Please don't play _______ again

I was kinda dumbfounded by the "Please Don't Play Legend Again" thread, because while it is a popular album, I certainly don't hear it as much as the OG poster makes out. However, I'd be interested to hear what album is overexposed in your area.

Where I live, only up until maybe a couple of years ago, I think it was Californication. I just couldn't go out to the pub without someone playing tracks from that album, galvanising my dislike for the Chilis (didn't mind that album on first hearing mind you).

What is the ubiquitous record where you reside?

me like that

at ninepins

with your food

yr banjo

out in the street

dumb

me like that.

anyway, Abbey Road

sons of mumford, is their 15 minutes up yet???

what if you dont leave the house?

that funky music white boy

The Soft Bulletin

http://991.com/newGallery/Air-Moon-Safari-10th-431277.jpg

^^ OTM

also Jeff Buckley's version of "Hallelujah"

http://www.allflac.com/covers/b_11242_Gotan_Project-La_Revancha_Del_Tango__Gold__France_-2001.jpg

in college I used to go to parties where people would play In the Aeroplane Over the Sea like it was some ultra-romantic make-out album, it's like wtf is wrong with R. Kelly

I've left a bar that had started playing "O Comely"

strangely, the faux-bluegrass version of "Don't Stop Believin'" didn't make me leave immediately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f3CFDTH6-w

in the pub every fucking lunchtime

man I feel super happy that I am the person who inflicts music upon people rather than the other way around, and also that I have a bunch of friends with extremely diverse and divergent musical tastes, because the last time I remember a specific album getting played constant play it was awesome:

http://www.amazon.com/Mtv-Party-Go-Various-Artists/dp/B000000HIV/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_1

I've left a bar that had started playing "O Comely"

i've done that because there was one guy who loaded $10 in the machine and HAMMERED the Radiohead, which is a band I generally like but who the hell plays that in a bar??

it looked like that man was holding a labrador for a second there

whats legend?

i've told myself to please don't play Moon Safari again

Legend is a Bob Marley greatest hits collection.

I was at a wedding the other day and the DJ played neutral milk hotel. I was dumbfounded.

you guys are lucky... Californication appears to have been replaced by the first Kings Of Leon album where I live.

did it clear the floor? that's what usually happens when i play neutral milk hotel at a wedding. actually i betcha it was on the bride and grooms playlist/request sheet/ipod, that's pretty much the only time you're allowed to play non-mega-anthems at a wedding.

best request to totally rock a wedding dancefloor in the last month: "the final countdown"

speaking of please don't play _________ again and weddings: "i got a feeling". i'm sorry, it's not my fault. i told the bride i already played it and she begged me to PLLLLEEEAAAASSSSSEEE play it again. her dime.

^^^ hahaha, EVERY time I've DJ'd a function, this exact thing happens and I've Got A Feeling has to be given a second spin because birthday girl was in the toilet.

they have no consideration for our djfeelings, it's shameful. that song gives me a toothache, and i'm the biggest bep apologist on ilm.

Please don't play "Don't Play That Rock'n'Roll To Me" again. Ever.

sorry "... Your Rock'n'Roll ..."

The wedding was pretty arty/hipstery/whatever in general, and the DJ played kind of a weird mix of stuff anyway, but NMH stood out as a bad choice, mostly because that album can sound like total ass on the wrong system--all you could hear was treble and yeah it cleared the floor. Actually the oddest moment of the night was the reaction to "Tubthumping" which is apparently a huge anthem for some (very drunk) people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSoXJl2ALUk

my first time at college, when I was in a fraternity, I def got played out on Legend...in high school, it was Metallica's Black Album.

Nowadays if I'm over at somebody's house and they start towards their stereo, I jump through any nearest window. Fuck that shit!

I pretty much don't have to listen to anything I don't want to, unless the wife is in an AC/DC or Rush phase, so I don't have this problem

When I was growing up my parents owned a seasonal restaurant in a beach town which had Legend on rotation 24/7. I rarely hear it now but when I do I'm pretty OK with it because it reminds me of being little and sandy and stretching up on my tiptoes to reach the service bars and steal maraschino cherries when the bartenders weren't looking.

Oh the real answer might be anything by Phish because I spent two years at a college where I was forced to listen to enough of that shit to last me a lifetime.

Legend remains the only album that I and all my immediate family members -- sis, mom and dad -- each own or owned separate copies of. (I'm still bemused that my dad got a copy but there it is.)

There are many albums I need never hear again. So, I don't.

"Don't Stop Believing" (unless you cut it off 2/3 of the way through the song)
"Living On A Prayer"
"The Final Countdown"
"Eye of the Tiger"

Young Folks.
I loved the song. Once. Now I never need to hear it again.

I suspect I'll get very fed up of Pumped Up Kicks very soon.

Elliot Smith in a Seattle coffee shop between the months of November and March

For a GOOD while there, it was the fucking Postal Service...

I spent five years working in a place where the boss would play Jimmy Buffett constantly. I would hear "Margaritaville" an average of 5 times a day. Average. I was doing tech support and the boss thought nothing of playing Buffett on his boom box so loud (it was a small office) that we couldn't hear the people on the other end of the phone. When we asked our boss to turn it down (so we could hear his customers), he just laughed at us.

Legend remains the only album that I and all my immediate family members -- sis, mom and dad -- each own or owned separate copies of. (I'm still bemused that my dad got a copy but there it is.)

mine was Devo's Greatest Hits. this can be explained by my parents (and a couple of uncles) going to the same high school as them in Akron, but I grew up on that, to the point where I always hear the next songs in sequence on the Greatest Hits in my head even when I'm listening to the albums proper. I always thought being a Devo fan was embarrassing growing up but now it's kind of a brag

There should be a special spot on the spectrum for Parrotheads.

Cosign for "iv'e got a feeling" and yet I fear we'll keep hearing that one on every single wedding playlist 20 years from now. It's also an international ailment, so going to a wedding overseas will not shield you from it.

Also 'We Are Your Friends', one of my roomates took it as her personal night anthem and would play it every fucking weekend during six months.

I don't even think I know what that is.

Firework

so funny, one of the gyms i go to (it's a multi-gym 'consortium' or whatever, you get a membership to one you get a membership to all of them) plays fucking Bob Marley all the fucking time and it drives me up the wall. my pops was a lawyer for Rita Marley in the '90s (not a big deal, he just rescued a shit-load of Bob's money from a swindling estate lawyer), and so as a pre- and pubescent lad, my house was filled with Bob Marley stuff— posters and flags and records and fucking hats and shit.

by the time i was 15, i was glad that fucker died, and wanted to kill anyone who ever played him— even jokingly— ever again.

Two other employees won't stop playing the new Bright Eyes at the record store where I work. A girl who quit a month ago used to always play Mayer Hawthorne and also actually made me sick to death of Marvin Gaye.

The other manager I work with used to play really old Shakira albums...

That was the worst thing. No business being played at a record store.

Arcade Fire shouldn't be played in public, let alone at my local when I'm trying to get drunk.

A11

I lived with a guy who played Pinkerton at every party, often over the protests of his housemates. I really never want to hear that perfectly fine album ever again.

You think that's bad, I know a guy who plays REM at parties. At parties.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORhrXghsgzY

"Cosign for "iv'e got a feeling" and yet I fear we'll keep hearing that one on every single wedding playlist 20 years from now. It's also an international ailment, so going to a wedding overseas will not shield you from it."

tell me about it, even the indonesians request this twice. i think the romanians were the only wedding party to ever not request it or go all "wwwooOOOOOO! YAAAYYY, it's my favorite SOOOOOONNG!!!!11!!" when i played it

elliot smith in a seattle coffeeshop ftw so far, i could imagine years of that that making me finally break and stab myself in the heart right in front of a random barrista

please don't play misty for me again

actually, for real, I don't like that song at all

now it's just gone silly. Unknown Pleasures is a sign you're in the right place at the right time.

― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 4:57 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

then i wish i lived wherever you do. unknown pleasures is, as far as i can tell, thee single most overplayed album in seattle over the past few years. feel like i hear it in every other record store, cafe, salon, bar and boutique i enter. it's a great record, but it's inescapable and exhausted. basically want a decade off.

^ it's the fucking legend of skinny jeans & trendy haircuts

A couple of years ago I also felt like I heard that record everywhere. Now I just don't get out very much.

today, i bought a michael hurley LP off a dude in an unknown pleasures t-shirt. while we listened to muse or some such.

Nouvelle Vague

xp Worst was when James-Gordon Levy sported that Unknown Pleasures T-shirt in 500 Days of Summer. Joy Division shoutouts have no place in a romcom no matter how hip you're trying to be...

Pretty much the only item of clothing I've always had bar a pair of black jeans since I was 13 is an unknown pleasures T. I must have had about six or seven over the years. During this JD revival I lasted until about two years ago before I burned all of them. I went to a warehouse rave and saw some crackhead graphic designer in a flat cap wearing a T shirt that was the BFG in bed with an erection with the UP sleeve design on his duvet. I had to go home I was so upset.

What about the "Movement" t-shirt in Scott Pilgrim (movie)?

That's a fucking cool movie and you'd never see hipsters* wearing a T shirt featuring a cartoon character with an erection hiding behind it. I think that's more a thing for young students etc. I wouldn't wear one myself but I can't see that there's any harm in it. Like the proliferation of Kraftwerk cone T shirts there was about 12 years ago. I seriously doubt the masses of people who were wearing them were fans of the first two albums but they looked pretty cool, and it seemed to be getting a load of new people into the group.

By hipsters in this context I mean, horrific Nathan Barley types.

The funniest one of these T shirt appearances as a totem of cool in a movie things is the obese Seth Rogan lookalike dude wearing a nipple tight Mastodon Blood Mountain top in Choke.

microbraggin but I know the dude who designed that t-shirt

it was a joke crying out to be made for 30 years let's be real here

Such a shame the 20 y/o girl in our office who wears a Roxy Music t-shirt has never really heard the band. I guess that makes her cooler than if she had heard the band for some cosmically shit reason.

in reference to http://www.dangerousminds.net/images/uploads/joydivisiontshirtghjbjmbvmvm_thumb.jpg xp

Y'see, you've just ruined my morning. Tell your mate he's like a God to university educated crackheads where I live.

his face is such a perfect depiction of someone delighted with his boner efforts to make an auld postpunker weep

Arcade Fire shouldn't be played in public, let alone at my local when I'm trying to get drunk.

cosigned, wtf is wrong with these people >:(

Nouvelle Vague
--Volvo Twilight (p-dog)

Nouvelle Vague and motherfucking Manu Chao both need to burn in hell immediately; these are the only two things in rotation at the local pub and they're unacceptably cramping my desire to DRINK BEER

You want to let AA know about this development in beer retardation technology.

Ha

Manu Chao is good beer drinkin' music imo.

yeah nothin wrong with Manu Chao

You all would love my local pub then. Me, it's like they found a way to turn kryptonite into sound waves.

The funniest one of these T shirt appearances as a totem of cool in a movie things is the obese Seth Rogan lookalike dude wearing a nipple tight Mastodon Blood Mountain top in Choke.

this* reminds me of the Sonic Youth Dirty T-shirt Seth Rogan was wearing in 40 Year Old Virgin, which made me happy at one time; surely that's a famous example and one of the first, correct?

(*this = your mention of it; I've never seen Choke)

contenderizer, i'm in seattle too. work on cap hill, just moved off the hill to ravenna though. i don't hear it that often but i wish i did. i assume you get your coffee at caffe vita. i hate that place.

Will remember to put on Bizarro Superman uniform whilst fapping in Spectrist's local.

"best request to totally rock a wedding dancefloor in the last month: "the final countdown"

― messiahwannabe, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 9:08 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

Please don't ever play that song again, it is a far worse crime than anything off of "Legend"."

technically you're correct, but final countdown isn't overplayed to death where i live. judging by the whoops and screams of the wedding party when i put it on though, one might assume that it's played quite often in certain parts of perth.

Whoops and screams mean fuck all in my experience. Every student night I attended at uni would involve a setlist including Mustang Sally, Brown Eyed Girl and Jump Around. Every Friday and Saturday these three songs would get the same yelling and cheering as if the braying hordes had been reunited with long-lost classics. I can't stand these songs BTW.

it's that intimate familiarity with the songs, and recognition of them as "oh yay there's the song i heard last week when i had such a good time" that makes people scream. no one screams if they don't associate the track with a bunch of positive memories.

i suspect that, for most of us on here, being music geeks, we tend to hate nights out in the close vicinity of drunken idiots with no taste who get all excited about songs we're totally over already. therefore we associate the same songs with negative feelings ("oh god, mustang sally, here comes the idiot whooping") and other, good memories with completely different tunes, probably chosen in part because our friends liked them and the idiots didn't ("oh, yay, they're playing that nick drake song i totally made out to one time with that girl who had good taste in music. i'm definitely coming back to this coffee shop") no one is above this.

as long as the whoops & screams translate into bodies on the floor, or happy crowd or w/e, then it was the right choice

good points all round

as long as the whoops & screams translate into bodies on the floor, or happy crowd or w/e, then it was the right choice

― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:16 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

On some primal DJ level I agree with this, but imho the mark of a good DJ is making people scream for things they've never heard before. And that Europe song isn't even fast enough to dance to, all you can do is sway dramatically.

^ i suppose so, but "wedding DJ" is a special case

Drugs A Money: There was a bit of this in Hal Hartley's films. A young Michael Imperioli (Chris from The Sopranos) is wearing a Sonic Youth top (if not a Sex Pistols T) in Amateur, which came out in 1994.

contenderizer, i'm in seattle too. work on cap hill, just moved off the hill to ravenna though. i don't hear it that often but i wish i did. i assume you get your coffee at caffe vita. i hate that place.

― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, June 22, 2011 11:53 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

oh hey, bld, missed this yesterday. it's mostly a cap hill thing, and i think i heard it more last year and in 2009 than i have so far this year. maybe that's just cuz i've become more of a hermit, dunno. get my coffee all over the place, but love stumptown & victrola.

"wedding DJ" is a special case

sad but true.

xp i used to work at EM on cap hill where JD got crazy play for awhile. like, it must have been every day for 2 weeks at some point.

reading my own post and imagining someone screaming out loud upon hearing nick drake in a coffeeshop "OOOHHH MY GOD! WOOP WOPP THEY"RE PLAYING NICK DRAKE IN THE COFFEE SHOP!!!!11! YYYYEEEAAAAAAAAAA!" running back and dragging their friend out to dance in front of the cash register etc

i was surprised it was even possible to dance to final countdown but apparently it is.

p sure I've heard N Drake in a coffeeshop; I've heard Meat Puppets' "Up on the Sun" in a coffeeshop in middle-of-nowhere Marshall, MI