We’d like to welcome back Sleepy Floyd for this week’s B List…

One of the most degrading jobs in the world, aside from greeter at Best Buy, has got to be the classic rock DJ. Playing a pre-programmed format, day after day – the same Rush songs followed by the same Foreigner songs followed by the same 38 Special songs followed by the same Boston songs.

The only thing more boring than working a tollbooth on the turnpike would have to be manning the controls of a corporate classic rock station. You know those stations: “100.7 KZLX – playing the greatest hits of yesterday and today.” Since when was Jukebox Hero or Shakin’ a greatest hit?

Bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and the Stones have a plethora of greatest hits. Yet we only hear Black Dog, Another Brick In The Wall, and You Can’t Always Get You Want over and over again. At least those tracks are halfway decent compared to these ten tunes which just need to be stopped from playing…period. Not that in this age of the iPod and satellite radio, anybody listens to classic rock radio anymore, but here it is anyways…

1. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band - Blinded by the Light

Alright, what most people don’t know is this obnoxious tune was actually written originally by Bruce Springsteen and featured on his album – Greetings From Asbury Park. But as the boss explained himself in concert, somehow the words got changed from “revved up like a deuce” to “revved up like a douche.”

READ ON for more tunes we can live without hearing anymore…

2. Kansas - Carry on My Wayward Son

If we only heard this song maybe once a year it would actually be almost good – after all it has nice twin guitar leads, killer ’70s organ fills and Brad Delp-like shrieks of “Carry on my wayward son There’ll be peace when you are done…” This Kansas number is just a tad worse than Dust in the Wind.

3. Rush - Tom Sawyer

Rush is a great band, but this classic rock radio staple, says turn the station quicker than you can say, “what you say about his company is what you say about society.” Come on classic rock radio programmers, give The Trees, YYZ, Bastille Day or even Red Barchetta some more air time and let Geddy yelp less.

Other Rush songs that need to be given a rest: Spirit of Radio, Limelight and Freewill

4. Boston – More Than A Feeling and Peace of Mind

What is it about Boston and classic rock radio? They get more airplay than Clapton, Zeppelin and Sabbath. You’d think they were a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band with this much radio love. We’ll give Foreplay>Longtime a break because its actually a solid classic but More Than A Feeling and Peace of Mind with all respect to the late Brad Delp, his tenor is just a little overdone.

Other Boston songs that need to go on classic rock radio hiatus: Don’t Look Back, Rock And Roll Band and Smokin’

5. Bad Company – Feel Like Making Love

It seems we have a theme here- another shitty song Kid Rock covered and another band classic rock radio loves to love: Bad Company. “Darling when I think about you, I think about love” = probably the worst opening lyrics to a song ever. Like its sister song Can’t Get Enough – both badly need to be buried. If only Freddie Mercury knew that Paul Rogers was the man selected to replace him in Queen.

6. Foreigner – Feels Like The First Time

Is it just me or is it easy or are Bad Company and Foreigner the same band – kind of like Boston and Kansas. And nowadays when Jason Bonham isn’t jamming with Plant, Page and Jones he tours the country with Foreigner playing this song, Cold As Ice, Juke Box Hero and Hot Blooded. I think somebody is wishing for a Led Zeppelin reunion to happen more than Ticketmaster.

7. Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands To Yourself

How this song even ended up in classic rock radio rotation is beyond me, but if I ever hear Dan Baird sing “no huggin no kissin” in that annoying drawl… The only thing worse is hearing this song in regular rotation at a karaoke bar, sung by some local schmo - Fed Ex driver by day, Georgia Satellite by night.

8. Eddie Money – Two Tickets To Paradise

Between Baby Hold On, Shakin’ and Two Tickets To Paradise, Eddie Money always seems to find a way to squeeze his lounge bar voice on classic rock radio. Not sure exactly who enjoys the latter, a ’70s yacht rock song that hollers – “oh-oh-uh-oh-uh-oh-uh-oh-uh-oh-uh-oh.”

9. Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2

For a band with so many brilliant songs, this one gets more airplay than any other song by Floyd. For the sake of hearing Sheep, Mother and Have a Cigar, more often, let’s give this one a rest. It’s the ending though that is the roughest with the recorded rant- “If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?”

10. Styx – Renegade

It wouldn’t be a classic rock list without slamming Styx around a bit and sure enough, and this one just rolls down the road of classic rock boredom.

Do you agree with Sleepy’s list? What songs do you think should be banished from Classic Rock radio stations? Speak your mind by leaving a comment below.