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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
David Bowie - White Light/White Heat
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 04:17 (ten years ago) link
Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 04:18 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
WXRX 104.9 Rockford, IL certainly never touched these tracks
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 04:35 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, where exactly are these classic rock stations with impossibly deep playlists?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 04:40 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
the green eyed lady riff rules, idk about the song itself
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 05:42 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Oh, nm...it's in some dude's big list.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 06:19 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
yes
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 10:06 (ten years ago) link
You shook me anal down, sport.
― how's life, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 10:31 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
And subjective.
― how's life, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:46 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, the outliers will get filtered out anyway.
― how's life, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 12:56 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link