# classic rock **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674 "2008-12-18T01:33:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tattman40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tattman40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tattman40)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/1 "2008-12-18T01:33:54Z")
Hello all,first time poster here. I was wondering what “claasic rock” songs should be retired from the airwaves.basically the ones we heard over and over . Examples: Roxanne…The Police.(not quite classic,but you get my drift) Light My Fire…The Doors. Money…Pink Floyd. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/2 "2008-12-18T01:48:27Z")
It’s more like classic pop than rock, but even Prince himself agrees that _1999_ should be retired. We’ve just heard it SO much. Even I don’t like it, and I generally love him. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/3 "2008-12-18T01:50:37Z")
Also, anything by Phil Collins could go bye-bye and I’d be happy. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/4 "2008-12-18T01:56:36Z")
_Freebird_ should never, ever be played again. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/5 "2008-12-18T01:58:41Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/6 "2008-12-18T02:01:54Z")
I never want to hear Hotel California again ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/7 "2008-12-18T02:10:49Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. I’ve never heard that one. For me, it’s Bad Moon Rising and Fortunate Son by CCR. I’d rather hear Lodi, or Green River, or some of the lesser-known songs. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/8 "2008-12-18T02:34:09Z")
Stair-fucking-way-to-fucking-heaven. EDA: Fuck! ---
**Author:** ![DJ\_Motorbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@DJ\_Motorbike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DJ_Motorbike)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/9 "2008-12-18T03:47:23Z")
I agree with everthing everybody has mentioned so far. I would like to add: _Hollywood Nights_ by Bob Seeger. _Legs_ ZZ Top. Not only a stupid song, but I can’t hear it without thinking about the panty hose company they allowed to use this stupid song for their commercials. It’s one thing to sell out, artists need to make a living too, but to sell out to a panty hose company? And like I said, It’s a stupid song to begin with. _Dirty Laundry_ Don Henley. This one makes me mad. Not only is it a stupid song it’s about . . . laundry. It must be nice being Don Henley, you can write a song about your fucking laundry and then get people to play it on the air for the next 20 years while you roll around in your piles of cash. Anyone caught playing this song on the air should be exiled to to French Foreign Legion where they should be forced to do mountainous piles of laundry every day for the rest of their lives for less then 25 cents a day. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/10 "2008-12-18T03:49:31Z")
> [@DJ\_Motorbike](#): > > _Dirty Laundry_ Don Henley. This one makes me mad. Not only is it a stupid song it’s about . . . laundry. > . You’re kidding, right? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/11 "2008-12-18T03:51:28Z")
> [@DJ\_Motorbike](#): > > I agree with everthing everybody has mentioned so far. I would like to add: > > _Hollywood Nights_ by Bob Seeger. > > _Legs_ ZZ Top. Not only a stupid song, but I can’t hear it without thinking about the panty hose company they allowed to use this stupid song for their commercials. It’s one thing to sell out, artists need to make a living too, but to sell out to a panty hose company? And like I said, It’s a stupid song to begin with. > > _Dirty Laundry_ Don Henley. This one makes me mad. Not only is it a stupid song it’s about . . . laundry. > > It must be nice being Don Henley, you can write a song about your fucking laundry and then get people to play it on the air for the next 20 years while you roll around in your piles of cash. Anyone caught playing this song on the air should be exiled to to French Foreign Legion where they should be forced to do mountainous piles of laundry every day for the rest of their lives for less then 25 cents a day. Legs is painful to listen to. It smells of the early 80’s. You DO understand that Henley wasn’t LITERALLY speaking of dirty clothes, don’t you? “Boys of summer” by Henley could go bye-bye, AFAIC. ---
**Author:** ![DJ\_Motorbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@DJ\_Motorbike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DJ_Motorbike)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/12 "2008-12-18T06:51:18Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > Legs is painful to listen to. It smells of the early 80’s. > > You DO understand that Henley wasn’t LITERALLY speaking of dirty clothes, don’t you? > > “Boys of summer” by Henley could go bye-bye, AFAIC. I’ve always hated the song, and I’ve never really listened to the lyrics. All I hear is _"blah blah blah **DIRTY LAUNDRY!!!"** _ and I think to myself “self, please change the station kthxby.” I have always assumed that it isn’t literally about dirty laundry, but it may as well be because those are the only lyrics I ever hear before finding something less offensive to listen to. I always hated “Boys of Summer” until I heard the [Atari’s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIfiQePVbqU) cover version. I can appreciate it now. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/13 "2008-12-18T07:28:05Z")
Dirty Laundry is a classic. > [@](#): > > The bubble-headed-bleach-blond > Comes on at five > She can tell you 'bout the plane crash > with a gleam In her eye > It’s interesting when people die > Give us dirty laundry Great social commentary that has never been more relevant. The song ain’t about laundry! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/14 "2008-12-18T08:18:15Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Dirty Laundry is a classic. > > Great social commentary that has never been more relevant. That’s Henley in a nutshell. I’m fond of, “In the Garden of Allah”, but I don’t think that was as popular as many others he wrote. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/15 "2008-12-18T08:23:06Z")
“Bohemian Rhapsody” should be shelved immediately. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/16 "2008-12-18T08:42:43Z")
> [@Frazzled](#): > > I never want to hear Hotel California again Their whole catalog should be banished…Fucking Eagles. Sorry, I hate them, and like classic rock. I love Led Zeppelin, but I could do without ever hearing Rock n’ Roll, Black Dog, or the same Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid pair that has been playing on DFW classic rock stations for at least 28 years now. But more than limit what they can play, I wish the radio stations would go find some of the other songs to play, there are lots of good ones they’re not playing. The playilst really can be more than 200 songs. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/17 "2008-12-18T09:09:00Z")
Everything by Jimi Hendrix, Tom Petty, The Cars, Jimi Hendrix, half of Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, “Free Bird”, and Jimi Hendrix. (Did I mention Jimi Hendrix?) ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/18 "2008-12-18T12:30:12Z")
See this is what is so frustrating about the classic rock stations. All of the above are great songs but since they are played to death by the Clear Channel syndicate controlled stations which are bankrupt of any sense of creativity and too cowardly to try something even remotely original, we’re stuck with the same steady diet of five or six songs set on repeat play ad nauseum. Example: you could make an entire anthology of Beatles offerings that were not released as singles that are absolutely great songs but instead the stations will play either “_Back in the USSR_,” “_Get Back_” or “_Strawberry Fields_”. These could easily be replaced by “_Rocky Raccoon_” “_Hey Bulldog_” or “_Fixing a Hole_” and this you could do with every freaking group on their play list. Bastards! ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/19 "2008-12-18T13:05:42Z")
_Old Time Rock N Roll_ by **Bob Seger**. Ditto on the **Eagles** , those fucking hacks. Stairway/Freebird/American Pie/and the rest of those interminable wankfests that are too tedious for me to even type. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674/20 "2008-12-18T13:56:55Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > Everything by Jimi Hendrix, Tom Petty, The Cars, Jimi Hendrix, half of Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, “Free Bird”, and Jimi Hendrix. > > (Did I mention Jimi Hendrix?) Why everything by Hendrix and Petty? If classic radio is to believed, neither of them recorded more than five or six songs each. Yet both have a ton of songs that never ever get played. I say put away anything that’s been released on a ‘best of’ or greatest hits album for 20 years or so. BUT then I remember that when I was in high school in the late 80s, I would not have discovered Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin or others without classic rock radio. Even though it’s my 10,000,000th time hearing Stairway to Heaven, for someone, it’s the first time. So I stear clear of classic rock radio all together and listen to my mp3 player or a CD in the car. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock/477674.md?page=2)