CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL parking lot tailgate pre-party -- nominations, discussions, parameters, etc.

Sniff 'n' the Tears - Driver's Seat

Traffic - Feelin' Alright
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fresh Air

Stevie Nicks - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around

Sugar Loaf - Green Eyed Lady

Intro/Sweet Jane (Rock 'n' Roll Animal Version)-Lou Reed

at the end of the poll everyone gets a wizard van and a stack of eight-tracks

That got radio play? xp

Heard that way more than "Walk on the Wild Side" back then.

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.

I heard that all the time.

Blood, Sweat & Tears-Lucretia Macevil

Traffic-Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
King Crimson-I Talk to the Wind
Moody Blues-I'm Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band)

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 Name
America - Ventura Highway
America - Lonely People
America - Tin Man
America - Daisy Jane
America - I Need You

Starship - We Built This City

Foreigner - I want to Know What Love Is

Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction

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.

MY SHARONA

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.

like MY SHARONA

2nd Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4
My local Classic Rock station plays "Your Song" by Elton John.

Cheap Trick - Surrender

That's on the original list.

Loggins & Messina-Your Mama Don't Dance
Arlo Guthrie-Alice's Restaurant
Dr. John-Right Place Wrong Time
Crosby, Still, Nash & Young-Teach Your Children
Joe Cocker/Mad Dogs & Englishmen-Cry Me a River

xpost

Ah, crap. Thought only "I Want You To Want Me" was on there. My apologies.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along The Watchtower
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Fire
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Foxey Lady
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Hey Joe
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze

It would be so awesome if we could get Voodoo Child (Slight Return) on here.

Free - Wishing Well

does soft rock or singer/songwriter stuff belong here? if so:

Joni Mitchell - Help Me
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
Carole King - It's Too Late
Bread - Make It With You
Firefall - You Are The Woman
Player - Baby Come Back
Chris Rea - Fool (If You Think It's Over)

seconding these suggestions:

Animals - House of the Rising Sun
ARGENT - HOLD YOUR HEAD UP
Asia - Heat of the Moment
Asia - Only Time Can Tell
Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home
Blue Oyster Cult – Godzilla
DONNIE IRIS - AH! LEAH
Faces - Stay With Me
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
Humble Pie - 30 Days in the Hole
Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida (don't vote for it, tho, jeez)
Joe Cocker - Feeling Alright
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky
Outlaws - green grass and high tides
Procol Harum - Whiter Shade Of Pale
Pure Prarie League - Amie
Robert Plant - Little by Little
Robert Plant - Big Log
Tubes - She's a Beauty
Who - Magic Bus

Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida (don't vote for it, tho, jeez)

this is totally gonna be #1 on my ballot fyi

would add:

AC/DC - Big Balls
Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
Chicago - Beginnings
Doors - The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
Foghat - Fool for the City
John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band - On the Dark Side
Kinks - Do It Again
Knack - My Sharona
Rod Stewart - (I Know) I'm Losing You
Ten Years After - I'd Love to Change the World
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Triumph - Lay It On the Line
Uriah Heep - Stealin'

xp lol my mom has it on vinyl wtf mom

lol you guys are totally going to double the size of my list, I love it

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Cowgirl In The Sand
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Down By The River
Van Morrison - Domino
Van Morrison - Wild Night
Van Morrison - And It Stoned Me
Van Morrison - Moondance
Van Morrison - Caravan
Van Morrison - Into The Mystic

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

lol me too

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?

because it's played on classic rock radio

Yeah, as much as I love "Baby Come Back", I'm out if Bread and Player are in.

(Not really but I don't think they fit in here.)

Americans nominating Triumph songs = heartwarming

good to see that michele michaels is still running the electric lunch on dve <3

miss u herschel

xp and red rider on the original list!

Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It Right
Boz Scaggs - Lowdown
Boz 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.

yeah, I have no idea what qualifies and what doesn't. will vote though cause the list is beautiful already

yes lido please we need some boz

Bowie suggestion: "Jean Genie" over either of the '80s hits

Donovan - Atlantis
Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
Dire Straits - Tunnel Of Love
Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet
Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
Eric Clapton - Let It Rain
U2 - Bad (Live)

Modern English -- "I Melt with You"
War -- "Spill the Wine"

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"

when voting everyone should designate the locations and call letters of the classic rock stations in their lives imo