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

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DebraKadabra

Quote from: KevShmev on April 25, 2013, 02:45:16 PM
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog

If I never hear this, Misty Mountain Hop, Four Sticks and Stairway EVER again it'll be too soon.  Black Dog was good the first few times I heard it, but classic rock radio just pounded this and a LOT of Zoso in the ground.

Quote from: KevShmev on April 26, 2013, 11:49:02 AM
Sniff 'n' the Tears - Driver's Seat
Quote from: Jaq on April 26, 2013, 11:59:18 AM
I have a feeling that, if I did a version of this thread featuring what I remember as classic rock hits, I'd probably all too frequently puzzle Kev with what were clearly east coast wonders.  :lol I have no clue what this song is.

I'm with Jaq. :lol

jingle.boy

Quote from: KevShmev on April 26, 2013, 11:49:02 AM
Sniff 'n' the Tears - Driver's Seat

Wasn't just a regional hit, as it had it's day up here.  One of those C-List songs, but still a lot of fun to listen to.
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KevShmev

Yeah, I am pretty sure that was not just a regional hit, but :lol at Jaq's comment nonetheless.

Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed

Somehow, I missed out on this song early in my classic rock days, and it wasn't on the McCartney best of I bought in the early 90s (WTF?!?!), but I eventually got it, and it is a really nice song. 

Orbert

Great song!  Paul McCartney can write a melody like no one else.  I prefer the live version from Wings Over America, but that's probably because I heard it first.  The studio version is a bit drier, but still very good.  I learned this one a few years ago and got to play it live a few times.  Slightly trickier than it sounds.

Jaq

The great thing about Maybe I'm Amazed for people like me who sing along to the radio poorly is this: all you have to hit is all of the "maybe I'm amazed" in the verses, and then you can just kind of scat on the choruses, and it WORKS.  :rollin

KevShmev

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

Cool song, but not one I was ever a huge fan of.  I like it, but it ends there, although I did like it a bit more after it was featured in an episode of the Sopranos in Season 1.

jingle.boy

Quote from: KevShmev on April 28, 2013, 10:58:55 AM
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

Cool song, but not one I was ever a huge fan of.  I like it, but it ends there, although I did like it a bit more after it was featured in an episode of the Sopranos in Season 1.

The only sub 3 minute song I would consider epic.  Slick is an absolute gem in this one.  I remember competing once a few years ago in the 'thunderdome' tournaments that ran here, and the category was 'female vocalist'.  My competitor and I both chose this as one of our songs.  Fortunately, I won the coin flip, and got to use it - and it was a winner.

Love this one to death.
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masterthes

Jingle put it right on the nose. The shortest epic in rock music. The song kicks so much ass in so little time

DebraKadabra


Cool Chris

Quote from: masterthes on April 28, 2013, 02:02:02 PM
The shortest epic in rock music. The song kicks so much ass in so little time

I love this song very much, and never would have thought of this, but it is about as accurate a description of a song there is.
Maybe the grass is greener on the other side because you're not over there fucking it up.

KevShmev

Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun

My head will explode if all classic rock fans here do not know this song.  Seriously.  Awesome song, with one of the best intros in classic rock history.  This was even number 1 one year on KSHE-95's Rock and Roll 500.  That is how popular the song is here in the Midwest.  But is it everywhere else?  I guess we will see... :lol :lol

Cool Chris

A few of the songs you listed I had never heard of before. But I've heard this on local radio. Haven't heard in a long time, but remember liking it enough. But #1? Of all time?? That's not even one of the best songs with word "Sun" in the title.
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jingle.boy

Never heard of the song, or the artist.

Kev = :splodearms:
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KevShmev

Well, KSHE mixes it up every year, so the top 500 is different from year to year.  Hell, I remember one year they even put Stairway to Heaven at number 500, just for the hell of it. :lol  And Children of the Sun is popular enough here to where its placement at number 1 wasn't strange or anything.

Orbert

I've heard of this one, actually thought it was a kinda cool song.  I can't say I really liked it, though.  It just seemed like it was trying to be cosmic or sci-fi just to be cosmic or sci-fi.  Maybe if you smoked a bunch of non-tobacco it might seem really awesome.

DebraKadabra

Quote from: KevShmev on April 29, 2013, 01:13:30 PM
Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun

My head will explode if all classic rock fans here do not know this song.  Seriously.  Awesome song, with one of the best intros in classic rock history.  This was even number 1 one year on KSHE-95's Rock and Roll 500.  That is how popular the song is here in the Midwest.  But is it everywhere else?  I guess we will see... :lol :lol

It was huge in Austin back in the day - smokin song that one is. :metal

wolfking

Quote from: KevShmev on April 29, 2013, 01:13:30 PM
Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun

My head will explode if all classic rock fans here do not know this song.  Seriously.  Awesome song, with one of the best intros in classic rock history.  This was even number 1 one year on KSHE-95's Rock and Roll 500.  That is how popular the song is here in the Midwest.  But is it everywhere else?  I guess we will see... :lol :lol

His work with the Aztecs was much popular in Austrlaia.  A real classic Aussie icon, great musician, shame he passed at only 60.

Jaq

Quote from: wolfking on April 29, 2013, 06:59:04 PM
Quote from: KevShmev on April 29, 2013, 01:13:30 PM
Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun

My head will explode if all classic rock fans here do not know this song.  Seriously.  Awesome song, with one of the best intros in classic rock history.  This was even number 1 one year on KSHE-95's Rock and Roll 500.  That is how popular the song is here in the Midwest.  But is it everywhere else?  I guess we will see... :lol :lol

His work with the Aztecs was much popular in Austrlaia.  A real classic Aussie icon, great musician, shame he passed at only 60.

Billy Thorpe's dead? Aww man.... :-[

This song was pretty big here; I actually owned the album this was on, the second side was a sci-fi suite that began with Children of The Sun while the first was straight up rock songs. In the later 80s Thorpe released an album that featured the original suite re-mixed and a few more songs continuing the story, but I was always fond of the original album.

wolfking

Yeah, 2007 I think, heart attack.  :'(

wkiml

Quote from: jingle.boy on April 29, 2013, 01:18:30 PM
Never heard of the song, or the artist.

Kev = :splodearms:


same here ..never heard of him or the song

KevShmev

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Woodstock

Love, love, love (!) this song.  Some songs just scream classic rock to me, and this is one of them. 

DebraKadabra

Good song, but not my favorite by them.

wkiml

Quote from: DebraKadabra on April 30, 2013, 11:31:25 AM
Good song, but not my favorite by them.

Agreed ...Classic band but if I had to pick one song by them it would be Suite : Judy Blue Eyes

jingle.boy

Quote from: wkiml on April 30, 2013, 11:39:56 AM
Agreed ...Classic band but if I had to pick one song by them it would be Suite : Judy Blue Eyes

Seconded.
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KevShmev

Er, that song was already covered in this thread. ??? :facepalm:

Plus, the idea was not to necessarily feature the best song by every band, but to discuss the song at hand.  Throwing out "I like this other song by them more" is kind of defeating the purpose of the thread.  I mean, if that is the case, then almost every song would result in someone saying "Eh, they have better songs," instead of, ya know, discussing the Song of the Day. :biggrin:

Orbert

I like "Woodstock".  I always thought it was interesting that Joni Mitchell wrote this song about the Woodstock Festival, but she didn't actually go.

I never understand the words in the chorus until I saw James Taylor perform this song on TV.  "We are stardust, we are golden, we are million-year-old carbon".  It was the last part that always confused me.

wkiml

Quote from: KevShmev on April 30, 2013, 11:42:29 AM
Er, that song was already covered in this thread. ??? :facepalm:

Plus, the idea was not to necessarily feature the best song by every band, but to discuss the song at hand.  Throwing out "I like this other song by them more" is kind of defeating the purpose of the thread.  I mean, if that is the case, then almost every song would result in someone saying "Eh, they have better songs," instead of, ya know, discussing the Song of the Day. :biggrin:

sorry Kev  didn't go back through the entire thread...as for the song Woodstock itself, can't add anything since its kinda meh for me when looking at their discography

KevShmev

Oh, no need to apologize! :)  I am just saying, I'd rather seeing discussion of the song at hand rather than it being dismissed because said artist has other better songs. 

I will use the Eagles as an example.  Let's say that everyone agrees Hotel California is their best song (which I know they don't, but let's assume it for the sake of this argument).  Now, the Eagles have a bunch of other classic rock mainstays, but if posting any of them is always gonna be met with "Hotel California is better"-type comments, then what is the point?  That is all I am saying. :)

wkiml

Quote from: KevShmev on April 30, 2013, 01:13:00 PM
Oh, no need to apologize! :)  I am just saying, I'd rather seeing discussion of the song at hand rather than it being dismissed because said artist has other better songs. 

I will use the Eagles as an example.  Let's say that everyone agrees Hotel California is their best song (which I know they don't, but let's assume it for the sake of this argument).  Now, the Eagles have a bunch of other classic rock mainstays, but if posting any of them is always gonna be met with "Hotel California is better"-type comments, then what is the point?  That is all I am saying. :)

Fully Understood   :tup

DebraKadabra

Whoops. :lolpalm:

I will say that "Woodstock" reminds me of summers with my Dad. :)

Jaq

Woodstock, around these parts, was the "other" CSN song on local radio-the only other song local radio played was, you guessed it, Suite: Judy Blue Eyes-back in my youth, but it seems to have claimed the spot of sole CSN classic on the radio here. Well, okay, inexplicably Southern Cross gets some airplay, go figure...

KevShmev

Bob Seger - Turn the Page

I have to admit that I have irrational and unexplainable hate for almost anything this guy does.  I think it probably stems from my parents playing Old Time Rock and Roll a lot when I was really young, and I hated that song more than anything.  But I would still almost always rather run head first through a brick wall than listen to anything this guy does.  But this song is probably the one exception.  I won't do anything crazy like admit that I like it, but I will just say that it isn't nearly as objectionable as everything else I've ever heard by him. :lol

masterthes


jingle.boy

^ What he said.  Such a soulful and emotional bluesy/rock-ballad.
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Orbert

I grew up in Michigan, even lived in Ann Arbor for a while (Bob Seger is from Ann Arbor; most people think he's from Detroit), so it's pretty much required that I like Bob Seger.  I was with him up through his first live album, then things took a serious downturn.

Anyway, "Turn the Page" is a great song, a scrapbook of life on the road.  I've always loved how you can hear the exhaustion in his voice, the frustration in the restaurant, the loneliness in the hotel room.  It's perfect.  Compare that to Metallica's horrible cover, where you can hear Hetfield trying so hard to sound like he has actual emotion, when he's really just screaming and posing.