# What is the song you can no longer listen to **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [March 25, 2026, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758 "2026-03-25T15:14:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/21 "2026-03-25T19:29:18Z")
For the same reason there’s no East Philly. Take a gander at the map, you’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/22 "2026-03-25T19:30:17Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I don’t understand this complaint. Why can’t there be a south ANYTHING? Detroit covers a lot of area. There’s an east part, a west part, a north part, so why not a south part? I think it’s more that nobody ever calls a specific area South Detroit. Similar to ‘East California’ in Kim Wilde’s _Kids in America._ For me it’s nearly all classic rock. I loved Freebird when I was a kid, but now it’s like nails on a chalkboard. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/23 "2026-03-25T19:49:12Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I feel like “songs you can no longer listen to” implies that I once liked them, is that right? Rather than instantly hated. That’s the criteria I’m going with and like I said in the other thread, the question stumps me. The closest I can come are Van Morrison’s poppy hits “Blue Eyed Girl”, “Moondance”, etc. I liked them just fine until I forked out money to see that asshole live. Funny, though, I still dig those bluesy shouters recorded with Them. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/24 "2026-03-25T20:02:46Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > I’m the exact opposite with Joel. I didn’t care for his music back in the 90s when his stuff would come on the radio, but now I enjoy a lot of his stuff. I kinda derided acts like Journey and Fleetwood Mac back in the 70s, being all punk and snobby, but now do I not only enjoy the occasional Journey, but Rumours gets a steady amount of play here. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/25 "2026-03-25T20:05:38Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Anyhow, given all the misogynist Stones songs, I’d add “Run For Your Life” by the Beatles This, and most all of the misogynistic songs by the Beatles were pure John Lennon. He used to make fun of Paul by saying he only wrote ‘silly love songs’, so Paul wrote a song about that when he was in Wings. John was not a nice man. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/26 "2026-03-25T20:20:48Z")
Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon > **[Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_fZCD93LzQ%2F)** > > Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupGirl, You'll Be A Woman Soon · Neil DiamondJust For You℗ 1967 Capitol Records, LLCReleased on: 1967-08-25Producer... Super creepy vibes ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/27 "2026-03-25T22:07:51Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > For the same reason there’s no East Philly But there can be an east Philly, and a south Detroit, like down on the I75 corridor. And the east side of Chicago is not Lake Michigan, but could be Lincoln park, River North, the Loop, Wrigley Field, you get the idea. They need cops, too. As for the thread, I’ll add Billy Joel’s Only the Good Die Young. I am no longer a Catholic, but that song still pisses me off. Such a trite overgeneralization of Catholic girls. Not all Catholics are uptight (evidence: me, and most of my church friends). Just 'cuz she won’t “put out” for you, Billy, doesn’t mean she’s repressed. She just doesn’t _like_ you. If you treated her better, you wouldn’t be whining. I don’t hate The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down if it is Joan Baez’s version, because, in my listening, she (accidentally, I think) makes it more of a lament of what the war cost, not more of the the “lost cause” BS mythos. But what I DO hate is Up On Cripple Creek. What a dork ass song. And damn if it doesn’t get stuck in your head. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/28 "2026-03-25T22:17:12Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Super creepy vibes Thanks to the rise of popularity of Yacht Rock, I became aware of the song Into The Night by Benny Mardones. it’s really a nice listening song, but it has such a creepy “I like 16 year old” undertone that I’m not sure I _should_ be liking it. The artist claims it is not about having sex with an underage girls, but, reading the lyrics, if that is actually true, he needs to learn more songwriting skills! He claims it is about a mentor protecting and helping a troubled young girl (based on a real person he knew). We report, you decide! She’s just 16 years old Leave her alone, they said Separated by fools Who don’t know what love is yet But I want you to know If I could fly I’d pick you up I’d take you into the night And show you a love Like you’ve never seen, ever seen [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1kCe1-XL0Bs/maxresdefault.jpg "Into The Night") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kCe1-XL0Bs) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/29 "2026-03-25T22:20:35Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > But there can be an east Philly, and a south Detroit, like down on the I75 corridor. And the east side of Chicago is not Lake Michigan, but could be Lincoln park, River North, the Loop, Wrigley Field, you get the idea. They need cops, too. Nobody, and I mean nobody, here would refer to that as a valid “east side” of Chicago, espeically as it’s most of the neighborhoods you mentioned are west of State. So far as there is an East Side, that would be the Southeast Side of Chicago, which actually contains a neighborhood called “East Side.” Neighborhoods like Hegewisch, South Deering, South Chicago, those could plausibly be an “East Side.” Maybe even South Shore. I might allow for Streeterville more towards the downtown area (so that’s one I may agree with you with Niver North), and the “New East Side” development around there. All east of State. The Loop and downtown is just Loop and downtown. It doesn’t have a north/west/east/south side-ness to it, even though State and Madison are right in the middle of it. A “side” needs some distance from its central point. North, West, and South Sides don’t really start until you get out of the Loop. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/30 "2026-03-25T22:26:26Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > She’s just 16 years old > … > I’d take you into the night > And show you a love > Like you’ve never seen Yeah, serious squick factor, that. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/31 "2026-03-25T22:26:54Z")
The summer I was 16, I thought the whole of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” was the greatest piece of music ever recorded, and for many years I have not been able to voluntarily listen to any of it. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/32 "2026-03-25T22:27:49Z")
But if someone, not from the midwest, asked me, where is the John Hancock Building, I’d say it was in the east side of Chicago. And if they asked, where is O’hare Field, I’d say on the west side of Chicago. And that would be enough to give them an idea, which is probably all they care about anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/33 "2026-03-25T22:29:38Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > “east side” of Chicago Speaking of, another song I could do without ever hearing again is The Night Chicago Died. > **[The Night Chicago Died](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR0gjl66PVs%2F)** > > Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupThe Night Chicago Died · Paper Lace…And Other Bits Of Material℗ 1974 Mercury Records LimitedReleased on: 1974-01-... _"Daddy was a cop on the east side of Chicago_ _Back in the USA, back in the bad old days_ _In the heat of a summer night_ _In the land of the dollar bill"_ ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/34 "2026-03-25T22:30:15Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I have not been able to voluntarily listen to any of it. I still like it, but I skip the fascist “Roger Waters is a tankie” side four (everything after Comfortably Numb) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/35 "2026-03-25T22:30:32Z")
When I was in college in the early 1990s, a local music critic said he realized He Was Really An Adult when he heard that, and didn’t think it was really such a bad song. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/36 "2026-03-25T22:34:51Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > But if someone, not from the midwest, asked me, where is the John Hancock Building, I’d say it was in the east side of Chicago. That’d be weird and confusing to me. I’d say near the lake, a little north of downtown. “East side of Chicago” tells me nothing with no other information. There’s a lot of “east side of Chicago” by your definition. And ORD is northwest. “West” seems way off to me as well and not a good job of telling someone from out of town where ORD is. By your definition, MIdway is also west side of Chicago. Poor guy’s gonna end up in Austin looking for a flight. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/37 "2026-03-25T22:35:16Z")
In my area it was just SO overplayed. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/38 "2026-03-25T22:54:03Z")
The long answer is “at least 75% of the songs which are staples on ‘classic rock’ stations.” I regularly listened to that format for over 30 years, across multiple stations, and all of them have the same core of about 100 songs which make up the vast majority of their playlists. I never again need to hear “Baba O’Reilly,” “Pride and Joy,” “More Than a Feeling,” “Foxy Lady,” “Hotel California,” etc., etc. But, if I had to answer the question with one song that I actually used to really enjoy, but now just have no desire to ever hear it again, it’d be “American Pie.” Played – and overanalyzed by music fans – to absolute death for the past 50 years. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/39 "2026-03-25T22:54:52Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > The summer I was 16, I thought the whole of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” was the greatest piece of music ever recorded, and for many years I have not been able to voluntarily listen to any of it. Oh this is a good one for me, even down to my age that summer. It feels incredibly juvenile now, but then we were 16 of course. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758/40 "2026-03-25T23:18:55Z")
> [@Thumper668](#): > > Literally anything by Led Zeppelin I can still listen to a lot of their catalog, but _Battle of Evermore_ (especially the cover the Wilson Sisters did) makes me want to harm myself or others. _Kashmir_ is just as bad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-you-can-no-longer-listen-to/1028758.md?page=3)