# Classic rock song suggestions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 15, 2004, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337 "2004-03-15T02:03:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/21 "2004-03-16T02:10:32Z")
Deep Purple - Highway Star, Lazy, Space Truckin’ ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/22 "2004-03-16T02:24:22Z")
> [@Really Not All That Bright](#): > > How could you possibly leave _Poison_ out of that list? Because the thread’s about rock “classics” from the 60s and 70s. And I’m not sure a lot of people would consider a song from 1989 a “classic” anyway. That said, yes, “Poison” would be on an Alice Cooper top-five list… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/23 "2004-03-16T07:21:47Z")
Thanks guys! I’ll have enough to burn 100 CDs with that lot. And I just might. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/24 "2004-03-16T08:09:10Z")
Wait! Wait! you forgot the Moody Blues _The Question_ from Question of Balance _Timothy Leary’s Dead_ from Seventh Sojourn (I think) Jefferson Airplane _White Rabbit_ & _Lather_ ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/25 "2004-03-16T10:54:07Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > David Bowie “Major Tom” Surely you mean “Space oddity”? What’s the adacemic term for mislabeling mp3s again? I know there is one. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/26 "2004-03-16T12:46:24Z")
Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys Moody Blues - Something from their first 5 or 6 albums Emerson, Lake and Palmer - One of their hits (Lucky Man) Alice Cooper - 18 Tommy James - Crystal Blue Persuasion Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath Temptations - Papa was a Rolling Stone, Psychedelic Shack Credence Clearwater Revival - Run Through the Jungle Steppenwolf - The Pusher The Band - The Weight Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues Humble Pie - Thirty Days in the Hole The Byrds - Eight Miles High Joe Cocker - With a Little Help from me Friends Janis Joplin - Down on Me ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/27 "2004-03-16T16:46:16Z")
I’d just like to weigh in and say NO NO NO to Barracuda! It has to be the worst Heart single of the 70s. Any track, even the unreleased ones, off of Dreamboat Annie kick its ass. Of course you said “the real classics”, so I would go with Magic Man or Crazy on You, or even Mistral Wind (the only 3 70s Heart radio songs I like.), despite the fact some find them overplayed. ---
**Author:** ![Nathan\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Nathan\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nathan_S)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/28 "2004-03-16T17:09:44Z")
Some good suggestions so far. Here are a few more (in no particular order): Cream - _Tales of Brave Ulysses_ Blind Faith - _Can’t Find my Way Home_ Traffic - _John Barleycorn Must Die_ ZZ Top- _La Grange_ ZZ Top - _Arrested for Driving While Blind_ Blue Oyster Cult - _Seven Screaming Dizbusters_ Blue Oyster Cult - _Dominance and Submission_ Beetles - _Tomorrow Never Knows_ Queen - _Stone Cold Crazy_ CSN&Y - _Ohio_ Bubble Puppy - \*Hot Smoke and Sassafras \* Strawberry Alarm Clock - _Incense and Peppermints_ ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/29 "2004-03-16T17:54:34Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Of course you said “the real classics”, so I would go with Magic Man or Crazy on You, or even Mistral Wind (the only 3 70s Heart radio songs I like.), despite the fact some find them overplayed. Kick it Out and Even it Up don’t get played nearly enough. Magic Man and Crazy on You are two more classic rock casualties, killed by lazy deejays and spineless programming directors. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/30 "2004-03-16T18:22:29Z")
No Eagles on the lists?? (I breezed through the posts) How bout an extended version (I prefer Live) of FreeBird? ---
**Author:** ![davos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed655f/32.png) [@davos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davos)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/31 "2004-03-16T18:31:06Z")
wtf? Not a single mention of one of the Creedance Clearwater Revival. Fortunate Son, Proud Mary, Up Around the Bend, and Bad Moon Rising are all classics that would well merit a place on a classic rock compilation. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/32 "2004-03-16T18:38:27Z")
Iron Maiden - Charlotte the Harlot ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/33 "2004-03-16T20:29:24Z")
> [@cactus waltz](#): > > Surely you mean “Space oddity”? > > What’s the adacemic term for mislabeling mp3s again? I know there is one. [Cuckoo’s Eggs](http://www.net4tv.com/voice/Story.cfm?storyID=2704), according to the site linked. This doesn’t refer to songs whose artist and/or title are incorrect, but MP3 files that are full of garbage and other noise but intended to look like real song files (supposedly an attempt in the Napster 1.0 days to thwart file-sharing.) As for a term referring to a mis-attributed artist or song title, nothing I saw on Google’s previews appeared to give a specific word or phrase. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/34 "2004-03-16T21:07:42Z")
> [@Moody Bastard](#): > > Magic Man and Crazy on You are two more classic rock casualties, killed by lazy deejays and spineless programming directors. I agree with Magic Man, but believe it or not, I can’t recall ever hearing Crazy on You on the radio (just from word-of-mouth that it has been “overplayed” [i have it on tape of course]). But the real reason I replied to this was to mention that “Classic Rock Casualities” would make a good band name. ---
**Author:** ![Legolamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@Legolamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legolamb)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/35 "2004-03-16T21:42:52Z")
How about all 14 parts of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”? That should fill up half your CD… 😉 But seriously, some of my choices would be “Kashmere” - Led Zep “All Around The Watchtower”, “Hey Joe” or “Voodoo Chile” - Jimi Hendrix “Cocaine” - Eric Clapton “Sunshine Of Your Love” - Cream “Whole Lotta Rosie” - AC/DC “Back In The USSR” or “Revolution” - The Beatles “Long Train Runnin’” - The Doobie Brothers “Look At Little Sister” - Stevie Ray Vaughan Of course, I’m too young (and too poor) to know much about classic rock much beyond what I hear on classic rock stations. I know what I like though. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/36 "2004-03-16T22:11:43Z")
How can you leave out?: Kansas Steeley Dan Crosby Stills & Nash Neil Young Bachman-Turner Overdrive Fleetwood Mac Chicago Todd Rundgren Peter Frampton Blood, Sweat & Tears Three Dog Night The Monkees Loggins & Messina or even our esteemed poster **aha’s** band, [The Five Americans](http://www.fiveamericans.com/) ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/37 "2004-03-17T00:28:58Z")
Well we could do a bubble-gum side, that was big back then too. Sugar Sugar - The Archies I Think I Love You - Partridge Family Indian Lake - ??? Yummy Yummy - ??? Green Tambourine - ??? Close to You - Carpenters Aireal - ??? Flower Girl - ??? It’s All To Beautiful - ??? Sweet Caroline (bah, bah, bah) - Neil Diamond In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry Stepping Stone - Paul Revere Daydream Believer - Monkees Saturday In the Park - 3 Dog Night This Magic Moment - Jay and the Americans Groovin - Rascals Good Vibrations - Beach Boys Cherish - ??? Love is All Around - ??? Roller Skates - Melanie ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/38 "2004-03-17T13:55:42Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > But the real reason I replied to this was to mention that “Classic Rock Casualities” would make a good band name. Holy crap, you’re right. Good eye! ---
**Author:** ![ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337/39 "2004-03-17T20:28:09Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > No Eagles on the lists?? (I breezed through the posts) > > How bout an extended version (I prefer Live) of FreeBird? You didn’t mean to suggest that Free Bird was the Eagles, did you? Anyway, Lynrd Skynrd rules. Sweet Home Alabama, Give me Three Steps, Saturday Night Special…mmmm…think I’ll go put it on now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-suggestions/234337.md?page=1)