# 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:** 4\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/81 "2017-02-24T20:14:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 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 > [@Ponch8](#): > > I’ve reached my maximum lifetime dose of Journey, REO, Foreigner, and the Cars, among others too numerous to mention. I used to be able to listen to classic rock stations for long stretches, but now I constantly have to change the station when they play another song I’ve heard for the 50,000th time. While it’s easy to use up one’s lifetime listens of mediocre songs (i.e. the ones you could tolerate and not change the station because you figured the next song would be better), increasingly that’s been happening with me with even the better stuff from the classic-rock era. For example, _Who’s Next_ is, IMHO, a fucking GREAT album. I can’t stand to hear its songs on the air anymore; I’ve just heard them too many times. And this is starting to work its way into the 1980s: a year or two back, The Police’s “Synchronicity II” went overnight from a song I really liked, to one I couldn’t stand to hear _one more stinkin’ time_. So I’ve pretty much abandoned listening to classic rock stations anymore. Pretty much everything I listen to these days is stuff that came out in the 1990s or later, or if it came out earlier, either was never part of the classic-rock canon, or dropped out of the classic-rock canon early on enough that it didn’t get played to death over the decades. But mostly the post-1990 stuff. > [@](#): > > [Carl on The Simpsons] How come oldies stations are always playing the same songs? How about some NEW oldies, geniuses! I know, it _sounds_ stupid, but why not? It wouldn’t be hard at all to come up with a playlist of really good songs by classic-rock _artists_ that never got played on classic-rock _stations_ that was way bigger than the typical playlist of a classic-rock station. Somebody else would have to do it, though. Ten or fifteen years ago, I’d have had a great time working on a playlist like that. But in the time since, I really have burned out on classic rock. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/82 "2017-02-24T20:38:31Z")
Re “Hotel California”: the verses are in ballad meter. So the lyrics can be sung to the tunes of “Yellow Rose of Texas,” “Pop Goes the Weasel,” and the rest of the panoply of ballad meter songs. Probably the best thing that can be done with the song at this point. 😛 > [@Totenfeier](#): > > I’m reveling - reveling, I tell you - in the Bob Seger hate. “Turn the Page” is a particularly loathsome example of the “Man, it sucks to be a famous rock star” genre. > > Go be a Walmart greeter, and shut the fuck up. I’d give him a break on this one. He wrote it in 1972, years before he became a commercial success with “Night Moves.” It’s about being a struggling artist in that zone of being just successful enough to tour, but a long way from fame, because that’s where he was at the time. The song still sucks, though, just not for that reason. ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/83 "2017-02-24T20:42:33Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Re “Hotel California”: the verses are in ballad meter. So the lyrics can be sung to the tunes of “Yellow Rose of Texas,” “Pop Goes the Weasel,” and the rest of the panoply of ballad meter songs. > > Probably the best thing that can be done with the song at this point. 😛 > > I’d give him a break on this one. He wrote it in 1972, years before he became a commercial success with “Night Moves.” It’s about being a struggling artist in that zone of being just successful enough to tour, but a long way from fame, because that’s where he was at the time. > > The song still sucks, though, just not for that reason. O.K., break given. But “You’ll Accompany Me” is completely unforgivable. ---
**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844/84 "2017-02-25T16:32:54Z")
I don’t listen to the radio much these days because of the repetition of “the hits”. And some artists I just can not stand to hear any longer. I’ll almost hurt myself trying to turn off The Who ( the C.S.I franchise and commercials have killed them), The Police, Genesis and U2. These days my play list is what would probably be called deep cuts. I always bought albums instead of 45s (ya I’m old) so came to enjoy a lot of music that never got air play. I have it all on the hard drive and just click shuffle. Thumb drive for the pickup and bike. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-edge-of-seventeen/778844.md?page=4)