You know those songs that you hear instantly the moment the rental-car radio turns on?
You know those songs you played air-drums to, 40 years ago while your friends hid their laughter in their beer?
You know the songs that they play on the outro of a football game as it leads into a block of commercials?
You know those songs that every single person in the entire world knows by heart, but you feel compelled to tell every person on earth that it's YOUR favorite song?
This is the thread for that!
To jog your memory, here is a list from my local radio station of what they call their "Moldy Oldies", songs the DJs laugh they mute in the studio while they play them.
100: Sammy Hagar, "I Can't Drive 55" - 36 years old
99: Kansas, "Carry On Wayward Son" - 42 years old
98: Scorpions, "Rock You Like a Hurricane" - 34 years old
97: Electric Light Orchestra, "Don't Bring Me Down" - 40 years old
96: Molly Hatchet, "Flirtin' With Disaster" 40 years old
95. Styx, "Renegade" - 40 years old
94: Blind Faith, "Can't Find My Way Home" - 50 years old
93: George Thorogood, "Bad to the Bone" - 36 years old
92. Grand Funk Railroad, "We're an American Band" - 45 years old
91: .38 Special, "Hold On Loosely" - 37 years old
90: Ram Jam, "Black Betty" 41 years old
89: John Cougar, "Jack & Diane" - 36 years old
88: Yes, "Roundabout" - 49 years old
87: War, "Low Rider" 43 years old
86: Steppenwolf, "Born to Be Wild" 51 years old
85: Marshall Tucker Band, "Can't You See" - 41 years old
84: The James Gang, "Funk #49" 51 years old
83: The Pretenders, "Brass in Pocket" 38 years old
82: The Animals, "House of the Rising Sun" 55 years old
81: T. Rex, "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" 50 years old
80: Starship, "We Built This City" 35 years old (special mention: named worst rock song of all time!)
79: Pete Townshend, "Let My Love Open the Door" 38 years old
78: America, "A Horse With No Name" 44 years old
77: Mountain, "Mississippi Queen" 49 years old
76: Nazareth, "Hair of the Dog" 44 years old
75: Buffalo Springfield, "For What It's Worth" 51 years old
74: Manfred Mann's Earth Band, “Blinded By the Light” 42 years old
73: Lou Reed, "Walk on the Wild Side" 49 years old
72: Foreigner, "Juke Box Hero" 37 years old
71: Janis Joplin, "Piece of My Heart" 51 years old
70: Talking Heads, "Burning Down the House" 35 years old
69: Rod Stewart, "Maggie May" 48 years old
68: Don Henley, "The Boys of Summer" 34 years old
67: Motley Crue, "Home Sweet Home" 33 years old
66: Phil Collins, "In the Air Tonight" 37 years old
65: Bachman-Turner Overdrive, "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" 44 years old
64: Stevie Nicks, "Edge of Seventeen" 37 years old
63: Billy Joel, "Piano Man" 45 years old
62: Golden Earring, "Radar Love" 45 years old
61: Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Pride and Joy" 36 years old
60: Foghat, "Slow Ride" 42 years old
59: The Kinks, "You Really Got Me" 54 years old
58: Steve Miller Band, "The Joker" 46 years old
57: Joe Walsh, "Rocky Mountain Way" 46 years old
56: George Harrison, "My Sweet Lord" 47 years old
55: Def Leppard, "Photograph" 35 years old
54: Free, "All Right Now" 48 years old
53: Blue Oyster Cult, "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" 42 years old
52: The Guess Who, "American Woman" 49 years old
51: The Police, "Roxanne" 40 years old
50: Peter Frampton, "Show Me the Way" 43 years old
49: The Doobie Brothers, "Black Water" 44 years old
48: Rush, "Tom Sawyer" 39 years old
47: Thin Lizzy, "The Boys Are Back in Town" 42 years old
46: Judas Priest, "Living After Midnight" 38 years old
45: Alice Cooper, "School's Out" 46 years old
44: Cheap Trick, "I Want You to Want Me" 39 years old
43: Eric Clapton, "Cocaine" 41 years old
42: Bad Company, "Feel Like Makin' Love" 43 years old
41: Heart, "Barracuda" 41 years old
40: Fleetwood Mac, "Go Your Own Way" 41 years old
39: Dire Straits, "Sultans of Swing" 39 years old
38: Paul McCartney, "Live and Let Die" 47 years old
37: Elton John, "Rocket Man" 42 years old
36: The Allman Brothers Band, "Ramblin' Man" 45 years old
35: The Cars, "Just What I Needed" 40 years old
34: Neil Young, "Rockin' in the Free World" 39 years old
33: Cream, "Sunshine of Your Love" 50 years old
32: Deep Purple, "Smoke on the Water" 48 years old
31: Metallica, "Enter Sandman" 27 years ago
30: Crosby, Stills & Nash, "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" 51 years ago
29: David Bowie, "Space Oddity" 49 years ago
28: Boston, "More Than a Feeling" 42 years old
27: Derek and the Dominos, "Layla" 46 years old
26: Kiss, "Rock and Roll All Nite" 43 years old
25: Tom Petty, "Free Fallin'" 29 years old
24: Ted Nugent, "Stranglehold" 43 years old
23: John Lennon, "Imagine" 47 years old
22: Bob Seger, "Turn the Page" 45 years old
21: Bob Dylan, "Like a Rolling Stone" 53 years old
20: Eagles, "Hotel California" 41 years old
19: ZZ Top, "La Grange" 45 years old
18: The Doors, "L.A. Woman" 49 years old
17: Ozzy Osbourne, "Crazy Train" 37 years old
16: Bruce Springsteen, "Born to Run" 44 years old
15: Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Fortunate Son" 50 years old
14: Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Sweet Home Alabama" 44 years old
13: Journey, "Don't Stop Believin'" 37 years old
12: Guns N' Roses, "Sweet Child O' Mine" 31 years old
11: The Who, "Baba O’Riley" 47 years old
10: Black Sabbath, "Paranoid" 48 years old
9: Pink Floyd, "Comfortably Numb" 39 years old
8: Van Halen, "Everybody Wants Some!!" 38 years old
7: Queen, "Bohemian Rhapsody" 43 years old
6: The Jimi Hendrix Experience, "All Along the Watchtower" 51 years old
5: The Beatles, "A Day in the Life" 51 years old
4: AC/DC, "Back in Black" 38 years old
3: The Rolling Stones, "Gimme Shelter" 48 years old
2: Led Zeppelin, "Kashmir" 42 years old
1: Aerosmith, "Sweet Emotion" 44 years old
I'm going with Hotel California. In the metro Detroit classic rock radio market, I don't think that there's any song that has been played more than that one. But when songs or bands are "overplayed" or "tired", I certainly don't blame the song or band. It will always be an awesome song whether it's the 1,000,000th time I've heard it or 1,000,001st time.
Sweet Home Alabama. Seriously overplayed around here in Edmonton. It is a great Song, just kills it for me when the stations play it at least once a day. Also Bohemian Rhapsody which many would say is the best song ever, is now getting played once a day. The repetition just pisses me off. Makes me almost want to E-Mail the management to tell them to go to Walmart and buy some new CD's.
PS
I know nothing regarding how Radio Stations work. If listening to a few stations a lot, have noticed that late at night the music is played in the same order as a play list from earlier in the day. Just looping the music continuously, maybe?
Vid, your local station has a pretty eclectic mix of classic rock.
Gotta agree. Hotel California is one I still haven't tired of...... Yet.
Far more of the opposite is true. Can't get to the channel change button fast enough for many overplayed songs.
Quoted from Darcy:
Sweet Home Alabama. Seriously overplayed around here in Edmonton. It is a great Song, just kills it for me when the stations play it at least once a day. Also Bohemian Rhapsody which many would say is the best song ever, is now getting played once a day. The repetition just pisses me off. Makes me almost want to E-Mail the management to tell them to go to Walmart and buy some new CD's.
PS
I know nothing regarding how Radio Stations work. If listening to a few stations a lot, have noticed that late at night the music is played in the same order as a play list from earlier in the day. Just looping the music continuously, maybe?
Haha K-97!
I could probably go the rest of my life without hearing another 20 minute long celebrity jam of Hey Jude.
Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Hard for me to come up with a song I hate more. And they play it like it's some sacred anthem.
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Sana'a
Iowa City, IA
Leduc, AB
