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

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

And if we're including the Clash, maybe "I Fought the Law"?

OK: I plan to read this whole fucker and digest what's been said, but looking at the initial list, it reminds me why listening to classic rock at, say, my father in law's house over the holidays or some place where everybody else enjoys it or doesn't pay attention to it drives me fuckin' crazy.

probly 3/4s of those songs I like or love or are among my favorite songs ever made. but taken as an unchanging canon, the soundtrack of the mid-late 20th century overclass, Lee Abrams' legacy and the body of popular music held up as, like, when music wuz good, before african americans and MTV and so forth forgot their place, makes my skin crawl. Maybe the fact that I'm 43 accounts for a lot of this, but any five songs above played together, combined with Schmucky and FuckFace talking about how great Seger is and that there will be dollar drafts at Patty O Furniture's this Tuesday, is infuriating.

I live in Ditmas Park, BK and don't have a car. But after FCC urged me to contribute to this thread, I walked over to my friends house and picked up his car as he will be going away for a week. Got in the car, thought of this thread, held my breath and turned on Q104.3, Clear Channel's NYC flagship. And there was "I don't care any more" a now overlooked Phil Collins tune. "In the air tonight" has no power any longer, but this tune retains to me how eccentric his shit could be.

And then "Come together" came on. Fuck if I was gonna listen to that! Spent the rest of the hour listening to pop/r&b/the new NYC country station. Listened to three tunes on the latter about trucks and chicks and drinking that probly annoy people who live in the south, but sounded great to me, as I think pop music should always have songs about partying and wanting to fuck or fucking chicks/guys but am not regularly exposed to the likes of Florida Georgia Line or Jason Aldean or Miranda Lambert. Also heard Tre songz "Na Na," Katy Perry "Birthday" Icona Pop "I Love it" which I love, and a bunch of IDM/Avicii-sounding songs which I don't. But they all sound alive. Unlike the effect of listening to Classic rock.

later we should talk about how there really was no classic rock until, say, 1986 (preceded by AOR, which did play new shit, but only by "rock artists." That's when the door was slammed shut, and only GnR, Metallica, U2, a few Clash songs, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Green Day and the Red Hot Chili Peppers were allowed in.

not only is "Come Together" the most played Beatles song on contemporary CR radio, the Aerosmith version is played more than the original. it's kind of a perfect emblem for what sucks about the format.

the Aerosmith version is played more than the original.

...ugh, really?

not gonna get in the habit of spilling out the airplay stats i have, but yeah

tbf, Aerosmith's version is just as classic as the film it's from.

otm

some dude, don't hold back on yr stats

I hope to hell he saves them for the rollout.