Songs you do not need to hear again in this lifetime

[Leaffan]

I started listening to talk radio years ago because I couldn’t stand listening to the same 30 songs, over, and over, and over… And althought the old stuff is repetitive I cannot bring myself to listen to anything recorded in the last, ohhhh 20 years maybe. (Although Neil Young is still putting out good stuff.)

Here are songs that make me instantly turn the radio off:

American Woman (actually pretty much anything by the Guess Who)
Takin’ Care of Business
Patio Lanterns
Jack and Diane (especially this one - God it’s awful!)
Bloody Well Right
Old Time Rock and Roll (That kinda’ music just makes me hurl.)
Money (The most overplayed Pink Floyd song ever.)
Emotional Rescue (What were you thinking Mick?)

[Neidhart]

@beckwall

Did you ever know you were my here-o - Better Midler

That one’s on my list too!

Also:

Hallelujah, which has been featured at least once in a musical montage in every American TV drama for the past three years. Makes me want to throw my remote through the screen.

Every Christmas song written since 1955, and even the older ones if sung in that modern “caterwauling” style. Is it against the law nowadays to actually stick to the notes and sing the damn melody?

[Skywatcher]

@Chefguy

For those of you sick of Christmas music, you might try some of the very good jazz albums for a nice departure from the formulaic crap out there. Start with Fresh Aire and David Benoit.

Ray Charles has some great stuff, as does Harry Connick, Jr.

These are closer to swing than jazz but Big Bad Voodoo Daddy has a good Christmas CD (featuring the Heatmiser/Coldmiser song) and The Brian Setzer Orchestra has a couple as well.

[Mangosteen]

But let’s remember people that when the Eagles, Led Zeppelin, Doors, Stones, etc. made these songs, they DID sound good, but these groups DIDN’T ask that these songs be played over and over again for 40 years!

And if you are sick of the songs, imagine how the groups feel!

Personally, I can’t stand to hear ANYTHING from Van Halen, Queen, Aerosmith and Toto. Toto was the first band I really hated from the get go. Who the hell bought their albums?

[Fringe]

@ddgryphon

People drive trucks in a small town
Life really sucks in a small town. . .

People drive plenty of trucks in Louisville as well.

As for a song I do not need to hear again, “Redneck Woman” by Gretchen Wilson.

Oh, you wanted songs that are good but overplayed? My mistake. In that case, “Superman Kryptonite” by Three Doors Down. Horribly overplayed.

[Chefguy]

@Mangosteen

Toto was the first band I really hated from the get go. Who the hell bought their albums?

I’m afraid I did.

“Roseaaaaannna, Roseaaaana”

[Marley23]

@Mangosteen

But let’s remember people that when the Eagles, Led Zeppelin, Doors, Stones, etc. made these songs, they DID sound good, but these groups DIDN’T ask that these songs be played over and over again for 40 years!

Some of them sounded good. Others are just inexplicable. Since it’s countdown season, for example, “Stairway” was never the Greatest Rock Song Ever. Not the minute it was released, and certainly not now.

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And if you are sick of the songs, imagine how the groups feel!/

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Rich?

[vl_mungo]

@Mangosteen

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And if you are sick of the songs, imagine how the groups feel!
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One wonders how many times someone like Mike Love has played Califorina Girls.

<Red Dwarf>that is is crime… and that is his punishment</Red Dwarf>

[Troy_McClure_SF]

@Thirty-Nine

They played [Chariots of Fire] that at my high school graduation. Try walking out with a straight face when that’s playing. I suppose it didn’t help that the only suggestions we made were Flight of the Valkyries and The Imperial March.

When I saw my friends walk at UC Santa Cruz, they walked down the hill to the Imperial March. That was awesome.

[Skywatcher]

Another Christmas song to add to the list: Streisand’s version of “Jingle Bells”. Hey, Babs, pick a tempo and stick to it!

[2centsworth]

Any song with a thumping bass track
played by someone trying to show off their woofers

[Love_Rhombus]

Who Let The Dogs Out? Rowr, rowr rowr!
I HATE that song…soooooo much… much… it… it… the… it… the… fee… flames… flames… on the side of my face… heaving… breathless… heaving breaths…

Especially since it’s now apparently used in ads for a children’s music toy?

[Earthworm_Jim]

92 posts and I’m the first to mention Revolution #9?!
shudder

[Dr.Rieux]

From a Distance
Funkytown
La Vida Loca
Freebird
Billy, Don’t Be a Hero
Afternoon Delight
Kumbayah
Puff, the Magic Dragon
I’ve Never Been to Me

[fishbicycle]

Well, I haven’t listened to “Revolution 9” in some years, and have no plans to do so anytime soon. But this reminds me that I never want to hear anything by Yoko Ono, ever again, if I can possibly avoid it.

[Superdude]

@Sunspace

Then there’s The Lady In Red, but I can’t remember (nor do I really want to remember, I suppose) who it’s by.

Chris DeBurgh.

For me, I think I could go the rest of my life without hearing anything by Bob Seger, and die happy.

“Way up firm & high…”

[Superdude]

Also, “House of the Rising Sun” by the Animals

[Mangosteen]

@fishbicycle

Well, I haven’t listened to “Revolution 9” in some years, and have no plans to do so anytime soon. But this reminds me that I never want to hear anything by Yoko Ono, ever again, if I can possibly avoid it.

Can you believe she gave a concert and some people actually showed up?

[Good_Egg]

Come On Eileen
Girls Girls Girls by Motley
Yesterday
Freebird
Let it Snow

[JKellyMap]

@Mangosteen

Old songs.

But let’s remember people that when the Eagles, Led Zeppelin, Doors, Stones, etc. made these songs, they DID sound good, but these groups DIDN’T ask that these songs be played over and over again for 40 years!

I agree with the sentiment, but had to laugh at how you called these “Old songs”. Tell that to Billie Holiday. Or Stephen Foster. Or just about any African villager.