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

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?

i'd vote rock n roll pt 2

xxpost "Children of The Sun" by Billy Thorpe?

I'm not able to get Q104.3 to play on my browser but it does seem like a better, and much more classicist, station than CHEZ, where Foo Fighters and Kings of Leon are part of the mix. (US CR stations tend to be more classicist ime.) Wow, they like Close to the Edge! Do they actually play the title track in regular rotation?

Ha, CHEZ is playing the Beastie Boys now.

The Q1403 was a reader request list, so maybe the baby boomers of the tri-state area loooove Yes. I've only ever heard the Yes tracks listed on some dude's original list, though I think I might have heard "Close to the Edge" on when the DJ had to go to the bathroom, or during one of their special "album sides" hours.

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Run Through the Jungle
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin Out My Back Door

I just heard Love in an Elevator on WLUP and my god I hate that song so much.

Here's one that might make my ballot--

Elvin Bishop - Fooled Around and Fell In Love

I'd nominate the Move's excellent "Message from the Country," but no, they never ever get played on Q-107--ditto Love (maybe once in a blue moon on "Psychedelic Sundays").

I'll nominate it anyway:

Move - Message from the Country
Wishbone Ash - Blowin' Free (greatest power-pop/junky-metal song ever)

I really wish my local cr station had a psychedelic show. Dig this playlist from WBLM* Portland, Maine's "Psychedelic Breakfast":

http://wblm.com/your-psychedelic-breakfast-playlist-for-saturday-11302013/

(and yes, they play "The blimp! The blimp!" from Trout Mask multiple times an hour but never play any Beefheart records)

"2nd floor...hardware, children's wear, lady's lingerie. Oh, good morning Mr. Tyler, going down?"

Tarfumes --

http://psychedelicized.com/

For whenever you want to get your psych on.

Cool! Thanks!

xxpost "Children of The Sun" by Billy Thorpe?

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:29 AM (48 minutes ago)

nope.

I also heard Proud Mary and dang if that's not one of the best songs ever. Makes me want to spend the summer chooglin'.

I can't even think about CCR now without thinking of aero's hilarious hate-on for them.

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

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 12:20 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Steve Miller-My Dark Hour

xp: that was a great thread. I was reading through it just last week.

Les Dudek who played on Ramblin Man is presumably somewhere in that Mask photo. I'd bet the cast of Mask were big Allman Bros fans.

oh, wait, that's because it was revived.

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

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 12:20 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Steve Miller-My Dark Hour

― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 12:52 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not that either... its closer to the sound on ted nugent's "stanglehold"

I know it won't happen, but "Hair of the Dog" should really win this thing

Les Dudek who played on Ramblin Man is presumably somewhere in that Mask photo. I'd bet the cast of Mask were big Allman Bros fans.

speaking of that:

allman bros - melissa

xxpost Deep Purple 'Highway Star', gr8080?

jesus christ, Google autocorrected my choogle search to Google.

I know it won't happen, but "Hair of the Dog" should really win this thing

― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 12:59 PM (25 seconds ago)

top 5 at least

xxpost Deep Purple 'Highway Star', gr8080?

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 1:00 PM (48 seconds ago)

nope & i already played that this morning thinking it could be it!!

definitely xp

The version of Highway Star on Made in Japan is probably the best song ever put to tape.

Les Dudek who played on Ramblin Man is presumably somewhere in that Mask photo. I'd bet the cast of Mask were big Allman Bros fans.

speaking of that:

allman bros - melissa

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 1:59 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just checked, Dudek is the guy with the facial furniture kneeling in front.

Has "Blue Sky" been mentioned yet? What a great song.

Front right.

The version of Highway Star on Made in Japan is probably the best song ever put to tape.

Can't be, cause the live "Space Truckin" on Side 4 is the best

Hair of the Dog will be in my top 10 no question. a worthy number one for this poll surely

Did Rainbow's 'Stargazer' ever get much US "classic rock" airplay? 'Cuz if it did, it deserves to be in there.

It's hard to participate in this part of the poll, because I have no idea what was and what wasn't played in the US on classic rock stations. We didn't really have classic rock radio here, at least not until the digital radio era.

I have the same problem. the criteria is up to the U.S. radio listeners to figure out

ok guys here is me singing/humming this fucking riff i cant figure out, help me out here:

http://shoutkey.com/risqu%C3%83%C2%A9