Hello radio, it's your savior Joe here to once again save you from total humiliation. I am here to be the radio doctor. I am here to diagnose your illness of overplaying certain songs and provide you with prescriptions of songs you rarely play or never play that people will like. I will begin with my first diagnosis.
Hoobastank -- "The Reason"\nThis could quite possibly be the most overplayed song in the history of music. I think that in its seemingly everlasting life, radio programmers had to have it alternating on every station or they would lose their call sign and be overtaken by someone who would play it -- namely a mole rat who won't ask questions. Until it was successfully raped, murdered and left in a ditch by radio and TV everywhere, this song might have had a chance to be good. Apparently around that time there were no other good songs to play and the world was just devoid of all musical talent.
Andre 3000 -- "Hey Ya!"\nThis song is hereby dead to me. It's more overplayed than "Napoleon Dynamite" quotes. Remembering this song brings pangs to my ears, because hearing it makes me want to puke more than listening to someone say, "Your mom goes to college." That movie is not fun anymore and neither is "Hey Ya!". This song was blared from everyone's car radio more often than the man in the ice cream truck blares his crappy music. As cool as André 3000 is, I constantly skip over that track when listening to his CD.
Green Day -- "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"\nThis is the current blunder of the radio. Green Day is one of those bands who has radio hits, but I hear more on CDs. This is the first time the radio has been a real problem for Green Day. All I know is that this song, and that whole CD, although I was never interested in getting it, is now ruined for me. The whole idea of "punk rock," which Green Day is a staple of, is to be different, to be tough; at least that's what I've gathered. These ideals really lose their flavor when 12-year-old, pre-pubescent girls sing the song you love as a love song to the boyfriend they are too young to have.
Now that I've complained enough about overplayed songs, it's time I prescribe the remedy for what ails my ears. There are plenty of songs out there for them to play. I enjoy all types of music.
Jimmy Eat World -- "Work"\nThis is a great song that I only see played on MTVU. Jimmy Eat World is one of my favorite bands and they deserve only half as much play as the other songs get. I say this because I don't want the radio to molest their song and ruin it.
The Killers -- "Mr. Brightside"\nThis song is sometimes played on the radio and I often become giddy as a school girl when I hear it. That's pretty much all I have to say about that.
There are many more songs where that came from -- numbers from performers such as Rooney, Tupac, Fall Out Boy and many others calling out for attention. The reason I chose these songs in particular is the fact that they are all radio-friendly. They aren't songs that are so "underground" you would never hear them on the radio. Now that I've concluded that the death of a song comes through repetition, keep in mind, radio, there is so much good music out there just waiting to be heard. PLAY IT PLEASE!!!
