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

Not even "Limelight", Euler? The stations in upstate NY def. played everything on the first side.

red barchetta gets played late at night

how many other albums have contributed that many songs to the cr literature?

Damn The Torpedoes?

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."

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"

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

ugh

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maybe this will work

http://open.spotify.com/user/presidentkeyes/playlist/51a76z4snkZRCd5Nk1YzR8

I've never heard any Stevie Wonder on CR Radio, and would be surprised if I ever did. (xposts)

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.

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.

lol i mean "long train coming" or w/e it's called by the doobies

That Foghat joke is Jim Carrey's finest moment.

― 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."

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.

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.

I can deal with Comfortably Numb (though 4 times in one day is pushing it). Patience? Hell naw.

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.

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

Agreed with Bill Magill's suggestion that a CR station run by this thread's participants would be much more satisfying.

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?

When you're putting in eight hours on a lathe, it helps tell time. Or the daily playlist just gets Xeroxed and posted.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

feel like there should be a sub-poll for songs with sax solos

My #1 has one of the greatest sax solos ever.

bless your heart

Hm, I'm guessing something by Springsteen.

so much sax in my ballot

Is "Baker Street" eligible? Doesn't seem foghatjourneykansas enough, but I remember hearing it on my dads car radio in the actual 70s

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.

Urgent is a jam! I approve of this.

urgent isn't even the best foreigner song I HATE U JF

yeah baker st. totally

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.

^^^doesn't know what love is, doesn't want to be shown

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)

^^^doesn't know what love is, doesn't want to be shown

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.

yeah i think the only Foreigner that I actively dislike is Dirty White Boy

otm, that song blows.

not even Lou can save that one

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

Midnight Blue rupes

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

Queen - One Vision

Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home

h8 Foreigner more than almost any of these bands :(

Queen - One Vision

― how's life, Monday, June 30, 2014 9:26 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is this a classic rock staple outside the US? here nothing post-Hot Space gets a drop of airplay.

It got airplay (and MTV rotation!) when it was new; haven't heard it on the radio since.