Overplayed and to be "Denied"

Depends how exhaustive you'd want this list to be BigH ? (as I think I could offer a list longer than a giraffes neck)

But to kick things off -

anything that has a 'stadium' feel about it , hence stuff like :

We Will Rock You , We Are The Champions , Radio Ga-Ga .... and so on (sorry Queen fans)

Guess you could read into that just about any to most groups that saw 'stadium' anthems as their thing

Oh I dunno! Queen live at wembley is absolutely cracking on active DBLs... :-) :-)

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As mentioned in the/a Led Zep thread STH has got on peoples tits to such an extent that they don't want to hear it any more.

Virtually everything played on Radio2 in the daytime would be a good start

And even when they do play a decent band it's the same old overplayed track.

regards,
mat

I guess the thrust of the thread is songs that you initially (quite) liked, but then you heard them so many times that you got sick of them.

'Stairway to Heaven' was like that for me for a while, but then I mellowed, and I really like it again. I especially love Bonham and Page's playing on the song.

Queen are definitely one like that for me, although I have mellowed on them too. I worked next to an edit suite where an advert for one of their 'Greatest Hits' albums was being put together on a digital deck and for several days heard.

RRRRRRRRRR SSSSSSTTT We are th, RRRR SSSSTT, W _ w _ w _ w _ e _e _ e, RRRRRRRR SSST, Wwwwwwwwweeeeee, aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeee, RRRRRRRR SSST, We are the cha, RRRRRRRR SSST, ......

And so on for many of the songs on the album. It was like Chinese water torture with music. I have edited to music, and when you are doing the edit, it does not affect you at all, it is the second hand experience that is so bad, like smoking.

I did see Queen live, in a stadium, Leeds, Elland Road, in 1982, they were fantastic, great performers. (Apparently they used to have a football team play there in those days too).

Initially I could ignore 'Brimful Of Asha' by Cornershop, but it was so repetitive, and that together with being overplayed makes me wince when I hear it now.

Many years ago my girlfriend and I left a pub when they put on a Dexy's Midnight Runners album/best of, but that was because we both hated their music, there was never and liked and went off thing there.

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Originally posted by saxondale:
But to kick things off -

anything that has a 'stadium' feel about it , hence stuff like :

We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, Radio Ga-Ga .... and so on (sorry Queen fans)

I detest those songs, but I'm not sure I ever liked them so don't know if that counts.

There's plenty of stuff I just don't like - most AOR comes into that category. Again I think I only ever found Rumours by Fleetwood Mac tolerable, but now I think of it as excruciating.

Possibly a song that when I first heard I thought was OK, but now I'd reach for ye olde ear muffs is, of course, Hotel California - I don't hate it, but I hope I never hear it again.

There are some BBC4 concerts that I thought I might like, but just couldn't stand them - the aforementioned Eagles being one candidate, as were Neil Young, James Taylor and Jackson Browne. I guess we just get older and some things date more than others.

So I'd sooner listen to STH than We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, Hotel California, Rumours or anything by Motley Crue, Aerosmith etc .,

Still sounds a bit negative to say so and perhaps best to concentrate on music I like.

ATB Rotf

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And even when they (radio stations) do play a decent band it's the same old overplayed track.

They are almost all guilty of this.

It is most annoying that Lynryd Skynyrd - it's Freebird, Bruce S - Born in the USA, etc it's not as if they only made 1 album.


ROTF a bonus I guess is that there aren't any stations playing music you like?

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ROTF a bonus I guess is that there aren't any stations playing music you like?

Absolutely right - bring back Radio Caroline.

Same goes for parties, not that I get invited to any, but Mrs R does and I sneak in when nobody is looking; however, where do they get those DJs from (and I don't mean dinner jackets). Why is the only Beatles record they have I Saw Her Standing There, why is it never a song like Revolution #9. And what is with YMCA, Mony Mony and Mustang Sally. OK so I went to wedding and the disc jokey was playing Dancing In the Street as usual and politely asked him if he had any Thomas Tallis as I particularly wanted to hear Lamentations of Jeremiah and guess what - he said sure thing, mate, one of my favourites too; so he played the Tallis and followed it with a bit of Dowland - it cleared the dance floor, but it was great music: not sure why I didn't get an invite to the next one: probably got lost in the post.

"You're weird Andy"

Anything at all by Celine Dion, Chris De Burgh, "Sir" Cliff Pilchard or bloody Michael Ball.

I am intrigued that anyone (eg Mat) listens to a radio station that so obviously gets on their tits.

One thing in this vein that does really annoy me, is when I see a concert is going to be broadcast by a band I like, I set up the tuner, and CD recorder, and wait patiently to get the show.

If it is an actual live broadcast it is usually OK, but if it is edited highlights afterwards then you know that it is only going to be certain tracks.

I must have over two dozen live versions of Underworld 'Born Slippy NUXX', it is my least favourite track by them. The same goes for R.E.M. 'Losing My Religion'. Broadcasters (BBC Radio usually for me) have so little imagination.

Yes the bands do play their big hits, but both Underworld and R.E.M. vary their set lists a great deal, and it is the surprises that make a concert for me. It can also be said that the huge hits also tend to get on the band's nerves as they feel they have to play them every night, and they pretty much have to play those tracks without variation to please the less fanatic fans in the audience.

Robert Plant was sick of playing 'Stairway to Heaven', it was not included in any of the Page& Plant reunion setlists, and Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull simply did not play 'Living in the Past' live for many years as he did not want it as a 'yoke around his neck'.

Eric Clapton ~ Wonderful Tonight : (

It took me many years to find out that everything esle he did was actually quite good! ; )

nymph

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Originally posted by naim_nymph:
Eric Clapton ~ Wonderful Tonight : (

It took me many years to find out that everything esle he did was actually quite good! ; )

nymph

Good point - Wonderful Tonight must surely rate along side Lady in Red and No Charge as one of the most nauseating songs of all time.

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I am intrigued that anyone (eg Mat) listens to a radio station that so obviously gets on their tits. Roll Eyes

Well I work in a shop/workshop two days a week where Radio 2 gets played and I don't get any choice in the matter

I work as far away from the speakers as possible and turn the sound onto one channel only, but I can still hear it!

regards,

mat

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Good point - Wonderful Tonight must surely rate along side Lady in Red and No Charge as one of the most nauseating songs of all time.

Can we throw in Candle In The Wind and Angels to the mix whilst on a roll ?

Although saying that I do quite like Elton John circa the early 70's.

Going back to Stairway To Heaven getting on peoples tits as BigH so nicely quoted what about Smoke On The Water ? - I mean personally it makes me teeth itch any time I hear it (but I'm no great fan of Deep Purple) and I'd take extended listens to 'Stairway' over 'Smoke' any day of the week - anyone else ?

my most hated of all time Whiter shade of pale...mind you ,it was shit to start with !

I'd add Beethoven's Sixth Symphony.

Should be put on the shelf for 50 years and rediscovered in 2060 (I will be 108 then).

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Can we throw in Candle In The Wind and Angels to the mix whilst on a roll ?

I should think so; I'll add them to Wonderful Tonight, Lady in Red, No Charge into my album of most nauseating songs of all time. I'm calling the album In The Air Tonight after the most nauseating song in the universe, but I'm not putting Whiter Shade of Pale on it for anybody.

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but I'm not putting Whiter Shade of Pale on it for anybody.

It should be in TWICE. It's that bad.

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but I'm not putting Whiter Shade of Pale on it for anybody.

It should be in TWICE. It's that bad.

I love it.

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Originally posted by ROTF:

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Originally posted by naim_nymph:
Eric Clapton ~ Wonderful Tonight : (

It took me many years to find out that everything esle he did was actually quite good! ; )

nymph

Good point - Wonderful Tonight must surely rate along side Lady in Red and No Charge as one of the most nauseating songs of all time.

Now here we can agree.

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Originally posted by BigH47:

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but I'm not putting Whiter Shade of Pale on it for anybody.

It should be in TWICE. It's that bad.

I love it.

So do I - up there with the greatest pop songs of all time IMO.

oh, all of you are so right, some of this stuff gets on the radio and I punch the next button, I have a new Focus that has sirius radio option I'm thinking of buying into it just so I don't hear ads over and over, plus new options in R&B and wonderfully obscure stuff.

Can't remember who posted being in the next room to an editor, but it is true, I"ve done a few small segments on the computer and it's over and over, being next to it truly drives you mad.

I'd have to put 'brown eyed girl' on the list. When I was a student and worked a bar, the house band played this every friday and saturday night for the 3 years i worked there. Totally tortuous now.

Ryan

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Originally posted by ROTF:

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Originally posted by naim_nymph:
Eric Clapton ~ Wonderful Tonight : (

It took me many years to find out that everything esle he did was actually quite good! ; )

nymph

Good point - Wonderful Tonight must surely rate along side Lady in Red and No Charge as one of the most nauseating songs of all time.

And the bloody Christmas song by chris de b needs to go on the shit list as well.

Jono