Great Songs that're ruined by being overplayed

[Kane52630]

Ballin by Jim Jones

 

[Mdizzle]

This is precisely why I never listen to the radio, unless I'm driving for very short trips (to the store, etc.). Otherwise it's Ipodage all the way.

 

[SsM]

Low by Flo Rida 0.0

This is a ****** song that is overplayed not a great song that is overplayed.

 

[ComicChick]

love story by taylor swift, i liked it but they overplay it

 

[simplysuperhero]

Free Bird
Sweet Home Alabama
Crazy Train

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Clint Mansells Reqiuem For A Dream theme.

Ruined forever and as Aronofsky himself said recently, taints his movie for people seeing it for the first time...

 

[KenK]

Clint Mansells Reqiuem For A Dream theme.

Ruined forever and as Aronofsky himself said recently, taints his movie for people seeing it for the first time...

I definitely agree, 'cause the point at which it's played in the film is just so emotionally stirring that you can't help but be moved. Used any other way (for like trailers for other movies, or anything), it's nowhere near as effective or poignant.

 

[Gallagher]

Good lord yes Requiem for a Dream is all over the damn place. Especially on TV over here, they have it on every sports programme going and pretty much every talent show going.

 

[Heretic]

No song in music history has ever been ruined by being overplayed.

Not only are none of the songs listed overplayed, but Ive managed to go my entire life without ever hearing Ne-Yo, Taylor Swift or Flo Rida a single time...and I work in the music business!!!

Turn the radio off every now and then guys...maybe buy a cd.

 

[DACrowe]

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.

Queen, like other all-time greats such as The Beatles, has music that will never EVER get old, no matter how times you hear it.

Okay, here are a few:

-Walk This Way
-Viva la Vida (actually this is on the fence)
-Boulevard of Broken Dreams
-Wake Me Up When September Ends
-Don't Stop Believing
-Back in Black
-Every Inch of My Love
-I Only Want to Be With You
-The Real Slim Shady

 

[DACrowe]

Low by Flo Rida 0.0

Yeah, except that song sucked to begin with. Kind of like Solja Boy the You Spin Me remake, Rollin' Rollin', Boom Boom Pow, etc.

They are bad at first and then the radio just keeps playing theme for a year straight.

 

[E-Man]

Ms. Jackson by Outkast. I heard that song back in high school, and I loved it the first weekend. Then when school came back around people were singing it in the cafeteria before school started. I was cool with it, we sang along. Then they started singing it in class. Still I was cool with it. By the time lunch came around though I started to get a little agitated that people were singing it non stop, especially to teachers named Ms. Jackson. Then came football practice time. We're in the weight room, and all of a sudden some idiot yells, "I'm sorry Ms. Jackson." And then everyone else went, "Whooo. But I am for reallll." I wanted to beat each and everyone in the weight room that day.

 

[SpideyInATree]

I don't really listen to the regular radio that much anymore but when I did I really started to loathe hearing Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Just the singles. Even to this day when I hear them it's not the same as it was when those songs were fresh to me.

Thankfully I have satellite radio and my I-Pod so I don't get annoyed by that crap anymore.

 

[TinkTonks]

Actually, you can get tired of really great artists and their songs. But the thing is...if they truly are great, you'll eventually come back around to them. t: Case in point, ages ago I burnt myself out on Queen. Had every CD, listened to them constantly. After a while though, I got to the point I would cringe whenever I heard one of their songs. Now I am drifting back around to them....especially some of their later albums. But that was a self-induced burn out. Then there are the forced burn-outs. I used to work at a Hallmark store, and the album we had to sell was the Beatles 1. We had to listen to it back to back to back with absolutely no other CD's playing for 3 months straight. I used to *love* the Beatles, now I have to be in a certain mood to be able to sit there and listen to them. I work somewhere else now (been there for a year) but I went back to Hallmark a few weeks ago to visit a friend and they were *still* playing the Beatles! But I imagine I will eventually get back into their stuff.

 

[Darthphere]

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"

Yeah add to the fact that Nirvana is one of the more overrated bands in music history.

 

[ComicChick]

Actually, you can get tired of really great artists and their songs. But the thing is...if they truly are great, you'll eventually come back around to them. t: Case in point, ages ago I burnt myself out on Queen. Had every CD, listened to them constantly. After a while though, I got to the point I would cringe whenever I heard one of their songs. Now I am drifting back around to them....especially some of their later albums. But that was a self-induced burn out. Then there are the forced burn-outs. I used to work at a Hallmark store, and the album we had to sell was the Beatles 1. We had to listen to it back to back to back with absolutely no other CD's playing for 3 months straight. I used to *love* the Beatles, now I have to be in a certain mood to be able to sit there and listen to them. I work somewhere else now (been there for a year) but I went back to Hallmark a few weeks ago to visit a friend and they were *still* playing the Beatles! But I imagine I will eventually get back into their stuff.

ive gone through this with different groups. listen to em hardcore for a while, get tired of em and then come back to them later

 

[SpideyInATree]

Yeah add to the fact that Nirvana is one of the more overrated bands in music history.

In certain respects they are overrated. If Kurt Cobain wouldn't have died they probably wouldn't necessarily be as big of a deal as they are today. Still they would be considered a band that changed music though with the whole grunge movement. And we wouldn't have gotten the Foo Fighters out of it either.

 

[ComicChick]

In certain respects they are overrated. If Kurt Cobain wouldn't have died they probably wouldn't necessarily be as big of a deal as they are today. Still they would be considered a band that changed music though with the whole grunge movement. And we wouldn't have gotten the Foo Fighters out of it either.

i think I actually prefer the Foo
so at least a good thing came out of it

 

[SsM]

Kurt Cobain was a talentless hack.


Speaking of Foo Fighters

I used to like their single "Let It die" when it first started playing, but now I can't turn on the radio without hearing it! I heard it seven times one afternoon, SEVEN TIMES.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

Kurt Cobain was a talentless hack.

Lol ignorance.

I mean, let's examine it: Cobain was able to break free from the college rock pseudo-Pixies alterna-sludge sound by rocking harder than anyone had in years, channeling bluesmen like Robert Johnson and Leadbelly. Chuck Berry himself said that Cobain had a touch that most guitar players would kill for. He was able to transcend the trite alternative rock stuff that now weighs down the silly post grunge work of his former bandmate. (The silly, trite postgrunge band rhymes with Moo Mighters by the way). He was a songwriter that injected genuine feeling and nerve in to his lyrics and guitar work. He managed to approach rock from a Gestalt perspective, and had an ear for music that was actually songful and melodic. Plus I think that the assessment of people like Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Nick Cave, Chuck Berry, and Bono are more informed and meaningful than your throwaway glibness. Way to make yourself look totally uncouth. I mean, seriously, just throwing down a statement like that which brings absolutely nothing to the table, without any thoughtfulness whatsoever. Kudos.

People who think that Cobain was talentless are never and will never leave the shallow end of the pool.

 

[Lighthouse]

Everything by Pearl Jam. I swear to God if I hear "Alive" one more time, I'm going to punch the radio.

 

[Pickle-El]

Anything Foo Fighers, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Incubus, and Sublime...here in Los Angeles, that's ALL they play. And I'm sick to death of all their singles.

God, I honestly can't stand some of the "greatest" songs in rock history because of overplay. If I hear Smells Like Teen Spirit, The Pretender, or Dani California, I want to start running people over in my car.

 

[Matrixo]

Viva la Vida was amazing and then it got really annoying when it was played every ten minutes...and this is coming from a coldplay fan.

 

[ComicChick]

Viva la Vida was amazing and then it got really annoying when it was played every ten minutes...and this is coming from a coldplay fan.

check out the Lady Gaga cover if you want a fresh different version of it

 

[ross2287]

check out the Lady Gaga cover if you want a fresh different version of it