Let’s be honest, some songs at this point need to be retired.
Posted by scott19692012@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 1012 comments
What songs you no longer to hear anymore at this point, I’ll give you a few of mine
Paradise City GNR
Welcome to the jungle
Living on a Prayer
These songs have definitely out stayed there welcome
What’s yours?
Civil_Concentrate_23@reddit
“Old Time Rock n Roll” by Bob Seger, goddamn Beach Boys “Kokomo”, Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” can retire
IDunnoReallyIDont@reddit
I have never, ever liked the Beach Boys! Every song makes me angry.
Comsic_Bliss@reddit
Even God Only Knows What I’d Be Without You?
IDunnoReallyIDont@reddit
I don’t like their voices in general so it kinda doesn’t matter what song they are singing.
cybrgigolo@reddit
Uptown girl - what a horrible video as well
FawnLeib0witz@reddit
Wow! Are you me? Throw in “We Built This City” and we despise all the same songs.
Appropriate-Excuse79@reddit
Years ago, I walked out of a Spinning class when “We Built this City” came on
Civil_Concentrate_23@reddit
Yeah! Throw that in too 😹 And there’s better songs by these artists which makes those songs extra terrible
HR-Puffenstuff@reddit
Lord I hate that song
phophopho4@reddit
Honestly just replace them with:
Witty-Reason-2102@reddit
I love The Beach Boys from the 60's. Kokomo not so much.
Comsic_Bliss@reddit
Kokomo makes me break out in hives if I’m exposed to it for too long
wisemonkey101@reddit
All Bob Seger can go.
Comsic_Bliss@reddit
I used to think so too but I heard Still The Same recently and didn’t want to jump out of my skin. And Turn the Page has grown on me a little bit too.
Excellent_Passage_38@reddit
Other than Old Time Rock and roll I totally agree with the other
r2killawat@reddit
Def Leppard
Mediocre-Touch-6133@reddit
Anything by Rush or Nickleback
I live in Canada. Radio stations here have to play a certain percentage of Canadian content. What that translates into is the classic rock station playing the same couple of Rush and Nickleback songs multiple times per day, every day. I've had a few jobs where the classic rock station is played all shift. I would hear the same couple of songs from them every single shift. Tom Sawyer can go fuck himself.
erbalchemy@reddit
Starting with "Let's be honest, ..." will make me stop reading right there. If you're struggling with sincerity, that's on you. Don't drag me into your drama, pal.
It's a negging trick, like insinuating someone is late regardless of when they arrive. You are implying your audience's opinions are not honest, regardless of what they might be.
Mediocre-Touch-6133@reddit
It always makes me think that the post was written by a bot trying too hard to act human.
scott19692012@reddit (OP)
Oh please
erbalchemy@reddit
Please what? Speak up, man. I'm getting old, impatient, and my hearing ain't what it used to be, partly thanks to GnR and Bon Jovi.
revel911@reddit
Maybe it’s because I don’t listen to radio and my taste has been entirely non-mainstream music. I still like all of this.
Majestic-Explorer-76@reddit
Hotel California And The Day the Music Died can both go away
LoosePhilosopher1107@reddit
But I believe it’s called American pie
QuttiDeBachi@reddit
Bye bye Miss Shutthefuckup….
LoosePhilosopher1107@reddit
Me????
QuttiDeBachi@reddit
No silly…I hate it too
LoosePhilosopher1107@reddit
Oh 🤭
Informal_Daikon_9812@reddit
American pie is played at least twice a day out here in Lubbock.
Rude_End_3078@reddit
These songs are just annoying at this stage :
I could go on all night.
galumphix@reddit
100% of anything by Billy Joel.
Diogenese5000@reddit
🫡
washiw@reddit
ANYTHING by RHCP! Annoying af
Brilliant-Onion2129@reddit
All of those are on my playlist!
scott19692012@reddit (OP)
I had to laugh at your reply, but I’m glad you enjoy these songs, obviously we all have different views on music
AngryBagOfDeath@reddit
Love Shack
NeverDidLearn@reddit
That song was my girlfriend’s “take a hint” song circa 1991. I’m driving with it.
katchoo1@reddit
Every Breath You take
With or Without You —I still like 80s/early 90s U2 but this song is so boring and goes on forEVER.
r2killawat@reddit
Every breath is a stalker song by Sting’s own admission.
46andTOOL4151@reddit
Anything by Bad Company
TooMuchPJ@reddit
Smells like teen spirit
Black hole sun
Black
NeverDidLearn@reddit
I have, in general, grown tired of all things Nirvana. In the same note, Foo Fighters. I won’t discount the talent Dave Grohl, but I’ve grown apart.
KatJen76@reddit
Any of the late 90s, early 2000s Nu Metal lite type stuff wasn't good when it came out and sucks even worse today. Limp Bizkit, Hoobastank, System of a Down, Seven Mary Three, all that kind of shit. They didn't even have good band names.
regdunlop08@reddit
I always thought SOAD had a pretty cool name, but agree this genre is weak overall.
salomey5@reddit
I'm sick to death of Paradise City, Welcome to the Jungle, Stairway to Heaven and many more, but I would NEVER want to see any of these songs or any other classics be retired.
I want kids to discover the bands that I grew up and fell in love with, and I want their kids to get a chance to hear what will be freaking ancient music to them by then. So if those overplayed songs are the portal that will lead them to listen to Led Zep, Journey, GnR, Eagles or whatever else, then keep on playing them and let the whiners whine.
Leave art alone, op, and go find the skip button on your device.
rowdybuttons@reddit
I like the cut of your jib.
balmerchick23@reddit
GNR's Paradise City - awful
Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meatloaf
Informal_Daikon_9812@reddit
TBH The ONLY Meatloaf song I ever liked was in Rocky Horror Picture Show.
DrKittyKevorkian@reddit
I will die mad about that U2 album Apple added to everyones library.
Barbarella_ella@reddit
Whitesnake's "Here I Go"
Rishtu@reddit
I challenge you to a deal, sir.
Barbarella_ella@reddit
Lol!
Wacko_Banana_Pants@reddit
Used to be a big RHCP fan but I could do without it now. It just didn't stand the test of time
AlissonHarlan@reddit
i'll sleep if i hear one more time this boring 'californication'
Rude_End_3078@reddit
Really crappy song.
LeadNo9107@reddit
I'm GenX but can I call out a Millenial one, since it often gets cross-played?
Mr. Brightside.
I would rather burn down my ear drums than hear this song again.
Ok_Mention_3308@reddit
Gonna get lots of downvotes, especially for #3
What’s Going On
No Rain
Stairway to heaven
Every Journey song
Cotton Eye Joe
makeup1508@reddit
Oh Cotton Eye Joe for sure! Yuck!
Informal_Daikon_9812@reddit
Grew up in Texas, it was mandatory to learn the Cotton Eye Joe and other "Texas dances" in jr high. I hated it so much. Then when I went to college, the Rednex version dropped. ugh
Independent-Tennis57@reddit
I love Led Zeppelin, Stairway is one of my least favorite, mainly because I think a Radio DJ would put it on to have a smoke, bathroom break, and play a game of chess during that time.
AdExtreme4813@reddit
Back when I was a college dorm DJ, I'd put Pink Floyd The Wall or Foghat- Slow Ride (the live version) on so I could study & have a snack.
Dangerous_Patient621@reddit
Oh, no. I'll upvote #3. I got burned out on Zep back in the 90s and haven't heard a song of theirs on purpose since.
Yeahhhhbut@reddit
There are several dozen of us who actually think Zeppelin is overrated.
4Brtndr1@reddit
For the good of all humanity, "We Built This City" should never be played again in any form.
suspiciousknitting@reddit
Sweet merciful Jesus I hate that song so much
biscuitsmomma@reddit
I have no beef with this song, but your impassioned plea made me laugh out loud!
Ok_Mention_3308@reddit
Your reply made me think of this rolling theme in The Simpsons
ikediggety@reddit
But what if it's Homer Simpson teaching Lisa how to sing it?
4Brtndr1@reddit
A mute button can work miracles.
1967punisher@reddit
But have you heard the remix.
We built this city on sausage rolls ..
4Brtndr1@reddit
Hey, anything would be an improvement. 😋
mikeisfree11@reddit
It should be deleted from existence
4Brtndr1@reddit
Future generations are counting on it.
basement_egg@reddit
total eclipse of the heart, i've always hated it and i hope it never plays again
Rude_End_3078@reddit
It's very dramatic.
Andrewbsupafly303@reddit
Everything Counting Crows. All of it.
Rude_End_3078@reddit
Even back then it was annoying.
RageLife247@reddit
I had a short gig of dj’ing ‘Singalong Parties’…I could add so many songs to this list. Celine Dion gives me ptsd….
Massive-Molasses3122@reddit
Same. Mariah Carey too
NoDanaOnlyZuuI@reddit
Christ, what's next? Are you going to complain about the kids on your lawn?
scott19692012@reddit (OP)
It is so amazing how seriously you guys are taken this subject just give us some songs You’re really tired of. It’s not rocket science that people discover this music all the time but us Gen Xers have listened to it for 40 years and we can easily say we are totally sick of some songs at this point
Mr8vb@reddit
He's probably too busy shaking his fist at a cloud.
1967punisher@reddit
He'd have gotten away with it too .. If it wasn't for you pesky kids
LotsOfWatts@reddit
My Sharona is the most annoying ever that I never want to hear again.
--pobodysnerfect--@reddit
Any song that contains sexual feelings towards children.
Informal_Daikon_9812@reddit
Christine 16
Patient-Chocolate531@reddit
Ma Ma Ma Myyyyy Sharona….
mummakush@reddit
My dad had this album ugh!!
Patient-Chocolate531@reddit
It really grossed me out the first time I clocked the lyrics... "I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind" - ummmm, excused me, sir?
mummakush@reddit
It grossed me out to, I’ve mentioned it to my dad, who is in his 70’s and all he can say is that was rock n roll back then! This is also a man who took me to see Judas Priest when I was 12 lol
Patient-Chocolate531@reddit
Ha ha! Nice!
QuttiDeBachi@reddit
Ma ma ma myyyyy Scrotum
LoosePhilosopher1107@reddit
I always hated that one too
Weekly-Batman@reddit
Cars 4 Kidz
Barbarella_ella@reddit
Oh you can go to Hell! Now I have that fcking ear worm evil in my brain!
Ok_Mention_3308@reddit
Didn’t even think of it and my mind goes: Donate Your Kar Today
Scelestus50@reddit
....oh, god DAMMIT
sittinginthesunshine@reddit
UNDER THE BRIDGE BY RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS DEAR GOD
Massive-Molasses3122@reddit
OMG - I know!!!!
middlingachiever@reddit
My 19 yo considers it the RHCP best song, so I think it has a new gen of fans.
scott19692012@reddit (OP)
I can agree
MasLaza@reddit
DOWNVOTE
Massive-Molasses3122@reddit
Under the Bridge!
SnooFloofs9998@reddit
We built this city on rock and roll🤮
SpokeAndMinnows@reddit
God, I’ve always hated this song.
msmika@reddit
I don't know anyone who likes it even a little. How was it such a huge hit?
srboot@reddit
Couldn’t have said it better! Why people would want to listen to the same music for 30-40 years is beyond me. So much great new music.
Duane1968@reddit
Led Zeppelin
Informal_Daikon_9812@reddit
While I will disagree that there are some great songs that rarely get airplay.... but "Stairway to Heaven" needs to back off for a while. I mean I can set my watch by how many times it plays a day on my local classic rock station.
giondddo2@reddit
I never need to hear 4 Non Blondes again
DarkRavenStrollingBy@reddit
I can’t believe how much I still hate that song
zestfullybe@reddit
I never needed to hear it again 30 years ago
arthousepsycho@reddit
SageObserver@reddit
There literally thousands and thousands of good songs, why we need to hear Hotel California anymore is beyond me.
iloathethebus@reddit
Popped in this thread just for this answer.
coopnjaxdad@reddit
Same.
cagirlinoh@reddit
😂
Angry_GorillaBS@reddit
Unless I'm listening to it intentionally I don't really hear that many songs. If I don't want to hear a song on my playlist I just skip it
scott19692012@reddit (OP)
Unfortunately, at my work, we’re still dependent on old-fashioned radio. That’s the only time I hear these songs. Trust me it’s not my choice.
HighSeasArchivist@reddit
Anything by Rush.
iloathethebus@reddit
Lazy_Anxiety_6688@reddit
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY!!! I got tired of it in the 80's, 10 years after it was released. Then Wayne's World. Every generation "discovers" it, and it blows up again. Last time was 2018 with the song as the name of the film. Should be due to "hit" again in the next 5-10. FFS.
Informal_Daikon_9812@reddit
100% Agree. When I first heard the song in the 80s I thought it was so awesomely arranged, and I still do, I just want to hear other Queen songs for a while and keep this one at a distance for a while.
Individual-Army811@reddit
Don't Stop Believin.
dstrick707@reddit
It's like 40 minutes of song just so people can eventually sing Don't Stop Believing. Ain't worth it.
Organic_Tradition_94@reddit
Totally. Never got the hype over this song.
Western-Bad-667@reddit
Any Billy Idol hit.
TinyFugue@reddit
What is old to us is new to other people.
My daughter is in college. A month or so ago she pinged me on a Friday night asking me for songs she didn't know about. I sent her a link to RL burnside's "someday baby".
Bearyconscious@reddit
Parenting done right!
Trypt2k@reddit
They're classics for a reason and new listeners discover them daily and will into the future.
MaintenanceCapable83@reddit
this makes me realize how little i listen to the radio now a days.
ran through a fair amount of the songs posted and can't recall hearing any of them lately if not years.
I think the only song i can truely say i never wish to hear again is "We Built this City" Jefferson Starship (or was it just Starship by then).
I was living in Cleveland back in 85/86 and they were lobbying for the Rock and Roll HOF during thet time and used that song as part of there push. I swear it was played every 15 minutes by every radio station for a solid 12 -18 months.
potsofjam@reddit
Starship has to be one of the saddest downfalls in all of music history. To go from Jefferson Airplane doing Somebody to Love to We Built This City is just maddening.
StormStorySpinner@reddit
We Built this City is a crime. I wish it was never born.
gameraturtle@reddit
I *LOVE* that song. It's the epitome of 80's cheese & I will always go to bat for it. Is the mamba a snake and not a latin dance? Sure it is, and I'm glad the city is built on that snake.
fuzzybunnyslippers08@reddit
Come on Eileen can fuck off and die.
LougieHowser@reddit
you mis-spelled the first word in that title
gameraturtle@reddit
That's disrespecting everyone who came on Eileen.
Makeup_life72@reddit
Don’t stop believing Living on a prayer C’mon Eileen Jessie’s girl Old Time rock n roll Any song by Kid Rock
wizardyourlifeforce@reddit
Jessie's Girl has always, always sucked.
Gabewalker0@reddit
Ugh, it's a creepy weird song about a weak ass beta dude and his infatuation with his friends GF. Can't stand listening to it. 🤣 it's like, dude,get a life.
Makeup_life72@reddit
Hella creepy….”she’s just loving him with that body, I just know it…) Dude is spending his days thinking about their sex life. Gag !!!
Murdy2020@reddit
How often are you guys hearing it, though?
LoosePhilosopher1107@reddit
Free Fallin
MasLaza@reddit
Sadly I kind of feel this way about all tom petty hits
babywhiz@reddit
Well, for me, Paradise City came out when I was trying to get out of a very violent relationship 1100 miles from home.
It’s the only thing that saved me some days!
salomey5@reddit
No song should be retired imo.
Comfortable-Past7766@reddit
Exactly
bavindicator@reddit
The entire play list on any classic rock station.
potsofjam@reddit
If I hear Bad Company one more time, I may go insane.
MasLaza@reddit
All Bon jovi for sure!!
Bosanova_B@reddit
I have tons. Fortunately I don’t listen to a lot of mainstream radio. So I don’t hear many of those songs anymore. What usually makes me frustrated is how many other songs a band has. And radio just sticks to their “hits”. While not much of a fan I’ll site, GNR. They have 4 albums from their heyday and they only play 1 or 2 songs from each of them. At this point radio could stray a bit and play a deeper cut. Same with Nirvana, I don’t need to hear Teen Spirit again. There were 3 other singles on that album that don’t get much airtime anymore.
_Losing_Generation_@reddit
Any song from:
Prince
RHCP
No Doubt
Smashing Pumpkins
90s Aerosmith
Affectionate_Hornet7@reddit
At least with Prince they could do something besides the same 3.
RemyJe@reddit
It’s their fault if anyone never bothers to seek out more than the same 3 played on the radio.
thejake1973@reddit
Prince??!! Heresy!!
oneangrywaiter@reddit
Piano Man and Sweet Home Alabama.
Training-Target-5009@reddit
I've immediately left shops where I was browsing when those dumb Paul McCartney songs come on the speakers. The awful Christmas one. Woo woo, my love does it good, someone's ringing the bell/open the door, in this ever change ng world in which we live in, and many more.
giondddo2@reddit
Take my upvote
arthousepsycho@reddit
The boys are back in town. I know it’s a “classic”, but I find it to be one of the most boring songs ever produced.
anbeasley@reddit
Baby shark
TNSoccerGuy@reddit
Low Rider by War. Frankly anything by ZZ Topp. Sweet Home Alabama.
disturbednadir@reddit
I live in Alabama. I have a theory that it's playing on at least one radio station in the state at any given time.
ancientastronaut2@reddit
Don't you forget and me
theheadofkhartoum627@reddit
American Pie, Stairway to Heaven, Hotel California, Freebird, Dream On,
LoosePhilosopher1107@reddit
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Mile-High-Ahole@reddit
Maybe "Stairway to Heaven" and "Hotel California" just need a 10-year rest
theheadofkhartoum627@reddit
Fair enough..
cricket_bacon@reddit
"Play some Skynyrd, man!"
More_Pineapple3585@reddit
stephpenk@reddit
I still love the guitar solos on Stairway and Hotel California
la_pan_ther_rose@reddit
Oh I love all these songs
Pavementaled@reddit
Why is Margaritaville not in this discussion?
LoosePhilosopher1107@reddit
Good call
OpeningFuture6799@reddit
Because it is not a Gen X song. I get it, many older Gen X like music from the 60s and early to mid-70s but that is Boomer music.
DJNoRequest@reddit
Sweet Caroline
Patient-Chocolate531@reddit
Oh my god, yes. And it almost feels illegal to say you don’t like that song. How did it become so be beloved?
rumhammr@reddit
Hope you’re not a Red Sox fan. Why did it have to be this?? Why not anything else!!
Nicodemus888@reddit
Ba ba baaa 🤮
LoosePhilosopher1107@reddit
Carry…wayward son by Kansas. Enough already lol
gandalfhurstfrodo-42@reddit
Anything by Michael Jackson
mummakush@reddit
Jump by Van Halen! This song was so overplayed, I hate it!!
creyn6576@reddit
Afternoon Delight from the 70s
There’s a whole scene in the movie PCU I can so relate to where he puts Afternoon Delight on repeat and locks the faculty in to have to listen to it as torture.
Also a lot of CCR - my parents loved their albums but I can’t listen to it. Probably overplayed.
shefallsup@reddit
Anything by the Eurythmics.
The_Arch_Heretic@reddit
Any that end up as a fucking commercial jingle.
seigezunt@reddit
Let It Be
Shot-Collection-6656@reddit
YMCA
LoosePhilosopher1107@reddit
Good call!!!!
Renegadegold@reddit
Copperhead road can take a break.
rimshot101@reddit
I was a wedding photographer for 15 years so I could definitely go without hearing "Wonderful Tonight" ever again.
Mariner4LifetilDeath@reddit
I was a wedding DJ. Same. Best part was playing that requested song and knowing the true meaning of it.
Patient-Chocolate531@reddit
True meaning? Isn’t it pretty straight forward?
gardendesgnr@reddit
Back in college (2nd degree so older) my BFF and I had this classmate who attached herself to our group. She had this weird nervous habit of obsessively writing in a notebook, perfect cursive, in the lines, notebook on her lap, always while driving. She listened non-stop to Wonderful Tonight, something about her long distance BF 🙄 she was much younger than we were and always extra dramatic. It was exhausting! I have not once listened to it since haha.
technicallysupportiv@reddit
My senior prom song... I'm not a Clapton fan.
Far_Animal6970@reddit
Holy shit my junior prom. Never cared for the song.
No_Maintenance_9608@reddit
Don’t Stop Believing
Every sports arena plays this as part of their song a long during a game and I’m sick of it.
LoosePhilosopher1107@reddit
Old Time rock ‘n’ roll. Boys of Summer
gatorgopher@reddit
Nah, man. Let Mike Campbell keep earning his royalties for writing the music for Boys of Summer.
GoldaV123@reddit
I have no control over the music that is played at my work so I’m often listening to songs against my will. There is a long list of songs I never want to hear again but I really feel bad for people who work in malls and have to listen to Christmas music for two months of the year. That would be the end of me.
wickedlyzenful@reddit
As a casino dealer I promise you it's not just malls lol
I was over Mariah and her damned Christmas song the first week of November!
ChickinMagoo@reddit
Back in the 1900s, I worked at a Kmart. From Thanksgiving to New Year's, there was a cassette that the store played in the PA. I loath Christmas music because of that cassette. I would leave the store during lunch JUST to blast my own cassette: Master of Puppets on the stock stereo system of my 1984 Nissan Stanza. It always made me feel incrementally less homicidal.
Patient-Chocolate531@reddit
I used to work in an office that played a horrid radio station all the time. I must’ve heard The Piña Colada Song four times a day.
makeup1508@reddit
One Night in Bangkok
Amadeus
Safety Dance
I didn't like those songs in the 80's they can definitely go away now.
Affectionate_Hornet7@reddit
For real I don’t need to hear “Mony Mony” any more times in my life.
Moonshadow306@reddit
Yep. Our local oldies station beat that one and “Doo Wah Diddy” to DEATH. They flatly refused to mix it up a bit.
QueasyTemperature714@reddit
Piano Man
madduxcr@reddit
Don't Stop Believing. Anything by Boston. Overplayed during the 70s.
DooDooCat@reddit
Let’s be more honest… some bands at this point really need to be retired
FrauleinLuesing@reddit
Ummm whenever I hear Europe's Final Countdown I start to twitch. Please make it go away 😂
90Carat@reddit
Eric Clapton "Cocaine". My local classic rock station loves that song. They frequently put it in heavy rotation. It sucks and can go away.
Few-Dragonfruit160@reddit
Most of those Clapton songs. The acoustic version of “Layla” was a revelation because damn I really, really detest the guitar solo in the original. Whiny guitar tone and goes on for EVER.
Embarrassed-Bench392@reddit
Was my "class song" in high school.
Bearyconscious@reddit
I’ve made plenty of mistakes in my life but at least I can rest easy knowing I’ll never be as wrong as the people who commented AC/DC.
ericzku@reddit
Billie Jean
Beat It
When Doves Cry
I heard them enough times in 1983 and 1984 to last several lifetimes.
Prudent_Charge_8101@reddit
Stairway to heaven
Ok_Mention_3308@reddit
Let’s go grab a beer buddy. It’ll be my treat!
ItsMeDaveOpenUp@reddit
Quix66@reddit
Agreed. But I’ve been felt this way.
InsaneClownBossy@reddit
Noooo… I’m not gonna downvote you for this because that’s just mean… but it hurts! I still air-guitar my ass off every time I hear this one 😆
Salty1710@reddit
If I EVER have to hear Sweet Home Alabama or Brown Eye Girl again... I swear. My last cover band would charge $20 to play either from whatever drunk person was shouting it as a request
OpeningFuture6799@reddit
In all honesty, those were early to mid-70s songs, not really our generation.
tacosandtheology@reddit
Clearly, you are not from a small town that only had a classic rock station. Some of us want to commit murder when we hear most classic rock staples.
UnpeeledVeggie@reddit
Don't Stop Believin'. If you’re still singing that at karaoke, you’re either drunk (no judgment) or you’re still stuck in high school.
Ok_Mention_3308@reddit
Judgement here. Absolutely despise this tune.
MoeGard@reddit
I hated that song until the scene in The Losers. Now it makes me smile.
HarryMcW@reddit
Love Shack
ericzku@reddit
Yes, and Groove Is In the Heart too
If these songs are ever played at parties I immediately think the DJ is a fucking hack
cybrgigolo@reddit
Oh let's see:
Blinded me with science The pina colada song Afternoon delight Margaritaville
GooseberryPotato@reddit
Anything by Fleetwood Mac… There I said it...I’m not sorry… and I won’t take it back.
Bohemian Rhapsody makes me want stab someone . I hated Def Leopard back in the day and nostalgia hasn’t helped their cause. See also Poison.
On the flip side… whoever did a remake of Sheena is a Punkrocker as a fucking lounge tune should be forced to listen to Mariah Carey on loop forever as punishment.
Joined by any ad agency, company, spokesperson that ruins a perfectly good song by putting it in a commercial (Will Ferrell/Paypal I’m looking at with the only Fleetwod Mac song that didn’t piss me off)
Ok_Mention_3308@reddit
I’m with you there!
90Carat@reddit
No need to be sorry. I have never like Fleetwood Mac.
StalkingSeattle@reddit
Wayne's World ruined Bohemian Rhapsody for me.
GooseberryPotato@reddit
Yeah, it was on thin ice for me before WW. That was just the final nail in the coffin.
TickingTheMoments@reddit
If you’re hearing those songs over and over again and getting tired of hearing them, perhaps it’s time to change the station/channel you’re listening to and find new/different music.
AnnabellaPies@reddit
In the Netherlands we have a Top 2000 countdown on public TV and radio. Each year expect for 2020 Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen has been #1. It is beyond time to can it. It is at the point we don't even watch till the end anymore and just switch over to RTL4 or CNN
No_Owl_7380@reddit
Is Holiday Rap from MC Miker G/DJ Sven on that list? We were in Curacao a few years ago and I thought it was Madonna when it started and was like WHAT IS THIS….gonna ring rang a dong for a hol-e-day 😆
Ok_Mention_3308@reddit
I say Can It!
IDunnoReallyIDont@reddit
It will never be time for any Queen song to die!
Lewdubs@reddit
My kid loves Bohemian Rhapsody so much he convinced his senior class to make it their class song. That was 2019.
IDunnoReallyIDont@reddit
That’s so awesome!! Ours in ‘93 was We Are The Champions which STILL gives me goosebumps!
Romantic_Road_Kill@reddit
Anything by Molly Hatchet.
Ok_Mention_3308@reddit
Who is this?
Fuzzy-Visit-7453@reddit
Never cared for welcome to the jungle. Retire it please.
Also, fuck Montell Jordan and his “This is how we do-wet”. Totally worthless. Was tired of it YEARS ago.
MaoTseTrump@reddit
Not only do they need to be played every single day as much as possible but you also need to remember what makes rock and roll spectacular and spiritual. Rock and roll doesn't care what your opinion is it's going to go forward without you. I'd hate to think what you say about Chubby Checker.
Cultural-Broccoli-73@reddit
I’m Gen X and agree with op, I thought these songs sucked when they were released.
PNWest01@reddit
Paradise By The Dashboard Light
Livindedgirl-70@reddit
Stop right there!
PNWest01@reddit
AAAAGGHHH!!! NOOOOOO!!!!!
Blue4668@reddit
"It's My Life" the No Doubt version. Still love the Talk Talk 80s version
A lot of the No Doubt/Gwen solo songs could go away & I'd be happier for it.
Ok_Mention_3308@reddit
I’m with you all the way! Always changed the station when No Doubt came on. I pretty much wince every time I hear her voice. Mark Hollis was amazing but her cover was an abomination.
StormStorySpinner@reddit
Talk talk was great.
CharlieTuhna@reddit
Tumbawumba, Tub Thumping, What’s Going On, Steal My Sunshine, I swear Sirius Lithium Channel is taking the piss with these
Edward_the_Dog@reddit
Not Len?! It’s a masterpiece!
sp0rkah0lic@reddit
Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones. I'm not trying to go around cancelling all the questionable rock songs but this one is egregious.
NHmountain-man@reddit
Most things Rush - especially Tom Sawyer. Waayyyy too over played.
And a general comment: so many good bands with HUGE catalogs, only get the same 3 songs played on the air. Feels a lot like the ol' pay-o-la. Think Bob Seger, Guns N Rose's, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Led Zeppelin.....
CommanderSincler@reddit
For some bands/groups/singers it's even worse: reduced to one song
Sorchochka@reddit
I think it’s just the ones that are overplayed. I love Rush, but I stopped liking Tom Sawyer 20 years ago. Same with all the others. Except maybe Led Zepplin, I wouldn’t mind never hearing anything from them again.
These songs are sold to radio stations at dirt cheap prices, so that’s why they always play them over and over.
GooseberryPotato@reddit
I would have mentioned Rush in my rant… but I try to block them from my mind and pretend they don’t exist..
Professional-Lack-36@reddit
I can’t believe Don’t Stop Believin isn’t the vote leader here
justme7256@reddit
Yeah, I hate that I know every lyric to that song but don’t enjoy the song at all.
IBroughtWine@reddit
She’s Only 17 - Winger
Turning Japanese - The Vapors
All In The Name Of - Motley Crüe
Girls - Beastie Boys
LougieHowser@reddit
DO NOT FORGET FUCKING BRASS MONKEY.
bury it, destroy all copies.
hazelquarrier_couch@reddit
Play that funky music white boy is a terrible song, it always has been, and it should leave, quietly.
Jethris@reddit
I disagree, I like the song, and it's fun to drum along with.
standingdesk@reddit
Angel is a Centerfold
ArtistJames1313@reddit
I listen to so much varied music I don't think I would get rid of any song that I used to like just because it's overplayed.
There are definitely musicians and songs I don't like. Taylor Swift is probably at the top of the list, but there are others across all the decades I just never listen to.
Thrashbear@reddit
Anything by Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.
Parallel_Dogs@reddit
Quix66@reddit
Most of Michael or Janet Jackson
Thriller
Billie Jean is the dregs
Nasty
PYT
Old Jackson 5 can stick around though.
CommanderSincler@reddit
PYT especially
AbsolutesDealer@reddit
We can cast the entire Dave Matthews Band catalog into the pits of hell where it belongs.
LoosePhilosopher1107@reddit
The pits of the worst band ever in music history
Comfortable_Home5437@reddit
Magic Carpet ride is in every third commercial. Born to be wild has had its moment too. I’d LOVE those songs to go the eff away.
3-orange-whips@reddit
Audiences love those songs
Sorchochka@reddit
They’re not played because people love them. They’re played because they cost the least amount of money to play.
3-orange-whips@reddit
Not in my band. I’m just telling you my lived experience.
HighPlateau@reddit
"Love Shack"
Comsic_Bliss@reddit
Certainly not the best of their songs but it never fails to get people moving.
FraggleRockYaFaceOff@reddit
ThatGuyHadNone@reddit
Roxanne. Man I love the Police but I absolutely hate this song. Honorable mention to Werewolves in London. Zevon has an entire catalog of better music.
Normal-Philosopher-8@reddit
We have this house on our street that decorates by putting red lights in their front porch and lantern every summer. It stays until it burns out (usually around August) and gets replaced in December. The number of Roxanne parodies we have sung….
NightGod@reddit
I haven't seen a single song in this thread that I don't enjoy listening to occasionally. How much are y'all listening to the same songs on repeat to get burnt out on them?
Junior_Ad_3301@reddit
I'd settle for Hotel California to be erased from human memory. But paradise city being gone would def be a benefit to mankind
rumhammr@reddit
Any Eagles song without Joe Walsh is a no go for me. Also, I’d rather yank my pubes out one by one than listen to Desperado.
Junior_Ad_3301@reddit
Yeah that one is truly horrid
Quix66@reddit
Finally, someone else who doesn’t like this song.
90Carat@reddit
Crazy depressing song.
dingo1967@reddit
Hotel California
Skankhun369@reddit
Anything by AC/DC or Tesla
Haavard-Pettersen@reddit
Put on anything from the streaming charts of last ten years, and many/ most of these songs sound fresh and wonderful.
flagrantF0wl@reddit
Let’s keep the two GNR songs you mentioned and retire November Rain.
AffectionateBite3827@reddit
Never!
MaherMcCheese@reddit
Blasphemy!
banedarthou812@reddit
Jessie’s Girl
phophopho4@reddit
Any Aerosmith forever and ever. Do not need them in the world.
IDunnoReallyIDont@reddit
Love In an Elevator makes me want ice picks in my ears.
phophopho4@reddit
When I moved in with my wife one of my non-negotiable rules was no Aerosmith. I can immediately turn off any Aerosmith. She has the same but for Michael Jackson.
eggs_erroneous@reddit
Agree
Bitter_Ad_9523@reddit
One thing I can appreciate though is several movie soundtracks using 80s songs and bringing them back for a new generation of kids to grow up on.
nonnydingdong23@reddit
Sunglasses at night
OkKnee7580@reddit
Anything Green Day
rumhammr@reddit
Thank you! They’ve always been cheesy pop rock, but their fans think they’re edgy and original.
BurgundyHats@reddit
Door you have the time....blah blah blah blahhhh
OkKnee7580@reddit
See now that damn song is stuck in my head reminding me of that summer of dookie I had to endure
BurgundyHats@reddit
I'm sorry!!! Lol I'm singing it to now. Damnnnn
IDunnoReallyIDont@reddit
Any Bon Jovi song at this point. Any Bruce Springsteen too. All of it can hit the trash. Along with Wang Chung, Peter Gabriel and Madonna’s Material Girl. The rest of her songs are fine.
Tiffany can stay 😂
Brilliant-Onion2129@reddit
Sounds like you hate the 80s in general.
dajacketfanOG@reddit
He recovered with the Tiffany endorsement
Brilliant-Onion2129@reddit
😆 😂 🤣
Bitter_Ad_9523@reddit
You're gonna see Bruce making a come back with the new movie that came out about him. Never liked his music myself.
IDunnoReallyIDont@reddit
Not at all. This post is light-hearted and many are taking it too literal. I love Def Leppard but you don’t see me downvoting or berating others who don’t like them. Not everyone likes every 80’s song and some of these songs are so over-played they become annoying.
thereisnospoon-1312@reddit
Get an iPod, don’t torture yourself with music you don’t like.
That being said, Final Countdown. That song was cheese when it came out, and has aged like milk.
Bitter_Ad_9523@reddit
Europe is such a great band and of course the radio picks up on their most overrated song (Kinda like Owner of a Lonely Heart (Yes)). They had several studio albums after that one.
rumhammr@reddit
Final Countdown makes me think of Gob from Arrested Development, which always makes me laugh. I completely agree that it’s peak cheese, but I love it.
Silly-Mushroom-9377@reddit
Final Countdown is on rotation at my job. I didn’t like it then, don’t like it now. Ear worm.
monstermack1977@reddit
no one has mentioned Tubthumping.
I guess everyone finally decided not to get up again.
IDunnoReallyIDont@reddit
Too busy pissing the night away
Far_Animal6970@reddit
Sounds like someone took the whiskey drink AND the vodka drink
Mac11187@reddit
First one that popped into my mind!
ConsultantForLife@reddit
Donny Boy is out there somewhere still getting backup.
travis-1@reddit
I mean who listens to the radio these days?
Brilliant-Onion2129@reddit
I do since we cancelled SeriousXM!
OpeningFuture6799@reddit
I hate the radio because they play about 25 minutes of ads. I’ve literally spent the 18 minute ride to work listening to ads the whole way with one song played at the beginning or end of the ride.
Brilliant-Onion2129@reddit
I usually listen to the sound of the road anymore.
technicallysupportiv@reddit
I cancelled last year and went to Spotify.
I love my playlists and sometimes get introduced to something new or that I missed in my youth.
Livindedgirl-70@reddit
Anything by REO Speedwagon Bob Dylan John Thorogood
Silver_Smoke1925@reddit
Anything Billy Joel
FlipMyWigBaby@reddit
Far_Animal6970@reddit
lokgy@reddit
I would give anything to not hear guns n roses anymore.
atomicspine@reddit
I agree with most of the nominations so far, but my top song I would love to NEVER hear again is Jesse's Girl. Man, I cannot stand that song. It's been way overplayed for decades.
dajacketfanOG@reddit
Are those two things (overplayed, and your hate) related? They aren’t necessarily the same thing.
But hard to argue the song isn’t played a LOT.
Dry-Improvement-3543@reddit
Friends in Low Places Sweet Caroline Don’t Stop Believing
Auslander808@reddit
AC DC - Shook Me All Night Long. As soon as I hear a tenth of sec of the opening note, I've already played the entire song in my head. I don't need to listen to it again.
IDunnoReallyIDont@reddit
Highway to Hell can take a one way ticket, too.
FuzzyArgument4636@reddit
The State Farm ad with Living on a Prayer has done me in.
meesha_1066@reddit
That commercial is so awful and I’m a huge Bon Jovi fan. What was he thinking…
SphincterBoy1968@reddit
$$$
downwithMikeD@reddit
Love shack baby
IDunnoReallyIDont@reddit
I hope the tin roof rusts and gives them all tetanus.
Realistic-Explorer69@reddit
I quickly turn the station whenever it comes on. Absolutely HATE that song
SnowflakeSWorker@reddit
I hated it when it came out!
smythe70@reddit
I have such an extreme hatred for this song, glad I'm not the only one.
often_awkward@reddit
I don't think any song ever needs to be retired. Every once in awhile you want to feel the nostalgia or something. There's songs I forgot about that I find again. There are many songs I've listened to my whole life that means something completely different now. There are songs I hated in my younger years that I love now.
So I hard disagree. You can choose to stop listening to a song but none of them need to be retired.
MonkeyKingCoffee@reddit
Can't choose to stop listening when Pfizer makes it the jingle for their new face injection wrinkle remover, "Xyopzubik."
Ask your doctor if Xyopzubik is right for you, with the music to We Built this City in the background. "♬♬♬ We shoot Xyopzubik! Shoot Xyopzubik in..to...our cheeks. Shoot Xyopzubik! ♬♬♬"
wyoit@reddit
Yep!
SeaworthinessOk834@reddit
Sweet Home Alabama. For the love of fuck, please stop.
Witty-Reason-2102@reddit
I worked at a warehouse/fulfillment center for a major one retailer for a minute, and for the first 3 days of peak-season (aka Xmas holiday season) they had different DJ's playing tunes to pump us up 🙄😒. They played all played a really bad EDM-remix of Sweet Home Alabama like 2 or 3x a shift. I only disliked that song at that point, but now I hate it with every fiber of my body now.
rockstarSC@reddit
Serious issues you have going on it sounds like
rockstarSC@reddit
Skynyrd Rules. Get over it and change the station
Witty-Reason-2102@reddit
Skinnard sucks donkey balls. Cope harder.
rockstarSC@reddit
You Suck!!!!!! You must be a damn Green Day fan. They are the worst band ever!!!
brandysafinegirl@reddit
Sweet Home Alabama and Man in the Mirror. I swear that I cannot go one day driving to and from work without hearing each of these songs played on the radio. I have about 4 stations I flip back and forth between and guaranteed I’ll hear them both. And I immediately change the station. It’s become a joke at this point.
Financial_Drop_5618@reddit
Man in the Mirror has a message we all need to be reminded of on a regular basis
IDunnoReallyIDont@reddit
Agree!! I don’t think I’ll ever not like that song.
in-a-microbus@reddit
Everything by Taylor Swift
Comsic_Bliss@reddit
Is taylor swift a GenX thing, though?
in-a-microbus@reddit
No. But that wasn't the question
Comsic_Bliss@reddit
It’s a genX sub so I think there’s an assumption and it’s not an unreasonable one.
burndata@reddit
Music should never be retired.
AdmiralJaneway8@reddit
Nothing needs to be retired. All you have to do is hit mute when they come on.
PearArtistic9266@reddit
You Shook Me All Night Long
NoMayoForReal@reddit
Freebird and that stupid long ass song by Peter Frampton.
Brilliant-Onion2129@reddit
Haven’t heard that in years and that is a good thing!
mikess314@reddit
You’re referring to the rock classic “Rooroo ferrr rrerk err ferrr”.
flipflopswithwings@reddit
Everybody Wants to Rule The World
Telio1108@reddit
First, let me say I’m a huge Metallica fan…with that being said ‘turn the page’, the version played by Metallica. It is so overplayed and nowhere near like their original songs.
Waesrdtfyg0987@reddit
Metallica after say 1988 or so needs to go to the wood chipper. I get why they changed to an MTV sound but doesn't mean future generations need to see them that way
90Carat@reddit
Fine, I'll say it. Any Metallica starting at the Black Album through now needs to go.
Excellent-Ad-7394@reddit
Video Killed the Radio Star 🤢
drainbead78@reddit
Evenflow. I don't understand how it was a hit in the first place, much less how it keeps getting more airplay than almost any other PJ song.
maxweb1@reddit
Pour some fucking Sugar in the gas tank already
scarlettskadi@reddit
Of that bloody Chevy Van?
Make it a whole bag
fenwyk@reddit
In the name of love!
Sea_Brush4156@reddit
Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones.
Squirrels_like_me@reddit
Lame
Degenerate874@reddit
Billy Idol’s version of Mony Mony. Every fucking wedding for thirty years…
Individual-Spray-851@reddit
I can't get rid of that one because I so enjoy pissing off everyone on the dance floor by swapping out the profanity in the chorus by yelling "Hey lowlife scumbag, get a job, read a book."
LuceLeakey@reddit
In high school we used to sing, "Hey M*****F*****! Get laid, get f***ed." I have NO idea who we learned it from or how we got away with screaming it at dances in the cafeteria!
Individual-Spray-851@reddit
Yeah, all my friends sang that, but because I'm a contrarian, I sang my own version. Plus, it's just good advice. :-)
sweetbitter_1005@reddit
Not our wedding, we put it on our Do Not Play List! I hate song!!
Old-Introduction-337@reddit
U2 should be included.
AnnabellaPies@reddit
Thank you!
Peas_Are_Upsidedown@reddit
Sweet Caroline. That song AND Neil Diamond can both f%@$ straight off. I have a few songs that could go, but I despise this song so much, we're gonna focus solely on this. F$@^ that song, him, and anyone that helped work on it.
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scott19692012@reddit (OP)
Gotta admit Sweet Carolina is on my edge of retiring as well
Carrollz@reddit
Couldn't agree more, but there was never a time I thought otherwise.
Fluffy_Let_9158@reddit
I couldn't have articulated this any better.
Revolutionary_Cry884@reddit
Summer of ‘69, Jack and Diane, Hotel California…
marshdd@reddit
I've never liked Hotel California.
Gloomy_Mulberry7834@reddit
I had a rough night and I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man!
BikeAshamed9713@reddit
Gloomy_Mulberry7834@reddit
contextual_somebody@reddit
It seems to have died, but anyone who was school aged when The Greatest Love of All was a scourge.
Mysterious_Winter164@reddit
OK - so this leads me to wonder something.
Growing up in the 80's, one of the highlights of mixers & dances were always "The Slow Songs." I remember the top 40 was often maybe .... 20% ballads and slow songs (like "Greatest Love of All,") which made it into the school dance rotation where one might teeter awkwardly with your 7th grade crush.
Is the "Slow Dance" still a thing or did that sort of fade away like all trends do?
contextual_somebody@reddit
They played The Greatest Love of All by Whitney Houston at dances? That’s… evil
Realistic-Explorer69@reddit
Agree! And it had the nerve to be a lot of kids elementary school graduation song. Like, what??? Ughhhh
AuNaturellee@reddit
It's easy to believe
81FXB@reddit
The complete oeuvre of Elvis. Like that old dirty mattress with the brownish yellowish stains, it belongs in a landfill.
Free_Break8482@reddit
But what about the next Thor movie?
D0kk3n@reddit
Her Strut - Bob Segar. Cumulus stations play it every day, sometimes twice. My local station has to play it every weekday morning at 10:16 a.m. You can set your watch.
cmt38@reddit
Everybody Wants To Rule The World. Done. Beyond over it.
kcfdr9c@reddit
I nominate Life in the Fast Lane
Quix66@reddit
Oh, that was my favorite in the 4th or 5th grade. But I can see your point now. Didn’t age well.
Now Hotel California has always been dreadful.
HandheldObsession@reddit
Surely make you lose your mind
Professional-Bar9947@reddit
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston The Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion
InsaneClownBossy@reddit
No Woman No Cry after taking a big fat bong rip? Give it a try for old-time’s sake 😂
MonkeyKingCoffee@reddit
I'll take every rotten song in these comments on all-day repeat over John Mellencamp's "Jack and Diane" even one more time.
Repetitive music. And lyrics which appeal to the people who were the bullies in high school.
goldinox@reddit
Thanks for that ear worm 🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
MonkeyKingCoffee@reddit
ikr -- it's so much worse than "We Built this City."
Quix66@reddit
Nothing is worse than We Built this City. The nadir.
MonkeyKingCoffee@reddit
I would rather listen to that for 12 hours straight, on repeat, with no breaks, at full volume, -- than one more spin of the suckin' on chili dogs song.
Telio1108@reddit
Anything Bon Jovi. I was a fan back in the day but I was so tired of hearing ‘shot through the heart’
Telio1108@reddit
Also I’m a huge Alice In Chains fan, but Rooster is still so overplayed.
phophopho4@reddit
A few years ago I was at the the grocery store and I heard "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" a song that couldn't have been more overplayed in the 80s and I wanted to never hear it again but it'd been so long since I'd heard it that I came to it with fresh ears and loved it. Now if I ever hear (which happens rarely) I like it. This also happened for me with "take me home tonight" by Eddie Money and Ronnie Spector.
Intrepid_Practice956@reddit
I wouldnt mind it if I never heard Fleetwood Mac ever again
SufficientShake9904@reddit
Id be ok with that. Theres like 2 songs by them I like and still barely listen to and neither are sung by stevie
What_the_mocha@reddit
Well then, just go your own way.
Salt_Introduction_86@reddit
Mambo # 5
Adventurous_Bad_3421@reddit
Stephen King would like to have a word with
AuNaturellee@reddit
Can you please elaborate on this?
Adventurous_Bad_3421@reddit
Lore has it that he was obsessed with this song to the point that his long suffering wife threatened divorce over it
Legal-Intention-6361@reddit
All i want for Christmas is you
MotherOf4Jedi1Sith@reddit
I HATED this song until I heard MCR cover it and that when I figured out it wasn't the song but was Mariah Carey. So, I wouldnt mind keeping MCR's version!
scott19692012@reddit (OP)
So true
Efficient_Let686@reddit
Okay I definitely agree with this one. I’m so sick of that song, it’s way over played and way over copied.
CrankyDoo@reddit
At least that one is seasonal.
twodiagonals@reddit
Ragebait!
Horses_arse_7@reddit
Sweet Caroline, American pie, and Don’t Stop Believing. I never understood how humans in a bar all snap to and sing these songs like it’s supposed to happen. Like, I’ve never ever actually heard those songs without a bunch of drunk assholes singing it. It’s embarrassing. Learn some other songs.
phophopho4@reddit
Years ago I went to a karaoke booth in NYC and we sand Don't Stop Believing. It was great, none of us had heard the song in many years. Around this time there was a big resurgence in it (kind of like what happened with Bohemian Rhapsody after Wayne's World). I heard the song everywhere and I've just heard it enough, never need it again.
Low_Cook_5235@reddit
Forgot Piano Man.
Deufuss@reddit
FFS, Born to be Wild! We need to make a commercial to sell something to boomers. Hey, I know what we should do - how about we put some blue-hairs in a convertible with BTBW playing?
Pleasant_Garlic8088@reddit
I mean, the days of being "forced" to listen to over-played, over-hyped songs because radio was the primary option are long over. If you don't care to hear "Living On A Prayer," you could avoid it pretty easily at this point, unless you go to a wedding or something like that.
But yeah, there are definitely songs out there that I love, but if I never hear them again I won't shed a tear.
scott19692012@reddit (OP)
I know but I’m stuck at work with the radio as only option and I am guaranteed to hear Paradise City Welcome to the Jungle and Sweet child of mine even if I only work 4 to 5 hours
Pleasant_Garlic8088@reddit
Well, still beats a "modern country" station, seems to me.
Top-Opportunity1280@reddit
Oh you’re Half away There!
WildlifePolicyChick@reddit
Sweet Caroline
BWWFC@reddit
\ O_o/
Warm
Touching warm
Reachin' out
Touchin' me, touchin' you
WildlifePolicyChick@reddit
LOL
What_the_mocha@reddit
Best answer.
Mistervimes65@reddit
How I loathe this song.
UnderwhelmingAF@reddit
If I never hear Baby Got Back again, I’d be a happy man.
ezgomer@reddit
tbodillia@reddit
It's on my gym play list, but I haven't heard that in decades elsewhere.
accountforcatsonly@reddit
GNR brings me so many good memories of when I was a kid, so I'm gonna have to say no, but I agree all Bon Jovi songs can
jeepster61615@reddit
Aha - Take on me. Never liked that song
Princess_Parabellum@reddit
OMG I thought I was the only person who couldn't stand Take On Me. The title doesn't even make sense ffs.
not_a_moogle@reddit
But that music video! Lots of squiggly lines!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HE9OQ4FnkQ
jeepster61615@reddit
It sucked, too
not_a_moogle@reddit
Which is not what I linked :)
Local-Friendship8166@reddit
It will be gone. In a day or two.
VanceAstrooooooovic@reddit
All KISS songs, every single KISS song is the same lyric repeated a gazillion times over and over
Cominghome74@reddit
Wrong
PsychologicalRead390@reddit
Life is a highway Tom Kochrane and what’s up 4 non blondes
gbr1976@reddit
I give you the upvote for "What's Up", but Tom Cochrane's original "Life is a Highway" is a favorite. I'll listen all the way through every time (I admit bias - I'm a fan of both Tom Cochrane and Red Rider). The cover versions from Chris LeDoux or Rascall Flats...not so much.
sjmiv@reddit
Excellent suggestions. I worked a job for years where I had to hear Life is a Highway waay too often.
jrob321@reddit
The Stroke by Billy Squier.
There was no need for it when it was released, and why it still gets daily rotation on Classic Rock radio stations (I'm talking to you WPDH in Poughkeepsie) is beyond comprehension.
Engine_Sweet@reddit
Must be regional, I have heard it in years. It would probably be amusingly nostalgic in St Paul.
But yeah, on repeat, no thanks.
SDVD-SouthCentralPA@reddit
Wagon wheel. Sorry Darrius
MacSteele13@reddit
Other Journey, I can't think of any
Princess_Parabellum@reddit
Foreigner can get in the bin with Journey
Appropriate-Excuse79@reddit
Almost all RHCP at this point. Modern radio completely abused them to the point I turn the channel when I hear them.
Living-Video-3670@reddit
The handful of AC/DC songs they play over and over.
GuaranteeNo1809@reddit
You heard one song you’ve heard them all, they are all the same aren’t they
wiseoldprogrammer@reddit
“Back in Black”?
egad9@reddit
Funny you should mention those songs - my 10 year old daughter’s cover band is playing 2 of those 3 songs right now. What may be old and tired to you is shiny and new to younger generations.
ButcherBird57@reddit
Billy Joel, Captain Jack
moneyman74@reddit
You can completely avoid this song? Considering I know every Billy Joel hit and never heard this song...you would have to search this out to listen to it?
ButcherBird57@reddit
I used to have an hour long commute to and from school, and somehow that damn song was always on the radio....I never recovered.
moneyman74@reddit
I can only imagine it being overplayed in long Island or Connecticut or somewhere NYC related? I live in Indiana and they do play a little deeper john Mellencamp but only like 4 or 5 more songs than nationally
ButcherBird57@reddit
It was suburban Philadelphia, guess it was close enough. The only John Mellencamp song I can even remember is Little Pink Houses, unless...was he the one who sang the "little ditty bout Jack and Diane?" 😬
deadzol@reddit
It’s on the greatest hits, only reason I ever paid attention to it.
monstermack1977@reddit
I don't know if I've ever heard that one on the radio or played literally anywhere. I know the song, I mean, how can you not know a song that actually has the word masturbate in it...but to say its overplayed...eh
Now if you had said Piano Man, that'd make sense.
ButcherBird57@reddit
That one too
Mysterious_Winter164@reddit
Nothing will make me reach for the radio dial faster than hearing a single note of Billy Joel.
GenX50PlusF@reddit
That’s a deep cut.
MotherOf4Jedi1Sith@reddit
Sweet Homa Alabama. ESPECIALLY when you don't live in Alabama!
scott19692012@reddit (OP)
So many taking my post seriously, people it was put out there for pure entertainment value hearing other peoples opinions on their overplayed music, don’t worry no official will be retired
KeepYourMindOpen365@reddit
DONT.STOP.BELIEVING…should have been retired in the 80’s ffs
rhOMG@reddit
Gonna have to argue this one. Sorry.
KeepYourMindOpen365@reddit
We can agree to disagree…✌️
Downtown_Map_2482@reddit
Sweet Caroline. Brown Eyed Girl. Mustang Sally.
All the typical bar band songs that are completely overplayed to the point where you can’t even hear them as music anymore.
DITguy819@reddit
Anything from 1969-1990 can go
WildlifePolicyChick@reddit
That's...quite a bit of music.
DITguy819@reddit
Ok. You’re right. Any rock music.
fenwyk@reddit
That's the only music I'd keep.
Excellent_Rock4296@reddit
Holding out for a hero 🦸 🤮
evasion-guard@reddit
Excellent_Rock4296 evading a ban is bad, m'kay.
tbodillia@reddit
OK, your membership has been revoked! Get off my lawn!
Welcome to the Jungle intro still gives me chills.
wiseoldprogrammer@reddit
“Free Bird”!
rbarr228@reddit
The redneck Magnum Opus
rockstarSC@reddit
Problem???
rockstarSC@reddit
That's un-American. Freebird always gets cranked up when it comes on the radio. 🤘🤘🤘🤘
wiseoldprogrammer@reddit
I loved “Free Bird” (and “Stairway”) in college; I was a college DJ and those were the top two “bathroom” songs to play when nature called!
Choice_Student4910@reddit
Biggest rock hits of our generation. They will continue to be played long after we’re dead.
So no, I say these songs can keep playing on repeat. Let the kids know our music was better than theirs.
scott19692012@reddit (OP)
Well of course they are going to played forever, my post is just songs people are totally tired of, it’s not to be taken so seriously and to actually consider retiring any song for real
sbfb1@reddit
I will never say retire anything, because all those bits and pieces of music make up the generation, but if Bruce Springsteen didn’t exist, I would not be sad about it.
SnowflakeSWorker@reddit
I love Bruce the Douche (nickname a former co-worker who was from NJ called him), lol 😂
Melissaschwart@reddit
Same
Sudden-Motor-7794@reddit
I've had enough of ragtime. Don't need to hear The Entertainer ever again. Maple Leaf Rag, either.
Comsic_Bliss@reddit
Yeah - the oldies stations are so saturated with that stuff that it’s out of control.
fenwyk@reddit
Scott Joplin is one thing, but of you go after my Jimmy or Tommy Dorsey or Count Basie those will be fighting words.
SnowflakeSWorker@reddit
I live near a school. Like, the same block. The GD ice cream truck, all spring/summer/fall playing the Entertainer drives me bonkers, lol. I WFH, and on a nice day when the window is open, I swear, the guy just drives around my block for hours.
maelstrom75@reddit
Kool & the Gang should have never been hired to begin with.
Cinisajoy2@reddit
And oddly enough those songs rarely come on what I listen too.
If you don't like a song skip it.
QueasyCaterpillar541@reddit
Every Smash Mouth song.
N47881@reddit
Led Zeppelin entire catalog
Intrepid_Practice956@reddit
Wouldn't mind that...
eyehate@reddit
Loved the 80s. Loved grunge. Loved the 70s classics.
But ALL of that shit is so played out.
Retired all of it.
Awesome new music is everywhere. Spotify, YouTube - music is, was, and always will be amazing. No sense in replaying the same stuff we heard over and over and over growing up.
08_West@reddit
Summer of ‘69
RealityDependency@reddit
Appetite for Destruction is the greatest hard rock album of the generation. Insane to say that it's contents should be retired.
scott19692012@reddit (OP)
Cmon don’t take it so seriously, they are over played, it’s not to be taken as if we should never hear them again for real
SXTY82@reddit
None. There is plenty of music I love that other's hate and vice versa.
I am not a person that believes everything in the world has to fit into my 'like' list. Other people may like things I do not.
Financial_Drop_5618@reddit
Nope! I want to hear it all again. I’m not dead yet.
KurtStation68@reddit
Everytime I watch hockey I hear the same 80s rock anthems, maybe part of it is they're trying to hit our demographics - but yes, most should be retired.
I'm sure the 90s must have some fresh pounding tunes
Antique-Mixture-8835@reddit
Sweet Home Alabama
Hotel California
Bohemian Rhapsody
Turn the page
donaldtrumpshearts@reddit
Redditors actually made me hate bohemian rhapsody. Also their sad obsession with johnny cash’s version of hurt
TheBklynGuy@reddit
These can stay. Just yesterday that awful "I'm a barbie girl" song came on. So GnR gets forced into retirement and Aquarium gets to stay?
fire-horse-@reddit
Do you think our parents were all saying oh I’m so sick of the little Nash rambler or whatever, let’s retire it! Lol I’m cracking up. I’d remove it from my playlist
Dazzling-Bear3942@reddit
God damn so many of you are so miserable. Just skip the songs that you dont want to hear.
Melissaschwart@reddit
Do you have to use the lord’s name in vain?
Dazzling-Bear3942@reddit
I suppose I don't have to. I'm not a believer but if it offends you I'll try and not do it in our conversation anymore.
Antique-Mixture-8835@reddit
I’m sure most people do if possible. Sometimes you hear them in situations that don’t allow you to skip. Like the grocery store, wedding reception, work radio….
Dazzling-Bear3942@reddit
My God you are talking about just being out in public! Yes sometimes you are going to see and hear some things that you don't love 100%. You may even see and hear some things you loathe or find morally repugnant. If the worst part of your day is hearing a three minute song you no longer enjoy at the grocery store you are living pretty well.
CinnyToastie@reddit
Right? I dislike so many of them, too, but luckily in this day and age, you can skip. Skip the song, skip the station, change the mode from xm to fm..
BmanGorilla@reddit
I'm stuck listening to the local classic rock station at work, I hear those three songs OP named EVERY SINGLE DAY.
NtL_80to20@reddit
they play that shit at the funking grocery store. how the hell are we supposed to skip it ?
Dazzling-Bear3942@reddit
Just accept your difficult road ahead of occasionally having to hear Bon Jovi in the background while buying your Centrum Silver and prunes.
Antique_Assumption25@reddit
Anything Metallica can go.
ErNz77@reddit
From 1991 & beyond
tanhauser_gates_@reddit
In your world maybe.
Keep playing everything.
BackwoodsCabin11@reddit
Yeah, I don't need to hear anymore goddamned guns n roses.
Melissaschwart@reddit
I hate that word.some people don’t want the lord’s name in vain read that
ExcellentGuarantee82@reddit
None. Change the station if it bothers you. JFC
whipla5her@reddit
What's a "station"? lol
rbarr228@reddit
Locally, the songs mentioned in the original post are classic rock radio station staples, like finding flour, salt, sugar, and rice in the pantry. No matter how much of those we use, the pantry never seems to be emptied.
Zealousideal_Owl642@reddit
Living on a Prayer - 💯 agree with OP
Eye of the Tiger - OMG, so sick of this song
PaulyRocket68@reddit
I was sick of Eye of Tiger within a week of its release. Awful song.
Bulky_Document_7877@reddit
Anything by Bon Jovi
moneyman74@reddit
There are lots of songs that have been overplayed for nearly 50 years but there will never be some definitive decision to just quit playing them for every person that is sick of them there is a casual listener who still turns up the radio anytime they are on.
Pavementaled@reddit
As someone who has worked in retail, even songs you like will eventually start to cause you feelings of hatred towards them if you hear them 9 times a day 250 days a year, which comes out to 2,250 times annually.
I used to love "Easy" (easy like Sunday Morning) by The Commodores, but wait till you hear it on a busy Sunday morning multiple times. And then, think about the songs that you really dislike. For me it was Margaritaville... 9 times every day, 45 times per week, 195 times per month, 2,250 times a year.
cricket_bacon@reddit
Yes, "Owner of a Lonely Heart"
Sheena Easton, "Morning Train"
Stevie Wonder, ""I Just Called to Say I Love You""
Grateful Dead, "Touch of Grey"
The Beach Boys, "Kokomo"
thiswasyouridea@reddit
My baby takes the morning TRAIN!
He works from nine to five and THEN!
He takes another home AGAIN!
To find me waiting for him!!!!
cricket_bacon@reddit
STOP!!
thiswasyouridea@reddit
repeated indefinitely
cricket_bacon@reddit
ARGGHHHH!!
Good_Oil2942@reddit
I need to stay out of this. My new workplace plays a classic rock radio station 24/7 and I swear to god I hear the same 50 songs over and over - I've lost any kind of reasonable perspective.
bjb8@reddit
You know it is interesting, we have a local rock station I have been listening to for a bit while doing some renovations. It is the same, so much to choose from but every time I turn it on I hear the same songs. Bruce Springsteen anyone??
Good_Oil2942@reddit
I'd love to know the logic behind the formula used to curate these playlists.
Kymkryptic@reddit
James Taylor follows me into every freaking store I walk into.
ExcellentHorror9025@reddit
Pour some sugar on me
Coming from a big Dead Flat Bird fan
scott19692012@reddit (OP)
Another one I agree with
Fillmore80@reddit
I would like to keep welcome to the jungle please.
Lighteningbug1971@reddit
I agree with your choice
Taranchulla@reddit
So Happy Together. Please, I beg of you, no more.
JonnyCotati@reddit
Dude... The Turtles? Et tu, Brutus?
Taranchulla@reddit
😂
Sorry, that song gets on my last nerve.
murfnstuff@reddit
Add to this "Sweet Child of Mine". Wouldn't be sad if this one went away for good. Even GnR would be like "sweet, we're soooo tired of playing it"
jonrosling@reddit
Sweet Caroline. Fucking sick of hearing it.
darkofnight916@reddit
Avoid going on a cruise ship, you will hear it multiple times, usually in karaoke.
Mysterious_Winter164@reddit
"ba ba ba."
Mooseguncle1@reddit
Who else thought that this would be an oldies situation by now? The easy listening stations are really playing out the 80-2010 as one big decade
Mysterious_Winter164@reddit
"...the 80's, 90's, and today's hot hits!"
Snake_Blumpkin@reddit
So much Led Zeppelin
CK-1972@reddit
What is wrong with you?!!
Snake_Blumpkin@reddit
We’ve been listening to the same 4 Led Zeppelin songs for 50 years. It’s time.
HectorsMascara@reddit
As much as I loved it, their boxed set was not a good thing. I should have bought the albums and appreciated them as originally constructed. Didn't help that I always seemed to turn on the radio just in time for a "Get the Led Out" rock-block.
I still have a hard time enjoying most of Zeppelin's best-known songs. I'm finally getting over a similar problem with the Stones -- glad they only had a 2-disc greatest hits in the '90s.
CK-1972@reddit
No “whole lotta love” to you then🤣
TwistedMemories@reddit
Probably all of them. I honestly don’t listen to songs from my youth unless it’s in the techno, electronica or those genre. Even now the only music on my playlist are from EDM and others in the genre.
There are good memories and bad memories that I don’t care to revisit.
StandByTheJAMs@reddit
How about Stadium House?
HeavyTea@reddit
I agree. Great, but so overplayed.... because they are great.
A loop!!!
Historical_Ad_3356@reddit
Just don’t listen to those songs. Don’t retire anything and take it away from younger generations
timdisselkoen@reddit
I don't listen to radio or go to bars with djs, so I just don't hear them, except occasionally while shopping.
clauderbaugh@reddit
I'm not generally in favor of retiring music, because it's always useful somewhere. That said, there's a few modern day songs I'd like to see snapped out of existence and most of them because TikTok made them cancerous. I'm looking at you "OH NO!"
afschmidt@reddit
Elton John... Saturday Night is NOT the night for fighting.
timdisselkoen@reddit
No. But now I'm gonna hafta fight ya on a Monday! /j
CampPineCone@reddit
Stairway to Heaven
Hotel California
Jack and Diane
Gimme All Your Lovin
AcceptableSuit9328@reddit
I hate Hotel California so much.
Extension-Rabbit3654@reddit
vmflair@reddit
Anything by Katy Perry.
DistantBethie@reddit
As long as Every Rose Has Its Thorn goes away I can forgive the overplayment of the rest.
StandByTheJAMs@reddit
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" was the headline I put on our Middle School paper article about Pete Rose's gambling scandal. But yes I'd love never hearing that song again.
skeeter_333@reddit
I could go the rest of my whole life without ever hearing Back in Black or You Shook Me ever again.
RockSteady65@reddit
I’m with you 100% on those two, and I’ll add Have a drink on me. As a matter of fact, fuck that whole album while we’re at it.
skeeter_333@reddit
As far as AC/DC goes, if it doesn’t have Bon Scott and bagpipes in it, then I’ll hard pass.
SatanicPanic619@reddit
Beastie Boys- Girls
It's fucking stupid and I don't even think they're proud of it anymore
monstermack1977@reddit
but then how would I know who should do the dishes, or clean up my room, or the laundry, and in the bathroom?
Pavementaled@reddit
And don't even think about what they did to that poor sheriff's daughter with the wiffleball bat...
ikediggety@reddit
I've worked in corporate events for 20 years so my list is: - taking care of business - beautiful day - let's get it started - we are family
alabamaterp@reddit
Dear God, my ears would bleed
EverythingScrolling@reddit
HAHAHAHA! I'm a corporate event planner, so I get it.
vbtodenver@reddit
lol another corporate event planner here
Aldisra@reddit
Come on Eileen
SatanicPanic619@reddit
I hate that song so much. It's the most annoying song ever written, even surpassing that 500 miles song.
Fluffy_Let_9158@reddit
More annoying than Sweet Caroline? I mean both are at a highly annoying but Sweet Caroline is another level entirely.
SatanicPanic619@reddit
The fiddles put it over the top for me
Kymkryptic@reddit
I do love the famous god-awful live version.
Mill-Work-Freedom@reddit
Wagon wheel
merryjester@reddit
I hanker for a hunk-a… a slab or slice or chunk-a… I hanker for a hunk-a cheese yahoo! (?)
CeleryintheButt@reddit
My Wife and I were listening to a 90's playlist during a road trip and pretty much enjoyed all the songs, but when "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman came on we both reached for the skip button so fast.
alabamaterp@reddit
Yeah, I remember when Fast Car hit the airwaves, it was played out fast. Even if you changed the station it was only a few songs away from it being played again.
Its_noon_somewhere@reddit
I only recently discovered that song when it was covered by Luke Combs at an awards show. I had not heard of Tracy Chapman prior. I bought both artists versions and love it. Must not have been played on the radio where I grew up.
the-other-greg@reddit
I agree
CAtwoAZ@reddit
Omg, I love Fast Car. Lol
CaughtALiteSneez@reddit
Everyone does, this couple is weird ;)
2workigo@reddit
I’m so over Stairway to Heaven. It’s still in regular rotation on every rock radio station in my area. Even the ones who say they play rock from the 90s on. I’m happy it’s still available for the young folks to discover but I don’t need to hear it anymore.
AuNaturellee@reddit
There's a lady who's sure.
Ok_Addendum_5853@reddit
Ugh.. anything by Kiss.
CK-1972@reddit
A couple…you are optimistic!
Ok_Addendum_5853@reddit
Hahaha.. ok. Youre right.
Engchik79@reddit
I will fight you. These songs are my anthems ESP welcome to the jungle and livin on a prayer.
Pavementaled@reddit
eskimogerman@reddit
Red Hot Chili Peppers, all of them.
Extension-Rabbit3654@reddit
Our local rock station plays them on repeat and I never got the hype
Its literally the same some song, same theme every single album
Something something California, California
We get it, youre from California, we dont care
1967punisher@reddit
So you ... Don't believe the hype !!!
Bidesign54@reddit
Amen! 🙏
Aligned-Askew6773@reddit
Rock the Casbah. The Clash has a wonderful catalog of great music and Rock the Casbah is probably one of their worst tunes and I’d be fine never hearing it again.
AuNaturellee@reddit
Sheriff don't like it
RMW91-@reddit
Brown Eyed Girl
Mustang Sally
alabamaterp@reddit
Ugh, every small bar cover band and karaoke night
lydiawhitacre@reddit
Yes I am also tired of those songs.
1967punisher@reddit
Anything from Saturday night fever ...
HoosierLarry@reddit
Every single Bruce Hornsby song or collaboration with him. His piano playing is like nails on a chalkboard.
not_a_moogle@reddit
Thats just the way it is
GenX50PlusF@reddit
Kind of a depressing song
not_a_moogle@reddit
Tupac's version is even more so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXvBjCO19QY
Shaxpere@reddit
Some things will never change
monstermack1977@reddit
me reading through this thread seeing if there are any songs I don't already have on my phone that I forgot about.
KilroySmithson@reddit
Sweet Caroline.
CheeseburgerSmoothy@reddit
Sweet Caroline. That song needs to be erased. Or at least the audience participation requirement.
not_a_moogle@reddit
Yeah, I refuse to the sing the audience part!
ludlowfair@reddit
That song is musical violence
Hifi-Cat@reddit
Ditto.
Ok-Bar601@reddit
Blasphemer!
Jokes aside, I actually didn’t dig Living on a Prayer when I was a teenager. It wasn’t until I was in my 30s and at some get together I realised I fucking love that song!😆
smythe70@reddit
Right, I had a college friend that loves them and I was like wtf, but now I get it, I really like Dead or Alive too 🤷♀️
Jenniflower17@reddit
Anything from Grease
425565@reddit
Seven Nation Army
GenX50PlusF@reddit
I’ve heard it played by a high school band during Friday night lights.
moneyman74@reddit
This song probably would have come and gone if not for sports adopting it so widely. Mr. Brightside is now the same.
Fritzo2162@reddit
I will forever join that air guitar army.
One-Rip2593@reddit
You do have the ability to, you know, stop playing them.
Ok_Responsibility419@reddit
We Built This City is the worst… but music is subjective and one person’s trash is another’s treasure
GenX50PlusF@reddit
Marconi plays the mamba!
bungle094@reddit
Yeah but that song is trash on trash.
anitaapplebaum@reddit
That's just what happens when you
LISTEN TO THE RADIO
DON'T YOU REMEMBER
....
TinyFugue@reddit
Yeah but we built this set he sucked back when it first came out.
A_friend_called_Five@reddit
Or in my case it's both trash and treasure to me. You can point out all the things wrong with it lyrically and thematically, but gosh darn it, it gets me pumped every time it comes on. If this song is shit, I will gobble up a whole toilet bowl full and call it ambrosia.
Odd_Policy_3009@reddit
This song makes my ears bleed lol
Either-Bumblebee4372@reddit
Every single Christmas song
not_a_moogle@reddit
How can you hate these?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCHMnEjEseo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMA-D9LLiuk
Rumblebully@reddit
For me, it’s anything Ozzy.
CK-1972@reddit
You’re strange…
tequilasundae@reddit
Don't Stop Believin
gallanttalent@reddit
Oh Christ I was bartending at a place with a jukebox during the sopranos finale. I heard that song complete with off tune loud ass sing along like 30x a night. I hate it to this day.
lydiawhitacre@reddit
Don't Stop Believin'. So tired of that song
FormerCollegeDJ@reddit
I have to ask - don’t many of you have an MP3 player with a large collection of songs you previously bought and/or a Pandora account with personalized radio stations based on songs you DO like and/or a SiriusXM subscription?
I haven’t listened to commercial, terrestrial radio on a regular basis since I bought my current car in early 2018.
StandByTheJAMs@reddit
I have a few on my QNAP
[/share/Archive] # find . -name "*mp3" | wc -l
278489
But I literally only listen to YouTube or Apple Music these days. I paid to upload some tracks (mostly KLF and Radio One Essential Mixes) to the Apple cloud so I could listen to them with CarPlay.
sane-asylum@reddit
Me neither but sometimes shit happens. You could be out or with friends in their car. My fellow, now 50 year old, Gen X er had her party Saturday and played all alternative and grunge and I couldn’t get away.
88secret@reddit
Piano Man Really anything by Billy Joel, but definitely that one
DrKlahnsRightHandMan@reddit
I have noticed a recent uptick in Piano Man on my usual station. It was relatively rare until about a month ago, then it must have made the playlist, because now I hear it every morning without fail and most afternoons.
wetwater@reddit
About 30 years ago a building I worked in piped in a soft rock station throughout the building. I heard Piano Man multiple times a shift. The station's play list was not very deep at all and I came away hating a handful of songs that still lingers decades later.
grn_eyed_bandit@reddit
Cotton Eyed Joe..
This House (in the middle of the street)
Just shoot me 😐
bear1520@reddit
I get annoyed when I hear 80’s tunes in those pharmaceutical commercials. Same tune but they change the lyrics for the whatever drug they are pushing. That needs to stop.
hankenator1@reddit
What I’m wondering is does every pharmaceutical company use the same ad agency?
If you pay attention, every single one has a color theme. Whatever color/colors are in their company/drug logo is the primary color people are wearing in the commercial.
Take jardiance, their logo is green and yellow and everyone is wearing either green or yellow. If you start looking this is an incredibly common theme in 90% of pharmaceutical commercials.
Resident-Condition-2@reddit
omg this. I hate this so much.
Russian_Doll_888@reddit
I see a lot of people staying "just skip the song/change the staying" but I think what OP is getting to is the constant reuse of these songs in so many ways. For instance, I don't think I've watched a football game in the last 30 years without them rolling out "welcome to the jungle" when the home team runs out. It's just tired and old and people who do marketing or events like this need to find new songs. It's just lame at this point.
Juanfartez@reddit
100% agree with you. So many short form videos (TikTok, Instagram,etc) will use a techno remix of Freebird or worse Cranberries Zombie with the latter completely out of context to the lyrics.
7eregrine@reddit
Anything Nirvana. Had 2 good albums 30 years ago. Local alt radio station plays something daily.
Hellolaoshi@reddit
I was going to say this too. Nirvana seemed so depressing. It was okay at the very start, but even in 1992, the long dirge was annoying.
7eregrine@reddit
These people love Nirvana. I'mnliterally the only top level comment that has downvotes. 🤣
Mentioned it before in a similar post .. and same.
I don't give AF about DVs... But wtf GenX... it's my valid opinion.
grn_eyed_bandit@reddit
This is how we do it….
UGHHHHHH
separate_lie@reddit
Bob Marley. I said it.
evility@reddit
If I never hear Hallelujah again I will say exactly that.
ludlowfair@reddit
The best is when people sing or play it in a religious context. IT'S NOT A HYMN Y'ALL.
jesus_chen@reddit
Stop listening to old ass music in general.
7eregrine@reddit
Thank you! My god I'm the only one with Downvotes because I dared to say Nirvana...
Such-Call-7564@reddit
As fractured as media is nowadays, if you’re hearing a song too often it’s on you. It’s not like we are limited to a handful of radio stations and a handful of network tv channels anymore. It’s very easy to get something completely different with little effort. There really isn’t anything I hear too often.
Its_noon_somewhere@reddit
For me it’s hockey arenas, where the playlist always includes ‘who let the dogs out’ and ‘we will rock you’ and there is no escape.
raulmonteblanco@reddit
Ours always turns out the lights and plays Styx-Renegade before the 3rd period. I can only hear this song so many times in one lifetime. If I never hear it again I think I would be ok.
PsychologicalLowe@reddit
I loved hearing Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting at a hockey game and first time I appreciated it.
Such-Call-7564@reddit
Yeah… those do get repetitive. At least for the sports I go to, the music is brief. And I’m normally not paying much attention to it. So they don’t really bother me. But they are definitely a situation where it’s repetitive.
Hotcakes420@reddit
What’s up - 4 non blondes
If I never hear that song again I’d be happy.
No_Letterhead6883@reddit
Omg I feel the same and all my much younger co-workers love it
Hotcakes420@reddit
Wtf 😭
According_Check_1740@reddit
I'm a karaoke dj... I WILL be hearing that song again... and again, and again, and again...
Hotcakes420@reddit
I’m so sorry lol
Hifi-Cat@reddit
OMG! YES.
Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley. The damn thing is plastered on every cat litter commercial...Gaaaaa!
Randy Newman and Paul Simon: everything they ever thought of in all eternity.
Available_Thanks_131@reddit
Get real Graceland is iconic. The South African influence never gets old. Homeless and diamonds on the soles of her shoes are as pertinent today as in the 80s
revenant647@reddit
Total Eclipse of the Heart. It was terrible then and even more so now. NEVER AGAIN
Vegancyclist420@reddit
Try singing totally shits when I farts.
revenant647@reddit
lol thank you very much you fixed it for me
formercotsachick@reddit
I honestly don't listen to much of the music from my teenage years. A lot of it hasn't aged very well, or at least isn't very relatable to me anymore as a 55 year old woman.
I almost exclusively listen to modern female artists these days - Chappell Roan, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, Charlie XCX, and most recently RAYE and Olivia Dean.
ButcherBird57@reddit
What, no Lana?!!
formercotsachick@reddit
Honestly, not a fan! But this did remind me that I forgot to also include Halsey and Florence Welch.
PornandTacos@reddit
Bohemian Rhapsody
stuck_behind_a_truck@reddit
It’s funny to watch a stadium full of all ages, and I mean down to elementary children, instinctively start headbanging with absolutely no knowledge of Wayne’s World.
Queen with Adam Lambert at The Forum in L.A. is the best concert I’ve been to, hands down.
PornandTacos@reddit
Don’t get me wrong, Queen is a great band and this song is a masterpiece, I just don’t need to hear it again. The Wayne’s World bump has gone on way too long. I find the head banging hilarious as well! Kiddo, why are you doing that?
ONROSREPUS@reddit
The movie is always playing on tv too.
cricket_bacon@reddit
Well said.
bungle094@reddit
I’d be very happy never hearing those 3 songs again
-BigDaddyTex@reddit
There is no such thing.
whyyoutwofour@reddit
I don't understand people who are "sick of songs" in this day and age...who's listening to music in any platform where you can't control your songs?! I literally don't listen to a single thing I don't want to. I don't care what anyone else listens to.
All_bi_myself420@reddit
I listen to terrestrial radio.
whyyoutwofour@reddit
Then don't complain if you don't like what they are playing. There's million other options.
All_bi_myself420@reddit
I'm not complaining; just answering your question.
Aggravating-ErrorME@reddit
I’m with you. I have about 200 huge playlists across all genres and decades filled with the music I want to hear. I never hear a song I don’t like. This is the way.
vladurk@reddit
Infidels, all of you.
sissyjamie75@reddit
freebird, stairway to heaven
ButcherBird57@reddit
Rob Zombie redeemed Free Bird in The Devil's Rejects.
NoSliceNoDice@reddit
Every once in awhile you have to crank it up and let these play out. I did this with Free Bird not long ago. Heard it come on and was about to change it but for whatever reason thought better of it. A couple of minutes later I was air guitaring and air drumming like a lunatic. It was great. But yeah, I’m good for like 3 or 4 years now.
Character-Solution-7@reddit
I don’t care “Who Let the Dogs Out”. It’s time they went to the farm upstate
ButcherBird57@reddit
I did, it was me. I let the dogs out, alright? They had to pee!
LeatherRebel5150@reddit
I haven’t heard that song in 20yrs. Where you hearing it enough to be tired of it?
Jolly_Werewolf_7356@reddit
Sweet Child of Mine and Bohemian Rhapsody
StunGod@reddit
Please, please, please, PLEASE. Free Bird and everything else from Skynyrd. Take it all and bury it with nuclear waste so it will be thousands of years before anybody can get close to it.
Its_noon_somewhere@reddit
I love free bird…. but only while chilling at a campfire and drinking a beer. The rest of the time, I’ll take a hard pass
Fair-Ad-7258@reddit
I melt with you- modern English So overplayed
Turd-In-Your-Pocket@reddit
Gonna make a playlist of the songs people are posting lol call it “100% Bangers”
AggravatingHope7856@reddit
Yes please!
No-Storage2576@reddit
Never retire awesome music. New listeners all the time.
Jillee2@reddit
Hotel California and Shook Me All Night Long. American Pie is gettin there too I also loved these songs the first million times
StandByTheJAMs@reddit
Man, come on. I’ve had a rough night, and I hate the fuckin’ Eagles, man.
wisemonkey101@reddit
I have heard Hotel California every time I want to hear it in my life. I can’t push the off button fast enough!
Zeca_77@reddit
Same here!
Ferrindel@reddit
https://i.redd.it/6frhnegcnzug1.gif
Castle_Owl@reddit
I’m with ya on Hotel California.
Pen_Vast@reddit
It’s the End of the World as we Know It. And REM is my all time favorite band.
ButcherBird57@reddit
NO. You can't take that song away from me.
blueblocker2000@reddit
Can we induct anything Sugarland into GenX music and then retire it all?....please 🙏
Witty-Reason-2102@reddit
Whenever I listen to Soundgarden's Superunknown, I always skip Spoonman and Blackhole Sun, because the deeper tracks on that album are much better than the singles that I've heard a billion times already on the radio and MTV.
bitch-ass_ho@reddit
This is so true. I could happily never listen to Black Hole Sun ever again.
JumpAccomplished2620@reddit
May I present then asshole son: https://youtu.be/1esxCDdAX5k?si=M4hO6ElySQJ_9ByW
NOT by Weird Al. He doesn't swear in his songs
badhoopty@reddit
i love soundgarden but yes black hole sun needs to be retired.
optimal-gold976@reddit
Please, for the sake of my sanity, retire all of the below
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Green Day
Foo Fighters
U2
Toto
Weezer
carrzo@reddit
Agreed. Be great if we could get U2 to return their Coach luggage and get angry again - and stop foisting these inane lullabies on us.
Bzzzzzzz4791@reddit
You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC. It has been so overplayed for 30 years that I can’t listen to it anymore.
TankApprehensive3053@reddit
Don't Stop Believing
The Final Countdown
Hifi-Cat@reddit
Yup, hiway to the danger zone.
ButcherBird57@reddit
"Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow..."
Wide_Insurance_5310@reddit
Anything by Joan Jett.
Its_noon_somewhere@reddit
Who is that?
IronBallsMcChing@reddit
Thank you. Her song could actually make me NOT love rock and roll.
Competitive_Pea_3478@reddit
It still blows my mind to hear some of the 80s music I grew up on in grocery store because some of lyrics aren’t so family friendly. Then again I’ve never quite understood why we need to hear music in a grocery store.
Wild_Read9062@reddit
I think you need to consider the setting.
Starving people. An abundance of food- but you can’t have a morsel until you go through this whole process.
If they didn’t play music, I’m convinced people would start stabbing one another.
stuck_behind_a_truck@reddit
I don’t know, I’d like to see if people noticed if Relax from Frankie Goes to Hollywood comes in the grocery store.
I actually had to tell a friend what the lyrics meant. She only listens to the music in songs. Relax is the least subtle song in existence (that and Great Balls of Fire).
Competitive_Pea_3478@reddit
I remember when that song was popular and couldn’t believe it was getting played. Apparently the group initially denied it was meant to suggestive. How anyone believed them is beyond me.
AntheaBrainhooke@reddit
Makes people spend more money
ghjm@reddit
Modern grocery stores with 80s music aren't even a patch on the existential horror of an old school tile floored K-mart, deserted at 3am, with slightly too loud 70s Muzak.
DoctorAvailable6601@reddit
Starship- we built this city
81632371@reddit
Ohhh yeah. There's an 80s cover band in my area that plays this every time. Ugh.
Bulky-Hamster7373@reddit
I fucking HATE this song with a passion. It brings out my inner demons 😈
Rook_James_Bitch@reddit
Surfin Bird by the Trashmen. (wish I could time travel to stop this song from ever being made).
Motorin' by Night Ranger... Hell ANY song by this band!
TankApprehensive3053@reddit
Sister Christian was motorin', not the song title. FYI the song was about the drummer's actual sister Christy but changed to sound better.
Rook_James_Bitch@reddit
Cunningham's Law
Hotcakes420@reddit
That’s Sister Christian…
Rook_James_Bitch@reddit
Cunningham's Law
ConcreteKeys@reddit
Don't Stop Believin
CraigBybee@reddit
I stopped years ago
Onslaught7676@reddit
Anything by Nirvana
Jensen1994@reddit
"The only way is up" by Yazz.
Because in 2026 there are plenty of routes further down.
LittleMush@reddit
a'ight Grampa, time for your Metamucil and to go to bed.
Hifi-Cat@reddit
He's right you know.
BmanGorilla@reddit
That's funny, those three songs were in my head before I finished reading your post. I'd be cool with never hearing 'Jessy's Girl' again, either.
solar-shock@reddit
I'm right there with you on that one! I like Rick Springfield, but he has other songs that are better.
- Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
- Come On, Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
- Don't You Want Me - Human League
- Our House - Madness
There's great new music, let's hear some of it!
RecordingLeft6666@reddit
Rock the Casbah. Please. It’s in the grocery stores it’s in restaurants just stop.
Notabagofdrugs@reddit
Never liked this song really.
strugglinfool@reddit
Sherif don't like it either
ikediggety@reddit
Ok but hear me out
https://youtu.be/XXdfKUbS-0c?si=buB7kIbPKa5izwrk
cricket_bacon@reddit
Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
Wild_Read9062@reddit
I’ve actually come around to this song, which is funny, because I always hated it. I think it was the video (hated the overalls), but now I get the ‘Euro Bohemia’ thing they were going for. Banana Rama are basically wearing the same thing in ‘Cruel Summer’, and it’s kind of fun.
I had no idea the band’s name was referring to dexadrine (over the counter weight loss pills taken as a substitute for speed by some people).
I started diving into DRM this year and found ‘Geno’ and ‘There, there My Dear’. They kind of have this cool ska sound.
meshmaster@reddit
OMG... I'm not alone. I hate, hate, hate, this song with a passion that burns with the heat of 10K suns !
stuck_behind_a_truck@reddit
Given the subject matter, yeah, I think this should be retired.
AntheaBrainhooke@reddit
THANK YOU
Cheetah51@reddit
All Michael Bolton EXCEPT his collab with Lonely Island, “Jack Sparrow.”
lazygerm@reddit
Now, let's get to the good part!
Top-Order-2878@reddit
Anything red hot chili peppers. The local stations play rhcp nonstop.
gomper@reddit
Any time I hear that "city i live in" song whatever its called i think of, like, a meathead backwards-baseball-hat frat boy trying to be "deep"
StandByTheJAMs@reddit
My problem is they all sound like the same song. Some of the songs are good, but never the ones you hear on the radio. If I can never hear Californication or Scar Tissue again, that'd be great.
Signal_Cake5735@reddit
Loathe. Them.
Rook_James_Bitch@reddit
Agreed. I finally figured out why I hate them so much: lead singer admitted he's tone deaf.
Now it all makes sense.
cowboyJones@reddit
They never play early RHCP.
QueenRotidder@reddit
I will second this, immediate station change
Dance2GoodbyeHorses@reddit
I think we’re listening to the same stations lol. I could go the rest of my life not hearing a RHCP song
CynfullyDelicious@reddit
Conga by Miami Sound Machine
Don’t Stop Believin’
Dancing Queen
I’m Too Sexy
Smells Like Teen Spirit
We’re Not Gonna Take It
I Eill Always Love You
that goddamned song from Titanic
Walk Like an Egyptian
RockSteady65@reddit
Anything/ everything by crackhead Whitney
ONROSREPUS@reddit
I haven't heard I'm too Sexy for 20+ years. Where are you hearing that regularly that you think it should be retired? I mean I am not saying it shouldn't have been retired after the first time hearing it but....
texachusetts@reddit
Video Killed the Radio Star - The Buggles (the first music video that MTV aired) MTV officially launched on Saturday, August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m. EST. How many people were watching a new cable tv station just after midnight on a Saturday Morning? It’s a statistic Masquerading as nostalgia. I’m glad MTV died. It should have died sooner, before most of its existence was non music based and even its impact on popular music had its problems.
StandByTheJAMs@reddit
I have the second video ever played on MTV in my driving playlist. It's great, and always a good trivia question.
https://youtu.be/IvSbQB6-UdY?si=YXr1JEujMNKVux0n
DrHarryWolper@reddit
That song is actually nostalgic for me, as I remember seeing the video several times on MTV, which I didn't get until summer of 1982.
I tend to agree that it shouldn't be played as often as it is, but many people do remember it.
wyohman@reddit
Me
Invisibella74@reddit
I'm in agreement with GNR. Pretty much anything by GNR is over played or can be skipped.
I will admit that Slash is a good guitar player, but Axl is an asshole and I've always thought GNR was a bit overrated.
Now, I love Bon Jovi and I think I've taken a sufficient break from them for their music to be fresh for me again. Plus, unlike Axl, Jon Bon Jovi is a cool guy.
Same_Lack_1775@reddit
You writing “John Bon Jovi is a cool guy” reminds me of the dad of better off dead trying to speak to lane using a how to speak to your kids book. This gif was the closest I could come to that scene.
Maybe I should have looked for the “Ferris is a righteous dude) lady!
No_Letterhead6883@reddit
I love stuff from my youth, but I’m a bit younger Gen X and I love ‘90’s alt.
CanadianBertRaccoon@reddit
Zombie, by The Cranberries.
Song has sucked for 30 years, let it die already
gomper@reddit
Hate it
BlueFeathered1@reddit
It's on my driving playlist.
justinchina@reddit
Was at an Indigo Girls concert last summer, and clearly the opening act wasn’t quite aimed at the same audience, so people were mostly ignoring the artist and chatting amongst themselves, but as soon as he kicked into the opening chords of a Zombie rendition, all heads swung up and sang along…and as soon as he transitioned to another song, the heads all went back to chatting. It was really amazing.
stuck_behind_a_truck@reddit
As a person who lives for lyrics, I’ve recently heard covers tell the story so well. It’s no longer historically relevant, since we no longer have The Troubles, but it is a good commentary on being stuck on a loop, shadow boxing the past.
Ferrindel@reddit
But then it wouldn't be a self-fulfilling title.
wyohman@reddit
Don't stop Believin' had got to go
am312@reddit
Are you from Michigan?
wyohman@reddit
Kinda but not entirely. I lived their and my mom's family is from there.
thewiremother@reddit
Crazy Train. I believe there is some sort of law that states one of the local radio stations must have it playing 24 hours a day.
sosezu@reddit
It took the place of Stairway To Heaven a decade before.
happycj@reddit
Every single Red Hot Chili Peppers song needs to be encased in concrete and buried for 1,000 years.
RussellAlden@reddit
Outside of anything from Mother’s Milk
happycj@reddit
We can bring back any song Hillel played on, and play it once a month.
hkusp45css@reddit
"Under the Bridge" brings a flood of very specific memories back to me. I can't stand the song, but nothing else brings THAT level of recall to me.
littlemsshiny@reddit
As a Californian, I agree.
RobsHereAgain@reddit
Under the Bridge and everything thereafter by the Chili Peppers. They’ve been rewriting under the bridge for 30 years now
Adventurous-Brain-36@reddit
None of them, leave music alone. What a weird, crotchety post.
amnichols@reddit
Anything by Journey
IronBallsMcChing@reddit
I stopped believing years ago....
xantub@reddit
Sorry but no, I like them, I love them, and I play them on my daily walk. Retire yourself! 😄
cagirlinoh@reddit
I’m about sick of classic rock, too (and Queen is about the only classic rock group I really really still enjoy) I went back to listening to country music. It’s like there is nothing new or good out there anymore, so much of it is mediocre! Lady Gaga is about the only pop music artist that I like. To answer your question, “Enter Sandman” can be retired.
hkusp45css@reddit
I have really leaned hard into red dirt country in my old age.
stuck_behind_a_truck@reddit
Americana and Bluegrass for me
cagirlinoh@reddit
I love 80’s Hank Williams music
antisocialdecay@reddit
I still listen to Metallica’s first three albums, Injustice occasionally but the rest can be quiet. Gaga has some good songs.
cutsryd@reddit
Return your GenX card ASAP 💯
No-Profession422@reddit
Dream On
Hotel California
Don't Stop Believin'
stuck_behind_a_truck@reddit
Dream On gets the dial turned up in my car.
NoH8Kate@reddit
I agree with your selections and raise you anything by Def Leppard. The most cliche over played group from the 80’s. Hands down.
lime_lecroix@reddit
Same
Sea_Leadership_6968@reddit
Hated them then. Hate them now.
That_Other_Dave@reddit
0netime I got a Spin Doctors tape get stuck in the deck on a 12 hr drive so my answer is anything from A Pocket Full of Kryptonite
VendaGoat@reddit
Well, that sounds like hell.
One, two, princes kneel before you....
Cheeseheroplopcake@reddit
The only song I'd forever nuke out of existence is dude looks like a lady by Aerosmith.
Steven Tyler braying like a jackass is never welcome
ih8theeagles@reddit
Walk this way with RDMC is the exception to the rule but you just know all the guys from those types of bands were gross with young women in their prime.
Archercrash@reddit
I'd vote for "I don't want to miss a Thing" if you're gonna nuke an Aerosmith song.
Hotcakes420@reddit
Haha my husband and I call him ‘catfish mouth’
Branciforte@reddit
That list is definitely a great start.
ih8theeagles@reddit
All the ones listed and anything by the Eagles lol. But young people will always come along and discover new music and we’ll hear them again.
Ok-Force-7104@reddit
Great username 🧙♂️😎
UpbeatPhilosophySJ@reddit
I have a lot of respect for AC/DC, have been to a concert paid money to see them. I remember being in college and somebody said if you want to clear chicks out of a party fast, AC/DC. A lot of truth in that statement.
Desperate-Net3132@reddit
I think King Diamond/Mercyful Fate would work quicker than AC/DC
gomper@reddit
Lol my wife absolutely hates AC/DC
MCMcGreevy@reddit
Maybe just banned from Karaoke.
Efficient_Let686@reddit
There should be a banned from Karaoke list.
ConcreteKeys@reddit
Maybe there should be a national karaoke registry that retires songs as they hit the 1 million mark.
Efficient_Let686@reddit
From some of the comments, that should probably cover sports events and wedding receptions too.
ConcreteKeys@reddit
Sports events are probably the worst offenders.
SquirrelBowl@reddit
Anything Johnny Cougar
longlivenapster@reddit
Hungry like the wolf
Rio
Girls just wanna have fun
Living on a prayer
Karma Chameleon
Heaven is a place on earth
Manic Monday
Walk like an Egyptian
Billie Jean
Jump ( Van Halen)
Almost all Huey Lewis and the News
Dancing in the Dark
Born in the USA
Uptown Girl
I want to Dance with somebody
She blinded me with science
Cars ( Gary Neuman)
Every Breath you Take
Every Little thing she does
Don't stand so close to me ( both versions)
Holiday
Come on Eileen
Africa
RecordingLeft6666@reddit
Total agree 💯 …but you forgot Rock the Casbah.
longlivenapster@reddit
Oooohhhhh.....Rock the Casbah is on my always listen to list🫣🫣🫣
Flaky_Wheel60B@reddit
If I could I’d give you 100 upvotes
B2511160@reddit
Anything by Foreigner.
Wild_Read9062@reddit
But who will show him what love is? He doesn’t know.
Can you imagine? The heartache… the pain?
hippiechick725@reddit
I don’t know if I can take it again
Dubby15@reddit
Hotel California, i hope i never hear it again!!!
owenership@reddit
“Man, come on, I had a rough night and I hate the fuckin’ Eagles, man.”
Round-Public435@reddit
All I Want for Christmas by Mariah Carey.
It was a nice addition to the classic Christmas tunes at first. Now it's just ridiculously overplayed and annoying.
Organic_Tradition_94@reddit
No one has said “Africa” yet?
Weezer covering it was the final nail in that coffin.
Also that song “Your Love” by the Outfield. It was never a hit in my country but still I’m sick of it.
And for the Australians here, “Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again” by the Angels. You all know why.
I second “Sweet Caroline” and “Don’t Stop Believing”.
Organic_Tradition_94@reddit
And almost forgot. “She’s Got The Look” by Roxette. Especially that annoying Na na na na bit. That can get right in the bin.
Round-Public435@reddit
I've always hated the song, "Africa". I don't know why, but as soon as I hear those opening notes, I'm outta there.
welltravelledRN@reddit
No way!!! Just don’t listen if you don’t like it but NEVER retire our music!!!
mollymcbbbbbb@reddit
you're allowed to listen to whatever you want, just don't inflict it on others.
Hot-Freedom-5886@reddit
Jump
ackack9999@reddit
Anything by John Mellancamp
TomCatClyde@reddit
As a Hoosier, I agree.
Practical_Corgi7228@reddit
Commercials keep using them too just to drive us more nuts. Bon Jovi has a new one out
TecmoBlow@reddit
And the commercials by different brands are all using the same songs.
It's like these companies hired the same advertising firm with a bunch of low IQ employees.
Nearby-Fly-6610@reddit
All of them. No more songs. We have so many.
R0CK1TMAN1@reddit
Our generations big dumb is the idea that anything is made or done with us in mind. The world revolves around 18-35 year olds let them experience this great music. But Star Wars blah blah!
DustyHound@reddit
This probably won’t go well for me, but at this point I feel like I wrote stairway to heaven.
Chemical_Author7880@reddit
All things Edie Brickell
Excellent_Passage_38@reddit
Anything Aerosmith or guns n' roses and Def Leppard I am so sick of hearing she's my cherry pie it just reminds me of my stripping days but not in a good way
W0nderingMe@reddit
Just FYI, Cherry Pie was Warrant.
RockSteady65@reddit
The artist name is not important. The song sucks regardless.
W0nderingMe@reddit
Okay?
hkusp45css@reddit
Cherry Pie was Warrant.
Excellent_Passage_38@reddit
Oh well I thought it was Def Leppard for some reason that's right it's pour some sugar on me that they do I'm sick of hearing that song as well LOL but thank you guys for correcting me I appreciate it
sane-asylum@reddit
My friend just turned 50, today actually, but her party was Saturday night. Her husband (my best friend) rented her a room at a bar and they asked her what music to play, she likes grunge and alternative rock. After 2 hours my head was pounding. Get rid of all grunge and alternative rock.
gomper@reddit
Yeah i honestly didnt like that shit in the 90s either
Exotic-Travel-270@reddit
Ratt - Round & Round
Skid Row - 18 & Life
holdenoakem@reddit
I never want to hear “What’s Up” by 4 Non Blondes, “Fight for your Right” by Beastie Boys or “Creep” by Radiohead again.
antisocialdecay@reddit
AC/DC, KISS, and anything that ever came out of Reba McEntire’s mouth. I hate that woman’s voice.
BlueFeathered1@reddit
Even when she just talks. Maybe especially then.
PracticalApartment99@reddit
Then don’t listen to them. There are plenty of us who still enjoy them.
Zehdarian@reddit
agreed, feel sorry there are so many dead inside lol
ORF1Live@reddit
Rick Astley. He wasn't good even then.
CardinaLiz4@reddit
99 luftbalons and I welcome the downvotes. 😆
Efficient_Let686@reddit
Actually as much as I loved this song then, I’d gladly take never having to listen to it again.
DrComposition@reddit
You guys need to whip it into shape. So, shape it up.
Lazy_Negotiation4133@reddit
Get straight!
cricket_bacon@reddit
Go forward!
RockSteady65@reddit
Move ahead
Efficient_Let686@reddit
Try to detect it
Historical-Wall-7121@reddit
Don’t stop believing We built this city Stairway to heaven
Flaky_Wheel60B@reddit
Enter sandman
Smells like teen spirit
Anything by Pearl Jam
BlueFeathered1@reddit
Anything Whitney Houston.
Anything Twisted Sister.
Anything Paula Abdul.
Just off the top of my head.
Upbeat_Literature483@reddit
Africa by Toto
skbugco@reddit
Crash- Dave Matthews. (and I like Dave, but it was overplayed back then)
Ineffable7980x@reddit
Tainted Love
Pains me to say it, but it's been murdered by overplay
phsattele@reddit
I’ve heard the song thunderstruck by AC/DC more in the last year than I did when it first came out. It’s to the point where I can’t stand that song.
BrilliantWeb@reddit
The Police - Roxanne
S99B88@reddit
Those days are over?
AnarchicDeviance@reddit
Just because you don't like a song or you're tired of it, doesn't mean it should be "retired." There are many, many older songs that I don't care for or that I'm not in the mood for at a given moment, so I just change the station on the Sirius radio, skip the track in whatever app/player I'm using, or leave the room if it's playing somewhere. On the other hand, quite a few of the songs mentioned here are longtime favorites of mine that I like to hear every now and then.
afroeh@reddit
I think we could do ok without Van Halen or AC/DC.
Might as well jump! I'm a power load!
Illustrious_Leg_2537@reddit
No. AC/DC figures heavily on my driving to school playlist. I need it. (It’s also chock full of Metallica and Green Day.)
Brother_Professor@reddit
All hair metal can go. All 80s synth pop can go. Any song that appeared on a K-Tel "Best of...whatever" record can absolutely go.
Keep Prince though
StandByTheJAMs@reddit
All hair metal? No. A lot of it? Yes.
I also love Prince. My wife wouldn't let me have the DJ play Erotic City at our wedding, and I still haven't forgiven her.
cadatonic@reddit
I love GNR but replace Welcome to the Jungle with Sweet Child O Mine. I don't need to hear that anymore.
RockSteady65@reddit
Don’t care if I hear either one ever again.
Continent3@reddit
I hope you don’t live in my neighborhood. I’m working on learning all this GNR songs on guitar
cadatonic@reddit
Lol... I'm a GNR nerd...that's why I've heard those songs so much. All love. Shred!
WarpedCore@reddit
One could retire the entire catalog of Bon Jovi and I wouldn't blink an eye.
madtownjeff@reddit
My problem not the songs themselves. It's that there are performers that have multi-decade careers, a dozen albums a bunch of hit singles and we get the same 2 or 3 songs every time. As an example "Candle in the Wind" is a great song but Elton John has a bit more in his catalog.
UpbeatPhilosophySJ@reddit
I’m old enough to remember when Friday Night’s All Right For Fighting came out and every once sort of look at each other like yeah sure whatever you say Elton. Fighter!
FawnLeib0witz@reddit
Love Is A Battlefield
cricket_bacon@reddit
Come on, man!
Let's keep Benatar and pitch Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'n' Roll"
Efficient_Let686@reddit
No, I need those songs to keep me awake on my 1 hr and 15 minutes drive home at night. Turn it up and sing my brains out to all the oldies.
EaglesInTheSky@reddit
If I could go the rest of my life without hearing Jeremy from Pearl Jam again that would be great!
Practical_Corgi7228@reddit
I got sick of that sucker in the 90s already
Dano558@reddit
Fleetwood Mac has entered the chat.
sane-asylum@reddit
When Appetite For Destruction came out I loved it. I had to buy that cassette 3 or 4 times but I killed it for me. I can’t listen to Axel’s voice
Dance2GoodbyeHorses@reddit
GNR- November rain. It’s so long and boring, and the radio overplayed it, and still does! Just let this hour long song die please !
StandByTheJAMs@reddit
I never hear this song anymore. I'm going to go listen to it now. Thanks!
UpbeatPhilosophySJ@reddit
Do you need some time on your own? Do you need some time all alone? Ooh, everybody needs some time on their own Ooh, don't you know you need some time all alone
EggForTryingThymes@reddit
Welcome to the Jungle is a timeless classic. But pretty much all Bon Jovi songs can be left in The past.
servetarider@reddit
Blister in the Sun. I felt the Violent Femmes snark up until 1989 when they became part of the overplayed GenX Zeitgeist machine and I started to hate them and that song. Fuck you and your permanent record.
kramwest1@reddit
Sweet Caroline FFS!!!
ONROSREPUS@reddit
That is the other one that was banned from our wedding play list. I couldn't think of it until I seen it posted.
cricket_bacon@reddit
Baum, baum, baum!
roadbikemadman@reddit
Anything on the current spotify and sirius xm play lists. Enough already.
hkusp45css@reddit
Tainted Love by Soft Cell. If that song never reaches another human's ears, the emotional damage will still be immeasurable.
ghjm@reddit
It's a decent riff but it absolutely doesn't deserve to be used as the placeholder for all 80s music.
Efficient_Let686@reddit
I can’t help but disagree, this is one of my sing along while driving alone songs.
One of the best things about the music from the 80’s/90’s is the incredible diversity. There’s tons of songs I never want to hear again, this just isn’t one of them.
Dobgirl@reddit
I’ve lived my whole life listening to 80s hair rock and I can’t tell you how much I hate it.
paradoxicist@reddit
Don't Stop Believing
ksay9104@reddit
I fucking hate Journey.
Yeah, I said it.
ONROSREPUS@reddit
Consistent-Tie-4394@reddit
I actuall really like Journey, but I never need to hear Don't Stop Believing ever again.
SinamonChallengerRT@reddit
Any Gen Xer from Long Island, NY knows the WBAB trifecta: Paradise City, Comfortably Numb, Dude Looks Like A Lady. In any hour of the day or night, one of those three songs will play on that station. Guaranteed.
linecookdaddy@reddit
If I never hear.guns n roses again I'll be just fine with that
wisemonkey101@reddit
Me too.
klippDagga@reddit
Anything from KISS.
Ok_Addendum_5853@reddit
I'm so glad I'm not the only one.
Calm-Background2247@reddit
Hotel California - The Eagles. I never liked it and I gag every time I hear it!
Beat It - Michael Jackson. Fight me.... I never want to hear this song again.
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Show Me Love - Robin
Gypsy Woman - Crystal Waters
Shook me all night long - AC/DC
Sweetest Taboo - Sade
Jeremy - Pearl Jam
I could go on forever. There are just too many played out songs.
ghjm@reddit
Be right back, giving all of these a re-listen
AntheaBrainhooke@reddit
All Along The Watchtower and Hallelujah
All versions. No exceptions.
Shifu_Ekim@reddit
Some artists need to retire as well..
ONROSREPUS@reddit
couldn't agree more.
Disastrous-Exit7614@reddit
Hotel California. Even as brilliant as a song. I'm just so sick of hearing it if I turn on a classic radio station.
antisocialdecay@reddit
I hate the fucking Eagles, man.
Vast_Breadfruit_162@reddit
Get the fuck out of my cab!
LordBalderdash@reddit
They stole it from Jethro Tull.
IWantTheLastSlice@reddit
I distinctly remember being ear molested by Donna Summer’s, “She works hard for the money”. That’s one song I can’t listen to even decades later and even after forgiving so many other songs for the same overplaying.
Renaissance-man-7979@reddit
Every AC/DC song unless I'm at a college football game and there are fireworks and fighter jets.
ONROSREPUS@reddit
foxyfree@reddit
Sweet Caroline
AdditionalTip865@reddit
"Welcome To The Jungle" should be replaced by the puzzling song of the same name by They Might Be Giants.
"Welcome to the jungle, Jim, welcome to the jungle, Jim, welcome to it, Jim... Welcome to the jungle, Ann. Welcome to the jungle, Dan. Welcome to it, John. Think you're gonna like it. Think you're gonna like the jungle when you've given it a chance..."
abarthvader@reddit
Anything by John Mellencamp
cricket_bacon@reddit
Best...
comment...
... ever!
thaulley@reddit
Journey is my favorite band but I’m so tired of Don’t Stop Believin’. The only Journey song I skip over in my own iTunes.
doobette@reddit
Agree. Stone in Love off the same album (Escape) is infinitely better.
antisocialdecay@reddit
I never skip Wheel in the Sky!
Disastrous-Exit7614@reddit
I'd agree with that too
IdyllwildGal@reddit
For a long time I couldn’t hear that song without becoming irrationally angry about the ending of The Sopranos.
halfeaten1983@reddit
Metric: poster of a girl. The most annoying song EVER
Manalagi001@reddit
This is why I have a Marshall stack. I have to make the sounds I crave for myself.
GilligansWorld@reddit
I’m sorry, I don’t share your opinion. Maybe retire them from karaoke but man yeah these songs were awesome. If flock of seagulls can still be hitting…… Yeah these need to stick around.
ONROSREPUS@reddit
YMCA
The chicken dance song.
Both of those were banned from out wedding play list.
kramwest1@reddit
Fuck tradition!
Secret_Asparagus_783@reddit
Party poopers!
HomoRainbow480@reddit
Bro those songs still live full happy lives Japans listening bars.
StatisticianFun2274@reddit
Most of the Led Zep songs that have been in constant rotation on AOR stations since 1976.
thebrokedown@reddit
There are SO MANY fantastic songs. Yet here I am stuck someplace with the execrable “Brown-Eyed Girl” playing for the millionth time in my life.
Suspicious_Time7239@reddit
Everything Def Leopard
cricket_bacon@reddit
The Pyromania album still delivers.
badhoopty@reddit
hysteria should be limited to strip clubs... anything after pyro really.
ONROSREPUS@reddit
Well just pour some fen sugar on me why don't ya!
mpls_big_daddy@reddit
No. LIving on a Prayer is their best song!
I offer Maggie's Farm by any band as compensation.
BubbaPrime42@reddit
Hotel California
Disastrous-Exit7614@reddit
This was my pick
lubbockin@reddit
American pie.
thiswasyouridea@reddit
But we still need Weird Al's version.
cricket_bacon@reddit
All of Weird Al's stuff needs to stay.
socgrandinq@reddit
So this will be the day that the song about when the music died… died
HLAW8S@reddit
Back in Black. I was tired of it 20 years ago.
R67H@reddit
My kids did youth and HS sports forever. If I hear this song coming on the radio I change the station. Thankfully I found a college station that actually plays good music, and not what seem to be curated playlists from 1990 on a 45 minute loop
deep-sea-savior@reddit
Take On Me
cricket_bacon@reddit
Sorry... I remember when this video first came out. So cool. Have to keep this one.
Initial_Run1632@reddit
Never!
4Brtndr1@reddit
Amen x100
badhoopty@reddit
sweet child of mine - gnr
enter sandman/fuel - metallica
seven day army - white stripes
you shook me - acdc
californication - rhcp
mother - danzig
the acoustic version of layla - clapton
all of which songs i didnt mind the first 2000 times i heard them.
RockTheGlobe@reddit
I have heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" enough times that I never ever have to hear it again. And yet, I'm sure I'll hear it at least once more before the day is out.
cricket_bacon@reddit
There should be a law that you can't play Nirvana in Walmart or a grocery store.
intheether323@reddit
Everything Nirvana, for me. The 90’s can have that one
Lemonking_@reddit
When I hear Frankie Goes to Hollywood I feel faint.
cricket_bacon@reddit
The use of "Relax" in Body Double needs to stay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPWyTDAnte0
Caliopebookworm@reddit
"Into the Night" by Benny Mardones.
HLAW8S@reddit
I’ll add Christine Sixteen, All in the Name of Rock (Motley Crue) and Winger’s “Seventeen” to that.
Ecstatic-Scallion957@reddit
Jack and Diane, anything Journey cause local radio overplayed them,also overplayed Bon Jovi,and Pat Benatar
Thirsty4Knowledge911@reddit
My wife feels that way about Hotel California.
Plot twist, The Eagles are my favorite band of all time.
Consistent-Tie-4394@reddit
I love the Eagles too, but your wife might be right about Hotel California. I still leave it on my regular driving playlist, but I have started to regularly skip it when it actually starts to play.
BradfordGalt@reddit
Y'all realize you don't HAVE to listen to any of this stuff, right? There are a billion music streaming services that you customize playlists.
Genny415@reddit
Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You
I'm thinkng that this may be gen z's version of Barry White? Am I way off?
Skankhun369@reddit
Stairway to Heaven
Fotomonkey13@reddit
Journey, I have stopped believing
Same-Succotash3497@reddit
Girls just wanna have fun
Fearless_Street5231@reddit
Walking on Sunshine
cricket_bacon@reddit
Now whenever I hear that song I think of Jack Black in High Fidelity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEonJJHFEGg
TransatlanticMadame@reddit
Anything by Michael Bolton.
thiswasyouridea@reddit
That no talent ass clown!
mwithington@reddit
All the Slippery When Wet singles.
Also, "Summer of '69" I could do with never hearing again.
NoGood2154@reddit
Shook Me All Night Long ~ AcDc
scott19692012@reddit (OP)
I can agree
thiswasyouridea@reddit
Thirded that.
Boris_Darling@reddit
Hotel California
mypizzanvrhurtnobody@reddit
Sunglasses at Night. If I never hear that song again it’ll be too soon.