For me, Live 105.3 in SF has a strange attraction to that “Woo Hoo” song. You know - “I got my head shaved…by a jumbo jet…” What is that song, three or four years old? I hear it every time I have that station on. Is this unique to Live 105, or are radio stations everywhere playing it that much?
Oh, and they also have a rather unhealthy obsession with the live version of “Jane Says” (Which won’t be improved by Jane’s Addiction coming in concert this weekend)…
“Song 2” by Blur. That is what the ‘woo-hoo’ song is called.
I couldn’t tell you what song our local radio station is currently pitching a tent over, as I try to avoid listening to the radio as much as possible.
About six years ago, when I last regularly listened to Virgin (admittedly a national rather than a local station) they were always playing Once in a Bloody Lifetime by Talking Heads. Now I have every Talking Heads album, but hearing that song so often totally put me off it. Virgin were supposed to be an albim track station, but did you ever hear them play even a relatively accessable track like This Must Be The Place? Not on your nelly.
my radio station dosent come in at work, so i am forced to pick between a bunch of shitty ones (all radio sucks, so i guess “shittier” ones is more accurate)
i swear they play this crap song “everywhere” by some crap chick 10 times a day on one station, and freakin’ matchbox 20 on another just as often!
when i was in south america years ago, they played the same cyndi lauper song EVERY 15 MINUTES! (not an exageration!)
“Cumbersome” by Seven Mary Three. This song is about six years old or so. This is a band that only ever had even this song on the radio because they kind of sounded like Pearl Jam. They’re over and done with, and yet my “modern” rock station keeps playing this crappy song ad nauseum.
Well, around where I live (Havre, Montana) 101.3 FM (it used to be your only choice if you don’t like country or gospel or NPR) used to (last summer) really like Uncle Crackhead’s POS ‘Follow Me’. You know, the one about adultery. The announcers must have gotten sick of it, as I actually heard one of them say ‘Uncle Crackhead’. To be fair, the idiots around the country (101.3 is just one appendage of a national radio station network) were requesting it hand over ass. Morons.
Now we have a college radio station out of the local university (MSU-Northern). The politics are rather liberal, but they play everything from Celtic world music to 80s rock. Very nice! 
For some reason the alternative station in my town (which is a beaten, bloody, semi-comatose version of its former self) plays “Down” by 311 a whole hellavalot. I wasn’t really crazy about the song when it came out in, 96? 97? Give it a rest!
Our local stations lean heavily toward “classic rock”. Anyway, I guarantee one of these songs will play within the next hour. And all will be heard within 4 or 5 hours.
Eagles “Hotel California”
Led Zeppelin - “All of My Love”
Aerosmith’s cover of “Come Together”
Tom Petty “Refugee”
Rolling Stones “Beast of Burden”
ZZ Top " La Grange"
Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall”
Guns and Roses “Sweet Child of Mine”
Van Halen “Running With The Devil”
AC/DC “You Shook Me All Night Long”
Lynyrd Skynyrd “Sweet Home Alabama”
every day on the way home from school, our classic rock station plays that “ooh baby i love your way” by eric clapton. i hate that song.
That’s Peter Frampton.
Anyway, my local classic rock station, 94.7 FM in Washington, DC inexplicably plays “Because the Night” by Patty Smith nearly every time I have them on. It’s especially infuriating because I normally listen to CDs in the car, or the the classical or jazz stations. But, dammit, every time I flip to 94.7 and leave it one for a while, I hear that song.
"Arms Wide Open" by Creed
And you can tell how much the DJs are sick of playing it b/c you’ll hear them say “Hey Bobby here’s your favorite song”
Bobby: “Yeah right”
If I hear “Schism” by Tool on WYSP Philadelphia one more fucking time, I’m going to throw my radio into a wall.
I’m forced to hear a lot of crappy pop music at work. The local light rock station plays Rundgren’s “Bang on the Drums” song at 9:00 a.m. on Friday. Every. Fucking. Week. Literally–for the last 10 years at least.
The local pop stations also STILL play the hell out of the Fine Young Cannibal’s “She Drives Me Crazy.” I think they do it out of personal hatred for me.
The country stations play Lee Greenwood’s “Proud to Be An American” every 90 minutes or so, although that’s understandable. I still loathe it, though. Damn you, Greenwood.
In my town I have a “Modern Rock” station, an “Extreme Rock” station, and a “New Classic Rock” station. They all have the same playlists. My chance of hearing this song is tripled, and is only made worse by the fact that the damn thing is about 17 years long.
This could be a thread all on its own, but in Cleveland on Friday afternoons, WNCX 98.5 plays that song at 5:00 p.m., followed by “Switchin’ to Glide,” by Kings. At the same time, WMMS 100.7 plays Springsteen’s “Born to Run” followed by Earthquake’s live version of “Friday On My Mind.” Every Friday, 5:00 p.m., without fail, as far back as I can remember.
Thank heavens they stopped playing Loverboy’s “Working For The Weekend.”
At least once a week I’ll hear “Jupiter” from Holst’s The Planets. Guaranteed. Not the whole suite, but just “Jupiter” (they play ‘corporate classical’ music). And the nearest GOOD classical station is in Tampa.
Sometimes I’ll switch to the college jazz station, but even there, I’ll get
…has a thing about Rod Stewart. His “Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?” permeates the airwaves complete with feminine screams at least 8 times a day! A close second is Bob Seger’s “I Know It’s Late” or “Why Don’t You Stay?” (Not sure of the title, sorry)
On the “Classic Rock” station, Z93, it’s Seger’s “Turn The Page”.
And my classical music station, WABE, can do no wrong, but I can no longer hear them with any degree of clarity!
(See an old post of mine over on GQ)
WAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
Quasi
“Come on come take a ride with me and 3 women in the back of the Ben-Z-Z, oh why do I live this way??? MUST BE THE MONEY!!!”
Oh how I hate thee with the passion of one-thousand warriors. I don’t listen to the hip hop station anymore as a preventative measure against this madness. They played it all the time! Nelly sux!
A-fucking-men! I like TOOL. A lot. A whole lot. I love Lateralus. I loved Schism. No more. It is now grounds for changing immediately to NPR and not listening to my local Modern Rock station. KROX Austin sucks anyway. Oh how I wish that we got the radio from San Antonio here, they have a great hard rock station (KISS I think…) and an awesome Classic Rock station. Shame shame. Of course in Austin you can throw a brick and hit a band playing live…
LC
It doesn’t bother me when stations play the hell out of a current song, cause thats why the stations exist. They must, at some point, remember to take them out of the current rotation.
I promise you, I could turn on my local Alternarock station and hear “No Sleep til Brooklyn” within an hour. The afternoon DJ loves the Beastie Boys, and plays them 2 or 3 times during her show.
On the two classic rock stations, I can probably catch them playing “For Those About to Rock”, “Life is a Highway”, “Hotel California”, “Sweet Child O’ Mine” or “Layla” almost immediatly.
Our Hard Rock station mixes it up a little more, but chances are if you weren’t on Ozzfest recently, your not getting played. Unless your name is Metallica, in which case they will play you every 3rd song or so.