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

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)

Fwiw, CHEZ is playing the Beatles' "Revolution" right now.

I wonder if a slow version/fast version mashup would sound like anything.

Would only be on board if "Revolution #9" were also part of the mash-up.

I understand the antipathy to the Beatles-as-classic-rock in this thread, but I've heard Revolution, While My Guitar…, and Come Together consistently on classic rock stations throughout the past 20 years. They have tracks in the canon, even if their overall image doesn't scream "classic rock!" like, say, Zeppelin.

Yeah, plus there's Clapton overlap in there.

I am genuinely puzzled as to how the Beatles could be a controversial inclusion in a classic rock poll.

at least post-1965

i think my guideline for this will be "songs that the guys in fu manchu probably like"

probably because a number of people on this thread (myself included) were shaped by classic rock as a radio format from, about 1989-2000, and during that time the Beatles fit best on the oldies format, with a handful of their late rockers included on classic rock stations.

"songs that the guys in fu manchu probably like"

Not a bad metric at all.

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

Metallica were not played on classic rock. Even "One", which is as close as the 80s got to a huge FM epic, was never on classic rock when it came out.

like, what are these guys listening to?

http://www.larryny1.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/charlie-jimmy.jpg

hint: it is not the beatles

dudes.

That dude is listening to Freedom Rock (turn it up, man). All Freedom Rock is classic rock, but not all classic rock is freedom rock. So of course the Beatles are eligible.

The 3 Beatles songs that were in every Memorial Day Top 500 List alongside Born To Run, Layla and Stairway were A Day In The Life, Let It Be and Hey Jude.

xxp They're listening to "Frankenstein"
http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcsp6r7Y0M1ruxwvqo1_500.png

Feel lie some of the comments here defines CR more narrowly than radio stations do.

A lot of the acts that have been disputed on some level (Beatles, Cars, Talking Heads, The Clash) have had classic rock staples for two decades. They may be less hard-rocking or hirsute or macho, and their careers fall at the edges of 70s. But if you listen to 24 hours of a classic rock station you'll hear all these acts--multiple times in the case of the Beatles and the Cars.

"Feel like" I mean

A few more nominations.

Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown Traffic
Buffalo Springfield - Mr. Soul
Buffalo Springfield - Rock and Roll Woman
Buffalo Springfield - Bluebird

Sweet-Fox On The Run
Bob Seger - Ramblin Gamblin Man
Ted Nugent -Great White Buffalo
Babe Ruth - Wells Fargo

didn't come up in a search but since i just heard it on the classic rock station yesterday:

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

I want to include Whitesnake's original version of "Here I Go Again" because it still makes me laugh that he used "hobo" instead of "drifter," but I know full well that shit never got played on the radio.

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

i think those two stations are right on the rock/classic rock divide that have flummoxed a lot of us in trying to remember what did or didn't get played on classic rock radio back in the day. to me, the wnew of scott muni, dave herman and carol miller was a "rock" station, playing beatles/stones/zep but also '60s AM nuggets (motown, girl groups, some actual nuggets) and also plenty of new stuff that lifted from both traditions (petty and mellencamp on one hand, smithereens and elvis costello on the other hand). wxrk, if memory recalls, came later and was much more self-consciously "classic rock," zeroing in on the zeppelin/skynyrd/acdc/vanhalen piece of the format and dispensing with anything that smelled "alternative" or "black" (and adding, of course, howard stern). i think wxrk is much truer to the spirit of this poll.

another station like wnew was boston's wbcn in the '70s and '80s, which played a ton of new wave and weirdo one-hit wonders and local rock along with the beatles and stones and phil spector and sly stone and marvin gaye, and love's "alone again or" was a staple, and i think of it as classic and as rock, but not as classic rock, and i think there's a big difference there.

metallica is a good example, i think, of a band that classic rock radio wouldn't have touched in the '80s but which has become classic with age, in a legitimate "classic" "rock" sense. "enter sandman" and "unforgiven," for example, are full-on cr staples now, aren't they? they completely belong next to foghat and edgar winter.

would the cast of Mask turn it off in disgust or turn it up man? that's my metric for CR or no. also did i hear it on the radio y/n

http://api.ning.com/files/Jx8KmtZz6Stx-3DtvAGCuiHBampEt8e2lRAH7Q8EWbAybEU1sSAa*kTzHIhDHwQJSTZE0QH2P5-E7DYnBqDOurAd4UzqU4Mu/l9.jpg

I never realized that Mask was about bikers.

classic rock rumble: cast of mask vs. cast of dazed and confused.

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, June 18, 2014 9:19 AM (2 hours ago)

guys help this is driving me crazy

Wild Mountain Honey?

http://www.q1043.com/common/top_songs/2013.html

Songs from the top 100 of this poll that have not been mentioned

Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia
Billy Joel - Miami 2017
David Bowie - Heroes
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band
Traffic - Empty Pages

Wild Mountain Honey?

― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:21 AM (2 minutes ago)

no, its a heavy song

what about gary glitter "rock and roll part 2"? or has he earned himself a lifetime ban from public airplay and, therefore, this poll?