# Bands/artists you've grown sick of **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2016, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526 "2016-04-18T02:29:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/21 "2016-04-18T18:00:06Z")
Yeah, **The Doors**. Not working for me any more. ---
**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/22 "2016-04-18T19:26:10Z")
THE WHO. I will hurt myself to get to the radio to turn off Tho Who. I never was a fan of them to begin with but the over saturation of their music is infuriating. And the C.S.I. shows haven’t helped any either. It seems that most classic rock stations feel they’ll lose their “man card” if they don’t play certain bands EVERY DAY. But they seem to forget that Janis Joplin recorded more then “Me And Bobby McGee”, “Piece Of My Heart” and “Ball And Chain” And Steppenwolf has more then “Born To Be Wild”,“Magic Carpet Ride” and “The Pusher”. Just a little more variety of the bands they play would be all it would take. But if I could make it stop the ones I would most like to stop are; The Police U2 Genesis (especially Phil Collins) Rush Boston Jefferson Starship/Starship (I miss the Airplane) Ted Nugent AND THE WHO!!! Oh and KISS. How could I have forgotten that assault on humanity? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/23 "2016-04-18T19:34:15Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > I’m sick of Fleetwood Mac but Mick Fleetwood and I did it. I was a fangirl for a long time. I have most of their standard issue CD’s and some bootlegs. After awhile I started getting a little bored and my interest dropped off. I also read Mick Fleetwood’s autobiography in which he describes acting like an irresponsible, self-indulgent, drug-addicted pig with not a lot of believable regret, and that was the nail in the coffin of my fangirldom. I still like Don’t Stop, Gold Dust Woman and GYOW, but other than, bleah. At least they do occasionally put out new stuff and I really like Lindsey Buckingham’s solo work. > > I should sell all that crap on eBay. God, did Fleetwood come off like a deluded twit I that book. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/24 "2016-04-18T19:38:47Z")
Elton John wore out his welcome when he took “Goodbye, Norma Jean” and made it about Diana. The sentiment was fine, but an original song would have seemed like he put some thought into it. Every thing he’s done since then has kinda sucked. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/25 "2016-04-18T19:54:29Z")
Michael Jackson, almost. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/26 "2016-04-18T20:31:17Z")
I listen to modern “alternative rock” radio. So I have the same problem as those of you who hear the same classic rock songs over and over again, except the songs I hear over and over again have only been out for a year or so. Right now I am quite tired of 21 Pilots. They have 2 or 3 songs in rotation at the radio station at the moment and while I’m sure I could be a fan of theirs, I can’t handle them anymore now that I hear their songs every. damn. day. One thing I just realized about these modern rock stations is that they are QUICK to drop songs in favor of whatever new thing they are supposed to play. So I used to hear the band Phoenix every day a few years ago, now I never hear them. Then it was the band fun. Then it was Mumford & Sons. I never hear any of that junk, from just a couple years ago. Now it’s 21 Pilots or nothin’. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/27 "2016-04-18T20:44:00Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Right now I am quite tired of 21 Pilots. They have 2 or 3 songs in rotation at the radio station at the moment and while I’m sure I could be a fan of theirs, I can’t handle them anymore now that I hear their songs every. damn. day. I think you’re just trying to tell us that you wish you could turn back time, to the good ol’ days, When your momma sang you to sleep, but now you’re stressed out.🙂 Don’t worry; I’m sick of that damn song too. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/28 "2016-04-18T21:41:16Z")
Most of classic rock I have heard way too many times. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/29 "2016-04-18T23:16:17Z")
AC-fucking-DC. My god, I can’t change the radio station fast enough when I hear that cancerous cat cackle voice. Why do rock stations, that aren’t classic rock stations, play so much of this sound pollution? ---
**Author:** ![Graymalkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@Graymalkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Graymalkin)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/30 "2016-04-19T01:46:27Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > If I never hear another **Led Zeppelin** song again it will be too soon. Which is crazy because LZ was an icon of my (pot smoking) adolescent youth. Yeah, I always liked them in my pot-smoking, acid-dropping, speed-popping, smack-jamming youth, but i immediately have to change the station to ANYTHING BUT when the one of their song comes on. Due mostly, however, to the limited catalogue on those classic rock stations. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/31 "2016-04-19T02:58:23Z")
The Doors. Nirvana. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/32 "2016-04-19T04:12:12Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > AC-fucking-DC. My god, I can’t change the radio station fast enough when I hear that cancerous cat cackle voice. Why do rock stations, that aren’t classic rock stations, play so much of this sound pollution? AC-fucking-DC. Why on earth would anyone ever need to hear this again? Have we not heard that shitty song of theirs in its seven shitty different iterations for the past thirty fucking years? Can we put it to rest? ---
**Author:** ![btcg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@btcg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/btcg)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/33 "2016-04-19T04:56:31Z")
Pink Floyd without Roger Waters… ugh! ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/34 "2016-04-19T05:27:32Z")
Jimi Hendrix. There are so many better shredders than him, today. There even were back then. But, I digress. He only had a handful or two of listenable songs, and I’ve maxed them out. I can’t even listen to “Hey Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun)” more than once every year. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/35 "2016-04-19T09:27:52Z")
I suspect that most of the problem as expressed in the thread is that the radio stations seem to cycle round a very narrow selection of songs from a certain artist. Fleetwood Mac? you know what they are going to choose to play on radio but aimlessly ambling through Spotify the other day I came across “[Monday Morning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKevFfGv6OM)” and [Landslide](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_PQ4fRQ5Kc), how often are they played? The Who? again, you know what the stations will choose and it is unlikely to be “[go to the mirror](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPzY30v9mtg)” or the instrumental overture from “[quadrophenia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXY5UWBmIFs&list=PL705A234F43DA0E34&index=3)” Pink Floyd? they won’t play “[Stay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3ySnPgKXAg)” or “[welcome to the machine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5jRewnxSBY)” So I reckon that people’s (quite understandable) weariness with a band is more to do with the limited imagination and conservative nature of commercial radio than the quality of the band itself. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/36 "2016-04-19T11:49:55Z")
> [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](#): > > AC-fucking-DC. Why on earth would anyone ever need to hear this again? Have we not heard that shitty song of theirs in its seven shitty different iterations for the past thirty fucking years? Can we put it to rest? I love the fact that: a) I don’t listen to Classic Rock stations; b) Bon Scott’s songs have gotten less mainstream airplay - except maybe Highway. I could do with never hearing Back in Black, You Shook Me and those songs ever again. But man, when I put on Problem Child? Or Gone Shootin’? Good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/37 "2016-04-19T12:22:30Z")
My teenage years were in the 80’s, so I grew up listening to music from that era (and the 70’s). In my mid-20’s or so I got pretty sick of Led Zepplin, Bad Company, most of Kiss, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album, and Ac/DC’s Back in Black album. In my 30’s I got very disenchanted with 80’s bands in general with a few exceptions here and there. It’s hard for me to listen to music from that era for long periods of time now. I mean I can still say “that’s a good song”, it’s just that I’ve heard it enough times. It’s burned into my brain, and I don’t need to hear it anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/38 "2016-04-19T13:31:24Z")
Guys, this is exactly why I stopped listening to music radio about 15 years ago. I was sick of it all back then. Talk radio is where it’s at, even the right wing lunatics are entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/39 "2016-04-19T13:58:06Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Guys, this is exactly why I stopped listening to music radio about 15 years ago. I was sick of it all back then. > > Talk radio is where it’s at, even the right wing lunatics are entertaining. It’s why I stopped listening to local radio years ago. Satellite radio and streaming services like Spotify or Soundstream give you exposure to new music, not the same old recycled shit that your local station has to spin. And I can’t get behind the talk radio part of your answer. The world has enough hate and anger without me seeking it out on talk format radio where the goal is to get better ratings by being more outlandish and divisive. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526/40 "2016-04-19T17:48:45Z")
Billy Squier. Not that I was ever really a fan to begin with, but I’ve never thought he had a big enough presence/catalog when he was “current” to justify the amount of play he gets on my local classic rock station. A number of years ago I was the breakfast cook at a local place, and I’d have the classic rock station on while I worked. After a while I started to notice that there were a few bands/artists that I was guaranteed to hear four times over the course of eight hours. Most of these were the usual suspects: Led Zep, AC/DC, Skynyrd, followed by Foreigner and … Billy Squier. Why? WHY?! With the other artists listed, at least the four songs changed from day to day, but for Squier it was the exact same four songs. I’m sorta there on Fleetwood Mac and The Who, but for a different reason: “Landslide” and “Behind Blue Eyes”. I don’t know if I was just too young to remember them from when they first came out, or if I was just listening to different stuff at the time, but I have absolutely no recollection of ever hearing either of those songs before they were covered by The Dixie Chicks and Limp Bizkit. But after those covers, it was like the classic rock station suddenly remembered the originals and proceeded to play the everloving fuck out of them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-artists-youve-grown-sick-of/752526.md?page=3)