What Songs Would You Retire?

[nyadrn]

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_...

[MaVolta]

@BeatleloverKT  - I’m not familiar with any of her songs. Have seen her on tv a few times, and can’t say that I wanna be! I saw her perform with another pop star with similar style, and all they did was the ooooooohoohooohooohooh ooooooohoooohooooh thing back and forth. 😳

[BeatleloverKT]

That’s pretty much all she does lol

[EricC28201]

In the 'Played to Death' catagory for me it would be:

Running On Empty - Jackson Browne

[BeatleloverKT]

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]

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!

[EricC28201]

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]

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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Just 4 U!

A shiny red 1958 Chevrolet Corvette! ♥️

A shiny red 1958 Chevrolet Corvette

[Vexed]

Aw shucks @Therapist4u . 😎

[Therapist4u]

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😄

BTW: IMHO the earliest  models 🚗

had a superior design!👌😸

[Vexed]

You are right @Therapist4u . And they were easier to fix. 😃

[BeatleloverKT]

Welcome to the jungle, Guns ‘n Roses

(Not a fan of them and this song is like

nails on a chalkboard to me)

[EricC28201]

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]

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

[EricC28201]

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]

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

[millineutron]

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!)

[JohnD131536]

Mandy - Barry Manilow

[DarcyFarrow]

My Humps (Black Eyed Peas) and any other songs featuring "lady lumps," "junk in the trunk" or "coco puff"

[BobH07]

I wouldn't retire any music. Every song, every type has different meaning to different people.

Who are we to judge!

[tinyrey]

Let me see. Oh yeah, Last Kiss. Pearl Jam version makes me want to throw up in my mouth. 

[DarcyFarrow]

Me and Mrs Jones (Billy Paul) and Run to You (Bryan Adams)--just a personal reaction, but songs that celebrate infidelity creep me out

[eg177]

Alone Again Naturally by Gilbert O'Sullivan

It's message is SO negative!

[DarcyFarrow]

"You're Having My Baby"

(worst reason for having kids:  "what a lovely way of saying what you're thinking of me")

[CarrieandLaith]

Lonely Boy by Andrew Gold...seriously???!

A first-born son feels displaced by a baby sister and causes him to spiral out of control!

Pllllleeeassse!

[ciptra38]

Who Let the Dogs Out; anything by Katie Perry; Sexual Healing (Marvin Gaye); 

[infraredman]

"Cat's in The Cradle" by Harry Chapin and "Seasons in The Sun" by Terry James.  Nice songs but just too depressing.

[WebWiseWoman]

"Sound of Silence" -- Simon and Garfunkel

The cover by Disturbed is so honorable, no one else imho could do it justice...

#VegasStrong

[MaVolta]

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@WebWiseWoman wrote:

"Sound of Silence" -- Simon and Garfunkel

The cover by Disturbed is so honorable, no one else imho could do it justice...

#VegasStrong

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@WebWiseWoman - I tried your link but it didn't go to the song. Here is the official version on youtube. It's worth a listen. Starts out a little creepy but he does make it unique. However, being a huge S&G fan, I won't be ditching my original recording. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4

[ip3285]

I'd retire all Rap, although I don't consider it music.  I realize "to each his own" but I feel sorry for those who consider that music and who haven't been exposed to the real thing.