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Boston Radio Songs That Make You Cringe

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Even the best Boston radio stations have those pesky songs; The ones that stick around month after month after month, even though you can't conceive any purpose they can possibly serve for that particular station. This isn't meant to flame any station specifically, but is just a fun way to vent about the songs that truly make us cringe. This is all my uneducated opinion. I'm sure PDs can simply rebut with callout numbers, but like I said...all in fun.

Here's what we're NOT talking about:

(a) Currents or recent (say, a year old or less) recurrents.
(b) Songs that have justified spots on a station's playlist, but make you cringe because you simply have a personal dislike for them.

Here's what we ARE talking about:

(a) Songs that have stuck around ENTIRELY too long and have earned a prolonged rest period, or at least should move into a less prominent category.
(b) Songs that stick out like a sore thumb on a respective station (not a hit, doesn't fit the station's overall sound, etc.)
(c) Overplayed "classic" songs.
 
Category c: Margaritaville. I, like many others, liked it when it was new and even when it became a classic, but I hear it far too often now.
 
Cat. B & C - Heaven by Bryan Adams. Sticks out like a sore tumb when played with James Taylor and Neil Diamond on Lite Hit Stations (especially the guitar solo) and it's just way overplayed. I guess most of Bryan Adams' songs fall into this group.
 
I would even add another category. Songs that were never big radio hits and now are played as if they were. "Melt With You" by Modern English - made even worse when a station plays the re-recorded version instead of the original. And calling out Magic on this one - "One Love" by Bob Marley & The Wailers. Van Morrison's "Moondance" was played but not as mainstream as now.
 
Dirty Water, Dream On and Sweet Caroline. Spent the first 21 years of my life in the Boston area, and I understand these songs' Boston connections, but I just plain never liked them.
 
I love the work of Joe Cortese, but Journey has become an automatic punchout except for "Lights," and I'm pretty sure he doesn't do that one.
 
This is turning into a generic discussion of "burnt out" songs, which is a concept completely foreign to average radio listeners, who keeps turning up in focus groups and other research indicating that, yes, they still love "Margaritaville" and "Brown Eyed Girl," no matter how tired the radio-obsessives are of hearing them day after day for 25-plus years.
 
Listening to WCAP quite a bit, as I do, it has to be the now very limited list of Beatles songs they play...they used to have about 60 or so that were rotated, now it's "All You Need Is Love" every day without fail when they are in music mode.
 
Anything by Aerosmith in the Boston market. Boston folk way overplay and way overtalk about this band. Forget about touring - they need to make sure their long term care policies are paid up.
 
Early Byrd said:
Listening to WCAP quite a bit, as I do, it has to be the now very limited list of Beatles songs they play...they used to have about 60 or so that were rotated, now it's "All You Need Is Love" every day without fail when they are in music mode.
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WBOQ still plays plenty of British Invasion titles, many of which have been shelved by oldies/classic hits stations for fear of attracting too many 55+ listeners.
 
AMEN to the guy who said 1-877-kars for kids---- That should be banned FOREVER. It's the most annoying thing I've ever heard in my entire life and it should be killed immediately. I tune out of the station every time I hear it, and don't return there for at least a half hour. I don't think stations can afford to play this anymore....!!! They are losing listeners for long periods of time every time it is played. As far as a song that should never be played again- I nominate "Still the one" by Orleans. Terrible song- I've always hated it ever since the first time I heard it which was back in the early 90's on a TV commercial in Connecticut promoting the old "Mix 93.7"....
 
indystorm said:
AMEN to the guy who said 1-877-kars for kids---- That should be banned FOREVER. It's the most annoying thing I've ever heard in my entire life and it should be killed immediately. I tune out of the station every time I hear it, and don't return there for at least a half hour. I don't think stations can afford to play this anymore....!!! They are losing listeners for long periods of time every time it is played. As far as a song that should never be played again- I nominate "Still the one" by Orleans. Terrible song- I've always hated it ever since the first time I heard it which was back in the early 90's on a TV commercial in Connecticut promoting the old "Mix 93.7"....
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And about 15 years before that, it was used to promote ABC's fall primetime lineup. I have no problem with the song, but I do have a soft spot for Orleans as they started out -- a folk-rock band from Ithaca, N.Y. I still have their first major-label album, the one with "Dance With Me" on it, and it's quite the mellow little record.
 
3 off the top of my head:
'Girls just want to have fun'
'Moondance'
'Living on a Prayer'
When I hear ' We are Family' at a wedding, I hide in the bathroom.
 
Dance with me is a great song...!!!! Still the one sucks though.


CTListener said:
indystorm said:
AMEN to the guy who said 1-877-kars for kids---- That should be banned FOREVER. It's the most annoying thing I've ever heard in my entire life and it should be killed immediately. I tune out of the station every time I hear it, and don't return there for at least a half hour. I don't think stations can afford to play this anymore....!!! They are losing listeners for long periods of time every time it is played. As far as a song that should never be played again- I nominate "Still the one" by Orleans. Terrible song- I've always hated it ever since the first time I heard it which was back in the early 90's on a TV commercial in Connecticut promoting the old "Mix 93.7"....
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And about 15 years before that, it was used to promote ABC's fall primetime lineup. I have no problem with the song, but I do have a soft spot for Orleans as they started out -- a folk-rock band from Ithaca, N.Y. I still have their first major-label album, the one with "Dance With Me" on it, and it's quite the mellow little record.
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I wonder if Carl Stevens is doing the 1-877-Cars-4-Kids jingle with that kid. I've also heard a hard rock version of it on WAAF!
 
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