Songs That You Grew Tired of...

[Loyal]

that you actually chose to listen to again.

Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin. In the late 70's, every guitar teacher on earth taught kids learning to play guitar, segments of this song...Extreme love and overuse of it, killed it for me. We all laughed when a movie scene in a guitar section in a music store, taped a warning: "NO STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN!"

I hardly listen to the old Rock songs anymore, just because there are so many distractions in life now. But today, I thought of the song again and am listening to it now, and it's so fantastic. It took 30+ years of me shunning it whenever possible, until today.

Now, I still can't listen to Slip Slidin' and Away by Paul Simon, after hearing it ALL DAY at the Manteca Water Slides in the 80's.....What are your shunned songs, that you have found yourself liking again...?

 

[Farr Be It]

Now, I still can't listen to Slip Slidin' and Away by Paul Simon, after hearing it ALL DAY at the Manteca Water Slides in the 80's.....What are your shunned songs, that you have found yourself liking again...?

Ha! I used to go there. Some pretty cool slides. Ironically, one of the songs I got sick of was this one by Tommy Tutone. I worked at the Marine World Water Slides in '83, and they had about 30 songs, including Jenny 867-5309, on loop. Yeah. I'm good not hearing it anymore, along with ANY Michael Jackson.


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[LesBaker]

Since you mentioned Zep and Stairway to Heaven.

 

[RamFan503]

Smoke on the water. Every kid who picked up a guitar played that one riff and only that one it seemed - myself included.

 

[LesBaker]

Smoke on the water. Every kid who picked up a guitar played that one riff and only that one it seemed - myself included.

I had a friend that would put a push button phone on speaker and play it at work. Funny stuff!

 

[Force16X]

use to love huey lewis and the news in the 80's. their popularity soared right around "hip to be square". then all the national anthems at sporting events, etc. etc. great band, great talent, just too much of a good thing is ...........too much. if their songs pop on the radio, internet etc, i'll listen to it, but i dont go looking up their material anymore.

as for a song i'd rather snort battery acid than listen to again...........Ugly Kid Joe's "everything about you". went out with a bunch of friends when the song was popular and after the 8th playing within 2 hours of getting there, the whole bar just moaned "not again" and my new hero walked up to the jukebox, pulled the plug from the outlet and said, "there's 300 motherf*cking songs on this machine and thats the only song you *ssholes want to play?". i bought him a beer, shook his hand and left before the damned thing would get plugged back in.

 

[norcalramfan]

Hey Jude. There was a battle of the songs on a top forty station back in the day and it beat the competition about 40 times in a row.

 

[1maGoh]

use to love huey lewis and the news in the 80's. their popularity soared right around "hip to be square". then all the national anthems at sporting events, etc. etc. great band, great talent, just too much of a good thing is ...........too much. if their songs pop on the radio, internet etc, i'll listen to it, but i dont go looking up their material anymore.

as for a song i'd rather snort battery acid than listen to again...........Ugly Kid Joe's "everything about you". went out with a bunch of friends when the song was popular and after the 8th playing within 2 hours of getting there, the whole bar just moaned "not again" and my new hero walked up to the jukebox, pulled the plug from the outlet and said, "there's 300 motherf*cking songs on this machine and thats the only song you *ssholes want to play?". i bought him a beer, shook his hand and left before the damned thing would get plugged back in.

Reminds me of John Mulahney's salt and pepper diner skit.

 

[Dodgersrf]

Free Bird. Uggh.
It's not that I dont like Skynard, but man, this song needs to go away for a long while.

 

[IowaRam]

Pretty much everything by The Police

 

[AvengerRam]

I don’t ever need to hear Satisfaction again.

 

[RhodyRams]

My list would be long

Billy Idol - mony mony

Bon Jovi- dead or alive
Kansas- dust in the wind
STYX -Babe

 

[FaulkSF]

I don’t ever need to hear Satisfaction again.

Also Old Time Rock n' Roll by Bob Seger. Yeah you keep your old timey sounded song too.

And Saturday in the Park by Chicago. Such a depressing sounding song that is lifeless. Hard to believe they wrote 25 or 6 to 4 after listening to that magnificent turd.

 

[Selassie I]

Pretty much everything by The Police

Blasphemy

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

I can't stand Billy Joel songs, especially he piano man.

But the topic is songs that you grew sick of but started to listen to at a later time. Zepplin is also one for me. Not just Stairway to Heaven but all of it. My college rookie overplayed Zepplin and it got old.

The Doors were one of my favorites but I overplayed them. Ditto with CCR. But I listen to everything now. I even played Come On Ilene and Just A Swingin.

 

[Force16X]

anything bon jovi makes me contemplate becoming a serial killer of hair band looking people. poison........... skinny bop, oh who am i kidding.............anything from motley crue lite actually.

as for the thread topic of being able to listen to something that i stopped listening to would be the soundtrack to the "Rocky Horror Picture Show". for several weeks straight my uncle played that album (typically around 3am or so) at damn near full blast on JBL studio speakers and actually asked me if it woke me up. despite this i can still cheerfully listen to damn it janet and time warp and enjoy them as much as when the soundtrack came out.

 

[dieterbrock]

I live in Jersey, so tired of hearing Bruce Springsteen.
When I think of a song that I like again, I'll be sure to report back.

 

[RamsAndEwe]

I avoided Cake a decade after the local college station overplayed this single. Now I fantasize on the Ram's upcoming Superbowl and eat all the Cake I can.


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