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

man I love eyes without a face so much
it feels too far over the top 40 side of the fence to me tho. idk.
magnet & steel OTM

y'all need to stop with this reaper-baiting itt. That song is is untouchable IMO, like "Eight Miles High" "Buzzards and Dreadful Crows" "Queen of Eyes" "Dancing Days" untouchable. I don't think I'm just blinded by my BOC fandom either, I mean I don't want Godzilla on this fkin poll even though it well qualifies.

charlie daniels "In America" was one of the first 45s I ever bought, luckily I did not take its sentiments on board in my developing brain. I wish I'd heard "Wooly Swamp" when I was little instead.

I can't look at the full list rn but all three of those C Daniels joints need to be on here if they aren't already

"Devil...Georgia"
"The Legend of Wooly Swamp"
"In America" (CR Grossness in excelsis)
maybe "Stroker Ace" too?

like "Eight Miles High" "Buzzards and Dreadful Crows" "Queen of Eyes" "Dancing Days" untouchable

would love to listen to that classic-rock station at my laundromat.

Heart - These Dreams
Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield
PhD - I Won't Let You Down

fuck yeah these dreams
i assume Hit Me With Your Best Shot is already on? (all-time CR guitar solo on there, I can still sing every note from memory)

y'all need to stop with this reaper-baiting itt.
otm AND reaper-baiting in general is not a good idea! every time hear that song i kinda space out and then i hear "don't fear the reaper, don't be afraid, take my hand" and i'm momentarily terrified that i am going to get into a car wreck within a matter of seconds. it's a reminder that i should probably fear the reaper.

I love "Reaper," but it was years before I knew it had a scary-ass midsection solo; the AM radio edit didn't have that.

DON'T BAIT THE REAPER

love that midsection solo, so great

I wish there were more BOC songs to nom but really most of their FM gems didn't quite break through the way they should have. Oh fuck it.

Blue Oyster Cult - Shooting Shark

Never heard it.

It was an AOR hit for several years. idk.

I'm just being contrary. It is The ILX Way.

Did Molly Hatchet have any popular CR tracks or did everyone just buy them for the covers?

(vague memories of whoa-ohhh-oh-oh BACK STABBA!)

Flirtin' With Disaster needs to be on here if it's not already

Only one I've ever heard is "Flirtin' with Disaster." The vocalist sounds like a Muppet, but the rest is 4th-rate Skynyrd meh.

how dare you, they are def a 2nd rate Skynyrd, give some credit ;)

I don't know if they still play it but Black Betty by Ram Jam was a CR staple for years

That gets heavy rotation on Chicago CR stations, that's for sure. I heard it yesterday and once today, two different stations.

oh totally, it was in my list of nominations right off the bat!

i have a 12" of Black Betty with a pretty lol but also pretty cool 90s house mix of it

John Parr - St Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)
Fischer-Z - So Long
Herman Brood & His Wild Romance - Saturday Night
Status Quo - Rockin' All Over The World
Status Quo - Whatever You Want
Status Quo - The Wanderer
Status Quo - In The Army Now
Bill Wyman - (Si Si) Je Suis Un Rockstar
REO Speedwagon - Don't Let Him Go
Stevie Nicks - Rooms On Fire
Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You
Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is
Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize
Slade - My Oh My
Slade - Mama Weer All Crazee Now
Slade - Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me

Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra

Don Johnson - Heartbeat
Alan Parsons Project - Old And Wise
Vandenberg - Burning Heart

Still love that guitar solo at the end of Burning Heart - sums up the whole "classic rock" thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGSrv1GnXMM

Landed him the job in Whitesnake too, I guess...

there is a conspic absence in your slade noms siegbran. Do you have some kind of problem with Terms of Psychic Warfare Run Runaway?

(xp) Yeah, awesome! We need more Dutch music in this poll!

For your consideration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1pCWToiDL8
Cuby and the Blizzards - Appleknockers Flophouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTXVN6VOHa0
Brainbox - Doomsday Train

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzHRLTHoU38
Earth & Fire - Ruby is the One

John Miles - Music
Joe Walsh - In the City
Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law
Sad Café - My Oh My
Billy Idol - Flesh For Fantasy
Roger Hodgson - Had a Dream
Charlie Sexton - Beat's So Lonely
Stray Cats - (She's) Sexy and 17
Power Station - Some Like It Hot
Dire Straits - Twisting by the Pool
The Call - Everywhere I Go
The Rainmakers - Let My People Go-Go

some of these recent noms seem more like songs that were once played on rock radio, but that didn't make the jump to Classic Rock status

I feel like some dude has been pretty clear, this is All American USA Classic Rock (tm) that we're talking here

I am going with a vague definition of classic rock radio as it existed in America (and probably Canada, maybe other places but I really have no idea)

"Rooms on Fire" def too late.

Earth & Fire cracks me up for some reason, even though they actually pre-date Earth, Wind & Fire.

Rare Earth - I Just Want To Celebrate

Yeah, I was just thinking they really changed their sound after they added Wind to the group.

Or it's like Crosby & Nash, where their temperaments were better fits for each other, and they made some records together between EW&F records.

So many potential supergroups. Earth, Stills & Fire would be something.

Bummer when Neil Young split midway through his tour with Wind in '76.

Emerson, Wind & Young

Roger Hodgson - Had a Dream

I was super into this when it came out, haven't thought about it in decades

Seals, Crofts, Crofts, Seals, Crofts & Crofts

Earth, Wind, Lake & Fire - that group had everything

Hamilton Joe Frank Reynolds Seals Crofts Earth Wind Fire Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Titch

to be clear, one of the areas in which i'm probably going to give some leeway in allowing nominations is songs that are considered classic rock outside the US or were rock radio staples of yesteryear that don't necessarily get played anywhere in 2014. if those stay in the nominations list and get a few votes, i see no harm. i'm far more interested in weeding out a) post-1986 songs, b) proto-alternative type stuff that got progressive radio play but was never really in the classic rock lineage and c) well loved but rarely played cuts like Thin Lizzy's "Cowboy Song" that people might be tempted to vote for even if they never heard it on the radio.

Anderson, Buford, Fire, Palmer and the Family Stone

Crosby with Wind is the worst combination ever

lol

the exclusions are super key IMO - esp b) and c) otherwise it just becomes the list of ILM's favored 70s rock music. I wish half this shit had jumped from current-rock play to classic-rock playlists, but it just didn't.

I do get Status Quo coming in on principle - - I've never once heard their music on the radio but I'm sympathetic to the idea that if the UK has anything like a classic rock format (even if it's one hour on alternate Wednesdsays, after tea), Status Quo is what they would play. Also, the Bavarian bus driver I used to ride with when I chaperoned study abroad trips was big on "Rockin' All Over The World," and nothing says classic rock like what a professional bus or truck driver would choose to blast over the speakers when cruisin' down the open road.

Btw, have y'all heard the stuff Rare put out after Earth hit the road with Wind? Fuckin' wild, though not very CR.