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Title: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: leatherface on October 25, 2023, 09:15:17 AM
We all know them, songs you just can't get away from how hard you try. Don't the bands themselves get sick of them too?

Currently in a shop and 'Sweet Child O Mine' by GNR is playing. Makes my stomach churn. Other songs I would add to this list that I don't need to hear again is 'Enter Sandman' or 'Highway to Hell'. Stop playing these songs people!.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Eoin McLove on October 25, 2023, 09:24:29 AM
Whiskey in the Jar.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Maggot Colony on October 25, 2023, 11:36:19 AM
Add Sweet Home Alabama to the pile. That opening riff makes my skin crawl, especially because I don't know if it's the original version or the Kid Rock abomination that I'm being subjected to.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Pentagrimes on October 25, 2023, 11:39:43 AM
The Boys are Back in Town.

The boys can fuck off now at this stage, so they can.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Carnage on October 25, 2023, 11:48:01 AM
Blasphemy! But yeah, probably.

On a Skynyrd-related note, I've had Freebird playing on a loop in my head since I woke this morning, so add that.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Circlepit on October 25, 2023, 11:50:08 AM
Paradise City. Brilliant song but it's one of those ones a radio station pulls out for the summer BH Friday drive time. Cunts.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: leatherface on October 25, 2023, 12:25:42 PM
'Paradise City' is not the greatest GNR offender, that would be the aformentioned 'Sweet Child..'.

Aerosmith- 'Don't Want To Miss A Thing' is another one. Ugh.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: StoutAndAle on October 25, 2023, 12:45:44 PM
"Immigrant Song" can fuck off now - and so can the suited simpletons who come off the South Mall on a Friday and sing along to it like they're the only people to have ever seen the film "School Of Rock".

If you can't do it in key - at least learn the fucking lyrics.

#Aaaaaaaaah-aaaaaaaah-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Come from the land of the ice and snow where finsnimadimandhopspinoh...
HAMMER OF THE GODS! Wedriiihamitooolaag... Hawayleepdeeshinoh... Onnygow WESTERN SHORE!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!#

Cunts.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Pagan Saviour on October 25, 2023, 12:59:08 PM
Top of the pile for me is Teen Spirit, such a nothing song.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: jobrok1 on October 25, 2023, 01:28:03 PM
Quote from: StoutAndAle on October 25, 2023, 12:45:44 PM.....at least learn the fucking lyrics.

#Aaaaaaaaah-aaaaaaaah-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Come from the land of the ice and snow where finsnimadimandhopspinoh...
HAMMER OF THE GODS! Wedriiihamitooolaag... Hawayleepdeeshinoh... Onnygow WESTERN SHORE!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!#

 :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on October 25, 2023, 01:55:44 PM
 :laugh:

Gonna cross contaminate with the controversial metal opinions thread and say that Hanger 18 is (or was) over-played and has become probably my least favourite tune on the album as a result.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Don Gately on October 25, 2023, 03:20:14 PM
Black album Metallica.
Walk this way
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: StoutAndAle on October 25, 2023, 04:46:28 PM
Quote from: Pagan Saviour on October 25, 2023, 12:59:08 PMTop of the pile for me is Teen Spirit, such a nothing song.

Definitely.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Paul keohane on October 25, 2023, 07:36:37 PM
Thunderstruck!
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Ducky on October 25, 2023, 07:53:11 PM
Quote from: leatherface on October 25, 2023, 09:15:17 AMWe all know them, songs you just can't get away from how hard you try. Don't the bands themselves get sick of them too?

Currently in a shop and 'Sweet Child O Mine' by GNR is playing. Makes my stomach churn. Other songs I would add to this list that I don't need to hear again is 'Enter Sandman' or 'Highway to Hell'. Stop playing these songs people!.

Ha, yeah any time I put on the Highway to Hell album, I start it at Girls Got Rhythm.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Giggles on October 27, 2023, 10:37:29 AM
I got sick of being sick of Sweet Child that I've genuinely started to enjoy it again. I don't look for it, but if it comes on I can deal with it. It's a banger.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Trev on October 27, 2023, 11:20:00 AM
I never really liked GnR, so I'm pretty sick of all their songs. Can't think of any other band that's put together a 30+ year career on the back of one decent album

I could also do with never hearing Ace of Spades again in my life
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Yung Led Zeppelin on October 27, 2023, 11:43:35 AM
Quote from: Pentagrimes on October 25, 2023, 11:39:43 AMThe Boys are Back in Town.

The boys can fuck off now at this stage, so they can.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dpwa7w/i-played-the-boys-are-back-in-town-on-a-bar-jukebox-until-i-got-kicked-out-832
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on October 27, 2023, 01:09:04 PM
 :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:

Class
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: KingHostile on October 27, 2023, 02:23:07 PM
Nothing else maters.....
Dancing in the moon light...

and anything else that Tommy Hayes regularly played!
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: nukeabuse on October 28, 2023, 12:01:53 AM
90% of nirvana.

All Soundgarden, pearl jam, Eddie veder, RATM

Motley Crue, gnr

Holy diver

All the usual pop punk songs

The songs your ma knows by journey, Europe, boston, scorpions.

Iggy pops & the Stooges over played songs

Stuck in the middle with you.

Dire straits

Although as someone mentioned earlier can go full circle, used to avoid 90% of classic rock, see maiden, deep purple, Dio, Zeppelin, thin lizzy, scorpions etc due to being put off hearing the same 2 songs on the school bus ad naseum. Came round to all those bands in the last few years once i heard songs that weren't one of the 'hits'
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Thorn on October 28, 2023, 01:11:59 AM
Quote from: KingHostile on October 27, 2023, 02:23:07 PMNothing else maters.....
Dancing in the moon light...

and anything else that Tommy Hayes regularly played!

That bloody ad on one of the Irish channels with the doddery oul boy groovin' to Dancin' In The Moonlight always has me fucking the remote at the tv

Or was it 'Sarah'? Even worse. 2FM guff. Let's see ye get down n dirty to Thunder 'n' Lightning  boyo
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: son of the Morrigan on October 28, 2023, 02:20:42 AM
Quote from: nukeabuse on October 28, 2023, 12:01:53 AM90% of nirvana.

All Soundgarden, pearl jam, Eddie veder, RATM

Motley Crue, gnr

Holy diver

All the usual pop punk songs

The songs your ma knows by journey, Europe, boston, scorpions.

Iggy pops & the Stooges over played songs

Stuck in the middle with you.

Dire straits

Although as someone mentioned earlier can go full circle, used to avoid 90% of classic rock, see maiden, deep purple, Dio, Zeppelin, thin lizzy, scorpions etc due to being put off hearing the same 2 songs on the school bus ad naseum. Came round to all those bands in the last few years once i heard songs that weren't one of the 'hits'



You'r gone full scorched earth there lad!
You are right though, there's always better songs on albums than the most popular ones, which are generally only so popular because they were released as singles.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: KingHostile on October 30, 2023, 09:53:05 PM
Quote from: Thorn on October 28, 2023, 01:11:59 AMOr was it 'Sarah'? Even worse. 2FM guff. Let's see ye get down n dirty to Thunder 'n' Lightning  boyo

 :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:
YES!
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: KingHostile on October 30, 2023, 09:55:24 PM
Pentagrimes quotes

has me in stitches

"The boys can fuck off now at this stage, so they can."

 :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh: and 90% of Nirvana.... I'll add to that the other 10 percent and Alice in chains, Pearl Jam and the fucking Melvins!
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: open face surgery on October 30, 2023, 11:30:15 PM
Where exactly are The Melvins overplayed?
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: John Kimble on October 31, 2023, 11:49:53 AM
Yep, absolutely ludicrous observation. Don't think I've ever heard a single note from Melvins played on radio, tv etc.
And 90% of Nirvana?! Apart from the obvious, and maybe In Bloom, Heart Shape Box, who the fuck has been overplaying Bleach, Incesticide and In Utero?
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: hellfire on October 31, 2023, 12:15:53 PM
It's quite rare for me to go to a rock bar without hearing Davidian. It's a great song but its do burned out for me.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: helmsa on October 31, 2023, 01:18:04 PM
Livin'on a prayer
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: helmsa on October 31, 2023, 01:18:25 PM
Quote from: helmsa on October 31, 2023, 01:18:04 PMLivin' on a prayer
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: The Heretic on October 31, 2023, 01:31:06 PM
Rockin all over the world
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Bürggermeister on October 31, 2023, 03:07:22 PM
Quote from: helmsa on October 31, 2023, 01:18:04 PMLivin'on a prayer
Isn't played enough, it's deadly.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Kunt 4 Life on October 31, 2023, 03:28:18 PM
Smells like teen spirt is so much better when you realise Cobain shouts out "A mosquito, Ballymena!!"
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: jpm4 on October 31, 2023, 05:46:35 PM
Quote from: Kunt 4 Life on October 31, 2023, 03:28:18 PMSmells like teen spirt is so much better when you realise Cobain shouts out "A mosquito, Ballymena!!"

Win a lada, Misses Davies!
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Mooncat on October 31, 2023, 06:23:12 PM
Aside from the ones already mentioned, I'd be thrilled to never hear Summer of 69 again.

Probably also You Shook Me All Night Long as well. They have so many better songs than that and it, along with Highway, are the go-to ones for every DJ it seems (I'm not tired of Highway...)
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Ducky on October 31, 2023, 08:30:04 PM
Quote from: Bürggermeister on October 31, 2023, 03:07:22 PM
Quote from: helmsa on October 31, 2023, 01:18:04 PMLivin'on a prayer
Isn't played enough, it's deadly.

I've only recently decided that I'm cool enough for a bit of Bon Jovi, so this gets repeat plays from me and it's like a new song  :abbath:
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: The Great Cull on November 01, 2023, 08:32:50 AM
Summer of 69 and Sweet Home Alabama are the main 2 with me. I do find myself ignoring Enter Sandman a lot too and being a massive Metallica fan I tend to just wonder why some other tunes couldn't get more attention.


While also being someone who dodged Bon Jovi like a bad smell for years, I find myself visiting the entire Slippery When Wet album the odd time. Sambora had a more muscular guitar tone than lots of metal bands back in the day.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Trev on November 01, 2023, 10:04:29 AM
I always thought Bon Jovi were just a singles bands, I had the Crossroad best of and never bothered any further with them.

A while back though I was getting some cds off a lad on Adverts and he had their first few for €2 each so I threw them in with the rest. There's some great on there, the solo from Dry County in particular is fantastic
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Carnage on November 01, 2023, 10:20:18 AM
Slippery When Wet and New Jersey are great pop rock albums. Like that, I hated them at the time but they were a mate's favourite band so by osmosis they've grown on me.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: StoutAndAle on November 01, 2023, 12:00:53 PM
Quote from: Kunt 4 Life on October 31, 2023, 03:28:18 PMSmells like teen spirt is so much better when you realise Cobain shouts out "A mosquito, Ballymena!!"

Quote from: jpm4 on October 31, 2023, 05:46:35 PMWin a lada, Misses Davies!

Juninho. A torpedo. Cake!
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: astfgyl on November 06, 2023, 01:04:30 AM
I was in Homesavers the other day and they were playing Enter Sandman. They swiftly followed that up with some muzak renditions of some already awful Linkin Park songs, but the Metallica one was real which is somehow worse because the Linkin Park wasn't overplayed enough yet for them to afford to pay for the originals.

This thread is a much of a measure of how old and sad and trying to cling to a small bit of youth before the old clogs get popped we feel a much as a song is overplayed because if we weren't the wrong side of thirty we wouldn't have been around long enough to see it happen.

Actually forget that last idea because the new kids (such as the few I have responsibility for) suffer from far worse repetition than I ever could have imagined possible because they are in such a market that something comes out today and is properly drilled into their psyche within three days of release. Fuckin nuts the level of mind control that can be achieved with simple repetition in catchy rhythms I mean lol what it did to everyone on this forum long before there was the Internet and everyone else to blame for being wrong.

Anyway fuck it back to the point I think Faith No More with Epic and NIN with Closer are terribly overplayed even though I love the two bands and songs it still gets a bit fried
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Pentagrimes on November 06, 2023, 02:48:39 PM
I'd love to live in  this fantasy world where The Melvins are even played, let overplayed.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: ochoill on November 06, 2023, 03:56:36 PM
Quote from: Pentagrimes on November 06, 2023, 02:48:39 PMI'd love to live in  this fantasy world where The Melvins are even played, let overplayed.
:laugh: my gaff, I think it's called
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: leatherface on November 06, 2023, 04:15:49 PM
Addressing what astfygl says, there are grumpy individuals out there who complain that there "isn't any good rock music anymore ". They go on to punish us with 90s grunge and metal bands and 70s rock (Rick Beato on YouTube  *cough). Like nothing else was ever recorded since and they refuse to embrace any new bands/music, so boring and lazy.

Keeping on topic, I would be happy not to hear The Rolling Stones 'Sympathy for the Devil' ever again. Yawn.
Title: Re: Overplayed rock songs
Post by: Circlepit on November 06, 2023, 11:26:15 PM
Any Rolling Stones song.