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

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

is this the thread that will break ILX?

going to put some thought into this and come up with some later.

Rainbow -- Since You've Been Gone

― 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 Out
Marshall Crenshaw - Whenever You're on My Mind; Someday, Someway

Oh and 93.3 WMMR

(note: that is my ringtone)

<3 <3 <3

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

Amboy Dukes -- Journey to the Center of the Mind
Iggy Pop -- Lust for Life, The Passenger
Iggy & the Stooges -- Search and Destroy
Kiss -- Detroit Rock City
Paul Revere and the Raiders -- Indian Reservation
Them -- Gloria, Here Comes the Night, Mystic Eyes
Tommy James – Draggin’ the Line
Tommy James and the Shondells -- Mony Mony, Crimson and Clover, Crystal Blue Persuasion
The Troggs -- Wild Thing, I Can’t Control Myself
Yardbirds -- I’m a Man, Happenings Ten Years Ago

Mr Veg would like me to give a shout out to his classic rock station 98.5 KZAP

a proper station identification would be KZAP Sacramento

just make sure to mention it within six minutes of the top of the hour iirc

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

WKLS Atlanta, 96 Rock

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

Sub poll idea: can we do a top 10 tracks we never ever want to hear again?

Had the same thought when someone posted "Green Eyed Lady"

I second the idea of an "ENOUGH ALREADY!" side poll.

Otm re: green eyed lady

Don't think I saw any J.J. Cale above:
- After Midnight
- Cocaine
- Call Me the Breeze

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?

Hawkwind -- "The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke)"

green eyed lady blehhhh

definitely gonna be a 'worst' subpoll.

you guys are crazy, though, "Green-Eyed Lady" rules.

blehhhhhh

it sounds like Neil Diamond singing a weedy psych rock song, i love it

Predicting a strong showing for "Hey Jude" on the worst poll (hell, I'll be voting for it).

it's the bloopy organ that kills it for me

that and he sounds like a piano bar singer "heyyyyy there try the steak"

David Bowie - White Light/White Heat

Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire

Ike & Tina Turner - Nutbush City Limits
Canned Heat - Let's Work Together
Redbone - The Witch Queen Of New Orleans
Montrose - Rock the Nation
Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive
Dwight Twilley Band - I'm on Fire
The Romantics - Talking in Your Sleep
The Outfield - All the Love in the World
The B-52's - Private Idaho
Status Quo - Down Down
Status Quo - Rockin' All Over the World

Man, I had no idea that there were CR stations out there playing the Stooges, Eno, and Bowie covers of VU songs

WXRX 104.9 Rockford, IL certainly never touched these tracks

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.

Yeah, where exactly are these classic rock stations with impossibly deep playlists?

Unless "classic rock" has been significantly redefined since the 90s, which is conceivably the last time I ever turned on a classic rock station.

maybe we need some veteran classic rock djs to veto our final list

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.

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.

the green eyed lady riff rules, idk about the song itself

These guys need to be on here:

Three Dog Night - Joy to the World
Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me Not To Come
Three Dog Night - One

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

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.

Oh, nm...it's in some dude's big list.

I vote Donnie Iris x10 in the worst side poll.

Congratulations. You're the first person I've ever encountered who doesn't like that song. I hope you're proud of yourself, creep. ;)

Man, I had no idea that there were CR stations out there playing the Stooges, Eno, and Bowie covers of VU songs

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.

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

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.

Man, I had no idea that there were CR stations out there playing the Stooges, Eno, and Bowie covers of VU songs

― 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.