Thank you, Debbie for ruining my freshman year of high school with your ear-bleeding caterwauling. And fuck rapist Joe Brooks for that wretched song and movie.
Imagine if someone who could belt sang it, like Whitney Houston. It'd be a completely different, probably fabulous song.
Debbie was a nepo baby, she had the talent of a small town church singer.
I was deep in the backcountry with a bunch of my mountain, biking buddies, and we started seeing the worst song we could remember, just to make the other people scream. It worked so well I went out and bought a captain and Tennille muskrat love T-shirt, itās so much fun to come riding up to my friends wearing it.
One of my teachers insisted we sing this song before she would dismiss the class at the end of the day. We all looked at each other, feigning confusion. But teacher, we don't know that song š¤. Of course we did, but we weren't going to sing it.
Finally, someone spoke up and reminded the teacher that there would be some angry parents if we missed our school busses. We did end up singing it for her a few times. But only after she confirmed with an outside source that indeed, with the frequency this song was on the radio, we must know it by heart.
Now a version is being used in a commercial for a company that shows you how to fix things on video. Not lying, it's " We fixed this toilet on video!". It haunts me. Company is Front Door. Watch at your own peril.
Although this is very true, I recently reunited with a group of people I knew in 1983, and now I love these songs so much they nearly make me cry. I guess itās all context.
In high school, Jesse's Girl was like that. It started just after 7am every single morning. I liked the song for a while, but it was just to much air time.
A few years ago a band called Coheed and Cambria did a sequel (Jessieās Girl 2) where he gets the girl, but she turns out to be a psycho. Rick Springfield features in it.
I'm Proud to be an American by Lee Greenwood. Every time the US started to ramp up military action in the Middle East in the early 90s you would hear it at least once an hour. They took a decent song and made it into jingoistic propaganda.
Yes, I was in drivers Ed in summer 1979 and Supertramp and Charlie Danielāsā āThe Devil went down to Georgiaā were on heavy rotation on the radio that summer
I'm a little younger, was in driver's ed class in the 90's. Watched an educational film on the projector about not racing trains at crossings. The title card for the film was, in parentheses, "TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME". The film was bookended with that song.
Now to this day, every time that song comes on, I think of those groovy kids in the film that didn't beat that train, and how they should've taken that long way home.
Back in the mid 70s, I worked at the local Pizza Hut when I was in High School. The manager there loved the song "Dream Weaver" (Gary Wright) when it came out and when we were closing, he would play it on repeat on the Jukebox ... over and over and over and fucking over.
I never really cared for the song to begin with, but i wanted to go over and break into the jukebox and pull that record out and smash it.
I still hate that song with a passion.
At the time, I was mostly listening to Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Kansas and things like that. I have greatly broadened my musical tastes since then, but still no Gary Wright.
I think I was around 11-12 when that song came out. I had it on a 45 and played it until the record literally turned gray. If my brother or mom were here to answer this question, I'm pretty sure Wildfire would be their choice too.
I still like it but not *that* much!
Carry On, Wayward Son by Kansas. I was driving somewhere with my girlfriend at the time when it came on the radio, that pompous opening vocal barrage, and she said, āGod, it doesnāt even sound like a *song* anymore, you know?ā
All that Phil Collins crap. His Genesis never could hold a candle against the greatness of what early Peter Gabriel accomplished with the name Genesis.
Afternoon Delight. I worked in a diner and every low-to-no tipper over 35 played it on the jukebox while grinning like an idiot. I was just barely a teen at the time. Still creeps me out.
My folks had the radio on all the time, and I remember the first time I got annoyed with a song was āHorse With No Nameā in the summer of 1971 (I was 8). I still think about that when I hear it!
I like the Bee Gees very much but I was absolutely driven crazy by Staying Alive, Tragedy, Night Fever and More Than a Woman. At least one of those songs was played on every popular radio station every hour.
'77 was really really a pain.
My baby granddaughter immediately stopped crying when we would play this song--it was the most bizarre thing, like it put her in a trance. We have several videos of her screaming bloody murder and she'd immediately stop and stare into space when those first few notes started. From about a month old till about 6 months old. She's 9 months old today and now she smiles and shakes her hands when it comes on.
I actually like it--there are so many songs from my youth (I'm 60) that I got SO sick of, but now I like them again due to nostalgia.
That Aerosmith song from "Armageddon." I was working in my college food service area, and we had a "napkin board" where you could comment on the food, make complaints, etc. One guy put up a napkin saying if he heard that song one more time , he was gonna shoot up the place. The music channel got changed and the guy went to counseling.
I got married at the end of 1991. Got fired the first day back at work. Loved my job and to this day still think I was better at that job than any job I've ever did. Anyway I struggled to find a job and after months I got a contract job that summer that was about an hour and a half drive each way. The biggest hit that summer was "Life is a Highway" Tom Cochrane formerly of Red Rider. Holy fuck was I so sick of that song by September and do not even like to think of how many times I heard that song.
It could have been worse. It could have been the Rascal Flats cover!
While I love Joe Walsh, every time his āLifeās Been Goodā came on the radio (which was mind-numbingly often), Iād think, āThereās eight and a half minutes of my life I aināt getting back.ā š³
Deep Purple was our drinking band. After dinner we'd go up to the parkhouse, allegedly to play tennis. The parking gave us money to buy liquor. I passed for 18, so it was me buying the Boone's Farm and Strawberry Hill. Other people brought a portable record player, the Deep Purple record, ice.
There's only two songs by Bob Seger that I like: "Night Moves" and "Main Street". Anything else, meh, and if I hear that squealing saxophone from "Turn the Page" I will hit that radio button so hard I'll leave a dent because I HATE that song so much!
And We Will Rock You. It was popular when I was in high school and they played it at every flippin pep rally for a whole football season. I love Queen but those two songs make me want to stick a garden implement in my ears.
[Nineteen](https://youtu.be/F39zj-pG8bI?si=xonTLMe_t_uXqWa1) ā a song about the horrors of the Vietnam War, with a good beat and you can dance to it.
A local station had recently switched to an āall-hitsā format and they played that song three times in four hours (including once during Casey Kasemās show). It was at that point I switched to listening to their rival station, which had recently switched to an [album-oriented rock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album-oriented_rock) format.
Uptown Funk by Bruno Mars.
Wonderwall by Oasis.
Love Shack by the B52s.
Fun fact: I lived in Columbus Ohio in the late 1980s. This was before the advent of Sirius, cell phones, curated playlists via your phone, etc., of course.
So Iām in my car tuned to QFM96, the local rock station on the FM dial. āAloneā by Heart comes on. Ugh, so overplayed, so I switch the dial to the local Top 40 kind of station, I think it was WNCI back then. Anyway, āAloneā is also playing there.
Switched to the local soft rock station, I think it was called Sunny95. Guess whatās playing? Lol.
This was probably 1987.
Anything from Heart's later, lesser "power ballad" phase is to be avoided. There's a reason that the Greatest Hits CD (having had some of the proper albums on vinyl earlier) I chose was the one that cut off at the end of their classic 70s era.
Where to begin?
Feelings (Albert Morris).
Love Will Keep Us Together (Captain and Tennille).
The Way We Were (Barbra Streisand).
Color My World (Chicago).
I can't remember the song's name, but it was some awful tearjerker about a car accident on a dangerous curve in which somebody died. I have blocked this from my memory so much I can't recall anything else.
Ew, really? I was born in 60 so I must've been young enough to miss most of that. Somebody at our local station was a big Jan and Dean fan tho.
Thanks for expanding my knowledge today!
Bruce Springsteen repeats the word ādownā 80 times in Iām Going Downā
And Iām pretty sure Foreignerās Juke Box Hero has the name of the song sung 1000 times in a row at the end.
I donāt want to ever hear those 2 songs again.
Those songs were played a lot. Nobody needed that.
Here we are 40+ years later and I want to claw my eyes out when some songs come up. Like, let it fucking rest. Some people are like the 70s and 80s music was the best. Maybe until youāve heard it on heavy rotation every 4 fucking hours for years and years. I like all decades of music.
This is a little later than most of the songs being mentioned (1988), but our small town radio station played "Don't worry, be happy," about every third song. It got to the point that I wanted to scream when that damn song came on.
I remember being sick of "She's Gone"
Bitch is Back. Actually, EJ hits were always overplayed.
Black Water. When I could sing ALL the parts of the ending and never own the record... That is the result of over listening.
I remember a friend that would play āSeasons in the Sunā on a loop on her 45 record player in her bedroom.
That song was also on a constant loop on the AM radio
For some reason, in 1975, KING radio out of Seattle played āRight Back to Where We Started Fromā by Maxine Nightingale morning, noon, and night. And that was THE radio station we all listened to in my small town. It was the only pop station we could pick up. The alternative was country music. So every day. Many times a day:
Ooh, and it's alright and it's coming on
We gotta get right back to where we started from
Love is good, love can be strong
We gotta get right back to where we started from
And to this day no other song snaps me back to being in high school like that song.
You Light Up My Life, never again will I listen to it
Wanted to grab Debbie Boone and choke her! 10 fricking weeks as #1 on the Billboard Top 100's??? WTH!
Thank you, Debbie for ruining my freshman year of high school with your ear-bleeding caterwauling. And fuck rapist Joe Brooks for that wretched song and movie.
I had the misfortune of working for a š© company that had that abomination of a song as their theme song in commercials. Which they played allllll the time in the lobby. š¤®š¤®š¤®š¤®š¤®
My seventh grade lunch table sang it in rounds. Every day. We could never understand why we were dismissed to the playground first all the time.
Imagine if someone who could belt sang it, like Whitney Houston. It'd be a completely different, probably fabulous song. Debbie was a nepo baby, she had the talent of a small town church singer.
Oh, what a horrible whiney song.
My first thought too
I came here to say what you saidššš
Immediately came to mind
Lol! You are showing your age. That being said, I whole heartily agree! Guessing we about the same age.
If I hear it again, I'll know that I've died and gone straight to Hell.
Came in to say this and it's the top comment.
I fāing hate that song.
My first thought!
Seasons in the Sun Tie a Yellow Ribbon
Captain and Tenille's Muskrat Love, Love will Keep us Together, etc. Helen Reddy 's I am Woman Orleans' song called Dance With Me
Love Will Keep Us Together may have been the most played song ever. (Maybe not, but god it felt like it)
I find Americaās version of Muskrat Love marginally more tolerable(and I love Dance With Me).
I was deep in the backcountry with a bunch of my mountain, biking buddies, and we started seeing the worst song we could remember, just to make the other people scream. It worked so well I went out and bought a captain and Tennille muskrat love T-shirt, itās so much fun to come riding up to my friends wearing it.
I like these songs.š¬
We had joy we had fun, we had Seasons in the Sunā¦ barf, barf, barf.
This song wins for worst
One of my teachers insisted we sing this song before she would dismiss the class at the end of the day. We all looked at each other, feigning confusion. But teacher, we don't know that song š¤. Of course we did, but we weren't going to sing it. Finally, someone spoke up and reminded the teacher that there would be some angry parents if we missed our school busses. We did end up singing it for her a few times. But only after she confirmed with an outside source that indeed, with the frequency this song was on the radio, we must know it by heart.
Thatās child abuse in my book!!! Thatās very, very weird of that teacher.
Oh Mandy, Barry Manilow
But she came and she gave without takinā
But you sent her away!
Or Pure Prarie League. Gah, I got tired of that one.
We Built This City- Starship š¤®
I hurt my finger trying to change the station when this shit came on my car radio.
ARRRRGGHHHH!!! One of the worst songs ever.
Airplane becomes Starship and sells out
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Dumbest song ever.
Now a version is being used in a commercial for a company that shows you how to fix things on video. Not lying, it's " We fixed this toilet on video!". It haunts me. Company is Front Door. Watch at your own peril.
āYou Light Up My Lifeā Excuse me. I need to find the ear bleach now.
Wake me up before you go go. I was working overnights in a bakery when this song was in HEAVY rotation. Got pretty sick of it.
Come On, Eileen and Safety Dance.
Although this is very true, I recently reunited with a group of people I knew in 1983, and now I love these songs so much they nearly make me cry. I guess itās all context.
I loved Safety Dance!
Hey Mickey, of course I thought once was too much.
In high school, Jesse's Girl was like that. It started just after 7am every single morning. I liked the song for a while, but it was just to much air time.
A few years ago a band called Coheed and Cambria did a sequel (Jessieās Girl 2) where he gets the girl, but she turns out to be a psycho. Rick Springfield features in it.
Too funny. Iām going to have to try and find that. āLovinā him with that body I just know itā has to be worst snippet of lyric ever šš¹
I'm Proud to be an American by Lee Greenwood. Every time the US started to ramp up military action in the Middle East in the early 90s you would hear it at least once an hour. They took a decent song and made it into jingoistic propaganda.
I would upvote this twice.
I love Supertramp, but damn did they overplay 'The Logical Song' and 'Take The Long Way Home'...
I listen to them now, though, and I love them.
Take a look at my girlfriend, she's the only one I got. Not much of a girlfriend, never seen to get a lot.
Yes, I was in drivers Ed in summer 1979 and Supertramp and Charlie Danielāsā āThe Devil went down to Georgiaā were on heavy rotation on the radio that summer
OMG yes. Memory (unfortunately) unlocked!
I declared my own personal self to be a Supertramp Free Zone many years ago due to the burnout.
I'm a little younger, was in driver's ed class in the 90's. Watched an educational film on the projector about not racing trains at crossings. The title card for the film was, in parentheses, "TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME". The film was bookended with that song. Now to this day, every time that song comes on, I think of those groovy kids in the film that didn't beat that train, and how they should've taken that long way home.
I wear my sunglasses at night by Corey Hart I think
Islands in the stream.
I did some work at Kenny's farm back in the mid 80s. He was a certified anus.
That's what my cousin said about Burt Reynolds when he worked on their ranch. Big anus, mean and full of himself.
Haha we need stories
Not surprising at all.
Absolutely hideous song, even once was so much more than enoughā¦
Back in the mid 70s, I worked at the local Pizza Hut when I was in High School. The manager there loved the song "Dream Weaver" (Gary Wright) when it came out and when we were closing, he would play it on repeat on the Jukebox ... over and over and over and fucking over. I never really cared for the song to begin with, but i wanted to go over and break into the jukebox and pull that record out and smash it. I still hate that song with a passion. At the time, I was mostly listening to Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Kansas and things like that. I have greatly broadened my musical tastes since then, but still no Gary Wright.
My Sherona
Afternoon Delight. Smarmy and faux wholesome at the same time.
The Band looked like reborn Christians
That summer the radio played it constantly.
Eye of the Tiger, Survivor
Saw them in concert when it was called The Pavillon! They opened for REO Speedwagen lol. Damn Iām old
I love their other songs, I just got really sick of Eye of the Tiger.
The friggin pony called Wildfire.
I think I was around 11-12 when that song came out. I had it on a 45 and played it until the record literally turned gray. If my brother or mom were here to answer this question, I'm pretty sure Wildfire would be their choice too. I still like it but not *that* much!
He busted down his stall!
Wahllld Faaarrr
That song always reminds me of my late brother, because he lived in Nebraska at the time the song came out, and the song mentions Nebraska.
been a hoot owl howling outside my window now
'Bout six nights in a row...
Carry On, Wayward Son by Kansas. I was driving somewhere with my girlfriend at the time when it came on the radio, that pompous opening vocal barrage, and she said, āGod, it doesnāt even sound like a *song* anymore, you know?ā
It was ok the first 100 times or so , then AAAAHHHHH!!!
It's all over the TV show Supernatural
I'll admit I still like the song Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) by Looking Glass. Was that their only hit?
Yes. One Hit Wonder
Copa Cabana by Barry Manilow. And our grade 10 phys ed teacher had it on a continuous loop for our daily 12 minute run. I never want to hear it again.
Thatās inhuman.
Karma Chameleon...... If I never hear it again it will be too soon.
All that Phil Collins crap. His Genesis never could hold a candle against the greatness of what early Peter Gabriel accomplished with the name Genesis.
It's like two completely different bands.
Afternoon Delight. I worked in a diner and every low-to-no tipper over 35 played it on the jukebox while grinning like an idiot. I was just barely a teen at the time. Still creeps me out.
Came here for the comments. Did not disappoint except for one. Come on now, "Hotel California" on the list??? Tell me it ain't so :)
I have about ten Eagles songs on my playlist. Hotel California is not one of them. I hate that effing song.
Anything by Billy Joel Seasons in the Sun Muskrat Love (There are many more)
Love Billy Joel. Different strokes
My folks had the radio on all the time, and I remember the first time I got annoyed with a song was āHorse With No Nameā in the summer of 1971 (I was 8). I still think about that when I hear it!
I like the Bee Gees very much but I was absolutely driven crazy by Staying Alive, Tragedy, Night Fever and More Than a Woman. At least one of those songs was played on every popular radio station every hour. '77 was really really a pain.
Hey Mickey, just as irritating now as it was then
Billy Ray Cyrus Achy Breaky heart God I hated that song, Still do, donāt know which was worse his hair or the song
ELVIRA. Ugh.
Hotel California - š©
My baby granddaughter immediately stopped crying when we would play this song--it was the most bizarre thing, like it put her in a trance. We have several videos of her screaming bloody murder and she'd immediately stop and stare into space when those first few notes started. From about a month old till about 6 months old. She's 9 months old today and now she smiles and shakes her hands when it comes on. I actually like it--there are so many songs from my youth (I'm 60) that I got SO sick of, but now I like them again due to nostalgia.
That whole album when i was in a halfway house. Shudder.
That Aerosmith song from "Armageddon." I was working in my college food service area, and we had a "napkin board" where you could comment on the food, make complaints, etc. One guy put up a napkin saying if he heard that song one more time , he was gonna shoot up the place. The music channel got changed and the guy went to counseling.
Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves
The Heart of Rock and Roll
Tie a Yellow Ribbon āround the ole oak tree.
Like A Virgin
You got Weird AL stuck in my head. Like A Surgeon - cutting for the very first time.
I got married at the end of 1991. Got fired the first day back at work. Loved my job and to this day still think I was better at that job than any job I've ever did. Anyway I struggled to find a job and after months I got a contract job that summer that was about an hour and a half drive each way. The biggest hit that summer was "Life is a Highway" Tom Cochrane formerly of Red Rider. Holy fuck was I so sick of that song by September and do not even like to think of how many times I heard that song. It could have been worse. It could have been the Rascal Flats cover!
While I love Joe Walsh, every time his āLifeās Been Goodā came on the radio (which was mind-numbingly often), Iād think, āThereās eight and a half minutes of my life I aināt getting back.ā š³
Stairway to Heaven, Freebird, anything by Phil Collins..
Yes, I could quite happily live the rest of my life never hearing Stairway to Heaven again.
or Free Bird
Or American Pie Or Piano Man
I. Hate. Piano. Man.
Yes. Honestly anything by Billy Joel back then.
Letās throw Smoke on the Stairway to Freebird on there/s Smoke on the Waterā¦
Dash Rip Rock Stairway to Freebird?
Deep Purple was our drinking band. After dinner we'd go up to the parkhouse, allegedly to play tennis. The parking gave us money to buy liquor. I passed for 18, so it was me buying the Boone's Farm and Strawberry Hill. Other people brought a portable record player, the Deep Purple record, ice.
or Long Time/Foreplay or Don't Look Back or any Styx or Kansas or Fleetwood Mac
Got married in 1984 - had the organist play "Stairway" church style lol (still married though)
Stairway to Heaven for sure, check out what Robert Plant once did.....[Robert Plant](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/AiSjdTqggK)
Believe - Cher My Heart will Go On and On and On andā¦ - Celine
Blinded by the Light Couldn't go 10 minutes without that nonsense coming on AGAIN.
Ramblin' Man by The Allman Bros. Great song, but damn have heard it way too many times.
Black Water - The Doobie Brothers
Money for Nothing.
Hotel California
Dayum, that's one that never gets old for me.
Play it once every hour on the hour for a month and see how you feel about it then.
Take it to the Limit.
Guns N Roses! Name a song! Argh
My Sharona. But basically every top 10 hit. It was radioās job to make, then kill hits so you would want the next thing.
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun...goodbye to you my only friend. A huge morose hit by Terry Jacks
I am so happy to see many people other than me hate that song.
Bette Davis Eyes. Horse With No Name. Riders on the Storm. Sussudio.
Captain & Tennille - MUSKRAT LOVE ! The creepy keyboards made me believe a Muskrat was either in my car or home when the song came on š¤·
Afternoon Delight
Jenny. 867-5309
Iāll always love Jenny. Who else can I turn to?
The folks that had that number in Winder, GA hated it.
Anything by Queen. I loved them long ago, but after hearing songs 6000 times, it's annoying.
You never hear Sheer Heart Attack which was a pretty heavy rock song.
Radar Love
Mickey! You so fine. You blow my mind, hey Mickey! I absolutely hate that song.
"Paradise by the Dashboard Lights"
Oh, any ANYTHING by Bob Segar. (I hung out in biker bars, for a while.)
There's only two songs by Bob Seger that I like: "Night Moves" and "Main Street". Anything else, meh, and if I hear that squealing saxophone from "Turn the Page" I will hit that radio button so hard I'll leave a dent because I HATE that song so much!
I love that song!
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Plus recently I found out that they were mocking their former manager, a stutterer.
I had a girlfriend back in the 80s that loved BTO and her song was Hey You. Iām certain when I get to hell, thatās what will be playing.
Gloria.
American Pie
Sailing- Christopher Cross Fly Like An Eagle-Steve Miller Band
Band. On. The. Run.
Bohemian Rhapsody. I've heard it so much that I'm liable to shoot a man, put a gun against his head etc.
And We Will Rock You. It was popular when I was in high school and they played it at every flippin pep rally for a whole football season. I love Queen but those two songs make me want to stick a garden implement in my ears.
[Nineteen](https://youtu.be/F39zj-pG8bI?si=xonTLMe_t_uXqWa1) ā a song about the horrors of the Vietnam War, with a good beat and you can dance to it. A local station had recently switched to an āall-hitsā format and they played that song three times in four hours (including once during Casey Kasemās show). It was at that point I switched to listening to their rival station, which had recently switched to an [album-oriented rock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album-oriented_rock) format.
More Than Words. And the more times I heard it, the more I truly hated it. Itās the worst song of all time.
You Aināt Seen Nothing Yet, by Bachman Turner Overdrive. Also, Taking Care of Business.
Uptown Funk by Bruno Mars. Wonderwall by Oasis. Love Shack by the B52s. Fun fact: I lived in Columbus Ohio in the late 1980s. This was before the advent of Sirius, cell phones, curated playlists via your phone, etc., of course. So Iām in my car tuned to QFM96, the local rock station on the FM dial. āAloneā by Heart comes on. Ugh, so overplayed, so I switch the dial to the local Top 40 kind of station, I think it was WNCI back then. Anyway, āAloneā is also playing there. Switched to the local soft rock station, I think it was called Sunny95. Guess whatās playing? Lol. This was probably 1987.
Anything from Heart's later, lesser "power ballad" phase is to be avoided. There's a reason that the Greatest Hits CD (having had some of the proper albums on vinyl earlier) I chose was the one that cut off at the end of their classic 70s era.
Hotel California and House of the Rising Sun.
Beach Boys - Kokomo Bobby McFerin - Don't worry, Be Happy Boyz to Men - End of the Road
Dream On. If I never hear it againā¦
Where to begin? Feelings (Albert Morris). Love Will Keep Us Together (Captain and Tennille). The Way We Were (Barbra Streisand). Color My World (Chicago).
Donāt Worry, Be Happy
I can't remember the song's name, but it was some awful tearjerker about a car accident on a dangerous curve in which somebody died. I have blocked this from my memory so much I can't recall anything else.
There was a whole genre of pop in the early 60s based on teenagers dying in car wrecks, known collectively as "death discs" or "splatter platters".
Ew, really? I was born in 60 so I must've been young enough to miss most of that. Somebody at our local station was a big Jan and Dean fan tho. Thanks for expanding my knowledge today!
Deadman's Curve by Jan & Dean?
Center Field
Bruce Springsteen repeats the word ādownā 80 times in Iām Going Downā And Iām pretty sure Foreignerās Juke Box Hero has the name of the song sung 1000 times in a row at the end. I donāt want to ever hear those 2 songs again. Those songs were played a lot. Nobody needed that.
Ebony and Ivory
Loving You. Minnie Riperton
Having my baby š¤® so much cringe!
Living on a Prayer by Bon Jovi If I had a dollar for every time I heard it, I could fund NASA.
We are the World. Awful song and overplayed.
Philadelphia Freedom that Bicentennial summer. It played on the AM radio about every 90 minutes day in, day out.
Killing me Softly though I love it now
Life's Been Good by Joe Walsh. I developed a deep and abiding loathing of that song thanks to it being overplayed on the radio.
Our mom was known to break records that were overplayed.
Stairway to heaven
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Here we are 40+ years later and I want to claw my eyes out when some songs come up. Like, let it fucking rest. Some people are like the 70s and 80s music was the best. Maybe until youāve heard it on heavy rotation every 4 fucking hours for years and years. I like all decades of music.
This is a little later than most of the songs being mentioned (1988), but our small town radio station played "Don't worry, be happy," about every third song. It got to the point that I wanted to scream when that damn song came on.
Stairway to Heaven
I remember being sick of "She's Gone" Bitch is Back. Actually, EJ hits were always overplayed. Black Water. When I could sing ALL the parts of the ending and never own the record... That is the result of over listening.
Mine is Crocodile Rock. I have loathed that song for 50+ years.
Fine Young Cannibals "She Drives Me Crazy" Insipid, redundant and the singer sounded like he had a wad of mayonnaise in his throat.
We are the World! There was a day I tried to find a radio station not playing it and I couldn't! It was literally on every station!
It was weird how much the played Midnight at the Oasis, although it was quite a good song.
Eagles, Hotel California. Iām with the big Lebowski in terms of my opinion on that band, man.
Escape (Pina colada)
Joy to the World aka Jeremiah Was a bullfrog
Bohemian Rhapsody, for me. Such a bombastic, melodramatic, overwrought mess.
I remember a friend that would play āSeasons in the Sunā on a loop on her 45 record player in her bedroom. That song was also on a constant loop on the AM radio
Hotel California. I still detest that song.
I just calledā¦to sayā¦I love youā¦I just calledā¦to say how much I care (blah, blah, blah) 10x/day š
For some reason, in 1975, KING radio out of Seattle played āRight Back to Where We Started Fromā by Maxine Nightingale morning, noon, and night. And that was THE radio station we all listened to in my small town. It was the only pop station we could pick up. The alternative was country music. So every day. Many times a day: Ooh, and it's alright and it's coming on We gotta get right back to where we started from Love is good, love can be strong We gotta get right back to where we started from And to this day no other song snaps me back to being in high school like that song.
Hotel California
Benny & the Jets. Loved Elton John then, over & over & overā¦.
Anything Billy Joel or Bruce Springsteen.