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.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:56 (ten years ago) link
I know all of those bands were rotation staples on the station I was listening to in 1980
― polyamanita (sleeve), Thursday, 19 June 2014 00:05 (ten years ago) link
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.
― WilliamC, Thursday, 19 June 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
reminds me -
Bob Dylan - Hurricane
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link
psst the first song is 'Twilight Zone' <3
Whoops! Thank you!
― carl agatha, Thursday, 19 June 2014 01:12 (ten years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 June 2014 01:15 (ten years ago) link
This may be more regional, but: Artful Dodger - Wayside
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 June 2014 01:31 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:06 (ten years ago) link
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).
― Zachary Taylor, Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:07 (ten years ago) link
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??
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:20 (ten years ago) link
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".
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:21 (ten years ago) link
*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
― some dude, Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:25 (ten years ago) link
In the car today, for some reason it was Paul McCartney day.
it be his birthday.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
DA NANA NA NANA
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:31 (ten years ago) link
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)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:57 (ten years ago) link
yeah, it's in the OP. also a mean fighter.
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 June 2014 02:59 (ten years ago) link
I'm just voting for songs on the Dazed and Confused soundtrack.
― Jeff, Thursday, 19 June 2014 03:17 (ten years ago) link
Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 19 June 2014 04:15 (ten years ago) link
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")
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 19 June 2014 05:06 (ten years ago) link
i have had "Since You Been Gone" in my head for DAYS now
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 05:08 (ten years ago) link
duh duh-duh DUH
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 19 June 2014 05:10 (ten years ago) link
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.
― that's not my post, Thursday, 19 June 2014 05:15 (ten years ago) link
Any guesses about where Stairway to Heaven, Hotel California, and Free Bird will end up??
― that's not my post, Thursday, 19 June 2014 05:17 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 05:31 (ten years ago) link
uranus?
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 June 2014 06:05 (ten years ago) link
Well, yeah.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 19 June 2014 06:11 (ten years ago) link
^just as long as they aren't going to Uranus on some spaceship as an example of Earth culture
― that's not my post, Thursday, 19 June 2014 06:17 (ten years ago) link
I def heard "One Way or Another" on classic rock radio in the day
I also heard Gene Loves Jezebel, so who knows
― Euler, Thursday, 19 June 2014 07:30 (ten years ago) link
There's a band I had completely forgotten about until just now.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 19 June 2014 10:54 (ten years ago) link
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.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 19 June 2014 10:55 (ten years ago) link
― 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.
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 June 2014 12:10 (ten years ago) link
listened to a miniblock of local classic rock this morning on the way home from work. broke down thusly:
Bad to the Bone - George ThorogoodBang a Gong - T RexTake Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money <sounds like eddie moneySweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd SkynyrdBlinded by the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth BandVan Halen - You Really Got MeCocaine - 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.
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 June 2014 12:52 (ten years ago) link
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, 19 June 2014 12:54 (ten years ago) link
Queen - Tie Your Mother DownRolling Stones - She's So ColdAmerica - Sister Golden Hair
― MarkoP, Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:19 (ten years ago) link
― 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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:20 (ten years ago) link
Neil Young - My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)
― MarkoP, Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:26 (ten years ago) link
REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving YouSupertramp - Hide in Your ShellRod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:29 (ten years ago) link
Rolling Stones - She's So ColdYes! Love this song.
Also it reminded me how I used to get "Shattered" totally confused with "Vicious".
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:34 (ten years ago) link
@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.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:39 (ten years ago) link
Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb, She's a Rainbow
xpost intheblanks otm
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:40 (ten years ago) link
xxxp fwiw the best Since You've Been Gone is by Aretha Franklin
― g simmel, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link
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...
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:15 (ten years ago) link
Oh man, I love that song. It's hella AOR.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:18 (ten years ago) link
But like, no biker ever...
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
― how's life, Thursday, June 19, 2014 8:54 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Would vote for.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:25 (ten years ago) link
(though it's "Love is Alright Tonite," isn't it?)
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:26 (ten years ago) link
i dunno man, i can see a biker jamming to "steppin' out" after a few lines of blow in the right context
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:30 (ten years ago) link
I could see someone on maybe a Yamaha or something....
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
and wearing a tux.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:35 (ten years ago) link