Artists/bands that were once quite popular, yet nowadays are mostly ignored in canonical history books

I just listened to it and am honestly not sure I've heard it before.

what about jim steinman productions in general: bonnie tyler, meatloaf, sisters of mercy, celine dion - and then what? nope, no-one cares

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This Queen business didn't seem so weird when I could just put it down as another instance of the British being insane.

They're real books btw! Not hard to look up, I don't think. The thread is less interesting imo if it's just another ILM passage of time thread.

Baba O'Reilly probably got a fair amount of its exposure from being a CSI opening theme.

Surely it was the most famous Who song this side of the Atlantic even before that? I've been hearing it my whole life, although "Pinball Wizard" seemed to rival it when I was a kid and that one has dropped right off.

And actually isn't "Who Are You?" the CSI song anyway?

Feel like most or all of Who's Next got played on my classic rock stations back in the 70s and 80s in particular "Baba O'Reilly" and "Won't Get Fooled Again" but also "Behind Blue Eyes," which was a single as well. "I Can See For MIles" was their biggest hit single in the US so you would here that on all kinds of stations. You would also hear some of the early singles, but more often on kind of a college/alternative station with say a New Wave/British Invasion show or format. At least that's what my memory says, although I did look up the US chart position of "I Can See for Miles"."

when they used to do "greatest song of all time" countdowns on classic rock radio (maybe this is still a thing?) I recall "Baba O'Reilly" as the perennial challenger to "Stairway To Heaven"

Ugh, why did I copy the misspelling from the thread, It is "Baba O'Riley"

and I'm blaming you!

Heh, I was going to blame Sund4r, but he cut and pasted it as a quote from someone else.

My recollection is that "Won't Get Fooled Again" was always the highest Who song on those countdowns.

It was always "Stairway" on our station in the 80s and early to mid 90s. Then it started getting mixed up with "Hotel California", "Comfortably Numb", and "Baba".

Ha, I noticed the spelling mistake but was going to be nice about it.

That's exactly what I figured ;)

I guess my recollection is faulty:
The 1987 WNEW-FM Top 1027 Songs of All Time Listener's Poll

Not by much though.

It used to drive a young James Redd crazy as they got near the top ten, having to sit through all those epics. I knew I was in for a long night once they hit "Jungleland." I could dial down from WNEW-FM to WCBS-FM, listen to a couple of songs on Don K. Reed's Doo Wop shop, dial back up and the same song would still be playing!

think i'm right in saying the who are mostly known for 'my generation' in the uk now, had never heard 'baba o'reilly' in my life until i bought the album a few years back

Would have suggested ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’ as the Who song most in the public consciousness , at least in the UK.

"Baba O'Reilly" enjoying a huge resurgence right now thanks to Joe Pera

Nah it's My Generation. Lots of their other songs are very well known in the UK but that one is basically in folk memory now.

Forgot how much you would hear "Magic Bus." And don't recall ever hearing "How Many Friends."

Interesting that "Comfortably Numb" is the third-highest Pink Floyd song on that list at 51. My sense has been for a long time that that song is for some reason bigger in Canada than anywhere else.

Looks like the last "top songs" list I can find for the local station is from 2015, when the top 3 were Baba O'Riley-Stairway-Comfortably Numb.

And actually isn't "Who Are You?" the CSI song anyway?

― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Thursday, 13 August 2020 13:27 (forty-three minutes ago) link

was gonna respond and say that 'baba' is the theme song to csi: miami, but no, that's actually 'won't get fooled again.' 'baba' is the theme to csi ny, tho.

"Baba O'Reilly" enjoying a huge resurgence right now thanks to Joe Pera

― frogbs, Thursday, August 13, 2020 8:52 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

idk if there are enough pera-heads to cause a resurgence on their own, but that episode certainly did revive my love affair with that song

I'm now looking at the playlist for Absolute Classic Rock and they now play Florence & The Machine and Keane. This is unacceptable.

Interestingly, I can't find any "greatest songs" lists on the websites of the Ottawa or Toronto CR stations. They used to always feature them prominently. Maybe budo jeru is right that canonization itself is fading wrt rock; maybe a consequence of Bon Jovi and Stone Temple Pilots becoming heavy rotation on these?

Joe Pera is popular on ILX and right now this is kind of the only world i have

baba o'malley, imo

Interestingly, I can't find any "greatest songs" lists on the websites of the Ottawa or Toronto CR stations. They used to always feature them prominently. Maybe budo jeru is right that canonization itself is fading wrt rock; maybe a consequence of Bon Jovi and Stone Temple Pilots becoming heavy rotation on these?

I too have never heard "Don't Stop Me Now" until right now

So is pretty much every popular Queen song about, you know, winning and slaying and proving the haters wrong?

Little wonder this song is popular right now with the youngs, many of whom in my experience have a habit of likening every minor accomplishment to being a "rock star." Like life occurs during some endless Rocky training montage

Teenage Jungleland

Little wonder this song is popular right now with the youngs, many of whom in my experience have a habit of likening every minor accomplishment to being a "rock star." Like life occurs during some endless Rocky training montage

This way, good sir:

steve hoffman forums, C or D?

So is pretty much every popular Queen song about, you know, winning and slaying and proving the haters wrong?

there's one where the guy is in love with his car

it'd be pretty cool to hear Baba O'Riley again for the first time!

'Bicycle' is the Zeitgeist-y one.

I was wondering when a Steve Hoffman link would show up.

So is pretty much every popular Queen song about, you know, winning and slaying and proving the haters wrong?

pretty much, though every fule knows that 'cool cat' is secretly the best queen song ever and that is basically just about cats who are cool

it'd be pretty cool to hear Baba O'Riley again for the first time!

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, August 13, 2020 9:51 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

you should definitely watch that joe pera episode if you haven't. called, 'joe pera reads the church announcements'

Little wonder this song is popular right now with the youngs, many of whom in my experience have a habit of likening every minor accomplishment to being a "rock star." Like life occurs during some endless Rocky training montage

― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, August 13, 2020 7:42 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAuR5bkIlQ

it'd be pretty cool to hear Baba O'Riley again for the first time!

paywalled but I guess Billboard noticed this:

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8501348/queen-dont-stop-me-now-biggest-hits
The Evolution of Queen's 'Don't Stop Me Now': How a Minor Hit Became One of The Band's Most Beloved (And Inescapable) Songs

Interesting that some of us have managed to escape it until today though

Don't Stop Me Now is a good song, it's so full of joy with just a touch of sadness in the coda, it's 1000 times better than We Are The Fucking Champions.

Anyway my 2020 challop is that Queen are okay but I'd rather never have to hear a single one of their songs ever again. Same goes for The Who, although the instrumental Terry Riley bits are all quite good and I'd listen to a best of compilation exclusively dedicated to that vein.

xps oh sup Brad, wb

Ha, are there any Riley-like instrumental bits outside of the song named after him?

I have no idea what "Don't Stop Me Now" sounds like

funny to me discussing Queen in the context of these other bands...I actually have a soft spot for them but always regarded it as something closer to musical theater

xp You people are weird.

Ha, are there any Riley-like instrumental bits outside of the song named after him?

'Won't Get Fooled Again's outro, kind of.

what about jim steinman productions in general: bonnie tyler, meatloaf, sisters of mercy, celine dion - and then what? nope, no-one cares

― Defund the indefensible (NickB)

Not among my friends! There was a period where we all got obsessed, and it's still generally accepted that STEINMAN RULES OK. Got to get that pomp fix.

I have no idea what 'Don't Stop Me Now' sounds like either. It's not on the 1992 North American edition of their Greatest Hits.

have to admit I was previously unaware of this connection between the Sisters of Mercy and Bonnie Tyler, Meatloaf and Celine Dion

Ha, yeah, I had a period of being really fascinated by Steinman. I don't think those things are forgotten here? Maybe it's just that we have a neighbour who blasted those Bonnie Tyler and Celine Dion things really loud through the summers, along with 80s Heart. We kept trying to imagine what their life was like, picturing a 50ish woman with bottles of wine and old photos.