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

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.

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...

"Shooting Star" reminds me of being 8 years old

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.

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...

What obvious reasons?

Oh sorry, over here in America we have school shootings like every other day. Part of what makes us so especially sick!

Simple Man is as classic as it gets you insane people

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, June 19, 2014 2:55 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I heard it a few times on 98 Rock.

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

― how's life, Thursday, June 19, 2014

not "simple man" and never really got airplay afaik but K-CLASSIC skynyrd imo despite these dopey dopey lines.

re: Boston - I know the first-album stuff well, everything else is a mystery. Not to spam the thread into oblivion - but from the initial list, these are the ones that I'm not sure I've ever heard, period, let alone on CR radio. Not trying to hard-sell anything here, just I think it establishes how much variety there is between stations (and I suspect, time periods) because I listened to Atlanta's Z93 a lot. My best guess is that, you know, you make room in the rotation for "Free Fallin'," you gotta cut something, and it'll be a lower-status Bad Company hit, or w/e.

AC/DC – Have A Drink On Me
AC/DC – It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll)
AC/DC – Rock ‘n’ Roll AIn’t Noise Pollution
AC/DC – Shoot To Thrill
Aerosmith – Train Kept A-Rollin’
Alice Cooper – No More Mr. Nice Guy
Autograph – Turn Up The Radio
Bad Company – Burnin’ Sky
Bad Company – Ready For Love
Billy Squier – Everybody Wants You
Billy Squier – My Kinda Lover
Bob Seger – Against The Wind
Bob Seger – Fire Down Below
Bob Seger – Her Strut
Bob Seger – Hollywood Nights
Bob Seger – Rock & Roll Never Forgets
Boston – Feelin’ Satisfied
Bruce Springsteen – Badlands
Bruce Springsteen – The River
Bruce Springsteen – Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
Bruce Springsteen – Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
Bryan Adams – Cuts Like A Knife
Bryan Adams – Run To You
The Cars – Bye Bye Love
The Doors – Peace Frog
The Doors – Roadhouse Blues
The Doors – Touch Me
The Eagles – Heartache Tonight
Eddie Money – Shakin’
Electric Light Orchestra – Fire On High
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression, Part II)
Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight
Focus – Hocus Pocus
Foreigner – Blue Morning, Blue Day
Foreigner – Long, Long Way From Home
Foreigner - Urgent
George Thorogood – I Drink Alone
George Thorogood – Move It On Over
George Thorogood – One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
George Thorogood – Who Do You Love
Grateful Dead – Casey Jones
Jackson Browne – The Load-Out / Stay (Live)
Jackson Browne – The Pretender
Jackson Browne – Stay
Jefferson Starship – Jane
Jethro Tull – Locomotive Breath
Joe Walsh – All Night Long
Joe Walsh – Rocky Mountain Way
Journey – Lights
Journey – Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’
Journey – Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
Journey – Stone In Love
Judas Priest – You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’
Kiss – Shout It Out Loud
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Call Me The Breeze
Marshall Tucker Band – Can’t You See
Molly Hatchet – Flirtin’ with Disaster
Nazareth – Love Hurts
Neil Young – Southern Man
Outfield – Your Love
Ozzy Osbourne – Over The Mountain
Pete Townshend – Let My Love Open The Door
The Pretenders – Don’t Get Me Wrong
The Pretenders – Middle Of The Road
Ratt – Round And Round
REO Speedwagon – Time For Me To Fly
Rush – Closer To The Heart
Rush – Fly By Night
Rush - Freewill
Rush – Limelight
Rush – Spirit Of Radio
Rush - Subdivisions
The Scorpions – No One Like You
Steely Dan – Deacon Blues
Stevie Nicks – Stand Back
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Crossfire
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Pride And Joy
Styx – Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)
Styx – Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
Styx – Renegade
Styx – Too Much Time On My Hands
Talking Heads – Life During Wartime
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Here Comes My Girl
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – You Got Lucky
Van Halen – I’ll Wait
Van Halen – (Oh) Pretty Woman
Van Halen - Unchained
The Who – Eminence Front
The Who – Love Reign O’er Me
Yes - Roundabout
ZZ Top – Give Me All Your Lovin’
ZZ Top – Got Me Under Pressure
ZZ Top – I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide
ZZ Top – I Thank You

would add:

Marshall Tucker Band - Heard It In A Love Song
Greg Kihn Band - Jeopardy (on the "Take Me Home Tonight" principle, half-hearted grandfathering of old schmoes even if they're drifting away)

(add to the poll i mean, not to my psychotic list above)

it blows my mind that you've never heard any of those songs on the radio, most of them I ONLY know from radio

"Wonderful Tonight" the most mind-boggling entry on that list for some reason.

that song sucks so bad

Yeah, wow, most of those are total staples ime. I can't imagine a classic rock station that doesn't play these:

AC/DC – Shoot To Thrill
Bryan Adams – Cuts Like A Knife
Bryan Adams – Run To You
The Doors – Roadhouse Blues
The Eagles – Heartache Tonight
Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight
Foreigner - Urgent
Joe Walsh – Rocky Mountain Way
Journey – Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’
Rush – Fly By Night
The Scorpions – No One Like You
Styx – Renegade

not "simple man" and never really got airplay afaik but K-CLASSIC skynyrd imo despite these dopey dopey lines.

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, June 19, 2014 3:05 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's right, it's All I Can Do Is Write About It. And yeah it's dopey, but sweetly so and there aren't that many expressly environmental classic rock songs. One of my favorites. Agreed that it has never been a radio hit.