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I was having a discussion with a friend this past weekend. While we were talking, we were also trying to guess what selections people that were going up to the jukebox were going to play. Then the subject moved on to songs that we can go the rest of our life without ever needing to hear again, as we've either heard them so often that we can just hear the song in our head as they've been overplayed on the radio or used on TV commercials, or we just don't like it at all.

The challenge was to come up with 30 such songs. My own personal list is much longer. But in no particular order, this was the list of songs that I noted down. What are yours?

 

 

1. Iggy Pop - Lust for Life

2. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

3. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

4. Deep Purple - Smoke on The Water

5. Blur - Parklife

6. Don McLean - American Pie

7. Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

8. The Doors - Light My Fire

9. The Beatles - Hey Jude

10. The Beatles - A Little Help From My Friends (usually the cover by Joe Cocker)

11. Lynryd Skynyrd - Freebird

12. The Stranglers - Golden Brown

13. The Clash - Should I Stay, or Should I Go?

14. Steve Miller Band - The Joker

15. Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

16. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl

17. The Eagles - Hotel California

18. Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell

19. Meatloaf - 2 out of 3 ain't bad

20. Meatloaf - Paradise by The Dashboard Light

21. Journey - Don't Stop Believing

22. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas

23. Spandau Ballet - True

24. Lynryd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama

25. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

26. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen

27. Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)

28. David Bowie - Space Oddity

29. The Doors - People Are Strange

30. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - The Zephyr Song

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You have named a few that are definitely on my list! :D

I'll have to come back to you on this one, but I'm going to try and limit it to songs that I did like once. If I extend it to songs that I don't like at all, I just wouldn't know where to stop :unsure:

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I was having a discussion with a friend this past weekend. While we were talking, we were also trying to guess what selections people that were going up to the jukebox were going to play. Then the subject moved on to songs that we can go the rest of our life without ever needing to hear again, as we've either heard them so often that we can just hear the song in our head as they've been overplayed on the radio or used on TV commercials, or we just don't like it at all.

The challenge was to come up with 30 such songs. My own personal list is much longer. But in no particular order, this was the list of songs that I noted down. What are yours?

 

 

1. Iggy Pop - Lust for Life

2. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

3. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

4. Deep Purple - Smoke on The Water

5. Blur - Parklife

6. Don McLean - American Pie

7. Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

8. The Doors - Light My Fire

9. The Beatles - Hey Jude

10. The Beatles - A Little Help From My Friends (usually the cover by Joe Cocker)

11. Lynryd Skynyrd - Freebird

12. The Stranglers - Golden Brown

13. The Clash - Should I Stay, or Should I Go?

14. Steve Miller Band - The Joker

15. Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

16. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl

17. The Eagles - Hotel California

18. Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell

19. Meatloaf - 2 out of 3 ain't bad

20. Meatloaf - Paradise by The Dashboard Light

21. Journey - Don't Stop Believing

22. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas

23. Spandau Ballet - True

24. Lynryd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama

25. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

26. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen

27. Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)

28. David Bowie - Space Oddity

29. The Doors - People Are Strange

30. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - The Zephyr Song

some of these I completely agree with you with and others j couldn't disagree with more. One question what is your least favorite song. In my opinion the worst song is that awful gangam style which was everywhere back in 2012.

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I was having a discussion with a friend this past weekend. While we were talking, we were also trying to guess what selections people that were going up to the jukebox were going to play. Then the subject moved on to songs that we can go the rest of our life without ever needing to hear again, as we've either heard them so often that we can just hear the song in our head as they've been overplayed on the radio or used on TV commercials, or we just don't like it at all.

The challenge was to come up with 30 such songs. My own personal list is much longer. But in no particular order, this was the list of songs that I noted down. What are yours?

 

 

1. Iggy Pop - Lust for Life

2. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

3. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

4. Deep Purple - Smoke on The Water

5. Blur - Parklife

6. Don McLean - American Pie

7. Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

8. The Doors - Light My Fire

9. The Beatles - Hey Jude

10. The Beatles - A Little Help From My Friends (usually the cover by Joe Cocker)

11. Lynryd Skynyrd - Freebird

12. The Stranglers - Golden Brown

13. The Clash - Should I Stay, or Should I Go?

14. Steve Miller Band - The Joker

15. Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

16. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl

17. The Eagles - Hotel California

18. Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell

19. Meatloaf - 2 out of 3 ain't bad

20. Meatloaf - Paradise by The Dashboard Light

21. Journey - Don't Stop Believing

22. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas

23. Spandau Ballet - True

24. Lynryd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama

25. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

26. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen

27. Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)

28. David Bowie - Space Oddity

29. The Doors - People Are Strange

30. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - The Zephyr Song

some of these I completely agree with you with and others j couldn't disagree with more. One question what is your least favorite song. In my opinion the worst song is that awful gangam style which was everywhere back in 2012.

 

 

I don't really have a least favourite song. Gangam Style, I've grown to just tune it out as it's one of those novelty songs that came out, was used in various commercials and then vanished again. It'll probably feature on those shows where various stand-up comedians sit down to remember that decade in about 20-30 years time.

 

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I agree with a lot on Phantom's list.

I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I have to say 'everything by the Beatles' would be on my list. I loved them as a kid, but all those songs are worn out and tired for me now. And after too many years of working retail and having to listen to the same dozen songs over and over again hours a day for a month and a half at a go, 'all Christmas music' would also be on that list. Ditto loving the carols/songs as a kid, ditto on the worn-out-tired factor. I'd also add 'everything by Michael Jackson' with the exception of "Man in the Mirror."

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I have one song, or rather a version of it that makes me watch to either throw the radio through a window or put a brick through the television each time I hear it.
It's any version of "Somewhere over the rainbow" where the singer slows the tempo and does an acoustic version on a ukelele.
I have a friend who does it during her shows. She would get upset with me because I'd get up from the bar and proclaim loudly "I fucking hate that song".
Admittedly I only turned up to her gigs to show her a bit of support. She's since moved in to the category of friends that is "I like you, I just think your music sucks".
We're still friends :)

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My understanding is that the list should be songs you once liked rather than just an endless list of Lulu, novelty acts and Justin Bieber hits?

 

Of your list 7,9 and 22 fall into the gladly would never listen to again because I've heard them so much I've got weary of them.

 

I'm not sure if your whole list is songs you don't want to hear again or if some of them are still songs you like but don't need to hear again because you can recall them from memory whenever you wish. Without deciding whether I still like the songs or not I would add:-

 

1. James Sit Down

2. Pulp Common People

3. Pulp Year 2000

4. Radiohead Creep

5. Pogues/K McCall Fairytale of New York

6. Queen Somebody to Love

7. Nilsson Without You

8. Leonard Cohen Hallelujah

9. Abba The Winner Takes it All

10.Oasis Don't Look Back in Anger

 

At some point in time I've played all these songs over and over on repeat till I sickened myself of them - it's a pretty eclectic mix - sure there will be loads more but better check that I've got the right idea before spending my whole night on it!

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Black Sheets of Rain, by Bob Mould. The whole album. I listened to it so much in my angst ridden teens that every note is still ingrained on my psyche.

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Not a song, but when I was a teenager I was a mad Depeche Mode fan, but now I live next door to an UTTER CUNT that plays ONLY DEPECHE MODE at EAR SPLITTING LEVELS at ALL HOURS OF THE DAY AND NIGHT, so now I CAN'T FUCKING STAND THEM. I HATE THAT w***er NEXT DOOR FOR ROBBING ME OF MY TEENAGE YEARS.

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Nice songs actually, but I can't listen to them anymore...

 

- Gloria Gaynor - I am what I am

- Gloria Gaynor - I will survive

- Weather Girls - It's raining men

- Nena - 99 Luftballons

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Where to start.......

Always take the weather with you by Crowded house. So friggin' irritatingly annoying. ' Do I lie like a Lounge room Lizard'. WTF is that all about ?!

...guess that's where I start them.

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Mine is mostly made up of songs that get stuck in your head for months even though you didn't particularly liked them in the first place.

 

Charlene - Never been to me

Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time

Cyndi Lauper - True Colours (really surprised this hasn't come up before)

Nizlopi - JCB Song

Tommy Steele - Little White Bull

Queen - We will Rock You

Beatles - When I'm 64

Beatles - From me to you

Chumbawumba - Tupthumping

Whitney Houston - I will Always Love You

Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines

Jessie J et al - Bang Bang

Madonna - This Used to be My Playground

Mariah Carey - All I want for Christmas is you

Tina Turner - Simply the Best

Various artists - Sisters Are Doing it for themselves

Various artists - Uptown Girl

Wigfield - Saturday Night

Diana Ross - Stop! In the Name of Love

Adele - Skyfall

Kylie - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Amy Winehouse - Valerie

Europe - The Final Countdown

Foreigner - I wanna know what love is

Tammy Wynette- Stand By Your Man

Various - Moon River (mainly thanks to that advert)

Oasis - Half the World Away

Rhianna - Diamonds

Goombay Dance Band - Seven Tears (probably the worst song ever)

Phyllis Nelson - Move Closer

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I agree with a lot on Phantom's list.

I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I have to say 'everything by the Beatles' would be on my list. I loved them as a kid, but all those songs are worn out and tired for me now. And after too many years of working retail and having to listen to the same dozen songs over and over again hours a day for a month and a half at a go, 'all Christmas music' would also be on that list. Ditto loving the carols/songs as a kid, ditto on the worn-out-tired factor. I'd also add 'everything by Michael Jackson' with the exception of "Man in the Mirror."

 

Yeah I'll check back but my immediate reaction was this is a list of songs once beholden only to get so saturated in your ears you're done with them. It can't be songs you thought sucked all along or I'd never stop typing.

 

I liked a good number on Phantom's list. I concur. I heard Tears for Fears 'Head Over Heels' the other day, first time in 5 years I bet, and it wasn't long enough. In fact, though I can still handle all 6 minutes of the repetitive Shout, you can chuck that whole album now.

SC

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Mine is mostly made up of songs that get stuck in your head for months even though you didn't particularly liked them in the first place.

 

Charlene - Never been to me

Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time

Cyndi Lauper - True Colours (really surprised this hasn't come up before)

Nizlopi - JCB Song

Tommy Steele - Little White Bull

Queen - We will Rock You

Beatles - When I'm 64

Beatles - From me to you

Chumbawumba - Tupthumping

Whitney Houston - I will Always Love You

Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines

Jessie J et al - Bang Bang

Madonna - This Used to be My Playground

Mariah Carey - All I want for Christmas is you

Tina Turner - Simply the Best

Various artists - Sisters Are Doing it for themselves

Various artists - Uptown Girl

Wigfield - Saturday Night

Diana Ross - Stop! In the Name of Love

Adele - Skyfall

Kylie - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Amy Winehouse - Valerie

Europe - The Final Countdown

Foreigner - I wanna know what love is

Tammy Wynette- Stand By Your Man

Various - Moon River (mainly thanks to that advert)

Oasis - Half the World Away

Rhianna - Diamonds

Goombay Dance Band - Seven Tears (probably the worst song ever)

Phyllis Nelson - Move Closer

 

You listened to all those artists? I'm as eclectic as anyone, but that's out there.

SC

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Papa was a Rolling Stone - The Temptations

54321 - Manfred Mann

Dreadlock Holiday - 10CC

Marys Boy Child - Boney M

Karma Chameleon - Culture Club

Mull of Kintyre - Wings

D I S C O - Ottawan

Living in America - James Brown

98.2% of Elvis tracks

Do They Know its Christmas - Band Aid

New York New York - Frank Sinatra

White Christmas - Bing Crosby

Pop goes the Weasel - Anthony Newley

Love will Tear us apart - Joy Division

...and many more.

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Papa was a Rolling Stone - The Temptations

54321 - Manfred Mann

Dreadlock Holiday - 10CC

Marys Boy Child - Boney M

Karma Chameleon - Culture Club

Mull of Kintyre - Wings

D I S C O - Ottawan

Living in America - James Brown

98.2% of Elvis tracks

Do They Know its Christmas - Band Aid

New York New York - Frank Sinatra

White Christmas - Bing Crosby

Pop goes the Weasel - Anthony Newley

Love will Tear us apart - Joy Division

...and many more

 

ok now I hear Tony Blackburn's voice saying "Not available in the shops"

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Papa was a Rolling Stone - The Temptations

54321 - Manfred Mann

Dreadlock Holiday - 10CC

Marys Boy Child - Boney M

Karma Chameleon - Culture Club

Mull of Kintyre - Wings

D I S C O - Ottawan

Living in America - James Brown

98.2% of Elvis tracks

Do They Know its Christmas - Band Aid

New York New York - Frank Sinatra

White Christmas - Bing Crosby

Pop goes the Weasel - Anthony Newley

Love will Tear us apart - Joy Division

...and many more

 

ok now I hear Tony Blackburn's voice saying "Not available in the shops"

 

You must remember those 'Top of The Pops' albums back in the 70s where the chart hits on the albums were not actually recorded by the original artists!!!

Try that one now!! :D

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Basically every pop song (except for a handful that have visible influences from other, "better" genres)

 

Most rap songs

 

Any song like Gangnam Style, Whip & Nae Nae (or whatever the fuck that's called), that has an accompanying dance and is thus overplayed and overrated.

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Any song sung by Cilla Black.

 

Pretty much all of Michael Jackson's catalogue.

 

The Birdy Song.

 

That Grease medley.

 

Mull of Kintyre.

 

Gangnam Style.

 

Poker Face

 

Lots of Bruce Springsteen stuff.

 

All Christmas songs except Fairy Tale of New York and I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day.

 

These aren't necessarily songs that I've loved and got tired of, mostly songs that I have to endure in the course of my work.

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Papa was a Rolling Stone - The Temptations

54321 - Manfred Mann

Dreadlock Holiday - 10CC

Marys Boy Child - Boney M

Karma Chameleon - Culture Club

Mull of Kintyre - Wings

D I S C O - Ottawan

Living in America - James Brown

98.2% of Elvis tracks

Do They Know its Christmas - Band Aid

New York New York - Frank Sinatra

White Christmas - Bing Crosby

Pop goes the Weasel - Anthony Newley

Love will Tear us apart - Joy Division

...and many more

 

ok now I hear Tony Blackburn's voice saying "Not available in the shops"

 

You must remember those 'Top of The Pops' albums back in the 70s where the chart hits on the albums were not actually recorded by the original artists!!!

Try that one now!! :D

 

 

Oh yes, I remember seeing those albums all the time. In fact they've become collectors items purely because of the album covers.

A friend of mine who works as a DJ in Liverpool has almost the entire collection.

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Do They Know It's Christmas?

 

I hate that fucking song, the lyrics are utter shite, the underlying sentiment is sickening.

 

A song that only idiots can enjoy.

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Anything by Lulu.

Tsk! As a certain Edina Monsoon once said: "you can never have too much Lulu". And, regardless of what people think about her, she's got a cracking voice.

 

No-one mentioned 'Imagine' yet? Up there with Hey Jude and Let It Be as overplayed and we're all supposed to get mawkishly emotional over it. R.E.M.'s Everybody Hurts is another one. Mawkish tripe and not a patch on anything from their IRS years either. And on a personal note, if Blondie (or Debbie Harry solo) never played The Tide Is High live again I wouldn't shed any tears.

 

Can't believe someone's mentioned a Boney M song, and Seven Tears is a perfect example of classic Schlager. Cloth ears, the lot of you!

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Mine is mostly made up of songs that get stuck in your head for months even though you didn't particularly liked them in the first place.

 

Charlene - Never been to me

Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time

Cyndi Lauper - True Colours (really surprised this hasn't come up before)

Nizlopi - JCB Song

Tommy Steele - Little White Bull

Queen - We will Rock You

Beatles - When I'm 64

Beatles - From me to you

Chumbawumba - Tupthumping

Whitney Houston - I will Always Love You

Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines

Jessie J et al - Bang Bang

Madonna - This Used to be My Playground

Mariah Carey - All I want for Christmas is you

Tina Turner - Simply the Best

Various artists - Sisters Are Doing it for themselves

Various artists - Uptown Girl

Wigfield - Saturday Night

Diana Ross - Stop! In the Name of Love

Adele - Skyfall

Kylie - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Amy Winehouse - Valerie

Europe - The Final Countdown

Foreigner - I wanna know what love is

Tammy Wynette- Stand By Your Man

Various - Moon River (mainly thanks to that advert)

Oasis - Half the World Away

Rhianna - Diamonds

Goombay Dance Band - Seven Tears (probably the worst song ever)

Phyllis Nelson - Move Closer

 

You listened to all those artists? I'm as eclectic as anyone, but that's out there.

SC

 

 

Not all of them no. There isn't enough money in the world you could pay me to listen to Cyndi Lauper or Robin Thicke voluntarily but a few year ago True Colours seemed to be on every advert, in every supermarket etc and while I mildly disliked it before I really hate it now. Blurred lines I could easily have ignored but one of my friends really likes the song and insists on requesting all the time if we go out.

The others are mostly songs I had no particular feeling for but got sick of hearing( You try living with a fairground outside your window for every summer for two weeks and see if you can stand listening to We Will Rock You ever again,) songs which I used to like but which have been hijacked by crap adverts (Moon River, or songs which were well over hyped (Skyfall).

Special mention for I've Never Been to Me which I heard for the first time about 4 years ago and has been stuck in my head ever since. I wouldn't mind if it were a nice song, but lyrically it's offensive.

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I can see I shall have to hurry up with my list. 'Imagine' has pride of place there.

 

Here you are then. Quite a few have already been mentioned.

These are all songs that I have in the past liked (or at least not disliked) but have heard them so often that they bore me now.

 

10cc – I'm Not In Love

Abba – Dancing Queen

Aerosmith – I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing

Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen

Dire Straits – Money For Nothing

The Eagles - Hotel California

Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive

Human League – Don't You Want Me

Elton John – Your Song

Elton John – Candle In The Wind (and we all know why)

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

John Lennon – Imagine

Don McLean - American Pie

Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water

Slade – Merry Christmas Everybody

The Stranglers - Golden Brown

Nilsson (or anybody else) – Without You

Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells (any of it)

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

Peter Sarstedt – Where Do You Go To My Lovely

Bruce Springsteen – Hungry Heart

Bruce Springsteen – The Rising

Squeeze – Up The Junction

Rod Stewart – Maggie May

James Taylor OR Carole King – You've Got A Friend

Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse Of The Heart

Ultravox OR Midge Ure - Hymn

Neil Young – After The Goldrush

Anybody – My Way

Anybody – Unchained Melody

 

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