CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL parking lot tailgate pre-party -- nominations, discussions, parameters, etc.

who does "ride captain ride"?

some thoughts from the middle of the alphabet

Fairport Convention -- Genesis Hall
Grateful Dead -- Touch of Gray
Iron Maiden -- Aces High
Jethro Tull -- Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of the New Day)
Jethro Tull -- Thick as a Brick
The Kinks -- Big Sky
The Kinks -- Waterloo Sunset
Moody Blues-- The Story in Your Eyes

crut, you've heard Eye in the Sky surely.

Humble Pie - I Don't Need No Doctor
Humble Pie - 30 Days in the Hole

Jethro Tull - Mother Goose
Jethro Tull - Bungle In The Jungle

Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home

Thinking these need to be here:

Tina Turner - Better Be Good to Me
John Waite - Missing You

missing beatles: "the end," or whatever you call that part of the abbey road medley

missing southern rock (though maybe this one has been lost to time, but it was huge in my youth): the outlaws "green grass and high tides"

missing neil: "like a hurricane"

missing lou reed/velvets: "walk on the wild side," "sweet jane," "rock and roll" (or was that only classic rock if you lived on a coast?)

maybe too "oldies," but I still hear these occasionally on "classic rock" radio:

The Yardbirds - Over Under Sideways Down
The Yardbirds - Heart Full of Soul
The Yardbirds - Shapes of Things

Lou was big down south too, but I don't remember hearing any Velvets on classic rock radio

yeah "Walk On The Wild Side" definitely needs to be on there but i am skeptical of Velvets inclusion

ok yeah I have heard "Eye in the Sky." good song!

Rod Stewart - Hot Legs

Can't say I've ever heard VU on a classic rock station either.

Velvets only after CR retooled post alternative stations.

Ha, I was chewed out for claiming the same thing some time ago.
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Velvets on classic rock radio might be an coastal thing only. Only Velvets/Lou song I ever heard was "Walk on the Wild Side"

I've heard them, but only "Sweet Jane," and always referred to as "Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground."\

Only neil I've ever heard on CR stations were the 3 in the original list. Never heard Fairport or Iron Maiden on any CR station ever.

Anyway, I've heard "Schizoid Man" a few times but I won't pretend that it's in heavy rotation or anything. Fair enough if you want to exclude it.

idk if I'll be adding anything myself, I was kinda psyched over the original list and now the flood of suggestions I'm like O_O

but cosign Rainbow 'since You've been gone' for sure, for sure, for sure

rock on, evrahbody!!

The Kinks -- Big Sky
The Kinks -- Waterloo Sunset

i would love to live in a world where those are considered classic rock, but i don't think i do. but maybe:

kinks - sunny afternoon

Ace - How Long Has This Been Going On

OMG, way more Neil Young songs than that get heavy CR airplay in Canada at least.
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Yeah, some people are privy to cooler classic rock stations than ones I've ever encountered. Waterloo Sunset? sh'yeah right.

Maybe that's too AM, memory's getting hazy

I didn't hear Velvets on the radio at all as a kid. I was super confused about the difference between Pete Townshend, The Kinks and Lou Reed and my friend's older brother gave me shit because of it. That's not something I'd forget!

Is Come Dancing on here? That's a song I definitely heard on the radio.

Only Kinks songs I ever hear: "You Really Got Me", "All Day and All of the Night", "Lola", "Rock and Roll Fantasy"

I've heard "Waterloo Sunset," but only once, and only on this one DJ's show where he occasionally could sneak in some rarely-heard shit.

Never heard "Rock and Roll Fantasy." Heard "Superman," "Catch Me Now I'm Falling," and "Do It Again" (as well as "Come Dancing").

Styx - Suite Madame Blue

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit, Somebody to Love
Jefferson Starship - Miracles

Deep Purple - Highway Star, Space Truckin

Jefferson Starship - Jane
Jefferson Starship - Find Your Way Back

Electric Light Orchestra – Fire On High

i don't believe i've ever heard this song in my life! and i kinda like elo!

Blondie - One Way Or Another
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
The Firm - Radioactive
Scandal - The Warrior

The Warrior always seems like a cool song nostalgia-wise and then I hear it and it just goes on foreveeeer

Great song, too many refrains of the chorus.

"Against the Wind" is the one I can't stand for that reason.

Goodbye to You is probably the Scandal song you're more likely to hear now anyway.

Gerry Rafferty - "Baker Street"
Ozzy Osbourne - "Bark at the Moon"

More Neil Toung songs too -- Old Man, Like a Hurricane, is Ohio on there? Probably others.

Young! Ugh!

But Neil Tongue would be a funny alias.

Neil Tse-tung

Quarterflash - Harden My Heart
Heart - Bebe Le Strange

Thinking these need to be here:

Tina Turner - Better Be Good to Me
John Waite - Missing You

― Johnny Fever, Monday, June 16, 2014 3:52 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

On classic rock radio?

Maybe some sort of 80's Lite FM or something.

Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues
Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)

Heard "Old Man" by Neil Young approximately one million times on classic rock radio as a child. Feels like canon to me for sure.

Xps For a while, "Fire On High" was one of the only ELO songs you'd here down here (the others being "Evil Woman" and "Don't Bring Me Down".)

Well, yeah noms "Witchy Woman" & "New Kid In Town"