Ban songs from Radio?

JamesReeves

What songs should be banned from the radio.

I'll get the ball rolling with the following

P!nk - Try
Bastille - Pompeii


Feel free to add to the list

goose2005

I remember working in a Centra where the radio was tuned to one of those awful Skanger FM stations, and "Now You're Gone" by Basshunter came on at least once an hour. To this day I shudder when I hear a snatch of it.

dharn

Let her go, by that gimp whose name escapes me... passinger ?

JamesReeves

dharn wrote: »

Let her go, by that gimp whose name escapes me... passinger ?

Yep Passenger is correctamondo

dharn

He sounds like a 5 year old who lost his dodo

mrsdewinter

Easy.
Gotye - Somebody I Used To Know
Especially when played over Newstalk's Quotes of the Week bit on Fridays. Just anticipating that 'plink, plink, plink' stuff makes me tense.
Ban it now.

PopePalpatine

"Some Nights" by Fun. It is aural violation, and is 4 minutes of some hipster cunt shouting tunelessly into a microphone.

Oh, and there's this awful song which kinda has a big band blaring in the background with trumpets etc. while some bint garbles something like "I really want a baby".

JustAddWater

Anything by Nikki Minge

Asbury Park

Continuing the Pink theme - Just Give Me A Reason - sounds like it was composed by a tone-deaf infant on a toy piano

stop animal cruelty

Blurred lines & get lucky.

JamesReeves

stop animal cruelty wrote: »

Blurred lines & get lucky.

These are good songs just over played to fcuk!

hidinginthebush

How has no one mentioned hey ho by the lumineers? Can't move for that song!

wnolan1992

AC/DC - Thunderstruck

One of the most overplayed, cliched "Oh look, I'm the cover DJ so I can get away with playing this aren't I great?!" songs.


Anything by Pink. For someone who's name is a pretty striking colour, she's a master at being utterly bland.

hidinginthebush

wnolan1992 wrote: »

AC/DC - Thunderstruck

One of the most overplayed, cliched "Oh look, I'm the cover DJ so I can get away with playing this aren't I great?!" songs.


Anything by Pink. For someone who's name is a pretty striking colour, she's a master at being utterly bland.

I hate to say it, but pretty much all ac/dc falls into that category. Classic radio nova carry on: "get ready for the raaaawwwwk no other station plays", cue bon jovi, AC/DC, gnr or fucking journey. Really edgy lads!

dk1345

that fella mackelmore and his 20 dollars in his pocket

jayus i'd love to box the head off him if i ever met him:mad:

ElChe32

mrsdewinter wrote: »

Easy.
Gotye - Somebody I Used To Know
Especially when played over Newstalk's Quotes of the Week bit on Fridays. Just anticipating that 'plink, plink, plink' stuff makes me tense.
Ban it now.

This times x10000000000,
Lived beside a university gym in south america a few months ago, and for 6 weeks straight...for about 2 hours from 6am to 8am they'd play it at least 4 times an hour...drove me insane. I'd like to hang that Gotye guy by the nutsack and let him listen to his ****ing song over and over.

Trebor176

I'm going to be bold and say Don't Stop Believing by Journey. I don't think there's a radio station that doesn't play this a good bit, and the band have had other songs, which I think are better. Ok, so other Journey songs are played, but not nearly enough as the above.

I will agree about the Gotye song. There was a time up until recently, I'd be tormented with it at least a couple of times a day.

Other songs:

Florence and The Machine - Spectrum
Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are
Kings Of Leon - Fans

Just some of a good few songs!

Harry Angstrom

American Pie, and all 157 verses of it, usually favoured by the master debater Neil Prendeville on Cork 96FM.
The 96FM DJ's seem to love playing that song, as they can take two week's holidays in Majorca and still get back in time before the song finishes.

Mister Jingles

Irish radio is brutal altogether, pirate stations FTW !!

But seriously the only decent station at the moment is Nova and even then I wouldn't regard it as great. Worst is defiantly Spin 103.8, same muck over and over again. Q102 isn't far behind either, at one stage it would repeat the same song three/four times a day. :eek:

When stations begin to play songs too many times I begin to hate them :pac:

Songs that should be banned though are:

Queen - Don't Stop Me Now (coming from a queen fan)
All Ed Sheeran songs, especially A-Team.
Daft Punk - Get Lucky


..........there's more but I'll leave it at that for the moment.

marno21

With regards to the limited playlists of stations such as Spin 1038, Spin South West and Beat 102 103 etc, the stations themselves relaly have no choice but to regularly repeat songs. Beat's Niall Power explained most of this here last year : http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=79425780&postcount=63

These stations do reguarly repeat songs but only for a certain length of time. Sure Beat replayed Passenger, Pink etc but dropped them down from heavy rotation to about once a day after about 2 months. Come back in 2 months time and Daft Punk, Robin Thicke etc will have been replaced by new songs.

If you want to give out about a station give out about FM104. They have had Passenger and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis on heavy rotation since January and at a guess they still do.

starviewadams

Anything Spin 103.8 play.On the unfortunate occasions when I forget my headphones for the gym I always end up rushing through my session as fast as possible just to end the assault on my ears by it's 'DJ's' and their 'music'.

JamesReeves

new song for the list

Justin Timberlake - Mirrors

clappyhappy

That Florence & the machine/ Calvin Harris song, really hate it.
Bruno mars locked out of heaven, belongs in hell.!!
Narles Barkley crazy..
As mentioned, journey don't stop believing.
Mundy Galway girl & July, (due to be played to death next month).

SEPT 23 1989

Ban songs from RTE radio 1 with exception made only for a desert islands disks type show

sudzs

Snow Patrol - Chasing cars.

Whinging whining dross.

Green Giant

dk1345 wrote: »

that fella mackelmore and his 20 dollars in his pocket

jayus i'd love to box the head off him if i ever met him:mad:

stop animal cruelty wrote: »

Blurred lines & get lucky.

You both beat me to it!!

Radio5

Anything at all by Michael Buble thanks.

soc160

Asbury Park wrote: »

Continuing the Pink theme - Just Give Me A Reason - sounds like it was composed by a tone-deaf infant on a toy piano

I used to listen to Dermot and Dave a lot before Christmas and just after and im sure that they played this song each day for 4 months, I cant claim to have listened everyday but if I caught an hour of it I was sure to hear it. Instant channel change.

marno21

At a guess all the music on 98FM is playlisted and Dermot and Dave have little choice over what they play. 98FM have a "pick the hits" promotion where you can do a quick survey on what 98FM play and whether or not you like it

Green Giant

That la la la nonsense by Naughty Boy

Trebor176

Three others to add that were played in a row earlier:

Noah And The Whale - L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N
Vampire Weekend - Diane Young
Paddy Casey - Saints And Sinners. In fact, anything by this chap does my head in, apart from Addicted To Company, perhaps!

DuckStab

The 1975 - Chocolate
+1 for Pink, Macklemore, Daft Punk
Blanket ban on Republic of Loose and Damien Dempsey, cheers

Radio5

Things can only get better. I don't even know who sang it.

Relight my fire- Take that.

I also love those stations who say " X station - supporting Irish Music" and then play some U2/Van Morrison/the Corrs/Paddy Casey, as if no new music has been released by Irish artists since circa 1994.

hfallada

Firework by katy perry or anything from her. She has milked the **** out of that album.

Like the first line of firework" do you ever feel like a plastic bag blowing in the wind?". Like wtf?

That_Guy

"Get Lucky" by Daft Punk. So overplayed. Must be one of the most overplayed songs on the radio.

Woah, I could have a substantial list here.


I'll begin with anything by Maroon 5 and Will.I.Am