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

I've heard "Yours Is No Disgrace" many times on classic rock radio

Used to hear Long Distance Runaround on 97.1 FM Chicago, The Drive.

…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.

I've totally heard all those Yes songs (Long-Disgraced Trooper) on CR radio.

Then I would like to add them and Long Distance Runaround to the nomination list, please, and thank you all for the confirmation.

"wonderous stories" gets play, too

i've never had the pleasure of classic rock radio so these could be way off target:

Patti Smith - Because The Night
Toto - Africa
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary

Would "Gloria" work for this poll? I swear I've heard it on Q104.3.

Yes Patti Smith (and that's the ONLY Patti Smith I can think of having heard) no to the other 2 IMP

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.

xp

I've heard Dancing Barefoot on the CR station in the last few years

i think? now i feel like i'm going crazy.

Them's original "Gloria" should probably make the ballot though.

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

― 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 - Hollywood
Max Webster - Toronto Tontos
Harlequin - Thinking Of You
Prism - Spaceship Superstar
Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
Zon - Astral Projector OK, I've never actually heard this on the radio. But I sure would like to.

I wish I heard "Starship Trooper" on the radio more often!

(I don't know Fludd, Pagliaro, or Thundermug either btw!)

If we're including Harlequin, then we def need "Innocence".

Yeah I remember you stanning hard for that song in two previous threads, I think!

lol

I don't think I've ever heard "Toronto Tontos" get radio play.

Tbh, I'm not sure I've ever heard Max Webster in my life.

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, 2002

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"

I hear "Let Go The Line" and "Paradise Skies" pretty often on Canadian Classic Rock stations.

Oh, I thought "Million Vacations" was solo Kim Mitchell.

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).

Can we make one 1987 exception for "Midnight Blue"?

This poll ain't cherry red.

It's midnight blue.

(Also, wow you have a good memory for 02/03 posts!)

If that's the case, I want Benjamin Orr's Stay the Night to be included. The least appreciated Car!

Stay the Night is from 1986, so it's in without exception imo.

David Robinson is surely the least appreciated Car, though, because he's the only one whose name I had to look up.

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.'"

My classic rock stations were NY's WNEW, 102.7 FM and WXRK, 92.3 K-ROCK.

For your consideration:
Bruce Springsteen - The Promised Land
Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone
The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
John Mellencamp - Lonely Ol' Night

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

Opening it up to 1987 would make Appetite For Destruction eligible. That's classic rock by now, isn't it?

yeah but we're going off what WAS classic rock back in the day, not what is being played as classic rock now

OK. But back in the day, anyone foolish enough to suggest Toto was classic rock would have gotten a well deserved beatdown.

What about Lenny Kravitz???

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.

What about Lenny Kravitz???

This poll just got Kravitzed.

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, June 17, 2014 4:09 PM

HE WAS IN THE MODERN LOVERS, YOU SAVAGE

(just kidding, JF, u r awesome)

I never knew that!

About Robinson, I mean. I knew I was awesome.

did "Baker Street" get mentioned? G. Rafferty needs his spot in the canon (see also, "Stuck in the Middle w/You")

yes on Baker Street, the constant soundtrack to my 7th grade beach vacation of 1978

yeah definitely should be in the mix

and -- arguably -- "Right Down the Line"

No no no on GNR, wtf

Aldo Nova -- Fantasy
Loverboy -- Turn Me Loose
Loverboy -- Lovin' Every Minute of It

Glad to see Donnie Iris has been nominated, saves me the trouble.

i said i might budge on the '87 thing, but not for GNR.

I understand the hesitation regarding Toto, but "hold the line" is undeniable fm gold