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/841/9i1a.png
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 28 June 2014 02:30 (nine years ago) link
big chill soundtrack is more oldies imo but it was my first exposure to legit pop music, dancing in the streets vividly the first song I can recall hearing in my head when it wasn't playing (my parents didn't play much pop/rock when i was growing up)
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Saturday, 28 June 2014 02:43 (nine years ago) link
Come Sail Away also has to be a huuuuge odds-on favorite here, I'm imagining it in a lot of people's top tiers and almost everybody's ballots somewhere. Plus it's itching for the rematch after "Come Sail Away" vs. "More than a Feeling" vs. "Don't Stop Believing" - it's tough, it's hungry, it's ready.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 28 June 2014 02:47 (nine years ago) link
on that "I Know Where You're Going..." song by James Gang, Joe Walsh totally effs up the guitar rhythm at one part. what's that song really called, btw?
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, July 30, 2004 12:05 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^ have never been able to shake this post re "Funk #49." I have no idea if the mistake is there or what kind of thing "ken taylrr" is even talking about but even as a fantasy it's always kinda deflated the song for me, like it's this sort of "ta-da, guitar song for our axe-man" song and he's just screwing up the tempo everywhere. Nonetheless I love the vocals and the main riff to death. James and/or the Gang should have sued Loggins over "Footloose."
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 28 June 2014 02:53 (nine years ago) link
my post-sopranos disdain for "don't stop believin'" is firm but damn if it shouldn't be top 10 here
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Saturday, 28 June 2014 02:55 (nine years ago) link
funk #49 is a masterpiece warts and all
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Saturday, 28 June 2014 02:56 (nine years ago) link
mississippi queen has a fucking monster riff and doesn't wear it out. launching point for böc, and not just for the cow bell
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 June 2014 03:01 (nine years ago) link
funk no.49 is why we dearly beloved are gathered here today in this church of classic rock music
BEEEWWWWB-BEWWWWW-BEWWWWWW BEWWWW-BEWWWWW-BEWWWWWW BEEDLEOoooooooSKWROWWWWWNKSKWROWWWWWWNK-SKWROWWWNK
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 June 2014 03:04 (nine years ago) link
I stan for a few Styx classics, but Come Sail Away is not one of them.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 28 June 2014 03:08 (nine years ago) link
cmon johnny fever, loosen up
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 June 2014 03:12 (nine years ago) link
I'd set my computer on fire before I'd vote for Styx.
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Saturday, 28 June 2014 03:15 (nine years ago) link
you babies
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 June 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
i will be voting for "Renegade" in this poll.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 28 June 2014 03:20 (nine years ago) link
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Friday, June 27, 2014
you're fooling yourself
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 28 June 2014 03:20 (nine years ago) link
Thing is, I'm old enough to have gotten drenched in that stuff daily on its first go-round. Bostonkansasforeignerstyxtriumphtotojourney was way overplayed around here. There's a lot of 70s rock that I look back at with fondness, but not Bostonkansasforeignerstyxtriumphtotojourney.
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Saturday, 28 June 2014 04:06 (nine years ago) link
boston fking rules
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 June 2014 04:50 (nine years ago) link
― mookieproof, Friday, June 27, 2014 11:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Agree. That song is of nuclear strength for its time. Mountain had other killer songs but this is the only one with CR legacy.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Saturday, 28 June 2014 05:18 (nine years ago) link
Thing is, I'm old enough to have gotten drenched in that stuff daily on its first go-round. Bostonkansasforeignerstyxtriumphtotojourney was way overplayed around here. There's a lot of 70s rock that I look back at with fondness, but not Bostonkansasforeignerstyxtriumphtotojourney.― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Friday, June 27, 2014 9:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Friday, June 27, 2014 9:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This old man says, amen, brother.
― that's not my post, Saturday, 28 June 2014 05:56 (nine years ago) link
Key thread: sail away
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 28 June 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link
"This sounds like Foghat" is my wife's response to any loud rock that she doesn't like
― Brad C., Saturday, 28 June 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
my top 2 songs are the exact same length apparently.
― guwop (crüt), Saturday, 28 June 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
A late nom, assuming it's not too AM Gold:
Starbuck - Moonlight Feels Right (Don't Fear the Marimba)
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Saturday, 28 June 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zILs4TaYFqs
"i got a little bone to pick with the (mtv) programming department. now i like rap music as much as the next frightened caucasian, but would it kill you every once in a while to play a little foghat? know what i mean?"
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 28 June 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
SF's KFOX, which caters to the lighter side of the Classic Rock spectrum, had Janis Joplin on and it occurred to me that I used to hear her a bunch on CR radio but seems to have been excised to the oldies realm or ignored completely these days.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 28 June 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
I meant exiled, not excised.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 28 June 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
Janis' CR catalog is pretty slim: a couple Big Brother songs, "Bobby McGee" & "Move Over", maybe "Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)".
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 28 June 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
No doubt, it just seems to have receded in favor of more recent classics. Whoever mentioned the Chambers Bros upthread, same thing. I remember hearing that song on CR radio quite a bit years ago. I guess the late 60s hippie stuff just sounded too oldies. Anyway, the playlist can't get too big, that way lies anarchy.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 28 June 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
That Foghat joke is Jim Carrey's finest moment.
― intheblanks, Saturday, 28 June 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
god, even in that clip, hearing the intro to slow ride come in gets me so fuckin pumped
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Saturday, 28 June 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
Slow Ride is so fuckin awesome.
I think the nom list could survive the aforementioned handful of Janis solo tracks. I agree they've become more 'oldies' and/or disappeared, but I'm sure I used to hear 'em.
Maybe: John Cougar Mellencamp - Crumblin' Down?
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 28 June 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
was the cars' "moving in stereo" ever nominated? if not, i'm nominating it now.
by my count, that's one of seven songs off the cars' debut that get legit classic rock play. i think boston's debut album had seven, too. how many other albums have contributed that many songs to the cr literature?
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 28 June 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
in other news, my local cr station just played kings of leon. i am not feeling good about this.
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 28 June 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, if pressed I make Boston s/t the urplatter of CR
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 28 June 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
xpost I was just wondering what stuff from the past few years would eventually make it to CR radio, and thought "oh yeah, probably 'Use Somebody'"
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Saturday, 28 June 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
for what it's worth, the one i just heard was "sex on fire."
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 28 June 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
how many other albums have contributed that many songs to the cr literature?
Doesn't just about anything from Zeppelin IV, Dark Side of the Moon, and Moving Pictures get CR airplay? Probably a lot of Who's Next?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 28 June 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
I have heard every song on Dark Side of the Moon on 102.3, the Long Island classic rock station, including Speak to Me and On the Run.
― voodoo chili, Saturday, 28 June 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
the only song on Moving Pictures I can say for sure that I've heard on classic rock radio is "Tom Sawyer"
― Euler, Saturday, 28 June 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
Mentioned, but not actually nominated iirc:
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
also possiblyStevie Wonder - You Haven't Done NothingStevie Wonder - Living for the City
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Saturday, 28 June 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
Not even "Limelight", Euler? The stations in upstate NY def. played everything on the first side.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 28 June 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
red barchetta gets played late at night
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 June 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
Damn The Torpedoes?
― polyamanita (sleeve), Saturday, 28 June 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
Only Who's Next songs I've heard on cr radio are "Baba O'Riley," "Bargain," "Behind Blue Eyes," and "Won't Get Fooled Again."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 28 June 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
I don't think I heard "Limelight" in Atlanta. it's a bit hard to recall: I bought Chronicles around 1990 but those all seemed like deep cuts to me, except for "Tom Sawyer"
― Euler, Saturday, 28 June 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
For anyone interested, here's a 10 hour Spotify playlist I made of rock singles from 1975. Obviously not all are CR staples but I was kind of going for what a cool FM station might have been playing at the time.
spotify:user:presidentkeyes:playlist:51a76z4snkZRCd5Nk1YzR8
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Sunday, 29 June 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
ugh
<iframe src="https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:user:presidentkeyes:playlist:51a76z4snkZRCd5Nk1YzR8"; width="300" height="380" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true"></iframe>
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Sunday, 29 June 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
maybe this will work
http://open.spotify.com/user/presidentkeyes/playlist/51a76z4snkZRCd5Nk1YzR8
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Sunday, 29 June 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
I've never heard any Stevie Wonder on CR Radio, and would be surprised if I ever did. (xposts)
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 29 June 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
Superstition was in regular rotation on my childhood CR station. I was actually surprised to find out a when I was 14 that it was a Stevie Wonder song.
― intheblanks, Sunday, 29 June 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
Local bay area classic rock station (kfox?) had a tv ad in the early 90s that featured the beginning of "superstition" alongside "slow train coming" and other CR standards.
― brimstead, Sunday, 29 June 2014 01:12 (nine years ago) link
lol i mean "long train coming" or w/e it's called by the doobies
― brimstead, Sunday, 29 June 2014 01:13 (nine years ago) link
That Foghat joke is Jim Carrey's finest moment.― intheblanks, Saturday, June 28, 2014
― intheblanks, Saturday, June 28, 2014
i said this, almost verbatim, to my wife when we watched the clip today. well, almost verbatim if you replace "finest" with "only funny."
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 29 June 2014 02:14 (nine years ago) link
Sat outside all afternoon by my pool listening to my local CR station, Atlanta's 97.1 The River with this thread in mind. Four observations. First, this station sucks. Second, if the River is anywhere representative of classic Rick radio in general, then the format sucks. Third, thank god I have Sirius in my car to listen to Classic Vynil. Fourth, a CR station made up by the contributors to this thread would be awesome.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Sunday, 29 June 2014 04:14 (nine years ago) link
Bottom line: count on hearing Comfortably Numb at least four times a day listening to the River. And if they want to get mellow, here comes guns and roses Patience. Terrible.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Sunday, 29 June 2014 04:16 (nine years ago) link
I can deal with Comfortably Numb (though 4 times in one day is pushing it). Patience? Hell naw.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 June 2014 04:17 (nine years ago) link
First, this station sucks. Second, if the River is anywhere representative of classic Rick radio in general, then the format sucks.
I've listened to more CR Radio this week than I have in years, and notice that they tend to play the same songs at almost the same time each day.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 29 June 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
i can confirm this because i heard "caught up in you" every tues and thurs at the same time when i drove home from work
― La Lechera, Sunday, 29 June 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
Agreed with Bill Magill's suggestion that a CR station run by this thread's participants would be much more satisfying.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 29 June 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
I'm baffled as to why stations play the same songs at the same time every day. I mean, wouldn't the audience bail? Or is that how stations hold onto the audience?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 29 June 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
When you're putting in eight hours on a lathe, it helps tell time. Or the daily playlist just gets Xeroxed and posted.
― heavy on their trademark ballads (Eazy), Sunday, 29 June 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
These things are pre-programmed kind of like mp3 playlists with very little tinkering by local deejays. I knew a guy who worked for a Clear Channel station and his main job was taking the playlists they were sent, and all he did was drop local ads into the breaks and select one or two "deejay's choice" songs into each hour of programming. The person in the booth, if there's even still a person in the booth, isn't queueing up songs like in the olden days. They just hit play on a computer program and go pour some coffee.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 June 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
and select one or two "deejay's choice" songs
That would explain my local station playing Lou Reed's "New Sensations" and a Richard Thompson song I didn't recognize in the middle of an otherwise FoghatJourneyKansas hour.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 29 June 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
I don't know whether I should feel happy for the DJs that still have a job in their field or feel bad for them for what their job has become
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 29 June 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
That's interesting. Kind of suggests the whole CR format has been honed/focus grouped to scientific perfection. In which case us arguing over noms seems somewhat otiose.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 29 June 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
CR programmers probably have the same data that Ebro talks about (only 5% of listeners change the station when this Chris Brown song plays while 25% change it on this other song, etc.) Since they have no new stuff to add to playlists, they can test every song to even the time of day it should be played.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Sunday, 29 June 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
feel like there should be a sub-poll for songs with sax solos
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 June 2014 01:31 (nine years ago) link
My #1 has one of the greatest sax solos ever.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 June 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link
bless your heart
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 June 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link
Hm, I'm guessing something by Springsteen.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 30 June 2014 01:37 (nine years ago) link
so much sax in my ballot
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 June 2014 01:38 (nine years ago) link
Is "Baker Street" eligible? Doesn't seem foghatjourneykansas enough, but I remember hearing it on my dads car radio in the actual 70s
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Monday, 30 June 2014 02:59 (nine years ago) link
I guess there's no reason to be coy about #1s in this poll. People are gonna vote for what they're gonna for.
Mine is "Urgent" by Foreigner. I didn't know until last year that Junior Walker played the sax on that, but once I found out it seemed so obvious.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 June 2014 03:38 (nine years ago) link
Urgent is a jam! I approve of this.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 June 2014 03:45 (nine years ago) link
urgent isn't even the best foreigner song I HATE U JF
yeah baker st. totally
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 June 2014 03:50 (nine years ago) link
Even before some dude got this poll rolling a couple weeks ago, I'd been on a Foreigner listening kick for about a month. Most mornings on the way to work and evenings on the way home—all Foreigner. Given that much time to compare and contrast all their singles, Urgent comes out on top imo.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 June 2014 03:53 (nine years ago) link
^^^doesn't know what love is, doesn't want to be shown
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 June 2014 03:58 (nine years ago) link
yeah i think the only Foreigner that I actively dislike is Dirty White Boy
Waiting for a Girl Like You is my fave because I am made of cheese(also Thomas Dolby with those sweet keys)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 June 2014 04:05 (nine years ago) link
tbh "I Want to Know What Love Is" is my co-favorite, but it seems out of place in considerations for this poll? I dunno.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 June 2014 04:06 (nine years ago) link
otm, that song blows.
not even Lou can save that one
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 June 2014 04:15 (nine years ago) link
my favorite Foreigner-related song is "Midnight Blue", which is ineligible for coming out in 87. & I don't think it's been a classic rock mainstay.
but
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/7cRdgIZgobs/hqdefault.jpg
― Euler, Monday, 30 June 2014 09:53 (nine years ago) link
Midnight Blue rupes
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 30 June 2014 13:07 (nine years ago) link
Lol rules
I had an episode of double vision last week and in addition to being freaked out about it I also constantly have the chorus of "Double Vision" playing in my head
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Monday, 30 June 2014 13:10 (nine years ago) link
Queen - One Vision
― how's life, Monday, 30 June 2014 13:26 (nine years ago) link
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 June 2014 13:42 (nine years ago) link
h8 Foreigner more than almost any of these bands :(
― polyamanita (sleeve), Monday, 30 June 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
― how's life, Monday, June 30, 2014 9:26 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
is this a classic rock staple outside the US? here nothing post-Hot Space gets a drop of airplay.
― some dude, Monday, 30 June 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
It got airplay (and MTV rotation!) when it was new; haven't heard it on the radio since.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 30 June 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
I've heard on a classic rock station in San Diego.
― how's life, Monday, 30 June 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
But whatever. Hundreds of other songs to vote for. Just reminded of it because of "Double Vision". lol.
One Vision, from the Iron Eagle soundtrack if I'm not mistaken
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 30 June 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, that's the first place I heard it.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 June 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
yep. me too.
― how's life, Monday, 30 June 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
I think I saw Iron Eagle as a double feature with Back to the Future. The power of memory is a curious thing
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 30 June 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
I don't remember that Queen song, but I remember well the song "Iron Eagle" from that soundtrack. WTF
― Euler, Monday, 30 June 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
Never say die! Iron EagleNever look back, never say die.
― how's life, Monday, 30 June 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
http://youtu.be/0ZwsCIfo9n8
I might find the devil, you never can tell!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 June 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
I don't even remember anything about Iron Eagle, but I did spin the hell out of that soundtrack.
― how's life, Monday, 30 June 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
maybe it got played a bunch in the movie, or over the credits? neither a classic nor a classic rock staple
xp there it is
― Euler, Monday, 30 June 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
that may be the most 1986 song of all time
I think you're right.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 June 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
i love one vision!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 June 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
Today WLUP played Highway to Hell, then two commercials that must be aimed at their core demographic:
* ad for this place http://numalemedical.com where an older man talked about the unanticipated complications that arose from his reduced performance and general ED and how this center helped him fix them* ad for McD's coffee in which a confident man declares that it gives him maximum potency and helped him fix the copier, after which he basked in the praise of his colleagues
:-/
― La Lechera, Monday, 30 June 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
I am stuck at the Framingham Classic Rock laundromat again.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Monday, 30 June 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
do tellforgot there was also an ad for some home network show guy who was having a free seminar to teach ppl how to flip homes. they used the phrase "flip homes" like 50x and claimed that this was a hot ticket, so call soon for your free tickets to this informative seminar that will make you money/help you advance in the world.
― La Lechera, Monday, 30 June 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
ha ha On the "Old School" station I've been listening to they keep playing ads about Obamacare, "Cash for Clunkers is back!" and how to "get the government subsidies that you deserve!" It's like a Republican's nightmare.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 01:09 (nine years ago) link
well, boiling down this thread to the final list is coming along nicely, will be ready to kick off July with the voting thread tomorrow morning.
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 01:40 (nine years ago) link
Oh, THIS song is the Kings' "Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide"!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 01:55 (nine years ago) link
feel like there should be a sub-poll for songs with sax solos― mookieproof, Monday, 30 June 2014 01:31
Have mentioned before (on a sax thread) running a discrete poll on this subject. If there's interest, I'll add to the list (for running in 2018 or whatever).
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 09:36 (nine years ago) link
CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL voting thread -- deadline July 15
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 14:49 (nine years ago) link
ugh I really should have found some way to vote for "Smokin'"
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 24 July 2014 04:09 (nine years ago) link
wrong thread really but w/e
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 24 July 2014 04:10 (nine years ago) link
I'm curious as to what Boston hits make the poll, outside of "More Than a Feeling" which has to be a lock for somewhere in the top 100.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 24 July 2014 04:18 (nine years ago) link
I feel a little bad about not voting for any others. "Hitch a Ride" might actually be my favourite from that album, I thought while listening the other day.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 24 July 2014 04:41 (nine years ago) link
I voted for the album in the albums poll, though.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 24 July 2014 04:42 (nine years ago) link
voted for two from boston's debut, felt quite bad about not voting for at least two others. throwing two darts at the album and voting for whatever titles they hit would have been as satisfying, and maybe as useful, as choosing the two i chose.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 24 July 2014 05:17 (nine years ago) link
i'm hashing out the top 100, getting it ready to send to gr80 to do images. you crazy bastards voted for 918 different songs!
― not pop, shambhala, where to buy weed (some dude), Thursday, 24 July 2014 05:35 (nine years ago) link
Top 500
― Bee OK, Thursday, 24 July 2014 05:39 (nine years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 24 July 2014 05:44 (nine years ago) link
i will tabulate the list to the top 500 and post it at the end of the countdown. but i think a top 100 will be best because then a) every song will have the weight of a dozen votes or more and b) enough huge songs missed the top 100 completely that there will be some genuine suspense and surprises.
― not pop, shambhala, where to buy weed (some dude), Thursday, 24 July 2014 05:46 (nine years ago) link
500?! that's gotta be at least half the nomination list
― brimstead, Thursday, 24 July 2014 05:51 (nine years ago) link
A dozen to make the list! My number one isn't gonna make it I don't think :(
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Thursday, 24 July 2014 05:56 (nine years ago) link
Good turnout
you crazy bastards voted for 918 different songs!
how many bastards were crazy enough to vote?
― how's life, Thursday, 24 July 2014 12:14 (nine years ago) link
Sub polls soon?
― Jeff, Thursday, 24 July 2014 12:44 (nine years ago) link
yeah the final nominations list was 800!
― campreverb, Thursday, 24 July 2014 13:12 (nine years ago) link
CLASSIC ROCK POLL, EVERYBODY'S WAITINGGETTING READY, ANTICIPATINGLOVE AND MUSIC
― Sandy, Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
^
― how's life, Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
Sandy so otm
― intheblanks, Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
― Jeff, Thursday, July 24, 2014 8:44 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
we're not rolling out the main poll til monday, was gonna do subpolls over the weekend just because it seems like dragging out the thread for 3-4 days before the top 100 seems like too much. maybe if you guys want something for friday i can have it ready.
― not pop, shambhala, where to buy weed (some dude), Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
No rush, just curious.
― Jeff, Thursday, 24 July 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
I won't be on ilx this weekend. I'm not really invested about the best albums poll, but I do think a worst songs rollout might be more fun with more ilxors in the mix. No pressure though. Really just psyched for the big show.
― how's life, Thursday, 24 July 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
― Sandy, Thursday, July 24, 2014 10:42 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Poll, POLL, POOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL YEAH YEAH YEAH YAYUHHHHHH
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 24 July 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
interested to see what sd comes up with for the thread title
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Thursday, 24 July 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
would love to see worst too! sentence first!
― campreverb, Thursday, 24 July 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
tbh i've never been big on the poll puns (and will never top "I Just Wanna Poll U (Ballot 2 Me)" for the Jay-Z/Neptunes voting thread) so i have no idea if i'm even going to do one.
― not pop, shambhala, where to buy weed (some dude), Thursday, 24 July 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
Saturday night I was downtown, pollin' for the ILX
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Thursday, 24 July 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
(rolls up sleeves) imma give this one some thought, no ''POLLIN' A Feeling'' or ''POLLtunate Songs'' type shenanigans for this one
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 24 July 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
(Don't Fear) The Rollout
― Jeff W, Thursday, 24 July 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
When listening back to songs on my list, I found that "(Don't Fear) the Reaper" (my #10) actually gave me the most pleasure.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 24 July 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
^was my #1 in my failed ballot (I only made it to #32 and by then it was days too late)
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 24 July 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
The classical music nerd's classic rock anthem obv.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 24 July 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
Yeah lol I will compare my suppressed top 10 to yours when ppl show their hands afterward
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 24 July 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link