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

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nominating:

rolling stones - street fighting man (which i was reminded of just now when "jumping jack flash" came on the radio and for a few seconds i thought it was "street fighting man," and i see it hasn't been mentioned yet)

my local classic rock radio has also in the past hour reminded me of what a fantastic song eddie money's "baby hold on" is.

PANAMA! is really fun in a cartoonish way but it's hard for me to take tit seriously.

I don't think it takes itself seriously, which is part of the fun. Yeah, Roth's a total buffoon (and the tension between "does he know he's a buffoon?" "no, he doesn't know he's a buffoon" is 90% of his appeal), but Alex' snare sound makes up for so much in their catalog.

I remember Eddie saying in an interview that he wanted VH to mean to kids what Zep did. Well, no. VH doesn't do that. You're fun-time asshole party schmucks. That's what you do.

irl lol @ CR Wangs

I'm pretty stoked to vote for the majority of the Halen singles here, fuckin' love all of those, so much energy. And the backing vocals are perfect, Johnny Fever OTM a decade ago: "The thing Michael Anthony gets the least credit for is his backing vocals... dude sings like a little cherub." Dance the Night Away would be nothing without those elevating ahhh-AHHH-AHHHs, they seem to understand instinctively that when you're a lusty teenager, lust can include the deep-seated but inarticulable believe that the lust object is also the angel, in whose presence all that is evil vanishes to nothing. This line runs directly back to the Beach Boys and so I think "Good Vibrations" is fine here, and I do think I've heard it on classic rock, more than anything else by them surely. It's a shame the format turned its backs on their 70s stuff; "Surf's Up" and "Sail On Sailor" would be kinda great leavening in the CR mix. If they'd been by other bands, maybe.

"Surf's Up" and "Sail On Sailor" would be kinda great leavening in the CR mix. If they'd been by other bands, maybe.

"sail on sailor" pretty much WAS by another band! they just forgot to change the band name.

reading DLR's autobio is transcendent

YES, Crazy From The Heat easily one of the best rock memoirs ever

my local classic rock radio has also in the past hour reminded me of what a fantastic song eddie money's "baby hold on" is.

YES. Love this one. Also very good for singing to an actual baby.

any beach boys, whether the early 60s hits or Pet Sounds or Carl running shit afterwards or whatever, has never been germane to the classic rock gestalt whatsoever. CR radio might as well play Phil Spector or MoTown if they fuck with the Beach Boys.

Status Quo has not one thing to do with classic rock radio as it has existed in the US, because no one in the US other than rock nerds know who they are. If the UK had classic rock radio, then they would be like Boston or Eddie Money or BOC. But that ain't the case. the Grateful Dead's CR tunes are "truckin" "Casey Jones" and "Friend of the Devil" and other songs I would cite were I not puking mu guts out.

Do you guys know who Jim Ladd is? He is or was a DJ for some LA radio station, and is like the most classic rock guy that's ever existed. He's a caricature.

I always forget that 'baby hold on' is Eddie Money

great song

"Baby Hold On" iirc has a kind of cool mellotron or something delivering a hook that caught my exotica inclined grade school ear.

I said UH

clap!

Hold on

clap!

UH

clap!

Hold on to me tight

<3

second thought, Status Quo is really like the Doobie Bros or Skynnyrd for the UK. maybe there were other UK bands like that, but 1977/year zero erased them from memory? Or do Foghat count as such? makes me think that Humble Pie were HUGE in the UK and U.S., boogie warlords, but their shit doesn't get played on CR radio.

"Cowboy Song"

???

Humble Pie is decidedly underserved by US CR radio. You might hear "30 Days In The Hole" once in a while, but that's it.

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any beach boys, whether the early 60s hits or Pet Sounds or Carl running shit afterwards or whatever, has never been germane to the classic rock gestalt whatsoever

agreed vis-a-vis the early 60s hits, pet sounds and carl running shit, but completely disagree vis-a-vis "good vibrations," which is none of those things. it is a foundational track of the proggy multi-part epic school of classic rock, up there with "a day in the life," and if you can't segue "good vibrations" out of "roundabout" or "don't stop believin'" or "carry on wayward son," well then i'll just find me another classic rock dj who can.

carl otm

here's a list of Q104.3's top 1043 songs of all time:

http://www.q1043.com/common/top_songs/2013.html

never ever heard any Beach Boys on any classic rock format, whether any song should be therein in a rock critic-approved sense of influencing prog or not. as far as clear channel is concerned, they are oldies.

SO! how about ariana grande and Iggy azalea's "problem?" I like it more than "fancy."

Never ever heard Good Vibrations or ANY BB track on classic rock radio. Come on guys, that's oldies and fits more in line (radio-wise) in between motown and other 60s pop, no matter how infulential it eventually was

Humble Pie is decidedly underserved by US CR radio. You might hear "30 Days In The Hole" once in a while, but that's it.

+ stealin'

i feel like "Good Vibrations" is pretty solidly their token album rock canon moment, but if people really don't think it should be nommed i'll consider taking it out

beach boys never her

i hereby nominate every song listed on this webpage:

http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/how-many-beach-boys-songs-have-you-heard-379

really think that the poll should be based on what CR radio is, not what it should be. idiot classic rock DJs and Clear Channel market research/ data clearly agree that Beach Boys are squaresville. Like, say, all music made by african americans other than J Hendrix during the same period of 1968-1985 (to me the shitty CR era is Sgt Peppers to Born in the USA).

goddamn there's so much hot pussy in EDM videos! I will take EDM over Mumsford discontents every GD time.

SO! how about ariana grande and Iggy azalea's "problem?" I like it more than "fancy."

fucking love it. and vaguely relevant to this thread, sort of, i will note that azalea appears to have eclipsed pop as the person one is assumed to be referring to when one mentions "iggy."

"good vibrations," meanwhile, is #300 on the q104.3 poll linked above, right behind "school's out" and "dust in the wind," and just ahead of "crimson and clover" and "custard pie."

(though i might accept the proposition that new york city doesn't completely count as an arbiter of classic rock.)

Toronto's Q107 ranked it #341 fwiw: http://archive.today/OjCc

NRBQ are playing a biker festival near my house this weekend, and I always figured there was a super-famous classic rock song by NRBQ that I just never realized was theirs, since I've been hearing their name forever. But apparently this is not the case! I've kinda been using "would play a biker festival" as one of my criteria for determining which bands are classic rock for a while now.

very coincidentally, as a native of LVille ky who took huge pride in NRBQ, they were my Grateful Dead and as such one of my favorite acts to have ever existed, they have absolutely nothing to do with classic rock. Bonnie Raitt did "me and the boys," they were popular as a live act in the Northeast and in pockets in the U.S., but my guess is that those bikers are not going to be into Terry Adams and whichever weird record nerds can play passably on the gig.

I don't know, there are a bunch of older mellow bikers these days.

rock radio staples of yesteryear that don't necessarily get played anywhere in 2014

Nominating these, though I think that's the category most of them are in:

Jeff Beck - Freeway Jam
Santana - She's Not There
The Ides of March - Vehicle
Leon Russell - Tight Rope
Robert Palmer - Sailin' Shoes/Hey Julia/Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley
The Grass Roots - Temptation Eyes

If anyone thinks bikers are blaring "Caroline, No" they have another thing coming

The Santana "She's Not There" is still one of his heavier played numbers. Which reminds me:

Santana: "Winning"

Does Motorhead's Ace of Spades get played on Classic Rock?

Like up to 10 times a week on St. Louis classic rock stations at least, yes

i had no idea i was such a billy squier fan until this poll

Does Motorhead's Ace of Spades get played on Classic Rock?

― MarkoP, Thursday, June 26, 2014 5:07 AM (6 hours ago)

This would be another entry for making up the UK classic rock playlist. But I'm guessing probably not for the Americans?

I hear Robert Palmer p regularly on CR radio. Just heard Bad Case of Loving You yesterday and have definitely heard Sailing Shoes, etc.

I'm not sure about Vehicle (toes the line of oldies IMO) but I hope it counts bc I love that song.

I'm on zing and can't search but Joan Jett is nominated, right?

Johnny and Mary never gets played on the radio does it

I am no longer on Zing and have confirmed that Joan Jett is nominated. Thank you for your time.

If you love Joan Jett, don't forget to tune into the hair metal poll that I'll be running 6 months to a year from now, where you will absolutely be able to vote for "I Hate Myself for Loving You" if you please.

I am looking forward to this poll.

The Ides of March - Vehicle

Yes! My hs marching band played this song and I still remember the routine.

Weird, I didn't know that was heard/played outside of Chicagoland.

a good side-poll would be best songs ruined by tv commercial licencing

Does Off Broadway's "Stay In Time" get any classic rock play?

(for reference: http://youtu.be/zJOTXWoeIew)