POX: Classic Rock Radio Standbys You *NEVER* Want/Need to Hear Ever Again

Alex's list is fairly definitive, I'd also choose Imagine, Money, and Hotel California. Some of the others I haven't heard enough to hate to the point of never wanting to hear them again.

Also,
BTO -- Takin' Care of Business
Jimi Hendrix -- All Along the Watchtower
Van Morrison -- Moondance
anything by Blood, Sweat and Tears
Jefferson Airplane -- Somebody to Love
Pearl Jam -- Jeremy (this is basically classic rock now)
The Beatles -- I Want to Hold Your Hand

Know why you hear so many of these songs over and over? It's because most classic rock stations use testing in the building of their format. They'll send out an invitation to listeners who have won a prize or signed up for a mailing list. They'll make sure that they fit the 34 to 50 demographic that they're targeting. They rent out the reception room of a Holiday Inn on the other side of town, strap headphones to these people's ears, and have them rate different songs on a 1 to 100 scale. Anything over 85 is automatic. 70 to 85 might get played only once every other day. 50 to 70 might only get played between 7 pm and 6 am. Anything less than 50 is thrown out.

Since these listeners are such good fans of the station usually, of course they're going to lean in the direction of the songs they hear all of the time. Why do they hear the same songs all of the time? Because that's how the listeners rated them in the last test. I'm convinced that if "Sausalito Summernights" can be a recurrent, so can "Back of a Car" by Big Star. The trick is to figure how how to stick it inside that Moebus loop.

Songs I really like on this thread:

"All Right Now" by Free
"Free Bird" by Lynrd Skynrd
"You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC
"Give a Little Bit" by Supertramp
"Dream On" by Aerosmith
"Paradise by the Dashboard Light" by Meat Loaf
Layla - Derek And The Dominoes
"Hey You" - Pink Floyd
"Boys are Back in Town" - Thin Lizzy
"Wont Get Fooled Again" - Who
"Cocaine" - Clapton
"LA Woman" - Doors
The Rolling Stones -- Satisfaction
Jimi Hendrix -- All Along the Watchtower
Jefferson Airplane -- Somebody to Love
Led Zeppelin, "Stairway to Heaven"

"We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions" (GOD I fucking hate Queen!)
"You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"
"Ramblin' Man"
"That Smell"
"Old Time Rock and Roll"
"Lunatic Fringe"
"Enter Sandman"
"Mary Jane's Last Dance"
"Just What I Needed"
"War Pigs"

It must be really nice to live in the UK and not have to tolerate this kind of shit.

what radio station still plays these?

isn't this considered "country" though?

I see. So it's kindof like listeners are looking to the station and asking "what should we listen to?" and the station is looking to the listeners asking "what should we play?" Both caught like deer in headlights, unable to think for themselves. Wow.

I think this thread is an essential one.

"You ain't seen nothing yet" - oh but I have!
"More Than A Feeling" - This song should be pounded into dust once and for all.

Pleasant Plains OTM re: testing of songs in highly-formatted radio. It was going on before all the consolidation of US radio too -- I got invited to a panel test in a local hotel in the late '80s where we were played ten-second snippets of familiar songs and had to rate them. They wouldn't tell us what local station it was for but you could guess by the song selection.

Trilogy? What's the third?