Classic Rock Song of the Day (Deep Cuts now being featured!!)

[jingle.boy]

Doors were weird for me.  Either really catchy with their tunes (this, Touch Me etc... ) or really too mellow and 'out-there' (think, Riders on the Storm).

Great song this is.

[Jaq]

Doors were weird for me.  Either really catchy with their tunes (this, Touch Me etc... ) or really too mellow and 'out-there' (think, Riders on the Storm).

Great song this is.

Was sitting here trying to figure out how to explain my relationship with the Doors, this largely sums it up. If I listen to the Doors, its more the out there songs, rather than the pop hits.

[Man-Erg]

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.

Doors are one of my favorite bands, so go figure.

[Cool Chris]

Not a bad song, but not one of my favorites of theirs. Recently made my own Doors 'greatest hits' collection and didn't occur to me for a second to include this song.

[Pols Voice]

My favorite Doors song, of the ones I've heard.

[DebraKadabra]

Not a bad song, but not one of my favorites of theirs.

Exactly this for me, too.

[KevShmev]

Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls

Queen is awesome.  This song is awesome.  What more can you really say?

[Jaq]

This song can get your ass KICKED if (1) you sing it very loudly and (2) you're dating a woman who has issues concerning the size of her posterior.

Not saying that happened to me at all.

Not in the least.

 

[jingle.boy]

What more can you really say?

They certainly let it all hang out on this one.



Seriously one of their most fun songs.  Could anyone but Queen/Freddie have pulled this song off?  Imagine The Stones, or Dire Straits with this tune.  Nope, can't do it.

[KevShmev]

Riiiiiiiight, Jaq.

Agreed, jingle.boy.  Queen had just the right dynamic to pull a song like this off well. 

 

[MoraWintersoul]

Any worries about the size of your posterior should be erased when you discover that a cool cutie such as Brian in the 70's wrote lyrics praising women with considerable, ehm... well, BUTTS. Let's not go around it

Queen was my first favorite band, and you can't praise them enough, for they are perfect. Amen.

[Jaq]

Any worries about the size of your posterior should be erased when you discover that a cool cutie such as Brian in the 70's wrote lyrics praising women with considerable, ehm... well, BUTTS. Let's not go around it

Queen was my first favorite band, and you can't praise them enough, for they are perfect. Amen.

You don't know my ex. 

[MoraWintersoul]

Any worries about the size of your posterior should be erased when you discover that a cool cutie such as Brian in the 70's wrote lyrics praising women with considerable, ehm... well, BUTTS. Let's not go around it

Queen was my first favorite band, and you can't praise them enough, for they are perfect. Amen.

You don't know my ex. 

Eh, I was just speaking from my own experience

[Orbert]

The year was 1981, and we were driving into Manistee, Michigan to play a club called The Silver Fox.  As we rounded a curve, up ahead was a girl on a bike.  She was half-standing, peddling hard, and had a well-rounded posterior.

At exactly the same time, on exactly the correct pitch, the drummer and I sang out:

♫♫ Fat Bottomed Girls, You Make the Rockin' World Go 'Round!! ♫♫

Then of course we all busted out laughing.

[Lolzeez]

The year was 1981, and we were driving into Manistee, Michigan to play a club called The Silver Fox.  As we rounded a curve, up ahead was a girl on a bike.  She was half-standing, peddling hard, and had a well-rounded posterior.

At exactly the same time, on exactly the correct pitch, the drummer and I sang out:

♫♫ Fat Bottomed Girls, You Make the Rockin' World Go 'Round!! ♫♫

Then of course we all busted out laughing.

That's awesome. And yeah,the song is awesome.

[masterthes]

Yeah, definitely one of my fav of theirs

[KevShmev]

Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Let It Ride

Definitely a major classic rock tune, albeit not really one I've gone nuts over.  Sure, it's a good song, but it was never one I felt like I had to crank up or couldn't possibly change the station if it came on.  I guess it just got lost in the mix for me back then. But a lot of people love it like crazy, hence its status as a true classic rock song.

[jingle.boy]

Not BTO's best song, but a good one none-the-less.  We (for obvious reasons) get a lot of BTO on the airwaves up here.

[Pols Voice]

Ha, this is by far my favorite BTO song. One of the coolest non-prog rock songs of its era.

[Jaq]

There is a certain amount of interchangeability in early 70s rock music, especially if you are sort of a casual listener to the genre. There were a lot of bands with gritty, deeper male lead vocals, a lot of strummed rhythm guitar parts, usually in the choruses, and lots of vocal harmonies all over the place.

That is very probably the reason that I thought for the longest time that Let It Ride was an early Doobie Brothers song. 

[masterthes]

Great song, although the guy's yelling does get annoying at times

[Orbert]

Great song!  I love the strummed parts; those are some great chords.  Sorry Jaq, but it never sounded like Doobies to me; it always sounded like BTO.  But I'm probably a bit more familiar with their music.

[Jaq]

Oh it's been YEARS since I thought that, but back when a lot of 70s bands were just "things I barely listen to in order to get to a cool song", I tended to mix up a LOT of bands. Once you actually pay attention, it's obvious who is who. 

[Orbert]

Okay I see what you're saying.  Back in radio days, or even today, most of the time they'll play three or four (or more) songs in a row, then tell you the names of everything they played.  Sometimes I'll hear a song and want to know who it is, then they play another song right after, then another... then I'm there and it's time to get out of the car.  Sometimes I don't find out until the third of fourth time I've heard it.  So they're all just songs until you can start putting names to them.

[wkiml]

BTO was one of the bands that I first listened too when I was a wee lad....Good song but not one of their best

[DebraKadabra]

Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls

 

Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Let It Ride

If I never hear ANYTHING by BTO ever again in my life it'll be too damn soon.  They got MAJORLY overplayed when I was growing up in Houston, and also in Austin.  Same with The Guess Who.

[wkiml]

Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Let It Ride

If I never hear ANYTHING by BTO ever again in my life it'll be too damn soon.  They got MAJORLY overplayed when I was growing up in Houston, and also in Austin.  Same with The Guess Who.

B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-baby you ain't seen nothing yet

[DebraKadabra]

[JayOctavarium]

meh

[jingle.boy]

If I never hear ANYTHING by BTO ever again in my life it'll be too damn soon.  They got MAJORLY overplayed when I was growing up in Houston, and also in Austin.  Same with The Guess Who.

Not a Burton Cummings fan??

[DebraKadabra]

Nope.

[El Barto]

If I never hear ANYTHING by BTO ever again in my life it'll be too damn soon.  They got MAJORLY overplayed when I was growing up in Houston, and also in Austin.  Same with The Guess Who.

Yes, except that The Guess Who was good.

[masterthes]

How did I miss the Queen song? I love Fat Bottomed Girls so damn much. Easily top 10 Queen for me

[Unlegit]

Fat Bottomed Girls and Let it Ride are great.

[KevShmev]

Supertramp - School

Magnificent song.  I am normally not a big fan of the harmonica, but it is pretty sweet in this song, playing that awesome intro.  Killer piano solo in this tune as well, and everything else around it is also killer.  This is a song I never get tired of.