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

[jingle.boy]

Completely agree with what Blob said.  It's a staple on Top 100 countdowns, and deservedly so, but in and of itself, it's just a mediocre song now due to being over-played

[Jaq]

Genuine classic that has been beyond overplayed. Always liked Magic Carpet Ride better. Good song, don't get me wrong, but it's just too overplayed.

[DebraKadabra]

Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild

I think I'm with Jaq on this one, but the other song he mentioned I'm ALSO burned on.  I won't mention the one I'm thinking of, just in case it shows up ITT eventually.

[jingle.boy]

Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild

I think I'm with Jaq on this one, but the other song he mentioned I'm ALSO burned on.  I won't mention the one I'm thinking of, just in case it shows up ITT eventually.

did they even make any other songs?

[nicmos]

did they even make any other songs?

can't tell if serious or not.

Magic Carpet Ride would be their other best known song I think.

BTBW hasn't been so overplayed where I have lived that I am tired of it.  just a great up-tempo classic tune.  get out on the road and crank the dial.  perfection.

[jingle.boy]

did they even make any other songs?

can't tell if serious or not.

Magic Carpet Ride would be their other best known song I think.

That's what I meant.  After those two songs, I'm not sure I could name another.

[theseoafs]

I believe I dislike Foreigner almost as much as Van Halen and The Stones.

-backs away slowly-

So what you're saying is that you like Foreigner?

[KevShmev]

Magic Carpet Ride was already featured in this thread, FYI.

[KevShmev]

.38 Special - Rockin' into the Night

This is one of those run of the mill classic rock tunes that is impossible to not know if you've ever listened to classic rock radio for any length of time.  It's a good, fun song.  Not much more than that, but it really doesn't have to be.

[Jaq]

Trivia factoid: this song was written by the songwriters of Survivor along with someone named Gary Smith. You can kind of tell, it has an early Survivor vibe to it. This was one of those factoids about music that just seemed to fall into my brain from SOMEWHERE, since I didn't own this album or anything by Survivor until 1985. 

[KevShmev]

Haha, don't you love when that happens? 

Jefferson Starship - Jane

Good song, and listening to it now, it is amazing to me how much more Mickey Thomas sounds like Rik Emmett in this song.  But again, good song, one that sounds way more rock and less psychedelic than the early Jefferson Airplane stuff, and not nearly as poppy as the Starship stuff of the 80s.

[Orbert]

I'm not a huge fan of Mickey Thomas-era Jefferson Starship, but this song rocks, and Mickey really wails on it.  This is another song we tried to learn, only to discover that there's no way our singer could handle it.

[DebraKadabra]

.38 Special - Rockin' into the Night

Not a bad song, but I liked some of their other hits a bit better.

Jefferson Starship - Jane

Good song.  REALLY good song.

[King Postwhore]

Rocking Into The Night was a good old fashion rock tune that I loved.


Jane is all kinds of awesome.  I love the late 70's Jefferson Starship.

[KevShmev]

Thread resurrection!!!!!!!!

Dr. Hook - Cover of the Rolling Stone

I have no clue how popular this song is around the country, and I don't remember hearing it all back in the day, but I heard it a friend's a while back and was like, "Oh yeah, I remember this song," so I must have heard it on the radio somewhere.   It just never left that much of an impression on me, I guess.  Listening now, it is catchy enough, and the appeal is obvious.

[Orbert]

I always loved this song.  It was catchy, and the lyrics were funny.

[jingle.boy]

Meh...

[Prog Snob]

Whenever I hear that song, I think of the movie Almost Famous.  Kate Hudson:

[DebraKadabra]

Meh...

Yeah, I agree.

[Jaq]

This is another one of those songs that used to dot playlists on local classic rock radio and have been shoved aside as the format starts moving into the early 80s as being part of the demographic of classic rock.

Mind you, I don't like it, so this isn't a bad thing...

[Podaar]

I think it's great in a nostalgia, novelty fashion. I was 11 or 12 when it first came out so there are some vague, prepubescent emotional memories circling it like like a moth around a porch light. Like other's have said, it's catchy and kitschy so in my mind.

[masterthes]

it's alright. It's funny and catchy.

[carl320]

Thread resurrection!!!!!!!!

Dr. Hook - Cover of the Rolling Stone

I have no clue how popular this song is around the country, and I don't remember hearing it all back in the day, but I heard it a friend's a while back and was like, "Oh yeah, I remember this song," so I must have heard it on the radio somewhere.   It just never left that much of an impression on me, I guess.  Listening now, it is catchy enough, and the appeal is obvious.

I like this song.  I never heard it on the radio as a kid, but my dad knew the chords and words on the guitar and would play this song (along with other songs, mostly folk songs).  Hearing the actual song in college was pretty cool, and that guitar solo 

All in all a very fun song 

[wolfking]

I always found Dr Hook entertaining, especially their video clips.

[KevShmev]

T. Rex - Bang a Gong

This is the classic example of a song I've heard many times, always think, "this is pretty good," but have never gone out of my way to listen to it.  Until now (for the purpose of this thread).  And it will probably be the last time, too.  

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

Out of curiosity, how do you choose these songs? Clearly they're not always based just on what you like.

[KevShmev]

I will usually just randomly scroll through my iTunes and try to find a good choice.  Plus, I keep each song I do in a playlist called DTF Classic Rock, so I know which songs I have already featured.  I try to either feature an artist I haven't yet or one I haven't featured in a while.

So far, I have done 232 songs in this thread, and quite frankly, I am running out of artists I haven't featured yet, so repeat artists will likely be the norm from this point forward.

[jingle.boy]

It was probably a pretty revolutionary sound in its day, but now it just sounds dated.  Quality track, but not something I go looking for, or have on any of my playlists.

[Jaq]

Indeed "dated" fits it big time. You couldn't possibly have had this song at any time other than the early 70s, and in no other time whatsoever. The Power Station cover worked, so to speak, because it stripped the song down to its basics, but even five years later a cover would have sounded silly.

[Orbert]

T. Rex - Bang a Gong

This is the classic example of a song I've heard many times, always think, "this is pretty good," but have never gone out of my way to listen to it.  Until now (for the purpose of this thread).  And it will probably be the last time, too.  

Yep, another catchy song, fine to listen to, but not really enough to make me seek out T. Rex's back catalogue.

This one's great for music trivia idiots, though.  Never fails to drive away the babes at parties. 

- The original name of the band was Tyrannosaurus Rex.  It was shortened to T. Rex because, really.

- The song features Rick Wakeman on keyboards, during his studio gigging days.  He was paid 9 pounds for it.

- The Video you'll most commonly see of this song was from the British TV show "Top of the Pops" and features Elton John on piano.  The audio seems to be lip-synched and, oddly, from a mix that doesn't have piano.  Everything else sounds the same as the studio version (including the Mellotron, which Elton is clearly not playing).

[KevShmev]

Thanks for that info! I never knew that Wakeman played on it.  Good stuff to know.

[Orbert]

Yeah, Wakeman pretty much lived at A&M studios back in those days, all kinds of acts would come through to record singles or jingles or whatever, and he was the go-to guy for piano and/or keyboards.  His most obvious contribution to this song is the glissando as the piano comes in at the beginning.  Rick actually argued about this one, saying the song didn't need any keyboards, but they wanted that glissando in there, and the suit asked him if he wanted the 9 quid or not.  Wakeman says he got paid 9 pounds for a gliss, but he comps chords throughout.  You can hear the piano in there, mixed in with the guitars.

[DebraKadabra]

T. Rex - Bang a Gong

Get it on
Smoke a bong
Get it on

Other than the silly parody chorus we used to sing for it, there's better classic rock fare out there.

[KevShmev]

Styx - The Grand Illusion

Throw this into the pile of songs I thought were totally awesome the first time I heard them.  I don't even remember where I was when I first heard it, but I just remember hearing a bunch of Styx songs for the first time sometime in 1990, and The Grand Illusion was one of several that leaped out at me right away and made me an instant fan.  For as much shit as Dennis DeYoung catches for wimping out in later years, he sure could write some great rocking tunes during their heyday.

[Orbert]

My love for this album is largely sentimental.  It was my first concert, and we spent hours and hours at my buddy's house smoking non-tobacco and listening to this album and other early Styx.  Styx were one of my gateway bands.

The song itself, while good, for some reason never really hit me as hard as a number of others from the same album.  The melody is good, the break with the JY guitar solo is great, but I can't wait to get to "Fooling Yourself" and that killer Moog solo.

So anyway, good song, but probably underrated (by me).