Which overplayed radio hit drove you the craziest? 📻

Love Shack.

I like the song, it's fun and catchy, but it never needed to be played every hour, on the hour, by every station.

"Don't Speak" by No Doubt is pure torture.

I couldn't listen to it all the way through once, and still can't believe people all over the world decided it was a good song.

You Light Up My Life by Debbie Boone. You just couldn’t escape it.

I love "overplayed" radio hits. That's why they're hits! Duh!

I like Rihanna's other songs, but "Diamonds" is the sound of a slow death.

Fucking, 'Love is all around' - Wet Wet Wet. It was number one on TOTP for months!

I hate it.

Thread closed.

Gangum Style made me want to boil myself alive

I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

[quote]Fucking, 'Love is all around' - Wet Wet Wet.

I hate that singer and that song ...and what a name for a group! FREAKS!

[quote]Gangum Style made me want to boil myself alive

What the fuck is that? Never heard of it.

Sailing by Christopher Cross. How that dreck racked up those Grammy awards is beyond me.

Olivia Newton-John's Physical

Once MTV happened you not only heard these over-exposed songs but saw them, and if you were young it seemed you had no choice but to watch it, especially when it was new.

Thriller, all that shitty dancing everyone loved so much...ghastly Michael Jackson, with his new plastic face and hair and that awful red jacket.

And Girls Just Wanna Have Fun...was on ALL THE TIME.

Red Red Wine

Life Is A Highway

Under The Bridge

I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

Flash Dance

Wilson Phillips - Hold On

Not fit for elevator music, let alone the radio.

Seal’s Kiss from a Rose

My Heart Will Go On...and On and on...and on...and on....

Macarena, and Happy

That fucking Gotye song, "Somebody I Used to Know"

"Zombie" by the Cranberries

And all the Red Hot Chili Peppers songs that kept getting played every 15 minutes on KROQ.

That fucking Shania Twain song That Don't Impress Me Much. Yeah you don't impress us at all.

Sorry Miss Warwick & Friends but That’s What Friends Are For was a channel changer.

[quote]And 'on my own" - that drone... on and on...my...owwwwn...on my owwwwn! You'd hear it everywhere...all day.

OP, what song is that? I don't recognize those lyrics.

OK, R24

Tell us what you reckon, plz.

WAP

Call Me Maybe. Clueless dork friends kept sending me video links YEARS after it was released, "You might enjoy this......the guy is cute......."

WOW Great choices. I agree with every single one but Total Eclipse Of The Heart.

ON MY OWN is the WORST.

I cannot STAND Patti Labelle's voice.

Daughters and Your Body is a Wonderland by John Mayer. Barf. I'm so happy that overated POSs' heyday is over.

Bowling for soups 1985. Ugly and unpleasant melody, and the lyrics capture everything pathetic and sad about Americans obssession with adolescence and high school.

A song by Maroon 5 containing the lyrics " six foot tall". I can't be bothered to Google the name but it's awful and it was everywhere several years ago.

Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" made me want to rip my fucking ears off.

Love, soft as an easy chair Yep it’s Evergreen

I love Wet Wet Wet. I love the lead singer. LOVE.

Great thread, OP.

‘Smooth’ by Santana feat. Rob Thomas

‘I Need To Know’ by Marc Anthony

‘Thong Song’ by Sisqo

We Are Family — Sister Sledge

R25 Got it! I now remember the song. It reminded me how much I dislike anything by Michael McDonald.

On My Own was #1 for three weeks! Suck it!

It was this sellout band's gawdawful #1 hit. BTW, Grace Slick is a spry 80 year old!

All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You

The Drifters, Under the Motherfucking Boardwalk. Every hour of every day of summer for centuries.

"Good Riddance" by Green Day. It was played at every graduation, every prom, every retirement, every montage for like 10 years. It was so schlocky!

Daft Punk, Get Lucky - probably because it isn't aggressively bad in any particular way, so you can't say "ugh, I HATE this song!" - It just stays there in the background droning on and on and on...

R41 there's an odd flatness to daft punks rendition that makes it rather unappealing. It's one of the few songs where I think a cover with a few changes might actually be an improvement .

[quote] It's one of the few songs where I think a cover with a few changes might actually be an improvement .

Really? I often think that about various songs.

My vote is one that was previously posted:

“Smooth” by Santana and the guy from Matchbox Twenty.

This fucking boring-ass song was played non-stop when it came out, and I still cringe when I hear it. Especially Rob Thomas’s ov-er e-nun-cia-ting every damn word.

"You Light Up My Life." I didn't hear it on the radio that much in 1977, as I didn't listen to radio those days. But I had a friend who bought the 45, and he would carry it with him in his briefcase, and ask to play it when he came over to visit. I guess he was between stereos, so I'd let him play it, but he wanted to play it over and over. And it's a terrible song.

The two most horrible songs in existence firework by Katy Perry and Pokerface by Lady Fugga! Complete crap!

"And I'm prowd to be an AmerrryCAN where at least I know I'm free and I won't for-GET the MEN who died who gave that right to ME"

I hated that song when it first came out. In school we did some patriotic show and had to do that song. It went away for 10 years then came back after 9/11 and there was Lee Greenwood all over TV again. Now, Trump has adopted it as his stage entrance song at all his stupid rallies.

The only unbelievably over-played song I remember actually liking was Sailing or was it Sailin'? My cousin who I was visiting in L.A. who had just passed her driving test also loved it and would just switch channels to hear it over again. Being from England, it was new to me this constant over-playing of a song.

I bought the single and the album and took them home to England. Wonder why they didn't have his pic on the cover?

Bump

Any of the new empowerment songs that #metoo’ers, cancer survivors, Drag Queens, Trans or any other Feminist/Frau “Survivors” like to play over “woe is me” montages on the Today show or any other Frau Bait daytime show, in which they’re simultaneously talking about what a big victim they are and then how strong & powerful they are too.

This Is Me from The Greatest Showman

Titanium by David Guetta

Firework by Katy Perry

Fight Song by Rachel Platten

[quote]It's one of the few songs where I think a cover with a few changes might actually be an improvement .

I know Halestorm isn't universally liked around here, but their version of "Get Lucky" definitely improves the original IMO.

Sailing and How Deep is Your Love are two songs I've heard hundreds of times and will never get tired of them.

Everybody wants to rule the world played endlessly in 1985. But, You light up my life drove me the craziest.

It's Raining Men, by Two Tons of Fun / The Weather Girls

Alice DJ's "Better Off Alone" was a great intro of trance to the mainstream, but after a while it made me want to bang my head on the wall.

And that Fug girl in the video didn't exactly help either.

anything by smashmouth

"Every Morning (There's a Halo)" by Sugar Ray. Basic song, monotonous.

R57- Possibly the best choice along with that Patti LaBelle swill, On My Own!

This was back in the 70s, "Thunder only happens when it's Raining".

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Here's a little ditty about Jack and Diane, two American kids growing up in the heartland... - John Cougar Mellencamp

Makes me want to puke.

R60- And from a friend of mine who ran a concert venue in Massachusetts- HE IS A FUCKING ASSHOLE.

Lost touch with her years ago, but she told me this in 2001. I asked her who was the WORST artist she ever dealt with- JCM, and is wife and kids- Cretins.

Hate that fucking song. Good choice!

R60 The tune sucks and it's so depressing. Saying that the " thrill of living" is gone just because you're no longer 18 is just sad.

R61 I'm not r60 but I thought your comment was funny because I remember seeing a picture of him and his family and thinking that they looked like mean trash.

Achy Breaky Heart, there was a time you couldn't escape hearing it.

"Show Me Love" from about 90 or 91. I got double-whammied by it both on the radio and the dance clubs I was going to at the time.

Islands in the Stream - love Dolly but this one was played to DEATH

I Only Wanna Be With You - Hootie and the Blowfish

Runaround - Blues Traveler

Crash - Dave Matthews Band

Bland music for bland people. And you can throw in Matchbox 20, Maroon 5, Train, etc.

Spinning Wheel.

I enjoy it now, but Whitney's I Will Always Love You died a painful radio death and it was only after her passing that I found the joy in listening again.

I like Patti's On My Own well enough (neither love nor hate) but I could totally see others getting deathly sick of it.....it is office radio catnip/fraunip, played in every office, doctor's office and elevator in the world! LOL

As a child, “I Swear” made me want to murder someone.

The dudes weren't even cute.

All I Wanna Do (Is Have Some Fun) by Sheryl Crow.

I dedicated untold hours thrifting in Chicago in the 90s.

I seem to remember this playing on Unique’s sound system for most of them.

R72 I remember hearing that all over Chicago then, and then You Oughta Know the next year.

I like Sheryl and Alanis but got so sick of both songs.All I Wanna Do always made me think it was a bad, obvious ripoff of Stuck In The Middle With You....parts of it, anyway.

"Hey Baby" by DJ Ötzi. Kill it with fire.

DJ Otzi looked like Guy Fieri.

Sheryl Crow made the worst music. The ONLY time I enjoyed her music was the one song being sampled in Erin Brockovich, it fit. Everyday is a winding road.

Her music was the kind of dreck that only lesbians with bad taste and tedious Fraus would enjoy. Imagine being a 220lb 5’2” woman with a bad bleach job in a Pontiac Aztec smoking a cigarette & listening to “IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII WANNNNNNNAAAA SSSSSOOOOOAAAAKKKK UUUUUPPPP THHHEEEE SSSSUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!! 🎶” while driving to Jack In The Box on your lunch break from your Medical Billing & Coding job.

Was that you, r76??

I absolute loathed that Meredith Brooks song, "Bitch," that every whitebread lite rock chick thought was edgy and cool and empowering. It got so much airplay at the time, but I thought the lyrics were so contrived, made to ride on Alanis' coattails.

R76, "I Wanna Soak Up the Sun" was insipid. Not familiar with Pontiac Azteks, but I can picture a convertible VW.

Eye of the TIger

4 Non Blondes "What's Going On"

It's actually a great song but it became totally unbearable after a while.

Sheryl Crow is bland, pedestrian music.

R33 I used to HATE "Smooth," but after successfully managing to avoid it for a number of years, I recently heard it and secretly didn't hate it?

I will contribute "Born To Be Wild"

Every single from Allanah Morrisette's Jagged Little Pill was played nonstop on L.A. radio in the mid 90s and drove me FUCKIN' INSANE!!!! To this day if I hear her voice come on, I have to change the station!

Ironic - worst song of all time

R85 Honestly, Alanis had songs that were more annoying than "Ironic."

I don't know if I ever heard anything but "Ironic," r86.

R87 Well, consider yourself lucky.

I love Alanis. Y'all are haters.

r89 wins Most Perceptive of the Obvious award tonight.

I Will Always Love You Whitney Houston!

If it comes on the radio I change the station immediately.

"What If God Was One of Us," Joan Osborne, her first hit song. In an interview she said that she actually had a better voice than in WIFG ... and I thought, yeah sure. However, she really does have a good singing voice.

I Will Remember You by Sarah McLachlan and Carnival by Natalie Merchant. So boring and utterly inescapable.

Gangham Style by Psy. Horrid.

R11 You won't want to hear it. Trust me.

So this is Christmas....and what have you done...another year over and a new one just begun....war is over if you want it....war is over nooooow ooow oooow....our very best Christmas....

Another vote for call me maybe by that annoying Jepsen woman. I can't believe the number of adults who just went gaga for that shitty song. It's the type of tune that shouldn't appeal to anyone over 14.

R87, you never heard of "You Oughta Know"?

What was that song where, in the video, she's naked on the streets and thanks India?

[quote][R11] You won't want to hear it. Trust me.

Well, I went ahead and found it on YouTube

This is how many views it's had...so many I can't even work out what it means

[bold]3,770,772,056 views[/bold]

and yes, I can see how it would drive anyone crazy.

"I Want to Know What Love Is" by Foreigner always plays when you're stuck in long lines.

OMG...

"Take...these broken wings..."

Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

Give Me One Reason

Jack and Diane

Free Bird

Stairway to Heaven

Any Justin Timberlake song. Blech!

That Ed Sheran song "Shape of You", he shouldn't try to write sex songs.

Su su sudio

I have my radio wake me up on a station playing new and fairly new hits. Since I tend to usually snooze for like an hour I spend that time drifting on and off to sleep (it's a bliss) which means my mind is in a very suggestable state. That also means a song can sometimes stick in my head like a fucking herpes. Last week that happened with Nicki Minaj's Anaconda. That artful masterpiece of modern song writing kept playing in my head for the whole fucking day, AND I LIKED IT. Hypnosis is real, folks.

"Seasons in the Sun". I think the first time I heard it I just stared at my car radio in disbelief. I thought it was the dumbest song I had ever heard. Unfortunately it became a huge hit and was played endlessly.

I had a job driving as a delivery guy and had the radio on all day. I could not switch to another station fast enough when it came on.

That Lizzo song “toss my hair back, check my nails” whatever the name of it is. It was EVERYWHERE for awhile but thankfully seems to have died.

The Sign by Ace of Base

“Macarena..” I don’t know which is worse: the song or its video.

Hero - Enrique Iglesias

After 911, they played it every hour!

R111 Every hour, on the hour, sandwiched between this shite.

Single Ladies

Single Ladies....

R102 Freebird was played constantly and I still cringe when I hear it now. R59 Dreams was overplayed but I never minded it.

I kissed a girl -Katy Perry

John Cougar and his "Suckin' on a chili dog song". ... fucking ridiculous.

r117 Jack and Diane - and that fucking Pink Houses song.

You mean that one "little ditty 'bout Jack and Diaaane"? I thought it was Dick & Diane.

Hip To be Square.

R108 Oh, I loved Juice.

I don't dislike Lizzo but to be honest Juice was the only song of hers I really liked.

Lizzo is the kind of music where you have to listen to it and figure out why it's popular.

"I don't wanna wait" by Paula Cole

Old Town Road

Seeing all the Lilith Fair music reminded me of another one of that time. Torn by Natalie Imbruglia. That was everywhere when I was I high school.

[quote] Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

Secret Lovers by Atlantic Starr. I can’t stand that song.

Any Ed Sheeran song.

Someone upthread hated on Natalie Merchant's "Carnival". What? I love that one. Immediate flashback to 1995 when life was so good.

Phi Collins, "In the Air Tonight" -- Oh Lord, over and over again, the melody has like 2 bars which are repeated over and over. I still get up and turn the radio channel whenever it comes on. I knew 80s music was turning to shit when this became a big hit.

r129 wins. Phil Collins is a big reason I gave up on popular music in the '80s.

Hey, R130 - su-su-sudio to you.

Our House by Madness

fucking hate it!!!!!

Bad (by MJ).