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

Did Golden Earring get an official nomination? If not I hereby nominate "When the Bullet Hits the Bone" and "Radar Love."

Also, thank you LL and gr80. I will switch to The Loop for the remainder of this poll, even though I generally like The Drive a little better I think.

Golden Earring 4 EVA

psst the first song is 'Twilight Zone' <3

idk, it's not like it was only in the past 10-15 years that Beatles/Cars/whoever crept onto these playlists through the relaxation of standards. My rural Illinois home station was playing that stuff when I started listening in 1993.

Yeah, I was listening to this format a lot in late childhood/pre-adolescence in the late 80s/early 90s. I was definitely familiar with the late Beatles songs and Cars/Police/Talking Heads + the biggest hits by the Clash and Pretenders via this station. I think they actually did a whole feature on Sgt Pepper for its 25th anniversary in 1992. And certainly softer stuff like Fleetwood Mac/Steely Dan/Tom Petty/Eagles/Supertramp/ELO was as much a part of the format as Skynyrd/BTO/Foghat. Has it ever been otherwise? I feel like contenderizer is describing a classic proto-metal stoner rock format that would be awesome but is a bit removed from the reality of classic rock radio.

I know all of those bands were rotation staples on the station I was listening to in 1980

Dylan Poll/CR Synergy Dept.: I'd never listened much to Bootleg V5, so I started it up and The Cars totally swiped that "It Ain't Me Babe" arrangement for "Touch and Go"! I guess Ocasek or Orr or somebody went to one of the Rolling Thunder shows. Or I'm pulling this theory out my behind.

reminds me -

Bob Dylan - Hurricane

psst the first song is 'Twilight Zone' <3

Whoops! Thank you!

iirc there was kind of a moment for sgt peppers' 20th anniversary in '87, but yeah i don't think the beatles were played much apart from like weekend morning 'beatles breakfasts' or something

the less synthy cars stuff, tho, totally

This may be more regional, but: Artful Dodger - Wayside

I would believe that CR Beatles play has sort of expanded and contracted. Would make sense that there wasn't as much of it in the late 80s and into the 90s, because "oldies" stations (that reached back as far as the 50s, so much more Elvis and Chuck and Fats and stuff that you never hear now) were still playing the shit out of them. The CDs coming out had to put some kind of new spotlight on them but I don't know who took up that torch really. By the time I was in high school in the late 90s, my sense is that the oldies stations were shifting their chronologies forward, the early Beatles were sort of left in the dust, and the late stuff became Classic Rock property even moreso than it was already. This was also the time of the Anthologies and a lot of interest in them. But I might be really talking out of my ass here.

They're a weird case though because it's not like the Beatles were ever unpopular really. It's hard for me to imagine a world where the kind of people that like "classic rock" aren't gonzo for White Album and Abbey Road. The real question is what becomes of Rubber Soul through Pepper's.

The Beatles were always played here. In the car today, for some reason it was Paul McCartney day.

we got a sequence of "Band on the Run", "We Can Work It Out", "Love Bites", "One Way or Another" (never on real classic rock in the past), "Proud Mary", "Working for the Weekend", "Don't Bring Me Down", "Mysterious Ways", "Feeling Stronger Every Day", "Captain Fantastic (never heard on radio before today), "Wanted Dead or Alive", "Love the One You're With", "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", "Somebody Save Me" (Cinderella? I don't know why), "Fame", "Fantasy" (ALDO NOVA!!), "Here Comes My Girl", "Jealous Again", "Bad Case of Loving You", "Night Moves", "The Boys of Summer", "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Go Your Own Way", "Yesterday", "Junior's Farm" I copied this list from the website. I didn't have a notepad handy in my new car. In a rainstorm on the way to the doctor appointment.

I know that's just a long list of cool songs, but I was impressed. I don't drive much these days so I hadn't been listening. I'm sure The Eagle is programmed nationally by a computer, but back when they were competing with The Arrow, neither station had this wide of a range (of white guy rock music from a 20 year time span).

Yeah, to be clear, I wasn't advocating for "Michelle" or "And I Love Her" to be part of this poll. There are a bunch of CR staples in the 1967- Beatles catalogue, though, ime, and I had the impression that people were arguing that even these don't really fit, which seemed bizarre to me. Were oldies stations ever playing much from Pepper or the white album??

I feel like contenderizer is describing a classic proto-metal stoner rock format that would be awesome but is a bit removed from the reality of classic rock radio.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, June 18, 2014 4:56 PM (1 hour ago)

yeah, my sense of "classic rock" was formed between 1978 and 1985, during my preteen & early-mid teen years in spokane wa, citywide heavy metal parking lot to the western united states. el caminos & novas, feathered roach clips under black light, chew rings & sleeveless denim. that is the type of shit. so my view may not reflect that of your "mainstream".

*spits, shrugs*

listen, you can go outside and smoke a J when we're going through the Stephen Stills parts of the countdown, it's all good

In the car today, for some reason it was Paul McCartney day.

it be his birthday.

DA NANA NA NANA

Has "Low Rider" been mentioned? that's gotta be one of the few tracks by a legit funk band that gets classic rock play. (Cousin of mine useta think it was Santana)

yeah, it's in the OP. also a mean fighter.

I'm just voting for songs on the Dazed and Confused soundtrack.

Small Faces - Itchycoo Park

If the band/singer already had their own dedicated poll, I'm not going to vote for them. That means no Stones, Who, Dylan, Zeppelin, Springsteen etc. So while I normally like Gimme Shelter more than Radar Love, I don't here.

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, June 18, 2014

yeah i'm not making any hard and fast rules but acts that transcend classic rock are less likely to get my vote than acts that only get played there

head east, red rider and golden earring own this thing \m/

(and yeah gotta get "when the bullet hits the bone" on the list and la lechera otm wrt "since you been gone")

i have had "Since You Been Gone" in my head for DAYS now

duh duh-duh DUH

Re: the Beatles ... the classic rock station I listened to in the late 70s/early 80s (WQDR, Raleigh NC) used to do Beatles A to Z weekends every once in a while.

Any guesses about where Stairway to Heaven, Hotel California, and Free Bird will end up??

later-period Beatles, like Get Back, Hey Jude, Revolution to me are all classic rock radio staples...cannot really picture those not being part of the pantheon

Any guesses about where Stairway to Heaven, Hotel California, and Free Bird will end up??

uranus?

Well, yeah.

^just as long as they aren't going to Uranus on some spaceship as an example of Earth culture

I def heard "One Way or Another" on classic rock radio in the day

I also heard Gene Loves Jezebel, so who knows

There's a band I had completely forgotten about until just now.

The Spotify playlist for nominations is going to be crucial, because I bet I know so many more of these songs by ear than I do by name and I can't wait to find out which ones I love but didn't recognize by name.

i have had "Since You Been Gone" in my head for DAYS now

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, June 19, 2014 1:08 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I kinda want to do a poll of Rainbow's "Since You Been Gone" vs. Kelly Clarkson "Since U Been Gone" vs. The Outfield's "Since You've Been Gone" vs. "Since You've Been Gone" by Weird Al vs. . . . oh, there are so many.

listened to a miniblock of local classic rock this morning on the way home from work. broke down thusly:

Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood
Bang a Gong - T Rex
Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money <sounds like eddie money
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Van Halen - You Really Got Me
Cocaine - Eric Clapton <fucking JAM that should not be overlooked no matter how bad clapton sucks in general

takeway, i think is that my hirsute, boogie van ensconced version of classic rock is still pretty much otm, even 30 years down the road. eddie money and manfred mann are outliers, detailing. core is still freedom rock, man.

Oh shit. You know what's not on here?

Rick Springfield - Love is Alright

Is that too much of a deep cut?

Queen - Tie Your Mother Down
Rolling Stones - She's So Cold
America - Sister Golden Hair

Small Faces - Itchycoo Park

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, June 19, 2014 12:15 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Never heard this on cr radio, but heard it a LOT on a Vermont oldies station in the mid-90s. They were literally playing it every other day for three weeks straight. I somehow never got sick of it.

Neil Young - My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)

REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You
Supertramp - Hide in Your Shell
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story

Rolling Stones - She's So Cold
Yes! Love this song.

Also it reminded me how I used to get "Shattered" totally confused with "Vicious".

@contenderirzer I guess I agree that a ton of what's played on CR is awesome hirsute Freedom Rock. I was just saying that classic rock as a radio format is broader than that, and as far as I can tell it always has been. Probably a quarter to a third of playlists aren't stuff like that, which is borne out by your experiment where 2 of 7 songs don't fit your criteria.

Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb, She's a Rainbow

xpost intheblanks otm

xxxp fwiw the best Since You've Been Gone is by Aretha Franklin

i had forgotten how much of a jam Romantics' "what i like about you" was

what other stuff is in the CR/new-wave crossover... "my sharona"?

"steppin' out" got mentioned upthread-- does this count? it has electronic drums and no guitar...

Oh man, I love that song. It's hella AOR.

But like, no biker ever...

Oh shit. You know what's not on here?

Rick Springfield - Love is Alright

Is that too much of a deep cut?

― how's life, Thursday, June 19, 2014 8:54 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Would vote for.

(though it's "Love is Alright Tonite," isn't it?)