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Overplayed songs

Jacki Cucinotta

Jacki Cucinotta

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I had just posted in the "What song are you listening to right now?" thread and what I posted got me thinking of creating this thread.

Basically I had posted on the ever popular "What song are you listening to right now?" thread that I was listening to a song that I love, but is also one that I feel is overplayed on the radio. Are there songs that you feel are played way too much? Do you ever feel that you are going to scream or something along those lines when you hear a song that you feel is overplayed?

I might start with the song I posted in the "What song are you listening to right now?" thread: "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke ft. Pharell and T.I.
 
I do not listen to much radio, but sometimes it is playing at work, and one I keep hearing over and over and OVER AGAIN is Heart's "Crazy On You." I love Heart, but I mean, they DO have other songs!
 
Anything that's by Avicii or Swedish House Mafia... or Calvin Harris. Sadly.

Oh, and definitely LMFAO's Party Rock Anthem. "Ev'ry day I'm overplayed!"
 
I like Daft Punk, but "Get Lucky" is starting to feel a little bit inescapable.

I still found this funny though:

 
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This is why I struggle to listen to radio sometimes, they overplay songs! I don't listen to much music radio these days because I know what is likely to be on. If you go to a classic rock station you'll hear The Who, then Led Zeppelin, then Pink Floyd, throw 2 more overplayed songs like "Hotel California" or "Bohemian Rhapsody" in and start over. And these are great bands and they'll pick 3 songs from each and beat them into your brain over and over. I mean for example, The Who have so much music and they want to play "Baba O'Reilly", "Won't Get Fooled Again", and "You Better You Bet" over and over. I blame corporate media myself.

The other night this local station started playing some random epic progressive rock stuff and that was what radio should be, playing what you want rather than what corporate controlled media wants you to hear.
 
One that drove me nuts, they played it so much was

Billy Ray Cyrus' Achy Breaky Heart.

Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart. I just don't think he'd understand! And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, he might blow up and kill this man! OOOOO!! The first time I heard it, I loved the song...but after the fifth time in an hour, it got old fast!
 
I seem to have this thing going on where songs get overplayed in my head. And that's often with songs I don't really want to hear. It's like photographic memory for songs to some extent I guess. And that in fact drives me up the wall sometimes.

So songs that get overplayed... that's probably my kryptonite (maybe one of many forms) which gets me totally crazy. It's a reason I don't listen to the radio and want to be in control about what music I'm listening to pretty much 24/7. Interestingly enough, I don't have big issues with songs I actually like and handpick myself, yet I usually don't have more than 2 plays on any day. For an interesting analysis; my last.fm profile says there's a song I played about 50 times. And that's one song I played the most and I actually like. The timeperiod we're talking about; over 2.5 years. That comes down to once every 2 weeks, which pretty much is how often I want to listen to most songs, even if I like them.

Perhaps I just get annoyed quickly over music. I never sat down to actually listen to that daft punk song and listen to it's fullest. But the chorus is stuck my head... and I don't even like it. So there's "overplayed" stuff for me. I think I heard it twice... and that's already too much for me, lol.

It's also why I hate most radio so much. Unless it's a talk program I wont listen to it. The fact that channels are told "this is our hit song, play it 5 times an hour" doesn't sit well with me at all for the reason mentioned above.
 
Love Michael Jackson. But not the Jackson Five's OVERPLAYED "One Bad Apple" song.
 
I also overplay songs in my head. When I went on a French exchange program with school, this song:


was absolutely inescapable! Speaking of inescapable, this song is one of the ones I used to overplay in my head:


I don't know well Jessica Mauboy is known outside Australia. She's a talented singer, but some of the songs she sings are a pretty bland.

She does some excellent covers in the movie The Sapphires though - again, no idea if its known outside its country of origin. Here's one of those covers:

 
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For some reason we always listen to this one classic rock station at work. Bruce Springsteen wrote some pretty good songs, but "Born in the USA" is not one of them. It was stuck in my head all day until I was able to make it home and listen to something else. Gah!

EDITED TO ADD: And they play it all the time, which is why it wound up in this thread.
 
I know this thread was last year but I spent many years studying music, I just can't let this one go, anytime I hear a song and can't get it out of my head simply because I hear it in every location, then it is way too overplayed. Sometimes, and I apologize to anyone in advance who may be a fan of this music, but frankly hearing anything with a techno, euro-eighties beat or anything from Frozen, makes me cringe.

* Side note: One Bad Apple was offered originally to the Jackson 5, however, they turned it down, the recording from the early '70's on the radio is actually The Osmonds. That's Donny singing. Personally, I like Michael's voice better.
 
robertwnielsen said:
One that drove me nuts, they played it so much was

Billy Ray Cyrus' Achy Breaky Heart.

Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart. I just don't think he'd understand! And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, he might blow up and kill this man! OOOOO!! The first time I heard it, I loved the song...but after the fifth time in an hour, it got old fast!
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A kindergarten teacher told me that it was eerie to be in her classroom when that song was popular because
all the little kids knew it, and sang/hummed it, together, unprompted, when they had seatwork time. Seatwork
being kdg teacher for....sit down & work at your desk/table.
 
Rocky theme
Happy Birthday
Tacobell Canon in G-Minor
Imagine
Christmas Carols
Wipeout
 
Tom said:
Rocky theme
Happy Birthday
Tacobell Canon in G-Minor
Imagine
Christmas Carols
Wipeout
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I was disappointed when the Pachelbel canon in D Minor was used in that watch ad.
And although Yakety Sax is fun, not every comedy that uses it is equal to it.
 
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