Impact of Overplaying on Quality of Song

I go more in spurts than only listening 1-2x a year. I'll spin DSOtM once a month at minimum but there are times I'll spin it once a week.

I don't think overplaying a song reduces its quality. There is no experiation date for killer music. I don't often go back to the past and listen to my faves from years gone by, but when I do those songs bring back floods of memories. And I mostly enjoy that.

Edited by The Anders - May 12 2021 at 16:24

An interesting topic for discussion.

Overplaying doesn't reduce the quality of a song - if the 'quality' was there to start with, AND taking into account how we individually measure 'quality' - but it's a simple case of hearing something too much. If your favourite song of all time was say Tom Sawyer, you still wouldn't want to hear it every day, and even if you did, you probably wouldn't after x number of years of hearing it every day. That's no indictment on the compositional qualities of the song itself, or your love of it, just your exposure to the constant repetition of it.

Radio station obviously have playlists, and have agreed with record companies to play their artists music x number of times per day, between the hours of X & Y, for optimum exposure, and to reach as many listeners as possible. Not everyone listens to radio all day, so may only hear the songs once or twice, and those who do listen all day will have the songs pounded into their consciousness by the constant airplay. A percentage of those listeners will grow weary of the song, but some will absorb it, love it and buy it! It's about throwing as much sh*t at the wall, in the hope that a reasonable amount will stick.

As for the songs listed in the classic rock poll. It wouldn't bother me if I never heard any of those songs again, but I do appreciate why they are loved.... Apart from Hotel California which bored me senseless from day one..

I hardly listen to the radio, and when I choose to listen to music I will obviously not play something till the point of boredom. I'll listen to an artist for a while and when I get bored I move to another one and then another one and so on until I want to go back to a certain artist after a while.

I never get tired of listening to Nik Kershaws two first albums, those are one of the treets of sound dynamics and just pure positiv energy.

^My god, man. Your response has nothing to do with the question asked.

Blacksword wrote: An interesting topic for discussion. Overplaying doesn't reduce the quality of a song - if the 'quality' was there to start with, AND taking into account how we individually measure 'quality' - but it's a simple case of hearing something too much. If your favourite song of all time was say Tom Sawyer, you still wouldn't want to hear it every day, and even if you did, you probably wouldn't after x number of years of hearing it every day. That's no indictment on the compositional qualities of the song itself, or your love of it, just your exposure to the constant repetition of it. Radio station obviously have playlists, and have agreed with record companies to play their artists music x number of times per day, between the hours of X & Y, for optimum exposure, and to reach as many listeners as possible. Not everyone listens to radio all day, so may only hear the songs once or twice, and those who do listen all day will have the songs pounded into their consciousness by the constant airplay. A percentage of those listeners will grow weary of the song, but some will absorb it, love it and buy it! It's about throwing as much sh*t at the wall, in the hope that a reasonable amount will stick. As for the songs listed in the classic rock poll. It wouldn't bother me if I never heard any of those songs again, but I do appreciate why they are loved.... Apart from Hotel California which bored me senseless from day one..

That might be a song like Call Me Maybe, or Poker Face or Fireworks.  All crappy pop songs that I heard many times (mostly at sporting events or at the gym or on the radio) and I actually found my self shamefully liking.  Earworms from the pop world that found their way through my prog wall.  

It depends really...there are tracks I can always spin without tiring of them....though had they been hits over the radio and been played to death...I’m not sure my feelings would be the same.
It’s a tricky subject really...and a lot of the times it ends up angering me when it happens over the radio. Mostly because longer tracks on the radio are cut down - preferably around the time the guitar solo comes on. I am not sure how many times I’ve heard half of Comfortably Numb..and then some DJ fading out as the solo starts..because well the NEWS!!!
Other times it genuinely just underlines how little music these hosts know of. I am personally rather fond of The Stones...yet the only tracks ever played here in Denmark are Satisfaction, Brown Sugar and maybe just maybe half of Sympathy For The Devil sans guitar solo of course.
Over the radio, internet or old school, a band/artist is only a hit...nothing more. Overplaying the hit over a bunch of just as interesting songs is to me madness.
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