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

yes!!!

76. "Roll The Bones" weekends (DJ "throws" the "dice", number that comes up is how many tunes by whatever band gets played. Funny how when it's Blue Oyster Cult it's always a "1" but when it's Pink Floyd or The Who it's generally a "6".)

― henry s, Sunday, August 11, 2013 3:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ painfully OTM post on the "On Every AOR classic rock station ever" thread. I feel the same way about twofers and rock blocks, they're precalibrated to which bands the station is prepared to play two versus five songs of. If they actually did rock blocks for bands where you're used to only ever hearing one song, these stations would be so much better.

Being a classic rock deejay, if you're lucky enough to even still have a live-in-the-booth job, has got to be one of the most soul crushing jobs around. You probably like a great deal of music, but you have to play the same three Boston songs every three hours or else people will complain.

don't wanna play a Boston song
been doing this too long
AMANDA

haha

Never gets old...

Worst song!

:(

Being a classic rock deejay, if you're lucky enough to even still have a live-in-the-booth job, has got to be one of the most soul crushing jobs around. You probably like a great deal of music, but you have to play the same three Boston songs every three hours or else people will complain.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, June 23, 2014 1:24 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

One of our area pacifica DJ's used to moonlight as a substitute jock at a (now defunct) Clear Channel CR station. He later dished that they work from a shifting* 400 (iirc) song playlist culled from a much bigger masterlist, which generally couldn't be altered by on-air talent, which irked him because he is a big FM-era radio rock buff, wanted to spin stuff by Johnny Winter and Rory Gallagher.

*Shifting in that around 50-100 tracks (usually one hit wonders and lesser cuts from A-Team artists like the Beatles, Stones, Eagles, Zep, Floyd etc.) are cycled in and out of rotation every month or so against the constants ("Stairway" "Hotel" "Money" etc).

The Knack - My Sharona

i've heard Get The Led Out also referred to as "the Zep Set"

Yes, Zep Set. Also "Rock Blocks" for four songs in a row when it's not a weekend.

I don't know if any stations still do Zeptember (followed by the epic Blocktober) but that was definitely a thing when I was listening to alot of CR radio

Blocktober? Rocktober, surely!

Foghatuary never really caught on.

lol

Just listened to Yes – I’ve Seen All Good People. Had never heard that one before. Not sure how it ended up as canon. Reminds me of a lesser Doobie Brothers or something.

;_;

blocktober, like a block party weekend except ALL MONTH LONG

I always wonder if CR employees get excited about these things, and have, ilk, a "Blocktober" kick-off party or celebrate the success of the "Get the Led Out" initiative.

like, not ilk.

I am in a coin operated laundromat in Framingham ma, a break from my ailing mother in laws apartment. Played so far in here:
Hotel California
Jumping Jack Flash
Leather and Lace
Peace Of Mind
Benny & The Jets
Sweet Emotion

I thought "I've Seen All Good People" was pretty unique, actually. (It was released before the first Doobie Brothers album fwiw, although I don't know that I see the comparison, unless you're only talking about the second, lesser, movement.) The closest thing I could compare it to is CSNY but the hymn-like quality distinguishes it imo. It mostly works on the prettiness of the melody, Anderson's delivery, and the interaction with the counter-melodies. It's a pretty early prog track, not especially sophisticated in terms of compositional structure, compared to what Yes would go on to do (or even some other things on the same album, perhaps). There's not a terribly strong connection between the two movements, aside from the basic contrast. Yes's backing vocals can let them down a bit sometimes.

my local station has a lot of these things. "the vinyl frontier," every night at 11, they play one side of a classic album, at 5pm they play a live recording, on sunday mornings they play acoustic versions of songs, PLUS they get the led out and do twofer tuesdays and all that.

sunday we get Get the Led Out at 8-9, then Elwoods' Bluesmobile at 10-11 which I've never listened to but I think is a syndicated thing

"i've seen all good people" > "white rabbit" > "dirty work" in the category of classic rock chess references.

and, yeah, i've never much cared for the second half of "i've seen all good people" either.

Yes hits not getting enough love itt, i worry for my beloved "Roundabout."

"long distance runaround" is the yes song most likely to get my vote, though it's another one where i often check out somewhere in the middle of the wtf second half.

I do like the second part of "I've Seen All Good People" btw! I just think the first part is the real stunner; also, that the way the two parts are integrated is pretty crude compared to what they would become capable of.

CSN works too.

xps Definitely voting for Roundabout. There's a live version floating around that I like better than the studio version (mainly because it removes the intro), but even the studio version is great. Classic "DJ needs to go number 2" track.

Reading this I was like, "I think I'll listen to Yes" and I opened Spotify and it was still on Fragile from the last time I was reading this thread and thought, "I think I"ll listen to Yes."

I forget what all Yes songs we've nominated, but they'll probably all get a place on my ballot.

Straight bragging: Yes follows me on twitter because I tweeted something once about nobody liking Fragile as much as I like Fragile.

It was seriously the highlight of pretty much my entire Twitter experience.

^^ gets it

As always, I remain sooo envious of those of you whose classic rock stations play whole album sides and stuff, that would be so great.

Not CR, but I turned on the radio today to hear a DJ say "It's a Retro Tuesday here and we've been playing some lesser known bands for ya - - " (music starts playing) " - - that's Elton John, we play a lot of him, but, that's okay, because he's great! From 1983, here's 'I'm Still Standing.'"

This might be getting crazy, but I could almost imagine best/worst Classic Rock Artists subpolls - though the main rollout will obviously reflect this to some extent, I could see vote-splitting diluting the impact of some of the big-catalog figures.

Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky

Never used to hear that much, but I feel like it's gotten a new lease on life with post-2000 movie and TV use.

Where's "Turn To Stone" in CR terms?

In no universe have I heard long distance runaround or any 70s yes other than roundabout on the radio

This is a bad thing ftr

Also I want to note that after 90 minutes in that laundromat I now hate classic rock radio

I will get over it

This might be getting crazy, but I could almost imagine best/worst Classic Rock Artists subpolls - though the main rollout will obviously reflect this to some extent, I could see vote-splitting diluting the impact of some of the big-catalog figures.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, June 24, 2014 6:14 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, part of the reason i want a top 100 ballot is so people don't feel limited to a single token favorite Zep or favorite AC/DC song is they love several. definitely gonna do point totals for artists in the stats breakdown afterwards.

jon otm, the worst kind of classic rock exposure is when you are forced to listen to a lot of songs in a row without the ability to turn it off or leave etc

and honestly, that's usually when the universe conspires to play you the shittiest rock block ever

point totals for artists would do it! Nice.

Xpost it was just so utterly surpriseless even by CR radio standards. The most out there track I heard was that one john cougar mellencamp song I don't know the title of. (That's when a smoke was a smoke and groovin was groovin say yeah yeah)

"Cherry Bomb"

probably the 1987 track i'm most remorseful about cutting out of the poll's chronological purview, love that song.

haha! i used to call that song "laughin' laughin'" -- my friend and i used to lol and lol when we heard him sing that part
i can't even remember why aside from i think we thought the song was lame

being stuck listening to "love in an elevator" is among the worst classic rock experiences. i'd rather hear "don't fear the reaper" 5x in a row.
also forgot to mention that i got in the car the other day and "sultans of swing" was playing and it was HEAVEN (that was my first favorite song that i heard on the radio) and then the dumb DJ cut off the solo at the end! wtf?! disgusting and savage behavior.

I love Sultans so much!!! such a great song. criminal to cut the solo :( that whole Dire Straits album is such hardcore time/place music for me --- always think of a time in my life where every boy tried to wear a terrycloth headband because they wanted to be Knopfler. lol Was there ever a more unrock-guitar rockgod than him?