Top 10 Most Overplayed Songs At College Parties/College Bars
If you’re like me, you love the smell of mildewed beer in the morning. You know, that smell after a college party with 4 kegs of Natural Light or Milwaukee’s best. The bathroom has a caked over, black layer of filth on the floor and the toilet is clogged from that freshman co-ed’s mexican food vomit (she needs to learn how to drink, this is a public school damn it).
At any moment in the night you can walk into any college party in America and hear one of these songs being played from the sonically compromised, low-fi stereo and they have separated the left and right speaker, sending one to the living room and the other to the porch. If it’s a frat party, no one cares about destroying the house because subservient pledges will take care of it in the morning.
Whilst you are reading this list, just envision that ego-maniac dressed like he’s in a box at the Kentucky Derby pumping his fist in the air screaming the lyrics to his favorite overplayed song. He hasn’t purchased an album since the 90s and his iPod is basically a 100 song mixtape.
10. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
9. Garth Brooks - Friends In Low Places
8. Van Halen - Runnin’ With The Devil
7. Boston - More Than A Feeling
6. Anything by Jack Johnson or any other marginally talented acoustic guitar-based singer
5. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
4. Rick Springfield - Jessie’s Girl
3. Anything by or featuring Lil Wayne
2. Bon Jovi - Livin’ On A Prayer
1. Journey - Don’t Stop Believin’
^if you don’t hear this song at a party, you aren’t at a party.
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I unquestionably agree with the #1 entry. Maybe it’s because I went to private emo college but I would probably have put The Killer’s Mr. Brightside and Modest Mouse’s Float On somewhere in the Top 5.
edit, “Killer’s” should read Killers’
Semisonic - Closing Time
Buckcherry - Crazy Bitch
Def Leppard’s Pour Some Sugar On Me has to be included on this list, along with Born To Run, by Springsteen.
I’m in SoCal and it seems for the past few years you can’t go to a party out here and not hear “Kiss me cause I’m sh!tf@ced” from the Drop Kick Murphy’s atleast once.
How could ‘Pour some sugar on me’ not crack the top ten?
Two huge snubs: Usher and Lil John Yeah, 50 Cent In Da Club. Those two songs still have all the white folks dancing at parties!
I love Pizza!!!!!
I would have to add at any sorority formal “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge is always played. All the sisters lock arm in arm and dance in a circle while randomly doing a Rockette type kick in the middle. Of course none of their dates are welcome to join in nor would they want to.
I don’t know how Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar On Me” got left off this list.
You forgot the biggies:
Mony Mony, The roof is on Fire, Rappers Delight, Shout
Have we forgotten Eddie Money’s “Take me Home Tonight?” its last call, or the last keg has kicked… que up this track and walk the lost puppy home.
I agree with many of the songs on this list although I would have included Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond.
Maybe it’s a New England thing, but Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond should be on there.
HOW ‘BOUT SUMMER OF ‘69 BY BRYAN ADAMS & I DON’T WANNA’ LOSE YOUR LOVE TONIGHT BY THE OUTFIELD?
How can Pour Some Sugar on Me not be on there. I hate that fucking song.
Your partys suck if you listen to these!!!
This may be an Ohio thing because they’re an Ohio band, but “Crazy Game of Poker” by OAR is way overplayed. It was a great song until I heard it being screamed by drunk freshman for the thousandth time.
Sweet Caroline. Easily the worst/most annoying song of all-time when played at a bar. There isn’t even a close second.
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how white is this list anyway
American Pie….Drink a Beer with my fucked up friends or is this just a midwest Greek thing?
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Crazy Bitch- Buckcherry…
No POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME?!?!?
Have you ever seen a white girl at a college party?
That is her song!
Groups of them go crazy when they hear “degga digga bum de bum de bum” at the opening
For those of us that were in college in the mid 90’s, “Old Time Rock and Roll” by Bob Seger and “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” by Meatloaf were played entirely too much at parties and should never ever be played again, anywhere, ever…
How can there be not one Nickelback or Creed song?
Where did you go to college Loser U?
[...] Whilst you are reading this list, just envision that ego-maniac dressed like he’s in a box at the Kentucky Derby pumping his fist in the air screaming the lyrics to his favorite overplayed song. He hasn’t purchased an album since the 90s and his iPod is basically a 100 song mixtape. [That's So Fetch] [...]
In my college days, the Mount Rushmore of overplayed songs was
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Eagles - Hotel California
Don McLean - American Pie
Honorable mentions:
Anything by Jimmy Buffet
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Graduated in mid 90’s..what about:
1. Alice (Alice, Alice, who the f**** is Alice?!)
2. Come on Eileen
3. Stuck in the Middle with You
I would agree with the list. Big specifics though would have to include the 50 cent/Nine Inch Nails mash up of Closer/In the Club.
Gold Digger by Kanye West
Anything popular in the 80’s
And now with more internet savvy dj’s at the bars, any Girl Talk tracks.
Also: Last Night by the Strokes
and get ready for the onslaught of “Too Drunk to Fuck” by Buckcherry
I think the writer is a 40 yr old who went to Deep South/Texas university or something. Other than no. 5, I’d say that list is more of the white karaoke bar scene. In California in the late 90s/early 2000s in the modern equivalent of Animal House…it was all Tupac, Snoop and Dre, Digital Underground, and dance music…it’s hard to get freaky w/ girls to Don’t Stop Believin.
But when not dancing…GnR and Dave Matthew Band…listend to entirely too much DMB.
Haha…also, I tried imagining today’s college kid not having bought an album since the 90’s..uh, the last album an 18 or 19yo would have bought in the mid-90s would have been “Barney and Friends” or “Elmo goes to Camp” or something.
“Pour Some Sugar On Me” is the single greatest stripper song. Evah.
While it certainly is overplayed, when it comes on, it means someone’s clothes are coming off!
I completely agree with Sweet Caroline. I’ve heard Santeria by Sublime a ton of times, and Sweet Child O’Mine by GNR. Pour Some Sugar on Me is always played too. And crap by Dave Matthews and OAR is on too…
I don’t think Van Halen - Runnin’ with the Devil belongs up there. I haven’t heard it played that often
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Maybe it’s a Bay Area thing, but if any of those songs was played at a party (besides maybe Don’t Stop Beliving - what a classic), it’d be the lamest thing ever.
Akon - Dangerous
Colby O’Donis - What You Got
Flo Rida - In the Ayer
etc.
I’m in college in Texas, and these songs are all routinely played at fraternity parties as well as most of the pop/classic rock songs named in the comments. Rap is played but not as often, usually once girls are drunk and ready to dance. Classic rock/80s is frat music.
In the south…in the ’90s:
You Never Even Call Me By My Name, David Allen Coe
Played at EVERY party.
Lil Wayne and most rap is exclusively for GDI parties, or maybe what those yankees/ west coast hippies think is fratty music.
Old Crow Medicine Show-Wagon Wheel
Anything by Hootie and the Blowfish
Jason Aldean-Amarillo Sky
Anything by Usher or Sublime.
99 Red Balloons. Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes. Livin’ On A Prayer - Bon Jovi. If I Had $1,000,000 - Barenaked Ladies.
Considering I graduated 30 years ago, I expected to see a list of songs that came out after I finished school. Nope. A lot of these were overplayed even back then.
Having graduate from liberal arts school, pretty much anything went. I’d have to agree with Sublime, Blister in the Sun, Abba(of all groups)and only when I was hanging out with soccer players for some reason. Also NIN, and anything by Tom Petty
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Hw about Summer of 69 from Brian Adams.. Nirvana’s Smells like Teen Spirit and Sweet Child of Mine by Guns and Roses.. Its sooo regular here that some people dont even like those songs anymore !
how about are you going my way by lenny kravitz
Come on people! How the hell does “Take me home tonight” not make this list. Someone needs to put the pipe down
Late 80’s Kentucky experience would invariably include the sensitive rockings of The Counting Crows - Mr. Jones and Me, When Doves Cry by Prince. Then once the Miller Lite drinkers had passed out, the entire Janes Addiciton album ‘Nothing Shocking’.
Honorable mention must also go to:
You dropped a bomb on me by the Gap Band, Brick House, and the loathesome American Pie
If pressed, I believe I could come up with a home video featuring our favorite blogger singing “Pour Some Sugar On Me” at the ripe old age of 4 . . . or was it 5?
Melt with you by Modern English
I go to the University of Alabama and know all too well how overplayed Sweet Home Alabama is. Football games, parties, on the radio. It won’t go away.
went to Western Kentucky back in the late 80’s/early 90’s and I literally never have to hear ‘Brown-Eyed Girl’ ever again…I have reached my personal quota as well as the quotas of several of the less fortunate in 3rd world countries…
also: any Jimmy Buffet, ‘Friends in Low Places’, ‘Shout’ from the Animal House soundtrack (’Otis! My Man!’) and how could there possibly NOT be any Steve Miller or Bob Marley mentioned anywhere on here?
Girl sitting on the toilet is funny
Don’t forget Gangsta’s Paradise by Coolio, or Call on Me by Eric Prydz