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

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.

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.

otm, i hope some dude is ruthlessly precise w/ what makes the Official Nominations list

::brandishes scalpel::

actually, it looks like I should be able to get the voting thread into gear tomorrow or early Friday, so let me just make an official announcement:

nominations closing on Thursday, so get in any remaining suggestions ASAP

do any of these grateful dead songs, not yet mentioned itt, get classic rock play anywhere these days?

shakedown street
uncle john's band
u.s. blues
fire on the mountain
friend of the devil
playing in the band

there was a time when they were rock radio staples, at least in my native northeast, but i'm not sure if "rock" dead ever successfully transitioned to "classic rock" dead.

I've never heard any Grateful Dead song on the radio besides "Touch of Grey."

"Casey Jones" is a classic rock staple too, but I've never heard any of the ones on fcc's list on classic rock radio

I've only heard "Grey," "Casey Jones, "Truckin'," "Uncle John's Band," and yeah, that's it.

Used to hear "Jack Straw" all the time on WXRT in Chicago (years before I knew it was a Dead song), but that's not a "classic rock" station.

Status Quo are definitely definitely UK classic rock. If I manage to vote, I will be attempting to organise my ballot in 'best and most fitting style' - e.g. while I think 'Good Vibrations' is amazing, it does not fit my idea of true Classic Rock, so would be unlikely to make the cut.

another nom: Linda Ronstadt, "When Will I Be Loved"

Only Quo I've heard on US cr radio was "Pictures of Matchstick Men," and only on a deep-cut throwbacky show, and only once.

I wouldn't vote for them because I hate them, but the Quo tracks for this poll would be 'Rockin All Over the World' and 'In the Army Now'. 'Pictures of Matchstick Men' gets play, but I kind of think of it as their pre-CR stage.

But yeah, if you guys want to keep it All American, then go ahea, it makes it simpler. But to me Status Quo completely fit the remit.

*ahead

I've heard Touch of Grey and Box of Rain both recently.

while I think 'Good Vibrations' is amazing, it does not fit my idea of true Classic Rock, so would be unlikely to make the cut.

madness! "good vibrations" may not sound exactly like skynyrd or zep or styx, but it was a spiritual godfather, and template provider, and inspiration to so many of classic rock's most epic moments, the pele to their neymar.

I remember because imo Box of Rain is one of those songs specifically designed to make people cry.. That's something else I think about with this songs -- they have been on the radio my whole life. How many people's monumental life moments occurred while they were listening to CR radio? Probably a lot! Imagine how much crying these songs have inspired and you will drown in tears. That's poignant. I'll take it.

i love box of rain.

i hate touch of grey

so so so much

also i heard "hot for teacher" yesterday on my way home at like 1am and it sounded atrocious, like the worst song ever. i can't stand the harmonies or basically anything about that song.

:(

I don't feel tardy.

it's not just that song tbh - aside from maybe "ain't talkin bout love" and "panama" i don't think i like any of their songs. the chipmunk harmonies are really grating to me for some reason.