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

(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

Will def be in the top 10 if there's any justice in the world

Yeah, Drift Away is huuuuge barbecue-at-the-lake Classic Rock staple for me. Gimme the hot dogs, and cream soda.

doesn't answer the real question of whether a biker would murder you while it's playing

Or if it's a Twofer Tuesday, rape and murder

...

stay classy xp

all TOTALLY UNFUNNY jokes aside, yeah, that's definitely biker bar jukebox ish.

meant my biker comment as a light tease of all the hypothetical biker talk, because I truly enjoyed Doc Casino's positing of a more realistic space where classic rock is enjoyed

i'd like to disavow the rape joke that followed

understood.

FP'ed the rape joke

I dunno if Dobie Gray's gonna make my top 10, but it'll be top 20 for sure

also shout out to Johnny Fever, 100% with you on Georgia Satellites and Lou Gramm

Oh for crying out loud people, relax. Nobody is pro rape. Goodness gracious.

also shout out to Johnny Fever, 100% with you on Georgia Satellites and Lou Gramm

yes and yes. especially the ga satellites. there is no one who disapproves of them -- not bikers, not softies, not poxy fules.

I don't think anyone seriously thinks you're "pro rape", kornrulez6969, but "oh, for crying out loud people, relax" is probably not the way to appease any of the people who you pissed off.

Xxpost this isn't really the subject matter of this thread, but rape jokes aren't funny, and they affect who feels comfortable participating in a given conversation/community, so yeah, i draw a line around them although i do charitably assume that you are not ''pro-rape''

GA satellites was one where I remember genuinely being surprised to find out it came from the latter half of the 80s, and not a full decade earlier.

xp

Georgia Satellites have kind of a telltale late 80s reverb sound to me

intheblanks - me too! Just figured it was 'southern rock' a la Skynyrd. I do hear the 80s sound now that I know, and generally it's a little too 'clean' but everything else is there.