songs you still haven't managed to become sick of even though they've been played to death for years and years on your favorite radio/video stations

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"burning down the house"

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"Come Dancing"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"New Years Day"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"angie"

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"what a fool believes"

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

It hasn't even been a year, but I really believe that "Hey Ya" already qualifies for this.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"maggie may" (tho i wish they also played the little instrumental that comes right before it on the album)

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"girls just want to have fun"

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

basically any Led Zeppelin song the local classic rock stations actually play (they'd have to throw on "No Quarter" for this not to be true)

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

even "stairway to heaven"?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm definitely not sick of "Stairway To Heaven."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

though I actually never heard the song more than once until college! Maybe that's why.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

TFF - Everybody Wants To Rule The World

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Ramblin' Man"
"Movin' Out"
"Peg" (greatest pop song ever written)

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

kashmir

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"Movin' Out" seconded. It's my song!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The Boys Are Back in Town

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Heart of Glass
Just What I Needed

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"angie"
-- stockholm cindy (disco_frie...), May 18th, 2004.

Holy cunt do I disagree!

I'd second Burning Down the House and raise you a "One" by Three Dog Night, no matter how much I like the original.

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"Born To Run"! and "Bohemian Rhapsody"!

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i melt with you

― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

landslide (f. mac version). I think I heard this three times today on a coworker's radio and loved it each time.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Video Killed the Radio Star

― tipustiger, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Dream On

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Jumping Jack Flash"

― Burr (Burr), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"Jackie Blue"

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"Modern Love"

― Lewis J. Bateman (Lewis Bateman), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sabotage"

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaliyah "Are You That SOmebody"

― omg lol wtf teh NZA, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"Different Drum"

― Reed Richards, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Try working in a bar where most of these songs are in constant fucking rotation on the jukebox from hell, then see how you feel about them. I promise you will learn to loathe them.

As far as songs I still haven't managed to become sick of even though they've been played to death for years and years on my stereo, that's easy:

"Something Against You" by The Pixies.

Maybe that's because it's only 1m47s long, or maybe it's just a perfect song.

― scottontharox (scottkundla), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

turn me on by kevin little I think qualifies
more than a feeling by boston definately does.
Cant stop listening to out of the blue by ELO.

― lukey (Lukey G), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)

andy c - body rock
coba - after dinner (plaid mix)

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"Stairway to Heaven"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Get Ur Freak On

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

In Da Club

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"All I Need"

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

oh shit, my choices were quite obsucre as they don't get played on tv much. i am astounded by how i still like them every time though.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"When I Come Around"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

2000 Miles
Another Girl Another Planet
Wuthering Heights
Mmm-Bop

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Satisfaction" -- do I win?

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't Fear The Reaper
Holiday
Unbelievable
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Finally
Live Forever
Back For Good
A Design For Life
Brimful Of Asha
Believe

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

blue osyter cult, don't fear the reaper. On & on & on &.....

― Russell Dixon (Skinny), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"Fight For Your Right"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Pretty much anything by Led Zepplin, Prince, or DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince/Will Smith.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Back in Black by ac/dc. i stil get psyched everytime that song comes on the radio

― cw28 (cw28), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Another vote for "Stairway", and thanks to those of you who mentioned it already. (Strength in numbers!) I get so tired, always forced to go on the defensive (near APOLOGETIC, in fact) regarding a song I don't think I'll EVER get sick of. Must be those backwards messages got me hypnotized. Or more likely, just that towering arrangement and Jimmy Page solo.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

stairway to heaven.

― Toon (Skelter), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Jack & Diane by the Coug

― p.j. (Henry), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

you can't always get what you want

― autovac (autovac), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"Bela Lugosi's Dead"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

More Than a Feeling, Boston.
Go Your Own Way, Fleetwood Mack.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Sure Know Somethin' & I Was Made for Loving You as well.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Any KRLA/Art Laboe/Huggy Boy oldie, such as....

"I Wanna Be Your Man" - Zapp and Roger
"Make It Last Forever" - Keith Sweat
"Suavecito" - Malo
"Daddy's Home" - Shep & the Limelights

― kickitcricket, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

pretty much any classic motown song bar "Heard it Through the Grapevine"

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

the weight

― negotiable, Sunday, 26 August 2007 07:10 (eighteen years ago)

"got to be real"

― Dan S, Sunday, 26 August 2007 07:45 (eighteen years ago)

"Liar's Bar"

― DavidM, Sunday, 26 August 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

"won't get fooled again." i manage to hear something new every time, and it's a really strange song. i think the fact that it's been overplayed on "classic rock" stations has made it difficult to hear the organ/synth midsection as the wonderfully bizarre and unapologetic minimalist intrusion that it is.

― Lawrence the Looter, Sunday, 26 August 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

anything by U2

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 26 August 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

we be
big pimpin
spendin cheese
we be
big pimpin
on b-l-a-dees

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

"Satisfaction" still the winner for me. I never get sick of that song.

― Z S, Sunday, 26 August 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

"Back In Black" and "Got To Be Real" seconded.

Also:
"Down On The Corner"
"For What It's Worth"
"Turn, Turn, Turn"
"Stuck In A Moment"

― Tantrum The Cat, Monday, 27 August 2007 03:39 (eighteen years ago)

Our House
Head Over Heals

― CaptainLorax, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 07:34 (eighteen years ago)

"Michelle" obv. Remains a beautiful song even though everybody has heard it thousands of times.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

"Peg" seconded.

"Michelle" sucked the first time I heard it, and the last. Lots of other Beatles songs qualify, however.
I heard "I Feel Fine" just recently and was blown away by how fresh it still sounds.

― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

"Coming up around the Bend" never fails to get me pumped.

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

The guy a few years ago who said "Hey Ya" or whatever that atrocity is called is so not OTM.

― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

loser

― gman, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

Anything by Roth-era Van Halen.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

Definitely David Lee Roth-era Van Halen!

Some other random crap I'm always happy to hear for a millionth time.

Foreigner's "Urgent"
Tears of Fears "Shout"
"Groove is in the Heart"
"Karma Police"
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (which is funny because I hated it when it first came out)
"Big Pimpin'"
"Hypnotize""Bittersweet Symphony"

― rockapads, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

space between Hypnotize and Bittersweet Symphony, so nobody thinks it's a mash-up version..

― rockapads, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

Don't Bring Me Down

― Bob Standard, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

"Float On" makes me happy whenever it comes on, maybe because I never bought the album so it's still like a little unexpected treat. "Hey Ya" has disappeared as though it never commandeered all media for 12 months, but I wouldn't be averse to it making a modest comeback, because it is great.

― negotiable, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

I agree w/<i>turn me on by kevin little I think qualifies</i>

― blunt, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

It's good but the idea of Hey Ya being played again and again my radio is nauseating.

Many already mentioned. I'd like to throw in Tiny Dancer to this.

― Cunga, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 00:25 (eighteen years ago)

this thread is jinxing so many songs for me
stfu,
love, keith

― tremendoid, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

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