Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
I don't know if it is because of it being done on X-Factor or some other such bullshit, but I've been hearing this song more and more recently, to the point that I have become sick of it. The turning point I think came when i was waiting for a bus one evening and I saw a group of drunk "women" singing this, badly. It was then that it dawned on me that it had become the new "Is This the Way to Amarillo", and brought up memories of how the many shit parodies of the Peter Kay video for that I saw. And the inevitable shit dance remix of the Journey song I recently heard rammed that point home. I won't link it here, because it's fucking awful, but if you insist, look up "Northern All Stars"
There's a bunch of those dance remixes that fucking bug me, including a few Kings of Leon ones doing the rounds. Especially because they're of more recent songs of theirs that I'd heard too many times already. I do not own any KOL albums, bt I was aware of them when the first album came out, and I remember liking some of the singles like "Molly's chambers", and I just thought they were a wacky little band with wacky facial hair. Then they morphed into a fucking stadium rock band or something. Ultrabeat's version of "Use Somebody" is especially wretched. And it has one of my music video pet hates - douchebag miming playing a guitar. Complete with cunty shades. Again, I won't inflict it upon you by linking it here.
The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
I will freely admit, I was not actually aware of The Verve until this and "Bittersweet Symphony" came out. I got into them when I was by chance watching M2 (MTV2 when it was really good) in the early hours of the morning and they played "She's a Superstar", and I also heard "This is Music" when listening to Radio 1 broadcasting the Haigh Hall gig, and they opened with it. Anyway, this led me to getting the first two albums, and the early singles, and being even more mystified that "The Drugs Don't Work", being the dreary tuneless drivel that it is, became the band's first #1 single. It's not even the best ballad Ashcroft ever wrote - that honor goes to "History". It's not even the best thing on "Urban Hymns". And Nick McCabe -one of the best "indie" guitarists of the 90's - is reduced to slide guitar in the background, when before he would drown Dickie Ashcroft out with his glorious racket, and it would RULE. It gets overplayed to this day, and made it onto far to many "Best Anthems in the World Ever" type compilations. As I say, not even the Verve's best attempt at the big string-laden Ballad.
Toploader - Dancing in the Moonlight
I shouldn't have to explain this one to you, but it is also one of the many reasons I despise Red Dragon FM.