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

[Orbert]

Holy Shit!

[Lolzeez]

I just shat bricks. Enough to build a house for me and my two turtles.

[Orbert]

Did you check out her playlist?  She does a great YYZ as well as some "regular" classic rock stuff.  Amazing kid.  Too bad the audience doesn't seem to have any idea what's going on.

[Ħ]

Great song.

[wkiml]

Journey 1975  tell me this riff doesnt sound familiar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0SwXrajVHY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[Dublagent66]

Not only a classic but one of the best classics of all time.   

[Lolzeez]

Too bad the audience doesn't seem to have any idea what's going on.

Respect.

[jingle.boy]

I am sure this has been posted before, but it is worth doing so again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pS5xzOWbwo

That is pretty damn impressive talent there. 

I was always partial to the The Trombone Quartet version

[KevShmev]

Mason Proffit - Two Hangmen

This may be another one of those regional hits, but this folksy tune from 1969 is nothing short of magnificent.  Very cool lyrics, and the climax in this song never fails to give me goosebumps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC3yZdG_2Bc

[Jaq]

Regional hit. 

[jingle.boy]

Regional hit. 

This.  Never heard of the band or song.

[KevShmev]

Maybe listen to the link, which I provided, eh? 

[King Postwhore]

I'm at work so I will listen when I get home.  I don't remember the title either but I bet as soon as I hear it I'll give it the old, "Oh Yeah!"

[Jaq]

I did, and I still don't remember it. If it got airplay here, it was before I lived here, and I know it didn't get airplay in West Virginia when I was a kid. Sounds like solid late 60s folk-rock to me though.

[DebraKadabra]

Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes

Good one.

Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill

 

Argent - Hold Your Head Up

Great song.  In my younger years though, I often confused this song as being done by Yes.

Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son

Awesome song is WAY awesome.

Mason Proffit - Two Hangmen

Yeah - regional hit.

[jingle.boy]

Maybe listen to the link, which I provided, eh? 

Allow me to clarify.

Never heard of the band or song UNTIL LISTENING TO THE LINK THAT KEV PROVIDED.

 

[KevShmev]

Maybe listen to the link, which I provided, eh? 

Allow me to clarify.

Never heard of the band or song UNTIL LISTENING TO THE LINK THAT KEV PROVIDED.

 

Damn it.

[KevShmev]

John Lennon - Imagine

One of the greatest and important songs of the 20th century, hands down.  I remember hearing this for the first time - I think I was like 10 at the time - and even at that young age, its greatness and beauty was just mind-blowing.  This is obviously a bit too mellow for some of the more hard rock classic rock radio stations nowadays, but that takes nothing away from what an ageless, classic tune this is.

[King Postwhore]

 

Kev, I never heard that song before.


Imagine - That song has so many meanings about the world, John himself and what we take from it personally.

[KevShmev]

Kev, I never heard that song before.
 

It must just be a regional hit.  It was huge here in St. Louis, hence its placement at number 5 on this list:

https://www.kshe95.com/klassics/top95.aspx

[Orbert]

John Lennon - Imagine

One of the greatest and important songs of the 20th century, hands down.  I remember hearing this for the first time - I think I was like 10 at the time - and even at that young age, its greatness and beauty was just mind-blowing.  This is obviously a bit too mellow for some of the more hard rock classic rock radio stations nowadays, but that takes nothing away from what an ageless, classic tune this is.

Great song, beautiful in its simplicity, and its meaning.  John was definitely the dreamer, the idealist.

[Jaq]

The first time I heard the song Imagine actually wasn't the song itself, amazingly enough.

I don't know how I managed this, given the song in question, but the first time I heard Imagine was when a local Beatles tribute band, who in truth were pretty good, played a show at a nearby mall, and they did Imagine as a tribute to Lennon. "That's a pretty lovely song" I thought, but, in perhaps true Jaq in the 80s style, my attention was quickly distracted by looking down and seeing someone had dropped some money on the floor behind the crowd of people watching the band. NINE DOLLARS!

This being 1981, nine dollars went a long way. Long enough to buy an album-Journey's Escape-and a paperback book. So part of me, whenever I think of Imagine, is still thinking "NINE BUCKS! I'M GONNA BUY AN ALBUM NOW!" 

[Pols Voice]

I'm not a big fan of it, but it's alright. Alan White on the drums!

[Orbert]

Yep, he did a lot of work with John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band before joining Yes.

[Pols Voice]

Yep, he did a lot of work with John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band before joining Yes.

And you'll be sure he'll get a question about it in every interview.

[masterthes]

My favorite John Lennon solo song, such a great piece of music

[KevShmev]

Prism - Armageddon

Another possibly under-recognized classic rock song in some circles, I remember hearing this song for the first time on the radio and thinking, "Wow."  The intro is very progressive-influenced, before busting into what is a very 70s-sounding normal song, albeit with horns at times, and then finally reprising the intro melody at the end.  Fantastic song.  And if you've never heard it, check it out!

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

[Jaq]

Prism got some airplay around here for Don't Let Him Know, which was written by Jim Vallance and Bryan Adams and in retrospect sounds like it. A lot of their albums were sold here, so I suspect Armageddon got some airplay around here when it came out, but that was a year or two before I arrived here. Trivia about Prism: they not only launched the career of Jim Vallance, (who was actually for a time a member of the band and a major songwriter) but of producer Bruce Fairbairn, and Bob Rock was credited as an engineer on some of their albums. There were a lot of Canadian bands in the late 70s that bubbled just under the level of stardom, and they were pretty good. Man, I miss the 70s some times.   

[KevShmev]

Hmmm, I didn't know a lot of that! Good info.

[DebraKadabra]

John Lennon - Imagine

 
Gorgeous song.

Prism - Armageddon

Probably another regional hit - never heard it until today.  It's... okay.  Takes a bit too long to get started, and the horns are okay, but... I really didn't dig on it.  It sounded like they were trying to be a little too ambitious with it, especially since it was released during a time where true prog was on the downward tilt.

[KevShmev]

Rainbow - Man on the Silver Mountain

This is another one of those songs that is good, and I enjoy it every time I hear it, but I never get the urge to intentionally turn it on and listen to it.  That aside, this is easily not only Rainbow's most classic and recognizable tune from the 70s, but probably of Ronnie James Dio's entire career.

[Lolzeez]

Dio is amazing.

[Orbert]

Only Ronnie James Dio could sing something like "I'm the Man on the Silver Mountain!" -- which, if you think about it, is incredibly cheesy and really kinda lame -- and make it sound awesome.  One of the greatest rock voices ever.

I guess I'm kinda with Kev on this one.  I won't change the station when it comes on the radio, but I think I've intentionally played Rainbow maybe twice in my life, and I have two of their albums.  Good stuff, but it all kinda sounds the same to me.

[DebraKadabra]

Rainbow - Man on the Silver Mountain

Awesome song is awesome, but like Mister Shmevin and Orbert... I really don't go out of my way to listen to it.

[BlobVanDam]

I'm a huge Dio fan and a moderate Rainbow fan, but I've never even heard of this song. One of the few Rainbow albums I don't have.