If I never hear another song by ..... it'll be too soon

[Fido]

I'm thinking of bands/singers -- not just an overplayed song. The kind you might hear in supermarkets, doctors offices, delis, places where you're forced to listen to stuff you've already heard about 500 too many times in your life, and at this point, they're noise pollution. Not necessarily just bands or singers that suck, but a lot of these do. My nominations:

Phil Collins
Bob Seger
Ke$ha
The Eagles
Billy Joel
Bryan Adams
America
Journey
Katy Perry
REO Speedwagon
Van Morrison
Justin Bieber
Eminem
Nickelback (and all their sound-alike imitators too)
The J. Geils Band
Rod Stewart
Lynyrd Skyyrd
Steve Miller Band
Mariah Carey
Taylor Swift

Of course, feel free to contribute your list as well.

I feel better now. Thank you for reading.

[Emerson]

Journey

+1000

[iAmBaronVonTito]

i want to contribute to this list, but all the top 40 trash sounds the same...and so i have no specifics.  albeit, i could google them, but hearing the song(s) would just infuriate me further.

[fonpr]

Welcome back, Baron.

Was wondering where you ran off to.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I will come to the defense of early Seger (pre-Silver Bullet Band, he sounded kinda like The Seeds) and deeper cuts from J. Geils, which is like whatever you call that 70s/80s music that straddles Power Pop and New Wave and which EFD often plays.

I worked retail in 1994 and had seven months of fake-alternative jammed down my throat, so I'd include:

Collective Soul
Matchbox 20
Marcy Playground
Seven Mary Three
Offspring
Gin Blossoms
Live
Ace of Base
Better Than Ezra
Bush
Goo Goo Dolls
Joan Osborne

I know there are lots of Weezer fans on this board, but I've never been able to stomach them, for this reason. And I avoided Radiohead for a couple of years because of "Creep."

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Frank Zappa
Aerosmith
The Pixies
Interpol
They Might Be Giants
Anything involving Mike Patton
Led Zeppelin
Billy Joel

[Emerson]

I won't pretend I didn't enjoy the first Weezer record at the time - the sense of humor was a nice break from the Nirvanabes that were big then - but Pinkerton is massively overrated and everything post-that is execrable.

I could stand to never hear Aerosmith again. I don't even like "Dream On" anymore.

The Eagles
Steve Miller
Ja Rule

[nec13]

I'm thinking of bands/singers -- not just an overplayed song. The kind you might hear in supermarkets, doctors offices, delis, places where you're forced to listen to stuff you've already heard about 500 too many times in your life, and at this point, they're noise pollution. Not necessarily just bands or singers that suck, but a lot of these do. My nominations:

Phil Collins
Bob Seger
Ke$ha
The Eagles
Billy Joel
Bryan Adams
America
Journey
Katy Perry
REO Speedwagon
Van Morrison
Justin Bieber
Eminem
Nickelback (and all their sound-alike imitators too)
The J. Geils Band
Rod Stewart
Lynyrd Skyyrd
Steve Miller Band
Mariah Carey
Taylor Swift

Of course, feel free to contribute your list as well.

I feel better now. Thank you for reading.

I don't need to ever hear anything off of Centerfold again. But their 1970-80 material is quality and does stand up to repeated listens, IMO.

I'll throw in some other bands/artists here:

Styx
Foreigner
Kenny G
Al B. Sure
The All-American Rejects

[Emerson]

The next time I hear "Teenage Kicks" or "Come On Eileen" will not be far enough in the future.

[wood and iron]

I'm thinking of bands/singers -- not just an overplayed song. The kind you might hear in supermarkets, doctors offices, delis, places where you're forced to listen to stuff you've already heard about 500 too many times in your life, and at this point, they're noise pollution. Not necessarily just bands or singers that suck, but a lot of these do. My nominations:

Phil Collins
Bob Seger
Ke$ha
The Eagles
Billy Joel
Bryan Adams
America
Journey
Katy Perry
REO Speedwagon
Van Morrison
Justin Bieber
Eminem
Nickelback (and all their sound-alike imitators too)
The J. Geils Band
Rod Stewart
Lynyrd Skyyrd
Steve Miller Band
Mariah Carey
Taylor Swift

Of course, feel free to contribute your list as well.

I feel better now. Thank you for reading.

I don't need to ever hear anything off of Centerfold again. But their 1970-80 material is quality and does stand up to repeated listens, IMO.

I'll throw in some other bands/artists here:

Styx
Foreigner
Kenny G
Al B. Sure
The All-American Rejects

Is your avatar that PA Secretary of Health dude that got mad at that diner in Harrisburg over egg sandwiches? If so, awesome.

[Green Lectern]

Frank Zappa
Aerosmith
The Pixies
Interpol
They Might Be Giants
Anything involving Mike Patton
Led Zeppelin
Billy Joel

Srsly. You just can't go to the grocery store or sit in a dentist's office these days without hearing Interpol, TMBG, and Mike Patton. There's just no way to escape the omnipresence.

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Frank Zappa
Aerosmith
The Pixies
Interpol
They Might Be Giants
Anything involving Mike Patton
Led Zeppelin
Billy Joel

Srsly. You just can't go to the grocery store or sit in a dentist's office these days without hearing Interpol, TMBG, and Mike Patton. There's just no way to escape the omnipresence.

Oof. Sorry. I obviously, stupidly didn't read the initial post closely enough! I was just thinking of stuff I can't stand.

I mean, uhh, your grocery store isn't always blasting Mr. Bungle?

[Fido]

Those were excellent additions Grote. Also bands like Maroon 5 and Collective Soul and Jars of Clay and similar bands I can't think of because I'd just get annoyed.

I totally forgot some of my biggest peeves, Supertramp, Sean Paul, Diddy.

[Green Lectern]

Frank Zappa
Aerosmith
The Pixies
Interpol
They Might Be Giants
Anything involving Mike Patton
Led Zeppelin
Billy Joel

Srsly. You just can't go to the grocery store or sit in a dentist's office these days without hearing Interpol, TMBG, and Mike Patton. There's just no way to escape the omnipresence.

Oof. Sorry. I obviously, stupidly didn't read the initial post closely enough! I was just thinking of stuff I can't stand.

I mean, uhh, your grocery store isn't always blasting Mr. Bungle?

Oh, now you're just being silly. They usually just stick to Fantomas and the solo stuff.

[ChrisRawk]

I will come to the defense of early Seger (pre-Silver Bullet Band, he sounded kinda like The Seeds) and deeper cuts from J. Geils, which is like whatever you call that 70s/80s music that straddles Power Pop and New Wave and which EFD often plays.

I worked retail in 1994 and had seven months of fake-alternative jammed down my throat, so I'd include:

Collective Soul
Matchbox 20
Marcy Playground
Seven Mary Three
Offspring
Gin Blossoms
Live
Ace of Base
Better Than Ezra
Bush
Goo Goo Dolls
Joan Osborne

I know there are lots of Weezer fans on this board, but I've never been able to stomach them, for this reason. And I avoided Radiohead for a couple of years because of "Creep."

Dear lord, yes.  The mid-to-late 90's faux-alt rock boom was the worst.  Like all the bands that sounded like Pearl Jam and Nirvana.  The main thing I remember about that time period was being constantly angry about all the bad music (I didn't quite know how to pick my battles at that point in my life.)

And Weezer's schtick has just gotten old to me too.  It's weird seeing bands like the Flaming Lips and even Green Day grow and do interesting things and they just get stupider and lazier.  The last album I liked was 'Pinkerton'.  It's funny trying to have a conversation with the die hard fans who will forgive any tired thing they put out.  "Yeah, they're not AS good anymore, but the last album had a couple okay songs.  That's why Rivers is a GENIUS!"  'Pork and Beans' is catchy, though. 

Radiohead I can appreciate but I've never been as gung ho about them as others.  The first few albums are great, then it just got weird and I tuned out.