Classic Rock Song Wars Part IV

[KevShmev]

Vote for which grouping like you best.

Some deeper classic rock cuts in this one, but I suspect the older peeps here like me will know all or most of them.

This was tough for me between 3 and 4, but I went with 4.

[TAC]

Tough choice between 1 and 3.

Went with 1.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

For me it was a tough choice between 1 and 4. Ultimately went with 4.

[Cool Chris]

Do You Feel Like We Do? 5
Purple Haze 2
Burning Heart - Wasn't familiar but knew it once I youtubed it 2
Total 9

Two Tickets to Paradise 3
Rocky Mountain Way 2
Children of the Sun 3
Total 9

Reelin' in the Years 1
La Grange 4
Who's Behind the Door? Never heard
Total 5

25 or 6 to 4 2
Pride and Joy 1
Phoenix - Never heard
Total 3

Fly Like an Eagle 1
Cocaine  1
Why Me? - Never heard 
Total: 2

Not much good stuff here.

[Stadler]

Probably with TAC on this one.   I like the two songs in 2 best, but "Children Of The Sun" is excruciating to me.

[KevShmev]

I used to love Children of the Sun, largely because the beginning was pretty bad ass to show off your stereo system, but I gave it a listen recently and wasn't as enamored with it.  I won't say I don't like it anymore, but I don't think it has aged as well as many other songs from the same time period.

[The Walrus]

- I don't know any of the songs in group 1
- I think TTTP and Rocky Mountain Way are super annoying, don't know CotS
- Group 3 is a strong contender for sure
- Group 4 is a really strong contender
- I don't know the Planet P song in group 5 but the other 2 are the most annoying songs in this thread

Gotta go group 4.

[T-ski]

how can you vote against Zebra?

[KevShmev]

- I don't know any of the songs in group 1
 

You don't know Purple Haze??

[The Walrus]

- I don't know any of the songs in group 1
 

You don't know Purple Haze??

  I forgot to say 'except PH'. D'oh!

[ProfessorPeart]

There is not a group in which I like all 3 songs. 3 and 4 are the top contenders and I went with 3.

[Stadler]

how can you vote against Zebra?

It was hard, but while I LOVE Steely Dan, and really like ZZ Top, I'm not enamored of Reelin' In The Years or La Grange.   If you had "Rikki..." and "Just Got Paid" then Group 3 with a BULLET.

[pg1067]

Not really a great batch of songs.

Category 1:  Purple Haze - 1.5; Burning Heart - 3; don't recognize the Frampton song by name.  Total - 4.5.

Category 2:  Two Tickets to Paradise - 3.5; Rocky Mountain Way - 2; don't even know who Billy Thorpe is much less recognize the song by name.  Total - 5.5.

Category 3:  Reelin' in the Years - 3; La Grange - 0; Who's Behind the Door - 4.  Total - 7.

Category 4:  25 or 6 to 4 - 4.5; Pride and Joy - 1; don't recognize the Fogelberg song by name.  Total - 5.5.

Category 5:  Fly Like an Eagle - 2.5; Cocaine - 1; don't even know who Planet P Project is....  Total - 3.5.

[Stadler]

don't recognize the Frampton song by name. 

The one with the talk box.  You know it.  They play it for you when you get your social security card, as a matter of law.

[pg1067]

don't recognize the Frampton song by name. 

The one with the talk box.  You know it.  They play it for you when you get your social security card, as a matter of law.

Yeah...that narrows it right down.

As far as I know, the only Frampton song I know is "Show Me the Way."

[WildRanger]

Third group.

[jjrock88]

Third group.

[cramx3]

I went with Cream, I probably don't even know half the songs listed.  So these polls really aren't for me but I felt like voting because Cocaine is such a cool song.

[KevShmev]

  I forgot to say 'except PH'. D'oh!

Haha, oops. 

It was hard, but while I LOVE Steely Dan, and really like ZZ Top, I'm not enamored of Reelin' In The Years or La Grange.   If you had "Rikki..." and "Just Got Paid" then Group 3 with a BULLET.

Ew. I love Reelin' in the Years, but really dislike Rikki Don't Lose That Number.  I like almost all of Steely Dan's familiar classic rock tunes, but not that one.

[Cool Chris]

I was just thinking... I do not know if I have ever heard the album version of Do You Feel Like We Do? The live version is a classic rock staple (at least here) and a 5* song for me.

I never liked any of Hendrix's music for whatever reason. I also never really got in to grunge. I hate coffee. And have never been skiing. I am not a techie. I am generally right-of-center politically. I was totally born in the wrong part of the country.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

- I don't know any of the songs in group 1
- don't know CotS
- I don't know the Planet P song in group 5

[The Walrus]

 

[Stadler]

  I forgot to say 'except PH'. D'oh!

Haha, oops. 

It was hard, but while I LOVE Steely Dan, and really like ZZ Top, I'm not enamored of Reelin' In The Years or La Grange.   If you had "Rikki..." and "Just Got Paid" then Group 3 with a BULLET.

Ew. I love Reelin' in the Years, but really dislike Rikki Don't Lose That Number.  I like almost all of Steely Dan's familiar classic rock tunes, but not that one.

Oh, but that piano... I think it's Michael Omartian, but it is so beautiful, in my opinion.   

[hefdaddy42]

Maybe it's a regional thing, but I have listened to classic rock stations all over North Carolina (and South Carolina, when on vacation) all of my life, and I have never heard Vandenburg, Zebra, or Planet P Project on a classic rock station, and only rarely have I heard Dan Fogelburg.

In fact, I don't think I've ever even heard of Planet P Project.

[The Walrus]

Maybe it's a regional thing, but I have listened to classic rock stations all over North Carolina (and South Carolina, when on vacation) all of my life, and I have never heard Vandenburg, Zebra, or Planet P Project on a classic rock station, and only rarely have I heard Dan Fogelburg.

In fact, I don't think I've ever even heard of Planet P Project.

Yeah. I've only ever heard of Zebra because of the Internet, and I've never even read about Vandenburg or Planet P til this thread! Central Illinois here.

[Stadler]

Planet P and Vandenberg are almost exclusively MTV creations in this neck of the woods (the Northeast), but if you grew up within spitting distance of the Tri-State Area (southern New York/northern New Jersey/southwestern Connecticut) you knew Zebra, because they gigged like maniacs, and local radio (for me, WPLR out of New Haven) they played them.

Likewise, to me, Twisted Sister and Motley Crue are basically interchangeable.  Motley Crue is "Best Mayonnaise" and Twisted Sister is "Hellmann's Mayonnaise".   Twisted was LEGENDARY for their early gigs here in NY/NJ.  Crue?  Not so much. 

[Cool Chris]

Maybe it's a regional thing, but I have listened to classic rock stations all over North Carolina (and South Carolina, when on vacation) all of my life, and I have never heard Vandenburg, Zebra, or Planet P Project on a classic rock station, and only rarely have I heard Dan Fogelburg.

In fact, I don't think I've ever even heard of Planet P Project.

Same with me here in WA.

[pg1067]

Maybe it's a regional thing, but I have listened to classic rock stations all over North Carolina (and South Carolina, when on vacation) all of my life, and I have never heard Vandenburg, Zebra, or Planet P Project on a classic rock station, and only rarely have I heard Dan Fogelburg.

In fact, I don't think I've ever even heard of Planet P Project.

Yeah. I've only ever heard of Zebra because of the Internet, and I've never even read about Vandenburg or Planet P til this thread! Central Illinois here.

I've never heard of Planet P Project (or Billy Thorpe), and I don't recognize the listed songs by name.

I know Vandenberg because "Burning Heart" got a fair amount of play on MTV in the early days.  I couldn't name another song by the band.  Adrian Vandenberg spent a few years in Whitesnake and was at least nominally in the band for its most popular album and the follow up.  I otherwise know of nothing he's ever done.

Zebra hit MTV around the same time but had at least two songs that got regular play ("Who's Behind the Door" and "Tell Me What You Want").  They died out pretty quickly after that, but I assume they (like just about every band from the 80s) are still plugging away.