"Midnight Moonlight" was based on the Physical Graffiti outtake "The Swan Song"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB04NpFx-3Q
― some dude, Saturday, 5 July 2014 13:15 (nine years ago) link
good lord that cheeseball fretless bass though
― some dude, Saturday, 5 July 2014 13:16 (nine years ago) link
Going through the nominations with my wife, it's a fun exercise - she dismisses >75% of the list as either not rockin' (mostly the singer-songwriter stuff), too heavy metal (Priest, Sabbath and the 80s hair metal songs), too new wave or too oldies (the 60s stuff, Beatles/Stones/Kinks/The Who) so if I go with her condensed list it actually makes it a lot easier.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 5 July 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
It's on the list.
― carl agatha, Saturday, July 5, 2014 12:30 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh, duh. Don't know how I missed it. Good!
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 5 July 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
got to concentrate
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 July 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
For all the trumpeting I did of "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" in the nominations thread, I actually forgot to vote for it.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 July 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
listen you guys, hair of the dog is bitchin and all but let's be real: love hurts is the businessfuckin looooooove it― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, July 4, 2014 10:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fuckin looooooove it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, July 4, 2014 10:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Couldn't believe "Hair of the Dog" the first time I heard it on the radio as a child, and the talk box part still causes me to laugh uncontrollably for some reason. Definitely making my ballot over "Love Hurts"
― intheblanks, Saturday, 5 July 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
/!\ HEAD EAST /!\
― guwop (crüt), Saturday, 5 July 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
Also just realized upon re-listening that "Hair of the Dog" is the "Day Tripper" riff.
― intheblanks, Saturday, 5 July 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
haha i'd been trying to figure out what those 2 songs resembled for ages without realizing it was each other, you just blew my mind
― some dude, Saturday, 5 July 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih6XjO_fhrI
Probably exactly what you're referring to, but sorry, can't pass that up.
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 July 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
kramer definitely put that phrase in my vocabulary, fair game
― some dude, Saturday, 5 July 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
Was just listening to Hair of the Dog in the car. Such a perfect musical distillation of the emotion of now messing with a son-of-a-bitch. Love the Beatles connection!
― how's life, Saturday, 5 July 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
it kinda weirds me out that "Hair of the Dog" and "Love Hurts" are from the same band, much less the same album
― some dude, Saturday, 5 July 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
kramer definitely put that phrase in my vocabulary, fair game― some dude, Saturday, July 5, 2014
As close as the MC5 will get to this poll, or to Classic Rock Radio. Which is too bad--Back in the USA should be a staple.
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 July 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
― guwop (crüt), Saturday, July 5, 2014
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130130224326/nickfanon/images/b/b1/Omar-Oh-Indeed.gif
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 July 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
so i've had a chance to spend some time with the playlist in a car AS GOD INTENDED.
Rising: Kansas, "Point of Know Return" (oh yeeeeeeesss it out-Styx's Styx.)Rising: Boston, "HItch a Ride"Falling: Rainbow, "Since You've Been Gone" (i remembered this as a banger but today it just sounded mad corny)
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 July 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
"Point of Know Return" is my shiiiiiiiit
― some dude, Saturday, 5 July 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
i have this feeling that the big guns with lots of track noms are going to fall surprisingly low due to vote-splitting across the catalog. not that it bothers me - if Head East ends up in the top spot* that's just all right with me. by the same token i'm having a lot of trouble deciding which Doors is my most hated.
*i assume the top spot in this poll is technically #3 since regardless of the ballots Stairway and Freebird are always #1 and #2 on any Classic Rock Countdown.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 July 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
hitch a ride is gorgeous
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 July 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
RIP brad delp you sang like an angel and sold rock'n'roll platitudes like your life depended on them and i'm sorry they weren't enough ;_;
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
rogermexico otm, super-sad
― intheblanks, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
REST IN PEACE BRADWE MISS YOU SO BAD
AMANDA
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
Can someone pls explain this Amanda joke?
― La Lechera, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
Boston - Third Stage
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
there has not been nearly enough discussion of heart on this thread. a quintessential classic rock band in so many ways: the voice that sounds like it's going to burst through the roof at any moment, the gigantic earworm riffs, the perfectly calibrated acoustic/electric guitar interplay, and really ambitious songwriting..
the acoustic guitar intro to "crazy on you" and the way it opens up into the song is an all-time favorite rock moment for me.
also, "straight on" sounds like a talking heads song.
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
OOOOOOH BARRA CUDA
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
"barracuda" was the only ringtone i ever bought.
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
I would've liked to have voted for one 70s Heart track and one 80s Heart track, but the stuff from the s/t album didn't make it to the final list. ;_;
Barracuda is my #4, though.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
Yes, Heart has stood the test of Classic Rock time and passed it with flying colors
Falling: Rainbow, "Since You've Been Gone" Didn't Head East do this tune first?
― Riot In #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
I see. :-/
― La Lechera, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
Did you look at the whole thread? There's some truly great ones in there.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
Didn't Head East do this tune first?
― Riot In #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, July 5, 2014
They did! Part of the Russ Ballard secret history of rock'n'roll. The Head East version is sillier iirc and probably better for it.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
Xp I saw sthg about a wank and that was enough. When I was in 8th gr boys screamed lewd parody verses of that song in the hallway and honestly that was enough! What a shitty song.
― La Lechera, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
I was wondering why I kept thinking I knew 'Jane' from somewhere besides the background sounds of my youth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjs9eUlv2AQ
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 5 July 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
As I get closer to 100, my cuts seem more and more insane. Bohemian Rhapsody, Tangled Up In Blue, Up On Cripple Creek. Bound and determined to keep some room in the bottom 20 for this to remain an 'interesting' hypothetical radio station. Plus, if I'm honest with myself, those songs don't need Classic Rock radio anymore, but "Do You Know What I Mean?" could really use the boost. It would be awesome if these stations had, like, Forgotten Fridays where they actually weren't permitted to play any of their top 200 songs.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 5 July 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
don't feel too bad. I can't remember ever hearing "tangled up in blue" or "up on cripple creek" on classic rock radio. seriously though don't sleep on Kansas.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 5 July 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
Long gone.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 5 July 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
I've got 531 more songs to review.
― Jeff, Saturday, 5 July 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
No thanks to Point of Know Return
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 5 July 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
I'm not voting for anything from the 80s, most of that stuff just feels wrong. I mean, much love for Mellencamp but that's totally reactionary roots reenactment rock, And the post-Boston power rock stuff is a different flavor as well. Boston s/t and Journey's Infinity are kind of as far as I'm willing to go in that direction.
― brimstead, Sunday, 6 July 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
Mellencamp will die of vote splitting
― g simmel, Sunday, 6 July 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
Hahaha me too!
― how will the milf survive? (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 6 July 2014 00:28 (nine years ago) link
Listening to Crazy on You right now- that is a singular vocal performance.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 6 July 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
We can avoid this and also address the concern about the '80s by all agreeing to vote for "I Need a Lover" (1978!).
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 6 July 2014 00:43 (nine years ago) link
AGREED
― some dude, Sunday, 6 July 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
btw the "games without frontiers" in the playlist is... not the "games without frontiers" you know.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Sunday, 6 July 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
My local station is doing Fourth of July Four-Play, four-in-a-row of your favorite artists. I was kinda stoked about this because their four for the Who were "Baba O'Riley," "You Better, You Bet," "Getting In Tune," and.... "Long Live Rock" ! Unfortunately, it turned out that the four-play does not apply to the whole weekend but only, I guess, to random rock blocks within it. Huge missed opportunity IMO, particularly since the next act they played was BOC; I was convinced they were going to be forced to play something not in the normal rotation. Sigh.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 6 July 2014 03:09 (nine years ago) link
There was so much classic rock on the 4th. All from very loud sound systems not at my location however (we went to a local fireworks show at a small bay close to our house). So the wind would blow in one direction and I'd catch some Boston, or another direction and there'd be some Scorpions. I did catch a relatively uninterrupted Don't Fear the Reaper. But the guy who was setting off the fireworks nearest to us had a small CD boombox with some sort of post-Sublime white reggae and it was skipping. Anyway, he brought in a lot of fireworks on his own dime so I couldn't complain too much, but like, come on man.
― how's life, Sunday, 6 July 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
102.5 WDVE now playing "Rain on the Scarecrow," writing it in
― Sandy, Sunday, 6 July 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link