I grew up in the days before there were "Classic Rock" stations, and I've noticed that a lot of songs that were popular back then aren't really represented on "Classic Rock" stations. I'm trying to put a list of songs that used to be popular from late 60s through early 80s but don't get the love they deserve. Here are some to get started:
Lee Michaels - "Do You Know What I Mean?"
The Kings - "This Beat Goes On/Switching To Glide"
April Wine - "Walk Right Out"
The Grass Roots - "Midnight Confession", "Bend Me Shape Me"
Jonathon Edwards - "Shanty", "Sunshine"
Gordon Lightfoot - "Sundown", "Carefree Highway", "..Edmund Fitzgerald", etc
Los Bravos - "Black Is Black"
Paul Revere & The Raiders - "Just Like Me", "Kicks", etc
Count Five - "Psychotic Reaction"
Standells - "Dirty water"
Traffic - "Low Spark of High Heel Boys"
Atlanta Rhythm Section - "So Into You", "Imaginary Lovers"
Classics IV - "Spooky", "Stormy"
Chambers Brothers - "Time Has Come Today"
Spirit - "I Got A Line On You"
Dave Mason - "Only You Know and I Know", "We Just Disagree"
Soul Survivors - "Expressway To Your Heart"
Asia - "Sole Survivor", "Wildest Dreams", and "Here Comes the Feeling"
Ides of March - Vehicle
Sweet - "Fox on the Run"
JJ Jackson - "But It's Allright"
Greg Kihn - "The Breakup Song"
Boyce & Hart - "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight"
Payolas - "Eyes of a Stranger"
The Jaggerz - "The Rapper"
Santana - "All I Ever Wanted"
Spiral Starecase - More Today Than Yesterday
Manfred Mann - For You
The Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me
Bachman Turner Overdrive - Roll On Down The Highway
Blue Oyster Cult - Cities on Flame
Save the Lost Classics!
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- KVRAF
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- 7001 posts since 20 Mar, 2012 from Babbleon
i've pretty much quit radio. youtube has tons of classic rock lists. so yeah, bye bye radio. hello youtube.
plus you probably could hunt for individual videos of your own preferred classic rock songs and create your own playlist of those songs.
i've done it myself. for one example, i made my own playlist consisting of david bowie songs. the problem is that eventually some of those songs get deleted by record companies, by whoever uploaded them, or by youtube itself.
i was thinking of creating another playlist but haven't had the time. if i find the time, it would just probably be of songs that i have favourited. my music collection currently has 10,825 songs in it. i have songs in there that i have never heard of yet because some came from cd compilations like "greatest hits of", "tribute to band x", "rare songs of", etc.
what is classic rock anyways? is herman's hermits classic rock? okay, maybe it's more like "classic pop rock"
my ever-expanding favourited songs list, from my "classic pop rock" music collection, currently, are:
a taste of honey - boogie oogie oogie
aerosmith - last child
alice deejay - better off alone
beatles - maxwell's silver hammer
bic runga - sway
bloc party - positive tension
blue oyster cult - burnin' for you
cat power - wonderwall
charlatans - only teethin'
christopher cross - sailing
church - the unguarded moment
cars - hello again
bee gees - tragedy
queen - hammer to fall
thin lizzy - dancing in the moonlight
cure - the walk
david bowie - velvet goldmine
moody blues - the question
helium - honeycomb
duncan sheik - on a high
p.o.d. - youth of the nation
ub40 - king
pavement - half a canyon
david bowie - black country rock
cure - other voices
april wine - say hello
deep dish featuring stevie nicks - dreams (gigamesh edit)
emerson, lake and palmer - fanfare for the common man
jimi hendrix experience - red house
emerson, lake, and palmer - lucky man
concrete blond - joey
fixx - the fool
echo and the bunnymen - a promise
rusty - empty cell
steely dan - hey nineteen
robert palmer - bad case of loving you
gary moore - still got the blues
led zeppelin - out on the tiles
gene loves jezebel - desire
tea party - the river
rogue wave - debaser
sammy johns - chevy van
motels - total control
greg khin band - the breakup song
fleetwood mac - gold dust woman
harry belafonte - jamaica farewell
herman's hermits - (what a) wonderful world
m people - colour my life
toploader - dancing in the moonlight
motley crue - dr feelgood
greg khin band - jeopardy
julie plug - in every corner
church - too fast for you
kenny loggins - whenever i call you friend
orchestral manouvres in the dark - so in love
rush - distant early warning
led zeppelin - misty mountain hop
liz phair - why can't i?
love as laughter - dirty lives
mighty mighty bosstones - the impression that i get
neil young - long may you run
odds - someone who's cool
paloalto - breathe in
peter murphy - final solution
pluto - paste
police - de do do do de da da da
rilo kiley - 85
stereophonics - lying in the sun
steve miller band - jungle love
steve miller band - rock 'n me
war - summer
wings - let 'em in
when i'm listening to these songs i'm mostly by myself and so it doesn't matter how bad they may be to other people. i just genuinely like them. the songs i mean. i wish i have the skill to create such "bad songs" like "let 'em in" by wings.
plus you probably could hunt for individual videos of your own preferred classic rock songs and create your own playlist of those songs.
i've done it myself. for one example, i made my own playlist consisting of david bowie songs. the problem is that eventually some of those songs get deleted by record companies, by whoever uploaded them, or by youtube itself.
i was thinking of creating another playlist but haven't had the time. if i find the time, it would just probably be of songs that i have favourited. my music collection currently has 10,825 songs in it. i have songs in there that i have never heard of yet because some came from cd compilations like "greatest hits of", "tribute to band x", "rare songs of", etc.
what is classic rock anyways? is herman's hermits classic rock? okay, maybe it's more like "classic pop rock"
my ever-expanding favourited songs list, from my "classic pop rock" music collection, currently, are:
a taste of honey - boogie oogie oogie
aerosmith - last child
alice deejay - better off alone
beatles - maxwell's silver hammer
bic runga - sway
bloc party - positive tension
blue oyster cult - burnin' for you
cat power - wonderwall
charlatans - only teethin'
christopher cross - sailing
church - the unguarded moment
cars - hello again
bee gees - tragedy
queen - hammer to fall
thin lizzy - dancing in the moonlight
cure - the walk
david bowie - velvet goldmine
moody blues - the question
helium - honeycomb
duncan sheik - on a high
p.o.d. - youth of the nation
ub40 - king
pavement - half a canyon
david bowie - black country rock
cure - other voices
april wine - say hello
deep dish featuring stevie nicks - dreams (gigamesh edit)
emerson, lake and palmer - fanfare for the common man
jimi hendrix experience - red house
emerson, lake, and palmer - lucky man
concrete blond - joey
fixx - the fool
echo and the bunnymen - a promise
rusty - empty cell
steely dan - hey nineteen
robert palmer - bad case of loving you
gary moore - still got the blues
led zeppelin - out on the tiles
gene loves jezebel - desire
tea party - the river
rogue wave - debaser
sammy johns - chevy van
motels - total control
greg khin band - the breakup song
fleetwood mac - gold dust woman
harry belafonte - jamaica farewell
herman's hermits - (what a) wonderful world
m people - colour my life
toploader - dancing in the moonlight
motley crue - dr feelgood
greg khin band - jeopardy
julie plug - in every corner
church - too fast for you
kenny loggins - whenever i call you friend
orchestral manouvres in the dark - so in love
rush - distant early warning
led zeppelin - misty mountain hop
liz phair - why can't i?
love as laughter - dirty lives
mighty mighty bosstones - the impression that i get
neil young - long may you run
odds - someone who's cool
paloalto - breathe in
peter murphy - final solution
pluto - paste
police - de do do do de da da da
rilo kiley - 85
stereophonics - lying in the sun
steve miller band - jungle love
steve miller band - rock 'n me
war - summer
wings - let 'em in
when i'm listening to these songs i'm mostly by myself and so it doesn't matter how bad they may be to other people. i just genuinely like them. the songs i mean. i wish i have the skill to create such "bad songs" like "let 'em in" by wings.
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