Chula Vista

In my mid to late 20s there was this one rock station back east that every 4th of July would play the top 100 rock songs of all time. Every year the top 10 would be the same songs but maybe shuffled around a bit. In no particular order:

Hotel California
Born to Run
We Won't Get Fooled Again
Stairway to Heaven
Hey Jude
Bohemian Rhapsody
Layla
Imagine
Smoke on the Water
Free Bird

Zeppelin claimed #1 all the time. We'd be pretty lit by that time and I'd bath in the awesomeness of the mighty Blimp.

Then this one year toward the end of the decade: "And coming in at #2, Stairway to Heaven (Born in the USA had supplanted it)
I was so so pissed in every way possible I actually called the station and gave them slurry ****.

__________________

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Plankton

There's WLUP's entire playlist.

__________________
See location...

Frownland

Ja I think that the anti-Stairway push has led to more conservative use of the track but I'd still say it's overplayed. Then again classic rock radio is cancer so I can see why you'd avoid that.

__________________

Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Cuthbert

I heard STH for the first time only about five years ago.

Don't think I've ever heard it on the radio. So it's not overplayed for me.

The only Zep song I had heard before I went out of my way to get their albums was Kashmir.

Chula Vista

__________________

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Cuthbert

Honest. It's not a dig at Zep. I hadn't heard any Sabbath songs either until about the same time I got into Zep.

Just surprising really that they are so well known and that song is such a classic and yet I only heard it when I went out of my way to listen to their albums.

I've never listened to classic rock stations but still recognised most of the well known tracks before I got more into music.

Kashmir has been used on telly a lot so that explains that one.

Frownland

Pretty sure that Kashmir was played on a Danelectro and a couple of Les Pauls.

EDIT: Rereading your post and this joke doesn't make sense in context like I thought it did. **** you.

__________________

Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Plankton

__________________
See location...

Maajo

I'm guessing it was the "telly" thing.

Frownland

Thanks.

Pretty sure that Kashmir was played on a Danelectro and a couple of Les Pauls though.

__________________

Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.