You really need a better source of click bait. 🤨

As for channel changers:
Most of Trooper's catalogue.
Gino Vannelli's 'Black Cars'.  Come to think of it, just about every song on Giant FM 91.7.

The minute 680 CFTR plays some syndicated fluff feature regarding what some pseudoceleb is up to.

I have a couple of station changing songs!

Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
Stay Awhile - The Bells
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves   (Over played)
Last Song - Edward Bear (too sappy for me)
Last Christmas - Wham! (Seasonal hate)
You’re Having my Baby - Paul Anka. (Poor taste lyrics)

I have more, but you get the idea!

Honey- Bobby Goldsboro, Lovin You-Minnie Ripperton, Anything done by the Osmonds, Partridge Family, Captain & Tenille, Bay City Rollers, Brand New Key-Melanie, The Night Chicago Died-Paper Lace. I loathed them when they were chart hits. My feelings remain unchanged today.

mace wrote:

Honey- Bobby Goldsboro, Lovin You-Minnie Ripperton, Anything done by the Osmonds, Partridge Family, Captain & Tenille, Bay City Rollers, Brand New Key-Melanie, The Night Chicago Died-Paper Lace. I loathed them when they were chart hits. My feelings remain unchanged today.

Agreed.

g121 wrote:

100% agree on "Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks"
& I'll add "Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill"

 
A double play from hell!

My solution .. via my Desktop, Laptop, Kitchen or Bedroom internet radio .. is my genre mix of choice via https://www.musiccityroadhouse.com/index.html   
Blues, Southern Rock & Honky Tonk works best for me.

My only irritation is too much Allman Brothers as most is meandering Southern Rock Jazz; just not my cup of tea .. i'm more of Team Skynyrd  : )) ..  
 

Highway to Hell - AC/DC
Stairway to Heaven - The Zep
Hotel California - Eagles
Bad Guy - Billie Eilish
Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band

Jeez are they all good songs, but even being <35 years on this planet they have been overplayed on too many stations. Sometimes feels like I can never escape!

martyb wrote:

Highway to Hell - AC/DC
Stairway to Heaven - The Zep
Hotel California - Eagles

Great classic tunes but that we know overly all-to-well .. I'm a huge Skynyrd fan but I'll add "Freebird" to the "change the channel" list.
 

You rarely hear it over the air, but Vikki Carr's version of 'With Pen in Hand' is a prime example of the over the top vocalist.  This thread piqued my curiosity, and it turns out it's a Bobby Goldsboro penned clunker.

Come to think of it, anyone singing that song gets immediately switched to my static filled feed from 900 CHML. 😁

I have a bit of a morbid playlist...it is about songs you would end your life listening to. 

1. Fast Cars-Tracey Chapman 
2. I started a joke-Bee Gees
3. At 17- Janis Ian
4. All by myself-Eric Carmen 
5. Alone again naturally-Gilbert O'Sullivan 
6. Cat's in the cradle-Harry Chapin
and 
7. In the year 2525- Zager and Evans
8. Age of Destruction-Barry McGuire
9. The sound of silence-Simon and Garfunkel 
10. So it is Christmas-John Lennon

I would include Season's in the Sun, but it has been mentioned and the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot, also not a feel good song...both would make you more depressed, so, just avoid them and play a little Green Day...


These songs are some of the most depressing to listen to...if you have been having mental health challenges, do not even play them on YouTube page or your old Panasonic record player.






 

Last edited by Muffaraw Joe (June 27, 2025 6:02 pm)

Completely agree when it comes to Walking On Sunshine, Katrina and the Waves ~ ick.
Bon Jovi, Living on a Prayer and everything they did except for "Runaway"
Any song from The Joshua Tree by U2
Anything from Glass Tiger.
Drake's "music", his vocal tone reminds me of the whawha whoawha teacher from the Charlie Brown cartoons.
Aerosmith, Walk this way.
The Stones, Paint It Black
And I've never liked The Tragically Hip. Respect them yes but listen to their songs, no thanks.

Last edited by betaylored (June 27, 2025 7:13 pm)

Hahaha..I think you have asked me this before.  JJ Cale's is better, but I just don't like the song.  I find it boring musically, repetitive with depressing lyrics. Clapton's live take is too long, too slow and goes nowhere.  Had to play Clapton's "hit" version a lot when I was in radio and I would turn the speakers down in the studio or listen to something else.   I played the song at least once, sometimes twice a day for months when it was on the charts.

Also never liked Hard To Handle by The Black Crowes.  Another sloppy boring song in my opinion...

However I knew a lot of people liked both of these tunes, so I kept my distaste for them to myself when I was on air.  Never uttered a bad word about either. 

I agree with three of the five choices listed in the original article. Entire local terrestrial rock/pop radio is a button changer for me. Can't listen to Boom, Q 107 or Zoomer but as a huge Beach Boys fan I have to point out Kokomo for the ick factor. 

Jody Thornton wrote:

mace wrote:

How do you feel about the original version of Cocaine by J.J. Cale? It rarely gets played and I personally prefer it to the Clapton version.

Ding! Ding!   This !!!  

I like the live version of Eric Clapton's "Cocaine", which originally appeared on his 1980 concert album "Just One Night", as well as the original vinyl LP version of his "Timepieces" compilation. I didn't like the fact that they substituted the studio version in its place on the latter when it was released on CD.



PJ