CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

Dylan along with a few others was probably shortchanged by the sense that he'd had his own poll, whereas this is probably the only time you're ever going to be able to put Sugarloaf on a ballot. (Didn't help them either iirc but....)

Probably the most common Dylan song I've heard on CR is freakin' "Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35".

yeah I don't remember hearing Dylan on the radio ever, classic rock or otherwise.

ours plays Tangled up in Blue a lot

Oh, and also "Stuck In the Middle With You".

I though "Hurricane" was awesome in Dazed & Confused but it seemed culturally out of place

wanna say that Planet Waves is the most CR Dylan

Re: Dylan, "Like a Rolling Stone" is sometimes heard on radio.

I feel like "Tangled Up in Blue" is a comparatively recent discovery by radio. Back in the day, we listened to Blood on the Tracks in dorm rooms, but would never have heard its songs on radio until 2005 or 2010. We may have heard the Indigo Girls cover on college radio.

pplains, do you mean the Stealer's Wheel song "Stuck in the Middle With You"? Not Dylan. Not even Lennon (another misattribution one sometimes hears).

One interesting thing (to me) is that Dylan's most famous song may be "Blowin' in the Wind," but his own recording is by far the least-heard version of that tune.

Oh and re: Ramones: "I Wanna Be Sedated" is every teen movie's go-to track for indicating that the antisocial misfit girl has vintage punky musical taste, and that is why she is a cooler and better person than her classmates. She wears black leather and she pogos to the Ramones in her bedroom. The cheerleaders snub her because think she's a weirdo.

Glad someone is doing so. But then, in my hearing, very few Classic Rock stations ever gave all that much airtime to any vintage soul/R&B/Motown. Temptations/Marvin/Stevie/Otis/Bill Withers were almost absent from the dial, even in the late 80s.

― mime kampf (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 23:41

There's a UK channel called Smooth Radio which calls itself adult contemporary but really it just plays any pop hits that aren't too fast or heavy. The guys you mention above are represented but it's a woefully small selection of them and everybody else they play.

Maybe kids without internet buy Uncut and Mojo, who probably pander to old farts more than they already did?

As much as the audience for these bands will dwindle, I think most of them will still have a sizeable audience for decades yet, at least among music fans who dig into histories, influences etc.

I never really cared about the Doors but some people on Bakers Dozen convinced me to check them out someday.

pplains, do you mean the Stealer's Wheel song "Stuck in the Middle With You"? Not Dylan.

Pretty sure that song's by Bob Dylan. Surely you're not saying that every single caller on my request line is wrong, are you?

(Also, the name of the band is Stealers Wheel - no apostrophe. :-p)

It definitely feels like there is less variety in the 70s music that is played these days.

yep. one of my attainable New Year's resolutions is to avoid all Classic Rock stations wherever and whenever possible. Already ditched the bar on my way home for a different one. I never, ever want to hear a Foreigner song again. I like a fair amount of this stuff, but there are certain things that are total dealbreakers. Gimme a BOB station anytime, thanks.

no Foreigner? does not compute

I hate them so intensely, the worst ever, I would go back in time to kill them if I could

plus they ripped off Thomas Dolby, so fuck 'em

(pplains, sorry I did not get the joek)

damn sleeve, that's cold as ice

sleeve needs to know where love is

no foreigner but you gotta have some room in your heart for "midnight blue" no?

"waiting for a girl like you" is probably the greatest song of all time

I don't recall it ranking, so I doubt that's true

it’s true in my heart so there

It is Urgent that we get to the bottom of this Foreigner question

I've never been able to reconcile the Foreigner/King Crimson connection in my mind. It just does not compute.

I though "Hurricane" was awesome in Dazed & Confused but it seemed culturally out of place

it does play weird in the scene that it's used in, but not out of place culturally. 70s stoners loooooved him and that song was ubiquitous at the time.

it didnt seem that out of place to me idk

I have it in my contract that it must be playing any time I walk into a poolhall.

Dylan's most famous song may be "Blowin' in the Wind," but his own recording is by far the least-heard version of that tune.

what other versions are more often heard? sorry don't listen to classic rock radio (or any other radio tbh)

at this point i would say no versions are heard, tbh

Dr. C right (from the perspective of classic rock radio). But among folkies, I think Peter, Paul & Mary's and Joan Baez's versions have generally fared better. Is there a Weavers version?

Random Thought (because I heard the song on the radio just now): How much bank has George Thorogood made off "Bad To The Bone"? It was already a CR staple when I was in Kindergarten, and is another one of those songs they'll spin until doomsday (and that's not even considering all the licensing!).

Spent the entire day reading this thread & listening to the Spotify playlist. Time well wasted, thanks belatedly, sd & gr80!

feel like 'all right now' is the quintessential classic rock song

it's . . . decent? but i can't imagine any possible context in which it might be mentioned other than 'classic rock songs that exist'

(i will literally fite anyone who starts a 'bad co origins' thread')

i mean, Free’s pretty classic

I can't hate Steve Miller for the simple reason that I feel like he's just begging you to hate him with every song

Paul Rodgers seems basically like the official voice of Classic Rock, to the point where if you lose Robert Plant or Freddie Mercury you can just hire him as your singer

"all right now" is also quintessential b/c when it's on in a car or at the beach or sth it sounds dope and you wanna sing along to the chorus and nod yr head to the verses, but if you like just sit down to listen to it it's kinda boring and too long and unvaried but still kinda good

The bass playing is too funky for classic rock.

The bass playing on Free's "All Right Now"? It never jumped out at me as being funkier than any number of other classic rock songs?

I guess compared to the unyielding plod of any Bad Company song it could almost be construed as semi-funky but it sounds more like somebody trying to grasp the concept of syncopation for the first time. Simon Kirke is surely the least interesting drummer to have ever attained that level of success, though.

Half the time on the radio I get really excited to hear "All Right Now," only to be severely disappointed that I'm actually listening to "Rock 'N Me" by Steve Miller Band

― voodoo chili, Thursday, July 31, 2014 3:38 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me otm

hahaha

All Right Now is good for about a minute...but it feels like it’s 20 min long & by the end it’s just annoying

For a minute I was thinking maybe the single edit was really short, and that it's been harmed a bit by MP3s/streaming putting the spotlight back on the album version. Nope - the album track is 5:31 and the single only cut it down to 4:14. Which surely makes a difference, but it's one of those songs that would be massively improved by being, say, 2:30.

who even are you people

devotees of ILM's all-time greatest thread

On the topic of classic rock basslines, I never really thought much about the reggae-tinged bassline to "Hotel California" until I taught some bass but it's a surprisingly syncopated groove and fun to play.

it's like you people don't want to strut around for 5 minutes like you are the cock of the block. sure you could strut for 2 and a half minutes but that is only half the strut.

Simon Kirke is surely the least interesting drummer to have ever attained that level of success, though.

Ahem...

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