"These Eyes" vs. "No Time" vs. "American Woman" vs. "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature"

Ha, Chilliwack! Yeah, that Canadian content law...

I'm looking at the playlist for my local oldies (not classic rock) station, and they have shifted so far away from the 60s/earlier 70s that used to be their bread and butter. (And 50s is non-existent, I know we talked about that on another thread.) The last 10 artists played:

Boston
ELO
Styx
Seger
Benatar
Billy Joel
Carly Simon
Doobies
Bill Withers
Van Halen

I'm guessing (ha!) The Guess Who and Three Dog Night and some of those more top 40 leaning early 70s acts show up occasionally, but they're really trying to play a bunch of the same Boston and Seger and Van Halen that the classic rock station plays.

"No Time," but the correct answer is actually "Undun"

One could say the guess who were an "undud"

Living within receiving range of Canadian radio stations as a teen was always interesting. It was like "Who are these bands?!?!" I always heard acts like Glass Tiger, Saga, Honeymoon Suite, Platinum Blonde, Sarah McLachlan, etc., long before they hit in the US.

Racking my brain for the Chilliwack song I remember; turns out it wasn't them at all, it was (Make Me Do) Anything You Want by A Foot In Coldwater.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Maybe this is obvious, but I always thought there was a significant part of the Black Crowes' template that came from these songs - I think "Share the Land" and "No Sugar Tonight" in particular.

How the mighty have fallen. "American Woman" would finish Top 10 of All-Time on countdowns at one point...up here it would, anyway. I proudly belong to a vanishing breed of people who remember deep GW cuts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M0DnakuzOk

I missed this! Would have probably voted for "No Time" but "American Woman" is pretty great.

There are a few Canadians on here who skipped this...I've contacted the Department of Citizenship about all of you.

Pierre Juneau is turning over in his grave: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/arts/music/pierre-juneau-champion-of-canadas-pop-music-industry-dies-at-89.html?hpw

The Canadian music industry named its annual award the Junos in Mr. Juneau’s honor.

oh man I never got that before

Always figured it was after the Roman goddess.

Holy cow--would never have guessed that Cancon's architect was still alive, and would never have jinxed him if I'd known he was.

You know what would be a great sample? The little electric-piano part that goes right after he first sings "These eyes..."

Missed this poll - would've voted "Sugar," although my favorite of theirs on principle is "Clap For The Wolfman." Love the whole concept, nobody writes songs like that anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u12xbLeMY6A

Years and years ago on a defunct and sort of stilted blog I wrote this:

While not utterly obscure (I'm pretty sure this is on a few of their greatest hits compilations), "Clap For The Wolfman" definitely hasn't gotten the airplay of, say, "American Woman" or "No Time." The reason for this is probably mainly due to the fact that those other songs are much better and more rocking. But "Clap For The Wolfman" has a tremendous charm, thanks to its unique premise: a guy wants to pick up a girl, but she gives him the cold shoulder while focusing all her attention on to the Wolfman Jack's radio program. To add insult to injury, the Wolfman himself (a weird-voiced syndicated DJ of the times) actually guests on the track to make such boasts as, "You thought she was diggin' you, but she was diggin' me! Ha ha ha!" The chorus doesn't really relate to the plot of the song - if the Wolfman's stealing your girl, why would you clap for him? - but it does feature hand-claps to go along with the "clap for the Wolfman" idea. I can't dispute that.