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

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

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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.

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.

"you shook me anl"

is this an abbreviation of "You Shook Me All Night Long" or "You Shook Me Anal"? both great songs.

yes

You shook me anal down, sport.

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.

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.

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.

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 Love
Fludd -- Get Up, Get Out and Move On
Goddo -- Sweet Thing (greatest lyric ever: "You like the fact I'm in the Goddo band")
Guess Who -- Albert Flasher
Guess Who -- Rain Dance
Mainline -- Get Down To
Pagliaro -- Lovin' You Ain't Easy
Pagliaro -- Some Sing, Some Dance
Thundermug -- Africa
Valdy -- Rock and Roll Song

Supertramp, Stevie Nicks, and Steely Dan are not stretches – heard them all in the eighties and early nineties on "album rock radio."

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.

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").

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.

I def heard "The One Thing," "What You Need," and "Listen Like Thieves" on that station. Never Huey Lewis.

Never heard INXS. Maybe heard that one specific Huey Lewis song? Fuck, this is complicated!

And subjective.

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, the outliers will get filtered out anyway.

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.")

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

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.

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."

Point in favor of the inclusion of Talking Heads - Circus magazine ran the lyrics to "Burning Down the House" in their song lyrics section.

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.

Except maybe Circus magazine was more important to me at 11 than my career is to me at 41.

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.

Any band who ever had a video played on 120 Minutes should probably be excluded.

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

Some of the stuff in the Freedom Rock commercial veers into "AM Gold" territory for sure.

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.

David Bowie - White Light/White Heat

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Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire

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FP'd u for this nonsense