Classic rock radio songs

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  1. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    I don't listen to the radio, I'm the same as Mel, I hear the same songs on the radio every day. There must be millions of songs, yet we hear the same stuff over and over. And when a new song comes on to replace a song, the replaced song gets put in like "back in the day" mix, and you hear that every 3 days.
     
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  3. Joshua Tree

    Joshua Tree Remain In Light

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    I listen to this indie / alternative station a lot. It's pretty good:

    BBC - Radio 6 Music - Home

    (Playing The Flaming Lips at the moment.)
     
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  5. Asmodean

    Asmodean Slo motion rider

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    Well, i have the exact same experience with radio and c lassic rock as most people here stated. I also dislike the term classic rock on itself btw. But dig many stuff classified as such.
    I used to love Sultans of swing and even Hotel California (now prefer Gypsy kings version) but yeah, them being chronically overplayed ruined them for me. Maybe if I wouldn't hear either for 5 years or so they might sound awesome again.

    For now I would say songs like Lazy, Space trucking and Speed king by Deep Purple. Most songs of CCR. Everything of the Doors except Light my fire
     
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  7. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    The worse thing Joe Walsh ever did was join the Eagles.
    Can't stand this song.
     
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  9. Ged

    Ged Tits and Thigh Man.

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  11. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    I gave up on the radio when Starview (local rock station) changed it's format to some stupid type that I can't remember.
    We do have a station billed as "The Rock of Central PA", but they have digressed to formula rock, so I quit listening. The final stone in their coffin came when DJ Randy Rock Johnson quit after being ordered not criticize a certain person, whom I shall not name.

    I grew up with pop and rock radio starting in the '50s and in my opinion it really sucks now. It used to showcase the cutting edge of pop music, with local DJs being able to play what they wanted, and discover new talent on their own.

    In the early seventies when FM was turning to the 'Album Oriented Rock' Format" we would stay up all night listening to "Nocturnal Vibrations", the only time you could find rock on the FM band.
    We'd hear stuff from early Pink Floyd, Frigid Pink, King Crimson, The Moody Blues, etc, all very avant garde at the time.
    If I listen to the radio at all now it's NPR.

    Anyway the only songs listed so far that I like are Time, and Band on the Run.
    But here's a song I like that used to be played and captures what radio used to be like. Anybody remember when Brenda Lee was on the radio?

    "The radio is playing some forgotten song, Brenda Lee "Coming on Strong"..."
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  13. Meliai

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    ^The classic rock station here has definitely been playing Radar Love 4 times a day for the last 30 years lol
     
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  15. Tyrsonswood

    Tyrsonswood Senior Moment Lifetime Supporter

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    Wait!


    There's still radio stations?
     
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  17. Adamskiffle

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    One of the awful things about getting a bit older me thinks...that which used to be so shiny and endlessly fascinating now appears to be rather predictable & far less evocative ( I still like classic rock, though I must admit I'm nowhere near as obsessed with as I was when I was 18/19........boo hiss boo!
     
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  19. Noserider

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    I'm too millennial for radio stations anyway, but one of the reasons I adapted to streaming music so enthusiastically was the very issues people seem to pointing out with radio: the same handful of songs from the same handful of bands over, and over, and over...

    At least with contemporary music, it shuffles every couple of years, but classic rock radio has been playing the same stuff for decades.
     
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  21. Ged

    Ged Tits and Thigh Man.

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    Hairway To Steven
     
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  25. SpacemanSpiff

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    i had a weird radio experience last week


    i could remember hunting with my father as a 5 year old ..riding in the truck listening to the "new" music

    then last week i took him out ...me driving and him as the second set of eyes and some of the same songs played but this time it was our oldies channel they call 103.9 rewind

    it felt weird ...happy and depressing at the same time
     
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    Here just for the new avatar
     
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  33. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    I still have a handbill from the daze advertising FM radio...check out the supporters. We used to go to Crossroads for all our "head" supplies.
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    I might have bought a backpack at the Free Peoples' store...I think it was a co-op.​
     
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  35. soulcompromise

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    I heard "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles the other day. And also "Love" by John Lennon. Those are really meaningful tracks if I'm honest. I really liked a short piano part in "A Day in the Life" that sounded really complex for a Beatles song.

     
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  37. Vanilla Gorilla

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    No Queen so far?




     
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  39. Vanilla Gorilla

    Vanilla Gorilla Go Ape

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    And this was always my favourite Fleetwood Mac song, haunting


     
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