# Classic Rock radio playlist **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 5, 2000, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786 "2000-10-05T15:56:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/21 "2000-10-05T19:06:24Z")
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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/22 "2000-10-05T19:16:30Z")
Now we’re getting somewhere. These last few are definitely in our limited and oft-repeated playlist. We could include Black Water, but we’ll have to scratch China Grove to make room for it. (Shit, who’s the idiot who made the one entry per person rule!) ---
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/23 "2000-10-05T19:29:56Z")
If I was choosing **The Band** ’s song, I’d choose _Dixie Chicken_. Damn, **D** , only one. I’d have to go with **Zep** ’s _Ramble On_. Greatest bass line in classic rock. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/24 "2000-10-05T19:57:30Z")
The Stones get two songs, ehhh? Okay, here’s one: Satisfaction ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/25 "2000-10-05T19:58:44Z")
Pardon my ignorance jester, but Dixie Chicken? Are we talking Little Feat here? ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/26 "2000-10-05T19:59:22Z")
Actually, if you were choosing Dixie Chicken you’d be choosing Little Feat. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/27 "2000-10-05T19:59:59Z")
My apologies, jesuslynch (or perhaps jester!) Just wanted to really flaunt my ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![xanadu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c4cdca/32.png) [@xanadu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanadu)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/28 "2000-10-05T20:04:24Z")
That goddamn Boston song “More Than A Feeling.” I liked it the first 999 times I heard it, but now its getting kinda annoying. ---
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/29 "2000-10-05T20:19:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dinsdale \* > \*\*Pardon my ignorance jester, but Dixie Chicken? Are we talking Little Feat here? \*\* Yeah. I’m a doof. They put me in charge today and I’m doing my best imitation of being in management. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/30 "2000-10-05T20:34:15Z")
And, sorry to exercise my authority as program director, but none of Little Feat’s tunes have been completely ground into the ground sufficiently to merit a slot on our exclusive playlist. (Tho they tried with that post-Lowell George “Roll on Down the Road” abomination. Kind of along the lines of “Shades of Grey” - pure pop for Dead people. We are the Grateful Dead. lah-de-dah.) I got a rocket in my pocket. Hmm-mm-mm. Know what I’ll toss onto the player when I get home! But nope, my flawless personal taste in musioc will never sully the integrity of our classic rock playlist here at W/KSD. Boston probably gets a slot, but it’s down in the 40s and liable to bve bumped. Now we’re not just talking tunes that got inexcusably overplayed when they came out, ala “Heart of Glass”. We want the tunes that are STILL shamelessly overplayed today, years after they were released. Not sure Boston makes the top fifty there. Being an autocrat is fun! Thank you for listening. ---
**Author:** ![Running\_with\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/31 "2000-10-05T20:47:24Z")
I guess it depends where you listen. Our classic rock outlet in NYC plays a _lot_ of Boston… Here are my additions: Jethro Tull - Aqualung \ Locomotive Breath U2 - New Year’s Day I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Bohemian Rhapsody yet… Interestingly, I’ve noticed that a couple other of really old Queen songs have gotten heavy airplay over the last couple of years (at least around here) - Killer Queen & Somebody to Love. In fact, I first heard the latter when I bought the album about 10 years after it came out; it wasn’t getting any airplay then… ---
**Author:** ![Running\_with\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/32 "2000-10-05T20:53:21Z")
I guess I missed the point of the OP - my previous post lists songs that it **seems** that every classic rock station is required by law to play. OK, here’s my choice: In Your Eyes, Peter Gabriel. Nothing else comes close. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/33 "2000-10-05T20:54:48Z")
Frogie, froggie, froggie you impetuous tadpole you. How bout one entry per day? Or even one per post? Since you brought up Queen, sorry, but their slot is already taken by “Under Pressure.” Of course, since that could also be attributed to Bowie, and he will have to have at least one other slot, we’ll let you slide. Now my personal livbrary would substitute “Liar” or “Keep Yourself Alive” from their first album, maybe the entire black side from #2, or the ever popular “Tie your Mother Down.” But not here at W/KSD where it is pure dreck and only dreck all the time. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/34 "2000-10-05T21:50:26Z")
“When I Saw Her Standing There,” The Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![Elkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Elkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elkman)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/35 "2000-10-06T01:27:46Z")
I have three nominees: River Deep, Mountain High – Ike and Tina Turner Revue Midnight Train to Georgia – Gladys Knight and the Pips Nowhere to Run – Martha and the Vandellas What can I say… my music’s gotta have soul. Besides, you rarely hear any of these, at least up here in Canada ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/36 "2000-10-06T07:15:27Z")
My nomination would have to be either “Slip Kid” or “Naked Eye” by The Who –sublight. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/37 "2000-10-06T07:24:48Z")
Grand Funk Railroad- I’m Your Captain Crosby Still and Nash- Wooden Ships You can nominate a different song, but I can’t believe those guys haven’t been mentioned yet. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/38 "2000-10-06T12:12:07Z")
This seems to have become much more difficult than it need be. Let’s try asking the question this way: What 50 songs are overplayed on Classic Rock Radio? I remember that DC101 in Washington seemed to play All Along the Watchtower every hour on the hour. Get the idea now folks? It ain’t what you WANT to hear - its what have they played into the fucking ground? ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/39 "2000-10-06T12:22:24Z")
“Jump” by Van Halen “I’ll find my way home” by Jon and Vangelis. and anything by supertramp. ---
**Author:** ![BF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@BF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BF)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786/40 "2000-10-06T12:23:47Z")
Ah, good ol’ DC101… one of the original "homes of kick ass rock’n’roll… Who couldn’t get enough of Foghat’s “Slow Ride”… double-bleeeccchhh [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-radio-playlist/35786.md?page=3)