Queen - Tie Your Mother DownRolling Stones - She's So ColdAmerica - Sister Golden Hair
― MarkoP, Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:19 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
Neil Young - My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)
― MarkoP, Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:26 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb, She's a Rainbow
xpost intheblanks otm
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link
xxxp fwiw the best Since You've Been Gone is by Aretha Franklin
― g simmel, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:03 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
Oh man, I love that song. It's hella AOR.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
But like, no biker ever...
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:21 (nine 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, 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
I could see someone on maybe a Yamaha or something....
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
and wearing a tux.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
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.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:37 (nine years ago) link
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!
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
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.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
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~
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
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?
― g simmel, Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
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!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 June 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
i think the artist's general image has something (a lot) to do with whether or not he (usually he) is embraced by CR
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I don't think anyone here would argue that.
xp
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link
that's a polite way of putting it!
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
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, 19 June 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
^ me too
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
I was thinking about that the other day, Tarfumes (xxpost) classic rock = music for racist bikers i guess idk
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
Eh they'll probably listen to Thin Lizzy but they don't know what Phil Lynott looked like.
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
I feel like I tried to make this point on a classic rock thread last summer and people thought I was crazy.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
Also, wasn't sure about adding this, but according to my local station's playlist, it's in medium rotation:
The Kinks - Victoria
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
benjamin orr looks like debbie harry's twin in this performancehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsPh-EgH65M
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
Sund4r, probably this thread:
comparing the evolution of 'classic rock' between uk and usa
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
― 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.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
I'll bet that got you twisted and you couldn't calm down.
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
it had a hold on you
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
(Does this get played at all?> 小=☞ David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 19 June 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
It absolutely gets played.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
radio format in playing-white-appropriations-of-black-music-but-not-black-music-itself shockah.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 19 June 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
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
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 19 June 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
<3 oh Dobie
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
Will def be in the top 10 if there's any justice in the world
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 19 June 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, Drift Away is huuuuge barbecue-at-the-lake Classic Rock staple for me. Gimme the hot dogs, and cream soda.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
doesn't answer the real question of whether a biker would murder you while it's playing
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
Or if it's a Twofer Tuesday, rape and murder
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
...
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
stay classy xp
― polyamanita (sleeve), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
all TOTALLY UNFUNNY jokes aside, yeah, that's definitely biker bar jukebox ish.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link