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"
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
uriah heep - "gypsy"
^ lol at the idea of this getting airplay, but if it did, i wish to vote for it
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:44 (ten years ago) link
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.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
Mountain/Foghat/Golden Earring-type acts
yesssssss
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:48 (ten years ago) link
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...
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:51 (ten years ago) link
The Guess Who - Clap For The WolfmanStevie Ray Vaughan - Cold Shot
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link
"Mountain/Foghat/Golden Earring-type acts"
― mookieproof, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 7:48 AM (3 minutes ago)
o shit yeah
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link
depends on if the station implemented "mandatory metallica" blocks probably
xp
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:53 (ten 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, June 18, 2014 9:13 AM (40 minutes ago)
Thunderclap Newman ftw.
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
chronologically, Metallica starts with "One," at least on the classic rock station my dad listens to. never heard anything from Puppets.
― col, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
^^^ this
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
Styx - Suite Madame Blue
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
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.
― col, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
xps okay then i'm nominating "welcome home (sanitarium)". 198666 fukkaz!
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
^ imaginary classic rock nom to be axed
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
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
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:02 (ten years ago) link
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
― Brad C., Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link
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)
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:07 (ten years ago) link
Fwiw, CHEZ is playing the Beatles' "Revolution" right now.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
I wonder if a slow version/fast version mashup would sound like anything.
― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
Would only be on board if "Revolution #9" were also part of the mash-up.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:20 (ten years ago) link
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.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, plus there's Clapton overlap in there.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
I am genuinely puzzled as to how the Beatles could be a controversial inclusion in a classic rock poll.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
at least post-1965
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
i think my guideline for this will be "songs that the guys in fu manchu probably like"
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
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.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
"songs that the guys in fu manchu probably like"
Not a bad metric at all.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
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.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
like, what are these guys listening to?
http://www.larryny1.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/charlie-jimmy.jpg
hint: it is not the beatles
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:29 (ten years ago) link
dudes.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
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.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
xxp They're listening to "Frankenstein"http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcsp6r7Y0M1ruxwvqo1_500.png
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
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.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
"Feel like" I mean
A few more nominations.
Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown TrafficBuffalo Springfield - Mr. SoulBuffalo Springfield - Rock and Roll WomanBuffalo Springfield - Bluebird
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Sweet-Fox On The RunBob Seger - Ramblin Gamblin ManTed Nugent -Great White BuffaloBabe Ruth - Wells Fargo
― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
didn't come up in a search but since i just heard it on the classic rock station yesterday:
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
― Mordy, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
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.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
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.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
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
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
I never realized that Mask was about bikers.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
classic rock rumble: cast of mask vs. cast of dazed and confused.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:15 (ten 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, June 18, 2014 9:19 AM (2 hours ago)
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:19 AM (2 hours ago)
guys help this is driving me crazy
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
Wild Mountain Honey?
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
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 MagnoliaBilly Joel - Miami 2017David Bowie - HeroesThe Beatles - Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club BandTraffic - Empty Pages
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
Wild Mountain Honey?― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:21 AM (2 minutes ago)
― polyamanita (sleeve), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:21 AM (2 minutes ago)
no, its a heavy song
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
what about gary glitter "rock and roll part 2"? or has he earned himself a lifetime ban from public airplay and, therefore, this poll?
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link