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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #105 on: January 25, 2013, 01:49:45 AM »
I've listened to a lot of classic rock radio but I had never heard that Head East song in my life. Not a bad track, I suppose.
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #106 on: January 25, 2013, 05:39:24 AM »
I've listened to a lot of classic rock radio but I had never heard that Head East song in my life. Not a bad track, I suppose.

This.  Never have I heard this song in my life.  Guess it never cracked the Canadian (or at least Toronto) airwaves.
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #107 on: January 25, 2013, 05:59:34 AM »
I've listened to a lot of classic rock radio but I had never heard that Head East song in my life. Not a bad track, I suppose.

Never heard it either. Granted, I am a much younger guy, but I have heard a lot of classic rock radio since I was a kid, and I'm into that kind of music.
Didn't think much of it. Not bad, but nothing special.
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #108 on: January 25, 2013, 07:23:41 AM »
Never heard it either. Decent song.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #109 on: January 25, 2013, 07:26:01 AM »
Maybe it was just a regional hit.  I heard it all the time.  Everyone knew the song was not called "Save My Life, I'm Goin' Down for the Last Time" but no one could remember the real name.  It took a while.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #110 on: January 25, 2013, 08:21:35 AM »
It's been a classic rock radio staple down here forever.  Actually had some crossover appeal with the local hard rock station, as well.
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #111 on: January 25, 2013, 08:48:31 AM »
At a guess, it was a regional hit. I'd heard it enough to recognize it when I listened to it, but it wasn't a song that got a lot of airplay around these parts. Back in the 1970s it was entirely possible for a band to sell out a 12,000 seat arena in St. Louis and be completely unknown on either coast, which was kind of cool-you could adopt bands as ones you made famous that way.  :biggrin:
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #112 on: January 25, 2013, 08:49:21 AM »
Eric Clapton - Let It Rain

I am not a big fan of Clapton's, especially of his solo work, but he does have a handful or so of songs I like a lot; Let It Rain is one of them.  I always thought it was a killer tune, but it never seemed to get played as much as certain other Clapton classics.  But it is certainly a "classic" classic rock tune.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #113 on: January 25, 2013, 08:52:52 AM »
Eric Clapton - Let It Rain

I am not a big fan of Clapton's, especially of his solo work, but he does have a handful or so of songs I like a lot; Let It Rain is one of them.  I always thought it was a killer tune, but it never seemed to get played as much as certain other Clapton classics.  But it is certainly a "classic" classic rock tune.
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #114 on: January 25, 2013, 08:54:23 AM »
Great song, but not one of my favorite Clapton tracks. Around here, the Clapton song that got the most airplay was the live version of Cocaine, so I tended to have a sense of relief when any OTHER Clapton song got played, because frankly I loathed Cocaine.
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« Reply #115 on: January 25, 2013, 08:56:11 AM »
Eric Clapton - Let It Rain

I am not a big fan of Clapton's, especially of his solo work, but he does have a handful or so of songs I like a lot; Let It Rain is one of them.  I always thought it was a killer tune, but it never seemed to get played as much as certain other Clapton classics.  But it is certainly a "classic" classic rock tune.

Yeah, don't especially like Clapton, but this song is awesome.  Either didn't know, or forgot, he did this one.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #116 on: January 25, 2013, 09:24:06 AM »
I am not sure what is more shocking, that a lot of people here have never heard 'Never Been Any Reason' or that all the vocals are done by guys.
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #117 on: January 25, 2013, 09:30:39 AM »
Yeah, if I was in Head East, I'm not sure if I had wanted a selling point for that song to be "all the vocals are by guys!" myself.  :rollin
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #118 on: January 25, 2013, 10:24:49 AM »
Eric Clapton - Let It Rain

I am not a big fan of Clapton's, especially of his solo work, but he does have a handful or so of songs I like a lot; Let It Rain is one of them.  I always thought it was a killer tune, but it never seemed to get played as much as certain other Clapton classics.  But it is certainly a "classic" classic rock tune.

Same here.  Clapton's got some good songs, solo and with Derek and the Dominos and Cream and whoever else, but I've never been inspired to get a single album of his.  But this is a good song.  I always loved how the piano lines kinda sound like rain falling, which I'm assuming was the idea.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #119 on: January 25, 2013, 11:55:08 AM »
It's been a classic rock radio staple down here forever.  Actually had some crossover appeal with the local hard rock station, as well.

Yeah, I heard it on the radio in Houston and Austin quite often over the years.

Eric Clapton - Let It Rain

Like Cocaine (which I can't stand either), Let It Rain was WAY overplayed.  A more obvious choice would've been Layla, but that wasn't just Eric Clapton.

Speaking of, my uncle named my cousin after Mister Clapton.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #120 on: January 25, 2013, 12:05:19 PM »
Great song, but not one of my favorite Clapton tracks. Around here, the Clapton song that got the most airplay was the live version of Cocaine, so I tended to have a sense of relief when any OTHER Clapton song got played, because frankly I loathed Cocaine.

That live version was played non-stop around here, too.  Ick.

   A more obvious choice would've been Layla, but that wasn't just Eric Clapton.

I'll get to that one eventually.  There are a lot of classic rock artists with many good songs worth featuring, and doing the best/most popular ones for all of them right off the bat would be boring, no? :)

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #121 on: January 25, 2013, 06:36:08 PM »
I'll get to that one eventually.  There are a lot of classic rock artists with many good songs worth featuring, and doing the best/most popular ones for all of them right off the bat would be boring, no? :)

Yeah, that's a good point.  I was just listing personal preference, as per what I sometimes do. :)

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #122 on: January 26, 2013, 09:33:53 AM »
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride

A knew a guy a long time ago who refused to ever listen to this song in his car cause he knew a guy who said he had two different friends who died in car accidents when listening to this song on the radio.  Not sure how he knew that (unless the survivors in the car told him that, but why would that be worth mentioning?), but whatever.  Just an odd little tidbit about that song.  Anyway, it's a good song for sure, but the end of the song kind of showed how clueless some 60s acts were at ending songs.  After the long instrumental section, it finally breaks back into the chorus, and then the song suddenly fades out right in the middle of it. I guess they had no clue how to end the song, so they just opted for the fade mid-chorus.  Bizarre and quite jarring.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #123 on: January 26, 2013, 09:42:45 AM »
Decent tune.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #124 on: January 26, 2013, 09:58:43 AM »
Decent tune.

Yeah, this. :tup


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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #125 on: January 26, 2013, 10:00:14 AM »
Good song, reminds me of Austin Powers  :lol

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #126 on: January 26, 2013, 10:20:55 AM »
Classic rock radio has an odd effect in that it makes some bands appear to have far shorter careers than they actually did. A casual listener to classic rock radio could conclude that the entirety of Steppenwolf's career was this song and Born to Be Wild, likely as a single. While, admittedly, those WERE the highlights, it is kind of funny that bands that had careers with full albums are sometimes reduced to a song. Guess Steppenwolf is lucky, since they have TWO they're known for  :lol
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #127 on: January 26, 2013, 10:30:29 AM »
Good song, never understood the fadeout though.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #128 on: January 26, 2013, 07:25:49 PM »
Awesome song. I like it better than their other big hit. The fadeout is weird though.
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #129 on: January 26, 2013, 10:03:59 PM »
Yep, I totally agree about the ending.  I always wondered if it's that way on the album, and what we hear on the radio is some bastardized single edit.  Probably not, though.  If there were a longer version, it seems like it would've seen the light by now.  So KevShmev is right; they just didn't know how to end it.  Heck, it could've just gone on into the spacy "magic carpet ride" section and faded out from there, but I guess someone thought that it should at least return to the chorus for some kind of closure.  Then the fade out anyway.

Oh well, good song anyway.  I like singing along with it and trying to remember when you say "well" and when you don't.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #130 on: January 27, 2013, 03:47:50 AM »
Never got the fuss for Magic Carpet Ride.  It just never clicked with me.
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #131 on: January 27, 2013, 03:50:02 AM »
Head East - Never Been Any Reason

Anyone who has listened to classic rock radio has to know this song.  It is, or at least it was for a long time, a classic rock staple.  Helluva fun tune, with some great harmonies and one of the more memorably choruses from the mid 70s.  When I was first getting into classic rock, this song was one I heard all of the time and always loved.

I finally got to listen to this and I remember this big time!!  A definite radio song here and a very good tune!
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #132 on: January 27, 2013, 03:54:48 AM »
Never got the fuss for Magic Carpet Ride.  It just never clicked with me.
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #133 on: January 27, 2013, 09:23:55 AM »
Tarney-Spencer Band - No Time to Lose

Kind of an under-the-radar classic, but still a damn good one.  This song was played a lot on the classic rock radio stations here in St. Louis back in the day, but I have no idea if it was played elsewhere a lot.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #134 on: January 27, 2013, 09:46:51 AM »
One that actually got airplay here, though it wasn't a particular favorite of mine.
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #135 on: January 27, 2013, 05:18:22 PM »
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride

Good enough song, but I liked The Pusher a LOT better.  Plus, The Pusher was in Easy Rider. :hat

Tarney-Spencer Band - No Time to Lose

I don't think I ever heard this one at all.  Guess it wasn't played in either Houston or Austin.  Not bad, sounds like a lot of the generic rock stuff that was popular at that time.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #136 on: January 27, 2013, 09:19:02 PM »
Never heard of this one. Not bad, but not that good either.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #137 on: January 28, 2013, 06:34:53 AM »
Never heard this one - song or band.  Must've been another regional hit.
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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #138 on: January 28, 2013, 07:05:02 AM »
Never heard this one - song or band.  Must've been another regional hit.

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Re: Classic Rock Song of the Day
« Reply #139 on: January 28, 2013, 08:16:15 AM »
The Doors - Love Her Madly

I remember the first time I heard this song.  I cut grass with my cousin Tim in the summers of '89 and '90, and he was a major classic rock guy (he's like 13 years older than me), so he was always cranking classic rock when we were driving from yard to yard, and I was introduced to a lot of classic rock that way.  Love Her Madly was a song that really jumped out at me the first time I heard it, like, "Wow, what a great song."  I think that song was a major reason why the Best of The Doors double CD compilation was one of my earliest purchases when I got my first CD player in the latter half of 1990. :hat