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I love classic rock, my favorite radio station is 95.5 The Mountain and they play classic rock and even newer rock and pop rock.
I'm familiar with that Phoenix station. I have friends who live in Tempe I visit and two stations down there are noteworthy-99.5 "The Mountain" and KOOL 94.5 for oldies. 99.5 goes beyond the usual playlist and will play cuts off recent releases. One group 99.5 plays that got my attention was the group Chickenfoot (Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers) that formed a few years ago. Great group! I'm thinking 99.5 is the station that Alice Cooper has /had his radio show on. The show is good too. Cooper will play a mix of usual classic rock standards and album cuts and unreleased songs. Cooper will also talk of his favorite groups, who he met in person, etc.
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-Any Supertramp song (Sorry if you're a fan, I just don't care for them)
-Meat Loaf...
-Nickelback...
-Metallica's cover of "Turn the Page," Aerosmith's cover of "Come Together," Motley Crue's cover of "Smokin' in the Boys Room," Guns 'N Roses' cover of "Live and Let Die"
These are bands/artists that I like, who have a song or two I can't stand:
-The Doors - People are Strange
-Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's Last Dance
-The Rolling Stones - Angie
-The Police - Don't Stand So Close to Me, Walking on the Moon
-The Doobie Brothers - Jesus is Just Alright
-Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (I'm ready for whatever you can dish out at me), Somebody to Love
These are songs I like but tend to skip over frequently because of how often I hear them:
Sweet Home Alabama
Hotel California
Don't Stop Believing
More Than a Feeling
I Can't Drive 55
Crazy Train
Bad to the Bone
Jump
Carry on Wayward Son
Stairway to Heaven
Born to Run
Finally, a very short list of songs that the radio stations here edit, thus I change to another station automatically because I know I'm not going to get the full experience:
Juke Box Hero (Radio edit is 4:05, song is really 4:20. Part of the guitar solo is cut out)
MMEB's Blinded By the Light (Radio edit is 3:50, song is really 7:05)
My Sharona (A good chunk of that fabulous guitar solo gets cut out, I'd say about 15-20 seconds' worth)
-Any Supertramp song (Sorry if you're a fan, I just don't care for them)
-Meat Loaf... -Nickelback...
-Metallica's cover of "Turn the Page," Aerosmith's cover of "Come Together," Motley Crue's cover of "Smokin' in the Boys Room," Guns 'N Roses' cover of "Live and Let Die"
These are bands/artists that I like, who have a song or two I can't stand:
-The Doors - People are Strange
-Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's Last Dance
-The Rolling Stones - Angie
-The Police - Don't Stand So Close to Me, Walking on the Moon
-The Doobie Brothers - Jesus is Just Alright
-Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (I'm ready for whatever you can dish out at me), Somebody to Love
These are songs I like but tend to skip over frequently because of how often I hear them:
Sweet Home Alabama
Hotel California
Don't Stop Believing
More Than a Feeling
I Can't Drive 55
Crazy Train
Bad to the Bone
Jump
Carry on Wayward Son
Stairway to Heaven
Born to Run
Finally, a very short list of songs that the radio stations here edit, thus I change to another station automatically because I know I'm not going to get the full experience:
Juke Box Hero (Radio edit is 4:05, song is really 4:20. Part of the guitar solo is cut out)
MMEB's Blinded By the Light (Radio edit is 3:50, song is really 7:05)
My Sharona (A good chunk of that fabulous guitar solo gets cut out, I'd say about 15-20 seconds' worth)
Those two are by no means classic rock in the true sense.
I'm familiar with that Phoenix station. I have friends who live in Tempe I visit and two stations down there are noteworthy-99.5 "The Mountain" and KOOL 94.5 for oldies. 99.5 goes beyond the usual playlist and will play cuts off recent releases. One group 99.5 plays that got my attention was the group Chickenfoot (Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers) that formed a few years ago. Great group! I'm thinking 99.5 is the station that Alice Cooper has /had his radio show on. The show is good too. Cooper will play a mix of usual classic rock standards and album cuts and unreleased songs. Cooper will also talk of his favorite groups, who he met in person, etc.
Yeah I turned on The Mountain and right now "Mr. Jones" by Counting Crows is on. I've heard "Behind these Hazel Eyes" by Kelly Clarkson and even "All the Small Things" by blink-182 on it.
As for the Alice Cooper show, that is on KSLX 100.7, Phoenix's (true) classic rock station, as oppose to the Mountain which is adult his which plays lots of classic rock mixed with alternative, pop and adult contemporary. The Mountain only recently became an "adult hit" station after being smooth jazz, and rhythmic oldies for some time.
Nickelback isn't classic rock at all. Metallica is on the verge of classic rock because apparently it follows the oldies logic of 10-15 years ago.
Those two are by no means classic rock in the true sense.
We're talking about classic rock radio. The stations I know also play Pearl Jam pretty often, and even Spin Doctors' "Little Miss."
Totally agree with whoever said Bohemian Rhapsody. Freddie's a great singer and all, but I hear "is this the real life" and no way do I need to take the full journey.
I'll list only one song--Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama." And a word here regarding playlists.
Over the last couple decades I often have wondered why the radio ego maniac, head swelled, behemoths like Clear Channel (and others) never bother to "think outside the box." The above song--a classic tune? Of course. Do they ever stop to think that there are other songs off that album (Second Helping) that the average radio listener would like to check out? I believe so. And it should- it went RIAA platinum a couple years after its initial release.This album came out in the Spring of 1974 and from time to time you WOULD hear a few other songs off that album off the local FM stations, at least the ones I listened to anyway.
These days and for the last decade (maybe even longer) the mindset amongst the Clear Channels and Jacors of this world operate on the KISS theory (Keep It Simple Stupid) The top 100, the bottom 100, and the middle 100 is the same 100. Another saying that I have for this is "If we don't have it, you don't need it."
Got old with me umpteen years ago. Fortunately cd's and XM radio, along with internet radio keeps me satisfied.
Double H,
Hello my friend. Did you know Sweet Home Alabama is one of my top 10 ever? What do you think makes the Crimson Roll . Good old Southern Rock that is fun to dance to......or to think of the complicated messages in that song. I guess I won't play it if you and I and maybe some other regional friends every see the Moodies.
A lazy PD who won't rotate songs out or in keeping with your thinking checking to see what else the artist recorded.
I have never understood what was so awesome about The Eagles and Chicago, among others. That doesn't mean I dislike all their music, it's just like some PD give up on their Playlists after reaching E or F.
What I makes me turn off the channel faster than anything--- stations that continue to play music about teenage prostitution, like Nick Gilder's Hot Child in the City and the songs about 16 yr. olds.
I absolutely cannot understand why with the wealth of artists we have, singing about so many different things, stations continue to give their implied consent to breaking laws with teenage prostitution is allowed, except few complain.
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