I have to agree with the sentiments of many others that current radio has ruined a lot of classic rock songs for me by just playing them way, way too much. Guns N Roses is probably the best example I can think of personally. I liked GnR a lot growing up, but a lot of their hits have become like nails on a chalkboard to me over the last decade or so because they are played so much.
Originally Posted by hallstevenson
Originally Posted by earlyre
"steal my sunshine" by LEN.. it came out the summer after i got out of HS, was super popular, my friends all loved it, ...
Not sure that I've ever heard that song on the radio. I learned it from the movie
Go.
I remember that song being on the radio and MTV a TON in '99/'00, then I didn't hear it again for over a decade. I stumbled across it a few years ago going down a YouTube rabbit hole and immediately remembered the song and video. I actually like it more now than I did, and I didn't hate it initially, it just got tons of airplay at the time so I got burned out on it and never sought it out. Now I have a sort of nostalgia for it, along with other formerly overplayed songs of the era like "Nookie" by Limp Bizkit and "Freak on a Leash" by Korn.
Originally Posted by bdcardinal
Anything from Rush, In This Moment, and Imagine Dragons will make me change the channel immediately.
X2, especially Imagine Dragons. I have never really liked any Imagine Dragons song, but it developed into full blown hatred when they were getting heavy air play around 2013-14 and I was a delivery driver. I cannot listen to "Radioactive" at all. Bunch of terrible drum banging and hipster noises.
Originally Posted by fdcg27
I rarely listen to anything other than NPR on the radio when driving these days since the ratio of mindless talk full of sexual innuendo to music is simply too high.
I listen to NPR and some other talk radio, but I usually have to change the channel if they start playing music. NPR does not need to play music.
I suppose I will make an exception for "Echoes," the electronica/new age/whatever show.