What are some of the worst songs that have been over-played on the radio?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

List some songs that you think have been over-played, or suck and are over-played. they dont have to all be bad songs, just the ones that were played way to much.

1. Smells like Teen Spirit-Nirvana
2. Ocean Avenue-Yellowcard (ugh)
3.How Come-D12

( a lot more but don't feel like listing them)

― Caitlin O'Neil (kurdtkobain205), Thursday, 5 August 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

All of them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 August 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

A guy was working on my house today, listening to the radio.
I DID NOT NEED A REMINDER OF HOW BAD IT IS!

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 5 August 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

One day, when I happened to have stopped a scan of the stations on an oldies station, I came to the understanding that there is a finite number of times that any given human being can hear Manfred Mann's "Doo Wah Diddy." For me, that number was exactly one less than the number I was on that day.

― phil d., Thursday, 5 August 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"King of Wishful Thinking" by that one twat

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 5 August 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i loved outkast's "hey ya" until the radio stations got hold of it.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 5 August 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

WXRT overplays a lot, but I remember them WAY overplaying "Child of the Wild Blue Yonder", which was so freakin annoying given how much that song sux.

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 5 August 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

In Berlin there's this adult contemporary station that we flip to when we're bored of hearing Pink, Black Eyed Peas and Anastacia on the pop stations. This fucking station has a huge throbbing hard-on for Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You". I've been here to work a few times now over a period of many months and they've always got that blasted song in heavy rotation.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 5 August 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Berlin? Did I miss your moving?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 August 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope, I'm still in Toronto, but we've been collaborating with a group in Berlin and making trips here to do experiments from time to time.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 5 August 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, clarity!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 August 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently, we got a little off subject :)

― Caitlin O'Neil (kurdtkobain205), Thursday, 5 August 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"this love" by maroon 5
"float on" by modest mouse

― reo, Thursday, 5 August 2004 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

that meatloaf song

― Shaun (shaun), Thursday, 5 August 2004 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate the radio, there never seems to be more than five songs in rotation at any given time.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 5 August 2004 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

ANYTHING BY ELVIS, THE BEATLS, OR CHRIST

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 5 August 2004 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"Old Time Rock And Roll", "Start Me Up" (Stones), "Celebration" (Kool & the Gang) - Three songs that would've been merely forgettable were they not played to death (and beyond.)

As regards "Stairway To Heaven": Yogi Berra, using typical Yogi anti-logic, once said of a childhood friend "The guy was so popular that nobody could stand him." And that remark pretty much applies to the WAY-overplayed "Stairway" - the most popular song of the '70s, and everybody hates it. Everybody but me. Somehow, I've never managed to grow at all sick of it, the way I have with "Hotel California" or "Comfortably Numb" or other classic-rock placebos. So maybe "Stairway" REALLY does have backwards-masked messages that have hypnotized me for 25+ years...

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Steve Winwood's "Valerie" still inexplicably popular on local radio stations?

God, I hate that song.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

WARW 94.7 and classic rock stations in general to thread. thanks for making me hate the following songs:
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall pt. 2

― common_person (common_person), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

J3wel - "My Hands"

It makes me want to run through glass walls. And not in a fun way.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

(I kind of like that Modest Mouse song, probably because I've only heard it once.)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

FREEBIRD.

― mike a, Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"drift away", by uncle kracker and whoever originally did it. that song is playing in my own private hell 24/7.

same goes for "black water" by the doobie brothers.

― drew, Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Slow Ride, Foghat. Man I hate that bass-playing.

Seconds on Manfred Mann's "Do Wah Ditty" or "Diddie Wa Diddie" or whatever. When will America wake up and start playing Blind Blake and Captain Beefheart in heavy rotation?

Another Brick in the Wall I hate.

Hotel California.

Many others.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I seem to hear Maggie May played everywhere. In some ways it's a really great song, but jeez I'm past the point where I can understand why.

― Bimble (bimble), Thursday, 5 August 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember when Smashing Pumpkins' "Disarm" was on the radio while I was in college. It wasn't a terribly great song to begin with, but after it was overplayed, hearing it made me want to hurt people. Sometimes even my friends.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 5 August 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Alanis' Head over Feet

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 5 August 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I still cannot imagine for the life of me why anyone thought Three Days Grace's "(I Hate) Everything About You" should have been played on the radio even ONCE. That is a GOD-AWFUL SONG.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 5 August 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

And it gets played EVERY THREE MINUTES ON ALT-ROCK RADIO WHERE I LIVE

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 5 August 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

haha yeah same with me. i remember hearing three days grace for the first time being like 'what is this shit?!'

― Caitlin O'Neil (kurdtkobain205), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, I remember this particular point in history, when I was also in college. I even kind of liked Siamese Dream at the time. But not this song. My friends were like "But the bells are so cool!" Ugh.

― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

You all wouldn't believe 1971. Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog ruled the airwaves for the whole summer.

Be very glad that you weren't there and pity me for having been.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

Is Steve Winwood's "Valerie" still inexplicably popular on local radio stations?
God, I hate that song.
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, August 5, 2004 12:47 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark

FUCK YOU

― del griffith, Saturday, 2 April 2011 04:10 (fourteen years ago)

i agree, "fuck you" is v. played out as well

― flow (chilli), Saturday, 2 April 2011 05:04 (fourteen years ago)

Any rock station that plays "Soul Man" by the Blues Brothers should have its license taken away by the FCC.

It's just an insult to anyone with ears: Here's a decent song that ALREADY EXISTS IN A BETTER FORM, only the original doesn't feature two white comedians from "Saturday Night Live". Even the musicians on both versions are pretty much the same (okay, maybe not on keyboards). But Sam & Dave are thrown onto the "urban" heap where old Stax stuff isn't played unless you're talking about that oldies station in Memphis that is somehow still being voicetracked on the weekends by Isaac Hayes.

― ᓇᐃᑦᑐᒥᒃ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᕐᕕᒃ (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 2 April 2011 05:20 (fourteen years ago)

^^^ speaking truth to power

― a SB-in' artist that been in the game for a minute (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 2 April 2011 05:24 (fourteen years ago)

Duncan Sheik - Barely Breathing

― corey, Saturday, 2 April 2011 21:59 (fourteen years ago)

Huh...the oldies station here (satellite feed, not locally generated) plays the original "Soul Man" pretty often. (No other Stax stuff though.) Haven't heard the Blues Bros version in at least 25 years.

― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Saturday, 2 April 2011 22:15 (fourteen years ago)

I hear the Blues Bros way more often. I guarantee that if VH1 still played videos, you'd see that one.

― ᓇᐃᑦᑐᒥᒃ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᕐᕕᒃ (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 2 April 2011 23:02 (fourteen years ago)

I can believe that. 99% of the appeal of that version is the Aykroyd/Belushi dancing, iirc.

― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Saturday, 2 April 2011 23:10 (fourteen years ago)

every novelty summer hit ever since the beginning of time.

― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 2 April 2011 23:13 (fourteen years ago)

"Classic Rock" stations play the Blues Brothers; "oldies" stations play Sam & Dave. Oh, and fuck the motherfucking Blues Brothers for all motherfucking eternity.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 2 April 2011 23:26 (fourteen years ago)

Sorry to digress, but it's been interesting to hear disco and early New Wave being incorporated into "oldies radio" format.

― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Saturday, 2 April 2011 23:38 (fourteen years ago)

It's weird to watch artists slide from classic rock to oldies. Like, that first time hearing "I Can See For Miles" following Dion & Rhe Belmonts.

In hindsight after that, it wasn't hard picturing the progression of "Who Are You" going from late-night FM staple that said "fuck" in its lyrics to prime-time network murder mystery show theme song.

― ᓇᐃᑦᑐᒥᒃ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᕐᕕᒃ (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 3 April 2011 00:22 (fourteen years ago)

For whatever reason, '60s Who is rarely heard on "classic rock" radio, if ever. I hear "My Generation" on oldies stations pretty regularly, and have never heard it on any "classic rock" stations.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:27 (fourteen years ago)

CCR another example of going from classic rock to oldies.

― ᓇᐃᑦᑐᒥᒃ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᕐᕕᒃ (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 3 April 2011 06:09 (fourteen years ago)

Weird things tonight. Classic Rock radio was playing Stealers Wheel at the same time I was reading about them on the misidentified thread.

More Important ! Stevie Wonder "Superstition" on the same Classic Rock Station. not an everyday occurrence, but welcome.

"Dust in the Wind" next. I don't mind all this. "American Girl" and "Refugee" in the same evening. Stevie Miller's "Goan Take the money an Run" sounded damn sweet earlier. The guitar part towards the end. so it's all good here. keeping watch.

Georgia Satellites - Keep your Hands to yourself. good one for this time of night.

― UiiiiiiiiiiiiD (Zachary Taylor), Sunday, 3 April 2011 08:35 (fourteen years ago)

More Important ! Stevie Wonder "Superstition" on the same Classic Rock Station. not an everyday occurrence, but welcome.

Again, along with my Blues Bros complaint, I hear Stevie Ray Vaughn's version more on the classic rock stations. It's not so much of a copy as the second Soul Man version, but still. At least they do play the Hendrix version of "All Along the Watchtower".

On the other hand, it's always a cool trip to hear something like Wings' "Arrow Thru Me" on the "adult urban" station.

― ᓇᐃᑦᑐᒥᒃ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᕐᕕᒃ (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 3 April 2011 15:08 (fourteen years ago)

For whatever reason, '60s Who is rarely heard on "classic rock" radio

Isn't the "classic rock" format largely about 70s and 80s rock? And if they play 60s rock it is usually from the late 60s?

― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 3 April 2011 23:33 (fourteen years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.