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

Two different songs.

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.

oh duh sorry: I read "Strong Persuader" as "Smoking Gun" for some reason.

Someone with more time than me, please Spotify all these noms.

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.

o yeah, good point - "cult of personality"

I will make a master Spotify playlist of all nominated tracks, will be posted in the voting thread after the noms are done.

Bless you.

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?

How 'bout Joe Cocker? "Feelin' Alright" and "With A Little Help From My Friends" are staples.

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

Joe Walsh - Meadows
Deep Purple - Woman from Tokyo
Grand Funk - Bad Time

Someone with more time than me, please Spotify all these noms.

Lol, or you could turn on the radio for a couple of days.:P [ / ducks]

wow, seandalai, great tip, will def give that a try

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.)

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

1989 even! damn.

I don't own a radio!

once bitten twice shy is a cover.

Yeah, the original would qualify chronologically but did it actually get that much airplay in North America?

Nick Gilder - Hot Child in the City

Gilder's a good one, might make my Hot Hundred.

are covers disqualified?

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

xp: too true.

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).

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.

whew

Rod Stewart - You Wear It Well
Rod Stewart - Reason to Believe
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy

60's cult(ish) classics to maybe consider:

Bob Seger - Two Plus Two
Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well
Love - 7 and 7 Is
Move - I Can Hear The Grass Grow
Paul Revere - Kicks
Laura Nyro – Wedding Bell Blues
Left Banke - Pretty Ballerina

don't know where to start or stop with the Stones nominations.

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.)

not even "Do Ya"? or is it the ELO version that gets played?

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).

what else was new classic rock in 87-89 besides hair metal? fuckin life is a highway?

Well, we could also push the hair metal poll until whenever. I don't mind.

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!

Keep on Rockin in the Free World?

One that gets played down here a lot: Head East-Never Been Any Reason

Left Banke - Pretty Ballerina
where was this on classic rock radio?!

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?)

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.

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.

Yeah I'm pretty interested to see how these artists with one or two staples fare against the dozen Zep or dozen Stones songs.

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.

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?

and also fwiw there shld be zero beatles on this poll imo

Really interested in seeing how all this will shake out in the poll

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?

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

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, June 18, 2014 9:53 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I used to hear "My Little Red Book" every so often on WLUP's "Rock & Roll Roots" show in Chicago in the 80s -- that dj played a pretty even mix of garage, Stax, Motown, and British Invasion (plus an inordinate amount of awful Chicago bands like the Buckinghams).

Only Move I ever heard was "Do Ya" once or twice; and once after a news report about the bombing of MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, these schmuck djs (the same ones behind "Disco Demolition") played "Fire Brigade."