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

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.

Without 1986, all those Genesis singles from Invisible Touch would be gone.

haha true. it was just a thought but i've moved on.

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.

haha

(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.

eagles greatest hits, that is.

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.)

could be a good side poll actually.

Better: polling jukebox perennials.

Not sure how I missed it all these years, but the main riff in "Roundabout" by Yes is just ripped from "Love Machine".

Or wait, I guess "Roundabout" came first.

Just heard on 107.7 THE BONE:
Steve Miller - Take the Money
Green Day - When I Come Around
Bad Company - Bad Company
Guns 'N Roses - Live and Let Die

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

one too many claps for me to effectively clap along

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 run
something something something something
Take the money and run
something something something something

Does this ring any bells with anyone?

Steve Miller's just a non-playing motherfucker with one or two sorry-ass albums out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTMqrAnn-N8

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Mmmm, nope, not it.

Aha, it's David Crosby/Graham Nash! From Wind on the Water, 1975. Spotify, what would I do without you.

That Crosby/Nash was inspired by the CSNY Doom Tour of '74!

Steve Miller's just a non-playing motherfucker with one or two sorry-ass albums out.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, June 26, 2014

as far as classic rock radio's concerned he only has one, and it's sold more copies than Purple Rain and slightly fewer than Bat Out of Hell...

http://www.stevemillerband.com/images/GreatestHits7478-400.jpg

one too many claps for me to effectively clap along

that's what made it fun!

i'm ok with the joker & take the money but jungle love & rockin me & fly like a stupid feed the childen eagle can FUCK RIGHT OFF

i went from phoenix arizona all the way to tacoma philadelphia atlanta LA ... you and huey lewis and your stupid catalog of rhyming cities BLAH
in wrestling they call that a cheap pop
you corny fucks ughhhhhhhh i hate it so much

"Fly Like An Eagle" is pretty breathtaking from a production standpoint, can take or leave most of the rest of his stuff

fly like an eagle rules forever

The words "steve miller" make my hackles rise but "breathtaking from a production standpoint" is otm for that song.

Gotta figure out what my hackles are someday.

Lol, that's the second time someone's accused Yes of ripping off or writing a lesser version of something that came later than their song.

Fly Like An Eagle and Wild Mountain Honey are the only ones I can really enjoy hearing at this point

a lot of the rest of this stuff (including the other mentioned Miller songs)... ugh, yeah, it has this awful earworm effect due to familiarity, one time I was in a laundromat and "Rosanna" came on and it was like living in hell for a week, it never left my head afterwards. I can hear it now, as I type this, it haunts me. Things like "Maggie May", or the works of Tom Petty, on the other hand, feel lie old friends that don't overstep their boundaries. And they don't get stuck in my head - maybe a relationship?

feel like old friends

i would like fly like an eagle 100% more if it was instrumental

what if the eagle had the face of Glenn Frey

the lyric "I don't want to get caught up in any of that funky shit going down in the city" annoys me

his lyrics rival duran duran for sheer stupidity

great, now I have "Jetliner" stuck in my head, better go listen to Merzbow

When I was a kid, I thought "shoe the children, no shoes on their feet" was THE FUNNIEST SONG LYRIC EVER. I would just ROFLMAO every time I heard it. Shoe the children! Hilarious! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Then high school happened and good christ did everybody want to listen to this stupid stupid greatest hits record and now I more or less can't stomach any of those songs.

yep

abracadabra was my favorite song when i was 6

now "black panties with an angel face" make me dry heave :(

This oddity was a huge AOR hit in '86 but went nowhere pop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1iFTE-u7Gg&feature=kp

Let's not forget "Bongo Bongo". Steve Miller is to some extent a dude who buys toys and then makes records with them.

ughhhhhh

best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz5grDqllnQ

Haha, I totally remember that Steve Miller song Al posted. The local AOR station played it for about a week and then decided enough of that shit.

"Abracadabra" is a song I wish wasn't so gross, because otherwise it would be totally in my comfort zone.

yeah I will defend Macho City as well

Merzbow didn't work so I turned to Chumbawamba to get Jetliner out of my head, very effective

hey now "jet airliner" got paul pena paid!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjr5U7g6aiA

now say "jungle love" and all i can hear is OEEYOEEYO

Jesus, "Macho City" makes me yearn for "Fly Like an Eagle", a song I loathe with every fibre of my being.

"Serenade" is trippy as hell

Wait.. I mean the song with all the synths and drum machines

"Wild Mountain Honey"