Songs that were overplayed and that you never wanna hear again in a million years

OP's mother died on the Titanic of course.

Omfg.

All of Me by John Legend

Believe it or not, I have never heard "Gangham Style" or whatever the fuck it's called. I only heard that Robin Thicke rape song for the first time about 2 years after it was popular.

Escape (The Pina Colada song)-Rupert Holmes

"I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes..."

Rage.

I used to work someplace where the radio was on the whole time so I hate pretty much all the #1 hits from that era - it's no fun if you have to listen to the same songs over and over again, no matter how good they are (and most of them were horrible enough to begin with).

The only two monster radio hits that never got on my nerves and that I still like to listen to were "Somebody I Used to Know" by Gotye and "Monday Morning" by Melanie Fiona.

Whichever song has the over-wrought lyric "I don't want to wait for my life to be over."

“Hello” by Adele, which I liked until I started hearing it every 30 seconds.

The OP chose three that would make my list to which I'd add Hotel California. I liked it back in the day but could happily never hear it again along with LA Woman by the Doors. Anything by the Doors actually. But lest it seems there's a bias there, I love California Dreamin' and (If You're Going to) San Francisco .

Someone I Used to Know by Gotye and obviously, fucking Despacito

Macarena

Achy Breaky Heart

Agree about Hotel California, though I never liked it in the first place. That Amy Winehouse rehab song gets on my nerves as well.

That fucking Lonely Like Me which is a rip-off of Katy Perry’s you’re hot and you’re cold song.

The Police "Every breath you take"

"First I was afraid, I was petrified..."

Tubthumping (or whatever it's called), Wrecking Ball, Man I Feel Like a Woman

So many, but these are the most tiresome for me.

Old Time Rock and Roll

Hotel California

American Pie

And the icing on the cake of tiresomeness is when some frau in a store starts to sing along when it comes on.

Call Me Maybe

Shake It Off - Taylor Swift

Rolling In The Deep - Adele

Seconding All of Me. What an awful song. The meet me in the middle song is terrible and overplayed as well.

Garth Brooks, "Friends In Low Places".

anything by Adele

She Works Hard for the Money

Tainted Love

We Found Love & Diamonds (Rihanna)

Papa Don't Preach

Come as You Are (Nirvana)

Got to Get You Into My Life

I Know You Want Me (Pitbull)

Look What You Made Me Pew....I mean Do.

All the hits off of MJ's Thriller ("Billy Jean", "Thriller", "Wanna Be Startin' Something"). Still played to death after 36 years.

This song. THIS SONG!!! If it ever happens on some "retro" 90s recap, I'm triggered so hard.

I can’t listen to “I will always love you” Whitney Houston. Just can’t.

Happy by Farrell Williams is annoying as fuck.

Crazy On You - Heart

All Of My Love - Led Zeppelin

R29 is posting from 1979.

You Light Up My Life

r11, I actually felt that way about Despacito, when it was big, but right now, I think I could hear it again.

Uptown Funk, never liked it, changed radio whenever it came on.

Single Ladies

Hit me baby, one more time. IF you play that Brittany song I will.

I agree about MJ's Thriller album songs but any of his 80's songs were overplayed.

It's crazy how Adele and "Hello" were everyone two years ago, and yet I haven't heard any of her songs on the radio in over a year.

It feels like she peaked and now everyone is sick of her.

"Love Will Keep Us Together"

"The Devil Went Down to Georgia"

"Hotel California"

I worked a summer job one year where an AM radio station that played top 40 was on all day. But it was really like top 10; the same songs every half hour, the same commercials, the same news every half hour...I thought I would lose my mind. Those are three songs I remember from that time. I guess I have killed the brain cells that contained the others, mercifully. ("Loving You" by Minnie Riperton might've been one; I know it drove me nuts.)

"I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred.

I love I'm Too Sexy. I would totally suck his big uncut dick. Mmmmmm.

That hideous “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” a cappella song!

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This song has always irked me. The guys are total nerds and who'd walk 500 miles? Not humanly possible. The song is annoying as fuck.

Hilarious when they don't know the lyrics.

R30 So?

Most U2 songs.

R30 Is only rap crap allowed?

Every time I go into my local supermarket, this song is playing. Every. Time.

what about me:

4 Non Blondes - What's Up

And I say, hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah I said hey, what's going on?

The 4 Non Blondes version has always sucked. I love the Minnesota version. She has a way better voice.

I'll go back to the early to mid 70s for the overplayed hits I couldn't stand to begin with:

"Killing Me Softly With His Song"

"Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree"

"Silly Love Songs"

"American Pie"

These songs were chart toppers for about a month, were in the top 40 forever, and were guaranteed to be played at least 3 times an hour 24/7 for what seemed to be about 6 months.

40+ years later, I still can't stand them.

R46, I agree. I'm ready to give up Good Morning America because they use that fucking song every opportunity they get.

This version is gayer than a prolapsed anus or a Glee-watching fairy.

[quote]4 Non Blondes - What's Up

Oh, yes, the slowed down rip off version of "Don't Worry, Be Happy", which I was also going to post as one of those songs I never, ever want to hear again. I haven't listened to one note of that song in 30 years because of how overplayed it was at the time. Don't even want to revisit it for old time's sake.

Some other songs that were overplayed to hell:

A lot of 1990s adult contemporary, which included a lot of Disney soundtracks. Holy crap, were these on heavy rotation! I'm talking about Under the Sea, Circle of Life, anything by Celine Dion, Bryan Adams and Michael Bolton. Wind Beneath My Wings and My Heart Will Go On must've been played at least 3x an hour on NYC radio for a year.

"Here and Now" by Luther Vandross was overplayed to hell and back in the R and B market. There was a period when it seemed as if every single black wedding reception for 10 years picked it as "their song." Yeeeeeessssshhhhh.

Muskrat Love

I hate most of Queen's 70s songs and this one makes me puke.

Anything by The Eagles, especially Hotel California.

Olivia Newton John's "Let's Get Physical," the most successful single of the entire decade. Totally inescapable in the early 80s, and it's just a mediocre song that hardly warranted such extreme attention. It rode the aerobics wave, probably written for it, since that's what she's seen doing in the video.

Squeakers on Xbox Live who think Rick Rolling is funny.

R56, oh yeah, that one is unbearable.

The one about "Baby you should learn to love yourself" I don't even who who sings it - some drawly white guy.. After more than a year I still hear it everywhere,.

Rocking Around the Christmas Tree

All I want for Christmas is you- Mariah Carey

"This is my Fight Song" was already overplayed and annoying before Hillary's campaign, her losing made me despise it even more. I also despise that "You had a bad day" song.

r59 That is a Justin Beiber song.

I had a bad fkin day by daniel powter. Hate this song with a passion

R62, wow I didn't even see your comment, mate. Isn't it cringe worthy tho. They also played it everytime someone got voted off AI. Pls dont judge me, my family would be watching it

"Honey," by Bobby Goldsboro

Please nobody mention Macarena. Most annoying song of the 90s. Or Mambo No 5. Ewwwww.

You're kidding r56, you thought ON-J's "Physical" was about aerobics? The video may have been, but the original song was...well, just listen to the lyrics sometime. LOL

I thought Sheena Easton’s “Sugar Walks” was about a candy house.

No, Sugar Walls are about her sweet scottish sugar smacking labial folds. Mmmmmm.

Stairway to Heaven!

Freebird!

Like a Virgin

About 3 years ago, this song was on every radio station - at least 2-3 times an hour.

I love Lorde but Royals was average. The tinymeat of music.

R69 I think I am totally in love with you for managing to be post 69 and hitting sugar walled labia comments at the same time. You probably made all the gold star gays throw up.

The Joker. Whenever they sing it at a karaoke bar I throw up in my mouth a little bit.

R74 I am a gay dude and I love sexy scottish sugar smacking labias. Theys beautiful.

Nothing compares 2 you

Piano Man. Also, Israel K’s version of Somewhere Over The Rainbow.

[quote]Also, Israel K’s version of Somewhere Over The Rainbow.

Oh God yes. The first 600 times it was pretty.

Sweet Caroline, especially when drunk assholes have to do the “bom bom bom” singalong part.

Anything by Billy Joel. Fuck do I hate that wretched mofo.

Girls just wanna have fun...by Cindy what's her face. I HATED that ear worm song and hated it even more after working with Cindy what's her face. Total BITCH....NASTY FRAUD.

Oh but I love the delightful Allentown R81 as well as the talent in its music video. Ooops!

I feel you, R60. With the holidays nearly here, I’m bracing for the inevitable unholy radio trinity of “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” “Jingle Bell Rock,” and “Holly Jolly Christmas.” Those jangly hellworms are guaranteed to play every 17 minutes and give me seizures. Ack.

Followed, of course, by “Feliz Navidad.”

1-877-KARS-FOR-KIDS

Anything by Adele.

Just about any Whitney Houston song.

They played them to death on the radio in the 80's.

Hard to pick which Shitney tune was the worst. Screaming crackhead wench.

Joe and Kelly's love theme on Santa Barbara, "If Ever You're In My Arms Again," was played incessantly it seemed the first few months of the show.

We get it. it's their love theme.

Contrast that with the Ice Castles love theme 'Through the Eyes of Love',' Victor and Nikki's love song on Y&R; probably played nine times in 30 years (now they can't afford it.)

Make 'em wait, make 'em wait, make 'em wait.

Anything from lady fugga , her music has aged terribly and sounds even worse now, if you can believe that.

REM "Losing my religion". Remember when Michael the singer "came out"?? Bitch errbody knew you were gay from birth. In no way shape or form are you butch, Nancy.

R92 It is hilarious when ugly celebs come out. Yeah ok fugly.

Any and all Paul McCartney songs.

I will always love you is like "Like a Prayer" great hook/chorus, short on verses. Like a Prayer needs another verse, IWALY just turns into repeating the chorus over and over.

^I guess "refrain" is more accurate than "chorus".

R95 You're trying to blame the crappy song on the length of the lyrics. Lame. Besides the thread is about overplayed songs not how songs are too short. Egad, you're lame.

I took from R95's post that he or she feels Like a Prayer is overplayed.

[quote]Rocking Around the Christmas Tree

OMG, yes. Nearly all of the Top 40 Christmas/holiday songs from the 1960s up through the 1980s, including famous instrumentals and musical numbers. Just over and over and over again ad nauseum, every Christmas. I especially can't listen to any of the novelty holiday songs like "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" or "The Hanukkah Song." They were always overplayed to hell and back.

A lot of 1960s music I also can't listen to anymore because it just seemed as if there was a period in the 1980s and 1990s when every damned movie had something out of the "Time Life Remembers" soundtrack, songs which had already been overplayed when they were first popular, especially Motown, girl groups ("Heatwave") and The Doors ("The End").

That "I'm in love with your body" song. Seems like it's on the radio every time I'm in my car.

Jack and Diane - John Mellencamp

Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks

Dreams, Rhiannon - Stevie Nicks

My Love - Paul McCartney

Magic Man - Heart

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

Give Me One Reason - Tracy Chapman

Free Bird, Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Hotel California - The Eagles

Billie Jean - Michael Jackson

More Than A Feeling - Boston

Blinded by the Light - Manfred Man’s Earth Band

Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band

Killing Me Softly (with his song) - Roberta Flack

Lovin' You - Minnie Riperton

Feels Like the First Time - Foreigner

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Black Water - The Doobie Brothers

Heaven by Bryan Adams. Brings back so many memories of late night depressed lonely sexually frustrated supermarket shoppping on Saturday nights. It's actually a great song.

Feelings

This song wrecked 1995, written about her ex Dave Coulier of Full House fame. He must have REALLY wrecked her vagina for her to write such a vicious screaming screed about her wrecked vagina.

Stand by me. Brown-eyed girl.

In the Name of Love, by U@

I'd like to punch out Bono til he strokes

^^ U2

Still wanna punch Bono, though

Any version of Whoomp There It Is. Mindless and primitive.

Moondance

R107 Agreed. Does U2 even have any cultural significance? Bono being the über douche he is has surely squandered it. I have no desire to hear any U2 songs.

The Glory of Love by Peter Cetera.

Debaser by the Pixies.

Uptown Funk, uptown, funk you up!

I would rather hear any other song listed in this thread. Except maybe happy by Pharrell.

Some of you cunts are posting from 50 years ago. Get out of the house more often, please.

God Save The Queen

That just means we've been hearing the songs we hate longer than you've been hearing the songs you hate, r114.

Make mine "Amazing Grace."

There are certain film scores I cannot stand hearing. The Star Wars theme being number one.

Pharrel's Happy I am quite sure has contributed to the recent spike in suicide rates.

WRONG LINK^^^

I had a lover who always played the SW theme when he is fucking someone. It got him so hard and had crazy precum and would cum so hard.

Star spangled banner tbh I always had to turn the channel to skip it before a game. I am glad they have stopped showing it during most sporting events.

MC Hammer's piece of shit song "Can't Touch This." The hype over this and him was fuckin' ridiculous.

Out of the house is where the songs I'm tired of are forced upon me, R114. Stores, restaurants, lobbies, etc. The other day I was on the downtown streets of a small city in Ohio where loudspeakers installed on several blocks were playing "classic oldies". I'm a 63 year old who grew tired of "my generation's" music decades ago,largely because of it being forced to listen to it in public. At home and in my car I opt for blessed silence.

Anything by that dead pedo...esp. "Billie Jean"

"Let it Go!" PLEASE!

(Everything I Do) I do it for you was told from the point of view of a dog. No person in real life is that devoted. The song is pure cheese. I'd rather have the dead crackhead sing about being in my way because she really would be.

Playing Michael Bolton even ONCE is overplaying. My god she was awful.

Bolton is the worst.

Adele - Hello

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You (Dolly Parton Cover)

Pharrel - Happy

Justin Timberlake - Can't Stop the Feeling

anything by Adele

Red, Red wine. The all time worst.

If You See Amy by Shitney Spears

Seek, not See in post above ^^^^

Life is a highway I want to ride it all night long

Smooth by Rob Thomas and fucking Santana. No thank you.

Santana is the worst. Smooth was awful.

"Gimme yo heart, make it real, or let's faggetaboutit."

How romantic! He sure is smooth with words.

“I’ll Melt With You’,” so overplayed and in so many commercials

"Smooth" by Santana featuring Rob Thomas was #1 for 12 weeks and got a platinum record, one of the biggest sellers ever. I have the vinyl version of it but it's far from being one of my all time favorites. 6/10.

Smooth.

I once almost broke my arm trying to get across the room to turn off the radio when "What's Up" came on. I also hated "Pleasure and Pain" by the Soviets, which was played relentlessly by the local alternative station back in 86. Hated Christina Amphlett's voice. I just wished she'd blow her fucking nose.

This one

Pirate Jenny by Lotte Lenya

Dis Buritto by Luis Fonzi & Bieber

All 7 versions of this song are equally loathsome.

Janet's whispercoo. Cooing that 'Such passionate love that we make In time our bodies are one When the loving's done the passions still strong Cause spiritually we are as one'

I think it's safe to say "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" and "Heaven is a Place on Earth" have been played to death.

If this QT was singing to you it'd be OK.

Males always do it better. He sings it in the same key as Whitney. Awesome.

This cutie does it well, too.

Another vote for Wind Beneath My Wings - this might truly be the worst (and worst sung) piece of slop ever.

Flyyyyy, flyyyyyyy, FLYYYYYYYYY

ANYTHING by Lady GagGag. They played her on a continuous loop in the casino I worked in - hour after fucking hour of born this way, poker face.

R154 Midler is the queen of that schmaltzy faux-mystical crap like From A Distance or the even crappier The Rose. The 70s had nothing but these faux-anthemic melodramatic undying declaration of love songs that rang hollow. Like Meatloaf. Two out of three ain't bad....cheesy.

I know so many guys who love Meatloaf, and for the life of me I don't get it. Maybe it's a dude thing, like the Three Stooges or Monty Python. Or Rush.

R157 in the 70s he was a fat, smelly, sweaty Everyman who was not attractive even a little bit. He had a great voice and Jim Steinman was an amazing songwriter but Meatloaf was like a fairytale fat boorish prince for the straight men. Hey, if this fat schlub can get the girl - then so can I.

R151 r152 r153 Sorry, none of those cuties are helping your cause.

r152 r153 Just cheap imitations of a cheap imitation.

I wasn’t born when it originally came out but in recent years Etta James’ “At Last” has been played and covered to DEATH! Enough please!

Imagine a child by Meatloaf and Bette Midler? Rumer Willis might not have the most unfortunate face in the country.