Overexposure: Songs beaten to death

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:47 pm

I didn't want to derail the Danny Boy thread. We all have that one particular song that we get soooo sick of playing or singing that if someone requests it we'll lie and claim we don't know it.

We all have that... one... song. Right?
For me, it's "Green Fields of France."

What's yours?

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:50 pm

" The Four green fields of Athenry"..

Slan,
D.

chas · Post by **chas** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:53 pm

Not the same thing, but for some reason, out running the other day, I got that old REO Speedwagon song, the one with "Heard it from a friend who. . ." over and over again stuck in my head. Talk about unpleasant. In Sociology class in college, when the prof asked "Can anyone think of a justification for the death penalty?" my roommate and I turned to each other and simultaneously said, "REO Speedwagon." That's how I felt about their music then and how I feel about it now. And to have that damn song stuck in my head for an hour and a half. 'Scuse me while I go get another beer to try to forget.

CHasR · Post by **CHasR** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:09 pm

amazing grace

BigDavy · Post by **BigDavy** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:58 pm

In Order of nausiation

1 Bohemian Rhapsody
2 Fields of Athenrye
3 No Man's Land (aka Green Fields of France)
4 Yellow's on the Broom
5 If Wishes Were Fishes
6 Ride On

All nice songs that I have heard murdered so many times that I can't stand to hear them any more.

David

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:30 pm

Danny Boy?

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:36 pm

You are my sunshine.

I hope "The Moreen" doesn't go that way for me.

brianormond · Post by **brianormond** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:56 pm

"Feelings, Wo Wo Wo.."

Post by **Dale** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:40 pm

CHasR wrote:amazing grace

I'm afraid you're right. However, this past weekend I heard the Blind Boys of Alabama sing the lyrics to Amazing Grace to the tune of The House of the Rising Sun. It completely worked.

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:44 pm

In pipe band we used to call it "Amazing Disgrace."

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:48 pm

Cofaidh wrote:In pipe band we used to call it "Amazing Disgrace."

Yep. I got so sick of playing that- it is on my list of hymns to never even ask me to play it at church because of playing it with the pipe band.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:03 pm

Dale wrote:I heard the Blind Boys of Alabama sing the lyrics to Amazing Grace to the tune of The House of the Rising Sun. It completely worked.

oh yeah, works real well!

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:04 pm

Taps.

ketida · Post by **ketida** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:42 pm

Personally, from years of playing bluegrass, Rocky Top.

For general purposes, I think songs like The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and American Pie beg for a mandate on limiting the number of verses and/or schmaltz. There should be a quota for verses and schmaltz, with strict limits on both!

(btw, I 'm a singer, I enjoy singing, but I also want the listeners to enjoy.)

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:51 pm

Hotel California. For a while in the latter eighties and early nineties, I used to play a game with myself. I didn't own the record, or even listen by choice to any radio stations that might play it (this being the era in which 2/3 of the commercial radio spectrum was devoted to classic' rock & 'oldies), but I still couldn't go more than about three weeks without hearing that damn song.

As I recall, in that era there a movement afoot--the National Organization for the Advancement of Time, whose slogans were "We want to end the sixties in your lifetime!" and "Just say NOW!" They were sorely needed.