So many potential supergroups. Earth, Stills & Fire would be something.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
Bummer when Neil Young split midway through his tour with Wind in '76.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
Emerson, Wind & Young
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
Roger Hodgson - Had a Dream
I was super into this when it came out, haven't thought about it in decades
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
Seals, Crofts, Crofts, Seals, Crofts & Crofts
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
Earth, Wind, Lake & Fire - that group had everything
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
Hamilton Joe Frank Reynolds Seals Crofts Earth Wind Fire Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Titch
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
Anderson, Buford, Fire, Palmer and the Family Stone
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
Crosby with Wind is the worst combination ever
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
otm, i hope some dude is ruthlessly precise w/ what makes the Official Nominations list
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
::brandishes scalpel::
― some dude, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
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
― some dude, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
do any of these grateful dead songs, not yet mentioned itt, get classic rock play anywhere these days?
shakedown streetuncle john's bandu.s. bluesfire on the mountainfriend of the devilplaying 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.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
I've never heard any Grateful Dead song on the radio besides "Touch of Grey."
― guwop (crüt), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
"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
― Euler, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
another nom: Linda Ronstadt, "When Will I Be Loved"
― Euler, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
*ahead
I've heard Touch of Grey and Box of Rain both recently.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
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.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
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.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
i love box of rain.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
i hate touch of grey
so so so much
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
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.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
:(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
I don't feel tardy.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
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.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, June 25, 2014 10:06 PM (12 minutes ago)
Well, to me classic rock is emphatic head nodding in a car, or air guitaring, or just... choogling away. 'Good Vibrations' doesn't connote any of those activities to me.
I mean, I'm from the UK so haven't had first-hand experience of the true American classic rock stations, so I have to go with my own exposure and gut feelings about this stuff.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
xp haha chipmunk harmonies, yes.
I just heard Panama again today. I'm tired of hearing about David Lee Roth's wang, guys.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
Had a similar experience with some song I barely know, or don't know at all, by (what turned out to be) Triumph over the weekend. Wretched on every level.
― wild-eyed, high-volume bursts of pious indignation (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
I think if I were to vote for any Van Halen it'd be "Running with the Devil." PANAMA! is really fun in a cartoonish way but it's hard for me to take tit seriously.
emil.y otm about "Good Vibrations" - I love that song, and it might end up on my list, but not near the top. My ballot is heavily weighted by how close songs hew to my own vague ideal of "classic rock."
― guwop (crüt), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
TS: Classic Rock Wangs- Roth vs. Jagger vs. Plant vs. Mercury vs. Rogers vs. Bowie vs...
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
"The Lizard King"
― guwop (crüt), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
xpost Bon Scott cmon
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
it's hard for me to take tit seriously
My next dn.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
If we're talking peacocks, you cannot exclude Bruce
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
who wants to do the ballot poll
― guwop (crüt), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
I remember because imo Box of Rain is one of those songs specifically designed to make people cry.
Freaks and Geeks sort of cemented this effect forever for me
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
I listened to 1984 from beginning to end a couple of weeks ago for the first time since it was new and had some sort of ecstatic experience. It's like a gold played Irish setter that wants to lick your face til your forehead eye gets exposed. Just really love the way that album sounds.
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
Agreed. Drop Dead Legs, House of Pain and Top Jimmy have all aged really well.
― Darin, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
Van Halen's first 4 albums were such transcendent, ecstatic experiences. They reach previously unknown realms of joy and sonic sensuality. Dave's voice is the sound of freedom. [/youtube comment]
― brimstead, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
rad youtube
― some dude, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
Bowie in Labyrinth >>>>>>>>>>> Plant >>>>>>>>>>> infinity over all other CR Wangs.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:56 (nine years ago) link