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

[Orbert]

Yep, cool song.  I like.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Just listened to it to see if it rang a bell.  Never heard it before now.

[DebraKadabra]

Kansas - Dust in the Wind

I've always loved this one, very muchly.

Graham Nash - Chicago

Just listened to it to see if it rang a bell.  Never heard it before now.

I'm with Coz - never heard it either, but it's not bad.

[KevShmev]

Nazareth - Hair of the Dog

Pretty good song, I guess.  Not one I ever went crazy on, but it was a song I heard many times, as classic rock radio stations really love this song.  I am pretty sure I thought it was by AC/DC the first time I heard it.   Also notable is it is one of many rock songs that "borrows" the Day Tripper riff.

[DebraKadabra]

Now you're messing with a son of a bitch

[Bolsters]

Good Song. I don't mind the Guns N' Roses cover of it, either.

[masterthes]

Certainly kicks more ass than Love Hurts

[KevShmev]

Queen - Killer Queen

Like so many of Queen's 70s material, this song is absolutely fantastic.  This blew my doors off the first time I heard it, and it still does.  There aren't enough superlatives in the English language to do this song justice.

[masterthes]

Queen is so awesome and this is definitely a top notch song

[JayOctavarium]

Queen

and this song

[Orbert]

Their breakthrough song, and still one of my faves.

[Jaq]

Killer Queen is an amazing song, but for me, it is now stuck together with playing one of my nephew's Guitar Hero games for the first time. I'd finally gotten the hang of it, and Killer Queen was the song I was playing, and I was hitting every damn note like a boss. I got through a tricky part in the solo and my sister, who was watching me, remarks loudly "WOW THAT WAS A TOUGH PART!"

Missed the next three notes. 

[MoraWintersoul]

Fantastamazingorgeous.

[KevShmev]

Killer Queen is an amazing song, but for me, it is now stuck together with playing one of my nephew's Guitar Hero games for the first time. I'd finally gotten the hang of it, and Killer Queen was the song I was playing, and I was hitting every damn note like a boss. I got through a tricky part in the solo and my sister, who was watching me, remarks loudly "WOW THAT WAS A TOUGH PART!"

Missed the next three notes. 

Ha!

[KevShmev]

The Allman Brothers Band - Statesboro Blues

Great song, and I just found out that it was a cover.  Well, I probably knew that at one point, but I had forgotten or something.   But yeah, great tune, featuring some killer guitar work by both Duane Allman and Dicky Betts.

[Jaq]

Early Allman Brothers (basically, before Duane died, though there's some good music afterwards) was the shit. Duane Allman could free form jam for half an hour and never lose you. At Fillmore East is one of the best live albums ever, and Stateboro Blues is a fantastic opener for it.

[masterthes]

ABB are really awesome, so yeah

[DebraKadabra]

Queen - Killer Queen

LOVE it.  Always have.
 

The Allman Brothers Band - Statesboro Blues

YES.

[KevShmev]

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama

This is one of those songs that is literally impossible not to know, regardless of what genre of music you like the most; it is that well-known.  It is obviously a good song, and most deserving of the classic status it has attained.  I will say that it is hard for me to hear it now and not think of Forrest Gump (when Jenny teaches Forrest how to dance).

[DebraKadabra]

While not my absolute favorite Skynyrd song, it hasn't been played to death (I'm looking at YOU, Free Bird ) and it's still tolerable.

[JayOctavarium]

While not my absolute favorite Skynyrd song, it hasn't been played to death (I'm looking at YOU, Free Bird ) and it's still tolerable.

I hear it more than Free Bird

[DebraKadabra]

That's because youse a whippersnapper.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Great tune.  Play it at nearly every gig.  The one band actually put together a medley of All Summer Long, Sweet Home Alabama, and Werewolves of London.  Great fun.

[Big Hath]

I've heard it many, many, many more times than Free Bird.  Of course, I am from Alabama, so that probably explains it.

[JayOctavarium]

Great tune.  Play it at nearly every gig.  The one band actually put together a medley of All Summer Long, Sweet Home Alabama, and Werewolves of London.  Great fun.

as much as I HAAAATE All Summer Long... I'd love to see / hear that medley

[Orbert]

I keep hearing this medley on the radio with "Sweet Home Alabama", "Werewolves of London", and maybe one or two other songs.  By Kid Rock, maybe?  I don't know.  While the medley/mashup is pretty clever and well-done, I have to object on general principal to taking someone else's work, playing with it, and then passing it off as your own.  When it's entire verses or choruses, it's not homage, it's just lame.

[JayOctavarium]

That's what we are talking about.

[Jaq]

Ahh, Sweet Home Alabama. The song that accidentally argues that racism is okay-since the first verse bashes Neil Young for the song Southern Man (though eventually Neil Young and Skynryd became friends, go figure), is wide open to interpretation that it supported segregation and Richard Nixon (though the band denied that), and performed by a band from Jacksonville, Florida. 

Catchy as fuck, though, I'll give it that. 

[KevShmev]

Haha, interesting way to put it there, Jaq.

The Kinks - Lola

I never went nuts over the old Kinks stuff like many did, even though I gave some of it many chances, but there are some songs I do enjoy quite a bit, and this is one of them.  This being a classic rock radio mainstay for a long time probably helped with liking this song.  Good song.

[Jaq]

Around the time I started listening to the local rock radio stations, the Kinks were fairly close to having put out a live album-I want to say within the past couple of years-so the first time I heard Lola was a live version. And live, at that time, Lola was a hell of a lot more bombastic than the studio version was. Needless to say, once the studio version returned to the playlists, I was shocked by how the song built to the bombastic climax, rather than being full throttle bombast all the way. 

[Orbert]

I had a co-worker years ago named Lola.  The only Lola I've ever met.  We were listening to tunes one time, and the song "Lola" came on, and we had a discussion about the song.  I told her that basically, the song is clever enough, with all the gender-confusing double entendres, but ultimately it just kinda creeps me out because by the end, there's no longer any confusion.

I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola

Pretty clear, right?  I'm a man, and so is Lola.  My co-worker pointed out that no, it's still ambiguous.  The singer is glad he's a man, and Lola is also glad that he (the singer) is a man.

Shit!  

She said "Believe me, growing up with the name 'Lola', I know the song very well and have the answer to every possible taunt or question about it."  Okay, so I went back to appreciating the song for how clever the lyrics are, basically allowing you to interpret them as you will.  She's big, strong, but as it happens, my co-worker Lola was also quite big and strong, but definitely female.



...Or was she?

[masterthes]

That's a pretty interesting interpretation, but you can kind of infer from the song that Lola is indeed a trannie

Anyway, good song, but The Kinks have better songs

And I love Free Bird a whole lot more than SHA

[Jaq]

I suppose you could turn your head sideways at the line "in bed I'm a man, and so is Lola" and say that it means Lola is a more dominant sort, but I think I know where they were really heading with that song. 

[Orbert]

That's a pretty interesting interpretation, but you can kind of infer from the song that Lola is indeed a trannie

You can infer it, but you could still be wrong, and that's the whole point.  The entire song, he's wondering, looking for clues, but there is nothing conclusive.  There are women, natural-born and 100% hetero, who just happen to be rather large and possessing "mannish" characteristics.  I thought that the whole point of the song was that at the end, he finally comes out and says it, but my co-worker pointed out that even that seemingly final declaration could be interpreted differently.

[Orbert]

I suppose you could turn your head sideways at the line "in bed I'm a man, and so is Lola"

That's not what he says.  He says "I'm glad I'm a man, and so is Lola"