What is the most overplayed song of all time?

[elshiva]

[grannylib]

1. I'd have to say Stairway to Heaven, and I love Zeppelin, but that song is

just too much if you hear it more than once a year or so.

[elshiva]

2. Actually, I've never heard it the whole way through before!

The light station at Doctors' offices is what I am exposed to, so that is why I chose these
Oh well!

[grannylib]

3. *lol* It's a decent-enough tune, and most people who like Zeppelin like

the guitar solo, but it's long and dramatic and I can only take so much of it!

[devilgrrl]

8. You so have to hear Frank Zappa do his version...

it's brilliant! :-)

[Telly Savalas]

22. The one where a horn section plays the guitar solo note for note?

I'm not a big fan of Zappa, but that's pretty damn funny.

[mtnester]

11. The live version is the best, and you never hear that one

otherwise, it does not seem to get the airtime it used to.

[blondeatlast]

15. That was my immediate reaction too.

As soon as I read the SL, I had my answer.

[Robeson]

28. ding, ding, ding, we have a winner.....

...no doubt. FM radio in the 70's played that one about every 30 minutes, like clockwork.

[NewJeffCT]

38. I will agree on that one

The song is good when you hear it every once in a while... a great while.

[DelawareValleyDem]

43. It's a great song

the first 10,000,000,000,000,000 times you hear it. After that, no.

[Jazz2006]

52. I was going to post Stairway to Heaven, too, even though

I am also a Zeppelin fan.

It's just that more than once a year is too much, and you're guaranteed to hear it at the end of every year when the radio stations do the "best ever" countdown or some such thing, so there is no need to hear it the rest of the year :)

[DBoon]

56. that and Layla by Derek and the Dominos

both good songs that have been played to death

[grannylib]

77. I don't get tired of Layla nearly as quick as I do StoH; maybe 'cause

it's shorter?
My kitty's name is Layla :D

[sendero]

82. Maybe because..

... everyone can identify with a straightforward love song, but what the FUCK is Plant on about anyway? What a completely nonsensical song :)

"If there's a bustle in your hedgrow.... " yeah, right Robert.

[LostinVA]

72. Definitely!

[blue neen]

4. Joy to the World by Three Dog Night.

Makes me want to rip my ears off my head.

I like Three Dog Night, but this song got so overplayed AND you hear it at every freaking wedding-reunion-bar mitzvah-party thing you attend.

[kiraboo]

5. I'm gonna go with "Hotel California." Why? WHY? n/t

[TK421]

6. I second that

[kiraboo]

7. I knew you would!

[AmandaRuth]

9. i was going to say Free Bird, but i gotta go with yours

Actually, anything by the Eagles is one song to much.

[rocktivity]

62. I'LL say Freebird, then

beating out American Pie by a half a length.

At least Stairway To Heaven actually WAS a great song--which is precisely why it GOT overplayed.

x(
rocknation

[KeepItReal]

23. Overplayed?? That's not possible.

I can listen to that one all day!

:-)

[mduffy31]

34. Love this line about the Eagles

From The Big Lebowski

The Dude: Jesus, man, could you change the channel?
Cab Driver: Fuck you man. If you don't like my fuckin' music get your own fuckin' cab!
The Dude: I had a rough...
Cab Driver: I pull over and kick your ass out!
The Dude: Come on, man. I had a rough night and I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man!

[hfojvt]

35. Dude, that would have been funnier to me

if he hated The Stones.

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

53. Agreed

It can fall under so many categories of music so it's played on so many different types of stations.

[maveric]

10. "Dont fear the Reaper"!

I love BOC but that song is an overplayed dog!

[blondeatlast]

16. Not enough cowbell... nt

[DrGonzoLives]

12. Anything by Pink Floyd

n/t

[kwassa]

45. Agreed

Once is too much.

[no name no slogan]

50. Unless it's from "Piper"

that album is a classic. Once Syd split, they got less and less interesting.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

13. Margaritaville.

But you have to remember, I live in the Keys, where it is All Buffett All Day and all Night.

[CTyankee]

57. I have a GREAT memory of Margaritaville

Sitting in a bar with my fun lovin' sister in law in Ithaca New York where drinking in bars was about the only thing you could do in the winter. That song was playing and she was crooning it, 3 sheets to the wind. I used to tell her I had to go home to dry out after visiting her.

[mitchum]

14. "What A Wonderful World"...

I love Armstrong, but this piece is wayyyyyyyyyyy overused for evoking cheap sentimentality

[richmwill]

17. "Freebird" by Lynard Skynard (n/t)

[KitchenWitch]

33. YES!!

[swag]

18. Great choices in the poll. I can't even choose.

If I were to add anything, it would be "Amazing Grace" on bagpipes or "God Bless America."

[PassingFair]

19. Color My World.

ONCE was TOO MUCH.

It was played AD NAUSEUM in my youth.
I have STILL not gotten over it.

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. The Star Spangled Banner

Yeah, bring them FBI fuckers on.

[Bombtrack]

21. The biggest hits of AC/DC, Ozzy/Black Sabbath, Van Halen

and post American Idiot Green Day

[steely]

24. Some of the stuff at hockey games.

honestly - it gets a little tired.

[donheld]

25. My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion

Actually Celine in general. Radio Tends to do this. Also Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You," Hootie & The Blowfish, Mariah Carey etc. They find an artist or a song and play them so much that you get so you hate the song, the singer, and even the mention of their name drives you mad. They can take something perfectly good and make you so sick of it you can never hear it again. Growing up in a town where one of the members of "The Eagles" was from, they played the Eagles so damn much that to this day I can't listen to any of their music, even their solo work just makes me turn the dial so fast it isn't funny.

[ThomCat]

48. Hell, yes!

My Heart Will Go On now sounds like nails on a chalk board whenever I hear it. I can't stand that song.

I Will Always Love You is definitely up there too.

[Skittles]

26. Sweet Emotion

yes

[Broken_Hero]

27. Thunderstruck...

by AC/DC, or any AC/DC song really. I swear, our classic rock station plays like 4 AC/DC songs an hour, and it gets annyoing rather quick, oh and ANYTHING by John Cougar Mellencamp...sorry Mellencamp and AC/DC fans, i do like Ac/Dc but damn...

[MissMillie]

47. They've made a "comeback" of sorts

They're quite popular with the high school kids these days.

[Random_Australian]

29. FREAK YOU ALL. It's Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

been used as freaking everything. (Almost sinc sound was put on film might I add! Even the Nazis used it.)

AND THEY KEEP USING THE SAME VERSE!

How many times can I hear an out of context "Freude schöner Götterfunken tochter aus Elysium" before I explode? Once more.

P.S. The 'freak you' thing was just an attention getter. Had to have one this far down the list.

[tjwmason]

36. I see your Beethoven

and raise you a Vivaldi Four Seasons. :P

But you're right that the Ode to Joy is over-played - they've even made it into the anthem of the European Union.

[Random_Australian]

39. You're shitting me. And you think Vivaldi is overplayed? it is,

but not even as much as Grieg's 'Morning'.

[CTyankee]

59. As a serious music buff, I must say that Vivaldi

sounds a lot the same from one piece to the other (not all of course). My brother, an avid serious music buff, said Vivaldi wrote the same thing over and over. I wouldn't go that far.

[marigold20]

81. Canon - Pachelbel

Sure I like it but can we give it a little rest?

And Grieg - honestly, I keep thinking of Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tune gang.

[Wapsie B]

30. Steam's signature song..........

Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye
He'll never love you, the way that I love you
'Cause if he did, no no, he wouldn't make you cry
He might be thrillin' baby but a-my love (my love, my love)
So dog-gone willin'
So kiss him (I wanna see you kiss him, wanna see you kiss him)
Go on and kiss him goodbye

Na na na na, hey hey-hey, goodbye
Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye
Listen to me now
He's never near you to comfort and cheer you
When all those sad tears are fallin' baby from your eyes
He might be thrillin' baby but a-my love (my love, my love)
So dog-gone willin'
So kiss him (I wanna see you kiss him. I wanna see you kiss him)
Go on and kiss him goodbye

Na-na na-na-na na na na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye
Hey hey-hey, goodbye
Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye
Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye
Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye

[Rocinante]

31. Barracuda

Barra barra cuda. x(

[Nicole]

32. Happy Birthday

:rofl:

[RebelOne]

37. That Pina Colada song.

I liked it when it first came out, but got so sick of it because it was played on the radio at least once an hour.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

55. "Escape--The Pina Colada Song"

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long.
Like a worn-out recording, of a favorite song.
So while she lay there sleeping, I read the paper in bed.
And in the personals column, there was this letter I read:

"If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
I'm the lady you've looked for, write to me, and escape."

I didn't think about my lady, I know that sounds kind of mean.
But me and my old lady, had fallen into the same old dull routine.
So I wrote to the paper, took out a personal ad.
And though I'm nobody's poet, I thought it wasn't half-bad.

"Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne.
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon, and cut through all this red tape.
At a bar called O'Malley's, where we'll plan our escape."

So I waited with high hopes, then she walked in the place.
I knew her smile in an instant, I knew the curve of her face.
It was my own lovely lady, and she said, "Oh, it's you."
And we laughed for a moment, and I said, "I never knew"..

"That you liked Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
And the feel of the ocean, and the taste of champagne.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
You're the love that I've looked for, come with me, and escape."

"If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
You're the love that I've looked for, come with me, and escape."


That one?

:D

[ScreamingMeemie]

40. American Pie(The Day the Music Died)...

But, I'll always listen.

[pointblank]

58. That was my pick

but there isn't enough bandwidth on DU for me to post how many of these guys:

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...it would take to show how much I hate that godawful song.


edited for spelling (stupid laptops)

[DrDan]

41. Toby Keith's "God Bless the USA"

[Frank Cannon]

61. Thought that was a Lee Greenwood song

But yes, I enthusiastically agree we've heard way, way, too much from that jackass.

[Kire]

42. Don't Worry, Be Happy

[Rob H.]

44. "I Will Always Love You," as sung/yodeled/yelled by Whitney Houston

I hope I never hear that or "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion ever again.

[nytemare]

73. God I hated that song.

I can't express how much. About as much as I hate "My Humps" now.

[MissMillie]

46. Of those listed--Bob Seger for sure

It would be fine by me if I never heard another Bob Seger song again. (please note, there's no hostility here, I just don't care fo his music--at all)

[Radio_Guy]

49. Here it is Sweet Home Alabama

I loved it the first hundred times I heard it. But it is played at every ballpark and on practically every radio station in this state every day!

[CTyankee]

60. My son in law plays professionally in a band

and he lists that one as the song he loathes the most but has to play at gigs.

[HughBeaumont]

51. Any shitty 90s R&B song by the following artists:

Boyz II Men
Mariah Carey
Where's my motherfucking crack Houston

[Burma Jones]

54. Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers

[Rowdyboy]

63. It was 1969....."Raindrops keep falling on my head" was played once every

15 minutes every hour on every station in the country for months. I loved the movie, but the damned song still makes me nauseaus.

[Richardo]

64. How can 'Stairway' NOT be on that list?

[speedingbullet]

65. Nugent

Anything by Ted "Pants-Crapper" Nugent. Stranglehold is the worst. Our local classic rock station must play it 4 times each day.

[Twillig]

69. I dunno, They never play "whang dang sweet poontang.'

anymore. :hide:

[skyblue]

66. My Bodyguard by Whitney Houston.

Or any of that vibrating vocal crap.

[azmouse]

67. Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones

Back in the '80's when it was really popular it was playing on the radio when I got in the car after work. Same station played it again half way home and by the time I was pulling in the driveway in was on the radio yet again! Three times in about 30 min! ugghhh.... :puke:

[Rabrrrrrr]

68. Happy BIrthday

Maybe ot overplayed on radio, since I don't think I've ever heard it on radio, but it sure the hell is over sung.

[hholli11]

70. "I just called to say, 'I love you'" by Stevie Wonder...

it was played ten times too many for my lifetime and it can put me in a bad mood just to have to hear it (again). And I LOVE Stevie Wonder. The other one is "You give love a bad name" by Bon Jovi. For anyone old enough to have lived through the 80's, this song was played NON. STOP. And I love them too.

Thank God both of those artists have so many other redeeming songs.

[gollygee]

71. Once upon a time it was Mr. Roboto

I don't hear that much anymore, thankfully

[calico1]

74. "I Will Always Love You"

I think it was in Britain that some radio station stopped playing the song after numerous callers begged them to stop playing it! I remember hearing that in the news here. I just wish they had done that here. I was sick to death of hearing it! I still can't stand it even if its only played occasionally!

[chookie]

75. "Bad Company"

Damn idiot radio stations play it at least once a day. It makes me want to claw the walls.

[ChoralScholar]

76. I've been hearing way too much 'Cat Scratch Fever'

coming from Nugent-the-Nutsack.

[Beaverhausen]

78. Walkin' on Sunshine

I think there is a law that it has to be in every movie trailer.

[LSdemocrat]

79. I've never heard "You Light Up My Life" on the radio, but I'm only 25

[TroubleMan]

80. "I like big butts, and I cannot lie......"

"Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot

It's only been around 15 years, but it's catching up to the others really fast.

[Kerrytravelers]

83. For a while it was "My heart Will Go On" from Titanic.

I hated that damn song and I hated that damn movie. Every time I heard that song or someone mentioned Titanic, I wasnted to climb to the top of a tall building and jump off it.

[spindrifter]

84. happy Birthday

[Jade Fox]

85. "Sweet Home Alabama".....

and I believe that's not just my opinion. I think I read somewhere that it is in fact the most played song. :puke:

[bridgit]

86. Other please post...'killing me softly'...

[njdemocrat106]

87. "The Joker" by Steve Miller

Now I don't have anything against Miller, but when I listen to classic rock radio, that song is bound to pop up, even more so than his other hits.

[u4ic]

88. Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison

I've actually come to dislike the song immensely because of it being so overplayed round here...