Odds it’ll be played in any gay bar, at midnight: 99.9999%
At the risk of commiting what could only be called gay blasphemy, I hate that song. I really hate it. I have come to hate all those disco songs (Love shack, Disco Inferno, and the vomitous Rah, Rah, Rasputin), and whenever I find a gay club that has a dancefloor with music I do like, they quickly bulldoze it to make space for another room that just plays Gloria Gaynor, Cher and Justin Timberlake.
Under the Bridge is overplayed, but I think there’s a good reason for it: DJs like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but radio stations (and their advertisers) are far too cowardly to play most of the songs the Peppers put out. So you get that one song, over and over again, because a tune about Hillel Slovak’s death by heroin overdose is far more acceptable to the people who decide these things than Kiedis’s songs about sex.
Anyway, I’m not tired of it, even though I’ve heard it so often.
This thread is into its third page and no one has heard too many commercials with Walking on Sunshine playing? It must be the only song Katrina and the Waves made. I wonder if they still get royalties.
hlanelee Katrina and the Waves did indeed write other songs. They won the Eurovision song contest (1997?) But W.O.S is a bit over-exposed. Seems to crop up a lot on Futurama, is there a gag I’m missing there?
I haven’t seen “Tainted Love” in this thread yet. ENOUGH WITH THIS SONG ALREADY!!!
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[li]Mandy. This song should be brought forth only when, for some reason, syrup of ipecac is unavailable, and the inducement of vomiting is urgently needed.[/li][li]Small Town. Could this song be any more annoying and repetitive? And I’d find Mr. John Coooooger Mellencamp’s sentiments a bit more convincing if he weren’t married to a model.[/li][li]Wildfire. You know, the horse that perished in a killing frost.[/li][li]The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Yes, it was very sad, but we don’t want to hear about it any more.[/li][li]Dust in the Wind. My nephew was forced to learn this song in 4th grade music class. This is just wrong.[/li][li]All songs about young girls meeting tragic deaths.[/li][/ul]
For Columbus, Ohio residents:
Hang on, Sloopy.
For those not in the know, this song is played by the Ohio State Band at every football game. I’ll also throw in the Ohio State Fight Song.
In fourth grade I heard the alternate lyrics:
We had joy, we had fun,
We had streaking in the sun,
But the sun burnt our balls
So we put on overalls.
This gets my vote! Van Morrison recorded many other great songs that never get any airplay because this overplayed oldie takes it all up.
Walking on Sunshine - I guess I don’t have to explain this one, but you what the saddest part is? Up until this one eternal albatross, Katrina and The Waves did mainstream pop. It’s bad enough when Crazy Town or Len sees the one mainstream song they ever did become their defining moment, but this band wanted to be seen as a mainstream band, and their only hit was this sappy, sugary piece of tripe. Unbelievable.
Proud Mary - Ugh. If I never hear this in a karaoke competition or commercial again, it’ll be way too soon. Anyone find a use for the appoximately 500 more pleasant songs Creedence Clearwater Revival and Tina Turner did?
YMCA - Every freaking song the Village People did was slightly corny disco. Why is this the only one anyone remembers?
Only Time - Even more proof that Enya is not, never will be, and never was meant to be a pop star. This makes Once Upon a Time sound positively hardcore.
We Are The Champions - It’s 2004. Shouldn’t we have by now a song about winning a championship that wasn’t done like fifty years ago and doesn’t sound like third-rate opera? (And the next person who plays the Banana Boat Song at a sporting event should get hit over the head with an oar.)
Agree with most of the other suggestions here, especially Happy Birthday. Having now experienced a variet of office birthday celebrations, I can say with complete confidence that the nicest thing anyone can do for the birthday person is to not sing anything. For the whole day.
I agree wholeheratedly with this! Also “Feel Like Makin Love” which was mentioned above.
Both of these songs are perfect examples of very jejune, insipid mainstream crap that gets played way too often. This is why I rarely listen to the radio, preferring instead to pop in a cassette of, say, the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, or Phil Ochs.
Carmina Burana must be put out of its misery. I love it, but when it has been overplayed to the point it appears in a Pringles commercial, it’s time to lay it to rest.
Wow, I must be out of it, since I like (and am not sick of) a lot of the songs here, in particular:
Brown-Eyed Girl - where do you keep hearing this? I never hear it anywhere except from my computer speakers
Time of My Life - the first real song I learned on guitar, so maybe there’s nostalgic value here… it is overplayed, though
American Pie - The Madonna version blows, but how often do you hear the Mclean’s original gem?
Come on Eileen - I love it, along with an acappella version done by the Stanford Mixed Company
If I had a million dollars - I just heard this song for the first time in my life two months ago… Cute :)… And where are all these “I won a million bucks” movies that feature it?
Tears in Heaven - Great song… Clapton does the mushy stuff pretty well (but I understand if you don’t like that genre as a whole)
I do agree that Voulez-vous coucher avec moi? has to be put out of its misery, preferably by going back in time and hurtling the group that produced this into a supernova or its resulting neutron star/black hole (I’m not picky ;))