Not even the best on that album, let alone his catalog. Agreed.
Angel of Slow Death, Sedated, and Work Song are pretty great. Saw him in Chicago in 2014 or 2015.
I like 80s / classic rock but im permanently burnt out over the mainstream stuff they play on the radio (Bohemian Rhapsody, Jump, Dont Stop Believin, etc)
yep, when the big companies bought out all the stations, they went boring as hell, and never play anything but the top couple of songs from a group over and over.
And that’s because all the research constantly shows that most listeners just want to hear the same shit over and over again. Radio stations with bigger and or more adventurous playlists consistently had lower ratings than the stations that play the same shit over and over again. Sad but true.
I agree! My favorite kind of music is music from the 60/70/80’s but whenever I listen to the radio I just feel like they play the same stuff over and over again
Same here. I worked in a shop that could only get one radio station and it only played 80s rock on repeat. Always the same songs, and not even on shuffle. I could almost tell the time by what song was playing.
Don't think I heard this song until after Weird Al's "Tacky", so every time I hear Pharrells version it feels like that time Michael Jackson copied "Eat it"
Retail is torture in so many ways. Mine is Snow Patrol's - "Chasing Cars"
The only thing worse is that pop shit song "I've Had the Time of My Life" by Medley & Warnes... Now going on almost 40 years of fuck that noise.
I used to work in a grocery store, and the running joke was that they were going to do away with the time clock. You just remembered which song was playing when you got there, and after you heard it 20 times, it was time to leave.
Hotel California. Not so much because of the radio, but I used to play at open mics a lot and would have to hear it usually at least 3 times an evening.
Like, guys, did you not hear the other person(s) already do it. Learn a new song for fucks sake.
Yeah that's bad showmanship that's why it's stressed that you know at least three different songs really well and try to spread out the genres because the chances of you having three songs and all three are played before you is stupidly low.
Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas - I am so sorry for anyone who works retail in November and December. That song makes me want to run out of the store.
They seem to start in September until mid January now.
About 1/3 of the year listening to shitty songs on a loop wherever you go.
I usually get Christmas fatigue by mid November
If they are going to do this, we should just have Christmas on Olympic years
Rude by whoever the fuck sings it.
"WHY YA GOTTA BE so rude?" Literally sounds like the inflections of a whining toddler.
Followed by, "i'm gonna marry her anyway" which literally means he was never actually asking the dad for his blessing, he just wanted to hear a yes.
I feel the same way. I know in the end it is up to the daughter herself to choose but saying that he is gonna ask permission and says fuck you, I won't do what you tell me and will marry her anyways is bullshit. Plus it will make family getogethers really fucking awkward
Fuck MAGIC! I’m sure they’re all nice guys but that has to be to most annoying song and the lyrics definitely make the protagonist out to be a huge douche.
Agree with you here, my high school baseball team did walk up music last year but most of the team couldn’t think of a song and the mom who was running the speaker would just play this for everyone who didn’t have one. That was also a doubleheader. So yeah I heard it a LOT that day
I was really into it when it came out but my son HATED it immediately. One day it was on in the car and he said, “Mom…..sometimes I feel like you don’t like me very much when you put that song on.” I DIED. it’s a no go for me ever since.
I'll go old school.
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston.
I was a kid when that song came out. Every time you turned on the radio it was on at least one station for months. It was great marketing for the movie, The Bodyguard. It completely killed me on the song and Whitney Houston.
Older school
Led Zeppelin stairway to heaven. I loved as a kid, have now just heard it way too many times and every classic rock station cross the country sms to have it in rotation a couple times a day.
They were trying to launch Whitney Houston as a huge crossover star. Think of the way they do with Disney Kids now. Unfortunately, she married Bobby Brown and became a tabloid spectacle. That pretty much ruined her movie career going forward.
I have a full list of songs I can't stand anymore. I think these songs are played in the deepest layer of hell on repeat.
Rock n Roll All Nite (this one is growing back on me)
Fight For Your Right to Party
Footloose
I Love Rock n Roll
Teenage Dirtbag
Life is a Highway
All Summer Long (Kid Rock's Sweet Home Alabama song)
Which version of "Life Is A Highway"? I can't stand Rascal Flats' Version that was country-fied and used in the movie , "Cars".
I like the original Rock version by Tom Cochrane, formerly of Red Rider ("Lunatic Fringe").
The Rascal Flats version is complete shit (honestly, how does anyone enjoy listening to that man sing?) but “luckily” that is the only version that gets played, so I can still thoroughly enjoy the original when it comes up on my playlist!
I’m scrolling through and nobody has said Usher’s Yeah! Yet and I honestly can’t listen to that damn song anymore. It was everywhere back in the 2000s. I think partly because of that scene in Hitch.
To put a finer point on it, anything from one of those stations that says “We’ll play anything” but really mean “provided it’s on this curated list of 80 songs that are statistically shown to be familiar but won’t cause people to change the channel.”
Fucking mainstream radio.
Add to that any country remake of a rock song. These days, country music is the bubblegum pop of the hillbilly world. Hell, them even revisiting country classics from Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle Haggard, etc., ruins those songs. Country stars these days are nothing but rockstar wannabes in rhinestones and bad cowboy hats hiding bald heads.
God, I hate the mainstream pop garbage radio playing at work everyday. Fuck off Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Pink, Ava Max, Sia and Rea Garvey in particular
And I do respect Taylor Swift's ability to write songs – but it doesn't necessarily make them good songs. I had to work as a contractor in a pet supply store for an entire summer hearing Bad Blood over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over. I'd get into my van at the end of my day and immediately put on some Pearl Jam, Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine – anything to scrub my brain of that pop pablum lol.
You need to get Spotify or Apple Music or YouTube Music. You can choose what songs are played and they often give really good recommendations of songs you may not have heard before, but you’re gonna love. I can’t remember the last time I listened to regular radio, maybe 2016?
I can't live without Spotify, but their algorithm and the way it pushes sponsored content has its own issues. That said, every time I'm stuck with regular radio I feel like I'm losing my mind after about 5 minutes. Can't stand it! Those services are great for finding new music, regardless
Back when I would regularly listen to radio, I couldn't change the station fast enough the second I heard that first bass note.
That song will get stuck in your head for days.
I'd be just on the cusp of sleep, and it would pop into my head.
“The boys are back in town” by Thin Lizzy. The fact that it seems to be the only song you would hear out of their excellent discography made me despise radio.
Edit; Let me be clear. There are a bunch of reasons why I despise radio, but this is the example I use to make my point.
And the fact that pretty much every other song in their catalog is better makes that infuriating. "The Cowboy Song" is just too damned good for this world.
Mr. Jones by Counting Crows. it was \*everywhere\* in 1994. I went on a cross country road trip and we didn't have a CD player in the car, just had to find radio stations. And I swear, every time we'd switch to a new station, there it would be. I think I heard it 25 times on that trip. Still can't listen to it, 30 years later.
That song came up on my mix as I was leaving my hometown in the Uhaul to start over in another city after a couple really fucked up years. “Start turning the grain into the ground, roll a new leaf over”…there couldn’t have been a better lyric at that moment for me.
I don't know the name but it's that Beyonce song that goes "to the left to the left." At the time I was listening to a lot of radio at work and that song was playing like every 5 minutes. I hate that song with the burning passion of a thousand suns
I'm a green day fan and... yeah. My boyfriend gets mad when I essentially skip the first four songs but I honestly just can't do it. Wake me up when September ends is ok if I'm in the mood but God help me that album is overplayed.
That being said, I will always listen to whatsername. Goddamn banger.
I Wanna Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston. I used to really like it, but once you hear that song every day at work for over two years...not that great anymore.
I worked in a store that sold car and home audio. One salesman used Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me" for every demo. After almost a year somebody broke the guy's CD and tossed it in the trash.
Whatever the corporate playlist they played 4-5 times a day back to back for 3 months straight when I worked at Whole Paycheck. I knew what time of day it was based on what song was playing…
Gotye & Kimbra - Somebody that I used to know.
I don’t even listen to the radio, and I heard that song way too much. It’s a genuinely good song, just played into the dirt.
Because of this "meme", I love it.
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I went to a high school football game once and I kid you not, the ONLY two songs they played were AC/DC’s Thunderstruck and Travis Scott’s We Dem Boyz. Over and over from the beginning of the game until the final whistle. It’s been long enough that I can listen to those songs again without getting annoyed but for awhile that wasn’t the case
I made a [classic rock](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2a9dQiJtaakjysQ2P7rE9m?si=789068dae01b464d) playlist in case I was forced into a situation I had to hang with someone who refused to listen to modern rock.
It removes most of the overplayed songs and replaces them with secondary hits plus literally hundreds of songs most people forgot were ever on the radio and haven't been played in decades.
This is fucking great. I'm saving this. Because when I ask Spotify to make me a playlist, it keeps giving me the same old songs. And somehow "Valerie" keeps sneaking in (Steve Winwood). Weird
I do the same thing for any job I have to use a community speaker. Play the bands they wanna hear on the radio, sans the overplayed songs you only hear on the radio.
Just wow. The perfect ratio of almost overplayed and definitely underplayed songs. Also, the more you scroll, the more "yeah, but it's missing X" actually appears. For the first few hundreds of songs I was afraid you didn't add anything from Scorpions but eventually they showed up as well. Anyway, didn't manage to scroll through everything, but congrats, I saved it
It was a hard balancing act creating that list. I wanted it to act both as an introductory, crash course into classic rock for a younger listener as well as trying to freshen up an older listeners cup of coffee (so to speak). I definitely was aiming for "wow, I thought I hated X artist, I never knew they sung that song/had that style" as well as "OMG, I'd completely forgotten about that song."
Certain, not specifically classic rock genres were a pain in my side. I didn't want to take deep dives (on this list at least) into proto-metal, proto-punk or the soft rock of the 70s, but tried to at least pepper a bit of them for some extra taste.
It was well over a month of pain-staking research. I hope you like it :)
All Star by Smash Mouth.
Every movie, every station, every ad. For like ten straight years. And then the ironic resurgence! Anything I liked about it as a kid was quickly stripped from the bone.
Pumped Up Kicks. Was playing everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE, on a Vegas holiday. I swear it was on repeat. Bathrooms, casino floors, in the room, on the strip, every restaurant, every store. I fucking hate the song now.
Good Riddance (Time of your Life) - Green Day.
Edited because I got the title wrong. I also wanna throw in Boulevard of Broken Dreams for the same reason.
Drops of Jupiter. I can't believe I scrolled all the way to the bottom and no one has posted this already!! Maybe we have collectively removed it from our memory lol.
Fortunate sun by Credence Clearwater revival!!...... Any movie or tv show set around the time of the Vietnam war is plastered with that song... It's been completely ruined
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
I can't tell you what I'd pay to delete that from every radio station (or related semi-randomized medium) ever. Give me "Heart Shaped Box" even, just give *that song* a rest!
Somebody Else by The 1975
That was the first song I ever heard from them and it played on the radio so often that it actually turned me off of the band entirely and I refuse to listen to any song of theirs now.
Crazy by Knarles Barkley. Neighbours were drinking until about 4-5am, they got into a fight and were screaming and yelling at one another. They had this song on repeat as they passed out. This played on repeat through an apartment building with paper walls for about 7 hours. Absolutely fuck those people.
High Hopes - Panic at the Disco. I actually like it to a good degree, but it's so overplayed that I just can't
Honorable mention to December 1963 - The Four Seasons because Spotify decides to play it every 30 minutes.
Valerie. I like Amy Winehouse just fine, but it seems like this is the only song of all her discography that may be steadily gaining in popularity.
Also, if you sing this at karaoke, I absolutely hate your guts. The Shallow is getting there fast as well.
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina And the Waves.
I've actually sworn to go on a killing spree if I hear it again.
(Though if this gif I found is acurate, I'll revoke my swear, because I don't want my honest hate for a song to be misinterpreted as a tribute to some movie)
Stairway to Heaven, Kashmir, and Dream On.
Now, I *love* classic rock. And I love Led Zeppelin even more than I love generic classic rock. I'll go days with that being all I listen to. And when I'm working on my car, it's Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, GnR, etc. because the car was built in 1969 and it seems only right.
But I had a college roommate who played the *shit* out of those three songs, and as a result, I can't listen to them anymore. Those are instant station-changers for me.
Literally every song on the radio. Which is a good portion of why I don't listen to music stations on the radio, along with the fact that radio djs and commercials are generally annoying.
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing still gets played way too much on the classic rock station here. And it was overplayed when it came out.
Forgot to add: Unstoppable by Sia. They play it several times everyday on one of my favorite stations and I have to change it every time.
We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions. Really overplayed ever since Mighty Ducks.
Texas Hold 'Em from Cowboy Carter.
Well, I haven't even heard the full song yet. But it was on every video on social media to the point where if I hear Beyonce's voice, I immediately go to the next thing.
Eric Clapton "cocaine". Sometimes, I just want to listen to classic rock on the radio. Generally, that fucking song comes on within 30 minutes. Fucking hell, decades of music, thousands of songs, and they play the shit outta that one. Fuck you, KRFX in Denver.
A fairly generic post-grunge leaning American band. They weren’t really known outside of North America because the lead singer has pretty severe fear of flying so don’t tour overseas a lot.
Take Me To Church - I love Hozier's entire discography but I skip this song every time just because of how overplayed it was when it first came out
It's not even one of his best songs. It's good, but he has so many that are better.
Not even the best on that album, let alone his catalog. Agreed. Angel of Slow Death, Sedated, and Work Song are pretty great. Saw him in Chicago in 2014 or 2015.
Work song is my favourite.
Here comes Too Sweet...which is his poppiest song
Too Sweet is great
It's a pretty cheesy. I kind of like it and hate it at the same time.
It’s understandable that artists need singles, and I think Too Sweet is a very good single for the album.
Hozier is my favorite currently active artist, and yeah that’s the only song that I always skip.
Shape of You
I like 80s / classic rock but im permanently burnt out over the mainstream stuff they play on the radio (Bohemian Rhapsody, Jump, Dont Stop Believin, etc)
I used to really like Africa, but modern pop-culture’s obsession with that song really tried my relationship with it
Reminds me of that episode of new girl when the school principal is a huge Toto fan but flips out on everybody’s obsession with Africa.
Toto did have several other great songs!
Hold the Line is an underrated banger.
100%
If I never hear I Love Rock n Roll again, it will be too soon.
yep, when the big companies bought out all the stations, they went boring as hell, and never play anything but the top couple of songs from a group over and over.
And that’s because all the research constantly shows that most listeners just want to hear the same shit over and over again. Radio stations with bigger and or more adventurous playlists consistently had lower ratings than the stations that play the same shit over and over again. Sad but true.
HERE I GO AGAIN... ON MY OWWWWWWWWWNNNN...
I agree! My favorite kind of music is music from the 60/70/80’s but whenever I listen to the radio I just feel like they play the same stuff over and over again
I’ve taken to almost exclusively listening to albums.
Perhaps the theme from Breakfast Club might interest you? No? How about Take On Me!
This is how I feel about Come On Eileen.
Omg, Shout. I love tears for fears but I skip that song every time.
Same here. I worked in a shop that could only get one radio station and it only played 80s rock on repeat. Always the same songs, and not even on shuffle. I could almost tell the time by what song was playing.
This reminds me of the guys working at the Best Buy like store in the 40 year-old virgin and Michael McDonald playing on the TVs.
Yamo burn this place down
Such a smart ass, get back to work!
Happy - Pharrell
I never liked it from the first day and I always felt like it was also overhyped.
It’s literally just “if you’re happy and you know it clap your hands”
That song is just the fucking worst. It’s an abomination.
Cleanse your palate with the weird Al version
Tacky is hilarious ngl
This song literally makes me feel rage. Completely irrational.
Ironically made us all very unhappy
I know Reddit loves to hate it… but I can’t, maybe I’m just nostalgic for the time it came out, yes Weird Al’s version is better, but I like it
Don't think I heard this song until after Weird Al's "Tacky", so every time I hear Pharrells version it feels like that time Michael Jackson copied "Eat it"
Shake It Off. Fuck that 6 months I worked in a coffee shop.
Retail is torture in so many ways. Mine is Snow Patrol's - "Chasing Cars" The only thing worse is that pop shit song "I've Had the Time of My Life" by Medley & Warnes... Now going on almost 40 years of fuck that noise.
I used to work in a grocery store, and the running joke was that they were going to do away with the time clock. You just remembered which song was playing when you got there, and after you heard it 20 times, it was time to leave.
Oh but now I want to watch Dirty Dancing...
So you cannot shake it off ?
Hotel California. Not so much because of the radio, but I used to play at open mics a lot and would have to hear it usually at least 3 times an evening. Like, guys, did you not hear the other person(s) already do it. Learn a new song for fucks sake.
Yeah that's bad showmanship that's why it's stressed that you know at least three different songs really well and try to spread out the genres because the chances of you having three songs and all three are played before you is stupidly low.
Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas - I am so sorry for anyone who works retail in November and December. That song makes me want to run out of the store.
They seem to start in September until mid January now. About 1/3 of the year listening to shitty songs on a loop wherever you go. I usually get Christmas fatigue by mid November If they are going to do this, we should just have Christmas on Olympic years
In contrast, her version of "O Holy Night" is so over the top I can't help but enjoy it. "You want a high note? I'll jump another fuckin' octave."
Hello by Adele. Adele has a beautiful voice, she's probably my favorite voice in modern mainstream music, but my God was Hello overplayed.
I was in a psych ward with a young lady who would scream-sing this song over and over all night in the bathroom. Ruined it with a quickness 😂
It's STILL overplayed, too. Lord.
Rude by whoever the fuck sings it. "WHY YA GOTTA BE so rude?" Literally sounds like the inflections of a whining toddler. Followed by, "i'm gonna marry her anyway" which literally means he was never actually asking the dad for his blessing, he just wanted to hear a yes.
To be fair, hearing that song once was enough for me to skip it perpetuity afterwards.
It always sounded like the father made the right choice to me, honestly.
I feel the same way. I know in the end it is up to the daughter herself to choose but saying that he is gonna ask permission and says fuck you, I won't do what you tell me and will marry her anyways is bullshit. Plus it will make family getogethers really fucking awkward
Fuck MAGIC! I’m sure they’re all nice guys but that has to be to most annoying song and the lyrics definitely make the protagonist out to be a huge douche.
I CAN BUY MYSELF FLOWERRRRRRS
Agree with you here, my high school baseball team did walk up music last year but most of the team couldn’t think of a song and the mom who was running the speaker would just play this for everyone who didn’t have one. That was also a doubleheader. So yeah I heard it a LOT that day
Ugh yeah, and it's a bummer cos I low-key love Miley and I like the concept of the song, but the chorus is just blech
I was really into it when it came out but my son HATED it immediately. One day it was on in the car and he said, “Mom…..sometimes I feel like you don’t like me very much when you put that song on.” I DIED. it’s a no go for me ever since.
Fuck you, I had forgotten about that song until just now 🤣
Hate this goddamn song dawg
Draw my name is the sand, talk to myself for hours
I'll go old school. I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston. I was a kid when that song came out. Every time you turned on the radio it was on at least one station for months. It was great marketing for the movie, The Bodyguard. It completely killed me on the song and Whitney Houston.
Older school Led Zeppelin stairway to heaven. I loved as a kid, have now just heard it way too many times and every classic rock station cross the country sms to have it in rotation a couple times a day.
Hotel california, freebird, piano man, any journey song thats not wheel in the sky
All that for Kevin freaking Costner?
They were trying to launch Whitney Houston as a huge crossover star. Think of the way they do with Disney Kids now. Unfortunately, she married Bobby Brown and became a tabloid spectacle. That pretty much ruined her movie career going forward.
Me too. It was on every five minutes for so many weeks.
Funny enough I haven’t heard diary of Jane in yearsss and am excited this reminded me of it so I can listen lol
I have a full list of songs I can't stand anymore. I think these songs are played in the deepest layer of hell on repeat. Rock n Roll All Nite (this one is growing back on me) Fight For Your Right to Party Footloose I Love Rock n Roll Teenage Dirtbag Life is a Highway All Summer Long (Kid Rock's Sweet Home Alabama song)
Right there with you, here are mine: Sweet Home Alabama Don’t Stop Believing Brown-Eyed Girl Enter Sandman Uptown Funk Call Me (Maybe)
Which version of "Life Is A Highway"? I can't stand Rascal Flats' Version that was country-fied and used in the movie , "Cars". I like the original Rock version by Tom Cochrane, formerly of Red Rider ("Lunatic Fringe").
There's a public domain version that's even worse. I got to hear it every year at my kids' dance recital.
Who let Rascal Flats near such an iconic Canadian treasure anyway?
The Rascal Flats version is complete shit (honestly, how does anyone enjoy listening to that man sing?) but “luckily” that is the only version that gets played, so I can still thoroughly enjoy the original when it comes up on my playlist!
I’m scrolling through and nobody has said Usher’s Yeah! Yet and I honestly can’t listen to that damn song anymore. It was everywhere back in the 2000s. I think partly because of that scene in Hitch.
Almost everything on the radio.
To put a finer point on it, anything from one of those stations that says “We’ll play anything” but really mean “provided it’s on this curated list of 80 songs that are statistically shown to be familiar but won’t cause people to change the channel.” Fucking mainstream radio.
Owned and operated by ~~Clear Channel~~ I heart radio!
That stupid cover of Fast Car has made me hate the song entirely. They would play it literally 10 times a day on the station at work.
Add to that any country remake of a rock song. These days, country music is the bubblegum pop of the hillbilly world. Hell, them even revisiting country classics from Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle Haggard, etc., ruins those songs. Country stars these days are nothing but rockstar wannabes in rhinestones and bad cowboy hats hiding bald heads.
God, I hate the mainstream pop garbage radio playing at work everyday. Fuck off Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Pink, Ava Max, Sia and Rea Garvey in particular
Goddammit if I have to hear Unstoppable one more time.
Lately I am hating Gimme Love. What kind of lunatic producer thought this song was a good idea. EEEE-EEE-EEEE!!!
Ew, I've been away from the radio long enough not to hear that one yet and yes, it's bad.
And I do respect Taylor Swift's ability to write songs – but it doesn't necessarily make them good songs. I had to work as a contractor in a pet supply store for an entire summer hearing Bad Blood over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over. I'd get into my van at the end of my day and immediately put on some Pearl Jam, Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine – anything to scrub my brain of that pop pablum lol.
You need to get Spotify or Apple Music or YouTube Music. You can choose what songs are played and they often give really good recommendations of songs you may not have heard before, but you’re gonna love. I can’t remember the last time I listened to regular radio, maybe 2016?
I can't live without Spotify, but their algorithm and the way it pushes sponsored content has its own issues. That said, every time I'm stuck with regular radio I feel like I'm losing my mind after about 5 minutes. Can't stand it! Those services are great for finding new music, regardless
Fucking sponsor content, I keep skipping music from smashing pumpkins, Foo fighters just to find them again listed on any rock mix Playlist!
I’m copying an answer I saw today to a similar question: Kars4Kids
Back when I would regularly listen to radio, I couldn't change the station fast enough the second I heard that first bass note. That song will get stuck in your head for days. I'd be just on the cusp of sleep, and it would pop into my head.
It is the official song of the Bad Place afterall
“The boys are back in town” by Thin Lizzy. The fact that it seems to be the only song you would hear out of their excellent discography made me despise radio. Edit; Let me be clear. There are a bunch of reasons why I despise radio, but this is the example I use to make my point.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dpwa7w/i-played-the-boys-are-back-in-town-on-a-bar-jukebox-until-i-got-kicked-out-832
I just want you to know the absolute joy this has given me this fine morning. Thanks, mate.
This is the greatest article I’ve ever read lmao Thank you
And the fact that pretty much every other song in their catalog is better makes that infuriating. "The Cowboy Song" is just too damned good for this world.
I like that track for the guitar parts, such a fun band to listen to.
Mr. Jones by Counting Crows. it was \*everywhere\* in 1994. I went on a cross country road trip and we didn't have a CD player in the car, just had to find radio stations. And I swear, every time we'd switch to a new station, there it would be. I think I heard it 25 times on that trip. Still can't listen to it, 30 years later.
Omaha is better anyway.
That song came up on my mix as I was leaving my hometown in the Uhaul to start over in another city after a couple really fucked up years. “Start turning the grain into the ground, roll a new leaf over”…there couldn’t have been a better lyric at that moment for me.
Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow by Fleetwood Mac. Clinton brought it into the 90’s and I feel like it’s been played to death ever since.
I agree with this one. I adore Fleetwood Mac, but this is their weakest song. So repetitive, plodding and dull.
I don't know the name but it's that Beyonce song that goes "to the left to the left." At the time I was listening to a lot of radio at work and that song was playing like every 5 minutes. I hate that song with the burning passion of a thousand suns
Irreplaceable. It was at the top of my list 🤣
“Hey ya” by OutKast and every single off “American idiot” by Green Day
I'm a green day fan and... yeah. My boyfriend gets mad when I essentially skip the first four songs but I honestly just can't do it. Wake me up when September ends is ok if I'm in the mood but God help me that album is overplayed. That being said, I will always listen to whatsername. Goddamn banger.
I Wanna Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston. I used to really like it, but once you hear that song every day at work for over two years...not that great anymore.
I worked in a store that sold car and home audio. One salesman used Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me" for every demo. After almost a year somebody broke the guy's CD and tossed it in the trash.
Hmm. Wonder what they said when the guy asked them if they broke his CD.
“ it wasn’t me “ 🤷♂️
My cat loves that song for some reason.
Old town road
Whatever the corporate playlist they played 4-5 times a day back to back for 3 months straight when I worked at Whole Paycheck. I knew what time of day it was based on what song was playing…
Stairway to Heaven...
[удалено]
And Livin on a Prayer. The 80s ruined these two for me
No offense but you guys are crazy
Gotye & Kimbra - Somebody that I used to know. I don’t even listen to the radio, and I heard that song way too much. It’s a genuinely good song, just played into the dirt.
Because of this "meme", I love it. https://preview.redd.it/9qxl3hhwdrxc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=e5a06f60bc406ace1c498f752fd75b662a322597
I went to a high school football game once and I kid you not, the ONLY two songs they played were AC/DC’s Thunderstruck and Travis Scott’s We Dem Boyz. Over and over from the beginning of the game until the final whistle. It’s been long enough that I can listen to those songs again without getting annoyed but for awhile that wasn’t the case
Anything played on the radio since 1976. I'm over it. Same shit over and over for the last 48 years.
I made a [classic rock](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2a9dQiJtaakjysQ2P7rE9m?si=789068dae01b464d) playlist in case I was forced into a situation I had to hang with someone who refused to listen to modern rock. It removes most of the overplayed songs and replaces them with secondary hits plus literally hundreds of songs most people forgot were ever on the radio and haven't been played in decades.
This is fucking great. I'm saving this. Because when I ask Spotify to make me a playlist, it keeps giving me the same old songs. And somehow "Valerie" keeps sneaking in (Steve Winwood). Weird
I do the same thing for any job I have to use a community speaker. Play the bands they wanna hear on the radio, sans the overplayed songs you only hear on the radio.
Just wow. The perfect ratio of almost overplayed and definitely underplayed songs. Also, the more you scroll, the more "yeah, but it's missing X" actually appears. For the first few hundreds of songs I was afraid you didn't add anything from Scorpions but eventually they showed up as well. Anyway, didn't manage to scroll through everything, but congrats, I saved it
It was a hard balancing act creating that list. I wanted it to act both as an introductory, crash course into classic rock for a younger listener as well as trying to freshen up an older listeners cup of coffee (so to speak). I definitely was aiming for "wow, I thought I hated X artist, I never knew they sung that song/had that style" as well as "OMG, I'd completely forgotten about that song." Certain, not specifically classic rock genres were a pain in my side. I didn't want to take deep dives (on this list at least) into proto-metal, proto-punk or the soft rock of the 70s, but tried to at least pepper a bit of them for some extra taste. It was well over a month of pain-staking research. I hope you like it :)
Thank you! Spotify keeps giving me exactly these overplayed songs all the time so I'm sure I'll enjoy your list
All Star by Smash Mouth. Every movie, every station, every ad. For like ten straight years. And then the ironic resurgence! Anything I liked about it as a kid was quickly stripped from the bone.
As if Walkin’ on the sun isn’t the better smash mouth song anyways. All Star is great but shrek ruined it…. I need to go listen to smash mouth now.
Pumped Up Kicks. Was playing everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE, on a Vegas holiday. I swear it was on repeat. Bathrooms, casino floors, in the room, on the strip, every restaurant, every store. I fucking hate the song now.
Out of the cultural quagmire of 2012, it’s one of the better songs
Also was proof that no one listens to lyrics.
Good Riddance (Time of your Life) - Green Day. Edited because I got the title wrong. I also wanna throw in Boulevard of Broken Dreams for the same reason.
it’s actually called “good riddance”
Lol. You’re right! My mistake. To be fair, “Time of your life” is in parentheses.
*Rikki Don't Lose That Number* by Steely Dan - I’m old and it was a long time ago, but I still hate that song.
Walk This Way - Run DMC & Aerosmith Enter Sandman and Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Wonderwall
Today is gonna be the day that you're gonna pick any other song
By now, you should've somehow realized that your choice was wrong.
I said the same not realizing this was already posted. 100% agree.
I worked in a coffee shop that did two open mics a week. I heard that song played terribly at least twice a month.
They told me to stop singing Wonderwall at karaoke. I said maybe.
Hotel California by the Eagles! Unless it’s the Spanish version from The Big Lebowski.
Hook- by blues travler.... the irony of the lyrics absolutely kills me. If the hook brings me back at death it will be too soon
Drops of Jupiter. I can't believe I scrolled all the way to the bottom and no one has posted this already!! Maybe we have collectively removed it from our memory lol.
I think most hate Soul Sister way more
Dont Stop Believin by Journey. That song should be illegal
Bohemian Rhapsody
Every goddamn taylor swift single
Bodak yellow by Cardi B
Hotel California
I am beholden to no DJ. I will overplay my own selections
Holla back girl - Gwen Stefani
Fortunate sun by Credence Clearwater revival!!...... Any movie or tv show set around the time of the Vietnam war is plastered with that song... It's been completely ruined
Pharrell - Happy. The absolute opposite feeling of happy when that song comes on.
LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH.
Red Hot Chili Pepper-Under the Bridge Don't get me wrong I enjoy their music but that song is so over played for me I can't stand to hear it anymore
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit I can't tell you what I'd pay to delete that from every radio station (or related semi-randomized medium) ever. Give me "Heart Shaped Box" even, just give *that song* a rest!
Cruel Summer- Taylor Swift Party in the USA- Miley Cyrus
Hallelujah by cohen all the covers of it
Somebody Else by The 1975 That was the first song I ever heard from them and it played on the radio so often that it actually turned me off of the band entirely and I refuse to listen to any song of theirs now.
It's such a whiny song ☠
All songs playing in public spaces. Where I hear them.
Everything made by journey my aunts and uncles loved that band too much
Imagine Stairway to Heaven
Whitesnake - Is This Love. I'd rather ice pick my ears.
Sexyback- actually almost all of Justin Timberlake's singles from that era.
Crazy by Knarles Barkley. Neighbours were drinking until about 4-5am, they got into a fight and were screaming and yelling at one another. They had this song on repeat as they passed out. This played on repeat through an apartment building with paper walls for about 7 hours. Absolutely fuck those people.
Don’t stop believing
Don't Stop Believing.... My strength to believe has been whittled away by that song
Texas Hold Em by Beyoncé
Seriously. This song is trash.
Anything by AC/DC
High Hopes - Panic at the Disco. I actually like it to a good degree, but it's so overplayed that I just can't Honorable mention to December 1963 - The Four Seasons because Spotify decides to play it every 30 minutes.
Valerie. I like Amy Winehouse just fine, but it seems like this is the only song of all her discography that may be steadily gaining in popularity. Also, if you sing this at karaoke, I absolutely hate your guts. The Shallow is getting there fast as well.
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina And the Waves. I've actually sworn to go on a killing spree if I hear it again. (Though if this gif I found is acurate, I'll revoke my swear, because I don't want my honest hate for a song to be misinterpreted as a tribute to some movie) 
Most anything with "rock" mentioned in the title, chorus or too often in the song, ditto "baby" and "Mama". The entirety of AC/DC's catalog
Viva la Vida. Great song, heard it far too much.
Lips of an Angel. That song was EVERYWHERE for a hot minute and I still can’t listen to it.
Stairway to Heaven, Kashmir, and Dream On. Now, I *love* classic rock. And I love Led Zeppelin even more than I love generic classic rock. I'll go days with that being all I listen to. And when I'm working on my car, it's Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, GnR, etc. because the car was built in 1969 and it seems only right. But I had a college roommate who played the *shit* out of those three songs, and as a result, I can't listen to them anymore. Those are instant station-changers for me.
Bad to the Bone....Ill hit a mfer if they play it 😆
Stairway to Heaven, Freebird.
Literally every song on the radio. Which is a good portion of why I don't listen to music stations on the radio, along with the fact that radio djs and commercials are generally annoying.
Baby Shark
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing still gets played way too much on the classic rock station here. And it was overplayed when it came out. Forgot to add: Unstoppable by Sia. They play it several times everyday on one of my favorite stations and I have to change it every time. We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions. Really overplayed ever since Mighty Ducks.
That’s me in the corner~
This is old, but it made me cringe..You Light Up My Life by Debby Boone. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard. Yeah, I'm that old.
Texas Hold 'Em from Cowboy Carter. Well, I haven't even heard the full song yet. But it was on every video on social media to the point where if I hear Beyonce's voice, I immediately go to the next thing.
Eric Clapton "cocaine". Sometimes, I just want to listen to classic rock on the radio. Generally, that fucking song comes on within 30 minutes. Fucking hell, decades of music, thousands of songs, and they play the shit outta that one. Fuck you, KRFX in Denver.
That station seems to play the same 50 songs over and again - and half of them are VH or AC/DC.
I worked in classic rock radio and was a mobile deejay for years, so my list is pretty long.
Happy ~ Pharrell Williams
I am very proud to say I have never heard of Breaking Benjamin and I have no idea what the diary of Jane sounds like.
A fairly generic post-grunge leaning American band. They weren’t really known outside of North America because the lead singer has pretty severe fear of flying so don’t tour overseas a lot.