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

^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?)

i dunno man, i can see a biker jamming to "steppin' out" after a few lines of blow in the right context

I could see someone on maybe a Yamaha or something....

and wearing a tux.

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

Well I was looking at the recent playlist of a nearby Classic Rock station and saw Split Enz's "I Got You" on it, which I've understood was a bigger hit here in Canada than in the US, but it seems too new wavey to me to want to suggest.

i dunno man, i can see a biker jamming to "steppin' out"

Steppin' Out is a slippery slope leading to Hungry Like The Wolf. Scott Muni will be rolling in his grave, people!

Nooooo Steppin' Out is so good and perfect and gets CR radio play I swear.

It's going to go on the same "mellow out" mix as Steely Dan that the bikers listen to when they've taken Valium to come down from their multi-day meth binge.

I'd veto Joe Jackson but accept the Cars

In other news, I listened to The Cars' Shake It Up (the record, not just the song) yesterday and it reminded me
-- The Cars are so gd good: music, lyrics, general vibe, love it all
-- even though the s/t is a total hit parade and indispensable, their other albums were totes solid and not to be missed if you like The Cars

I also listened to "Burnin' for You" yesterday and what a weird song that is. Time to play ~b-sides~

Steppin' Out doesn't really lead to Hungry Like The Wolf. it's the difference between Elton John and the Monkees. surely the bikers know this?

What does and doesn't get played on cr radio can be confusing and frequently infuriating. Boz Scaggs' very-disco "Lowdown"? Sure! How about some Funkadelic? Nope!

Ditto Steve Winwood's guitarless "Higher Love." Hey, can you guys maybe play "Let's Go Crazy" instead? WHAT?! NO! THAT'S NOT CLASSIC ROCK!

i think the artist's general image has something (a lot) to do with whether or not he (usually he) is embraced by CR

Yeah, I don't think anyone here would argue that.

xp

Oh totally, I'm not suggesting anyone itt would rep for "Higher Love" as a major cr song or anything; just that the way the radio format is programmed is suspect.

that's a polite way of putting it!

LL otm re The Cars -- i've been obsessed with the song 'Magic' for like, a year now

^ me too

I was thinking about that the other day, Tarfumes (xxpost) classic rock = music for racist bikers i guess idk

Eh they'll probably listen to Thin Lizzy but they don't know what Phil Lynott looked like.

I feel like I tried to make this point on a classic rock thread last summer and people thought I was crazy.

I dunno, I don't think it's the audience necessarily, but the programmers; they could gradually sneak something like Funkadelic's "Super Stupid" into rotation and within a year or two it'd be part of the cr canon. Maybe not. I just want a station to try that and see what happens.

Also, wasn't sure about adding this, but according to my local station's playlist, it's in medium rotation:

The Kinks - Victoria

benjamin orr looks like debbie harry's twin in this performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsPh-EgH65M

Sund4r, probably this thread:

comparing the evolution of 'classic rock' between uk and usa

LL otm re The Cars -- i've been obsessed with the song 'Magic' for like, a year now

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, June 19, 2014 3:36 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ugh that song was in HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY MTV rotation the first summer that we had cable, and thus MTV, and all I wanted in the whole known universe were DEF LEPPARD videos and every time I turned on MTV, it was stupid Ric Ocasek walking across a pool singing about magic.

I'll bet that got you twisted and you couldn't calm down.

it had a hold on you

(Does this get played at all?> 小=☞ David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose

It absolutely gets played.

What does and doesn't get played on cr radio can be confusing and frequently infuriating. Boz Scaggs' very-disco "Lowdown"? Sure! How about some Funkadelic? Nope!

radio format in playing-white-appropriations-of-black-music-but-not-black-music-itself shockah.

y'all keep talking about this in such black and white terms when there's a whole Gray area in between

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIuyDWzctgY

<3 oh Dobie