If I Never Hear These Classic Rock Groups/Songs Again It Will Be Too Soon

[roo_ster]

I like a goodly portion of the hard/classic rock form the late 1960s to the 1970s.  Judging by the number of classic rock stations around the country, I am not some beautiful & unique flower on this.

But, some groups or songs, I could go without hearing for the rest of my days and have no regrets.  I am not saying they are awful groups, but that either the group or song has had such heavy rotation, I just never want to hear them/it again.

For groups, I nominate the undisputed triumvirate of overplayed classic rock bands:
1. Bad Company
2. Foreigner
3. Kansas

One of these groups is in the rotation every hour on every classic rock station around the country, it seems.  One can not escape them.  I have gotten so that I could win a one-note "Name That Tune" on their output.  As soon as I hear that note, my hand gets the shakes and reaches for the station presets.  My antipathy is such that I's rather listen to an NPR fund raising pitch.

My fervent desire is for every album, 8-track, cassette, and CD from these groups be ground into powder and left to disperse like dust in the wind.



There are some songs that I also can no longer abide (outside the compleat works of the above bands).  I still like most of the rest of their work, but these songs have become an assault on my musical taste buds.  There are more than two IMO, but I will stop at that number:
1. Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Barracuda



NOTE:
My above selections are not "groups or songs I think are sucky."  There are musical mediocrities that I don't even include.  For instance, almost all the hair bands are egregious.  Poison, White Lion, and the like aren't even good enough to rate considering "good bands/songs that I don;t want any more of."

[Monkeyleg]

They get heavy play because the radio stations don't have to pay a premium price on royalties as they do with, say, the Beatles.

At my gym, there's a 70's/80's oldies station on all the time, and it's the same songs over and over again. When Clarence Clemens died a few days ago, they had to play some Springsteen songs. I'll bet the station owners hated having to pay for those songs.

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

This is why God (er... his prophet, Steve Jobs) invented the iPod.

[thebaldguy]

I got tired of the lack of rotation on many classic rock stations.

One here plays the same songs from the same artists on a daily basis.

Most stations don't take requests any more.

[Doggy Daddy]

I got tired of "Free Bird" many years ago.  And "Signs" by the Five Man Electical Band is just too hippyfied.  I'm reaching for the dial within 2 notes to change the station.

DD

[gunsmith]

Its one of my pet peeves, I'm a guitar player & I get "ear worms" a song will get stuck in my head & its freaking annoying.

I had a radio exec in my cab once and pretty much told him off ( in a nice way ) & his station policy actually changed playing some of the artist/songs I said I never hear on the radio.

( Frank Zappa, Dylan songs other than rolling stone, more obscure Bowie songs )

this thread reminded me of a favorite quote from a smart guy ( me )

"It feels like the first time" but its really the three billion nine hundredth and sixty second time.

[Bigjake]

roo_ster,    

The only disagreement I have with your OP is this :

As soon as I hear that note, my hand gets the shakes and reaches for the station presets.

For me,  it's more like a violent lunge with the "Not THIS *expletive deleted* again!" snarl.

 

I'd like to nominate Rush for an honorable mention on that list.

[Monkeyleg]

And "Signs" by the Five Man Electical Band is just too hippyfied.

Oh, God. My buddy and I laughed so hard when that song came out. One of the worst songs of the 70's.

I take that back. I heard Roger Miller's "Little Green Apples" (video here) and just about ripped the radio out of the car.

[White Horseradish]

It's not just classic rock. The sound of Axl Rose makes me itch all over.

[gunsmith]

one of the reasons I switched to talk radio & the news was at least it wasn't the same darn song over and over.

Did you ever notice restaurant has to play Sade or Tracy Chapman over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over

[zxcvbob]

No "Stairway", Denied!

[MillCreek]

What, 'Journey' did not make the band from hell list?  I think we need to clamp some headphones on you and play 'Wheel in the Sky' continuously for 24 hours or so.

[grampster]

Whenever I think vomiting would be a plus for my physical comfort due to something in my stomach that is rebelling and needs to be ejected, I play Proud Mary.  I hate that song with a passion that burns galaxies into cinders and it doesn't matter who sings it.  Proud Mary is a vile tune that degrades humanity is so many ways.

[Monkeyleg]

Grampster, I shot weddings in the early 1980's to get a down payment for a house. Every single **expletive deleted** wedding had a band playing "Proud Mary". I still can't stand to hear it to this day.

There was a lot of bad music made in the 1970's (and 40's and 50's and 60's and 80's and 90's and today).

Anyone remember "Rock Lobster"?

[Declaration Day]

The sound of Axl Rose makes me itch all over.

Especially "Sweet Child of Mine" or "Welcome to the Jungle".  I have heard those songs a billion times and can't stand them any more.

I haven't liked any popular music since Nirvana came out and drastically lowered the standards of talent in the music industry.  I have no music stations pre-set in my car radio except for 101 WRIF so I can listen to a morning talk show.

Most people in this country have never heard of the bands I listen to.  Now that the American music industry is run by corporate bean-counters who crank out generic, dumbed-down crap intended solely for mass appeal, I look elsewhere.

[cosine]

Sweet Home Alabama. Every time it comes on I want to  .

[BlueStarLizzard]

This is why I don't listin to "classic rock" stations, and neither does dad.

I listin in an alt/rock/oddball station, which plays a lot of newer stuff but plays some real diffrent stuff fairly regularly.

Dad listins to a local non profit alt rock station.

And can someone add Van Morrison to that dang list.  I can't get away from him even on 106.1.

[HankB]

I hardly listen to music radio any more . . . they seem to jam most of their <expletive> commercials into my morning and afternoon drive times. Hardly any music, just commercial . . . after commercial . . . . after commercial. Sometimes they'll even cut one of their (rare) songs short for - you guessed it - a commercial.  

So I either listen to classical music (which gets interrupted with their annual pledge drive, which lasts 365 days/year) or talk/news radio . . . or a CD of my own.

[mtnbkr]

Most people in this country have never heard of the bands I listen to. 

Name names.  Let's see who's more indie.

I have in my MP3 collection:
Acrassicauda
Ego Likeness
Lacuna Coil (not particularly obscure, but not fully mainstream either)
KMDFM
Meshuggah
Rammstein
Skinny Puppy
Ministry
Spahn Ranch
Unsun

Oddly enough, you don't hear those bands on the radio, rarely even on XM.

Chris

[Gowen]

one of the reasons I switched to talk radio & the news was at least it wasn't the same darn song over and over.

I went from classic rock to talk radio when the music got stale.  Then talk radio became the same old, same old.  From Limbaugh to Hannidy to Savage to you name it, they all gripe about the same things and did nothing but make me mad and angry all the time.  I started listening to audio books and am much happier for it.  I check them out from the library or download them from online.

[MechAg94]

I don't know who sings "Blinded by the Light" or whatever, but that is another that is way way overplayed.  I can handle Zeplin, Rush, and some others, but those listed in the OP are also on my list.

The main reason I listen to the local classic rock station is because Walton & Johnson are on the air in the mornings.  
http://www.waltonandjohnson.com/

The one thing the local station does NOT do much is talk over the beginning of the songs which is nice.

[Declaration Day]

Name names.  Let's see who's more indie.

I have in my MP3 collection:
Acrassicauda
Ego Likeness
Lacuna Coil (not particularly obscure, but not fully mainstream either)
KMDFM
Meshuggah
Rammstein
Skinny Puppy
Ministry
Spahn Ranch
Unsun

Oddly enough, you don't hear those bands on the radio, rarely even on XM.

Chris

I'm aware of all but the last two of those bands.

Kamelot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw9U0tkGPCw
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hPmAaxR0Xw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW7FlSwxLhE

Sonata Arctica:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aQ17mmHJEo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kObI4XuTR2o


Dimmu Borgir:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jw7yk8hm_0
FYI this video is VERY anti-Christian :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAmMcBQavKE

Paradise Lost: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDAKMzh90Dw

Leaves' Eyes:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b15yaPYNDRU

Saint Deamon:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JMxiJ47mds

Iced Earth:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn2Y7wffDFc  (A very cool patriotic song)

......to name a few.

[Monkeyleg]

I don't know who sings "Blinded by the Light" or whatever,

It's the Manfred Mann version you're hearing. The original by Springsteen isn't often heard, probably because of the royalty reasons I mentioned before.

[MechAg94]

Name names.  Let's see who's more indie.

Hum
ass Ponys
Wax
Tripping Daisy
Good Medicine Band
Pinback (recent)
Do the Violent Femmes qualify for this?  They are fairly well known I thought.

There are a few others I rarely listen to.  I wouldn't really call my musical tastes "indie".  I like what I like and don't really get into anything else.  It is really annoying when some rabid fan of a particular band gets upset when you are not a huge fan of "their band".  I have seen this the most from Stevie Ray Vaughn fans.  

Sometimes I wonder if there will be another breakout such as in the early 90's.  Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, PearlJam and others circulated around quite a while before really hitting mainstream radio airtime though it wasn't all that long.  The glam rock heavy metal of the 80's was wearing very thin at that point.  I saw PearlJam when they toured with SoundGarden and played at a cleared out grocery store in Houston.  Soundgarden was the headliner.  I guess Weezer and others came in right after that also.  

Of course, I'm old now so I might not even like whatever new sound comes around.

[mtnbkr]

I've heard of Kamelot and Paradise Lost.  Some of the others sound familiar musically, but I don't recall the names.  I tend to follow the "Listeners also bought..." links in iTunes to see what else is out there.  That's how I found Ego Likeness, Unsun, Meshuggah, and Acrassicauda.  I got turned onto Ministry and Skinny Puppy when I went to Canada in the late 80s.  I was there on a school trip and my hosts' son was into those bands.  A coworker two companies ago turned me onto Spahn Ranch, KMFDM, and Rammstein.  Dunno where I picked up Lacuna Coil, but I ended up with two CDs.

Chris