Songs that should be banned from radio request shows

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I love a radio listeners request show for opportunities to hear long forgotten but amazing songs.

I find it such a wasted opportunity when people ring in and ask for the same, obvious things and if i was the host, I would have a ban list. First song on it would be:

Don't Stop Me Now by Queen

Any others to add?

I see someone has beaten me to Come on Eileen
add to that Cotton Eyed Joe, Elvis's In the Ghetto, and Lulu's Shout

Just thinking of that Toploader shite has reminded me of "Wake up Boo" by the Boo Radleys. There was a time these two songs infested the radio and I don't ever want to hear either again.

Snap. Stopped listening to Heart radio because they play it like they wrote the bloody thing.

Anything by Barry Manilow, they’re all about meeee & my feeelings, ugh

Je ne regrette rien by some froggy woman who couldn’t sing.

God so do I 😡

@Sparklingbrook you obviously weren't on my holiday last week ... it was a cruise and I swear they had only downloaded 100 songs before leaving Southampton! Blurred lines was played a lot (along with Queen, blondie, bee gees, Abba and Bryan Adam's, Beatles - only about 4 tracks though).

Actually talking to the dj he did have access to Spotify and played requests but you had to be up day 11pm for that (I was) sex on fire filled the dance floor. Earlier it was definitely aimed older except blurred lines with all the grannies singing along to it. Hilarious.

The Wind beneath my Winds..
patronising shite! Can you imagine the sort of person that would say this stuff in real life?

I can 100% believe Bette Midler (or 'The Divine Miss M' as she refers to herself) saying this in real life.

We always sing 'the wind between my sheets'.

Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile
Bran Van something or other - Drinking in LA
David Dundas - Blue Jeans
Matthew something - Break My Stride

I always think when I hear Desert Island Discs or Tracks Of My Years: you're being asked for your absolute all-time favourite/meaningful few songs, from the many thousands you will have heard in your life, and you choose something so boring and nondescript as that? It would be like choosing a bowl of plain pasta as your dream meal. Obviously, it's their choice and not mine.... but they're still wrong!

I'd like just one week of listening to Radio 2 during the day where they don't play anything by ABBA!

I'll also add:
Hotel California
We Built This City
Old Town - because it's the Corrs version which is bloody awful
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
Wanna Dance With Somebody

The Only Way Is Up Yazz...
Perrrrrrrrrrrfect Fairground Attraction! 😡

Oh fuck yes, Perfect is a very fucking annoying song.

Also The Bluebells - Young At Heart

This sounds a bit like the playlist for any phone-in-Friday sara cox show.

Angels
Wonderwall
My heart will go on

I'd love to know how radio music selection bods make their choices. Why do they never, ever consider thousands and thousands of very good, radio-friendly, popular songs that would fit perfectly with their theme/remit?

Do they have dynamic lists on their computers/industry websites, where the most recently-played song rises to the top; and then, when choosing, they only look down the top 100 or so - making it a vicious circle for those that weren't ever initially thought of?

It seems so unfair that some artists will be making a fortune for their songs whilst others who have released just as good (if not better) songs have their work forgotten/ignored and don't get any royalties.

You're gorgeous - Babybird, absolute pile of 💩

The lyrics are puke on legs

Mr Blue Sky and seconding Africa.

Anything by Michael Jackson. I don't see why we should have to listen to the music of a paedophile.

Anything by Celine Dion or Whitney

Omg yes! 60 years of popular music to choose from and Mister Blue Sky gets requested. Every. Bloody. Time. Ffs.
I've taken to shouting obscenities at the radio whenever someone asks for it now.

These days by Rudimental. I mean, WTAF ?

Girls like you - Maroon 5 feat Cardi B. That song is ok until the Cardi B starts yakking. I'm a fan of Maroon 5 but they've let themselves down with this.

As much as I like Pink, that, 'walk me home in the dead of night' is now so tired and over played. Yes, even now. It's like they forgot to take it off the playlists.

The lazy song by Bruno Mars. My husband and I could take turns punching the radio until it shuts the fuck up.

You're gorgeous - Babybird, absolute pile of 💩
The lyrics are puke on legs

I can't stand that one, either; but to be fair, I think the lyrics are intended to make you feel disgusted - that's the comment they're making on a very sleazy industry.

That is precisely the show i'm thinking of.

Just imagine... you get through to a big national show, you can play anything you want. Anything! And you choose Don't Stop Believing.

It's not that I hate the songs as such, it's just so BORING!

Anything by Robbie Williams. Or the Beautiful South.

Yup. In fact anyone with excessively warbly vocal flourishes should be banned forever.