as you can tell, i don't know anything abt rbt cray, but i do like that song. only track of his i've ever heard on the radio, tho it was NPR.
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 11:00 (nine years ago) link
Two different songs.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 11:24 (nine years ago) link
Also: YES on the Cars. Every song from the debut I heard at some point in the eighties and earll nineties on classic rock radio.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 11:25 (nine years ago) link
oh duh sorry: I read "Strong Persuader" as "Smoking Gun" for some reason.
Someone with more time than me, please Spotify all these noms.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 11:28 (nine years ago) link
Cray was interesting to me, as he seemed the only black artist besides Hendrix and Living Colour that I ever heard on my local classic rock station.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 11:29 (nine years ago) link
o yeah, good point - "cult of personality"
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 11:54 (nine years ago) link
I will make a master Spotify playlist of all nominated tracks, will be posted in the voting thread after the noms are done.
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:16 (nine years ago) link
Bless you.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:21 (nine years ago) link
Off topic question that I'm curious about:When people make Spotify playlists for things like this, is it done manually by looking up each individual song or is there a quicker way?
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:25 (nine years ago) link
How 'bout Joe Cocker? "Feelin' Alright" and "With A Little Help From My Friends" are staples.
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:36 (nine years ago) link
You can c+p a list of songs into http://www.ivyishere.org/ivy and it will do its best to give you a Spotify playlist back xp
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:42 (nine years ago) link
Joe Walsh - MeadowsDeep Purple - Woman from TokyoGrand Funk - Bad Time
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
Lol, or you could turn on the radio for a couple of days.:P [ / ducks]
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:48 (nine years ago) link
wow, seandalai, great tip, will def give that a try
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
I tried it during the Motown poll with some ridiculous list of songs -- close to 1000 I think -- and it churned and churned away at it. I thought I'd broken something but it finally generated a decent playlist. (Completely forgot about it after that.)
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
it's a tragedy that Great White's "once bitten" is disqualified due to its 1987 release as it's my own personal quintessential CR track
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:53 (nine years ago) link
1989 even! damn.
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:55 (nine years ago) link
I don't own a radio!
― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
once bitten twice shy is a cover.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, the original would qualify chronologically but did it actually get that much airplay in North America?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:01 (nine years ago) link
Nick Gilder - Hot Child in the City
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:03 (nine years ago) link
Gilder's a good one, might make my Hot Hundred.
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:11 (nine years ago) link
are covers disqualified?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:14 (nine years ago) link
never heard the ian hunter version on the radio iirc
Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?Bruce Hornsby - The Way It Is
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
xp: too true.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
Covers are fine if it's the version that gets radio airplay. Will generally stick with the most appropriate version of the song unless there are 2 really big ones (Kinks as well as Van Halen for "You Really Got Me" is the only example that springs to mind).
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
at any rate, you will have a chance to vote for Once Bitten, Twice Shy in the hair metal poll, coming up in about 6 months or so.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:24 (nine years ago) link
whew
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:25 (nine years ago) link
Rod Stewart - You Wear It WellRod Stewart - Reason to BelieveWarren Zevon - Excitable Boy
60's cult(ish) classics to maybe consider:
Bob Seger - Two Plus TwoFleetwood Mac - Oh Well Love - 7 and 7 IsMove - I Can Hear The Grass GrowPaul Revere - KicksLaura Nyro – Wedding Bell BluesLeft Banke - Pretty Ballerina
don't know where to start or stop with the Stones nominations.
― g simmel, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:33 (nine years ago) link
I love (love love) Love but have never, ever heard them on the radio, except the time I played "7 and 7" at my college station. (Never heard the Move either.)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
not even "Do Ya"? or is it the ELO version that gets played?
― Euler, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
I didn't realize a hair metal was up so soon in the queue. With that in mind I'm tempted to trim the Crue/Ratt/Quiet Riot stuff out of the noms, and possibly also expand the timeframe into 87, 88 and maybe 89 (my concern with that era was partly how hair metal-heavy the 87-89 selections would be).
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
what else was new classic rock in 87-89 besides hair metal? fuckin life is a highway?
― Euler, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link
Well, we could also push the hair metal poll until whenever. I don't mind.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link
Full Moon Fever and The Joshua Tree have been the big examples thus far
wasn't implying that the hair metal poll is too soon or too close to this one, definitely looking forward to it!
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 13:59 (nine years ago) link
Keep on Rockin in the Free World?
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link
One that gets played down here a lot: Head East-Never Been Any Reason
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
Left Banke - Pretty Ballerinawhere was this on classic rock radio?!
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link
It's totally your call obv but I don't really see the justification for including late-80s Tom Petty and U2 but excluding hair metal. I'd be in favour of either sticking with the original cutoff (which made sense to me) or just including anything that gets CR airplay regardless of chronology.
xposts (Also, has Laura Nyro ever been played on CR radio?)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
I see, yeah. I don't know about the late 80s though; in those years WKLS Atlanta, 96 Rock played the shit out of Melissa Etheridge and Drivin N Cryin. Are those classic rock? they're not monsters like Tom Petty, for whom "classic rock" was as much a brand by 1989 as it was a genre or style----meaning, whatever he did was gonna appeal to classic rock fans.
but what's more fun to me about this poll is thinking about nuggets like "Drift Away" and "Can't You See", by artists who weren't monsters of rock but hit the pocket a few times.
― Euler, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
Never heard that Head East song until a coupla years ago, despite ILMers and irl people insisting "of course you know it! 'Save my life I'm goin down' etc"
Great song...it's bizarre that I never encountered it.
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I'm pretty interested to see how these artists with one or two staples fare against the dozen Zep or dozen Stones songs.
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:13 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, Euler otm. Obviously one could make their entire list Zep/Beatles/Stones/Hendrix/Fleetwood Mac and it'd be an incredible list of songs. But as I'm putting my shortlist together, I feel like I can't call it a classic rock list without a healthy dose of Nugent/Mountain/Foghat/Golden Earring-type acts with 1-3 iconic songs.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
i have this spacey, submariney, hazy guitar/keys (rhodes maybe?) riff stuck in my head but cant fucking place what song it is.... kind of sounds like "fly like an eagle" but its not that... anyone?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
and also fwiw there shld be zero beatles on this poll imo
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
Really interested in seeing how all this will shake out in the poll
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
FYI I turned on the classic rock station (97.1 The Drive) when I got to work and they were playing Africa by Toto. LOL?
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
It's been mentioned already, but people, please don't forget the tremendous power of James Gang's Walk Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo0vBdlWQs0&feature=kp
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link