Overplayed Songs on the Radio

[Ishtar]

Pesonally I find that more and more lately, songs on the radio are being overplayed. It has even come to the point where I hear the same songs around the exact same time each day. There are the recent songs that are overplayed like hell like ugh "Crank Dat Soulja Boy", "No One" by Alicie Keys. "Stronger" by Kanye West, "Thnks Fr The Memrs" by Fall Out Boy, etc. Then there are also the songs that have been replayed for years too many times such as a lot of Nickelback songs, "I Want It That Way" by Backstreet Boys, "Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence, etc. So, what songs do you think are overplayed to the point that you can't stand hearing them anymore? >_>

[Anime Freak]

wow,if those are the songs that are overplayed where you live then you're pretty damn lucky. Here in Atlanta, star 94 plays so many songs over and over again that i've lost count. In our area, Christina Aguilera songs like "Aint no Other man" are played constantly, Nelly Furtado's "Say it right" is beyond annoying now with how ridiculously much they play it, and of course we cant forget Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears newest songs. So yeah, I'd say you have it lucky :sweat:

[Tash]

That one that used to be played constantly with the piano intro that goes:

"do do do dun dun-dun dun duun"

I have no idea what it is, but I still hear it on TV about once a month and it drives me crazy. I hate that sound. When I used to go to the hobby shop for weekly TCG meeting, that song played every week at the same time, without fail. (Sk8ter boi replaced it a year or so later)

[Tay the Cat]

That one that used to be played constantly with the piano intro that goes:

"do do do dun dun-dun dun duun"

I have no idea what it is, but I still hear it on TV about once a month and it drives me crazy. I hate that sound. When I used to go to the hobby shop for weekly TCG meeting, that song played every week at the same time, without fail. (Sk8ter boi replaced it a year or so later)
"In the End" by Linkin Park.

I actually like that song...

[Anarky]

pretty much all songs on mainstream radio are overplayed, always been the case.

that's why I listen to NPR. When they're not running news programming they either play classical, vintage jazz, or world music.

[#60]

I listen to rock and metal so I dunno about the songs above but I definitely know the feeling. It stinks even worse that the overplayed songs were never that great to begin with...

All of My Love - Is the the best Led Zepplin they can find?

Schism - Same is Tool's case.

Take Me to the Other Side - Aerosmith

Money Talks - AC/DC

Touch Me - The Doors

[Peter Paltridge]

Green Day, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
Fergie, "Big Girls Don't Cry"
Gwen Stefani, "Sweet Escape"
Justin Timberlake, "Sexyback"
All-American Rejects, "This Song Is So Terrible I Never Bothered To Get The Name"
That song about shaking it like a polaroid picture that should have fadded itself out years ago
And....something about a windmill, I dunno. They actually read the lyrics out on the air during one DJ show, and they made no sense at all.

I just listed the entire playlist of several stations around here. If you want to hear any of them in Portland, just turn on the radio to a contemporary station and wait a few minutes.

[Space Cadet]

That song about shaking it like a polaroid picture that should have fadded itself out years ago


Outkast - "Hey Ya!"(Actually, it group member Andre 3000's song, since the other partner, Big Boi doesn't have any lyrics on it)

I like the song, but yeah they do overplay it.

[Lord Dalek]

It seems my habit of only listening to NPR is finally paying off.

[Anime Freak]

Green Day, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
Fergie, "Big Girls Don't Cry"
Gwen Stefani, "Sweet Escape"


Gah,I forgot bout these 2 songs.At first they were okay,but now they're overplayed so much i'm sick of them and change the station immediately the moment I hear them.

[David Lucas]

My favorite music in this world is Frank Sinatra and MoTown, followed by any type of jazz that doesn't just have that "elevator music" type sound to it. Yoko Kanno's "Space Lion" is probably my favorite.

So my question to those of you in this thread are two things.

1) What is NPR?

2) Is there any online radio station that airs good, new, and different songs along the lines of Green Day, Incubus, and the like? I always say I want to start developing a more modern day taste for music since my taste in anything prior to 1990 is becoming pretty extensive.

It's everything after that year that I just seem to be completely clueless on.

[Tay the Cat]

Green Day, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
:crying:


And....something about a windmill, I dunno. They actually read the lyrics out on the air during one DJ show, and they made no sense at all.


"Feel Good Inc." by Gorillaz.

But it's actually an awesome song which creates wonderful imagery in your head.

[Ragebot]

I honestly can't remember how many times I've woken up to Fergie's "Big Girls Don't Cry" on the radio. I must've heard it several hundred times by now.

[Anime Freak]

:crying:


"Feel Good Inc." by Gorillaz.

But it's actually an awesome song which creates wonderful imagery in your head.

u sure its that one? Isn't there a song by the Killers that starts out with the words Windmill?

[EscaflownePilot]

Wow, a thread like this and not even one mention of "Hey There, Delilah?" by Plain White T's?

Maybe it's just Michigan, but both lower and northern parts of the state, nearly every single freaking station, be it alternative, top 40, or even rap and country, plays this stupid song at least once every hour. I wasn't fond of the song to begin with, but now after hearing it every time I turn on the radio (not to mention it dominating the VH1 countdown every week for a while) I can't stand the thing.

[Tay the Cat]

u sure its that one?
100 percent.

[Slipperman]

Just about anything that Beyonce, Gwen Stefani & 50 Cent put out can qualify as the most overplayed song on the radio.
(If I may say this, I'd like to add I'm also sick of seeing Beyonce on my TV as well...on MTV, commercials, entertainment news shows, everything. Every time she pops up on my TV I wanna throw something at her. Beyonce is way overhyped and doesn't have any trace of genuine talent to back it up...:ack: )

Tim (aka the Slipperman)

[laactor101]

pretty much all songs on mainstream radio are overplayed, always been the case.

that's why I listen to NPR. When they're not running news programming they either play classical, vintage jazz, or world music.

Wow what about Drum N Bass or Trip Hop and you are right about the mainstream radio thing.

[Anarky]

Wow what about Drum N Bass or Trip Hop and you are right about the mainstream radio thing.

I don't recall hearing much drum-n-bass or trip-hop on NPR, perhaps on "Echoes"

[Anarky]

My favorite music in this world is Frank Sinatra and MoTown, followed by any type of jazz that doesn't just have that "elevator music" type sound to it. Yoko Kanno's "Space Lion" is probably my favorite.

So my question to those of you in this thread are two things.

1) What is NPR?

2) Is there any online radio station that airs good, new, and different songs along the lines of Green Day, Incubus, and the like? I always say I want to start developing a more modern day taste for music since my taste in anything prior to 1990 is becoming pretty extensive.

It's everything after that year that I just seem to be completely clueless on.

NPR is National Public Radio. If you're still in Orlando proper you have access to two affiliates: WUCF plays vintage jazz while the other plays a Sinatra trilogy each weekday morning between 7-8am and classical music when the news programs wrap up. Depending where you are you may only be able to receive one or the other due to signal strength. I lived south of Orlando therefore I couldn't get much from the university broadcast.

[DarthGonzo]

That Nelly Frito-Lay song "Bubbly" refuses to go away. I hear it constantly. That and "Delila".

I hear "Hotel California" a lot on the lite FM station in my area. My guess it they program that one song to save them the trouble of programming three. Good song either way.

[Han Ji-Eun]

Wow, a thread like this and not even one mention of "Hey There, Delilah?" by Plain White T's?

Maybe it's just Michigan, but both lower and northern parts of the state, nearly every single freaking station, be it alternative, top 40, or even rap and country, plays this stupid song at least once every hour. I wasn't fond of the song to begin with, but now after hearing it every time I turn on the radio (not to mention it dominating the VH1 countdown every week for a while) I can't stand the thing.

Oh my gawhd. It's the same thing in Nashville. I hate that song!!! I have an 19-year-old little sister that thinks it's sweet, or something, so I have to hear it even more. I, being of the far more sophisticated age of 20, know that "Delilah" is just cutesy, idealistic dreck (Girls! Boys don't really act that way! Bands like Plain White Ts only write these songs cause the know you're gonna buy them, not because they are sentimental or whatever).

[Brandon Pierce]

My local oldies radio station overplay just about every Beatles song you could think of day in and day out.

The insulting thing is that I'll call in and request a Petula Clark song, and they'll be like, "We played a Pet Clark song just an hour ago. We like to leave a space between artists."

But, EVERY 15 MINUTES is a Beatles song! And sometimes it'll be the exact same song!

Aretha Franklyn's "Respect" is played way too often as well.