I hate that song.
Some years back when we'd not long moved in we were redecorating and Virgin Radio was just starting up. So we had a bit of music while we worked until we got so sick of that bloody song which seemed to be played about once an hour. Never listened to Virgin radio again. Is it still going?
Others that have me reaching for the off switch:
Hey Jude
Alright now
Brown sugar
Stairway to heaven
Bohemian Rhapsody
Maggie May

I think you listen to the wrong radio station - surely these days there's no reason to get annoyed - my preference is for 6 Music, I'll switch that off before it gets annoying and replace it with Virgin Xtreme. When that starts to pall I'll head over to the fabulous powerpopradio.com. There's really no need to hear another Queen record again ... unless you listen to Virgin that is!

Waterboys - "The Whole Of The Moon"
There was a time when Radio 1 used to love this song. It's five minutes long, it's got a long intro and a long playout. And every time they used to play it (and they played it a LOT), they used to play all five blasted minutes - didn't talk over the intro, didn't talk over the playout. If you didn't like it, you were stuck with it. I'm sure it was a conspiracy.

Weather Girls - "It's Raining Men" and Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive"
Every night when we were out clubbing in the party room, we had to wait for these two records to be over and done with. They always seemed to play them just as we'd all hit the dancefloor and they are records that no self-respecting red-blooded male would really dance to. Usually a cue to head for the bar.

Stereophonics - "Handbags And Gladrags"
First saw this through a hangover on Ant & Dec's last ever CD:UK and thought how good it was of them to work up a classy cover version for the occasion. Subsequently realised that it was actually their new single and over that Christmas period it was everywhere and I rapidly got bored of it. And the following year, the BBC showed both theirs and Rod Stewart's Glastonbury performances of it, by which time I'd really had enough. And he needs a Strepsil really quite urgently...

John Lennon - "Imagine"
Sorry about this one but when I used to have local radio on in the morning whilst mooching around getting ready, they'd play a record to mark his death, and every year without fail it was this one. You just wished they'd play something else - it's not like he hasn't got an extensive body of work now is it ?

I hate DIY and had do to my biannual manual labour stretch boarding the loft out and tried Planet Rock for company.
If boarding the loft out isn't bad enough hearing Free Bird, Highway Star, Crazy Train and Comfortably Numb and all the heavy hits you've heard a hundred times before almost hourly was a soundtrack of distilled torture.

I gave up on Virgin when it became Whitevan FM, but regularly visit 6 music - the soul and funk show is stomping and the Sunday night Guy Garvey show is unmissable.

1. Wonderwall - an okay song by a half-decent band, rendered near-unlistenable by its ubiquity and by (in some quarters) gross overestimation of its qualities.

2. The Fratellis - the one with the annoying chanting bit that crowds seem compelled to break into whenever something that pleases them happens.

3. Beautiful Day (U2) - ruined thorough excessive use by unimaginative makers of sports programmes. [As an aside, one of the more unusual programmers' choices was Joy Division used in the recent documentary about Michael Jackson. Quite an obscure track too - "Excercise One" I think it was? Good to hear this again anyway.]

Losing my Religion
The Only One I Know
Sit Down
Fools Gold
Step On

Brown-eyed Girl. Lord, how many times can a station play one song?

So right about those two

Waterboys - Whole of the Moon heard enough of that when it came out - and 20 odd years on it's well past it's sell by date.

Brown Eyed Girl - There's only so much of that tune you can have from 'Grumpy' out the 7 dwarfs of Rock
Prince being 'Frisky'
Kelly Jones being 'Shouty'

Haven't worked out the rest yet.

If only there was a Sky plus facility for radio and you could programme out all the songs you don't want.I'd have 'You're Beautiful' I don't know who sings it, but I've heard 3 times already today.
*gnashes teeth*

And why does any station play China Girl by when there's so many other Bowie winners to spin.

Money for nothing and Sultans of Swing - neither are bad songs but Dire Straits did loads of other much better stuff.
US radio is even worse than the UK for repeating the same old dross time and time again. Many stations play 2 in a row for a whole day - not a bad concept if they pick some obscure stuff by the featured artists. Do they ever? Do they bollocks.

Now I yield to no-one in my admiration of Sir Noddy of Holder but Christmas would be Christmas without the song that dare not speak it's name!!

I spend most of November with my finger hovering over the station buttons in a state of anxiety waiting for the first bars.

Ok call it heresy but is anyone else starting to feel the same way about Mr McGowen and Ms McColl's festive assault on our ears?

I Just Called To Say I Love You.

The sudden decline of musical genius should really be mourned, but having heard my mother play this 7" CONTINUOUSLY for several months as a small child, I now break out in hives (not the Swedish variant) every time that synth-piano rears its ugly keys.

Enough already; whoever it was should have pulled the damn line out of the socket...

Easter 1996 I drove from London to Hull and back in a Fiat Panda with only one tape in the deck - What's The Story Morning Glory. I played it about twelve times in three days, and I have never ever listened to it again.

There was a time I liked this young lady, but complete & utter overkill & a song being used in advertising mean I now see her as the next James Blunt. Sorry.

"Dancing Queen" by ABBA. Fine tune that it is, there comes a point when... Agree about "Maggie May", too. Why ot "You Wear It Well" instead? Same tempo, different song. I think the problem is that us listeners know more about music than the berks who spin it. I guess the commercial stations are trying to appease the advertisers.

Hello, my name is Mr Drayton and I work in local radio.
The station I work on has a music core of 240 records.
The core music is chosen after a listening session. The last one the station held was with 300 45-65 year old women being played snippets of songs. In a room, in a football stadium.
Songs are rated as being recognisable, easy on the ear, modern etc. A computer then selects the most popular candidates.
All of the hated records mentioned in this blog are on the playlist.
It's not about music, it's about averages.
If you're a 45-65 year old woman, this is what you like. Apparently.
So, if you like music you should go else where.
The most popular record this year so far has been Real Girl by Mutya.
Should I hear this wretched squeal of a 'song' again you will find my corpse floating in the Tyne.

Mr D - Thanks for the insight, I would guess this a commercial station rather than BBC? - It's a bizarre, almost venn diagram style selection process that does that station and it's listeners a massive disservice isn't it? Surely to target and limit your core sound will limit the potential audience.

Although I have a lot of time for Led Zeppelin I cannot stand this song. The reason is that a long time ago when I was around 15 my friend had a copy of the fourth lp on vinyl and had adjusted his record player so that it tried to play a seven inch at 33 rpm. This plonked the needle down straight at the start of the "Magnum Opus" and there he would leave it - over and over - He is no longer a friend needless to say.

It's a great song, and I like the Manics alot, but I really don't ever need to hear it again. It's becoming a friend with a bad memory, who keeps trying to tell you the same anecdote. It's a good anecdote, but I already know how it ends...

Bastard!
Planet Rock (yes, I admit it) my station of choice, is so very guilty of battering the same old shyte to death:
The Passenger/Lust for Life ~ Iggy Pop
Silver Machine ~ Hawkwind
Sympathy for the Devil ~ The Stones, now I'm not a Stones fan but really, that piece of cack should be consigned to the "well they were all on drugs" bin
Freebird/Tuesday's Gone ~ Lynerd Skynerd or however it's spelled
Don't Get Fooled Again/Baba O'Riley ~ The Who
Enter Sandman/Nothing Else Matters ~ Metallica
The Boys are back in Town/Jailbreak ~ Thin Lizzy
Part of the Union ~ Strawbs, possibly the most unrepresentative track in their catalogue
Collision ~ Loop
Mott the Hoople are completely consigned to their 7" output
Virginia Plain ~ Roxy Music
All Right Now/Wishing Well ~ Free
This Corrosion ~ The Sisters Of Mercy
I'm the Urban Spaceman ~ The Bonzo Dog Band
Wondrous Stories ~ Yes
Space Station no.5 ~ Montrose
Black Hole Sun ~ Soundgarden
Smells Like/Come as You are ~ Nirvana

I made one of them up, can you spot it?

That is a definitive gallery of groaners - is Part of the Union the rogue rocker?