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

[jingle.boy]

I agree with jingle.boy

[King Postwhore]

I agree with jingle.boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOnKCcjP8Qs

[Lucien]

I agree with jingle.boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOnKCcjP8Qs

 

[KevShmev]

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu

I went through a spell in the early 90s where I was obsessed with CSNY's Deja Vu record, and the title track was one of my favorites.  That brief spell didn't last long, but my love for this song has never waned.  This band, even when it was just three of them, before Young came on board, always knew how to deliver awesome vocal harmonies.  And they are on fine display here. 

[Orbert]

My love for CSN (and sometimes Y) has never waned.  I love those guys.  Finally saw them in '96, it was already pretty late in their career, but they were still great.  So is this song.

I love the "joke" about how the song starts, then starts again, since the title is "Deja Vu".  Hee hee.

[King Postwhore]

Just saw them (minus Y) on Palladia and he David has his son James Raymond from CPR, which I love, on keys touring with them and their harmonies are impeccable.

[Orbert]

CPR are also awesome.  I have both of their albums, and they're kinda like CSN but with keyboards, which is sweet.

[King Postwhore]

I wish they'd make a 3rd album. 

[masterthes]

Great number from a great band. Their harmonies are off the chart. I love the trippy bridge section

[nicmos]

CPR are also awesome.  I have both of their albums, and they're kinda like CSN but with keyboards, which is sweet.

Is that a gimmick cover band or something?  playing on the fact that CSN are really old now? 

[DebraKadabra]

Long Distance Runaround:  GREAT song, but I absolutely agree that you HAVE to have The Fish after it.

Deja Vu:  Been a while since I heard this one.  Forgot that I liked it too - oops.

[King Postwhore]

CPR are also awesome.  I have both of their albums, and they're kinda like CSN but with keyboards, which is sweet.

Is that a gimmick cover band or something?  playing on the fact that CSN are really old now? 

Nope, it's a side project and the CPR name has multiple meanings.  Read up on them.  Here is a song from them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Vb8iJ1z8M

[Orbert]

CPR are also awesome.  I have both of their albums, and they're kinda like CSN but with keyboards, which is sweet.

Is that a gimmick cover band or something?  playing on the fact that CSN are really old now? 

No, it was a serious band, and a pretty good one, too.  Crosby, Pevar, and Raymond.  Jeff Pevar is a guitarist, and James Raymond is David Crosby's son.

If I remember correctly, James was given up for adoption, as Crosby and the boy's mother (whose name I forget) were very young and not in a position to raise a child of their own.  After reaching adulthood, Raymond looked into who has parents were, and his father turned out to be David Crosby.  They got together, and Raymond seems to have inherited Crosby's musical talent, but plays keyboards rather than guitar.  They jammed a bit, and decided to put a band together.  CPR made two albums before breaking up, but Raymond plays keys for CSN and Crosby-Nash when they tour.

Their albums are both great.  Harmonies similar to CSN, music has a similar sound, but different.

[KevShmev]

The Doors - Touch Me

I don't remember the exact moment when I first heard this song; I just know that I thought it was all kinds of awesome when I heard it.  While Jim Morrison probably has far better examples of his vocal prowess, his vocals really stood out to me in this song.  Plus, the melodies themselves are absolutely wonderful.  A definite classic.

[King Postwhore]

To add to what Orbert said, James found out the Crosby was in critical condition and needed a blood doner(sp?) and he of course what a match that lead to him admitting he was his son.  Hence the dual meaning to the band name CPR.


Touch me is my favorite Doors song.  Great passion and the song gets me in a great mood every time I hear it.

[Jaq]

The Doors seemed to have two modes as a band: writers of immaculate pop songs, and writers of really weird, hard to get a hold of for the time period, songs. This is about as perfect an example of the former as you can get.

[Orbert]

To add to what Orbert said, James found out the Crosby was in critical condition and needed a blood doner(sp?) and he of course what a match that lead to him admitting he was his son.  Hence the dual meaning to the band name CPR.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that part!  I saw them on some show (Letterman or maybe Leno) talking about it.

Touch me is my favorite Doors song.  Great passion and the song gets me in a great mood every time I hear it.

The Doors seemed to have two modes as a band: writers of immaculate pop songs, and writers of really weird, hard to get a hold of for the time period, songs. This is about as perfect an example of the former as you can get.

Yes and yes.  Great song.  The only thing that brings it down, just slightly, is the fact that it's the same verse repeated again and again.  But the words themselves are great, and hey, it was the 60's.  Or was it the 70's?  I don't remember.

[KevShmev]

1969. Close enough. 

[masterthes]

one of my favorite Doors tunes

[KevShmev]

The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever

This has long been one of my favorite Beatles songs, and remains so to this day.  I love everything about it.  It's interesting to note that the mellotron was used in this song thanks to the influence of Moody Blues keyboard wizard Mike Pinder, who introduced the instrument to John Lennon.  Awesome tune.

[Orbert]

Great song.  Kinda weird and offbeat, but cool.

[DebraKadabra]

Touch Me - okay song, but it got WAY overplayed.  Thank you, classic rock radio.

Strawberry Fields Forever - so, the story on this one is that John had played the song two different ways in the studio and couldn't decide which one to go with.  He ended up telling George Martin to use them both but to try to splice them together in a semi-cohesive manner.  The end result is one of my favorite Beatles songs ever.

[Orbert]

If I'm not mistaken, the two versions were also in different keys, and George Martin had to play with the tape speeds to get them to sound in the same key when he put them together.  I may be thinking of a different song.  But I know he did it at least once.  George Martin was a genius.  To me, he was the real Fifth Beatle.

[ReaperKK]

Strawberry is a good song not great, however it's one of my favorites from The Beatles.

[masterthes]

Definitely my 2nd favorite song off of Magical Mystery Tour (I Am the Walrus is number 1)

[KevShmev]

Since this will be the 300th song/combo to be featured, I tried to find a song that is 3:00.  And I did.

Boston - Rock and Roll Band

Ah, yet another timeless classic from Boston's debut record.  It seems almost too easy to say I love this song, but screw it, there is nothing with calling a great song great, so yeah, this song is great!

[KevShmev]

Oh, and after 300 features, here are the artists that have been featured the most so far:

Led Zeppelin 7
Boston 5
Pink Floyd 5
Queen 5
The Who 5
Blue ึyster Cult 4
The Doobie Brothers 4
The Doors 4
Eagles 4
Electric Light Orchestra 4
Journey 4
Kansas 4
Lynyrd Skynyrd 4
Rush 4
Styx 4
Supertramp 4
Van Halen 4

[Orbert]

The idea of a rock and roll band writing a song about being a rock and roll band and calling it "Rock and Roll Band" may sound cheesy -- and it is -- but this really is a great song.  Catchy, packs some punch, short and sweet.

[jjrock88]

you can't go wrong with any song from Boston

[KevShmev]

Very true, referring to both of your posts.

Honestly, Boston's debut is probably the one classic rock album that will probably see every song from it featured at some point (assuming the thread lasts long enough).

[Jaq]

The interesting thing about Rock And Roll Band, of course, is the fact that it's a history of Boston that never really happened. There were no bar band days for them- Tom Scholz once said that being a bar band would be a step up for him. Boston was really just a mad scientist and a couple of his friends making demos in a basement until someone finally noticed them. I hold Boston's debut in ridiculously high regard-it made #6 in my top 50, and could go higher if I ever did something foolish like that again-and Rock And Roll Band was a perfect song to launch the album's second side.

[TAC]

Great song. Great album.

[King Postwhore]

A little nugget for you folks.  I once jammed with Brad Delp when I was 15.  He was so good to us and we had a blast.  Sad to see him off himself.  He lived in the same town as my brother which was one town away from where I grew up.

As for the 1st album.  You can put any song from that album and I will tell you it's a masterpiece.

[hefdaddy42]

Great song. Great album.

[djbj]

The interesting thing about Rock And Roll Band, of course, is the fact that it's a history of Boston that never really happened. There were no bar band days for them- Tom Scholz once said that being a bar band would be a step up for him. Boston was really just a mad scientist and a couple of his friends making demos in a basement until someone finally noticed them.

I've wondered about this before. I read that Tom Scholtz was an MIT grad who made their first album in his basement using homemade technology, and that didn't seem to mesh with the supposed story of them as a bar band that "barely made enough to survive". I doesn't really matter though, because I see this song less as "their story" and more as a general anthem for all start-up bands dreaming of making it big.

Also, I like how over-the-top Delp goes for the "Sign a record company contract!" line. It's like he's squee-ing.