Here's my list:

1. Sweet Home Alabama- Lynyrd Skynyrd
2. American Woman- Guess Who
3. Stairway To Heaven- Led Zeppelin (Really cool first time you hear it but after a while it gets old)
4. Hollywood Nights- Bob Serger (I hate this guy already! His stuff is so overplayed >:()
5. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide- ZZ Top (If I hear this song on the radio one more time I'll go cuckoo!! :D)
6. Who Do You Love?- George Thurogood & the Destroyers
7. Wild Thing- the Troggs
8. Brown Eyed Girl- Van Morrison
9. Rocky Mountainway- Joe Walsh
10. Frankenstein- Edgar Winters Group

Here's my list:

1. Sweet Home Alabama- Lynyrd Skynyrd
2. American Woman- Guess Who
3. Stairway To Heaven- Led Zeppelin (Really cool first time you hear it but after a while it gets old)
4. Hollywood Nights- Bob Serger (I hate this guy already! His stuff is so overplayed >:()
5. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide- ZZ Top (If I hear this song on the radio one more time I'll go cuckoo!! :D)
6. Who Do You Love?- George Thurogood & the Destroyers
7. Wild Thing- the Troggs
8. Brown Eyed Girl- Van Morrison
9. Rocky Mountainway- Joe Walsh
10. Frankenstein- Edgar Winters Group


Do you by any chance live in Hawaii?  ??? ;D

Yes, most of those are overplayed on classic rock stations here as well...

Here's my list:

1. Sweet Home Alabama- Lynyrd Skynyrd
2. American Woman- Guess Who
3. Stairway To Heaven- Led Zeppelin (Really cool first time you hear it but after a while it gets old)
4. Hollywood Nights- Bob Serger (I hate this guy already! His stuff is so overplayed >:()
5. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide- ZZ Top (If I hear this song on the radio one more time I'll go cuckoo!! :D)
6. Who Do You Love?- George Thurogood & the Destroyers
7. Wild Thing- the Troggs
8. Brown Eyed Girl- Van Morrison
9. Rocky Mountainway- Joe Walsh
10. Frankenstein- Edgar Winters Group


Your list is right on.

the classic rock station in Philly won't let me get
through a day without hearing,
..Little Pink Houses..
..Ain't That America..
..Hurt So Good..
..Cherry Bomb.......John Cougar

These songs aren't that good but I could tell you
what time of day it is by which song they are playing.

Here's my list:

1. Sweet Home Alabama- Lynyrd Skynyrd
2. American Woman- Guess Who
3. Stairway To Heaven- Led Zeppelin (Really cool first time you hear it but after a while it gets old)
4. Hollywood Nights- Bob Serger (I hate this guy already! His stuff is so overplayed >:()
5. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide- ZZ Top (If I hear this song on the radio one more time I'll go cuckoo!! :D)
6. Who Do You Love?- George Thurogood & the Destroyers
7. Wild Thing- the Troggs
8. Brown Eyed Girl- Van Morrison
9. Rocky Mountainway- Joe Walsh
10. Frankenstein- Edgar Winters Group


most of these I'd agree with, I'd switch
- 'hollywood nights'  to  'old time rock & roll'
- 'I'm bad, I'm nationwide' to 'tush'
- and 'bohemean rhapsody' and 'satisfaction' would be on my list :)

Here's my list:

1. Sweet Home Alabama- Lynyrd Skynyrd
2. American Woman- Guess Who
3. Stairway To Heaven- Led Zeppelin (Really cool first time you hear it but after a while it gets old)
4. Hollywood Nights- Bob Serger (I hate this guy already! His stuff is so overplayed >:()
5. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide- ZZ Top (If I hear this song on the radio one more time I'll go cuckoo!! :D)
6. Who Do You Love?- George Thurogood & the Destroyers
7. Wild Thing- the Troggs
8. Brown Eyed Girl- Van Morrison
9. Rocky Mountainway- Joe Walsh
10. Frankenstein- Edgar Winters Group


There's only one on the list I'd disagree with you on - I actually like Bob Seger quite a bit. "Old Time Rock & Roll" is probably the overplayed one (I've never heard "Hollywood Nights" outside of his Hits collection!), but it's so catchy I don't mind. :)

"Turn the Page" I could do without though (even if Metallica covered it). ;)

I do like "Sweet Home Alabama" and "American Woman" is okay, but most of those get really old. Same with anything from Led Zeppelin (don't ask me why, but I never at all could get into them - they're very repetitive and uninteresting in my opinion, at least) and most of Jimi Hendrix.

^ "All Along the Watchtower" is classic, and "Foxy Lady" is cool too, but that's about it.

I once heard it said that classic rock stations were "geared too heavily towards men" and, even though I am male myself, would tend to agree. They could use (a) more poppish songs, and (b) more female singers to round it out.

P.S. I've noticed at night and in the early morning hours, the main classic rock station here in San Jose tends to play more 80's pop/rock stuff. Including:

Missing You - John Waite
Straight from the Heart - Bryan Adams
Young Turks - Rod Stewart
Talking in Your Sleep - Romantics
Queen of the Broken Hearts - Loverboy
Invisible Touch - Genesis
If This is It - Huey Lewis

Now, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't give songs like that much (if any) airplay during regular hours. They're probably considered too "soft" or "pop", or even just not the cookie cutter formula of classic rock.

Our classic rock station seems to think EVERYONE loves:

Anything by FOREIGNER(yes the first album was cool until radio played the songs to death)they are SOOOOO overplayed!
Same for Journey
and Lynyrd Skynyrd? Come on. There are other Southern rockers that are better and get NO airplay...Molly Hatchet, Little Feat, Blackfoot, and Wet Willie to name a few...

And the Grateful Dead. Only "Truckin' "and a few other songs get played. Come on where's 'US Blues', 'Estimated Prophet',and the other Dead stuff?

stairway should be #1, now and forevermore! i loved that song the first eighty quadrillion squillion times i heard it. now that part of my brain is permanently burned out!

and i never get tired of frankenstein. so gotta disagree with you there.

otherwise you're right on! most UNDERplayed classic rock song -- that would be hocus pocus by focus. great tune! closely followed on by the bomber, by the james gang. most spectacularly great classic rock song you'll never hear on the radio. i LOVE the james gang, i've got "miami" coming in the mail even as we speak. we need to swap out that rocky mountain way stuff, which is played to death, with some old underappreciated james gang -- and i do NOT mean funk 49, which is also played to death.

I would add HOTEL CALIFORNIA by the Eagles

I would add HOTEL CALIFORNIA by the Eagles
As for Hotel California, The Album, it has a couple of decent songs on it: "New Kid in Town", "Life in the Fast Lane", and "Victim of Love"....

But Hotel California, the SONG is definitely overplayed.....a better tune is "I Can't Tell You Why" from "The Long Run"...I love the way Timothy B. Schmidt(bass player) sings on that song!

Why don't classic rock stations EVER play Jeff Beck's 'Freeway Jam" or Ram Jam's "Black Betty",both cool guitar songs?

As for Hotel California, The Album, it has a couple of decent songs on it: "New Kid in Town", "Life in the Fast Lane", and "Victim of Love"....

But Hotel California, the SONG is definitely overplayed.....a better tune is "I Can't Tell You Why" from "The Long Run"...I love the way Timothy B. Schmidt(bass player) sings on that song!

Totally agree with that, Hotel California is so over played now that when ever i hear it, it totally irritates me. I was working in a job recently that had the radio set to Gold 104 the classic rock station & i swear i heard that song twice a day.

"Old Time Rock And Roll" - Bob Seger.  Whenever I hear those first 9 notes from the piano intro, I immediately change the station.

Also, as much as I like Led Zeppelin, I've heard "Stairway To Heaven" way too many times.

somehow i just never get tired of that epic solo at the end of hotel california...

I'm not sure if this song gets played much outside of Canada, 'Raise A Little Hell' by Trooper, way overplayed here :)

I'm not sure if this song gets played much outside of Canada, 'Raise A Little Hell' by Trooper, way overplayed here :)


hmm, i've never heard of it. or trooper for that matter.???

A lot of Styx stuff gets overplayed..."Come Sail Away" and "Babe" are getting soooo old.

The same for Rush..all the stations play MOSTLY is "Tom Sawyer" ..rarely is the band's best stuff like "Working Man" played and nothing from the "2112" album gets played unless they do it as a feature album.... 

Another reason I wish FM rock stations would drop the formats and go back to the way they were when FM first started playing rock music..like it was in the late 1960's and early 1970's!!

I'm not sure if this song gets played much outside of Canada, 'Raise A Little Hell' by Trooper, way overplayed here :)


That song sure did get overkill on the radio

Here's a few other overplayed ones:

Rikki Don't Lose That Number - Steely Dan
Roxy Roller - Sweeney Todd (A good song still, but heard so much on the radio)
Magic - Pilot
All Right Now - Free
Maggie May - Rod Stewart

the overplayed list keeps growing, I'll add  'Born To Be Wild' by Steppenwolf