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

[Orbert]

Right, that's what I hear, too.  I just suck at describing it.  That, and guys picking/strumming each one, which is definitely wrong.

[BlobVanDam]

I've always heard/thought it was the second one. But because it's all slid, and not picked (much like the other 8ths in there), it's kind of ambiguous alone.

Upon close listening, I still believe it's the second line though. Here's my reasoning - First of all, it sounds played the same to me as the notes before it where it is clearly 8ths, so I don't think he intends to play anything different there.
Secondly, and more conclusively to me, listen to the bass underneath it. It is very clearly playing the extra 8th there, and because it's bass, it's cleanly picking every note with no slides.

But either way, it's not supposed to be individually picked, so if people are picking every 8th, instead of on each 4th, then they're still wrong.

[masterthes]

2nd favorite Sabbath song

[Cool Chris]

Road Warriors

 

Haha! My first thought as well. The Road Warriors in the good ol' NWA days was where I heard this song first. Imagine my surprise when I found it was not only a classic rock song, but a legendary one as well.

[KevShmev]

Speaking of classic rock songs in the metal vein....

Judas Priest - Living After Midnight

Turn on classic rock radio and Judas Priest has three songs you will hear a lot.  Why did I pick this particular one to feature first?  Who the hell knows , but this is a good song.  Priest have dozens of songs that are better, but for a band that many only know three songs by, at least they are all good ones.  This is about as catchy as metal gets.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

I can't think of the last time I did a gig that we didn't do this song.  Excellent stuff.

[Orbert]

Great song!  It's so classic, though, that I don't even think of it as a metal song, it's just classic rock.  In fact, I tend to forget that Judas Priest did the song.  Someone asked me who did the song, and I couldn't think of who it was because Priest is metal and the song isn't metal.

But it is.

[nicmos]

Speaking of classic rock songs in the metal vein....

Judas Priest - Living After Midnight

Turn on classic rock radio and Judas Priest has three songs you will hear a lot.  Why did I pick this particular one to feature first?  Who the hell knows , but this is a good song.  Priest have dozens of songs that are better, but for a band that many only know three songs by, at least they are all good ones.  This is about as catchy as metal gets.

Other 2 are Breaking the Law and You've Got Another Thing Coming?

This one would be my least favorite of those 3.

[jjrock88]

This is commercial heavy metal at its best.

[KevShmev]

Other 2 are Breaking the Law and You've Got Another Thing Coming?

 

Yep.

[KevShmev]

Angel - Tower

Another possible regional hit , this is a classic here in the Midwest, and deservedly so; it is a phenomenal song.  Several friends used to use the beginning of this song to demonstrated the awesomeness of their sound systems.  If you have never heard this song, you are really missing out on a true classic.  Check it out below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tVyWpNa-mc

[jjrock88]

Angel is a very good, but unknown band.  I think Gene Simmons had something to do with getting them signed.  Surprised they are so unknown; they had a great look for the 70's and their sound is something that you would have thought had been popular at the time.  This is one of their best songs.

[Jaq]

It was in fact a regional hit, but I bought Angel's debut when I was going through a 70s hard rock phase nearly a decade ago, and man, Tower kicks ass up one side and down the other. Sadly it's about the only memorable song on that album, but WOW, what a song.

[Orbert]

I remember Angel as the band whose logo could be rotated 180 degrees and it still said "Angel".  I always thought that was clever.  My college roommate had the album, but I don't think we ever listened to it.  I do remember flinging it out our third-story dorm window, Frisbee-style.  Records make excellent, yet deadly Frisbees.

Anyway, I just listened to that song.  Pretty good. 

[DebraKadabra]

Judas Priest - Living After Midnight

Damn good song.

Angel - Tower

Another regional hit - never heard it before today.  Not bad.  Not bad at all.

[YtseBitsySpider]

Stan Bush - The Touch



(as he comes off the shuttle.......picks off five or six.....transforms into a BIG RIG...drives over a few more....transforms back into the hulking metal monster he is...and kills a few more)

whisper his name in awe.......................O p t i m u s

[KevShmev]

lol, wut?

Cheap Trick - The Dream Police

Who thinks of Fast Times at Ridgemont High every time you hear this song? *raises hand*  I knew that moment from the movie before I knew the song for quite a long time.  All I knew for a long time by Cheap Trick was their several late 80s hits, but in the late 90s, I worked with a guy who was a huge fan of their brand of what he called "power pop" and he talked me into checking their stuff out.  I wasn't that big on a lot of it, but their known hits from the 70s are all good, The Dream Police being my favorite.

[jingle.boy]

Funky little diddy.  Always loved this track.  Cheap Trick had a few hits that didn't quite get a ton of exposure, but just enough to stick in your head. 

[YtseBitsySpider]

lol, wut?

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

[DebraKadabra]

Cheap Trick - The Dream Police

GOOD song.  Dug it tons back in the late 70s, and I still do actually.
 
 
 
Spiderman - you can't just post random shit, dude.  Fckin Canadians.

[King Postwhore]

lol, wut?

Cheap Trick - The Dream Police

Who thinks of Fast Times at Ridgemont High every time you hear this song? *raises hand*  I knew that moment from the movie before I knew the song for quite a long time.  All I knew for a long time by Cheap Trick was their several late 80s hits, but in the late 90s, I worked with a guy who was a huge fan of their brand of what he called "power pop" and he talked me into checking their stuff out.  I wasn't that big on a lot of it, but their known hits from the 70s are all good, The Dream Police being my favorite.

Love, love, love this song.  I know my buds and I belted out the chorus while driving in my car all the time. "Inside of my head!!"

[ColdFireYYZ]

Dream Police is great. I always get it stuck in my head after listening to it.

[Jaq]

lol, wut?

Cheap Trick - The Dream Police

Who thinks of Fast Times at Ridgemont High every time you hear this song? *raises hand*  I knew that moment from the movie before I knew the song for quite a long time.  All I knew for a long time by Cheap Trick was their several late 80s hits, but in the late 90s, I worked with a guy who was a huge fan of their brand of what he called "power pop" and he talked me into checking their stuff out.  I wasn't that big on a lot of it, but their known hits from the 70s are all good, The Dream Police being my favorite.

Sorry, all I think about when I think about Fast Times, musically, is Moving In Stereo.

Can't imagine why.

Dream Police is a catchy song, but I dunno, it just feels lesser compared to the other Cheap Trick classics from the 70s. Not sure why, either.

[masterthes]

It's definitely a less caliber song than Surrender or I Want You To Want Me, but still a fun song

[KevShmev]

Sorry, all I think about when I think about Fast Times, musically, is Moving In Stereo.

Can't imagine why.
 

Haha, well sure, but this is the reverse.  When I think about Fast Times and music, I think of Moving in Stereo, but when I hear The Dream Police, I think of that scene from Fast Times where Damone sings the lyrics from several of their songs when trying to sell a girl tickets to one of their concerts.

[KevShmev]

And what the hell...

The Cars - Moving in Stereo

Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Phoebe Cates. 'Nuff said.

Okay, I will say a bit more: this isn't their most-played classic rock song, but it does get played quite a bit still.  Good song, and I remember assuming it was an instrumental the first time I heard it in the movie, but then hearing the full version and realizing it was not.  It is also notable that Benjamin Orr did the lead vocals, not Ric Ocasek.  Hearing it and realizing that makes you realize how similar their voices are.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Phoebe Cates. 'Nuff said.

[Jaq]

Moving In Stereo pulls off the neat trick of seeming longer than it actually is. With the instrumental breaks, it feels like a 6-7 minute long song, but it's less than five, which is always a neat trick that I enjoy from a band. I've more than once on these forums said I loved the Cars unabashedly, and I did even when I was a young metal head. Great band.

[Orbert]

The Cars first album is amazing.  Okay, I skip the last two songs on Side One, but the rest of it, including how all the songs on Side Two go together, is awesome.  One of my favorite albums of all time.

"Moving in Stereo" in particular is masterful.  I love how the synth countermelody isn't introduced until the second verse, and it is this countermelody which is ultimately expanded upon and granted its own theme-and-variations section for the break.  And of course, there's the trippy atmosphere and typical weirdass Ocasek lyrics throughout.  And yeah, because it takes its time and unfolds naturally, it does seem longer than it really is.  It's really a brilliant piece of music.

[Cool Chris]

Cheap Trick - The Dream Police

Who thinks of Fast Times at Ridgemont High every time you hear this song?

*raises hand* 

Not a Cheap Trick song I like much, but I only like a small portion of their material.

What ever happened to Damone, anyway? Strange to think about that cast. Sean Penn and Forest Whitaker go on to win Oscars. Anthony Edwards, Judge Reinhold, Jennifer Jason Leigh go on to solid TV/Movie careers. And Damone, Ratner, and the rest? Obscurity.

The Cars - Moving in Stereo

Great song, great album, great way to be immortalized in film. The Cars debut album is a masterpiece. I always think of ‘Moving in Stereo’ in tandem with ‘All Mixed Up’ because that is how I always heard them on the radio. Awesome way to finish an album.

[Orbert]

I'm always bummed when they play "Moving in Stereo" but don't let it play through to "All Mixed Up".  Often, it's enough to make me pull out the CD or my iPod and play, just because I need to hear it.

[King Postwhore]

That first album had 8 of the 9 songs on radio.  Only, I'm in Touch with Your World didn't get airplay here in the Boston area.  Great tune, great style.  Top to bottom a home run of a song and an album.

[Orbert]

The other one I've never heard on the radio is "Don't Cha Stop", but it shouldn't surprise me that some areas played it.  Those two aren't really bad songs, I guess, and sometimes I let them play. 

"I'm in Touch with Your World" has the spooky, creepy vibe going on, which I think is done much better in "Moving in Stereo", thus rendering it skippable, and "Don't Cha Stop" is the opposite, the uptempo, brainless fun song.  I really need to be in the right mood for an uptempo, brainless fun song, and when I am, there are plenty of other choices.

I read an interview with The Cars once where they jokingly referred to their first album as their "real" greatest hits album.

[DebraKadabra]

Moving In Stereo pulls off the neat trick of seeming longer than it actually is. With the instrumental breaks, it feels like a 6-7 minute long song, but it's less than five, which is always a neat trick that I enjoy from a band. I've more than once on these forums said I loved the Cars unabashedly, and I did even when I was a young metal head. Great band.

Completely agreed.

[KevShmev]

I think it's great how the classic rock thread is now centered around discussing an 80s movie.  Yay for overlap!!

And thanks for that link, Cool Chris.  Interesting to see how some of the lesser known actors have aged.  And LOL that Jennifer Jason Leigh is giving Robert Romanus the finger.  Stacy must still be mad at Damone.