# Good songs that are cliché due overplay, that you listen to anyway **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 21, 2018, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952 "2018-08-21T04:28:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/21 "2018-08-23T02:53:35Z")
So…here’s a cover. [Boys Of Summer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Od3wNtLE2k) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/22 "2018-08-23T03:17:13Z")
I, too, have almost _no_ tolerance to an overexposed song. I hate the way great bands have one or two of their songs played relentlessly. And it’s never their best work, and it’s always played until no one wants to hear it ever again. But then I betray my core belief by cranking the car radio and kareoke’ing to “You Really Got Me”, “Under Pressure”, “Money For Nothing” or “Paranoid”. By the way, that’s why I don’t play music off my phone in the car. I love the radio… the surprise of hearing a song I’d never download myself, or suddenly rocking to an old friend (today it was “Kashmir”; you should have heard Bonham using my dashboard as a drum kit…). ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/23 "2018-08-23T05:27:22Z")
The Jeopardy Theme and your prize is an introduction to a 60’s group that has been completely forgotten, The Newbeats and their 4 hit songs, Break Away, Everything’s All Right, Bread and Butter and Run, Baby, Run. Wait, it should be my prize. ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/24 "2018-08-23T06:42:24Z")
_Bat Out Of Hell_. My children love it, and insist on playing it in the car whenever we drive around, but I still don’t mind. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/25 "2018-08-23T07:13:22Z")
> [@denquixote](#): > > The Jeopardy Theme and your prize is an introduction to a 60’s group that has been completely forgotten, The Newbeats and their 4 hit songs, Break Away, Everything’s All Right, Bread and Butter and Run, Baby, Run. > > Wait, it should be my prize. You forgot to phrase it in the form of a question. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/26 "2018-08-23T07:37:26Z")
Everything Bowie and New Order. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/27 "2018-08-23T09:52:10Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Everything Bowie and New Order. this and everything on kearth and klos in LA although I do admit it took 15 years before I wouldn’t get stabby over sweet child o mine ……… ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/28 "2018-08-23T12:47:38Z")
“Won’t Get Fooled Again”. Yeah I’ve heard it a million times. So what, it still rocks. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/29 "2018-08-23T13:25:46Z")
There are surely at least 100 songs that come to mind! But the idea of “overplay” isn’t what I would call it. Some are just too good not to listen to over and over – well, maybe in a loop with several others – without really tiring of them. But just now when I decided to just “listen to my mind’s ear” to see what would “rise to the top” it didn’t take long for this one to make it to that spot in my memory. Back when it was fresh there wasn’t any way (except for the local “Top Hits” stations) to have it “overplayed” unless there was some kind of contest going on. Best you could hope for was that it would be repeated several times an hour. (We’re talking 1950s here.) But my entry to this thread just has to be: Buddy Holly - It Doesn't Matter Anymore I had a morning paper route and since I had no radio on my bike(!) I would sing this one to myself over and over. I hope it counts for this thread! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/30 "2018-08-23T13:30:40Z")
What I call “dancing songs.” I don’t care how many times I hear them, when they play I have to dance. Creedence’s Down on the Corner and Stevie Wonder’s Sir Duke come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/31 "2018-08-23T14:48:01Z")
I listen to the radio, so pretty much every song is overplayed. Lately, I’ve been listening to the classic rock station that is only on HD radio (or steaming), and they seem to have a playlist of like 10 songs. I think every day for the past few weeks I’ve heard Def Leppard’s “Rock of Ages” (Gunter Glieben, Glasen, Globen! or whatever the ersatz Deutsch is.) So I guess I’m pretty much immune to overplaying. From today’s playlist on the drive dropping off kids, I did turn up the radio at “Kickstart My Heart” and “Paradise City,” so that’s my entry for the day. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/32 "2018-08-23T16:28:32Z")
I’m burned out on many of Aerosmith’s songs that have become overplayed on classic rock stations, but I still like to hear “Dream On.” ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/33 "2018-08-23T17:09:40Z")
AC/DC - Thunderstruck Great song, great riff, great build-up to the great riff, it thoroughly checks every AC/DC box, and is _massively_ overplayed, everywhere. Movies, TV shows, TV and radio ads, video games, sporting events, it was even used in the trailer for one of the _Cars_ sequels. Apparently almost no one has bothered to actually listen to the lyrics, or they’d at least not use it in children’s movies/shows. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/34 "2018-08-23T17:14:47Z")
Despite all that cowbell, I still like hearing _Don’t Fear The Reaper_. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/35 "2018-08-23T18:00:02Z")
Stone Temple Pilots song Plush got way the hell overplayed when it came out and then they produced a live version that got way the hell overplayed as well. It’s still a good song though, imo. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/36 "2018-08-23T18:07:21Z")
_The Stroke_, _My Sharona_, _Long Cool Woman_, _Fortunate Son_ and _Won’t Get Fooled Again_ are some of the few songs that I will always crank up the volume on. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/37 "2018-08-23T18:12:39Z")
I still love \*Stairway to Heaven \*and _Hotel California_. Also _The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald_, Aerosmith’s _Dream On_, and _Don’t Fear the Reaper_. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/38 "2018-08-23T19:41:49Z")
I’ve never gotten tired of _Stairway to Heaven_ On the other hand, if I never hear _Bohemian Rhapsody_ again, that will be fine. It’s a great song but overplayed. ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/39 "2018-08-23T21:50:21Z")
Anything by Gilbert O’Sullivan. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952/40 "2018-08-23T21:52:13Z")
Any good song on the radio. Ever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-songs-that-are-cliche-due-overplay-that-you-listen-to-anyway/819952.md?page=3)