Overplayed songs you never got sick of even a little

Not ever having been much of a radio listener (though I've done a radio show for 14 years!), "overplayed" isn't a concern for me.

So ...

Good Vibrations
Black Dog
Roundabout

I can listen to 'em a hundred times in a row!

 

The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
Rod Stewart - Maggie May
The Cowsills - The Rain, The Park, and Other Things
Yes - Roundabout
Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel

 

Any Beatles
Any Deep Purple
Crowded House: Don't Dream It's Over
Gerry Rafferty: Baker Street
Wang Chung: Dance Hall Days (and most others)
Donnie Iris: Ah! Leah!

 

My Top 5
Black Dog
Tom Sawyer
More than a feeling
Highway to hell
All along the watchtower

 

Southern Cross by CSN



I'm not necessarily a big CSN fan, but I don't not like them. However, I LOVE this song.

 

I say not songs but whole albums:

Abbey Road
Appetite for destruction
Led Zeppelin fourth

I keep listening to them regularly and enjoying.

 

Roundabout
Another Brick In The Wall, Pt 2
Life In The Fast Lane
Back In Black
Brown Sugar
Sultans Of Swing
Barracuda
25 or 6 To 4

 

| Bohemian Rhapsody

| Under Pressure

| Life on Mars?

| Hey Jude

| Superstition

| Teenage Kicks

| Atomic

| Golden Brown

 

Some blues tunes that come to mind:

"Crossroads" (Robert Johnson) Cream or Lynyrd Skynyrd.
"Statesboro Blues" (Willie McTell) the Allman Brothers Band.
"Red House" Jimi Hendrix

 

That's actually a staple of tv bumper music(Satuday Night Live, Oprah) and tv commercial background music(Toyota, banks, cleaning products) in the US. The much darker single "(If There's Hell Below) We're all Gonna Go" was the actual hit song from that LP over here.

 

Beast Of Burden- Rolling Stones.
Kashmir- Led Zeppelin.
Queen Of Hearts- Juice Newton.
Killer Queen- Queen.
Eighteen- Alice Cooper.
Ring Of Fire- Johnny Cash.
Strangers In The Night- Frank Sinatra.
It Never Rains In Southern California- Albert Hammond.
Iron Man- Black Sabbath.
Hey Baby- Michael Franti.
Rhiannon- Fleetwood Mac.
Angie- Rolling Stones.

 

SATISFACTION

SHE LOVES YOU

WAITIN' FOR THE BUS / JESUS JUST LEFT CHICAGO

SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT

AIN'T TALKIN' 'BOUT LOVE

EIGHTEEN - ALICE COOPER

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE

RELAX - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD

HEY MAN NICE SHOT - FILTER

25 OR 6 TO 4

MOON RIVER - THE AUDREY HEPBURN VERSION

ANYTHING FROM:

MEET THE BEATLES

WHO'S NEXT

 

As a former oldies/retro DJ, I recall "Sugar Sugar" and "Spirit In The Sky" being the leader in their categories for getting scheduled (which is a function of the computer software seeing various restrictions on various titles, due to not wanting female artists playing too many at a time without a group or males in-between, or too many "Motown-y" songs, or rock-y songs not separated by pop-y songs, and various other criteria), because they had seemingly no sound-code restrictions on them that would keep them from playing as many times as other titles in the same categories. So, even if they were in categories that would "try" to play evenly, these two had a far higher rate of getting scheduled into the music logs.

But every time I triggered the "next song" and it was either of those, I knew I had a winner, no matter how "burned" these two were. The audiences' collective mind was always "in the mood" when these hooks fired-off.

We used to call that, "neck music"...'cuz of the way it made your neck and your chin dance.

 

Bob Seger - Against The Wind

 

I don't think Grease is overplayed.
Unless you just watch the film a lot.
I never have heard it on oldies stations.

 

Nah
Wrong
Yeah, good one

 

Revolution 9

 

Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel

 

Jumpin Jack Flash
Warpigs and Iron Man
Ohio and Cinnamon Girl , Not overplayed anymore probably but I could never get sick of them.
Werewolves of London.
Sunshine of your love
Detroit Rock City
Purple Haze

 

Procol Harum A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Kate Bush Wuthering Heights
Glen Campbell Wichita Lineman
Carly Simon Nobody Does It Better
The Who Pinball Wizard