Oh yea, another good one I just thought up. Wings song “Band on the Run” I just totally dig that song it has so many cool changes in it. Definetely a classic and should be on the list.
BTW Dinsdale are you going to list all 50 so we can see who was right?
Who is right?
Well, me, of course. Same as always.
OK, I missed something. I thought the thread was 50 songs that the classic radio stations play over and over again, that’s why I submitted bleeeccchh through triple bleeeecccchhh and vomitus eruptus. Top 50 favorites is a completely different animal…
<shaking his head in amazement, rolling his eyes in disbelief.
I hearby nominate anything and everything by Led Zepplin!
If it weren’t for George Thorogood and Lynyrd Skynyrd, KGGO Classic Rock (by whose definition?) in Des Moines wouldn’t have a playlist.
Maybe I should send this thread to Lou & Round Guy – they could make up a shopping list and head off to K-Mart to buy some music!!!
The rest of you guys got it good. I didn’t think anyone could ever make me sick of Freebird, but KGGO managed to do it.
Stones - Brown Sugar
ACDC - Back in Black, You Shook Me All Night Long
Well, you people are listening to entirely the wrong stations. May I reccomend WZLX 100.7 Boston, or WSHK “The Shark” 102.3/105.1 Portland?
As for my contributions:
The Cars - My Best Friend’s Girl
J. Geils Band - Centerfold
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band - Dark Side
The fine folks who tried to get Bohemian Rhapsody or Under Pressure by Queen on the playlist must be commended. However, We Will Rock You/We are the Champions (double-sided single…hey, lets play them together ALL THE TIME!!!) has those other songs beat. Sorry.
Also, Dust in the Wind, by Kansas, since Wayward Son is the better song.
Cordially,
The Man Who
“Eleanor Rigby” by The Beatles
“Subdivisions” and/or “Limelight” by Rush
Just had to add that I turned on a classic rock station during a brief car trip over the weekend. Heard a total of 3 songs. They went from ZZ Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man”, into CCR “Bad Moon”, right into Joe Walsh’s “Rocky Mountain Way.”
Course I had it on yesterday and they were playing the entire 1st side of 2112. That was a welcome blast from the past.
Has no one mentioned Fleetwood Mac?
They’re on the commercial for the local Classic rock station right this minute.
The one I haven’t noticed mentioned here yet - “I’ve got a friend in Jesus” - who cares who wrote it?
It’s the main reason I gave up listening to Classic Rock stations, I’ve heard it on every C.R. station in CA I ever tuned into.
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“Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac. I never did understand why this always gets played on classic rock stations. It’s more of a pop song. Changing the subject, no one has mentioned “Journey” yet, so I’m gonna nominate “Faithfully” ,“Wheel in the Sky” and “Separate Ways”. It’s a three way tie, because they are all played wwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy too much.
Oh yeah!!! I second that motion.
“BANG!!”
gavel cracks down
Led Zeppelin is the greatest band… its unanimous.
As for the song that is always played on Classic Rock Radio----
I’ve Seen All Good People: Your Move - Yes
White Room by Cream
I know every word to that song. I’m only in college now, but when we were in high school the first one of my friends to get her driver’s licence use to pile all of us into her old, raggedy Volvo station wagon. All summer long we rode around in that car blaring White Room and singing at the top of our lungs. That song will always remind me of high school.
Just for the record, that’s “Spirit in the Sky” by Norman Greenbaum.
“Spirit In the Sky” is one of my all time favorite songs, chiefly because it’s three chord 12 bar jugband blues, and one of the few songs I can play all the way through on guitar while singing.
The local classic rock stations around me seem to be fixated on The Who. I hear “Eminence Front” at least three times a day. I think that’s excessive. And don’t even get me started on “Squeeze Box.”
A couple others come to mind…
Come Sail Away by Styx
Hotel California by the Eagles
American Pie Don McLean
Any other thoughts?