It absolutely gets played.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 16:03 (ten 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!
radio format in playing-white-appropriations-of-black-music-but-not-black-music-itself shockah.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 19 June 2014 16:05 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
<3 oh Dobie
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 16:08 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Or if it's a Twofer Tuesday, rape and murder
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
...
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:04 (ten years ago) link
stay classy xp
― polyamanita (sleeve), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:04 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
i'd like to disavow the rape joke that followed
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:07 (ten years ago) link
understood.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
FP'ed the rape joke
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:11 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Oh for crying out loud people, relax. Nobody is pro rape. Goodness gracious.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:19 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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.
xp
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:31 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Rio--Duran Duran
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:36 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
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...
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
Without checking, I think Aldo Nova did OK, mostly doing session work for people like Celine Dion and Michael Bolton?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
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!
― WilliamC, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link
Bad Company is the first three plus Shooting Star I mean come on Doctor Casino.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/aldo-nova-mn0000618713/credits
xposts
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
how's life otm
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
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.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
Simple Man is one of my favorite Skynyrds
along with ALL OF THE LYNYRD SKYNYRD :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
intheblanks I am FPing you for that
listening to shooting star right now - it's good but definitely not ringing any bells, IDK!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
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.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
Unfortunately my formative CR station played all those Bad Company songs, so I know them all too well.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
Wasn't "I Don't Like Mondays" always sort of a classic rock staple? I'm sure they don't play it now for obvious reasons...
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
"Shooting Star" reminds me of being 8 years old
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
I'm just going to vote for the songs I like most fwiw.
otm. this is a poll that should require no research, no re-evaluating, no nothing, maybe not even any listening. if it ain't already in your head, it ain't classic.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link
What obvious reasons?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
Oh sorry, over here in America we have school shootings like every other day. Part of what makes us so especially sick!
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
Simple Man is as classic as it gets you insane people
― g simmel, Thursday, 19 June 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link