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

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.

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

in any situation with slow-dancing (weddings, school dances, etc.), you're going to hear it.

oh god, yes

Also, feel like regional differences coming to the fore in Doc's list. For example, the Atlanta station seems to have totally avoided Rush.

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.

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.

I've only heard Roundabout a few times in my life and I can't remember anything except the intro.

Huh, maybe I'm wrong about "Roundabout".

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

same -- maybe i've heard it, but i never knew what it was

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.

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.

i dunno about dreamy

*resisting urge to post "dream weaver" video*

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.

You should all listen to Roundabout right now.

i've heard it, i just don't know it very well!

i wish i could say the same for basically every Foreigner song

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 Reason
Marshall Tucker Band – Can’t You See
Outfield – Your Love

I'm gonna give them a listen and report back with gasface/yayface for all 4

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.

I'm singing The Breakup Song to my computer monitor like you can hear me, this is how sure I am of it.

The Breakup Song is really good!

uh uh uh uhuh uhuhuh

Oh shit VG these are all STONE CLASSIX you will be pleased

"Your Love" is a song that until a few years ago had always assumed was either by The Police or Men at Work.

This thread is definitely beginning to eat itself, but there's no way I'm going to be able to assemble the final list until after the weekend, so you guys will be able to continue tailgating until Monday at the absolute earliest. Please play nice, though, kids, I don't want us to have an Altamont situation before the show has even begun.

Ha, I knew "The Breakup Song" by heart but didn't know the title or artist until someone played it in plug some months back.

I don't want us to have an Altamont situation before the show has even begun

hey bikers, i know we've been talking about you a lot in this thread, but we did not mean to summon you here. please leave now. we'll hire our own security, thank you very much.

And please keep in mind that I'm more interested in nominating em all (that aren't clearly somehow outside the scope of the poll) and letting the electorate sort em out, so I would hate for the debates over what deserves just to be on the noms list get too ugly.

In Which Doctor Casino Listens to Classic Rock Classics for the First Time

lol

The Greg Kihn Band – The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)
yayface
ohhhhhhhhhhhh that song. Kinda like a low-rent cross between Billy Idol + Springsteen. I like it! Except the drums/etc sound really kinda dead, it's a shame

Head East - Never Been Any Reason ---
(yayface & a bit of gasface)
the keyboard is kinda gross & jarring & annoying. But I like the rest of the song a lot! never heard this before in my life

Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See ---
(yayface!!!!) omg loving it from the flute intro right away. I don't think I've heard it or them before but the song also sounds kinda familiar...might be just the classik southern rock structure. LOVE THIS. Right in my skynyrd/allman bros wheelhouse. I will be seeking out more Marshall Tucker for sure

Outfield - Your Love
(yayface)
ohhhhhhhhhhhh this song yeah I have heard this song a thousand times on the radio here and I never had any idea who sang it. dude sounds like Sting kinda? the only thing I don't like is that it gets kinda boring after you hear the chorus like a hundred times. but it's good!

Marshall Tucker definitely my favorite discovery of these, I'm hooked

Wondering if Head East were more a regional thing? They were from IL, I'm in MN, so I've heard this song a million times.

the keyboard in "never been any reason" is one of those things that's real awkward at first but becomes more endearing the more you hear it

There's an actual biker who lives a few houses down from me and when he rides around the streets in the morning he plays his radio loud--usually it's the Moody Blues.

"Stone in Love" - Classic or Greatest 4:25 In The History Of The Bay Area?

oh damn wrong thread. well, the point stands :)

Weird, never heard this Head East song before, not even on Chicago stations.

I'm putting on Head East now to see if I recognize it. (Answer: not so far)

Also, no joke, this is at the end of my street, about a 10s walk from my place: http://www.bikerschurch.com/