What is the most overplayed rock song?
 

Let's say a <u>rock</u>* song that you, personally, or we, society, do not need to hear for a while, because we have heard it many times before.

At first, I would think: easy! Smash Mouth's “All Star” which you are probably humming right now. To your regret.

But then, I realized that this song is still too recent. Surely there's been a song you haven't heard in ten years (or more) which is <i>still</i> overplayed.



If I never hear Tom Cochrane's “Life is a Highway” again, I will have listened to it enough times.

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Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen or Jeff Buckley
Walking on Sunshine, Katrina and the Waves
Born To Be Wild, Steppenwolf
Who Let The Dogs Out, Baha Men
Don't Stop Believing, Journey

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Everything on my local classic rock station, but If I had to choose just one:
You shook me all night long - AC/DC

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I love Life is Highway, however I haven't heard the Cochrane version on the radio in years, only pussified country version.

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Rock N Roll All Nite

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Green Eyed Lady. It sucked then and it sucks now.

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Anything Mellencamp.

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Really? I never hear either of those on radio here.

For me Id say:

Good Riddance-Green Day

Money-Pink Floyd

Blinded by the Light-Manfred Mann(seriously, play Bruce's version for fuck sakes!)

Closer to the Heart-Rush (I love Rush but the Canadian content rule here kills this song)

Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana

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Hotel California - Eagles
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Imagine - John Lennon
Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd
Dream On - Aerosmith
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood
Satisfaction The - Rolling Stones
Rocket Man - Elton John
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf

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^This

Honorable mention to "Bad Reputation"

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Anything by Def Leppard - excrement.
Bohemian Rhapsody seems to play somewhere every 20 minutes.

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Sweet Home Alabama-Skynyrd
Jump-Van Halen
Start Me Up-Stones

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In Australia when I worked in community radio, something like 20% of songs needed to be by an Australian artist. Is this what you are referring to? And does it affect commercial radio as well?

These are all excellent picks.

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Yes, Who Let the Dog's Out? is a seminal rock anthem, for sure.

Also, Life is a Highway is the worst song evar.

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Listen to 10 minutes of any Clear Channel classic rock station. Every song they play fits the bill.

I'd have to say Boston's Long Time/Foreplay or whatever the fuck it's called. Suicide inducing.

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And EVERY time I hear the opening to Hendrix's cover of "All Along The Watchtower", I get violent :mad: That fucking song...

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Yep, its commercial radio here in Canada that are forced to play a certain amount of Canadian music. I thought it was around 50%, but maybe thats just my imagination. Bryan Adams spoke out against it in the 80s and took some heat for being anti-Canadian. He said music should be played because its good enough regardless of it being Canadian. If we feel our music will get played based on the "Can-con" rule, then artists will make mediocre music, and he was right.

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Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf has been heard in quite a lot movies and tv shows.

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The Foreplay cums before the Long Time

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The Zyklon B comes before either.

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Geez. I like almost everything posted here and don't change the channel when it's on.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/music-talk/173222-what-song-popular-now-you-sick-hearing.htm
 

Yes, I certainly think there's a difference between a question about bands you can't stand (which this wasn't) and particular songs you don't need to hear again because they've been played to death for many many years.

Oddly, I scarcely listen to the radio these days but some of the tracks that create the strongest nostalgic feelings are those from my childhood/teens that were on BBC Radio 1) playlists back then and which I may not even have especially enjoyed much at the time. Many wouldn't even count as "rock"!

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Alone by Heart

Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler

Footloose by Kenny Loggins

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There She Goes - The La's and everyone else who's covered the song.