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
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!
― 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
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― 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
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
― 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.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:01 (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, June 19, 2014
not "simple man" and never really got airplay afaik but K-CLASSIC skynyrd imo despite these dopey dopey lines.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
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 MeAC/DC – It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll)AC/DC – Rock ‘n’ Roll AIn’t Noise PollutionAC/DC – Shoot To ThrillAerosmith – Train Kept A-Rollin’Alice Cooper – No More Mr. Nice GuyAutograph – Turn Up The RadioBad Company – Burnin’ SkyBad Company – Ready For LoveBilly Squier – Everybody Wants YouBilly Squier – My Kinda LoverBob Seger – Against The WindBob Seger – Fire Down BelowBob Seger – Her StrutBob Seger – Hollywood NightsBob Seger – Rock & Roll Never ForgetsBoston – Feelin’ SatisfiedBruce Springsteen – BadlandsBruce Springsteen – The RiverBruce Springsteen – Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)Bruce Springsteen – Tenth Avenue Freeze-OutBryan Adams – Cuts Like A KnifeBryan Adams – Run To YouThe Cars – Bye Bye LoveThe Doors – Peace FrogThe Doors – Roadhouse BluesThe Doors – Touch MeThe Eagles – Heartache TonightEddie Money – Shakin’Electric Light Orchestra – Fire On HighEmerson, Lake & Palmer – Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression, Part II)Eric Clapton – Wonderful TonightFocus – Hocus PocusForeigner – Blue Morning, Blue DayForeigner – Long, Long Way From HomeForeigner - UrgentGeorge Thorogood – I Drink AloneGeorge Thorogood – Move It On OverGeorge Thorogood – One Bourbon, One Scotch, One BeerGeorge Thorogood – Who Do You LoveGrateful Dead – Casey JonesJackson Browne – The Load-Out / Stay (Live)Jackson Browne – The PretenderJackson Browne – StayJefferson Starship – JaneJethro Tull – Locomotive BreathJoe Walsh – All Night LongJoe Walsh – Rocky Mountain WayJourney – LightsJourney – Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’Journey – Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)Journey – Stone In LoveJudas Priest – You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’Kiss – Shout It Out LoudLynyrd Skynyrd – Call Me The BreezeMarshall Tucker Band – Can’t You SeeMolly Hatchet – Flirtin’ with DisasterNazareth – Love HurtsNeil Young – Southern ManOutfield – Your LoveOzzy Osbourne – Over The MountainPete Townshend – Let My Love Open The DoorThe Pretenders – Don’t Get Me WrongThe Pretenders – Middle Of The RoadRatt – Round And RoundREO Speedwagon – Time For Me To FlyRush – Closer To The HeartRush – Fly By NightRush - FreewillRush – LimelightRush – Spirit Of RadioRush - SubdivisionsThe Scorpions – No One Like YouSteely Dan – Deacon BluesStevie Nicks – Stand BackStevie Ray Vaughan - CrossfireStevie Ray Vaughan – Pride And JoyStyx – Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)Styx – Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)Styx – RenegadeStyx – Too Much Time On My HandsTalking Heads – Life During WartimeTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Here Comes My GirlTom Petty & The Heartbreakers – You Got LuckyVan Halen – I’ll WaitVan Halen – (Oh) Pretty WomanVan Halen - UnchainedThe Who – Eminence FrontThe Who – Love Reign O’er MeYes - RoundaboutZZ Top – Give Me All Your Lovin’ZZ Top – Got Me Under PressureZZ Top – I’m Bad, I’m NationwideZZ Top – I Thank You
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
would add:
Marshall Tucker Band - Heard It In A Love SongGreg Kihn Band - Jeopardy (on the "Take Me Home Tonight" principle, half-hearted grandfathering of old schmoes even if they're drifting away)
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link
(add to the poll i mean, not to my psychotic list above)
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
it blows my mind that you've never heard any of those songs on the radio, most of them I ONLY know from radio
― polyamanita (sleeve), Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
"Wonderful Tonight" the most mind-boggling entry on that list for some reason.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
that song sucks so bad
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
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 ThrillBryan Adams – Cuts Like A KnifeBryan Adams – Run To YouThe Doors – Roadhouse BluesThe Eagles – Heartache TonightEric Clapton – Wonderful TonightForeigner - UrgentJoe Walsh – Rocky Mountain WayJourney – Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’Rush – Fly By NightThe Scorpions – No One Like YouStyx – Renegade
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
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
― 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.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:21 (ten years ago) link
yeah, not advocating for "Wonderful Tonight". Just feel like in any situation with slow-dancing (weddings, school dances, etc.), you're going to hear it.
xp
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
in any situation with slow-dancing (weddings, school dances, etc.), you're going to hear it.
oh god, yes
― polyamanita (sleeve), Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
Also, feel like regional differences coming to the fore in Doc's list. For example, the Atlanta station seems to have totally avoided Rush.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:24 (ten years ago) link
OTM re "Wonderful Tonight". Tbh, I'm also pretty surprised that someone who listens to a lot of classic rock and reads message board threads on the subject would have never heard "Roundabout". I can understand hating it but it seems like the sort of thing a classic rock listener would have an opinion on.
xposts Yeah, is there a North/South divide there re Rush? They seem to be a total staple on CR stations in the Northern US.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
I live in Atlanta and Rush definitely get played on CR radio now. I can't speak for Z93 in the 80s/90s because I can only barely remember it.
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
I've only heard Roundabout a few times in my life and I can't remember anything except the intro.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
Huh, maybe I'm wrong about "Roundabout".
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
I guess they've dropped off CHEZ's all-time greatest songs list too.
yeah, I've never heard "Roundabout" on the radio & I can't really remember how it goes, though I've listened to it before
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
same -- maybe i've heard it, but i never knew what it was
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link
We definitely used to hear "Tom Sawyer" but I kinda think that was the beginning and end of it. Atlanta's a weird test case - the population's mostly transplants from the north in the 50s and 60s, so I imagine a more "southern" city would be even more down-the-line, and probably load up on obscure Skynyrd. Atlanta probably got the middle of the road, not too much of anything in particular, which makes it kind of bland. Clearly prog didn't thrive down there, but even some of the northern meat-and-potatoes acts (again, Seger) seem to have not had the same depth of CR play, but their big songs were totally huge. I wish I'd had access to this more diverse playlist!
Listening to Don't Look Back reminds me though why the "hairy bikers" angle isn't quite right either - this is aspirational theme music for sensitive heroes who are going to take you sailing through the sky on prismatic guitars. There's this huge utopian hangover from the 60s, taking different forms than the rugged rebel on the motorcycle. I believe what we achieved / will soon be left behind! Classic rock is as dreamy as it is anything else.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:31 (ten years ago) link
i could easily program a classic rock station with nothing but you list of songs you've never heard, dr. casino. i'm intrigued by this. i'd love to do that and force you to listen, preferably in a laboratory setting with you all wired up and machines recording your physical and emotional responses. or maybe just start a thread where you have to listen to one of these per day and say something about each one, in real time. i have a feeling science could learn from this.
i have a separate feeling that you'd find yourself repeatedly saying, "oh wait, i know that one, i just never knew what it was." but maybe i'm entirely wrong about that. regional/generational/etc differences fascinate me.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
i dunno about dreamy
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link
*resisting urge to post "dream weaver" video*
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
hahah i am down for this experiment but you may be right about at least some of them. I checked "Wonderful Tonight" at least - I totally know that (boring) song. "Urgent" - I got up to the chorus going "yeah, don't know this, but it's pretty cool at least until dude starts singing, I like the spacy creepy sound, sorta Sunglasses At Night, would be a good dystopian sci-fi soundtrack song" - and then he starts going URRG ENT URRG ENT and I realized I heard this on an XM station a few months ago or something. Definitely did not hear it growing up though.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
You should all listen to Roundabout right now.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
i've heard it, i just don't know it very well!
i wish i could say the same for basically every Foreigner song
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:55 (ten years ago) link
These are my songs off the OG list that I have no idea about whatsoever.
The Greg Kihn Band – The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)Head East – Never Been Any ReasonMarshall Tucker Band – Can’t You SeeOutfield – Your Love
I'm gonna give them a listen and report back with gasface/yayface for all 4
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link
I never realized how much I actually love Foreigner. Lou Gramm's voice just kinda hooks me I guess. Except Dirty White Boy. I can't really get into that one for some reason.
You should all listen to it right now even if you've heard it, I meant. It will be like that scene in Magnolia except we'll all listen to Roundabout and hopefully it won't rain frogs.
xp I would be folding money you know The Breakup Song and the Marshall Tucker Band song.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 19 June 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link
I'm singing The Breakup Song to my computer monitor like you can hear me, this is how sure I am of it.