“Smoke On The Water” - Deep Purple
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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!)
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.
The Stones get two songs, ehhh? Okay, here’s one:
Satisfaction
Pardon my ignorance jester, but Dixie Chicken? Are we talking Little Feat here?
Actually, if you were choosing Dixie Chicken you’d be choosing Little Feat.
My apologies, jesuslynch (or perhaps jester!) Just wanted to really flaunt my ignorance.
That goddamn Boston song “More Than A Feeling.” I liked it the first 999 times I heard it, but now its getting kinda annoying.
Yeah. I’m a doof.
They put me in charge today and I’m doing my best imitation of being in management.
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.
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 <or> 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…
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.
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.
“When I Saw Her Standing There,” The Beatles.
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
My nomination would have to be either “Slip Kid” or “Naked Eye” by The Who
–sublight.
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.
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?
“Jump” by Van Halen
“I’ll find my way home” by Jon and Vangelis.
and anything by supertramp.
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