Great songs you are simply sick of hearing?

[Archae]

I can think of several.

Stairway To Heaven

American Pie

Old Man

Free Bird

They're great tunes.
But they've been played to death.

[Dirty Socialist]

1. Sultans of Swing and

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Rock'n Me

[Archae]

2. Steve Miller Band?

You've GOT to be kidding me...

[azurnoir]

3. Nope that one was Dire Straights

Just ask Mark Knopfler he'll tell ya

[Dirty Socialist]

4. I used to love that song

But it is played on the radio here all the time. Same goes for Fly Like An Eagle and The Joker. I wish the radio stations would play some of his earlier songs.

[CTyankee]

5. Sweet Home Alabama

[Dirty Socialist]

6. I never liked that song in the first place

[CTyankee]

8. I know, it was a little joke...my son in law is a musician and plays in a band that does

lots of weddings. I asked him which song he was royally sick of playing and he said Sweet Home Alabama.

I cannot fathom why that song is so well liked by anybody...

[Lochloosa]

7. Anything by Aerosmith.

Just saying.

[Coventina]

9. From the "Nu-Wave" category:

Melt with You - Modern English (great song, can't stand it after hearing it LITERALLY millions of times!)

If You Leave - OMD (same thing. And they have such a GREAT catalog to choose from! Why only this song?!?!?)

Hold Me Now - Thompson Twins (another great band that has this ONE SONG that get played to DEATH).

Love Shack - B-52's (I still love the song, but I'd love it even more if it were a less common treat).


Familiarity does indeed breed contempt.....

[cemaphonic]

10. I think "Stairway to Heaven" isn't all that overplayed anymore

At least in my neck of the woods, the stations that play 70s rock hardly ever play it anymore (though I'll concede that those of you who were actually around for the 70s might have gotten a lifetime fill then)

I think "Bohemian Rhapsody" is the current champ of Death By Clear Channel.

As for "American Pie," good chorus, but the basic premise of the song is stupid,

[Ron Obvious]

11. Hotel California?

I can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet...

[hibbing]

15. gag me

I can't believe they still play that thing. Turn to a stupid "classic rock" station and I bet they play it at least once a day. It is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

Peace

[begin_within]

12. Yes, way overplayed.

[begin_within]

13. You Can’t Always Get What You Want

I like it, but it seems that "classic rock" stations (especially owned by Clear Channel) think that is the only classic rock song ever recorded.

[femmocrat]

14. "Rolling in the Deep"

I loved that song the first "thousand" times I heard it. When it started to show up on those singing competitions, I got sick of it.

Same with anything by Whitney Houston. Why do those people even try?

[bikebloke]

16. I gave up radio listening.

So I'm not barraged with song repetition anymore. It does take time to enjoy that music again. Usually 20 years for me. I once had neighbours with only one cassette tape - Dark Side of the Moon. That was over 30 years ago, and I'm just finally able to listen to it again.

[Blue_In_AK]

17. Anything from the '70s

[Art_from_Ark]

18. Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay

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