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Songs that won't go away

Willets Point May 28 2008 11:55 AM

I'm starting a Hall of Same for those songs that for some reason continue to be in high rotation on radio stations long after they were on the charts. Even if you don't listen to commercial radio frequently, I guarantee these are the songs you'll hear whenever you enter a store or restaurant that has the radio playing. They're not necessarily bad songs although they're not really good songs either. I can't imagine anyone considering them their favorite song at least. They all share a certain inoffensive blandness which perhaps explains their omnipresence. Here are my inductees: Len Barry "1-2-3" Looking Glass "Brandy, You're a Fine Girl" Seals & Croft "Summer Breeze" Natalie Imbruglia "Torn" Any others?

AG/DC May 28 2008 12:00 PM

Sting follows me around from store to store. I'll throw in "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You."

SteveJRogers May 28 2008 03:15 PM Re: Songs that won't go away

="Willets Point"] They're not necessarily bad songs although they're not really good songs either. I can't imagine anyone considering them their favorite song at least. They all share a certain inoffensive blandness which perhaps explains their omnipresence.Any others? OOOOOOH I can WP. Hell I know at least one unfortunate soul in my own family who loves such tripe, usually with the excuse "Hey, if it wasn't good, they wouldn't be playing it" Its been a while since I've listened to music on the radio, but I know what you mean, its like the station NEEDS to have a certain artist represented every now and then, and certain songs fit the bill. Perfect example is with country stations filling their Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings quota with "Highwayman" which they performed with Kris Kristofferson in the mid-80s as part of a "super group" tour.

sharpie May 28 2008 04:03 PM

"How Long Has This Been Going On" by Ace has been going on way too long.

Willets Point May 28 2008 05:58 PM

Here's another one:

AG/DC May 28 2008 06:21 PM

If I had to take an Eddie Money single to a desert island, I imagine "Two Tickets" would be it. That guitar lick and it's tone are a little mean and a little comforting.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 28 2008 06:50 PM

Have we already done Eddie Money?

Kong76 May 28 2008 06:57 PM

I'll have to sleep on which of about five Billy Joel songs I'll post a youtube video of tomorrow.

DocTee May 28 2008 07:54 PM

Sh-sh-sh-shakin'

AG/DC May 28 2008 08:03 PM

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Have we already done Eddie Money? I don't think so.

metirish May 28 2008 08:13 PM

"Highwayman" is a pure classic. Iris

TheOldMole May 29 2008 07:39 AM

Surely we haven't forgotten this, much as we'd like to.

Frayed Knot May 29 2008 07:52 AM

I heard that one just the other day -- although it was part of the WABC 'Flashback' show so oldies were definitely the theme of the day.

SteveJRogers May 29 2008 09:58 AM

Its that time of the year, where AC stations, and even some Top 40 will play the National Anthem of Parott-Head Nation

AG/DC May 29 2008 10:17 AM

I predit zero clicks on that video.

Number 6 May 29 2008 08:55 PM

KC wrote: I'll have to sleep on which of about five Billy Joel songs I'll post a youtube video of tomorrow. I think I've already used one of my under-100-post-total posts to rip on Billy Joel, so I probably shouldn't again. But yeah. I actually had never heard some of the songs posted in this thread. And I clicked on the Margaritaville video, because I didn't get the reference. I quickly regretted it. Why won't this song go away? I hates it.

AG/DC May 29 2008 09:08 PM

The best soy latte that you ever had . . . and me

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 29 2008 09:21 PM

That song reminds me of the Mets though. Maybe the 01 Mets actualy.

AG/DC May 29 2008 09:30 PM

Piano songs by rock acts don't die.

Number 6 May 29 2008 09:54 PM

Ugh. Tell me about it.

Willets Point May 29 2008 10:17 PM

This counts as both a piano song and song that won't go away:

AG/DC May 29 2008 10:23 PM

The only thing that can save "Clocks" is a Met parody.

SteveJRogers May 30 2008 09:53 AM

In the same vein as Clocks, thanks in part to it being used in the pre-game show for the Seinfeld finale (appropriately, inappropriately in subsequent usages)

themetfairy May 30 2008 02:25 PM

I've heard that song twice in the past week - for graduating seniors and a retiring secretary. I love it, but I could use a break from it.

SteveJRogers May 30 2008 03:42 PM

Yeah but the problem is, just like a lot of songs, the message of the song gets lost only because the chorus can have a different interpretation I mean the name of the song is "Good Riddance" for crying out loud! The singer is GLAD he is breaking up with his girlfriend in the song. Another classic example is Martina McBride's "Independance Day" which is about the singer's mother's rather extreme final solution to an abusive husband, but in the summer of 2000 right wing talk show host Sean Hannity adopted the stirring chorus as his opening as he'd do a countdown to the end of the Clinton administration: "Let freedom ring Let the white dove sing Let the whole world know that today is Day of Reckoning Let the weak be strong Let the right (heh) be wrong Roll the stone away let the guilty pay It's Independance Day!" Interestingly enough, after 9/11 McBride herself even took that chorus into that different context in concerts benefiting the victims of 9/11, and just sang the chorus.

Willets Point May 31 2008 12:40 PM

SteveJRogers wrote: I mean the name of the song is "Good Riddance" for crying out loud! The singer is GLAD he is breaking up with his girlfriend in the song. I remember watching Wayne Gretzky's final game and that song was played over the PA during his farewell skate and I was like "What?!?!" That's a total kiss off song not something played for a beloved hockey star. I expect Gretzky's not a big punk fan anyway. But we're getting off on a tangent. We could have a whole another thread for songs overplayed at sporting events. Back on topic: Here's what I heard in the CVS today.

DocTee Jun 03 2008 09:22 PM