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

xpost There was a period where AOR stations were playing rootsy stuff like Steve Earle, the Bodeans and Los Lobos alongside the Zep and Floyd, but that music never really made the leap to the classic rock format alongside Georgia Sat. etc. Not popular enough I guess.

xp yeah, i gesso. i just think of them both as MTV bands.

I wish I could say with any certainty that I'd heard Hot Chocolate's "Every 1's A Winner" on CR radio before, because I want to vote for it, but I think the chances that happened are very slim. Even though it's kind of disco/funk, I always lump it in with Billy Squier and the like.

Ugh, "Copperhead Road" is a staple on CHEZ.

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

oh mannn check out "Heard It In A Love Song" if you don't know it, flute is all over it and it's basically a big meditation on making poor/asshole love/life decisions because of the subconscious influence of pop music, aka the ILM manifesto

"breakup song" is the shit though, they just don't write 'em like that anymore ;_;

Copperhead Road is awesome fuid

In honor of classic rock I had some guys deliver a refrigerator to my house today

what was playing on the truck radio?

I had to check in with SF's own 1077 the Bone and the last half hour has been
The Stroke
New Years Day
Sweet Emotion
Working Man

I really dig The Bone, they play good stuff

lol pun not intended

threefer reefer with the weedman, what's not to like

lol otm

i thought it was joke when I first heard Steven Seaweed's name

Is THE BONE the one with the morning jocks you can't figure out why they haven't been put in sacks and dropped in the bay?

cf every classic rock station everywhere

no these guys are definitively worse

I hope they use "When The Bullet Hits The Bone" for station IDs, at least.

another brief listen on my way in to work, trying to get a feel for what does/doesn't get played these days:

"Here Comes My Girl" - Tom Petty
"Come Together" - The Beatles
"Free Will" - Rush
"Double Vision" - Foreigner
"Too Much Time On My Hands" - Styx

last few songs on my station:

Whitesnake- Here I Go Again
Eddie Money- Shakin'
ZZ Top- La Grange
Beastie Boys- Fight For Your Right to Party
Paul McCartney- Maybe I'm Amazed
Pink Floyd- Brain Damage
Billy Idol- White Wedding
Ozzy- No More Tears
Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
Aersmith- Draw the Line
Kiss- Love Gun
Rush- Closer to the Heart
Styx- The Grand Illusion

Tonight I got:

Boz Scaggs: Lido Shuffle
Foghat: Slow Ride
Tom Petty: Free Fallin'
Kansas: Carry On My Wayward Son
Led Zeppelin: Black Dog

felt like I got classic rock radio Yahtzee, lol

in some alternate universe Jason and the Nashville Scorchers are classic rock and everybody is really tired of hearing "Absolutely Sweet Marie" and "Broken Whiskey Glass" over and over again

i wish I could add Oz rock to the mix. so much cheesy pub rock demanding to be unleashed lol

Doctor Casino OTM about "Heard It in a Love Song" ... the first six Marshall Tucker Band albums are a pretty solid run

Santana - No One to Depend On
Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the Jar

Cream - Badge

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

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, June 19, 2014 4:21 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wow. I grew up in Chicago and this song was massive

People not familiar with Marshall Tucker should check out "Take the Highway". It's a jam especially the various live versions.

Dave Mason -"You Know and I Know". Not sure if that's the right title.

Only one Thin Lizzy song??

ONE?

and Cat Stevens should be on here with at leaaaast 2 tracks. First Cut Is The Deepest, Wild World.

But besides that, I like.

I feel like I've been hearing Cat Stevens on the radio forever but who knows

There are a couple other Thin Lizzy nominations in the thread itself, and I think some dude mentioned hearing Cowboy Song on his local cr station the other day, so that should be in there.

Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song

speaking of thin lizzy, why isn't "wild one" a classic rock radio staple?

I've never heard Cowboy Song on the radio, but I don't care, that's a serious contender for number one for me.

someone saying that of a song is a huge red flag for me to NOT have it on the nominations list, to be honest.

trolling around a few rust belt classic rock station web pages looking for playlists, I'm disappointed a) that so many of them have "babes of the day" and b) how many of them have THE SAME "babe of the day"

Never heard "Cowboy Song" on the radio before, CR or otherwise.

ditto, though I wish I had!

can i just

http://i.imgur.com/SiRscpM.jpg

i have heard Cowboy Song on the radio you bastards

lol gr8080

hahahahaha

Is THE BONE the one with the morning jocks you can't figure out why they haven't been put in sacks and dropped in the bay?

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, June 19, 2014 3:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cf every classic rock station everywhere

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, June 19, 2014 3:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no these guys are definitively worse

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, June 19, 2014 3:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dropping these guys into the bay is too good for them.

christ

D:

The weekday on-air staff at The Bone consists of Lamont & Tonelli (with "Super Producer" Sully, Baby Huey & Chasta), Steven Seaweed, Tim Jeffreys, Nikki Blakk.

Re: Cowboy Song. I've never heard it on the radio, but it's a rock song released in 1976 by a classic rock band, from an album (Jailbreak) with two classic rock radio staples ("The Boys Are Back in Town" and the title track) and was released as the third single in the US behind the first two songs. I understand leaving it off if the poll is meant to be a survey of the best songs of "classic rock radio," but "Cowboy Song" unquestionably belongs to genre of Classic Rock as we understand it today and should be included if this is a genre poll.

it's not a genre poll. it's a radio format poll.

I think my criterion for voting is going to be whether I want to turn it up or turn it off

xp then there you have it. it might be a little too deep for the poll