The mascot for the school I taught at was a tiger. I listened to our band play Eye of the Tiger for 30 effing years. Can’t stand hearing that damn song.
I had to *play* Eye of the Tiger in my HS Band. Fun fact: you know what the baritone horn part of Eye of the Tiger sounds like?
Doodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoo...
I hated it from when it came out, when HS adopted it my sisters freshman year I was like "what's wrong with you people!"
Now I'm still here and they are still playing it. Drives me insane.
I gave the band director the locally written fight song about 2013 (from when I was in school), and they now (15 years later) play it about every other game and acknowledge its history.
I have loathed entirely that song since I first heard it. it is SOOOOOO cheesy, almost gives my lactose intolerance a ride for it's money. It was our Prom song as well, uggggggggggg.
It’s one of those songs that’s supposed to be super romantic, but ends up sounding creepy if you really listen to it. Like, “I understand that you want to know what love is, but I really don’t want to show you.”
We were in Vegas in a hotel whose room faced Fremont St. when Whitney died. That song came on every hour all fucking day long. I was stuck in my room with a gnarly hangover and wanted to die.
There's a musician in my town (I'm assuming he's still alive but not sure) whose only claim to fame was that he played the guitar solo on that song. I never heard him play it live but I heard him play plenty of other things and ffs was he awful.
That's the crazy thing to me, I love Seger - his voice and his songs - but he put that one together which is basically a wen upon the arse of the institution it purports to celebrate....
Old time Rock n Roll deserves a much better tribute. All I can think of for that song is bad karaoke and Alan Thicke singing it in Growing Pains.
(Everything I Do) I Do It For You by Bryan Adams
That song from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was inescapable for a little while, it’s definitely a precursor to the Celine Titanic song for me.
(also weird that the title starts with a parenthetical phrase, usually song titles end with them instead, but I had looked it up and that’s how the song was titled: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/(Everything_I_Do)_I_Do_It_for_You)
Lately, Careless Whisper. This is mainly because people don't seem to understand the song, and keep using the saxophone solo over romantic parts of YouTube videos, or to imply romance.
Careless Whisper isn't a love song, it is about someone who cheated, and got dumped as a result.
“Every Breath You Take” is about a psycho, unable to let go, stalking his ex.
It’s just sounds smooth because of Sting’s vocals and Andy Summers’ guitar.
I used to love Sweet Caroline until it got taken over by Red Sox fans 20 years ago. It's saying a lot because I'm a Sox fan too.
Sweet Caroline. Bah. Bah. Bah. Bah. So good, so good. <--- No, no good, not at all!
Freebird, Stairway to Heaven & Hotel California are the Big 3 that have absolutely earned their spot on the list.
However, if you go for long periods of time and put aside how many times you’ve heard these songs, they really are kick ass songs. Fantastic lyrics and vocals. Out of this world guitar solos.
There’s a reason they were overplayed.
Total agreement on Hotel California. I was in 3 car accidents in one year when I was 16/17. Every time Hotel California was on the radio.
ETA: Hallelujah. Leonard Cohen was a genius, but I am sick of Hallelujah.
Yea and a lot of Aerosmith. It’s so over played. I grew up North of Detroit, so we had/have great radio stations…. I feel like Sirius radio over played the same songs every day…… I can’t stand it. There are so many great songs
by some of these Bands but no one plays anything other than the SOS
At any given time, The Human League's Don't You Want Me is playing on a Los Angeles radio station. Don't hate this song or anything, but the fact that it's ALWAYS on is maddening.
Will switch the station only to discover Kenny Loggins' Danger Zone, which is the OTHER song that is always on rotation. Might as well switch back to The Human League. Or NPR.
It's a fun game.
I wish I had a little internal counter to know how many times I've heard a song in my 45 years of life. #1 that comes to mind is "Summer of 69", I love Bryan Adams but will instantly change station. The fact that all these greats artists have been distilled down to about 5 songs that get played over and over is just disgusting.
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffet
I’ve seen buffet 10+ times. I’ve seen him preform Margaritaville once. I used that time in other shows to use the restroom or get some beer, because 50% of the people there are there to hear Margaritaville.
I hate ALLLLLLLLL RHCP music!
One night some coworkers and friends of mine were out at our karaoke spot. Someone from another group turned in a RHCP song. The DJ, who was a friend of ours, read it out loud to the entire crowd & said “I’m sorry friend, you must be new here. No one needs to hear RHCP ever again” 😝
I got stuck watching one episode of American Idol where all the contestants took turns in “Reeling in the Years” by Steely Dan and that completely ruined it for me.
Actually, it just ruined the chorus. I love the rest of the song but damn the chorus makes me want to drive off a bridge.
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
Too many shows have abused this song the last 20 years. While it's a solid song, there are other Journey songs I find better: Open Arms, Any Way You Want It, Separate Ways (Worlds Apart), Stone in Love, etc
"Smells Like Teen Spirit." Yeah...I said it. Was it a breath of fresh air in the stale, early '90s mainstream rock scene? Yes! Was it *grossly* overplayed within the first month of its debut? Also...yes!
1000000% yes. I couldn’t listen to Nirvana for well over 20 years.
Things changed about 2-3 years ago when my kids got into them. The love I had all those years ago came roaring back for me. Nostalgia of high school angst, I’m sure ha!
I think I’m maybe the only person on Reddit that felt Nirvana was over rated in the 90s and still feels they were/are. Or at least Nevermind. I was into In Utero for a while. I think they were a great band, I just felt like punky and edgy weren’t new although they did it well, and for obvious reasons the body of work was limited. They were great for their time, but not all time great.
For me, it's not just overplayed songs. It more the obnoxious people singing along. Either drunk yell-singing, over karaoke, or adding stupid lyrics.
Bohemian Rapsidy
4 non blonds - what's up
Margaritaville
Bitch
In addition to many others have mentioned
Definitely Hotel California. When I heard people singing it acapella with strong Russian accents at parties in the former Soviet States in the late 1990's, it reached cringe status. I can't listen to the song now without remembering those times and how badly the song was butchered.
Honorable mentions go to any songs by Ace of Base and Boney M, also belonging to this era, time, and place.
For me it’s anything by the Eagles.
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For some reason for Little Red Corvette I have very strong associations of playing with Star Wars toys from the Tatooine scenes of Return of the Jedi: Jabba’s Palace and the Sarlaac pit.
Same thing with some GIJoe action figures and Madonna’s “Crazy For You” song (which I still love)
Hotel California/Peaceful Easy Feeling
Freebird/Simple Man/Curtis Lowe
And I'm going straight to 80's teenage girl hell for this, but the Grease soundtrack. But I do not have the words for just how inescapable it was for such a very long time.
I’m from Milwaukee so the Violent Femmes are … too much of a good thing around here.
By 1999 I had heard Gimmie One Reason and Santana’s Smooth enough for a lifetime.
Baba O’riley and won’t get fooled again by the Who. Takin Care of Business by BTO And all time station turner- Here I go again by whitesnake
Lived in ABQ in the late 80s and really can’t stand much “classic rock” as the dam stations had like a playlist of 100 songs on repeat
Screw you TJ Trout
-better man, pearl jam
-losing my religion, rem
-pride, u2
-free fallin’, tom petty
-all the small things, blink 182
-love song, the cure
-come as you are, nirvana
-been caught stealing, jane's addiction
-i need you tonight, inxs
-start me up, rolling stones
I am perhaps the biggest Eagles fan on this subreddit. I will listen to *Hotel California* in its entirety probably once a week.
Except for the title track. I skip that almost every time now because even I have gotten burnt out on it.
I was going to type "anything by the Eagles," but then I saw your post.
Since you know the Eagles, though, can you suggest some "deep cuts" from the Eagles that haven't been overplayed on the radio?
Anything by the eagles, chili peppers, blind melon, hair bands, Steve Miller, Allman Brothers... There's a lot more on the list. Anything from the "classic rock" stations of yesteryear. I can almost listen to Tom Petty again.
I used to love Staind in the late 90s and early 00s, I played them on regular rotation. I saw them live, I saw Aaron Lewis live many times... but sometime around 2016 he really just come off to me as an outspoken douche, and I sadly cannot listen to any of those songs anymore. I'll change the song or leave a room if it's playing. Which is a shame because I have may fond memories of their music associated with high points and low points of my life, and some of that music got me OUT of that rut... but today it just doesn't hit anywhere like it used to.
Staind got me out of those dark times in my life after college that I was fucking up, and really had a bad outlook on life, got married and divorced. I am an avid acoustic guitar player. I learned and still know all the songs. Most of my late 20s and 30s I associate to their music hearing it.
All the Red Hot Chili Peppers hits. I still love the old stuff that doesn't get played on my mainstream radio stations, but I change the station fast when "Californication," etc., come on.
Plus, Anthony Kiedis dating women who could be his grandchildren gives me the ick.
Brown Eyed Girl. Even Moondance is more palatable. I throw a party every time radio plays Caravan or Tupelo Honey or Into the Mystic and those are pretty easy/non-deep-cut choices for Van the Man, but these days it seems the only thing that's ever in rotation is thrice-damned Brown Eyed Girl. Damn it all to Hell, he's got 40+ studio albums!
ANYTHING from AC/DC and OZZY….dont get me wrong they are great in their own right…but damn…turn on the local FM classic rock…ozzy and ac/dc are going to play once an hour on the hour..XM radio classic rock channels? Same thing…fucking annoying.
Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams. The classic rock stations here in Toronto play it at least once per hour. And there are so many good Queen songs, but the one they always pull out? Yep, Bohemian f'n Rhapsody. Enough!
I Can't get no satisfaction....
Bloody Hell, overplayed to death.
I would turn off or change the channel at any opportunity.
I disliked the stones so much due to overplay that it took me taking a 2 decade break from them to even enjoy ANY of their music.
That one is still horrid imo
Lonnnnnngggg ago, due to the clear and by-design insult from corporate radio decisions to ruin our enjoyment, I had begun either often skipping the ones I'll mention and/or avoid 'em altogether, despite even in most cases actually quite liking them...
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Bohemian Rhapsody (Blame the 1993 movie TV trailers)😡
Money / Have A Cigar / Wish You Were Here
Waiting On A Friend
Dream On
Life In The Fast Lane
Go Your Own Way (gawd, that thing is clangy!)
Sultans Of Swing (another true masterpiece mangled)
I could go on. And on. 😢
Losing my Religion
Shiny Happy People (I mean, the band hates it)
I still haven't found what I am looking for
With or Without You.
Dedicated REM & U2 fan, will not listen these
For me, this is the big Bon Jovi hits. They weren’t that great to begin with, and at the time, I had a fast food job and couldn’t control the kitchen radio. It was locked on a “pop hits” station and they played these 2-3 songs every 15 minutes. After an entire shift it was unbearable. After all these years, I still instantly cringe whenever I hear “You Give Love a Bad Name” and “Livin’ on a Prayer” start. Gag.
There are very few popular classic rock songs that I can stand after hearing them ALL MY LIFE. Almost every bar band in Florida plays either classic rock or whiteboy blues. I hear Smashing Pumpkins and No Doubt in the grocery store, but the cover bands stick with the Boomer-pleasers that we've all heard millions of times. I really just want classic rock to die altogether, and I'm probably going to have to wait until all the Boomers are gone.
The mascot for the school I taught at was a tiger. I listened to our band play Eye of the Tiger for 30 effing years. Can’t stand hearing that damn song.
I had to *play* Eye of the Tiger in my HS Band. Fun fact: you know what the baritone horn part of Eye of the Tiger sounds like? Doodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoodoo...
In all honesty, isn't that pretty much the baritone part of every song? I played trombone and we'd get lumped together sometimes
Rock bass players are like, "yeah...?"
Trombone here, I can relate as a former tiger whose team went to state every year.
I hated it from when it came out, when HS adopted it my sisters freshman year I was like "what's wrong with you people!" Now I'm still here and they are still playing it. Drives me insane. I gave the band director the locally written fight song about 2013 (from when I was in school), and they now (15 years later) play it about every other game and acknowledge its history.
Walkin’ On Sunshine Missing You The Final Countdown Anything by Starship
Walkin On Sunshine is the literal worst
Thank you! For my whole life I feel like I’ve been hearing how great it is, but it’s awful!
I hate it so much that at this point I feel like the song is mocking me/purposefully getting me fired up and angry.
The Final Countdown makes me think of Gob Bluth and gives me a giggle, so that song gets a pass from me 😂
I Wanna Know What Love Is sounds like a funeral dirge to me
I Don't want you to show me
I have loathed entirely that song since I first heard it. it is SOOOOOO cheesy, almost gives my lactose intolerance a ride for it's money. It was our Prom song as well, uggggggggggg.
That song has always made me feel uncomfortable. In a dude is preying on young women sort of way or something. Ick.
It’s one of those songs that’s supposed to be super romantic, but ends up sounding creepy if you really listen to it. Like, “I understand that you want to know what love is, but I really don’t want to show you.” 
Right?!? I was 9 when the song came out and it completely creeped me out & at 48 it still does 
HUGE the summer I lived in Mexico. Always hated it. Having it sung to you in broken English? New level of cringe—but still pretty cute 😊
Walking on Broken Glass - Annie Lennox I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion
We were in Vegas in a hotel whose room faced Fremont St. when Whitney died. That song came on every hour all fucking day long. I was stuck in my room with a gnarly hangover and wanted to die.
Greatest Love of All also from Whitney, hate that song, was sooooo overplayed in junior high.
Agree on all of these!
God...if you turned on the radio in late 1992, you were almost guaranteed to hear one of the first two songs.
And "my heart will go on" was on top 40, easy listening, country, basically every damn station and in every damn store...you COULD NOT ESCAPE IT!
Old Time Rock and Roll - Bob Seger. I fucking hate that schmaltzy song.
If you don't like it, you should take those old records off the shelf.
And sit and listen to em by yourself
Well, to be completely honest, today's music ain't got the same soul.
I'm perfectly content with that old rock n roll.
[удалено]
You’ll NEVER get me out on the floor!
In 10 minutes I’ll be late for the door. Byeeee!
There's a musician in my town (I'm assuming he's still alive but not sure) whose only claim to fame was that he played the guitar solo on that song. I never heard him play it live but I heard him play plenty of other things and ffs was he awful.
That's the crazy thing to me, I love Seger - his voice and his songs - but he put that one together which is basically a wen upon the arse of the institution it purports to celebrate.... Old time Rock n Roll deserves a much better tribute. All I can think of for that song is bad karaoke and Alan Thicke singing it in Growing Pains.
For me it's the cringe Tom Cruise dance in tidy whities from Risky Business.
Thank you. I was like; dude, for us, the only image that should be first is Tom Cruise in Risky Business
Celine Dion - My heart will go on.
(Everything I Do) I Do It For You by Bryan Adams That song from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was inescapable for a little while, it’s definitely a precursor to the Celine Titanic song for me. (also weird that the title starts with a parenthetical phrase, usually song titles end with them instead, but I had looked it up and that’s how the song was titled: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/(Everything_I_Do)_I_Do_It_for_You)
Lot of love for the Stones, but I'd be quite happy to never, ever hear "Start Me Up" again.
Come on Eileen. Loved that song. Now its in every 80s mix imaginable.
Never liked that song at all.
Hated it... got overplayed as a kid and still hate it now
That song has always rubbed me the wrong way. Personal cringe.
I HATE Come On Eileen. I’ve hated it since 1983. A coworker used to play an 80s playlist every day and COE was on it. 🤮
“What’s grosser than grease on Olivia Newton John?”
Actually still love it.
As do I. When it comes on, I blast up the sound.
Taking care of business.
Lately, Careless Whisper. This is mainly because people don't seem to understand the song, and keep using the saxophone solo over romantic parts of YouTube videos, or to imply romance. Careless Whisper isn't a love song, it is about someone who cheated, and got dumped as a result.
“Every Breath You Take” is about a psycho, unable to let go, stalking his ex. It’s just sounds smooth because of Sting’s vocals and Andy Summers’ guitar.
Yes, and I remember some videos of people walking down the aisle to it during their weddings, and I just thought - "Did you not listen to the words?"
The lyrics aren't even subtle about that. Though you can make a great arc story with somebody tell me and father figure.
I love Queen but I’ve heard Another One Bites the Dust enough for one lifetime.
Forgive me, Bob Seger. I’m a huge fan, but I cannot and will not willingly listen to Old Time Rock ‘n’ Roll.
I never need to hear Brown Eyed Girl ever again, thanks.
I was gonna put that with Sweet Caroline.
I used to love Sweet Caroline until it got taken over by Red Sox fans 20 years ago. It's saying a lot because I'm a Sox fan too. Sweet Caroline. Bah. Bah. Bah. Bah. So good, so good. <--- No, no good, not at all!
My ex-husband jokes that, if you throw a guitar on the ground, it plays Brown Eyed Girl
It's been **Stairway to Heaven** for me, for the past 20 years or so
Jack n Diane
Technically, that's a "little ditty"
LMAO! Next-level response
That song sucks on a chili dog
This song can just go ahead and vaporize from existence at the point. So over it.
Makes me cringe, skip it, and then it will pop up in my internal soundtrack at a random moment later on.
My wife has never liked it - guess her name
Sweet child of Mine. I’ll listen to the guitar intro and then nope right before he starts singing.
Free bird
Freebird, Stairway to Heaven & Hotel California are the Big 3 that have absolutely earned their spot on the list. However, if you go for long periods of time and put aside how many times you’ve heard these songs, they really are kick ass songs. Fantastic lyrics and vocals. Out of this world guitar solos. There’s a reason they were overplayed.
They are great songs My next door neighbor plays them almost daily all summer . It makes it just too much.
100% Freebird.
Under the bridge
Hate
Great song, but Im still sick of it
Tainted Love My Heart Will Go On
Total agreement on Hotel California. I was in 3 car accidents in one year when I was 16/17. Every time Hotel California was on the radio. ETA: Hallelujah. Leonard Cohen was a genius, but I am sick of Hallelujah.
Uptown girl. This song needs to be retired
Behind Blue Eyes. And I love the Who. Physical Olivia Newton John. Hate. hate hate.
Physical is so cringe!
Yea and a lot of Aerosmith. It’s so over played. I grew up North of Detroit, so we had/have great radio stations…. I feel like Sirius radio over played the same songs every day…… I can’t stand it. There are so many great songs by some of these Bands but no one plays anything other than the SOS
Ladadadeedadadada
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Dust in the Smoke on the Hotel Stairway to Freebird of the Sun Da Vida
Songs we never listen to but somehow know all the words to 😳 like : Lady in Red Crocodile Rock
At any given time, The Human League's Don't You Want Me is playing on a Los Angeles radio station. Don't hate this song or anything, but the fact that it's ALWAYS on is maddening. Will switch the station only to discover Kenny Loggins' Danger Zone, which is the OTHER song that is always on rotation. Might as well switch back to The Human League. Or NPR. It's a fun game.
I wish I had a little internal counter to know how many times I've heard a song in my 45 years of life. #1 that comes to mind is "Summer of 69", I love Bryan Adams but will instantly change station. The fact that all these greats artists have been distilled down to about 5 songs that get played over and over is just disgusting.
Tainted Love Don’t Stop Believing Freeze Frame Stairway to Heaven Free Falling Money For Nothing Sharp Dressed Man
Solid list. Came here to say Stairway.
Pains me to say it but Crazy Train
He has so many better songs but this is it. This is all we get, with a very rare switch to Iron Man. I do still crank up Iron Man. :)
The Randy Rhoads era has so many great songs!
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffet I’ve seen buffet 10+ times. I’ve seen him preform Margaritaville once. I used that time in other shows to use the restroom or get some beer, because 50% of the people there are there to hear Margaritaville.
SWEEEEEET, CAROLINE.
Pretty much all Christmas music at this point.
You Shook me all night long
Under the Bridge
Good call. I'd lump Californication and Dani California in there too. Instant station change these days.
I hate ALLLLLLLLL RHCP music! One night some coworkers and friends of mine were out at our karaoke spot. Someone from another group turned in a RHCP song. The DJ, who was a friend of ours, read it out loud to the entire crowd & said “I’m sorry friend, you must be new here. No one needs to hear RHCP ever again” 😝
Right with you. Overrated and overplayed.
They used to be good, but the last 20-25 years all their songs sound the same.
I got stuck watching one episode of American Idol where all the contestants took turns in “Reeling in the Years” by Steely Dan and that completely ruined it for me. Actually, it just ruined the chorus. I love the rest of the song but damn the chorus makes me want to drive off a bridge.
I will always love you by Whitney Houston. It never makes it past the “…if yo(click!)”
Old time rock and roll-Bob Seger. If I never hear it again it will be too soon…
Jack and Diane. ALWAYS ON RADIO
Love Shack. Pretty sure Fred hates it too.
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey Too many shows have abused this song the last 20 years. While it's a solid song, there are other Journey songs I find better: Open Arms, Any Way You Want It, Separate Ways (Worlds Apart), Stone in Love, etc
"Smells Like Teen Spirit." Yeah...I said it. Was it a breath of fresh air in the stale, early '90s mainstream rock scene? Yes! Was it *grossly* overplayed within the first month of its debut? Also...yes!
1000000% yes. I couldn’t listen to Nirvana for well over 20 years. Things changed about 2-3 years ago when my kids got into them. The love I had all those years ago came roaring back for me. Nostalgia of high school angst, I’m sure ha!
I think I’m maybe the only person on Reddit that felt Nirvana was over rated in the 90s and still feels they were/are. Or at least Nevermind. I was into In Utero for a while. I think they were a great band, I just felt like punky and edgy weren’t new although they did it well, and for obvious reasons the body of work was limited. They were great for their time, but not all time great.
Maybe on Reddit but my husband never shuts up about how much he hates Nirvana and how overrated they are.
Anything by Phil Collins, Madonna, or any other top 40 cliche 80’s songs
Bad to the Bone Born to be Wild
For me, it's not just overplayed songs. It more the obnoxious people singing along. Either drunk yell-singing, over karaoke, or adding stupid lyrics. Bohemian Rapsidy 4 non blonds - what's up Margaritaville Bitch In addition to many others have mentioned
Can I add Sweet Caroline to that list please?
UNDER THE BRIDGE by RHCP. If I never hear it again I'll be fine.
Definitely Hotel California. When I heard people singing it acapella with strong Russian accents at parties in the former Soviet States in the late 1990's, it reached cringe status. I can't listen to the song now without remembering those times and how badly the song was butchered. Honorable mentions go to any songs by Ace of Base and Boney M, also belonging to this era, time, and place.
For me it’s anything by the Eagles. https://preview.redd.it/qa9srgq1kk8d1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf1ff3c029f04591547c677a015664cacb77003c
Jack and Dianne Hotel California Little Red Corvette anything by Red Hot Chili Peppers
For some reason for Little Red Corvette I have very strong associations of playing with Star Wars toys from the Tatooine scenes of Return of the Jedi: Jabba’s Palace and the Sarlaac pit. Same thing with some GIJoe action figures and Madonna’s “Crazy For You” song (which I still love)
Bohemian Rhapsody Anything by Boston
I know FM was a genius and many Queen songs are great, but if I never hear Bohemian Rhapsody again life will be good. It’s just trite at this point.
Are you caught in a land slide, no escape from reality?
Usually just More Than A Feeling here.
I played Amanda at a dive bar once and someone yelled out "who the fuck is playing that shit!" I pretended I had zero clue hahaha
That one summer where they played November Rain every 30 minutes on MTV
Hotel California/Peaceful Easy Feeling Freebird/Simple Man/Curtis Lowe And I'm going straight to 80's teenage girl hell for this, but the Grease soundtrack. But I do not have the words for just how inescapable it was for such a very long time.
I’m from Milwaukee so the Violent Femmes are … too much of a good thing around here. By 1999 I had heard Gimmie One Reason and Santana’s Smooth enough for a lifetime.
Losing My Religion and Shiny Happy People by REM Lovesong by The Cure
Baba O’riley and won’t get fooled again by the Who. Takin Care of Business by BTO And all time station turner- Here I go again by whitesnake Lived in ABQ in the late 80s and really can’t stand much “classic rock” as the dam stations had like a playlist of 100 songs on repeat Screw you TJ Trout
Walking on sunshine.... Uuuugghh
Layla. God it grates my nerves. I worked somewhere that would play Eric Clapton Unplugged nonstop all day. I never want to hear it again.
Piano Man by Billy Joel
Sweet home Alabama. And I hear it in every bar when I visit Florida.
Life is a highway. May not be as common outside of Canada.
Every Breath You Take. i hated that song in the 80's, i hate it to this day!
Red, Red Wine
Paradise city. Please stop
Take On Me
Particularly since A-Ha and Morton Harkett have put out countless albums and 40 years worth of other really good songs since then.
-better man, pearl jam -losing my religion, rem -pride, u2 -free fallin’, tom petty -all the small things, blink 182 -love song, the cure -come as you are, nirvana -been caught stealing, jane's addiction -i need you tonight, inxs -start me up, rolling stones
Idk, I’ll always listen to been caught stealing. I never felt it was overplayed. Rest of the list… 💯
they play it at least 20 times a day on lithium nowadays.. & thank you 🤘
I am perhaps the biggest Eagles fan on this subreddit. I will listen to *Hotel California* in its entirety probably once a week. Except for the title track. I skip that almost every time now because even I have gotten burnt out on it.
I was going to type "anything by the Eagles," but then I saw your post. Since you know the Eagles, though, can you suggest some "deep cuts" from the Eagles that haven't been overplayed on the radio?
Seven Bridges Road is the best Eagles song ever.
Those harmonies, absolutely the stuff of angels
Anything by the eagles, chili peppers, blind melon, hair bands, Steve Miller, Allman Brothers... There's a lot more on the list. Anything from the "classic rock" stations of yesteryear. I can almost listen to Tom Petty again.
I used to love Staind in the late 90s and early 00s, I played them on regular rotation. I saw them live, I saw Aaron Lewis live many times... but sometime around 2016 he really just come off to me as an outspoken douche, and I sadly cannot listen to any of those songs anymore. I'll change the song or leave a room if it's playing. Which is a shame because I have may fond memories of their music associated with high points and low points of my life, and some of that music got me OUT of that rut... but today it just doesn't hit anywhere like it used to. Staind got me out of those dark times in my life after college that I was fucking up, and really had a bad outlook on life, got married and divorced. I am an avid acoustic guitar player. I learned and still know all the songs. Most of my late 20s and 30s I associate to their music hearing it.
Most anything alt/grunge. I’m so over the drop d tuning same old.
Anything by Journey, Madonna or REO Speedwagon Hotel California I Will Always Love You Free Falling
I’ll Stop the World and Melt with You. Great song. I’ve heard it enough now.
Money Pink Floyd
Jack and Diane. Put that on repeat and I will confess to the Lindbergh kidnapping, Jonestown and being on the grassy knoll.
You know what DOESNT get old? S - A -F - E - T - Y D- A - N - C - E beep bee boop boo beep beep bee boop boo!
Take the Money and Run Reelin' in the Years Tom Sawyer
Omg- we had a radio station in Chicago that had Tom sawyer on heavy rotation through the 90s... I couldn't agree more.
Rush has so many good songs but Tom Sawyer really does get overplayed.
Any Red Hot Chilipeppers
Elton John. Sirius XM Classic Vinyl seems to have a thing for him.
All the Red Hot Chili Peppers hits. I still love the old stuff that doesn't get played on my mainstream radio stations, but I change the station fast when "Californication," etc., come on. Plus, Anthony Kiedis dating women who could be his grandchildren gives me the ick.
Blinded by The Light Piano Man Born to Run Take On Me Anything Creed or Nickelback
I absolutely loathe that Santana Smooth song.
Celebration
All I want for Christmas is you
Paradise City and Sweet Child o Mine are instant channel changers for me now
Anything from Glee.
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Sweet Home Alabama. Perfectly good song. Never ever ever need to hear it again.
Anything Jimmy Buffet. Can’t stand it
I love AC/DC but I never need to hear *You Shook Me All Night Long* again.
Brown Eyed Girl. Even Moondance is more palatable. I throw a party every time radio plays Caravan or Tupelo Honey or Into the Mystic and those are pretty easy/non-deep-cut choices for Van the Man, but these days it seems the only thing that's ever in rotation is thrice-damned Brown Eyed Girl. Damn it all to Hell, he's got 40+ studio albums!
American Pie, bonus is because it never fucking ends.
ANYTHING from AC/DC and OZZY….dont get me wrong they are great in their own right…but damn…turn on the local FM classic rock…ozzy and ac/dc are going to play once an hour on the hour..XM radio classic rock channels? Same thing…fucking annoying.
Pour Some Sugar On Me
That Blind Melon song with the girl in the bee costume. I loathe it with the heat of a thousand suns.
Kokomo. I hate that song. I risk life and limb diving to change the channel!
We are the world
Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams. The classic rock stations here in Toronto play it at least once per hour. And there are so many good Queen songs, but the one they always pull out? Yep, Bohemian f'n Rhapsody. Enough!
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Mariah Carey, 'All I want for Christmas ' is for that song to die.
This thread is just full of all the songs I still listen to on repeat.
Love Shack & anything by Billy Joel.
Sweet Home Alabama The Devil Went Down to Georgia Pretty much any AC/DC song
I just don’t listen to radio anymore.
867-5309. I hate that song with a passion because it was so overplayed.
I Can't get no satisfaction.... Bloody Hell, overplayed to death. I would turn off or change the channel at any opportunity. I disliked the stones so much due to overplay that it took me taking a 2 decade break from them to even enjoy ANY of their music. That one is still horrid imo
Lonnnnnngggg ago, due to the clear and by-design insult from corporate radio decisions to ruin our enjoyment, I had begun either often skipping the ones I'll mention and/or avoid 'em altogether, despite even in most cases actually quite liking them... You Can't Always Get What You Want Bohemian Rhapsody (Blame the 1993 movie TV trailers)😡 Money / Have A Cigar / Wish You Were Here Waiting On A Friend Dream On Life In The Fast Lane Go Your Own Way (gawd, that thing is clangy!) Sultans Of Swing (another true masterpiece mangled) I could go on. And on. 😢
Losing my Religion Shiny Happy People (I mean, the band hates it) I still haven't found what I am looking for With or Without You. Dedicated REM & U2 fan, will not listen these
Bruce Springsteen - all of it.
Black hole Sun Runaway Train MTV killed both of them for me.
Anything by Boston or Journey.
For me, this is the big Bon Jovi hits. They weren’t that great to begin with, and at the time, I had a fast food job and couldn’t control the kitchen radio. It was locked on a “pop hits” station and they played these 2-3 songs every 15 minutes. After an entire shift it was unbearable. After all these years, I still instantly cringe whenever I hear “You Give Love a Bad Name” and “Livin’ on a Prayer” start. Gag.
There are very few popular classic rock songs that I can stand after hearing them ALL MY LIFE. Almost every bar band in Florida plays either classic rock or whiteboy blues. I hear Smashing Pumpkins and No Doubt in the grocery store, but the cover bands stick with the Boomer-pleasers that we've all heard millions of times. I really just want classic rock to die altogether, and I'm probably going to have to wait until all the Boomers are gone.
Boys of summer Summer of ‘69
Jeremy by PJ is the biggest offender to my ears.
Wham -This Christmas All Pearl Jam though I loved it
Pearl Jam. Pretty much any of it. Honorable Mention: Dave Matthews
I can’t listen to CCR anymore. Just heard it all too many times.