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

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."

I like The Loop 97.9 for classic rock in Chicago

ew xp

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, June 18, 2014 9:20 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

imo The Drive isnt a tru CLASSIC ROCK station, they're operating on a little bit different format that emerged about a decade ago that is more focused on catch-all white baby boomer nostalgia-- there's lots of overlap of course

97.9 THE LOOP is the chicago station i'd tune in to for this poll (i'm sure they play TOTO on occasion)

xposts!

also they have a "babe of the day"

http://www.wlup.com/common/page.php?pt=Babe+of+the+Day&id=10131&is_corp=1

feel free to ignore the Nyro/Banke/Move/Love suggestions if they really don't fit the "actually played on the radio" criteria

Guess Who - Share the Land

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

― Euler, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:54 AM (17 minutes ago)

I'm not sure which is which but yeah I forgot it either way. Oh, and WRIF-FM in Detroit ("The RIFF!") was my go-to station back in the day.

The Loop was my go-to station for a couple of years in the 80s. They used to play "Beat It" (which was still relatively new), Prince, Marvin Gaye, and Sly alongside the usual suspects. They also jumped on U2 and R.E.M. relatively early -- "Superman" got tons of airplay.

Genesis - Mama

Putting on Chez in tribute to this thread.

Supertramp - Bloody Well Right

Last three songs:
Jimi Hendrix - "Fire"
Bryan Adams - "Run to You"
Heart - "Kick It Out"

Apparently, I was lucky enough to miss Live and Tom Cochrane. Oh, now they've moved on to Phil Collins - "In the Air Tonight".
xpost Oh, that one's OTM.

Did anyone else here grow up listening to NY classic rock, mainly WNEW and WXRK?

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

― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 7:01 AM (25 minutes ago)

voting for the shit out of "never been any reason". and "space truckin"

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By the Light

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, June 18, 2014 7:19 AM (22 minutes ago)

would like to say i'm not gonna vote for any "Zep/Beatles/Stones/Hendrix/Fleetwood Mac", but i may not be able to do without "when the levee breaks" and "immigrant song"

uriah heep - "gypsy"

^ lol at the idea of this getting airplay, but if it did, i wish to vote for it

My rule for voting: if I remember ever hearing it on CR radio, I'm voting for it. The Clash and the Pretenders are two of my favourite bands of all time, but I don't recall ever encountering them in this format, so I won't be repping for them this time out.

Mountain/Foghat/Golden Earring-type acts

yesssssss

hey, question for people that still pay attention to the format: did or do metallica's "master of puppets" and/or "welcome home (sanitarium)" ever get classic rock airplay? cuz the former sure as hell seems like it'd fit in...

The Guess Who - Clap For The Wolfman
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Cold Shot

"Mountain/Foghat/Golden Earring-type acts"

yesssssss

― mookieproof, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 7:48 AM (3 minutes ago)

o shit yeah

Ooh good call on Heep - not "Gypsy", but "Easy Livin'" and "Wizard" get their share of plays

Also Canned Heat "On the Road Again"

xpost - WRIF in Detroit played "Fade To Black" occasionally in '85, but I never heard any other Metallica on radio 'til the black album.

depends on if the station implemented "mandatory metallica" blocks probably

xp

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, June 18, 2014 9:13 AM (40 minutes ago)

Thunderclap Newman ftw.

xp

chronologically, Metallica starts with "One," at least on the classic rock station my dad listens to. never heard anything from Puppets.

Thunderclap Newman ftw.

^^^ this

Styx - Suite Madame Blue

in re: Beatles shouldn't be on list point made earlier, i think there's a very limited CR beatles pool: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Get Back" and "Come Together." those are quintessential CR Beatles, though obviously a good chunk of the post-'66 catalog gets played a lot.

xps okay then i'm nominating "welcome home (sanitarium)". 198666 fukkaz!

^ imaginary classic rock nom to be axed

At this point I'm planning on leaving the Beatles off my ballot entirely. Maybe one or two Stones and Who songs. But this is going to be a ballot full of "oh shit turn that up I haven't heard that in ten years" *gives self whiplash*

xp happy to have the Beatles basics on the noms list though, I just gotta do what I gotta do

glad to see Living Colour's "Cult of Personality" mentioned as post-87 classic rock ... I heard that in the car yesterday and immediately thought of this poll

The Sweet - Little Willy
(I know I've heard this on the radio a lot, but I can't recall if I've heard it on Classc Rock or just Oldies)