Rock Songs That Can’t be In the QuickHitz Selection

Geeks & Beats ^ | August 15, 2014 | Vanessa Azzoli

[Squawk 8888]

It seems everyone has an opinion about the Calgary radio station’s choice to adopt the new QuickHitz editing program, writes G&B writer Vanessa Azzoli.

We certainly can’t forget the rock songs we love (and sometimes love to hate) that need to be listened to in their full length in order to be awesome. I’ve put together a list of some of my favourites. There are some obvious choices on here – I think every person I asked said “Stairway to Heaven.”

But, there are some on here that I think most of us forgot about. What are your favourite lengthy rock tunes?

[cuban leaf]

“Supper’s Ready” by Genesis

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Yep.

You just killed the thread.

[dfwgator]

You stole my thunder with Super’s Ready. So here are the rest of the Genesis songs:

Stagnation
The Knife
The Musical Box
Return of the Giant Hogweed
The Fountain of Salmacis
Twilight Alehouse
The Battle of Epping Forest
Dancing With the Moonlit Knight
In the Cage
Colony of Slippermen
Squonk
Ripples
Eleventh Earl of Mar
One For the Vine
In that Quiet Earth
Dukes Travels/Dukes End

[cdcdawg]

Whipping Post and Mountain Jam by the Allman Bros.

[cuban leaf]

I also thought Rick Wakeman’s Journey to the Center of the Earth would be a contender.

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I have that one as well as his Knights of the Round table.

BTW, the only two albums I bought twice because I wore the first one out were:

Wakeman - Six wives of henry the 8th
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

Yeah. Don’t ask...

[HandyDandy]

Santana - Black Magic Woman (the longer the version the better)

[cuban leaf]

IRON BUTTERFLY - IN A GADDA DA VIDA - 1968

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I can’t believe it took 16 posts for that one to show up.

[dfwgator]

I’m Your Captain (Closer to Home) - Grand Funk Railroad.

[HandyDandy]

Sugar Magnolia - The Grateful Dead
(There must a live version that has a very long jam, man)

[cuban leaf]

Heck, just about all post-Syd Floyd.

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Precisely.

Hey, I downloaded a video off torrent of a band called “Brit FLoyd”. It’s a PF tribute band that does a virtual replica of the Pulse concert. It is in HD and though the light show is slightly simpler than the original (e.g. not as many lights around the circular screen part), it is far more technically interesting.

And the musicianship and quality of the photography is much better, believe it or not. I might even like it more than the pulse DVD. Did I say that out loud?!

And you are not violating any copywrites downloading it. They want you to download it.

[cuban leaf]

I remember when top-40 DJ’s played inagodadavida so they could take a pi$$.

[jaydubya2]

I heard Dire Straits Money For Nothing the other day on the radio, and they edited out the entire verse:

See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup
Yeah buddy that's his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot, he's a millionaire

[dfwgator]

Gilmour’s “Live in Gdansk” version of Echoes was great. So glad he had one last chance to play with Rick Wright.

[cuban leaf]

Yep. I wore the second one out and had to buy a second copy.

[HandyDandy]

Quadrophenia - The Who (both sides)

[jocon307]

Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick, the whole album is actually one long piece. And it rules!

[dfwgator]

A Quick One (While He’s Away)

[dfwgator]

I remember when top-40 DJ’s played inagodadavida so they could take a pi$$.

Or go out back and have a few tokes.

[cuban leaf]

Quadrophenia - The Who (both sides)

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And Tommy, of course.

Quadrophenia was, in my opinion, The Who’s Apex.

[cdcdawg]

Sugar Magnolia into I Know You Rider into Not Fade Away back into Sugar Magnolia. Bound to be out there somewhere at about 35 minutes.

[HandyDandy]

Layla and Other Love Songs - Derek and The Dominoes
if I had to pick one song from it, I’d pick:
Why Does Love Got to be So Sad