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
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
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
i'd like to disavow the rape joke that followed
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
understood.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
FP'ed the rape joke
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
Oh for crying out loud people, relax. Nobody is pro rape. Goodness gracious.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
yes and yes. especially the ga satellites. there is no one who disapproves of them -- not bikers, not softies, not poxy fules.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
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.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
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''
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
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.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
Georgia Satellites have kind of a telltale late 80s reverb sound to me
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
Rio--Duran Duran
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of which:
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Back My Bullets (Live)
...some other southerners back me up on this, CR wise?
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
I'm not even a Southerner, but yes. I've totally heard that on CR radio.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
Don't know if I've heard that one, but one of the interesting things about going through the original list some dude posted is that there are total classic rock canon songs that I've never heard because the stations I've listened to just don't play them.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
xp don't know if it was the live or studio version I heard most, but yes on Gimme Back My Bullets
― Brad C., Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
Like I just listened to Skynyrd's "Simple Man" on Spotify, a song that as far as I can tell I've never heard in my whole life. But I feel like I've heard "Gimme Three Steps," "Freebird," "Mr. Saturday Night Special," etc. about a million times each.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, agreed - in particular, once you get past the top three airplay songs for people like Seger it becomes this land of total mystery.
I think I'm going to treat my ballot like a dream radio station, what I really would like to hear in my Labor Day countdown - which might mean one or two Beatles/Stones/Zep, but not a lot, because I'm happy to hear those on the LPs. Whereas I count on the radio to hit me up with some of this other stuff, and it's pleasing when it does. I learned my lesson buying the Rick Derringer album.
xpost you are so fucking lucky re: "simple man"
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
Did you ever see a she-gator protect her youngOr a fish in a river swimming free
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
it might be depressing but I would love some "where are they now" addendums once we get to the rollout, esp for the acts like Aldo Nova.
e.g.
rock stars who went back work.
― polyamanita (sleeve), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link