# Hit oldies you WISH would disappear **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 16, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570 "2016-06-16T23:31:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/41 "2016-06-17T15:31:36Z")
There was a time when I absolutely hated “My Girl” and a bunch of 60s songs that I considered overplayed - created a [Pit thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=121275) about this once. Nowadays… … There are so many options that I don’t need to listen to music I don’t like, so y’all can keep making and playing music I don’t like… I don’t care, it doesn’t impinge upon me anymore. … Jesus Christ, that thread was _fourteen_ years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/42 "2016-06-17T15:45:15Z")
In the Air Tonight- Phil Collins. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/43 "2016-06-17T15:51:52Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > I think that song was resurrected by a TV commercial for Fiber One bars or some crap like that. Actually, I’d hazard to guess that it was its notable performance in The Wedding Crashers movie in 2010 which introduced the F-bomb version. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/44 "2016-06-17T16:00:23Z")
_Sweet Home Alabama_ Not a horrible song, but it has reached maximum repetitions for the rest of forever. Make it stop. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/45 "2016-06-17T16:07:08Z")
Lola Layla I Shot the Sheriff ---
**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:** [June 17, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/46 "2016-06-17T16:14:00Z")
**Crocodile Rock** , **Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting** , and **Benny and The Jets** , all by Elton John **Blinded By The Light** **Don’t Fear The Reaper** Anything by Steve Miller Band ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/47 "2016-06-17T17:04:02Z")
Walgreen’s sometimes plays early-60s oldies on its in-store sound system. Perhaps for the old folks hobbling in for their prescriptions, since the Big Band generation is dying out? I like some of them. But they insist on playing Lou Christie’s “Lightnin’ Strikes” and Gary Puckett’s “Woman.” Which sucked when they were new & never stopped sucking… ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/48 "2016-06-17T17:05:31Z")
> [@GunnarFranz](#): > > My girlfriend’s least favorite song in the entire world, which I don’t get because the first two verses I totally agree with and resonate with me…musically I think the chorus is alright as well. I have nothing against the sentiment (though it is a tad glurgey in an inoffensive, Atheistic sort of way). It’s more that the melody is screamingly uninteresting and the thing drones on. I hear that way too familiar doleful intro and imagine myself dead. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/49 "2016-06-17T17:36:22Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > I could go my entire life without ever hearing “Bohemian Rhapsody” again. Exactly. Or “Tom Sawyer.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/50 "2016-06-17T17:45:23Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Walgreen’s sometimes plays early-60s oldies on its in-store sound system. Perhaps for the old folks hobbling in for their prescriptions, since the Big Band generation is dying out? > > I like some of them. But they insist on playing Lou Christie’s “Lightnin’ Strikes” and Gary Puckett’s “Woman.” Which sucked when they were new & never stopped sucking… Hey, don’t knock the early '60s! Lots of good stuff in there! Same goes for Big Band music. Nothing wrong with having lots of options to suit your changing moods. (Or mine, as the case may be. :o ) Both songs you mention specifically, though, aren’t what I’d call “early '60s”; I think they’re more from the gawdawful years I was in junior high (1967-69). ---
**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/51 "2016-06-17T18:06:03Z")
Grand prize winner: “I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing” by Aerosmith. Runners up are “Come Together” by the Beatles and “All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You” by Heart. I like all 3 of these groups very much, but hate those songs. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/52 "2016-06-17T18:08:48Z")
Anything by Elvis. > [@dalej42](#): > > Mony Mony by Billy Idol, nothing worse than a bunch of 30/40 something drunken females shouting out the x rated additions and giggling about like they’re still 18. That reminds me of a karaoke host who let people do “suicide” karaoke (meaning they’d attempt to sing a randomly-selected song). He’d ask the crowd for a random number between 1 and 100, and he got so, so, so very tired of “Sixty-nine!” ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/53 "2016-06-17T18:11:26Z")
Or anything by Rush at all. Or Steely Dan. Or anyone singing “Hallelujah”. Geez, I was feeling pretty good 'til someone dialed up Captain Bringdown on the jukebox. Now we’ve got 4.5 to 6 minutes of angst floating in the ether, spreading gloom from its slow-moving little black rain cloud. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/54 "2016-06-17T18:41:03Z")
> [@BeeGee](#): > > \ > > Or anyone singing “Hallelujah”. Geez, I was feeling pretty good 'til someone dialed up Captain Bringdown on the jukebox. Now we’ve got 4.5 to 6 minutes of angst floating in the ether, spreading gloom from its slow-moving little black rain cloud. This made me snort and I love this song, especially Captain Bringdown’s original. But not so much at a funeral. I know that has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but don’t people pay attention to lyrics before they dedicate songs at major events? ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/55 "2016-06-17T18:51:57Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Hey, don’t knock the early '60s! Lots of good stuff in there! Same goes for Big Band music. Nothing wrong with having lots of options to suit your changing moods. (Or mine, as the case may be. :o ) > > Both songs you mention specifically, though, aren’t what I’d call “early '60s”; I think they’re more from the gawdawful years I was in junior high (1967-69). Yeah, I may have gotten the exact dates of those songs wrong. But I remember them when they were new–when there was a lot of great stuff on the radio. (And I like Big Band stuff, too–played on the sound system at the care center where my mother spent part of the last year of her life.) Most of the answers to the OP are songs people are tired of hearing, even though they may have liked them at one time. These were never good… ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Krupe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/56 "2016-06-17T18:59:06Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > This made me snort and I love this song, especially Captain Bringdown’s original. But not so much at a funeral. I know that has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but don’t people pay attention to lyrics before they dedicate songs at major events? The answer is no, otherwise political campaigns wouldn’t use songs like “Born in the USA” or…damn, there’s another song used by a campaign that I can’t think of now, but the lyrics are anything but uplifting…at least for a campaign. [Here’s a list](http://gawker.com/stop-using-my-song-asshole-a-playlist-of-campaign-son-1738778967) of songs artists have requested politicians not use during campaigns. I’m not surprised most of the stop requests go to the GOP, but what I don’t understand is why the GOP seems to keep using songs they know (or should know) they can’t use, because the artists aren’t in line with the politician. So we come down to [this](http://www.theonion.com/article/number-of-songs-gop-candidates-can-use-down-to-4-27792). ---
**Author:** ![Turpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/57 "2016-06-17T20:10:08Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > When was the last time you heard “Teen Angel” or “Leader of the Pack” on the radio? Or anywhere? No kidding. Those songs are too old for even the oldies stations now. I remember hearing them as a kid in the 80s on some oldies stations, but I don’t think I’ve heard them played anywhere since then. Same with “Chantilly Lace”- I’m pretty sure those songs have definitely gone away. It would be like saying in 2002 “Im so damn sick of those Andrews Sisters being overplayed on the radio every day!” ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/58 "2016-06-17T20:10:12Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > “I Will Always Love You” I’m not much of a song hater, but upon sober reflection - you… chose wisely. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/59 "2016-06-17T20:31:01Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > I like Big Band stuff, too–played on the sound system at the care center where my mother spent part of the last year of her life. You obviously have never held a hot babe (or, rather, been held by a righteous dude) while dancing to “Moonlight Serenade” under an open sky. :o ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/60 "2016-06-17T20:33:18Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > “I Will Always Love You” Quite possibly the worst song of the 20th century. :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570.md?page=4)