Someone had to say it, so thank you. I quit listening to classic rock stations years ago when I caught myself screaming at the radio "PINK FLOYD HAS MORE THAN TWO SONGS."
I liked the later Queen of the eighties, but found most of their seventies stuff was a bit samey. I liked a lot of the Freddie Mercury solo which was different and overlooked.
If I never hear Maggie May, Piano Man, Centerfold, American Pie, Born in the U.S.A., Beast of Burden, She Talks to Angels, Ramblin' Man or anything by Lynyrd Skynyrd ZZ Top or AC/DC again, I won't be disappointed.
It's really sad when it comes to AC/DC. A whole lot of their songs would suffice for the caffeine jolt people are looking for from that band. I know some people just categorically hate AC/DC, but even they'd have to admit there are dozens of "deep cut" tracks which are, energy-wise, indistinguishable from the radio hits that corporate radio obsesses on.
I am so glad that I totally avoid classic rock radio stations. For one good song, I had to tolerate 5 bad ones, the stupid ads, and of course overplayed good songs were my reasons for abandoning radio entirely.
Even from a UK perspective Bohemian Rhapsody would be in my top three. Along with John Lennon's Imagine and Alright Now by Free. I could happily spend the rest of my days never hearing these songs ever again.
Much as I like the relevant artists, I'm going with Light My Fire, Riders On The Storm, Stairway To Heaven, Space Oddity and Another Brick In The Fucking Wall.
99% of cover bands are weak sauce. Very few take the songs and tear it up good, loud and memorable. Plus you can't hit as hard as you want to; always some a-hole who whines about "overplaying".
It's kind of one of those red flag songs, like, do I want to be in a band that would even consider covering this. As a drummer it is particularly dicey.
I'm on the east coast in Canada and Sweet Home Alabama has been twice a day at least for the last 40 years. Radio still plays it here like it was released yesterday! Can't stand it.
Crazy that almost all of these songs were already overplayed 40 years ago. I remember working retail when I was in college and they were played too much.
Aqualung by Jethro Tull, I live on the Canadian west coast. That song is synonymous with overplayed, overstayed, play it safe, radio saturation. and it shouldn't be I have an original 1971 Aqualung vinyl album in pristine condition. I think the album is a masterpiece.
I totally get it with many of the ones you mentioned, particularly that Clash song. Ought to be renamed, “ Should it stay, it’s GOTTA go. “ Never did like that one. But this is a great topic because so many of us are very tired of being bludgeoned to death with the agonizing, repetition of commercial rock. And over the last 20 years, I’ve managed to escape all that by delving deeper into the land of obscurity. Why not when there’s SO much excellent material out there just waiting to be discovered. I’ve always loved the song “ Don’t Fear the Reaper “ but it’s really the deep track tunes that made me an eternal fan of BOC.
Great video. I am 65 and a classic rock fan but just took the classic rock station off my car radio just because I was sick of hearing overplayed songs. Starting with Hotel California...I hate it so much.
I hate that song, too but I don’t fault Eagles for it. I blame FM radio everywhere. It’s such a shame because it’s actually a very clever and well-crafted song but it is way too cliché and overhyped. Doesn’t help that two of the other songs from that album are just as overplayed. Thankfully, we’re not constantly dealing with hearing the songs from side two nearly as often or we would probably hate those just as much. I most definitely can do without hearing that album ever again, especially the title track
I'm glad you mentioned "Piano Man". As a kid this was my intro to Billy Joel and I adored it. I was just starting to play piano. The only reason I no longer like it is because it was overplayed.
There is some video somewhere where even Billy Joel kind of suggests people who love that song are suckers; that it is a repetitive waltz he finds kind of effortless to play.
I agree with every single one you listed. Let's add Boston, More Than A Feeling and Manfred Mann, Blinded By The Light. Canada has a unique brand of torture where CanCon regulations dictate that 35% of all songs played must be by a Canadian artist. Tragically Hip, Big Sugar and assorted borderline bar bands are played ad nauseum, It's unlistenable. Consider yourself fortunate if you haven't heard The Northern Pikes, She Aint Pretty She Just Looks That Way 3000 times.
I agree with most of the songs you mentioned. I’m a huge Beatles fan, but there are songs that I don’t listen to as much. And I don’t ever want to hear Brown Eyed Girl again.
You Shook Me All Night Long - AC⚡DC Black Dog - Led Zeppelin Time - Pink Floyd Money - Pink Floyd Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne Mama I'm Coming Home - Ozzy Magic Man - Heart Sweet Child O' Mine Welcome To The Jungle - G 'N' R Paranoid, Iron Man - Black Sabbath Somebody To Love - Queen Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf Rag Doll - Aerosmith What It Takes - Aerosmith Rock & Roll All Night - KISS More Than Words - Extreme I Want You To Want Me (live) - Cheap Trick Feel Like Making Love - Bad Company Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones Start Me Up - Rolling Stones Nothin' But A Good Time - Poison Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard Enter Sandman - Metallica Turn The Page - Bob Seger La Grange - ZZ Top The Chain - Fleetwood Mac Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent Jack & Diane - J.C Mellencamp Lola - The Kinks etc.,etc.
I'd take Stairway to Heaven over Free Bird. I love Bob Seger BUT...Old Time Rock and Roll MUST stop! I will never get tired of Night Moves. Even his snappier ballads I can handle but Old Time Rock and Roll... Played to death ☠️!!!
All of those, Tom, especially Layla. Also, Wuthering Heights , Candle in the Wind, Rosanna, Smoke on the Water, American Pie, too many. In the car I listen to classical FM.
I think what makes an over played song even worse is the length of it. I noticed you mentioned hotel California, stairway to heaven, & hey Jude. All very long. November rain is one that really got to me. But the very worst is Crimson & clover by Tommy James and the shondells. Good God! Even the lyrics repeat the words OVER AND OVER. Haha!
I agree 100% on Hotel and Bohemian. I named my playlist of songs that I don't need to hear again for at least 20 years my "Hotel California" playlist! If it makes it on that playlist, it's guaranteed to not get played. "Don't Stop Believing" used to be on that list, but I took it off. It served it's time!
Led Zeppelin IV has been destroyed by classic rock radio. 3 of the most overplayed songs ever, all on side 1, while the remaining 5 barely see the light of day. Every one of these songs is a gem though.
Agree! That's mostly the reason I stopped listening to radio decades ago. I'd have to put "All Right Now" by Free in there (never liked that one anyway) and "Start Me Up" by the Stones (and I'm a huge Stones fan!).
I like many of the songs named here, but the original studio versions have been played to death. There are live recordings of many of these songs that differ from the original sufficiently enough to bring some freshness to the tune. One song that I like that has been overplayed is the Jimi Hendrix cover of All Along the Watchtower. When you can't listen to songs that you like due to overplay, it's time to change stations. So, in my car, I listen to classical music. Having said that, I have always hated The Joker by Steve Miller every time I have heard it.
For me anything Journey, Foreigner, Boston could be included (though since living in Germany Doesn't play them so it's no longer so bad). Also it's ironic "classic rock radio" now embraces the Clash and other punk rock (even if Rock the Casbah et al) when rock radio totally rejected it when it came out (therefore never played "White Riot", "Spanish Bombs" etc ...side note my daughter learned the days of the week from "Police in My Back"
Hotel California is actually in my top five that I like. I agree about Layla but the acoustic version is good. Agree with Hey Jude, whole Lotta Love, Stairway to heaven, Freebird, Ect. In the folk category is You’ve got a friend- James Taylor completely overplayed.
Song I've never liked by a band I've never liked. -Ace of Spades by Motorhead. Great song by great band I'm sick of hearing. - Satisfaction by the Stones.
We have similar radio stations in the UK and very similar playlists too. It depends on my mood and some in context of albums I'll bear with them but generally NOPE. I get fed up of similar VC videos too lists..... You asked for suggestions well here the Christmas records I've heard every December since i was a child like Band Aid, Wham last Christmas, Slade Merry Christmas everybody, Paul McCartney xmas effort etc. bah humbug.
For me that would be Paradise by the dashboard light, absolutely disgusting song. But also Sweet home Alabama and that Kid Rock variant which sucks even more.
I've known people over the years who love these songs being played over and over again and if you try and introduce them to something different they don't want to know about it incredibly boring
Live DJs love to play the long tracks, as long as they were popular enough songs to substantiate it. Hey Jude, Hotel California, Bohemian Rhapsody, Stairway to Heaven.. it’s an in-joke among disc jockeys… and you REALLY DON’T wanna know what all they’re doing while that seven minute song plays. There is a reason why you’re still hearing those long ones, and it’s not about adding variety to your playlist. They are epic recordings and truly great for the first 1.5 million listens.
Hi Tom, a few more of my irritant cringes. Free fallin', Won't back down, More than a feeling, Fat bottom girls/Rock you, Band on the run,Simply irresistible, Baby I love your way,Hell bells, Sweet emotion, Heartbreaker(Benetar), Start me up and so much more.
Mid 1980. "Flirtin' With Disaster" by Molly Hatchet was getting played so constantly, one afternoon, in frustration, l swatted the channel tuner knob of my parent's console stereo so the needle swooped from left to right of the dial. And EVERY station it landed on in it's doomed journey was playing "Flirtin' With Disaster". Every single one. So. You don't really hear "Flirtin' With Disaster" very often these days. Millions of people now alive don't realize how lucky they are. But l remember. Oh yes. I remember. And l've hated that lousy song ever since.
Wish I could up vote 100 times. Agree not only with Capo but with nearly all the suggestions by commenters. My humble addition, not mentioned so far: Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed. Used to get a good chuckle, now I have to cover my ears. Thanks. Mike
Great video, Tom from a new fan from down under. I would include all of the GnR catalogue. Axl Rose’s voice is like an old woman being melted in a hot vat of oil
OMG! Yes! Meatloaf was sh*t. I could never understand the appeal. As a 6 year old when he came on the telly I'd be thinking 'Not this fat git again!' His music is like a c-grade rock-opera done at a bad theatre restaurant@@paulgoldstein2569
At this point in my rock radio listening- mostly in the car, the only big great acts I usually turn off is Queen... because the three stations I listen to all play the same three Queen songs way too often. I turn it up when a deep track comes on, of course. There are a couple overplayed Tom Petty songs I may tune away from, and the two big Stevie Nicks hits are usually instant rejects too. In the Kansas City Metro, commercial radio is terrible. Public radio is a bit better.
It sounds like a lot of these songs you didn't like to begin with. For the most part, neither did I. I don't listen to rock radio, so if a 'Whole Lotta Love' is playing somewhere I happen to be I might feel a bit of nostalgia for days long gone. Although I admit 'Every Breath...' is super annoying, as well as creepy.
I agree with you on many of these but hotel California and really any song from that album I never get tired of hearing. Something about those chords, those mysterious and vividly nightmarish lyrics keep me riveted right up until that unrivaled guitar dual between Joe Walsh and Don Felder that kicks things into the stratosphere. I am even now reading the novel that loosely inspired the feel of the trap that Henley’s protagonist gets caught in. The book is called The Magus by John Fowles… so far also quite interesting.
In the 'Sixties, "heavy rotation" was the order of the day. I must've heard Satisfaction a thousand times, in 1965, alone. Maybe I got used to it, along with most everyone else, but the songs I never care if I hear again are the ones that really suck! Like Sugar Sugar, or Hanky Panky, Macarena, or Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da by Marmalade, and You're Having My Baby (played into obnoxiousness) and Afternoon Delight, both overplayed to death in 1974. Ebony and Ivory was turgid on delivery, and Kokomo was DOA, by a band I used to love. Ice, Ice Baby, Mr Blobby, Barbie Girl, Nookie, and The Thong Song plumbed new depths of fingernails-on-chalkboard bad vibes, with the more recent Swagger Jagger, Miracles (the ICP song, not the Starship), and It's Everyday, Bro are among the worst songs ever committed to vinyl (or plastic, as in CDs). "Overplaying" is a measure of popularity, so it never bothered me nearly as much as commercially-crafted-to-sucker-listeners-in crap like the most of the songs above. Then, there are songs that never deserved the popularity they attained, Despacito, What's New, Pussycat (played 10,000 times, if once, in 1965!), Disco Duck (I thought KIIS would NEVER stop playing it, in '78), Baby (by you-know-who, who hasn't been heard from much, lately), Living La Vida Loca (ay-yi-yi!), Copacabana, I Want Candy (my vote for Worst Song of All Time, a conclusion I reached before the end of the first time I heard it!), Bread and Butter (ditto), Jump (VH, not the Pointer Sisters), Eye of the Tiger (I have NEVER watched a single Rocky, mostly because of the song being driven into the ground advertising it), The Final Countdown (bad lyrics, mediocre arrangement, drivel on vinyl), and Enter Sandman (yawn). The good songs don't bother me, cuz I associate them with good times, the memories they evoke, and, as I said, I was raised on rock 'n' roll played loud, often, and over, and over, and over. I still love all the good songs you mention, but I have almost 50 playlists on my iPod, each with 200 songs, and very few duplicate entries, so I don't have to worry about it. When I hear Stairway to Heaven, I think about the week I spent mastering it, playing up to 20 hours a day, trying to get Jimmy's closing solo down pat, then two weeks with the guys I was playing with, before we ever put it in our live sets. It's not as easy as it may sound, or wasn't to me. Layla, I ripped in a matter of a few days, quickly moving on to jamming at the end. I've heard EVERY Jimi Hendrix tune in the 10,000x range, and every Beatles song more than that, so I must have a high tolerance, to keep listening to them, happily tapping along!
Payola was over, in '63, except for those who were popped, and in court, More, the DJs sped up records, so they could cram in as many commercials as possible, and still brag about "17 hits every hour!" When you deduct mandatory station breaks, and hourly ID checks, plus News, Weather, & Sports, and DJ platter, with songs running around 3 minutes, it would have been hard to do, playing everything full-length, at correct speed.@@visaman
Also played to death in the summer of 1965: Herman's Hermits' "Henry the 8th" - and right before that, "Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter". The following January, Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler's "The Ballad of the Green Berets" saturated the AM radio stations that I listened to, and got to #1, for five weeks, on the Hot 100. There must be plenty of others, but their names escape me.
No kidding! Four weeks of Mrs Brown at #1, eight weeks of Green Berets hanging in the Top Five (meaning it was getting airtime), it was brutal, held off so many better artists, IMO. There were so many records released in 1965, many by bands never heard from again, English and American. Rock 'n' roll hit its stride in 1965, although technology was far behind.
I did not notice this heavy rotation back in the sixties, because here in the UK, I listened to our pirate stations, and they played more variety. I thought it was during the seventies that this heavy rotation began, or at least in the UK.
Another experience to share with an overplayed song. Sometimes I leave the phone in my office so I don’t pick it up when I should get some rest but I got fooled by 70s on 7 this afternoon. Little Bluetooth speaker on the nightstand playing some Looking Glass and Jefferson Starship Miracles as I start to doze off. Then SON OF A… Sweet Home Alabama! 🤬🤬Naptime over!!
"I'm not in love" by 10cc, can't stand it!! "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" is another overplayed Queen song. And the worst one for me is Elton John's "Benny And The Jets".
Christmas songs played through November & December, especially in retail stores. Clapton's Tears in Heaven (mauldin bit of crap). Sunshine of Your Love - I love it for the bass.
Tom Sawyer, Don't Stop Believing, Pour Some Sugar on Me, White, Winged Dove, Aqualung, Africa.Born in the USA, Glory Days, Takin' Care of Business, Old Time Rock and Roll, Come Sail Away.
Agree with every one on your list, sooo sick of hearing these over and over again! I never understood why they didn’t just move to the next track or flip the record over and play the killer B side.
It's not really a rock song, but I actually become unhinged when "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals comes on the radio, which it is about to do on EVERY WORK-CORE RADIO STATION RIGHT NOW. You know the stations: The Greatest Hits of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s (wheeze) and today. I hated this song the first time I heard it. And the googolplex number of times I have heard it since. I am angry that anyone, anywhere, likes this effrontery. As for Classic Rock radio, ditto all of the ones you mention. I would add: the execrable and slightly gross "Pour Some Sugar on Me" - a song, much like "She Drives Me Crazy" I hated the first time I heard it and they won't stop playing. And then there is THE ENTIRE STEVE MILLER BAND CATALOG of radio hits, all of which have lyrics which are so bad, I think I'm being screwed with (I know exactly what the facts is, man.) And the ENTIRE AEROSMITH CATALOG of radio hits (maybe they have some deep cuts I'd like; don't know, not a priority band for me). Oddly the oldest one, Dream On, is probably the one which pisses me off the least, but it still pisses me off. Not only are many of these songs really half-assed, but some of them, I swear, can give the listener herpes. Some of them are just downright disgusting, like Walk This Way. Gonna stop here. I'm getting angry and it's like 11:23pm here and I have to work and that doesn't mix well with rage.
i appreciate your rant, tom. the ones that get me to switch the station in half a heartbeat are anything by blondie, overplayed, definitely, but overrated as well. Tom petty free fallin’, breakdown, american girl are fine but there are so many better, deeper tracks by him. i just called to say i love you by stevie had me cringing all through 1984. lame, cautionary tales like shooting star and rock n’ roll fantasy are so predictable and lazy. there should be an 11th commandment that says “though shall not write songs about the pitfalls of rock and roll, or songs about writing songs, or “i miss you being out here on the road”. but the one song that i really cannot stand hearing is dreams by Fleetwood Mac. 45 years of that drab, depressing bass line and chords, nick’s sinusy warble, her stupid self-obsessed lyrics, has got me longing for a lobotomy. and definitely, whatever novelty or intrigue hotel california had, it’s gone now; just another bloodless lament to that oh so terrible rock and roll life style that forces rockstars to buy a half pound of c&ca*ne and party like geoffrey epstien.
It's funny about Layla: I don't mind the initial riff; what makes me want to scream are the whining, high-pitched guitars by Clapton and Allman at the end (Rita Coolidge's chords under them are okay). I still enjoy Hey Jude, however, and wish that Apple would release the song without any fading until about the 7-minute mark. I can't stand the song Thriller by Michael Jackson but never tire of Don't Stop Till You Get Enough. I refuse to listen to anything by Guns 'N' Roses.
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Old Time Rock And Roll. Seeger. When I hear that opening piano riff I want to puncture my eardrums. Please not again!
Oh dear God I forgot about that one. And there's always somebody at Karaoke who makes it even worse!
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Haha
Someone had to say it, so thank you. I quit listening to classic rock stations years ago when I caught myself screaming at the radio "PINK FLOYD HAS MORE THAN TWO SONGS."
Let’s just say Queen, full stop.
Freddie Mercury was a genius but I feel queen as a whole was overrated.
I liked the later Queen of the eighties, but found most of their seventies stuff was a bit samey. I liked a lot of the Freddie Mercury solo which was different and overlooked.
I like Brian May a lot 🎸
He’s in the same conversation as Hendrix and Clapton as far as I’m concerned but no, I really don’t care for Queen as a band
I tried that line of argument 47 years ago at school and was met with a blank stare. Best not go there...
Glory Days by Bruce
Pretty much anything from "Born in the U.S.A." could be added to this list. I was sick of that album several months after it was released.
If I never hear Maggie May, Piano Man, Centerfold, American Pie, Born in the U.S.A., Beast of Burden, She Talks to Angels, Ramblin' Man or anything by Lynyrd Skynyrd ZZ Top or AC/DC again, I won't be disappointed.
Boston - More Than a Feeling
That's my late '80s Lite FM mixtape! How Dare You!!!
ACDC always sounded to me like a muppet with rabies.
I had to laugh Tom, the very first one that came to my mind was Hotel California and lo and behold .... 😂😂
Shook me all night long, sweet home alabama, dont stop believing
Argh! Agree! Don’t Stop Believin’ is the most overrated song!
It's really sad when it comes to AC/DC. A whole lot of their songs would suffice for the caffeine jolt people are looking for from that band. I know some people just categorically hate AC/DC, but even they'd have to admit there are dozens of "deep cut" tracks which are, energy-wise, indistinguishable from the radio hits that corporate radio obsesses on.
@@ApoplecticDialectics When do you ever hear a classic like Walk All Over You….never.
That Journey song makes me wince. As soon as I hear that opening piano part I freak.
@@wormratspider7586 The Sopranos series finale didn't help!! Actually gave it more life!
Born to Be Wild, Don't Fear the Reaper, Light My Fire
More cowbell!
Check out the instrumental backing track to Light My Fire without Jim's added vocal.
One of ironies of Don't Fear The Reaper is that the LP that it is on, Agents of Fortune, is really weak start to finish.
@@Cap683 I concur.
@@Cap683 Disagree, I love every song on it!
Bohemian Rhapsody.
Is the exception !
@@paulbrookes413You mean the Rolf Harris version.
Hate that song. Always hated it.
Anything by Bruce Springsteen
I guess “Mustang Sally” is a given.
American Pie, Piano Man, Achy Breaky Heart are three of the most run in the ground songs out there.
Send in the Seven Nation Army! Perfect list of overplayed ear-aches.
Jim Croce - You Don't mess with Jim
The Police - Message in a Bottle
Anything by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, especially Young Girl (very bad)
Gary Puckett - the vocals are so cheesy sounding
Y G is a CLASSIC !!
@@paulbrookes413A classic over production with no heart.
I am so glad that I totally avoid classic rock radio stations. For one good song, I had to tolerate 5 bad ones, the stupid ads, and of course overplayed good songs were my reasons for abandoning radio entirely.
Great list. Hotel California and Bohemian Rhapsody absolutely
Great songs that NEED to be heard !!
Even from a UK perspective Bohemian Rhapsody would be in my top three. Along with John Lennon's Imagine and Alright Now by Free. I could happily spend the rest of my days never hearing these songs ever again.
Jack and Diane, whoa Black Betty, Thunderstruck, people are Strange, and anything from Queen!
Much as I like the relevant artists, I'm going with Light My Fire, Riders On The Storm, Stairway To Heaven, Space Oddity and Another Brick In The Fucking Wall.
I'm a drummer and if I was auditioning for a band and "Brown Eyed Girl" was one of the songs I had to play I'd refuse to do the audition!!
Always played by crummy bands at wedding receptions!
99% of cover bands are weak sauce. Very few take the songs and tear it up good, loud and memorable. Plus you can't hit as hard as you want to; always some a-hole who whines about "overplaying".
Good choice! You'd end up quitting anyway!
It's kind of one of those red flag songs, like, do I want to be in a band that would even consider covering this. As a drummer it is particularly dicey.
Ha!
I'm on the east coast in Canada and Sweet Home Alabama has been twice a day at least for the last 40 years. Radio still plays it here like it was released yesterday! Can't stand it.
I agree. 😉
Crazy that almost all of these songs were already overplayed 40 years ago. I remember working retail when I was in college and they were played too much.
one of the best comments here
Hey Jude is so oversaturated. I totally agree with everything you said.
Aqualung by Jethro Tull, I live on the Canadian west coast. That song is synonymous with overplayed, overstayed, play it safe, radio saturation. and it shouldn't be I have an original 1971 Aqualung vinyl album in pristine condition. I think the album is a masterpiece.
Great album, but I’m sick of that title track.
I did hear a live 1978 version of Aqualung From their concert album "Bursting Out"
Cathartic. I kept yelling, " Yes, yes!"
Sweet Home Alabama
Big time 😉
And that stupid Kid Rock mashup of Sweet Home and Werewolves of London. A-hole making me hate on Warren Zevon, that's just wrong!!
I totally get it with many of the ones you mentioned, particularly that Clash song. Ought to be renamed,
“ Should it stay, it’s GOTTA go. “ Never did like that one. But this is a great topic because so many of us are very tired of being bludgeoned to death with the agonizing, repetition of commercial rock. And over the last 20 years, I’ve managed to escape all that by delving deeper into the land of obscurity. Why not when there’s SO much excellent material out there just waiting to be discovered. I’ve always loved the song “ Don’t Fear the Reaper “ but it’s really the deep track tunes that made me an eternal fan of BOC.
Great video. I am 65 and a classic rock fan but just took the classic rock station off my car radio just because I was sick of hearing overplayed songs. Starting with Hotel California...I hate it so much.
I hate that song, too but I don’t fault Eagles for it. I blame FM radio everywhere. It’s such a shame because it’s actually a very clever and well-crafted song but it is way too cliché and overhyped. Doesn’t help that two of the other songs from that album are just as overplayed. Thankfully, we’re not constantly dealing with hearing the songs from side two nearly as often or we would probably hate those just as much. I most definitely can do without hearing that album ever again, especially the title track
Your list is quite good. How about "Money" by Pink Floyd? I've always hated "Bohemian Rhapsody" but love the last minute or so.
Bohemian Rhapsody for sure…
money, probably the worst thing ever since white xmas 🤣🤣🤣
B R is GENIUS !
For me it’s that damn brick in The Wall
@@paulbrookes413 Yes, the Rolf Harris original as Australian Rhapsody.
More Than a Feeling, Sweet Home Alabama..
Indeed 😉
I'm glad you mentioned "Piano Man". As a kid this was my intro to Billy Joel and I adored it. I was just starting to play piano. The only reason I no longer like it is because it was overplayed.
It was everyone's introduction to Billy Joel. The video was introduced on SNL.
There is some video somewhere where even Billy Joel kind of suggests people who love that song are suckers; that it is a repetitive waltz he finds kind of effortless to play.
@@ApoplecticDialecticsIts completely overplayed, but still a good song. Tell her about it is much worse and also overplayed.
I agree with every single one you listed. Let's add Boston, More Than A Feeling and Manfred Mann, Blinded By The Light. Canada has a unique brand of torture where CanCon regulations dictate that 35% of all songs played must be by a Canadian artist. Tragically Hip, Big Sugar and assorted borderline bar bands are played ad nauseum, It's unlistenable. Consider yourself fortunate if you haven't heard The Northern Pikes, She Aint Pretty She Just Looks That Way 3000 times.
Walk Of Life
I agree with most of the songs you mentioned. I’m a huge Beatles fan, but there are songs that I don’t listen to as much. And I don’t ever want to hear Brown Eyed Girl again.
Turn the page. Bob Seeger.
You Shook Me All Night Long - AC⚡DC
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
Time - Pink Floyd
Money - Pink Floyd
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
Mama I'm Coming Home - Ozzy
Magic Man - Heart
Sweet Child O' Mine
Welcome To The Jungle - G 'N' R
Paranoid, Iron Man - Black Sabbath
Somebody To Love - Queen
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Rag Doll - Aerosmith
What It Takes - Aerosmith
Rock & Roll All Night - KISS
More Than Words - Extreme
I Want You To Want Me (live) - Cheap Trick
Feel Like Making Love - Bad Company
Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones
Start Me Up - Rolling Stones
Nothin' But A Good Time - Poison
Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Turn The Page - Bob Seger
La Grange - ZZ Top
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent
Jack & Diane - J.C Mellencamp
Lola - The Kinks etc.,etc.
You nailed it. 😉
I'd take Stairway to Heaven over Free Bird.
I love Bob Seger BUT...Old Time Rock and Roll MUST stop! I will never get tired of Night Moves. Even his snappier ballads I can handle but Old Time Rock and Roll...
Played to death ☠️!!!
Night Moves-Bob Seger
The song that never ends…
I haven't listened to rock radio since cassettes got big & I could play my own mixes. I've avoided your whole list, thank god...
All of those, Tom, especially Layla. Also, Wuthering Heights , Candle in the Wind, Rosanna, Smoke on the Water, American Pie, too many. In the car I listen to classical FM.
American Pie! Heeelllppp meeeee!
Ugh, Candle in the Wind. We can't forget that one. Enough already.
I think what makes an over played song even worse is the length of it. I noticed you mentioned hotel California, stairway to heaven, & hey Jude. All very long.
November rain is one that really got to me. But the very worst is Crimson & clover by Tommy James and the shondells. Good God! Even the lyrics repeat the words OVER AND OVER. Haha!
I agree 100% on Hotel and Bohemian. I named my playlist of songs that I don't need to hear again for at least 20 years my "Hotel California" playlist! If it makes it on that playlist, it's guaranteed to not get played. "Don't Stop Believing" used to be on that list, but I took it off. It served it's time!
Led Zeppelin IV has been destroyed by classic rock radio. 3 of the most overplayed songs ever, all on side 1, while the remaining 5 barely see the light of day. Every one of these songs is a gem though.
Agree! That's mostly the reason I stopped listening to radio decades ago. I'd have to put "All Right Now" by Free in there (never liked that one anyway) and "Start Me Up" by the Stones (and I'm a huge Stones fan!).
I hear ya. Huge Stones fan here, but Start Me Up and It’s Only Rock And Roll I’ve heard enough.
We need a Part Two!!!! Mine: Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-a-Lot. PLEASE STOP!!!
Stairway to heaven. I love Led Zeppelin but after 54 years on this planet, I'd be happy to never hear it again......ever!
Great list- you mentioned every one on my own list while adding a few that I had to admit were overplayed.
How did "Don't Stop Believin'" not make it on the list? "All Right Now" by Free? "Start Me Up" or "Miss You" by the Stones?
Don’t Stop Believin’ is high on my list. Don’t know how that one slipped by me. Yes it’s atrocious.
“Mama Mia…Figaro”
I like many of the songs named here, but the original studio versions have been played to death.
There are live recordings of many of these songs that differ from the original sufficiently enough to bring some freshness to the tune.
One song that I like that has been overplayed is the Jimi Hendrix cover of All Along the Watchtower.
When you can't listen to songs that you like due to overplay, it's time to change stations. So, in my car, I listen to classical music.
Having said that, I have always hated The Joker by Steve Miller every time I have heard it.
2am by Matchbox 20 still is played everyday. Stomach turning!
Wonderwall by Oasis, overplayed and overbusked.
Indeed 😉
For me anything Journey, Foreigner, Boston could be included (though since living in Germany Doesn't play them so it's no longer so bad). Also it's ironic "classic rock radio" now embraces the Clash and other punk rock (even if Rock the Casbah et al) when rock radio totally rejected it when it came out (therefore never played "White Riot", "Spanish Bombs" etc ...side note my daughter learned the days of the week from "Police in My Back"
Police On My Back, they covered from The Equals.
@@paulgoldstein2569 Yes, quite right, written by Eddy Grant. I learned about The Equals a few years back.
Hotel California is actually in my top five that I like.
I agree about Layla but the acoustic version is good.
Agree with Hey Jude, whole Lotta Love, Stairway to heaven, Freebird, Ect.
In the folk category is You’ve got a friend- James Taylor completely overplayed.
Anything by Mellencamp
Song I've never liked by a band I've never liked. -Ace of Spades by Motorhead. Great song by great band I'm sick of hearing. - Satisfaction by the Stones.
We have similar radio stations in the UK and very similar playlists too. It depends on my mood and some in context of albums I'll bear with them but generally NOPE. I get fed up of similar VC videos too lists.....
You asked for suggestions well here the Christmas records I've heard every December since i was a child like Band Aid, Wham last Christmas, Slade Merry Christmas everybody, Paul McCartney xmas effort etc. bah humbug.
This is insane 😊
The entire Eagles catalog.
Here, here!!!!!!!
Seriously. Makes me sick to be frank.
I hate the fuckin Eagles man
Oh, I loathe the Eagles. Especially Hotel California.
One hundred percent 💯
For me that would be Paradise by the dashboard light, absolutely disgusting song. But also Sweet home Alabama and that Kid Rock variant which sucks even more.
Amen!
I will agree with about 75% of your list! I would give you some more from my list, but there is only so much time in the day!!!
Come on, give us your list.
Pain or Relief from 😂
I've known people over the years who love these songs being played over and over again and if you try and introduce them to something different they don't want to know about it incredibly boring
Good point. I came across it.
@paulgoldstein2569 and their favourite movie is groudhog day
I’ve known a few, mainly at the office.
Live DJs love to play the long tracks, as long as they were popular enough songs to substantiate it. Hey Jude, Hotel California, Bohemian Rhapsody, Stairway to Heaven.. it’s an in-joke among disc jockeys… and you REALLY DON’T wanna know what all they’re doing while that seven minute song plays. There is a reason why you’re still hearing those long ones, and it’s not about adding variety to your playlist. They are epic recordings and truly great for the first 1.5 million listens.
Hi Tom, a few more of my irritant
cringes. Free fallin', Won't back down, More than a feeling, Fat bottom girls/Rock you, Band on the run,Simply irresistible, Baby I love your way,Hell bells, Sweet emotion, Heartbreaker(Benetar), Start me up and so much more.
A great cringeworthy list. 😉
Punk, Power Pop and New Wave pulled Rock n' Roll from the dreck of the baroque bloated acts like Boston, Eagles, Springsteen, Wings.
No doubt about it. 😉
Mid 1980. "Flirtin' With Disaster" by Molly Hatchet was getting played so constantly, one afternoon, in frustration, l swatted the channel tuner knob of my parent's console stereo so the needle swooped from left to right of the dial. And EVERY station it landed on in it's doomed journey was playing "Flirtin' With Disaster". Every single one.
So. You don't really hear "Flirtin' With Disaster" very often these days. Millions of people now alive don't realize how lucky they are. But l remember. Oh yes. I remember. And l've hated that lousy song ever since.
You can literally change the station to another Classic Rock station, and the same band will be on momentarily!
Any Fleetwood Mac after 1972 and many Eagles and Queen. Eagles were an amazing band but played to death.
Wish I could up vote 100 times. Agree not only with Capo but with nearly all the suggestions by commenters. My humble addition, not mentioned so far: Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed. Used to get a good chuckle, now I have to cover my ears. Thanks. Mike
Great video, Tom from a new fan from down under.
I would include all of the GnR catalogue. Axl Rose’s voice is like an old woman being melted in a hot vat of oil
I agree. I liked Paradise City, and Used To Love Her, as I liked the songs. But the rest was dreadful. Couldn't tell one from another.
Bat out of hell
You got that right. 😉
OMG! Yes! Meatloaf was sh*t. I could never understand the appeal. As a 6 year old when he came on the telly I'd be thinking 'Not this fat git again!' His music is like a c-grade rock-opera done at a bad theatre restaurant@@paulgoldstein2569
ha, I can hear him singing, "I'm melting..."
Bring back AOR radio!
At this point in my rock radio listening- mostly in the car, the only big great acts I usually turn off is Queen...
because the three stations I listen to all play the same three Queen songs way too often. I turn it up when a deep track comes on, of course.
There are a couple overplayed Tom Petty songs I may tune away from, and the two big Stevie Nicks hits are usually instant rejects too.
In the Kansas City Metro, commercial radio is terrible. Public radio is a bit better.
I love the Stones, but I got burned out on Satisfaction!
I love the early Stones, but couldn't stick most of their later.
Yes, a little overplayed.
The incredible music that’s been recorded through the years! LMAO when you said, “my God!”
The Who Magic Bus ☹
I've had enough of Elton John, don't need no more.
Yep. The list could go on for hours. I refer to "Classic Rock" as "stuff I was sick of 40 years ago."
It sounds like a lot of these songs you didn't like to begin with. For the most part, neither did I. I don't listen to rock radio, so if a 'Whole Lotta Love' is playing somewhere I happen to be I might feel a bit of nostalgia for days long gone. Although I admit 'Every Breath...' is super annoying, as well as creepy.
I agree with you on many of these but hotel California and really any song from that album I never get tired of hearing. Something about those chords, those mysterious and vividly nightmarish lyrics keep me riveted right up until that unrivaled guitar dual between Joe Walsh and Don Felder that kicks things into the stratosphere. I am even now reading the novel that loosely inspired the feel of the trap that Henley’s protagonist gets caught in. The book is called The Magus by John Fowles… so far also quite interesting.
In the 'Sixties, "heavy rotation" was the order of the day. I must've heard Satisfaction a thousand times, in 1965, alone. Maybe I got used to it, along with most everyone else, but the songs I never care if I hear again are the ones that really suck! Like Sugar Sugar, or Hanky Panky, Macarena, or Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da by Marmalade, and You're Having My Baby (played into obnoxiousness) and Afternoon Delight, both overplayed to death in 1974. Ebony and Ivory was turgid on delivery, and Kokomo was DOA, by a band I used to love. Ice, Ice Baby, Mr Blobby, Barbie Girl, Nookie, and The Thong Song plumbed new depths of fingernails-on-chalkboard bad vibes, with the more recent Swagger Jagger, Miracles (the ICP song, not the Starship), and It's Everyday, Bro are among the worst songs ever committed to vinyl (or plastic, as in CDs).
"Overplaying" is a measure of popularity, so it never bothered me nearly as much as commercially-crafted-to-sucker-listeners-in crap like the most of the songs above. Then, there are songs that never deserved the popularity they attained, Despacito, What's New, Pussycat (played 10,000 times, if once, in 1965!), Disco Duck (I thought KIIS would NEVER stop playing it, in '78), Baby (by you-know-who, who hasn't been heard from much, lately), Living La Vida Loca (ay-yi-yi!), Copacabana, I Want Candy (my vote for Worst Song of All Time, a conclusion I reached before the end of the first time I heard it!), Bread and Butter (ditto), Jump (VH, not the Pointer Sisters), Eye of the Tiger (I have NEVER watched a single Rocky, mostly because of the song being driven into the ground advertising it), The Final Countdown (bad lyrics, mediocre arrangement, drivel on vinyl), and Enter Sandman (yawn).
The good songs don't bother me, cuz I associate them with good times, the memories they evoke, and, as I said, I was raised on rock 'n' roll played loud, often, and over, and over, and over. I still love all the good songs you mention, but I have almost 50 playlists on my iPod, each with 200 songs, and very few duplicate entries, so I don't have to worry about it. When I hear Stairway to Heaven, I think about the week I spent mastering it, playing up to 20 hours a day, trying to get Jimmy's closing solo down pat, then two weeks with the guys I was playing with, before we ever put it in our live sets. It's not as easy as it may sound, or wasn't to me. Layla, I ripped in a matter of a few days, quickly moving on to jamming at the end. I've heard EVERY Jimi Hendrix tune in the 10,000x range, and every Beatles song more than that, so I must have a high tolerance, to keep listening to them, happily tapping along!
Payola
Payola was over, in '63, except for those who were popped, and in court, More, the DJs sped up records, so they could cram in as many commercials as possible, and still brag about "17 hits every hour!" When you deduct mandatory station breaks, and hourly ID checks, plus News, Weather, & Sports, and DJ platter, with songs running around 3 minutes, it would have been hard to do, playing everything full-length, at correct speed.@@visaman
Also played to death in the summer of 1965: Herman's Hermits' "Henry the 8th" - and right before that, "Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter". The following January, Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler's "The Ballad of the Green Berets" saturated the AM radio stations that I listened to, and got to #1, for five weeks, on the Hot 100. There must be plenty of others, but their names escape me.
No kidding! Four weeks of Mrs Brown at #1, eight weeks of Green Berets hanging in the Top Five (meaning it was getting airtime), it was brutal, held off so many better artists, IMO. There were so many records released in 1965, many by bands never heard from again, English and American. Rock 'n' roll hit its stride in 1965, although technology was far behind.
I did not notice this heavy rotation back in the sixties, because here in the UK, I listened to our pirate stations, and they played more variety. I thought it was during the seventies that this heavy rotation began, or at least in the UK.
Nice list, sir. There was no escape from Tool-“Schism”. 5/7 times a day on Orlando “rock” radio.
Another experience to share with an overplayed song. Sometimes I leave the phone in my office so I don’t pick it up when I should get some rest but I got fooled by 70s on 7 this afternoon. Little Bluetooth speaker on the nightstand playing some Looking Glass and Jefferson Starship Miracles as I start to doze off. Then SON OF A… Sweet Home Alabama! 🤬🤬Naptime over!!
Hahaha😉
"I'm not in love" by 10cc, can't stand it!! "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" is another overplayed Queen song. And the worst one for me is Elton John's "Benny And The Jets".
Crazy Thing Called Love….yikes!
In Australia, Cold Chisel's "Khe Sahn" is the most overplayed song in history. Also "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits.
That Dire Straits tune is their worst.
Yes! Yes! Yes! I love your channel
Christmas songs played through November & December, especially in retail stores. Clapton's Tears in Heaven (mauldin bit of crap). Sunshine of Your Love - I love it for the bass.
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Clapton in general....overrated.
Preach my man
No more Fleetwood Mac songs
Tom Sawyer, Don't Stop Believing, Pour Some Sugar on Me, White, Winged Dove, Aqualung, Africa.Born in the USA, Glory Days, Takin' Care of Business, Old Time Rock and Roll, Come Sail Away.
Talking about going on forever, Hey F-ing Jude!
@@stevenhanson6057 IMO the most overrated Beatles track. So overplayed and over praised compared to all the countless top tier Beatles tracks.
Blame it on radio programmers, but also music fans who think they know music but request the same crap over and over.
Boston-More Than A Feeling. But, oh, how I love that album. But oooohhhh, that one.
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I knew even before this video started that Losing My Religion would be on the list.
The Joker by Steve Miller. What a dumb song. All that lovey dovey crap and that stupid wolf whistle. Why do they play this so much?
Agree with every one on your list, sooo sick of hearing these over and over again! I never understood why they didn’t just move to the next track or flip the record over and play the killer B side.
Totally 😉
I couldn’t listen to most of them when they get out, just imagine after fifty years, 😂never get tired of Tom waits and Gershwin.
Can’t go wrong with Nighthawks At The Diner. 😉
"Classic rock" radio stations actually end up choking the life out of the very music they purport to love.
Well put 😉
Carry on wayward son, The Devil went down to Georgia, Under Pressure.
It's not really a rock song, but I actually become unhinged when "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals comes on the radio, which it is about to do on EVERY WORK-CORE RADIO STATION RIGHT NOW. You know the stations: The Greatest Hits of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s (wheeze) and today. I hated this song the first time I heard it. And the googolplex number of times I have heard it since. I am angry that anyone, anywhere, likes this effrontery.
As for Classic Rock radio, ditto all of the ones you mention. I would add: the execrable and slightly gross "Pour Some Sugar on Me" - a song, much like "She Drives Me Crazy" I hated the first time I heard it and they won't stop playing.
And then there is THE ENTIRE STEVE MILLER BAND CATALOG of radio hits, all of which have lyrics which are so bad, I think I'm being screwed with (I know exactly what the facts is, man.)
And the ENTIRE AEROSMITH CATALOG of radio hits (maybe they have some deep cuts I'd like; don't know, not a priority band for me). Oddly the oldest one, Dream On, is probably the one which pisses me off the least, but it still pisses me off. Not only are many of these songs really half-assed, but some of them, I swear, can give the listener herpes. Some of them are just downright disgusting, like Walk This Way.
Gonna stop here. I'm getting angry and it's like 11:23pm here and I have to work and that doesn't mix well with rage.
Haha! Thanks for watching. 😉
i appreciate your rant, tom. the ones that get me to switch the station in half a heartbeat are anything by blondie, overplayed, definitely, but overrated as well. Tom petty free fallin’, breakdown, american girl are fine but there are so many better, deeper tracks by him. i just called to say i love you by stevie had me cringing all through 1984. lame, cautionary tales like shooting star and rock n’ roll fantasy are so predictable and lazy. there should be an 11th commandment that says “though shall not write songs about the pitfalls of rock and roll, or songs about writing songs, or “i miss you being out here on the road”. but the one song that i really cannot stand hearing is dreams by Fleetwood Mac. 45 years of that drab, depressing bass line and chords, nick’s sinusy warble, her stupid self-obsessed lyrics, has got me longing for a lobotomy. and definitely, whatever novelty or intrigue hotel california had, it’s gone now; just another bloodless lament to that oh so terrible rock and roll life style that forces rockstars to buy a half pound of c&ca*ne and party like geoffrey epstien.
As for that Stevie Wonder, he meant that from the bottom of his arse.
Well put my friend. 😉
It's funny about Layla: I don't mind the initial riff; what makes me want to scream are the whining, high-pitched guitars by Clapton and Allman at the end (Rita Coolidge's chords under them are okay). I still enjoy Hey Jude, however, and wish that Apple would release the song without any fading until about the 7-minute mark. I can't stand the song Thriller by Michael Jackson but never tire of Don't Stop Till You Get Enough. I refuse to listen to anything by Guns 'N' Roses.