Overplayed but still awesome...

What songs have you heard millions of times in your life, but still do not tire of? Songs that, no matter how many times you hear them, you get excited about them. Only one song per band to keep it interesting.

For me:

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Beatles - Let It Be
U2 - Bad
King's X - Over My Head
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Wings - Maybe I'm Amazed
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
Queensryche - Eyes Of A Stranger
Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
Journey - Only The Young

First few that came to mind.
Boys Are Back in Town/Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
Toys in the Attic/Sweet Emotion/Walk this Way - Aerosmith

For me:

U2 - Bad (good call SoF)
Styx - Come Sail Away
Journey - Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
REO Speedwagon - Roll With the Changes
Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
Slayer - Angel of Death
Def Leppard - No, No, No
Iron Maiden - Drifter
Rush - Tom Sawyer
AC/DC - Thunderstruck

Many, many more...

Dream On - Aerosmith
Stairway to Heaven - Zeppelin
Welcome to the Jungle - GnR
Crazy Train - Ozzy

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

Only one song per band to keep it interesting.

Oops. Missed that line. Sorry.

Boys Are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
Walk this Way - Aerosmith
You've Got Another Thing Coming - Judas Priest

"I'M WIDE AWAAAAAAAAAAKEEEEEE" Could listen to this song everyday.

AC/DC-For those about to rock
Aerosmith-Back In The Saddle
Bad Company-Shooting Star
Cinderella-Don't Know What You've Got
Dire Straits-Telegraph Road
Dokken-Into The Fire
Queensryche-London
The Crucified-Mindbender
Deliverance-Stay of Execution
Saint-Steel Killer

Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin
The Beatles - Hey Jude
Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
The Doors - Riders On The Storm
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Free - All Right Now
Robin Trower - Too Rolling Stoned
Pink Floyd - Time
Steely Dan - Do It Again
The Doobie Brothers - Black Water
Heart - Magic Man
Queen - Killer Queen
Electric Light Orchestra - Turn To Stone
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Yes - Roundabout
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man
Supertramp - The Logical Song

Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death
KISS - Take Me
Stryper - Soldiers Under Command
Slayer - Reign In Blood
AC/DC - Touch Too Much
Judas Priest - Victim Of Changes
Metallica - Frayed Ends Of Sanity
Queensryche - Roads to Madness

So far no song has been listed that I cringe at. Even by hipster S.D.

top-of-da-noggin

"Reach Out" by Styper
"Oh Well" by Fleetwood Mac
"30 Days In The Hole" by Humble Pie
"Victim Of Changes" by Priest
"Ten Inch Record" by Aerosmith
"Levon" by Elton John
"The Weight" by The Band
"Hotel California" by Eagles
"Whole Lotta Love" by Zeppelin
"Too Hot To Handle" by UFO

GNr-Welcome To The Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child O Mine.

Quote :

Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

Where is this song "overplayed", at your house?

Fat Freddy wrote:

Quote :

Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

Where is this song "overplayed", at your house?

It certainly isn't from commercial radio overplay.

Seriously, when I think "overplayed", I immediately think of classic rock radio. Allot of these tunes people are listing as overplayed has me wondering where exactly is Def Leppard's 'No No No' is played to the point of exhaustion? Roller skating rinks? Who is overplaying Stryper's music anywhere? Christian dentist offices?

Well, I guess technically I did not mention radio...just songs you have heard a million times. Some of these choices are puzzling, though.

Yeah, I guess you could play the most obscure songs over and over on your stereo and never tire of them. I interpreted this thread subject as songs you hear on the radio all the time and therefore, if you have no control over the station, forced to listen to.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Quote :

Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

Where is this song "overplayed", at your house?

Well, an I-pod and no radio except for news radio puts all sorts of songs into play for the list. Love that track

Well, I don't hear King's X on the radio. So there.

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

Well, I guess technically I did not mention radio...just songs you have heard a million times. Some of these choices are puzzling, though.

Because threads like this are always the same. People don't want to post things other people have posted, so they start posting random stuff just to be different.

That said...

There are lots of songs i never get tired of, but to stay true to the spirit of the thread ill try to limit it to really big songs that are liable to be played by any given rock/metal fan or radio station.

Motörhead - Ace of Spades
Dio - Holy Diver
Pearl Jam - Yellow Leadbetter
Led Zeppelin - Rock'n'roll
Megadeth - holy wars... The punishment due
Thin Lizzy - jailbreak (especially live versions)
ZZ Top- La Grange

Love these tunes and whenever they come on they get cranked

Boston - "More Than A Feeling"
Styx - "Suite Madame Blue"
Head East - "Never Been Any Reason"
AC/DC - "Highway To Hell"
The Kings - "Switchin' To Glide" (overplayed when I lived in Murfreesboro, TN)
The Outlaws - "Green Grass and High Tides" (unlike Freebird which would make me change the channel)

Yeah, they're all "classic rock" but that's probably because I haven't listened to the radio in about a decade so the only stuff that gets overplayed nowadays is stuff I overplay myself.

David Bowie - Space Oddity
Metric - Black Sheep
Aerosmith - Kings & Queens
Pink Floyd - Brain Damage
Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
Megadeth - I am The Scorpion
Def Leppard - Photograph

oh oops it said overplayed my bad...

Off the top of my head:

Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly
Def Leppard - Rock of Ages
Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
Skid Row - Monkey Business
Kiss - I Love it Loud
Led Zeppelin - Rock N' Roll
The Kinks - Lola
Van Halen - Ice Cream Man
Sammy Hagar - Heavy Metal
AC/DC - Shoot to Thrill
Blackfoot - Train, Train