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

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.

Rio--Duran Duran

Speaking of which:

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Back My Bullets (Live)

...some other southerners back me up on this, CR wise?

I'm not even a Southerner, but yes. I've totally heard that on CR radio.

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.

xp don't know if it was the live or studio version I heard most, but yes on Gimme Back My Bullets

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.

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"

Did you ever see a she-gator protect her young
Or a fish in a river swimming free

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.

listening to Autograph - "Turn Up The Radio" right now - not that i imagine this will be a big vote-getter but no wayyyy is this classic rock IMO. Skimming the list again, I'm realizing how unfamiliar much of it actually is - don't know half the Seger, Bad Company, Boston songs. Maybe the second-tier hits really did fade out in the 90s, replaced by the 80s stuff that was starting to get accepted? To me, Bad Company is "Bad Company," "Feel Like Making Love," "Rock & Roll Fantasy," and at a push, "Can't Get Enough of Your Love" - that's it! Ironically, the classic rock nominations list is turning out to be a great source of new songs for me to check out...

Without checking, I think Aldo Nova did OK, mostly doing session work for people like Celine Dion and Michael Bolton?

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.

Good approach -- that's pretty much how I'll work my ballot too.

At its best, Classic Rock works such a devious one-two punch -- the comfort of familiarity plus regular bracing shocks of cold water in the face with stuff you know but haven't heard in x number of years. All in one listening session.

WAKE UP!
Lemme rock ya' to sleep...
WAKE UP!
Lemme rock ya' to sleep...

Unfortunately, the last few years I've heard a lot of "rock ya' to sleep" and not much WAKE UP!

Bad Company is the first three plus Shooting Star I mean come on Doctor Casino.

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/aldo-nova-mn0000618713/credits

xposts

how's life otm

Re:Simple Man. I generally like the Skynyrd hits, but that one sounded like Staind or something to me. Childhood radio stations otm for avoiding that one.

Simple Man is one of my favorite Skynyrds

along with ALL OF THE LYNYRD SKYNYRD :D

intheblanks I am FPing you for that

listening to shooting star right now - it's good but definitely not ringing any bells, IDK!

I'm just going to vote for the songs I like most fwiw. All these voting systems/strategies seem so complicated to me.

xposts Dr. Casino, I bet you'll recognize most of the Boston songs when you hear them.

Unfortunately my formative CR station played all those Bad Company songs, so I know them all too well.