CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

I mean...

hahaha yeah

That's a good album though - fine starting point if you're curious about McDonald-era Doobies beyond the singles.

...which I am not

thx anyway, Doc :)

Well now look / Veg you're missing out

naaaaanananaaaaow

I looked it up to find the Doobie version of "You Belong to Me".

It'd be hard to beat Carly or Anita anyway, but I thought MM would be up for it since he co-wrote the damn thing. Was kinda disappointed.

But hey, that pun title/bizarre photo manipulation of an album cover made up for it.

it's very Planet of the Apes...except dumb

reminds me of those old SI posters

http://i.imgur.com/IrQxsQK.jpg

I'd kill for a Michael McDonald or Skunk Baxter version of that ^^

lol

always nice to see this thread bumped for any reason

i revisited my classic rock playlist today bcz of the revive

and i have decided i have way more time for preMM doobies. I like the MM doobie's hits a lot but they feel like a whole different band somehow

Gee, whatever makes you say that?

http://i.imgur.com/aywZi1H.jpg http://i.imgur.com/RRPB5Lk.jpg

:D

i was having a minor freakout a few months ago when i had to pack up my entire apartment in a day and a half and along with that freakout i couldnt settle on what music to listen to until i dialed up this poll's corresponding spotify playlist and it was like aural adderall

classic rock & chill

I've actually looked at the Livin on the Fault Line cover at least a dozen times and it never hit me until now that it's really fucking weird.

Ooh, Spotify playlist. I didn't have Spotify when we did this so never followed. If you chuck the Foghat song, it's eerie how close the top 10 from "Reaper" to "Magic Man" comes to my taste.

i always mix it up with the climax blues band flying the flag cover

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/514uymAJ5uL.jpg

xpost

thanks to this poll i'm now totally in love with "Eye in the Sky"

that song is amazing

If you chuck the Foghat song

it's like i don't even know u

have nearly revived an alan parsons thread a couple times lately, I guess it might be time (flowin like a river)

dont post any words you're gonna regret.

things people post in the middle of the night

sund4r we need to talk about your foghat problem

I looked up "Eye in the Sky" on spotify since I wasn't sure what it was, as soon as it started I immediately recognized it. It's the kind of song I've heard numerous times in my life but never really paid much attention to. I listened to it a second time a bit later. That was 5 days ago. It has been playing none stop in my head since then. I need help, this needs to stop.

don't say words you're gonna regret

CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

don't cry, turn the tables instead

I literally thought they were singing "Well now look/We're the Doobies now"

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, July 31, 2014 12:02 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha oops looks like i did the same revive last summer

i think abt that a lot

<3

in the wild: the james gang's "the bomber" on jonesy's jukebox on klos. gave me all sorts of thread nostalgia. and damn that's a well recorded and well mixed bass.

Holy shit, I didn't know this song was called "Long Train Running"! I totally thought it was "Without Love"! I am a false classic rock fan!

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, July 29, 2014 4:55 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Easy mistake, since the chorus is "without looooooove" and not "long train runnin'".

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, July 29, 2014 4:59 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yep. Like the chorus of "What a Fool Believes" is "meharderhardefarfar"

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, July 29, 2014 5:01 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i still laugh thinking about this

i was rereading upthread & found this hilarious tweet that Carl Agatha linked

Out on the road today/I saw a Papa Roach sticker on a Kia Sport/Little voice inside my head said/Come along Bort, my son is also named Bort.

— chris hauselt (@movingsideways) April 9, 2014

also i love rereading this thread

some dude & gr8080’s dj intros are so choice

<3 AORTA

for years I heard the lyric "I found the simple life ain't so simple" as "I found the simple life -- it's so simple!"

I like my version better...feels very authentically DLR.

― some dude, Monday, July 28, 2014 1:16 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this cracks me up every time I think about it and has made the song about 10x better

in 5 easy steps leaps

One of my favourite polls. I wrote about how the local CR station here has been undergoing a horrifying transition for the past couple of years; 10 years from now, this poll may not make sense to anyone under 30.

local Sacramento station still keeping it kiiinda real but they are adding late 80’s and 90’s stuff whuch is such a bummer

Putting aside my own biases, I just don't think you can move the idea of "classic-rock" forward in time--it makes about as much sense as taking an all doo-wop station and trying to move it into the mid-'60s and beyond. Anyone who listened to Simple Minds, or Smashing Pumpkins, or whoever in high school isn't going to start listening to a classic-rock station, and anybody who listened to a traditional CR station in high school probably isn't going to start loving Simple Minds. You're better to just take the concept right to the grave with your original audience--if nothing else, it's less embarrassing.

i agree 1000%

(Something I noticed last week: the DJ played one of those desperately wrong records in a set and he didn't ID it along with the other songs. I'm guessing some of the DJs show their own contempt that way.)

and that was HEY LOOK AT THE TIME

"Classic Alternative" is a failed terrestrial radio format, but has down well on streaming and satellite.

is "Jack" radio still a thing?

in la, we lost one of our two classic rock stations last year, but 100.3 the sound gave itself a good going-away party. after it was bought by a christian rock network, but before the format flipped, it had about two months to basically play whatever the hell it wanted 24/7 and it used the time well, playing some crazy deep classic rock cuts in between improvised station promos along the lines of "100.3 the sound - we're rocking until jesus comes."

and maybe this is a coastal thing, or just a left coast thing, but at least in la, a classic-rock format that includes boston, ac/dc, van halen, led zeppelin, nirvana, smashing pumpkins and the pixies does, and will, make sense. the last station standing here, klos, isn't all that far from that right now.

XP I think the Jack format died off, but its spirit lives on various and sundry Muzak stations, as chronicled over in CVS thread.

pumpkins/pearl jam make a certain amount of sense to me cuz me and my other alt-rock friends were discovering those bands at the same time as we was discovering classic rock. and the sonics/sentiments aren't always so different. really it's only because CR had SO walled itself off from new music for so long that it seemed wrong when they suddenly tried to update themselves.