# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/101 "2016-06-22T13:35:40Z")
Five years is probably too short to class something as an “oldie”, but Coldplay’s “Paradise” cannot die soon enough, not least because I was unfortunate enough to once see the ridiculous video clip that goes with it. Also, learn to pronounce “expected” ya ditz. Lawn … feet … you know the drill. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/102 "2016-06-22T14:01:45Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > **The Doors- Riders on the Storm** Dumbest song lyrics ever. Oh shit yes. In college, my best friend was OBSESSED with Jim Morrison and the Doors, to the point where she wanted to legally change her last name to Morrison. Riders on the Storm and The Alabama Song were her very favoritest songs, and if I never hear either of them again it will be too soon. For my fellow haters of I Will Always Love You, let me share what a local radio station did shortly after Whitney Houston’s death when you couldn’t go 5 minutes without that song attacking you. They swapped out Whitney’s melisma onslaught with the Tarzan yell. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/103 "2016-06-22T14:13:08Z")
Well, this is easy- Free Bird Sweet Home Alabama Roundabout and the song I would be most happy to never hear again: Turn The Page ---
**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 22, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/104 "2016-06-22T14:23:14Z")
The thing about Riders on the Storm for me is, it works great as an instrumental. Get rid of Morrison’s insipid “poetry,” and I can take The Doors. With Morrison’s lyrics, it just sounds like pseudo-metaphysical gibberish. But it’s deeeeeeep pseudo-metaphysical gibberish. “His brain is squirming like a toad…” Wow, man! ---
**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 22, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/105 "2016-06-22T14:40:49Z")
> [@Azeotrope](#): > > For my fellow haters of I Will Always Love You, let me share what a local radio station did shortly after Whitney Houston’s death when you couldn’t go 5 minutes without that song attacking you. I listen to Internet stations all the time, and I find the same is now true of Prince. Can’t stand him! Never could, never will! Yeccch, bleah, ptui!!! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/106 "2016-06-22T15:29:57Z")
I really appreciate this thread, as I do so many other music threads. I am jotting down so many song titles of stuff I love and haven’t heard for years! iTunes, here I come, waving a list! ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/107 "2016-06-22T19:20:27Z")
Here in Canada we have the nationally revered band The Tragically Hip. Great band, great songs by and large. However recently the lead singer Gord Downie was diagnosed with brain cancer. So now the entire country is going ERMAGERD HE’S GONNA DIE and The Hip are on the friggin’ radio ALL THE TIME. I think songs have a countdown for me. Like I can enjoy a song 999,999 times but once that number passes a million the song is dead to me. Since I used to listen to a classic rock station that had the playlist described above (The Beatles, Zep, Steve Miller, etc) most of those songs can make like a donkey’s dick and hit the road. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/108 "2016-06-23T22:49:34Z")
> [@OffByOne](#): > > At the beginning of the song, right after the first lick, the singer says what I purposefully misunderstand as “Turn it off!” > > Which I do. > > Problem solved. I’ve always done that with the Autograph song “Turn On The Radio.” 😛 (Or is it “Turn Up The Radio”? Don’t really care one way or the other.) ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/109 "2016-06-25T05:07:42Z")
Somebody mentioned “Take the Money and Run” but I’ll second it. Bad lyrics, bad music, bad idea. It’s enough to make you wish someone would take Steve Miller’s money and run and leave him destitute enough that he can never record a song again. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/110 "2016-06-27T04:54:01Z")
> [@Turpentine](#): > > 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. Spot-on. The target demographic for 50s and early 60s stuff is in their 70s, perhaps 80s, which isn’t the best for selling stuff. My dad was just bitching to me last week that there’s no more ‘good’ music (meaning mostly doo-wop for him) on the radio where he lives. I didn’t know quite what he meant, although I agree with him (though not for the same reason). He explained that there was no more 50s-60s music. The oldies station plays “hippie” music now. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that he’s such an old fart now that he’s not even in a target music demographic anymore. Fortunately, he has XM radio and knows how to use it. ---
**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 27, 2016, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/111 "2016-06-27T05:06:20Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > I didn’t have the heart to tell him that he’s such an old fart now that he’s not even in a target music demographic anymore. I resent the implication that only an “old fart” would like '50s and '60s music! :mad: (If you’re wondering, I’m 61, which is the new 41. 🆒 ) ---
**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 27, 2016, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/112 "2016-06-27T05:10:50Z")
As mentioned above, I listen to Internet radio a lot. One song I am thoroughly sick of hearing is “Endless Love,” with all its frickin’ caterwauling! I would be happy to learn the male and female artists wailed like that because they were being subjected to hideous torture with pipes and blowtorches! :mad: ---
**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 27, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/113 "2016-06-27T14:47:11Z")
“Everything I Do, I Do It for You” just came on Heartbeat FM. I hate, **hate** , \*\*HATE \*\*this song!!! **ARRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!** :mad: ---
**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 27, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570/114 "2016-06-27T14:58:00Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Father-daughter duos shouldn’t sing man-woman duets, is my point. You mean, like, Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole? :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-oldies-you-wish-would-disappear/757570.md?page=5)