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Favorite Songs You Never Hear On Radio Anymore

grantchester said:
and the list goes on and on and on...incredible String Band, Grateful Dead, Jeff Beck, Rush, Mahogany Rush, Tom Rush. Beatles, Crickets, Animals, Monkees (Michael nesmith) and on and on and on....

(Rover- you know I dig you, but it amazes me how completely different our musical tastes are. You did the album rock thing in the late '70s, I did it in the early '70's. I was done by the time you began, so the music you heard was very different from what I heard. I miss your weekend show.)
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My album rock listening began when I turned 14, in October of 1969, with LED ZEPPELIN II and then ABBEY ROAD. After that came Alice Cooper's KILLER, Grand Funk's MARK, DON & MEL 1969-1971, Deep Purple's MACHINE HEAD, ELP's BRAIN SALAD SURGERY, CHICAGO AT CARNEIGE HALL, and Jethro Tull's THICK AS A BRICK.

After I got my Driver's License in the Summer of '72, I was able to go and see great concerts without having to arrange a ride. My musical tastes were broadened beginning in Septemeber of 1973, when I began my Freshman semester at UT in Austin: ZZ TOP, PINK FLOYD, THE MOODY BLUES, DAVE MASON, FRANK ZAPPA, MICHAEL MURPHEY, BOB DYLAN, AL STEWART, RUSH, BONNIE RAITT, AND JONI MITCHELL...... mostly due to KLBJ-FM's progressive rock format. Those WERE the Days!! No "Morning Show" or stupid DJ jokes..... Just groovy music with laid back DJ's 24 HOURS a day, 7 Days a Week!!

On the whole, my musical experiences by way of the concerts that attended, beginning in 1970, with Led Zeppelin...... are better than many folks my same age..... Those who were already drving in 1968-1969 got to see many more good shows than I. But, I am still glad that I got to see who I got to see..... in the 1970's..... :)
 
"Let the Day Begin" - The Call
"Overkill" - Men at Work
"Tie Your Mother Down" - Queen
And anything by Little Feat that isn't "Dixie Chicken"
 
* 707 - "I Could Be Good For You", "Mega Force"
* Automatic Man - "My Pearl"
* Angel City - "Marseilles", "Face The Day", "No Secrets", "Underground"
* Axe - "Rock And Roll Party In The Streets"
* Bliss Band - "Right Place, Right Time"
* Martin Briley - "The Salt In My Tears"
* Caravan - "Stuck In A Hole"
* Charlie - "She Loves To Be In Love", "Killer Cut", "It's Inevitable"
* Chilliwack - "Fly at Night", "My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)", "Whatcha Gonna Do"
* City Boy - "5.7.0.5."
* Climax Blues Band - "Richman", "Mole On The Dole", "Couldn't Get It Right"
* Crawler - "Stone Cold Sober"
* David & David - "Welcome to the Boomtown"
* DB Cooper - "Had Enough"
* Jimmy Davis & Juction - "Kick the Wall"
* Detective - "Recognition"
* Doucette - "Mama Let Him Play", "Down the Road"
* Gamma - "Right the First Time", "I'm Alive", "Fight To THe Finish", "Modern Girl", "Voyager", "What's Gone Is Gone"
* Garland Jeffreys - "Wild In The Streets"
* Glass Moon - "Killer at 25"
* Giuffria - "Call To The Heart", "Lonely In Love", "I Must Be Dreaming"
* Gypsy - "Gypsy Queen", "Dead and Gone."
* Harlequin - "Innocence", "It's Over Now"
* Head East - "Never Been Any Reason"
* Headpins - "Just One More Time", "Breakin' Down", "Winnin'"
* Heads Hands and Feet - "Country Boy"
* Heartsfield - "Music Eyes", "Another Man Down", "Shine On"
* Helix - "Heavy Metal Love", "Never Want To Lose You", "Rock You"
* Honeymoon Suite - "New Girl Now", "Feel it Again", "Bad Attitude"
* Horslips - "The Boy Was Green"
* Hughes/ Thrall - "Beg, Borrow Or Steel"
* Jackyl - "The Lumberjack", "Down On Me"
* Colin James - "Voodoo Thing", "Why'd You Lie", "Five Long Years"
* Kayak - "I Want You To Be Mine", "Starlight Dancer"
* Lake - "Time Bomb", "Angel in Disguise"
* Greg Lake - "Nuclear Attack"
* Le Roux - "New Orleans Ladies", "Nobody Said It Was Easy", "Addicted"
* Little America (band) - "Walk On Fire", "You Were Right"
* Louisiana's Le Roux - "New Orleans Ladies", "Addicted"
* Mason Proffit - "Two Hangmen", "Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream", "Better Find Jesus"
* McKendree Spring - "Down By The River"
* Michael Stanley Band - "Let's Get The Show On The Road", "He Can't Love You"
* Missouri - "Movin' On"
* Kim Mitchell - "Go For Soda"
* Gary Moore - "Out In the Fields"
* New England - "Don't Ever Wanna Lose Ya"
* Orion The Hunter- "So You Ran"
* Pavlov's Dog - "She Came Shining"
* Phantom, Rocker & Slick - "Men Without Shame"
* Planet P Project - "Why Me", "Power Tools"
* Point Blank - "Nicole"
* Andy Pratt - "Avenging Annie"
* Prism - "Spaceship Superstar", "See Forever Eyes"
* Rare Bird - "Sympathy", "Hey Man", "Epic Forest"
* The Rockets - "Oh Well", "Desire"
* The Rossington-Collins Band - "Don't Misunderstand Me", "Misery Loves Company"
* Russ Ballard - "On The Rebound", "Voices"
* Sad Café - "Restless"
* Saga - "On the Loose", "Wind Him Up", "The Flyer"
* Sea Level (band) - "That's Your Secret"
* Sherbs - "No Turning Back", "We Ride Tonight"
* Sheriff - "You Remind Me"
* Shooting Star - "Last Chance", "Flesh And Blood", "Hang On For Your Life", "Train Rolls On"
* Silver Condor - "For The Sake Of Survival", "Holdin' on Barely"
* Sniff 'n' the Tears - "Driver's Seat"
* Stabilizers - "One Simple Thing"
* Starcastle - "Can’t Think Twice", "Could this be Love"
* Starz - "Cherry Baby", "Sing It, Shout It"
* Steel Breeze - "You Don't Want Me Anymore", "Dreamin' Is Easy"
* Streets - "If Love Should Go", "One Way Street", "Gun Runner"
* Tarney-Spencer Band - "No Time To Lose"
* Taxxi - "I'm Leaving", "Still In Love"
* Billy Thorpe - "Children Of The Sun"
* Tony Carey - "I Won't Be Home Tonight", "A Fine Fine Day"
* Toronto - "Your Daddy Don't Know"
* Touch - "Don't You Know What Love Is", "When the Spirit Moves You"
* Trooper - "Raise A Little Hell"
* Vandenberg - "Burning Heart", "Friday Night"
* Van Zant - "I'm A Fighter", "Brickyard Road"
* Ya Ya - "Caught In A Lie", "Julia"
* Zebra - "Who's Behind The Door", "Tell Me What You Want", "Bears"
 
"I Don't Like Mondays" -- The Boomtown Rats

"Joey" -- Concrete Blonde

"This Beat Goes On/Switching to Glide" -- The Kings
 
It's obvious that corporate radio is all about delivering a "commodity". And that pre-packaged commodity is most efficiently delivered with little variance.

I look at music as "art", and not a "commodity".

The gulf between the two gets larger every day in the wonderful world of de-regulation, where sameness is the GOLD standard.

I know which side I'm on.
 
There seems to be a period that falls between the oldies format and the classic rock format, the psychedelic age- there are tons of great songs, albeit songs more than 3-4 min that abounded in the period-when was the last time you heard some Quicksilver Messenger Service or Blind Faith cuts? But why so little of that stuff on the radio?
Trying to keep in topic I heard "Fingertips"- by Stevie Wonder-that song was super popular one summer and now you never hear it depite it being way ahead of it's time. Instead you hear another Supremes or Four Tops song for about the 2400th time.
 
vibe said:
There seems to be a period that falls between the oldies format and the classic rock format, the psychedelic age- there are tons of great songs, albeit songs more than 3-4 min that abounded in the period-when was the last time you heard some Quicksilver Messenger Service or Blind Faith cuts? But why so little of that stuff on the radio?
Trying to keep in topic I heard "Fingertips"- by Stevie Wonder-that song was super popular one summer and now you never hear it depite it being way ahead of it's time. Instead you hear another Supremes or Four Tops song for about the 2400th time.
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go here

www.xmfan.com

put blind faith and quicksilver messenger service in the search on the left. now WOW look how many of those songs are on XM!
 
With 88 posts so far there seems to be a lot of favorite songs u never hear-thanks for the link to XM- i've been sitting on the fence leaning towards XM, I've tried to give traditional radio every opportunity to at least partially satisfy my musical tastes but I'm afraid that XM and I are made for each other.
There seems to be a lot of posts on the board that advertisers don't target us 55 y.o's and up but just remember a person is just like a house, it's not actual age but effective age that matters.
 
Death on two Legs-Queen(Night at the Opera)
The Prophet Song-Queen(Night at the Opera)
Stone Cold Crazy-Queen(Sheer Heart Attack)
Roundabout-Yes
Yours is no Disgrace-Yes
Come Again-Damn Yankees
Fly to the Angels-Slaughter
 
Does anyone remember "Hey You" by (The) Start? It was a new wave'ish rock song and a great one! I'm in The Netherlands, and radio played it here a lot. I believe the band was from California. I've never seen it on CD. I still have a bad vinyl (overplayed!) that I recently transformed to MP3.
 
How about "Children of the Sun" by Billy Thorpe. It was a big AOR hit in 1979. One of my favorite rock songs at the time, it was futuristic sounding with a science fiction theme, yet it was a rock song, not new wave.

I was saddened to read that Billy Thorpe died yesterday of a heart attack at the age of 60.
 
Does anybody remember a song called "Don't Ever Wanna Lose you" by New England? I remember the song very well even if I haven't heard it once since it was a current in 1979.

I love late 70s, pre-MTV rock hits. Especially the underexposed songs that you rarely hear. Another one of my favorites is "Since You've Been Gone" by Rainbow.
 
Jay F said:
Does anybody remember a song called "Don't Ever Wanna Lose you" by New England? I remember the song very well even if I haven't heard it once since it was a current in 1979.
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Yeah, it was a good song...I remember hearing it on the old JB-105 in Providence. Don't think it was much of a hit though.
 
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