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Chicago Radio Songs That Make You Cringe

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Wildstyle K

Even the best Chicago 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.
 
American Pie: Been played to death and is too lengthy a song to tolerate anymore. Hotel California: Enough already. It's boring energy and tempo-wise and grates on the nerves after repeated plays for years since its release.
 
scanman1 said:
American Pie: Been played to death and is too lengthy a song to tolerate anymore. Hotel California: Enough already. It's boring energy and tempo-wise and grates on the nerves after repeated plays for years since its release.
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Instant tune-out songs! Heartiest agreement.
 
How about Build Me Up Buttercup by the Foundations? Too much Motown. Songs I never tire of are Queen Of The Hop, Bobby Darin, Because They're Young, Duane Eddy, Teenager In Love, Dion. Guess I'm getting up there.
 
Sympathy for the devil. i can't stand that song. not because i don't like it, or its just bad.
i hate it, because its played, seemingly, 100 times a day.
 
Many of the songs which have been listed, have been researched within an inch of their life. It is unfortunate, but apparently this is what the listening public chooses to listen to.

Mass-appeal seems to be the goal and for the discerning listener? Perhaps an Internet station.
 
Lately, I just listen to Pandora, or shuffle my awesome song collection when I get bored with the same old songs on the radio. The best thing about playing my own collection: the moment I'm bored with a song, it's gone!
 
What about "Unchained Melody"? or "What a Wonderful World"

Also agree with "American Pie", "Hotel California", "Build Me Up Buttercup" and "Sympathy". I personally don't get tired of Motown, but I'm willing to make exceptions for "My Girl" and "Do You Love Me". And I'd also add "Lying Eyes" to "Hotel California" as overexposed-to-death in the otherwise superb Eagles catologue.

I liked all of these to one degree or another when they came out. I'm not saying the're bad. For example, how can you beat Louis Armstrong's sentiment in "World". But enough of these already!!!

Frankly, this thread is pretty much a reminder of why I tend to avoid U.S. terrestial music stations. Take it from a business traveller....Chicago is no better (or no worse) than anywhere else in American. Canada and the UK are a little better (in terms of music variety), but not much.
 
Eye The Ticker said:
Many of the songs which have been listed, have been researched within an inch of their life. It is unfortunate, but apparently this is what the listening public chooses to listen to.

Mass-appeal seems to be the goal and for the discerning listener? Perhaps an Internet station.
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what i would like to know = who are they asking what songs they like ? it has never been me, nor anyone i know.
 
outcast said:
Eye The Ticker said:
Many of the songs which have been listed, have been researched within an inch of their life. It is unfortunate, but apparently this is what the listening public chooses to listen to.

Mass-appeal seems to be the goal and for the discerning listener? Perhaps an Internet station.
Click to expand...

what i would like to know = who are they asking what songs they like ? it has never been me, nor anyone i know.
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I get a stupid e-mail from WLS-FM every so often inviting me to rate songs. Or at least I did until I asked to be removed from their e-mail list. To be honest, the survey struck me as "the battle of the overplayed songs". Seriously, they may have well framed it as "which of these overplayed songs on our stale playlist do you least object to?"
 
When "Unchained Melody" originally came out I liked it, but if it comes on now I immediately (if not faster) hit the button.
Same thing with "American Pie" and "Brown Eyed Girl".
Please save us from those songs!
 
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