Retired Songs

[Jesse]

In sports, when a team has a historically great player, they will often retire his number after he retires. After listening to the radio at work the last few nights, I think we need to retire some Classic Rock songs from Classic Rock radio. They are great songs, but IMO they lose something by being played EVERY FRIGGIN' DAY! So, my suggestion is to retire them from radio, not from our memories, not from our personal stereos, but just from radio play. They're (mostly) great songs, everyone knows it, but I for one am tired of hearing these songs played at the frequency they have been for over a decade or more!

Aerosmith-Dream On
Allman Brothers Band-Ramblin' Man
Bachman Turner OverDrive-Let IT Ride
Bad Company-Bad Company
The Beatles-Hey Jude
Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Blue Oyster Cult-Don't Fear The Reaper
Boston-More Than A Feeling
David Bowie-Fame
Buffalo Springfield-For What IT's Worth
Jimmy Buffet-Margaritaville
The Cars-Good Times Roll
Cheap Trick-I Want You To Want Me
Chicago-Does Anybody Really Know What Time IT Is?
Eric Clapton-Wonderful Tonight
Creedence Clearwater Revival-Bad Moon Risin'
Doobie Brothers-Listen To The Music
The Doors-Light My Fire
The Eagles-Hotel California
Electric Light Orchestra-Evil Woman
Emerson, Lake And Palmer-Lucky Man
David Essex-Rock On
Fleetwood Mac-Dreams
Foreigner-Cold As Ice
Peter Frampton-Show Me The Way
Free-All Right Now
Peter Gabriel-Solsbury Hill
Golden Earring-Radar Love
Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind Of Wonderful
Grateful Dead-Casey Jones
the Guess Who-American Woman
Geoge Harrison-My Sweet Lord
Heart-Magic Man
Jimi Henrix-All Along The Watchtower
the Hollies-Long Cool Woman
James Gang-Walk Away
Jefferson Airplane-Somebody To Love
Billy Joel-Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
Elton John-Your Song
Janis Joplin-Me And Bobby Mcgee
Journey-Lights
Kansas-Dust In The Wind
Kiss-Rock'n Roll All Night
Led Zeppelin-Stairway To Heaven
John Lennon-Imagine
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Freebird
Marshall Tucker Band-Can't You See
Dave Mason-We Just Disagree
Paul McCartney-Maybe I'm Amazed
Don McClean-American Pie
Meatloaf-Two Outta Three Ain't Bad
Steve Miller Band-The Joker
Eddie Money-Baby Hold On
Mott The Hoople-All The Young Dudes
Mountain-Mississippi Queen
Nazareth-Love Hurts
Ted Nugent-Cat Scratch Fever
Ozark Mountain Daredevils-Jackie Blue
Tom Petty-American Girl
Pink Floyd-Money
Pure Prairie League-Amie
Queen-We Are THe Champions/We Will Rock You
Lou Reed- Walk On The Wild Side
Rolling Stones-Can't Always Get What You Want
Rush-Freewill
Santana-Black Magic Woman
Boz Scaggs-Lido Shuffle
Bob Seger-We've Got Tonight
Paul Simon-Me And Julio
Bruce Springsteen-Spirit In The Night
Steely Dan-Reelin' In The Years
Steppenwolf-Born To Be Wild
Cat Stevens-Wild World
Rod Stewart-Magie May
Stephen Still-Love The One You're With
Styx-Fooling Yourself
Supertramp-Breakfast In America
James Taylor-Shower The People
10cc-Things We Do For Love
Thin Lizzy-Boys Are Back In Town
Toto-Hold The Line
T Rex-Bang A Gong
Van Halen-You Really Got Me
Joe Walsh-Life's Been Good
War-Low Rider
The Who-Pinball Wizard
Edgar Winter-Free Ride
Gary Wright-Dream Weaver
Yes-Your Move/All Good People
Neil Young-Heart Of Gold
Warren Zevon-Werewolves Of London
Zombies-Time Of The Season
ZZ Top-Tush


Again, I'm not saying these are bad songs, quite the opposite, they are all songs I used to love, but am tired of cuz radio plays the shit out of them. I say retire these songs and find some great, lesser-known classics by these same artists to replace these songs with!

Anyone else got a list?

[smileygirl]

I have to say that I agree with you. They are ALL great songs, but damn, play something else, will ya?

There are two on the list that I still haven't gotten sick of. They are:

Heart - Magic Man (I am never sick of ANY songs by Heart.)

Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See (I absolutely LOVE this song and probably will never get sick of it.)

[JaminJim]

Again!
These are not even their best song's?
Since I don't listen to the radio, it allways sounds fresh to me ;D

[Jesse]

To be honest, I'm not sick of "Magic Man" either, but radio DOES play the shit out of it (in my area anyhow), so I felt I should include it.
I'm sick of "Can't You See" though, 'specially cuz I know Marshall Tucker Band has so many better songs!

I thought of this thread last Thursday. I had worked from 7 am Thursday morning until 2:30 am the next morning! I was tired, sore, pissed off and I just wanted to scan the radio on my way home for some good old driving music. What song are they playing? "Freebird" for the umpteen millionth time! I'm thinkin' "Come ON! Are there STILL people that NEED to hear that song EVERY DAY!" I mean it was 2:30 in the friggin' morning, perfect time to play some lesser known hits or album cuts, but NOOOOOOOOOOO, they gotta stick with the safe, tried and true "Freebird". And what sickens me more is that it IS a great song and SHOULD BE appreciated as such. But, for me, it's hard to appreciate something that's in your face all the time. What's the saying? How can I miss you if you don't go away?
Another thing, while I'm in a pissy rant: A few weeks ago I saw an acoustic act at the local Tavern and he started taking requests and some shmucks requested Lynyrd SKynyrd, so he played...guess what? "Sweet home Alabama" and these chicks creamed themselves over it! Do you think those ladies ever get out in the real world? EVERY Friggin' cover band, solo artist, wannabe, dickhead singer/musician/dipshit does "Sweet Home Alabama"! It's NOT a song to get THAT excited about! The band we opened for a few weeks ago, Tuesday's Gone, played the likes of "I Ain't The One", "Gimmie Back My Bullets", "Ballad Of Curtis Leow", "Tuesday's Gone", "Simple Man" and "Red White And Blue". Now THAT'S something to get excited about! In the right state of mind I could jizz my pants over hearing a cover band play ANY ONE of those Skynyrd songs! PALEEEEEZE! "Sweet Home Alabama"? I say we retire that one too!

End rant.

[JaminJim]

They try to say that people are calling in to hear it, lol.

The truth is, Classic Rock Station Music (all stations pretty much do it that way now) is all piped in. The radio station DJ, has no say in what is and not played on the station.

Like the Jukeboxes, if I drop a dollar in and pick a song. Then you come along and drop a dollar in and pick the same song?
It’s only going to play it the one time only. Satisfying both of us.

So you would think that if 100 people a day were calling in to hear FREEBIRD.
And they played it once. It should make them happy.

So I feel for those who work at a place that has a radio playing and they leave it on the same station, all the damn time!

I’ve worked at a place were they tried that and no matter what station you picked, someone would bitch. So they eliminated the radio all together.



As I learned in the late 70’s, radio stations main goal is to get people to advertise on their station, right?

So what they would do is find out what group’s the representative from COKE or FORD liked to listen to. Then play the shit out of that group to KISS THEIR ASS.

So if the guy dug BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN or PHIL COLLINS, guess who got played?

So goes the radio slogan:
“WE LISTEN TO YOU (as long as we can make a buck off you)
TELL US WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR (as long as it’s what we want to hear)
WE PLAY ALL THE HITS (that our sponsor’s like)”

[Jesse]

A friend of mine works for a Philadelphia radio station and she confirmed my long-held theory that radio stations only take requests of songs that they were gonna play anyhow. She also said that the DJ's are basically whores for the music industry as you will hear them talk up a new song, saying how great it is, when in fact, they can't stand the song any more than you or I........but it's their job.

[Trexx]

I just have to comment on such a comprehensive listing.
Great job with all that.

I am in total agreement with your sentiment also.


-trexx

[eilene]

The thing that makes me laugh is usually I buy a cd because of a song I heard on the radio. Usually I like many other songs alot better ahn the one I brought the cd for. It always made me wonder. Like Dokken made Dream Warriors and I do not hate the song but I could think of many others Dokken songs that I like better.

[Jesse]

I was going to start a thread similar to this one, but then recalled that I had begun a similar topic here before. I really didn't think it was 15 1/2 years ago, but, shit, time flies! Anyhow, gonna bump this thread for a bit before sharing recent thoughts on, virtually, the same topic.

[duojett71]

Jesse.....your initial list is so long that I can not bring myself to double check my picks from yours.....but I will just give a few of my picks:

AC/DC-You Shook Me All Night Long
Led Zeppelin-Black Dog, Rock N Roll and Stairway
Pink Floyd-Money
Bad Company-Rock N Roll Fantasy, Feel Like Makin Love, Shooting Star
Bob Segar-Old Time Rock N Roll
Steely Dan-Reelin in The Years
Chicago-Everything they play from them on the radio
Styx-Come Sail Away
Foreigner-Hot Blooded
Van Morrison-Brown Eyed Girl
Bon Jovi-Livin On A Prayer
Bruce Springsteen-Born To Run
Kiss-Rock N Roll All Night
The Eagles-Already Gone, Life In The Fast Lane
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Freebird, Gimme Three Steps, Sweet Home Alabama
38 Special-Hold On Loosely
Santana-Oye Como Va
Doobie Brothers-China Grove

[Jesse]

Nov 11, 2019 17:08:54 GMT -5 duojett71 said:

Jesse.....your initial list is so long that I can not bring myself to double check my picks from yours.....but I will just give a few of my picks:

AC/DC-You Shook Me All Night Long
Led Zeppelin-Black Dog, Rock N Roll and Stairway
Pink Floyd-Money
Bad Company-Rock N Roll Fantasy, Feel Like Makin Love, Shooting Star
Bob Segar-Old Time Rock N Roll
Steely Dan-Reelin in The Years
Chicago-Everything they play from them on the radio
Styx-Come Sail Away
Foreigner-Hot Blooded
Van Morrison-Brown Eyed Girl
Bon Jovi-Livin On A Prayer
Bruce Springsteen-Born To Run
Kiss-Rock N Roll All Night
The Eagles-Already Gone, Life In The Fast Lane
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Freebird, Gimme Three Steps, Sweet Home Alabama
38 Special-Hold On Loosely
Santana-Oye Como Va
Doobie Brothers-China Grove

My initial list was actually too long for ME to reread after all these years! LOL!

My local Classic Rock station doesn't play much Chicago anymore. Those songs have been ditched for selections from Poison, Quiet Riot, Motley Crue, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Collective Soul, Blind Melon, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Nirvana :/ I'm ok with them pulling Chicago from their playlists, but I'm not sure about many of the songs they've been replaced with