There was a time when I absolutely hated “My Girl” and a bunch of 60s songs that I considered overplayed - created a Pit thread 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.
In the Air Tonight- Phil Collins.
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.
Sweet Home Alabama
Not a horrible song, but it has reached maximum repetitions for the rest of forever. Make it stop.
Lola
Layla
I Shot the Sheriff
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
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…
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.
Exactly. Or “Tom Sawyer.”
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).
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.
Anything by Elvis.
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!”
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.
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?
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…
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 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.
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!”
I’m not much of a song hater, but upon sober reflection - you… chose wisely.
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
Quite possibly the worst song of the 20th century. :mad: