The Search is Over
― La Lechera, Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
no, it's 1985
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
Also, um, guys, we have totally forgotten one of THEE most CR bands of all.
Little River Band - "Lonesome Loser"Little River Band - "Help Is On Its Way"Little River Band - "Reminiscing"
I mean come the fuck on!!!
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
HE'S A LOOOOOSUH BUT HE STILL KEEPS ON TRYYYYYINNNNNN
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
Setting aside all the borderline and not-so-borderline non-CR oldies, what was the ruling on the 80s hard rock and party acts (post-Halen)? Dunno how many votes they'd get anyway but just IMO, Ratt and Scorpions were never part of the CR landscape.
DEFINITELY opposed to Bowie miscellaney that has never, ever been played on CR. Again, would be cool if staions said, ehh, let's pull Spaceoddity and Suffragette City out of the rotation and replace them with some cool album tracks, but to my knowledge they...don't. The poll should help us determine whether ILX prefers Foghat or Bad Company; it would not be news that ILX likes Bowie.
Lonesome Loser is a great call!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/P5RDn5Y0D_0/hqdefault.jpg
HURRY DON'T BE LATE, YOU NEED TO NOMINAAAATE
― some dude, Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
When do nominations close?
― how's life, Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
whenever i start the voting thread, sometime friday
― some dude, Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
"Rock You Like A Hurricane" is tooootally CR and always has been. Ratt I could see omitting.
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
Peter Wolf - Lights Out!
would be top 40 category except for the sporting events aspect which makes it CR IMO
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
agree wholeheartedly with DC's post above
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 26 June 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
if anything i'd just push the cutoff point back to end of '84. are there any super essential '85 and '86 songs we'd be losing?
― some dude, Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
whatever MBV released in those years
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
Messina, Bachman and Vera?
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
xxp I wouldn't mind-- I'd rather see less nominees because it more accurately reflects the restrictions of the format. And in a way I'm more interested in what songs could survive several decades of constant, mindless rotation and still be something you're going to want to actually listen to- this list should be about the survivors, because whatever tops this poll deserves to win... as opposed to proving that more people like Baby's On Fire than Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
I feel like '85 cannot be dispensed with. '86 maybe.
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
'86 brought us "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" and "Wanted Dead or Alive," but if we had to lose those I could live with it.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
haha just those 2 are argument enough for me to keep the year in play
― some dude, Thursday, 26 June 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
And in a way I'm more interested in what songs could survive several decades of constant, mindless rotation and still be something you're going to want to actually listen to- this list should be about the survivors, because whatever tops this poll deserves to win... as opposed to proving that more people like Baby's On Fire than Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo.
otm
― carl agatha, Thursday, 26 June 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
what kind of car would you drive around listening to Baby's On Fire in anyway? Because Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo is like this:
http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/4/305/3181/38261590001_original.jpg?v=1
― how's life, Thursday, 26 June 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Opel_Kadett_B_Lahti.JPG
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 26 June 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
yep. There we go.
― how's life, Thursday, 26 June 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
Baby's On Firemobile:
http://static.cargurus.com/images/site/2008/06/11/00/40/1970_volkswagen_karmann_ghia-pic-62871.jpeg
lol xpost
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Thursday, 26 June 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
I'm more interested in what songs could survive several decades of constant, mindless rotation and still be something you're going to want to actually listen to- this list should be about the survivors
To that end, "Eye of the Tiger" still pumps me up after hearing it probably many thousands of times. Survivor indeed.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
Nice Karr, mann... (xpost)
― wild-eyed, high-volume bursts of pious indignation (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 26 June 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
the Ghia is a perfectly functional classic rock vehicle ... just needs to be painted red
― Brad C., Thursday, 26 June 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
Planning to give a serious ballot position to ''Rock and Roll, Hoochie-Koo'' (note punctuation!) - so fun to sing along to, jumping from the low to the high part and back, it's the Hunger Strike of the 70s. Also love Rick's kinda awkward but probably effective attempt to get the potheads in the audience to go ''yeahhhhh!!'' at a point in the song that doesn't really leave room for that.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
One of the entertaining things about this ballot period has been putting on CR Radio when I'm out doing errands. Today I heard Bad to The Bone in its near-entirety, a feat I haven't pulled off in 20 years or so. I have always hated this song, and today's audition didn't change my overall dislike but at least I could do 2 things: appreciate it for it's bar-band-done-good vibe and thorogood's decent tone throughout, and understand what specifically I never liked about the song- though George sings the lyrics with supreme confidence, he still comes off like he's full of shit. You're not bad to the bone, guy, like not at all. I mean he pledges fidelity to the object of his affection for god's sake.
On the other hand I've always had a soft spot for 'I Drink Alone', I don't know why.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
I know it makes me a traitor to my geographic origins but man do I hate George Thorogood.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
haha i was just about to say spending several formative years in Delaware has ensured that there will be a few Thorogood tracks on my ballot
― some dude, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
best thing about "bad to the bone" is bo diddley in the video.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
Re: '85 and '86 - I don't think cutting these would cut much that I consider "core" classic rock - with the massive exception of Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits being the last band (and the first CD?) that Dads everywhere added to their collection, unless they were Graceland types.
Dire Straits aside, I think these are the years whose introduction at some point really started to test the format. In 2014, "classic rock" would be completely adrift without Slippery When Wet, Appetite For Destruction, and The Joshua Tree. But there are very, very few songs by "core" classic rock acts that came out in '85 or later and actually stayed in play - maybe "Amanda"? I would miss "Keep Your Hands To Yourself," but only because, as discussed, I thought it was older and it does sound at home in the format. And, okay, I would be sorta sad not to be able to throw "Centerfield" into my "worst" ballot - god, that's bad. Everything else past this date is either not really all that classic in sound (the records I just mentioned), or something that the format by rights should have absorbed into the long-term rotation, but didn't ("Mixed Emotions" etc. etc.).
Unrelated suggestion - do CR stations play Tom Petty - Listen To Her Heart? I learned it from the greatest hits but other people seem to know it. Perhaps they also know the greatest hits! It seems to come packaged with most CD-based jukeboxes in my experience.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
Without 1986, all those Genesis singles from Invisible Touch would be gone.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
haha true. it was just a thought but i've moved on.
― some dude, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
Defend the Indefensible: "Bad to the Bone" This thread was my introduction to "defend the indefensible." I would later attempt the song at karaoke on Blount's birthday. He withdrew his defense.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
haha
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
(xxp) "listen to her heart" gets occasional classic rock play here in LA, but they go pretty deep on petty and that one is more of an outlier. but in general, petty's greatest hits is kind of a slightly more modern eagles greatest, impact-wise. i take it for granted everyone in america knows all those songs.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
eagles greatest hits, that is.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
Another thing the breakout data from this poll might settle: what is, once and for all, the best ubiquitous classic-rock greatest hits album? (Correct answer: Steve Miller Band.)
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
could be a good side poll actually.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
Better: polling jukebox perennials.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
Not sure how I missed it all these years, but the main riff in "Roundabout" by Yes is just ripped from "Love Machine".
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
Or wait, I guess "Roundabout" came first.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
Just heard on 107.7 THE BONE:Steve Miller - Take the MoneyGreen Day - When I Come AroundBad Company - Bad CompanyGuns 'N Roses - Live and Let Die
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
never even really dug "take the money" personally but that is some easy shit for everyone to sing along to in a car and damn if I won't be voting for hella steve miller in this polI
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
one too many claps for me to effectively clap along
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
That reminds me, this might be a good thread to ask a song ID question. Back in the mid 70s there was another song that had "take the money and run" in the lyrics, and it wasn't the Steve Miller song. Kind of slick El Lay rock iirc, verse structure went something like
Take the money and runsomething something something somethingTake the money and runsomething something something something
Does this ring any bells with anyone?
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
Steve Miller's just a non-playing motherfucker with one or two sorry-ass albums out.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTMqrAnn-N8
?xp
― how's life, Friday, 27 June 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
Mmmm, nope, not it.
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:30 (nine years ago) link