Rolling stones… “beast of burden”… and "RocknRoll… but I like it… " And rarely do the play the better shit like Tumbling Dice…
Zepp… “All of my love”… they play the shit outta that and its def weaker…
Pretty sure it was Cream who did “Sunshine of My Eye”, but still fits with the thread.
Let’s just go ahead and get this out of the way, shall we? Stevie Wonder did “You Are the Sunshine of My Life”, and Cream did “Sunshine of Your Love”.
There. Don’t you feel better? I know I do.
Whoosh-ruiner.
Just about the only Alice Cooper song that gets any airplay these days (and the one that he performed on American Idol) is School’s Out. That song is a trite throwaway track among many amazing songs from that band, especially from the early era.
Many artists don’t build up enough of a fanbase to have a hit until they’ve already written and released their best material.
Many other artists just plain sell out.
Most importantly, the combination of the general public’s lack of taste and a hack industry gladly giving them all the pabulum they can consume.
Old B52s stuff like Rock Lobster, Planet Claire, Private Idaho still rocks hard. Then why do all I ever here anymore is the horribly lame Love Shack?
Because it’s a fun, lighthearted, mood-lifting party song that makes people feel happy when they listen to it?
Not everything has to be a masterpiece - nor should it.
The Beastie Boys. Every album I find that the weakest song is the radio song. Fight for Your Right To Party, Hey Ladies, So Watcha Want, Sabotage, Intergalactic, Body Movin, etc.
Well… I’m sure there will be those who disagree with me, but in my book, the prototypical example of this kind of thing is Genesis. Everything you hear by them on the radio is from the post-Peter Gabriel era, and while I won’t go so far as to say that the best thing they did post-Gabriel is worse than the worst thing they did with Gabriel, that’s not too far of a stretch.
Another example might be Jethro Tull. What gets played nowadays besides the lame “Bungle in the Jungle”?
"Because it’s a fun, lighthearted, mood-lifting song that makes people feel happy when they listen to it?
Not everything has to be a masterpiece - nor should it." back at you :rolleyes:
Not to mention the fact that most DJs mispronounce the title.
You wouldn’t know a diamond if you held it in your hand. The things you think are precious I can’t understand.
Again I must dissent. Around here, we get a lot of Sympathy for the Devil, Satisfaction, Honky Tonk Woman, and* Can’t Always Get What You Want* from the Stones.
For Led Zep, we get heavy doses of Stairway to Heaven, Rock and Roll, Immigrant Song and Kashmir.
There’s a difference between “weaker song but lots of airplay” (I say ‘weaker’ because Steely Dan does not do bad songs. 
), and “horribly lame” song, which implies that there’s no good reason for anyone to like it (and by inference, anyone who does is an idiot).
That’s why I answered as I did: to show that there are good reasons to like Love Shack that have nothing to do with musical virtuosity.
“Aqualung,” of course. Years ago I used to also hear “Cross-Eyed Mary” and “Locomotive Breath.” It was enough to make Aqualung my least-favorite Tull record.
Because the latter was a Top 40 hit in the US, while the former cuts were all from the time when the 52’s were a mere “cult” band, and hence don’t actually exist?
You won’t hear the deep cuts from anyone out of my local “rock” stations. Best example is “Tom Sawyer” being played to death, but the DJs won’t play anything else, even if you call and ask. I called to see if they’d play “Far Cry” or “The Body Electric” and the DJ said “We have to play what’s popular around here, and those songs aren’t.” I won’t even go into all the other bands that I love whose best music is ignored. That’s my #1 reason to have an iPod.
I’ll probably be lambasted for this but:
The Police – “Roxanne”
Jane’s Addiction – “Jane Says”
Two awesome bands and most stations play their most boring tracks.