Classic FM songs you CANT STAND!

[AnthonyO'Brien]

For me it's :

Kool and the Gang Summer Madness - instrumental that sounds like an alarm after a while. Usually like K&tG but I found the 12 minute version a bit much

"Oh, what a night" - this gets kinda creepier with each passing year. Do you really wanna hear about some guy bragging about the time he got lucky in "late December 1963"?

"Walk, like a man" (for #$% sake ! SING like a man!)

and YOU?

[wjowski]

Every 'classic rock' station regular like Journey, Boston, and Foreigner.

[AnthonyO'Brien]

American pie

[GindyPosts]

American pie

I get the metaphors now that I'm older, but it still comes off as a dopey song. You might as well be playing "Video Killed the Radio Star".

[TriggerWarning]

Anything by Michael Jackson. I was ambivalent on his music before his child molestation came to light. Now it makes me cringe when radio stations still play his music.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Anything by Michael Jackson. I was ambivalent on his music before his child molestation came to light. Now it makes me cringe when radio stations still play his music.

Same here. I can't listen to his music anymore either.

[MajorHoy]

With a title like "Classic FM songs you CANT STAND!", I guess I was expecting something different.

At least half the music mentioned here were AM Top 40 songs when I was a kid.

I guess it's a generational thing, and for some of those songs, maybe you "had to be there".

[Vic Vega]

With a title like "Classic FM songs you CANT STAND!", I guess I was expecting something different.

At least half the music mentioned here were AM Top 40 songs when I was a kid.

I guess it's a generational thing, and for some of those songs, maybe you "had to be there".

Certainly the case with "Oh What A Night" since its literally about an 18 year old's first love affair from the perspective of a 30 old (in '75).

"You had to be there" is kinda the Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons whole deal.

[Kirby101]

For me it's :

Kool and the Gang Summer Madness - instrumental that sounds like an alarm after a while. Usually like K&tG but I found the 12 minute version a bit much

"Oh, what a night" - this gets kinda creepier with each passing year. Do you really wanna hear about some guy bragging about the time he got lucky in "late December 1963"?

"Walk, like a man" (for #$% sake ! SING like a man!)

and YOU?

Those are all pop hit AM songs. FM was Album Oriented Rock with songs that didn't fit in the Top 40 pop. FM is where bands like Zep and Pink Floyd lived.

I listen to Classic Rock now and I don't think any of those songs were every played.

[WillieMorgan]

I always equated classic FM more with what's nowadays lumped together as 'Classic Rock'. Led Zeppelin, Boston and the like.

I can't stand anything by George Thorogood. I cringe whenever something like his cover of 'One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer' comes on the radio.

How that guy managed to bag himself a major record deal back in the day I'll never know. I can't locate an iota of talent in him.

[TriggerWarning]

I always equated classic FM more with what's nowadays lumped together as 'Classic Rock'. Led Zeppelin, Boston and the like.

I can't stand anything by George Thorogood. I cringe whenever something like his cover of 'One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer' comes on the radio.

How that guy managed to bag himself a major record deal back in the day I'll never know. I can't locate an iota of talent in him.

Agree on him. Can't stand the song I Drink Alone.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

This might be seen as blasphemy to some, but I've always found "Stairway To Heaven" by Led Zeppelin to be pretentious crapola. In fact, I've NEVER understood the appeal of that band.

[Kirby101]

This might be seen as blasphemy to some, but I've always found "Stairway To Heaven" by Led Zeppelin to be pretentious crapola. In fact, I've NEVER understood the appeal of that band.

Blasphemer! Away with you witch! Stone Him

[WillieMorgan]

This might be seen as blasphemy to some, but I've always found "Stairway To Heaven" by Led Zeppelin to be pretentious crapola. In fact, I've NEVER understood the appeal of that band.

The pretentious assertion isn't without merit. Robert Plant later regretted a lot of the lyrical content of the song. It's still awesome though, as are Zeppelin. So, yeah, BLASPHEMY!

This is also a controversial one. Although I like The Rolling Stones well enough I can't stand one of their most celebrated songs, 'Sympathy For The Devil'. It's the repetitive 'hoo hoo' backing vocals in it. They drive me mad.

[MajorHoy]

This might be seen as blasphemy to some, but I've always found "Stairway To Heaven" by Led Zeppelin to be pretentious crapola. In fact, I've NEVER understood the appeal of that band.

Classic "bathroom break" song for disc jockeys back in the day, before everything was automated.
(Been there, done that, but with other songs since I never worked at a "Classic Rock"-formatted station.)