Boston Radio Songs That Make You Cringe

[Laurence Glavin]

"1-800-Kars4Kids...1-800-Kars4Kids."

;D

Almost all mass-marketed recorded material regardless of genre: Rock, pop, C&W...features an overrated talentless individual or group braying and bellowing, howling and yowling, moaning and groaning, screeching and screaming IN A MONOTONE! My recent favorite: some performer of such material was supposed to, um, "sing" his latest release on the Today Show on NBC. I think his genre was C&W, but it doesn't matter. The no-talent homunculus forgot to bring the prop microphone up in front of his face while he moved his lips and mouth. So the "vocal" went on for 15 seconds or so while he held his mic down by his side. Became viral on the Youtubez. A monotone.

 

[BearFur]

"1-800-Kars4Kids...1-800-Kars4Kids."

;D

I was going to mention that one, the singing makes it sound like an arrest is imminent.

That guy has got to be a pedo

 

[N1WVQ]

Any song by Boston! Brown-Eyed Girl is only good if Jimmy Buffett is doing it!

 

[Retro]

The same overplayed tired songs just move from station to station pending aging demographics.

 

[SheaTheDJ]

Shameless plug - take a break from the overplayed crap on Boston radio and listen to some of the best new bands and artists coming out of the New England music scene on Almost Famous each Tuesday 8-10pm on 95.9 WATD. www.facebook.com/AlmostFamousRadio.

 

[MassMusicMan]

When I hear ' We are Family' at a wedding, I hide in the bathroom.

I have a friend who's getting married in September. He tells me that the band he has hired will be contractually barred from playing it.

 

[surfin bird]

We seem to play alot of OMD...if you leave...in Boston...at nauseum

 

[Retro]

With or Without You-U2
Don't You Forget About Me-Simple Minds

Etc, etc, etc.

 

[dhoule]

1. Brown-Eyed Girl
2. Moondance
3. Dirty Water
4. All the Other Kids
5. You're Amazing Just the Way Your Are

 

[CTListener]

1. Brown-Eyed Girl
2. Moondance
3. Dirty Water
4. All the Other Kids
5. You're Amazing Just the Way Your Are

Isn't "Brown Eyed Girl" considered the best-testing song of all time? I've heard it consistently puts smiles on focus-group faces, no matter how many times those people might have heard the song. AFAIK, it was never prominently featured in a movie (a la the perennially popular "Unchained Melody" and "Old Time Rock and Roll") and, of course, it got nowhere near No. 1 in its initial release. Whatever it's got, the song certainly seems to polarize radio geeks and average listeners like no other song out there.

 

[KB1OKL]

1. Brown-Eyed Girl
2. Moondance
3. Dirty Water
4. All the Other Kids
5. You're Amazing Just the Way Your Are

Isn't "Brown Eyed Girl" considered the best-testing song of all time? I've heard it consistently puts smiles on focus-group faces, no matter how many times those people might have heard the song. AFAIK, it was never prominently featured in a movie (a la the perennially popular "Unchained Melody" and "Old Time Rock and Roll") and, of course, it got nowhere near No. 1 in its initial release. Whatever it's got, the song certainly seems to polarize radio geeks and average listeners like no other song out there.

"Brown Eyes Girl" is THE most overplayed song in history, I liked it the first million times I heard it, talk about a tune being burnt out. I really did used to like it too.

 

[Wildstyle K]

1. Brown-Eyed Girl

Isn't "Brown Eyed Girl" considered the best-testing song of all time? I've heard it consistently puts smiles on focus-group faces, no matter how many times those people might have heard the song.

Wow. In the east coast, too?

 

[indystorm]

Agreed- Brown eyed girl needs to get the boot.

1. Brown-Eyed Girl
2. Moondance
3. Dirty Water
4. All the Other Kids
5. You're Amazing Just the Way Your Are

Isn't "Brown Eyed Girl" considered the best-testing song of all time? I've heard it consistently puts smiles on focus-group faces, no matter how many times those people might have heard the song. AFAIK, it was never prominently featured in a movie (a la the perennially popular "Unchained Melody" and "Old Time Rock and Roll") and, of course, it got nowhere near No. 1 in its initial release. Whatever it's got, the song certainly seems to polarize radio geeks and average listeners like no other song out there.

"Brown Eyes Girl" is THE most overplayed song in history, I liked it the first million times I heard it, talk about a tune being burnt out. I really did used to like it too.

 

[CTListener]

So-called burnout has never affected this song when it comes to non-radio-geek, non-oldies-geek listeners. It ain't going nowhere until its appeal becomes limited to the 55+ crowd. Right now, it's still strong in saleable demographics, so it stays on classic hits and classic rock playlists.

Agreed- Brown eyed girl needs to get the boot.

1. Brown-Eyed Girl
2. Moondance
3. Dirty Water
4. All the Other Kids
5. You're Amazing Just the Way Your Are

Isn't "Brown Eyed Girl" considered the best-testing song of all time? I've heard it consistently puts smiles on focus-group faces, no matter how many times those people might have heard the song. AFAIK, it was never prominently featured in a movie (a la the perennially popular "Unchained Melody" and "Old Time Rock and Roll") and, of course, it got nowhere near No. 1 in its initial release. Whatever it's got, the song certainly seems to polarize radio geeks and average listeners like no other song out there.

"Brown Eyes Girl" is THE most overplayed song in history, I liked it the first million times I heard it, talk about a tune being burnt out. I really did used to like it too.