I have heard every song on Dark Side of the Moon on 102.3, the Long Island classic rock station, including Speak to Me and On the Run.
― voodoo chili, Saturday, 28 June 2014 21:53 (ten years ago) link
the only song on Moving Pictures I can say for sure that I've heard on classic rock radio is "Tom Sawyer"
― Euler, Saturday, 28 June 2014 21:59 (ten years ago) link
Mentioned, but not actually nominated iirc:
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
also possiblyStevie Wonder - You Haven't Done NothingStevie Wonder - Living for the City
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Saturday, 28 June 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
Not even "Limelight", Euler? The stations in upstate NY def. played everything on the first side.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 28 June 2014 22:19 (ten years ago) link
red barchetta gets played late at night
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 June 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
how many other albums have contributed that many songs to the cr literature?
Damn The Torpedoes?
― polyamanita (sleeve), Saturday, 28 June 2014 22:37 (ten years ago) link
Only Who's Next songs I've heard on cr radio are "Baba O'Riley," "Bargain," "Behind Blue Eyes," and "Won't Get Fooled Again."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 28 June 2014 22:45 (ten years ago) link
I don't think I heard "Limelight" in Atlanta. it's a bit hard to recall: I bought Chronicles around 1990 but those all seemed like deep cuts to me, except for "Tom Sawyer"
― Euler, Saturday, 28 June 2014 22:54 (ten years ago) link
For anyone interested, here's a 10 hour Spotify playlist I made of rock singles from 1975. Obviously not all are CR staples but I was kind of going for what a cool FM station might have been playing at the time.
spotify:user:presidentkeyes:playlist:51a76z4snkZRCd5Nk1YzR8
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Sunday, 29 June 2014 00:34 (ten years ago) link
ugh
<iframe src="https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:user:presidentkeyes:playlist:51a76z4snkZRCd5Nk1YzR8" width="300" height="380" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true"></iframe>
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Sunday, 29 June 2014 00:35 (ten years ago) link
maybe this will work
http://open.spotify.com/user/presidentkeyes/playlist/51a76z4snkZRCd5Nk1YzR8
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Sunday, 29 June 2014 00:36 (ten years ago) link
I've never heard any Stevie Wonder on CR Radio, and would be surprised if I ever did. (xposts)
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 29 June 2014 00:38 (ten years ago) link
Superstition was in regular rotation on my childhood CR station. I was actually surprised to find out a when I was 14 that it was a Stevie Wonder song.
― intheblanks, Sunday, 29 June 2014 01:02 (ten years ago) link
Local bay area classic rock station (kfox?) had a tv ad in the early 90s that featured the beginning of "superstition" alongside "slow train coming" and other CR standards.
― brimstead, Sunday, 29 June 2014 01:12 (ten years ago) link
lol i mean "long train coming" or w/e it's called by the doobies
― brimstead, Sunday, 29 June 2014 01:13 (ten years ago) link
That Foghat joke is Jim Carrey's finest moment.― intheblanks, Saturday, June 28, 2014
― intheblanks, Saturday, June 28, 2014
i said this, almost verbatim, to my wife when we watched the clip today. well, almost verbatim if you replace "finest" with "only funny."
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 29 June 2014 02:14 (ten years ago) link
Sat outside all afternoon by my pool listening to my local CR station, Atlanta's 97.1 The River with this thread in mind. Four observations. First, this station sucks. Second, if the River is anywhere representative of classic Rick radio in general, then the format sucks. Third, thank god I have Sirius in my car to listen to Classic Vynil. Fourth, a CR station made up by the contributors to this thread would be awesome.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Sunday, 29 June 2014 04:14 (ten years ago) link
Bottom line: count on hearing Comfortably Numb at least four times a day listening to the River. And if they want to get mellow, here comes guns and roses Patience. Terrible.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Sunday, 29 June 2014 04:16 (ten years ago) link
I can deal with Comfortably Numb (though 4 times in one day is pushing it). Patience? Hell naw.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 June 2014 04:17 (ten years ago) link
First, this station sucks. Second, if the River is anywhere representative of classic Rick radio in general, then the format sucks.
I've listened to more CR Radio this week than I have in years, and notice that they tend to play the same songs at almost the same time each day.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 29 June 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
i can confirm this because i heard "caught up in you" every tues and thurs at the same time when i drove home from work
― La Lechera, Sunday, 29 June 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
Agreed with Bill Magill's suggestion that a CR station run by this thread's participants would be much more satisfying.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 29 June 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
I'm baffled as to why stations play the same songs at the same time every day. I mean, wouldn't the audience bail? Or is that how stations hold onto the audience?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 29 June 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
When you're putting in eight hours on a lathe, it helps tell time. Or the daily playlist just gets Xeroxed and posted.
― heavy on their trademark ballads (Eazy), Sunday, 29 June 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
These things are pre-programmed kind of like mp3 playlists with very little tinkering by local deejays. I knew a guy who worked for a Clear Channel station and his main job was taking the playlists they were sent, and all he did was drop local ads into the breaks and select one or two "deejay's choice" songs into each hour of programming. The person in the booth, if there's even still a person in the booth, isn't queueing up songs like in the olden days. They just hit play on a computer program and go pour some coffee.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 June 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
and select one or two "deejay's choice" songs
That would explain my local station playing Lou Reed's "New Sensations" and a Richard Thompson song I didn't recognize in the middle of an otherwise FoghatJourneyKansas hour.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 29 June 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
I don't know whether I should feel happy for the DJs that still have a job in their field or feel bad for them for what their job has become
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 29 June 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
That's interesting. Kind of suggests the whole CR format has been honed/focus grouped to scientific perfection. In which case us arguing over noms seems somewhat otiose.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 29 June 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
CR programmers probably have the same data that Ebro talks about (only 5% of listeners change the station when this Chris Brown song plays while 25% change it on this other song, etc.) Since they have no new stuff to add to playlists, they can test every song to even the time of day it should be played.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Sunday, 29 June 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
feel like there should be a sub-poll for songs with sax solos
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 June 2014 01:31 (ten years ago) link
My #1 has one of the greatest sax solos ever.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 June 2014 01:33 (ten years ago) link
bless your heart
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 June 2014 01:35 (ten years ago) link
Hm, I'm guessing something by Springsteen.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 30 June 2014 01:37 (ten years ago) link
so much sax in my ballot
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 June 2014 01:38 (ten years ago) link
Is "Baker Street" eligible? Doesn't seem foghatjourneykansas enough, but I remember hearing it on my dads car radio in the actual 70s
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Monday, 30 June 2014 02:59 (ten years ago) link
I guess there's no reason to be coy about #1s in this poll. People are gonna vote for what they're gonna for.
Mine is "Urgent" by Foreigner. I didn't know until last year that Junior Walker played the sax on that, but once I found out it seemed so obvious.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 June 2014 03:38 (ten years ago) link
Urgent is a jam! I approve of this.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 June 2014 03:45 (ten years ago) link
urgent isn't even the best foreigner song I HATE U JF
yeah baker st. totally
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 June 2014 03:50 (ten years ago) link
Even before some dude got this poll rolling a couple weeks ago, I'd been on a Foreigner listening kick for about a month. Most mornings on the way to work and evenings on the way home—all Foreigner. Given that much time to compare and contrast all their singles, Urgent comes out on top imo.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 June 2014 03:53 (ten years ago) link
^^^doesn't know what love is, doesn't want to be shown
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 June 2014 03:58 (ten years ago) link
yeah i think the only Foreigner that I actively dislike is Dirty White Boy
Waiting for a Girl Like You is my fave because I am made of cheese(also Thomas Dolby with those sweet keys)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 June 2014 04:05 (ten years ago) link
tbh "I Want to Know What Love Is" is my co-favorite, but it seems out of place in considerations for this poll? I dunno.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 June 2014 04:06 (ten years ago) link
otm, that song blows.
not even Lou can save that one
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 June 2014 04:15 (ten years ago) link
my favorite Foreigner-related song is "Midnight Blue", which is ineligible for coming out in 87. & I don't think it's been a classic rock mainstay.
but
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/7cRdgIZgobs/hqdefault.jpg
― Euler, Monday, 30 June 2014 09:53 (ten years ago) link
Midnight Blue rupes
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 30 June 2014 13:07 (ten years ago) link
Lol rules
I had an episode of double vision last week and in addition to being freaked out about it I also constantly have the chorus of "Double Vision" playing in my head
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Monday, 30 June 2014 13:10 (ten years ago) link
Queen - One Vision
― how's life, Monday, 30 June 2014 13:26 (ten years ago) link
Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 June 2014 13:42 (ten years ago) link