Great Songs that're ruined by being overplayed

[CFE]

What're the songs that you love...but can't stand the fact that they're being played too much?

Like..."I love this song...but I'd love it more if I didn't hear it all the damn time."

Mine's "Don't Stop Believin" by Journey...it's a great song, but when I hear it blaring from laptop speakers at school...ALL THE TIME...it's running the risk of being overexposed and I hate that.

Anyone else?

 

[darkseid26]

Stairway To Heaven for me. love the song but gets overplayed alot, mainly by people who don't know much more of led zeppelins music.

 

[The Chairman]

Any classic rock or pop song that is considered an anthem of sorts - "Stairway To Heaven," "Born To Run," Sinatra's "My Way," "We Are The Champions," etc. - all great songs by artists, but ones that can no longer be listened to on a consistently regular basis due to the massive overexposure to the point of annoyance.

 

[Ghostvirus]

Hotel California for me.

 

[Sawyer]

Back in Black. I think I just about crapped myself the first time I heard that song, and now it's just... "eeh, like I havent heard this before"

 

[Jake Cassidy]

Bohemian Rhapsody

What the hell am I sayin'? That never gets old.

Seriously, though, Free Fallin' by Tom Petty. They play it all the time where I'm from.

 

[Sawyer]

Bohemian Rhapsody

What the hell am I sayin'? That never gets old.

Seriously, though, Free Fallin' by Tom Petty. They play it all the time where I'm from.

It really never does. It's a work of art, I tell you.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

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[Jake Cassidy]

^ Yeah, mate. That song, 'Hallelujah' and 'More Than A Feeling' are the only songs I could listen to all day and never get tired of.

 

[ross2287]

Pretty much any song that gets played in sports arenas or sports movies.

 

[darkseid26]

Back in Black. I think I just about crapped myself the first time I heard that song, and now it's just... "eeh, like I havent heard this before"

this is true.
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Eye Of the Tiger also gets ruined, when you hear it in so many parodies of rocky, thou the song was always cheesy

 

[Kargo Warrior]

Sweet child O' mine/November Rain

Enter Sandman/Nothing Else Mathers

Highway To Hell

 

[Gallagher]

Enter Sandman I agree with. Add to that every Nirvana single that was released (I can't stand Smells Like Teen Spirit anymore, I feel violently ill whenever I hear it) and Wonderwall by Oasis.

 

[steintym]

Enter Sandman. Metallica is my favorite band and I love almost everything they've done, but I just can't listen to Sandman anymore. What makes it worse is that this song is almost always part of their encore during concerts. I understand they have to play it, but I wish they'd get done with it earlier in the set.

 

[Gallagher]

I'm tempted to say One... but dammit I love that song too much.

 

[Go Web Go!]

Every Nirvana song.

 

[Gallagher]

Every Nirvana song.

I heavily disagree, there are some really great obscure songs out there by Nirvana just stay away from the singles and pretty much everything off of Nevermind that isn't Drain You.

 

[Kane52630]

Back in Black by AC/DC
omg i cant count how many times that has been played

 

[Go Web Go!]

I heavily disagree, there are some really great obscure songs out there by Nirvana just stay away from the singles and pretty much everything off of Nevermind that isn't Drain You.

I meant every song they play on the radio. I should have been more specific. Nirvana is probably my favorite band, but I can't listen to a good bunch of their songs because of excessive radio play, even 15 years after Cobain's passing. I HAVE to flip the station. Like you said, nearly every track off Nevermind is unlistenable at this point as are a few others like "Rape Me"

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Songs by Ne-Yo. I remember when I listened to "Because of you" everyday, and I got so annoyed with it that that it made me resent Ne-Yo. Then I listened to him a few days ago, and I like his songs when they're not being played all the time.

 

[Zephyr Alexian]

Runnin Down a Dream by Tom Petty
Drive - Incubus
Kashmir and Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Bohemian Rhapsody and We Will Rock You - Queen
How Sweet It Is - James Taylor
Never Too Much - Luther Vandross

 

[PyroChamber]

How about Iron Man from Black Sabbath or even Crazy Train from Ozzy?

 

[Ghostvirus]

Santana's "Smooth". I loved that song back in the day, but if got old real quit when they played it every 5 minutes in the summer of '99.

Oh & Hotel California - Eagles

 

[simplysuperhero]

Baba O'Reilly from The Who - way too much

 

[Ipodman]

Low by Flo Rida 0.0