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What Songs Would You Retire?

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October 11, 2017
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Should "American Pie" be put out to pasture? Has John Lennon's "Imagine" been imagined one too many times? What songs would you retire?

If I hear that song one more time!
I was at a restaurant recently when "Cats In The Cradle," a mid-'70s song by Harry Chapin, came on. It's the one about a dad too busy for his son, and ends with the son growing up to be too busy for his dad. Anyway, the thought hit me, "Do I really ever have to hear this song again?" It's a well-crafted tune, but please: can't we just retire it?!

And so a show is born. On this edition of All Songs Considered, "Hallelujah! The Songs We Should Retire."

http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/10/10/556692186/hallelujah-the-songs-we-should-retire?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2037

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BeatleloverKT

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Gloria, multiple artists

This song was overplayed so much back in the day that they made me hate it. That plus I worked with a Gloria back in the day and she was as mean as mean could be!

MaVolta

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I came to despise these two songs because they were overplayed. Seems like every time I turned on the radio, then off they went!

1973 it was La Grange by ZZ Top

1980 and then some, Another One Bites the Dust by Queen

Today, I can listen to Bites the Dust and it doesn’t bother me, but no thanks to La Grange, now or ever! I still hate that song!

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” - Jimi Hendrix

EricC28201

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Still can't listen to Another One Bites The Dust, but the ZZ Top song, for me, is Cheap Sunglasses. It's catchy...liked it the first 99,999 times...then it was like 'Oh Not Again'.

Vexed

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Only for me personally, is "Little Red Corvette". There is nothing wrong with the song. It is just that when it first came out, it was played on the radio stations nearly every five minutes. So I got burnt out on it. The same thing happens with food sometimes. 😃

Therapist4u

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Hi @Vexed 😃

Just 4 U!

A shiny red 1958 Chevrolet Corvette! ♥️

A shiny red 1958 Chevrolet Corvette

Vexed

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Aw shucks @Therapist4u . 😎

BeatleloverKT

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Welcome to the jungle, Guns ‘n Roses

(Not a fan of them and this song is like

nails on a chalkboard to me)

EricC28201

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In keeping with the sage obsevations of @BobH07 I'll limit my 'Retirement' suggestion just to songs I, personally, could go the rest of My Life without ever hearing again. Starting with:

Stayin' Alive - The Bee Gees

Note: This assumes "Retire" means relegated to an Archive, not annihilated!

P.S. Gotta say it's a little surprising that almost the whole list from the Blackballed by #MeToo topic isn't here.

MaVolta

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LOL - That, and pretty much anything from the disco era, for me! Wasn’t much of a disco music fan, anyway.

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” - Jimi Hendrix

EricC28201

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Not a big Disco fan myself...although I get a kick out of The Red Hot Chili Peppers' and Korn's covers of Rollercoaster of Love and Word Up.

DarcyFarrow

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Songs that have been rewritten to be used in a commercial, e.g. Pilot's "Magic"--> "Ozempic"

millineutron

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I haven't read through all these yet, so these might have already been mentioned, but "Angel of the Morning" has always been an annoying song that somehow manages to be sappy and pathetic at the same time. Not judging anybody, just don't even like anything about the way it sounds, to be honest.

Also, a few years ago my husband requested that I make him a doo wop mix CD, with songs I picked out with his approval before adding to the list. (He doesn't do Spotify.) He loves that CD and plays it over and over, which I'm glad, but every time it gets to "Silouettes" by the Rays, I start thinking crazy thoughts like, "What? Is this dude stalking his girlfriend, walking by her house late at night? And then he thinks he sees her with somebody else, so he's about to go bust her front door down? And then when it turns out he was just on the wrong block, he goes directly to her actual house and then TELLS HER that he almost went violent on the wrong house ... is this like a thinly veiled threat?" Let's please retire that one, whoever is in charge of universal playlists!! (Or else just use it in the sound track to a horror flick!)