There are several categories here:

HATED IT, NOW LOVE IT

The radio totally overplayed them, and you hated them for that reason..now they aren't played as much. You've actually listened to it, and you love it.

"Nobody Knows It But Me," Tony Rich Project
"Really Love a Woman," Brian Adams

ALWAYS LOVED IT

It was overplayed, and you liked the song. You STILL like it, actually.

"My Heart Will Go On," Celine Dion (sorry!)
"Southside," Moby featuring Gwen Stefani

HATED IT, STILL DO

"Blue (Da Ba Dee)," Eiffel 65
(this one goes into the obvious)..
ANYTHING by Bit-Bit or any Barbie teenaged tramp, any boyband...
"Complicated," Avril Lavigne (current song...consistently annoying)

I like this idea!

HATED IT, NOW LOVE IT:

How You Remind Me, Nickelback
I'm a Believer, Smash Mouth version
Drops of Jupiter, Train
Torn, Natalie Imbruglia

ALWAYS LOVED IT:

Fast Car, Tracy Chapman
Kiss From a Rose, Seal
I Don't Wanna Wait (Dawson's Creek Theme), Paula Cole
Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?, Moby
Lady Marmalade, Li'l Kim etc.

HATED IT, STILL DO:

Anything by Britney Spears
Bootylicious, Destiny's Child (I like their stuff in general but suspect I'm just in the wrong demographic for this one )
Whenever, Wherever, Shakira
A New Day Has Come, Celine Dion
Tubthumping, Chumbawamba
I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow, The Soggy Bottom Boys
Don't Let Me Get Me, Pink

...And may I suggest one more category - LIKED IT OK, BUT HAVE NOW HEARD QUITE ENOUGH OF IT THANK YOU:

One Week, Barenaked Ladies
Everybody's Got a Story, Amanda Marshall
I'm Like a Bird, Nelly Furtado
Get the Party Started, Pink
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), Eurythmics

Okay, "Complicated" fits into your category, Kerrie. You win.:p

HATED IT ORIGINALLY, BUT ON SECOND THOUGHTS...
Pretty much most things by Bryan Adams actually, particularly "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You"

HATED IT NOW AND EVERMORE
Wet Wet Wet - "Love Is All Around"
Whitney Houston - "I Will Always Love You"
Robbie Williams - "Rock DJ"

ALWAYS LOVED IT, HONEST
Wet Wet Wet - "Goodnight Girl" (just to show that they can do some good things)
Robbie Williams - "Angels" (ditto)

LIKED IT BEFORE BUT NOW SICK OF IT
Moby - "Natural Blues"
Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean"
Stealers Wheel - "Stuck In The Middle With You"
Meat Loaf - "I'd Do Anything For Love (but I won't do that)"
Nicole Kidman & Ewan McGregor - "Come What May"

Speaking of Nelly Furtado, kerriem, check out the newly-resurfaced Borg Songs board somewhere elsewhere in Nitcentral.

Okay, "Complicated" fits into your category, Kerrie. You win.:p

Cool! What do I win?

Also...cute, Sven. Very cute.

Ooooh! Ooooh!

Just thought of another one for HATED IT, NOW LOVE IT:

Unpretty, TLC

I shall add anything by Steps as overplayed yet always hated it, to my list.

I, for one, really like Bryan Adams. (In fact, at the moment, I'm listening to "Let's Make a Night (to Remember)."

New category!

TOO SICK OF IT TO GIVE A FLYING F*** AT A ROLLING DONUT

Too sick of it to even figure out if it's a good song or not.

Anything from Vertical Horizon


Yeah, I always loved "Kiss from a Rose."

ALWAYS LIKED, STILL DO:

"Graduation (Friends Forever)," Vitamin C

LIKED OKAY, BUT ENOUGH, THANK YOU:

"Smile," Vitamin C

JUST FRICKIN' SICK OF

Shaggy, "Angel"
Shaggy, "It Wasn't Me"
Crazy Town, "Butterfly"

OVERPLAYED, NEVER LIKED IT

I forgot who does it, but.."The Hooch" always pissed me off. Totally overplayed, and it was just bad.

OVERPLAYED AND TERRIBLE

Vanessa Carlton. "A Thousand Miles."

Corny, pointless, bad beat...totally overplayed. AAAAAHHH!!

"All Around the World," ATC

Overplayed on the radio a few years back. I heard it again at Universal Studios Orlando, while walking towards the Spiderman ride (which ROCKS)

It has maybe one verse in it, and the rest is an obnoxious "La la la la, it's all around the world and la la la la."

Wow, because I love "A Thousand Miles." This is that song with the killer piano part, right? Always cheers me up.

One of the most haunting songs I have heard in a long time is "Clocks," by Coldplay. I first heard it on the Progressive/Adult Alternative channel of Music Choice. (Music Choice alone is worth upgrading to digital cable for.) This song was used at the close of a recent episode of ER. I was asleep (something that ER does with annoying regularity these days, which is why the show should be put out of its misery) when the song woke me up.
The most overplayed song on Music Choice is Paul Simon's Father and Daughter, from the soundtrack to The Wild Thornberrys Movie. The fact that the song received an Oscar nod does not make me any less sick of it.

Adam, I agree on Music Choice, though I'm usually listening to either the 'Singers & Standards' channel or 'Big Band/Swing'. I've liked this type of music for a long time but, the only local station that plays it has a limited playlist so this has been really great.

And to try and keep this on topic, here's my pick for over-played song that I liked but still got tired of hearing; Theme from Shaft by Isaac Hayes.

Overplayed, over-rated and over here:

Santana feat. Michelle Branch - "The Game of Love"

Thanks to Adam's post, I just downloaded Coldplay's "Clocks". That was the first time I heard it. (But that's because I so rarely listen to the radiio.) I liked it. The piano part, IMHO, bears a bit of a resemblence to Elton John's "Sixty Years On".

np - Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd - Lynyrd Skynyrd (I'm in a Southern Rock mood right now.)

Maybe (jus mebe) "Clocks" has been played more than "Yellow" has ...

HBO is now using the instrmental tracks of "Clocks" for their HBO/Cinemax cross-promotion.

"Clocks" may be overplayed, but since I've downloaded it, it has become one of the three most popular songs for people to download from my files. The other two are "No More Drama" by Mary J. Blige and "Country Girl" by DF Dub.

np - A Love Supreme - John Coltrane

"Game of Love" is still over here, Sven. It could leave any day now (like a few weeks ago would have been nice) and I'd be happy. The first time I heard it, while driving to work, I thought it was OK. Second time I heard it--fifteen minutes later on another station--I knew I was in trouble. Later that day coming home from work, it was on again, and I reminded myself to bring some cd's along the next time I drove anywhere.

Oh, I forgot to mention that my boss was singing it the other day. Oh, joy.

Someone from the production offices of both ER and Third Watch must love Clocks, as it was used in episodes of both series this past season. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Anything by Fleetwood Mac, so totally overplayed on my local soft/lite rock "hits" stations, Kiss 94.5, and Soft Hits 92.9.

Actually, it's just a few songs by them the DJ's at these two stations seems to love playing quite a lot. Songs like "Rhiannon", "Gypsy", "Go Your Own Way", "Hold Me", "Dreams", "You Make Loving Fun", and "Don't Stop (Thinkin' About Tommorow)". I wonder, why don't they play
"Everywhere", "Little Lies", or other, more obscure songs by this group, or any other '60's/'70's/'80's rock group more often?

Just food for thought, I suppose!

Both local rock radio stations, WXRK 104.3 and WDHA 105.5, overdose on Pink Floyd. I mean, how many times can you listen to "Comfortably Numb?"

You can listen to it until *YOU'RE* comfortably numb

But I bet they probably never play ANY of the band's material previous to "Dark Side", am I right?

Most any song played on a "classic rock" station is really played out by now. (I don't mean all classic rock, just the songs that classic rock stations usually play) If I could go the rest of my life without ever hearing "More than a Feeling," "Stairway to Heaven," or "Another Brick in the Wall," or pretty much anything by Styx again, I wouldn't mind that at all.

I don't yet have satelite radio, but I understand that many satelite classic rock stations are a lot more diverse than traditional corporate stations both in the repritore of artists as well as each individual arist's catalog.