# I've had it with "Edge of Seventeen" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 2, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844 "2017-02-02T20:06:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/1 "2017-02-02T20:06:36Z")
If I never hear that damn song again, I will still consider it a full life. “In the Air Tonight” can come off of heavy rotation as well. Mundane? Sure. Pointless? You betcha. Just needed to put it out there. Thanks for reading. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/2 "2017-02-02T20:19:21Z")
Why do you hate America? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/3 "2017-02-02T20:20:44Z")
I blame Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/4 "2017-02-02T20:21:36Z")
I was approximately on the edge of seventeen when I decided to never willingly allow “Free Bird” to enter my earholes again. So that’s been…about thirty years ago, and in all that time, I’ve had to hear it only twice. Now I have Sirius XM radio, and the Classic Rewind and Classic Vinyl channels are doing a lot to put artists on my personal no-hear list. They’ve recently destroyed The Who for me. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/5 "2017-02-02T20:31:22Z")
I can also go the rest of my life without hearing REO Speedwagon’s “I Can’t Fight This Feeling” or Wilson Phillips’ “Hold On”. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/6 "2017-02-02T20:37:45Z")
I have a Bob Seger rule: if I am in a vehicle and can reach the audio controls, no Bob Seger. ---
**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/7 "2017-02-02T20:50:54Z")
This is how I feel about “Don’t Want to Miss a Thing”, and “Come Together”. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/8 "2017-02-02T20:55:45Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I have a Bob Seger rule: if I am in a vehicle and can reach the audio controls, no Bob Seger. It looks to me that you modified my Paul McCrapney/Doors rule. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/9 "2017-02-02T21:07:18Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Why do you hate America? A Horse With No Name is a perfectly good song. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/10 "2017-02-02T21:22:14Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > Mundane? Sure. Pointless? You betcha. Just needed to put it out there. Been here for over 14 years, and never heard of Cafe Society? ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/11 "2017-02-02T21:27:26Z")
Flipped a coin. If you’d like to continue moderating, you can move it for me. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/12 "2017-02-02T21:41:53Z")
Somebody please tell WXRT that “Adult Alternative” automatically precludes playing Steve Winwood. Please. I die a little inside every time I hear “When You See A Chance.” ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/13 "2017-02-02T21:51:12Z")
“Flip This House” presentation seating is very limited, call now to reserve 2 free tickets! So says the commercial running 3x an hour for the last two weeks. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/14 "2017-02-02T22:10:58Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I have a Bob Seger rule: if I am in a vehicle and can reach the audio controls, no Bob Seger. Ca. 1990, I dated a man who owned a used record store, and the artists whose albums they couldn’t give away were Twisted Sister, Huey Lewis & The News, Asia (RIP John Wetton) and Bob Seger. He was a bit puzzled about that last one too. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/15 "2017-02-02T22:19:26Z")
This might be mundane and pointless but it belongs in Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/16 "2017-02-03T00:13:19Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I can also go the rest of my life without hearing REO Speedwagon’s “I Can’t Fight This Feeling” or Wilson Phillips’ “Hold On”… > [@Alma](#): > > Somebody please tell WXRT that “Adult Alternative” automatically precludes playing Steve Winwood. Please. I die a little inside every time I hear “When You See A Chance.” Hmm. I like all three of those. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/17 "2017-02-03T01:20:45Z")
> [@Alma](#): > > Somebody please tell WXRT that “Adult Alternative” automatically precludes playing Steve Winwood. Please. I die a little inside every time I hear “When You See A Chance.” I’d have picked “Higher Love” as the most execrable Steve Winwood song that I _swear to Christ_ I keep hearing almost daily over grocery store loudspeakers 30+ years after it first slid out of the lower bowel of FM radio and splattered pop culture with its anodyne 80s insipidity. I don’t know if Patrick Bateman ever used it as mood music for a chainsaw disemboweling, but he damn well should have. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/18 "2017-02-03T02:33:09Z")
bah, I like all those songs if I’m in the right mood. I am listening to Pablo Cruise as we speak. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/19 "2017-02-03T02:51:59Z")
Although these are (mostly all) good songs, I’ve just heard them too damn much over a lifetime, and always switch channels if I can: “Satisfaction” by the Rolling Stones “Something” and “Back in the USSR” by the Beatles “Staying Alive” by the Bee Gees “Hotel California” by the Eagles “Old Time Rock and Roll” by Bob Seger “Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd "Layla” by Derek and the Dominoes “Fly Like An Eagle” by Steve Miller Band “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” by Joan Jet & The Blackhearts ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/20 "2017-02-03T03:05:52Z")
> [@Alma](#): > > Somebody please tell WXRT that “Adult Alternative” automatically precludes playing Steve Winwood. Please. I die a little inside every time I hear “When You See A Chance.” I’ll take this over “Higher Love” any day of the week. ETA: I then read the rest of the thread and found out I’m not the only one. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844.md?page=2)