{"id":2168,"date":"2016-01-11T17:23:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T00:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.243.68.163\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2016-01-12T11:23:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T18:23:53","slug":"100-songs-id-rather-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/?p=2168","title":{"rendered":"Almost 100 Songs I&#8217;d Prefer To Hear Instead Of This Overplayed Dance Rock Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon experiencing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostoncitydjs.com\/music\/top-dance-rock-songs\">This List Of Dance Rock Songs I&#8217;m Totally Sick Of<\/a>, I realized that I could look at every song and think immediately of another song by the same artist that I&#8217;d prefer to hear.<\/p>\n<p>Several bands have no better songs and should obviously be skipped entirely. One or two bands I am sure have better songs in their back catalogs but I am not a fan so I don&#8217;t know what they would be. In one rare case I actaully agree with the list. And in the case of Toto, well, you can&#8217;t really lose&#8211;they have better but whatever. In every other case I&#8217;d rather hear anything else, or nothing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Almost 100 Songs I\u2019d Prefer To Hear Instead Of This Overplayed Dance Rock Song\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PL7M-wIbVNdsNBjU99fkn_tIM7jKjW_kz6\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Almost 100 Songs I&#8217;d Prefer To Hear Instead Of This Overplayed Dance Rock Song<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>Journey &#8211; Wheel in the Sky<br \/>\nAC\/DC &#8211; For Those About To Rock (alt: Dirty Deeds)<br \/>\nAerosmith &#8211; Back In The Saddle<br \/>\nRolling Stones &#8211; Paint it Black<br \/>\nBob Segar &#8211; Strut (it&#8217;s &#8220;Seger&#8221;)<br \/>\nDef Leppard &#8211; Die Hard the Hunter<br \/>\nLynyrd Skynyrd &#8211; [Anything but Sweet Home Alabama]<br \/>\nDoobie Brothers &#8211; China Grove<br \/>\nBon Jovi &#8211; Bad Medicine<br \/>\nJohn Mellencamp &#8211; Hurts So Good (the only thing I agree on)<br \/>\nThe Beatles &#8211; Ticket To Ride (alt: Dear Prudence)<br \/>\nOutfield &#8211; Taking My Chances (alt: Voices of Babylon)<br \/>\nTalking Heads &#8211; Life During Wartime<br \/>\nKid Rock &#8211; You Never Met A Motherfucker Quite Like Me<br \/>\nRomantics &#8211; Talking In Your Sleep (if you really must)<br \/>\nRick Springfield &#8211; Human Touch (must be performed with keytar)<br \/>\nDexy&#8217;s Midnight Runners &#8211; (Skip)<br \/>\nQueen &#8211; Killer Queen<br \/>\nBTO &#8211; Let it Ride<br \/>\nRusted Root &#8211; (Skip) (Seriously, nobody really wants to hear rusted root WTF)<br \/>\nDave Mathews &#8211; Best of what&#8217;s around (alt: Skip)<br \/>\nCCR &#8211; Run through the jungle (alt: Fortunate son)<br \/>\nRolling Stones &#8211; Dancing with Mr. D (Please, anything but Brown Sugar)<br \/>\nJoan Jett &#8211; Hate myself for loving you (alt: Skip)<br \/>\nBruce Springsteen &#8211; Thunder Road<br \/>\nZZ Top &#8211; Precious and Grace<br \/>\nBlack Crowes &#8211; Jealous Again<br \/>\nCommitments &#8211; (Skip) (Also, did not write &#8220;Mustang Sally&#8221;.)<br \/>\nGrand Funk RailRoad &#8211; I&#8217;m Your Captain (alt: American Band)<br \/>\nThe Clash &#8211; London Calling (alt: anything by The Clash)<br \/>\nStevie Ray Vaughn &#8211; Texas Flood (alt: Skip)<br \/>\nIke &amp; Tina Turner &#8211; (SKIP!) (alt: &#8220;Proud Mary&#8221; is CCR; pick a second CCR song at random)<br \/>\nRod Stewart &#8211; (Skip) (&#8220;Hot Legs&#8221; is OK but you can&#8217;t cover Rod Stewart without Rod Stewart.)<br \/>\nBad Company &#8211; Rock N Roll Fantasy<br \/>\nKiss &#8211; Heaven&#8217;s On Fire (alt: Lick it Up)<br \/>\nVan Morrison &#8211; Wild Night<br \/>\nGuns N Roses &#8211; Sweet Child o Mine (alt: Skip)<br \/>\nMetallica &#8211; For Whom The Bell Tolls (alt: any early track except Enter Sandman)<br \/>\n311 &#8211; (Skip)<br \/>\nThe Beatles &#8211; Dear Prudence (alt: Skip the beatles in a dance-rock set; all their good stuff is lyrical)<br \/>\nDropkick Murphy&#8217;s &#8211; (Skip) (WTF please no)<br \/>\nRobert Palmer &#8211; I didn&#8217;t mean to turn you on<br \/>\nFree &#8211; (Skip)<br \/>\nQueen &#8211; Bicycle Race (I get to pick a second Queen song hooray!)<br \/>\nDoobie Brothers &#8211; Listen To The Music<br \/>\nVan Halen &#8211; Top Jimmy (alt: Panama\/Hang em High\/Diver Down album side)<br \/>\nAC\/DC &#8211; Shoot To Thrill<br \/>\nRam Jam &#8211; (Skip)<br \/>\nBilly Squire &#8211; Emotions in Motion (it&#8217;s &#8220;Squier&#8221;)<br \/>\nGuns N Roses &#8211; (Skip) (one gnr song was more than enough thank you)<br \/>\nBilly Idol &#8211; Rebel Yell (alt: Skip)<br \/>\nRolling Stones &#8211; Connection<br \/>\nSteve Miller Band &#8211; Wild Mountain Honey<br \/>\nBon Jovi &#8211; (Skip.) (TWO Bon Jovi songs? Seriously?)<br \/>\nMen Without Hats &#8211; (Skip)<br \/>\nMeatloaf &#8211; Paradise By The Dashboard Light (uncertain)<br \/>\nB52&#8217;s &#8211; Channel Z<br \/>\nThe Beatles &#8211; (Skip) (Enough Beatles Already)<br \/>\nBlur &#8211; Girls and Boys<br \/>\nCars &#8211; My Best Friend&#8217;s Girl<br \/>\nNirvana &#8211; In Bloom<br \/>\nAerosmith &#8211; Eat the Rich (alt: Spaced\/Dream On)<br \/>\nBilly Idol &#8211; (Skip) (One Billy Idol song only please)<br \/>\nBruce Springsteen &#8211; The River (alt: Skip)<br \/>\nDavid Bowie &#8211; Diamond Dogs<br \/>\nEddie Money &#8211; Shakin&#8217;<br \/>\nElton John &#8211; Bennie and the Jets<br \/>\nGeorgia Satellites &#8211; Hippy Hippy Shake<br \/>\nJ. Geils Band &#8211; Love Stinks<br \/>\nJimmy Buffet &#8211; Pirate looks at 40<br \/>\nMuddy Waters &#8211; Mannish Boy (alt: Catfish Blues\/I Want To Be Loved)<br \/>\nNorman Greenbaum &#8211; Canned Ham<br \/>\nWhitesnake &#8211; Still of the Night (alt: Slow and Easy\/Bad Boys)<br \/>\nKings Of Leon &#8211; (Skip) (Just no)<br \/>\nPeter Frampton &#8211; (Skip) (also, that&#8217;s a Stevie Wonder song)<br \/>\nPink Floyd &#8211; Pigs<br \/>\nPoison &#8211; Talk dirty to me (alt: Skip)<br \/>\nQueen &#8211; Who wants to live forever<br \/>\nRobert Palmer &#8211; Addicted to love<br \/>\nRod Stewart &#8211; Do Ya Think I&#8217;m Sexy (Skip, because you can&#8217;t do it if you&#8217;re not Rod Stewart)<br \/>\nRolling Stones &#8211; Under my thumb<br \/>\nScorpions &#8211; Raised on rock<br \/>\nSmash Mouth &#8211; I can&#8217;t get enough of you baby (alt: Why can&#8217;t we be friends)<br \/>\nSteppenwolf &#8211; Magic carpet ride (alt: The Pusher)<br \/>\nSteve Miller &#8211; Sweet Maree (also, it&#8217;s &#8220;Steve Miller Band&#8221;)<br \/>\nStray Cats &#8211; Rock this town<br \/>\nSurvivor &#8211; (Skip) (Just for the love of god no)<br \/>\nKid Rock &#8211; Don&#8217;t tell me you love me<br \/>\nThe Beatles &#8211; (Skip) (No really. One beatles song is plenty.)<br \/>\nThe Standells &#8211; (tbd but definitely not THAT song)<br \/>\nToto &#8211; Hold The Line (KEEP! Did toto ever do anything bad? alt: any Toto song)<br \/>\nVan Morrison &#8211; (Skip) (one Van Morrison song is too many)<br \/>\nWarrant &#8211; (Skip)<br \/>\nZZ Top &#8211; Shiek (alt: Waitin for the bus\/Jesus just left medley)<br \/>\nBare Naked Ladies &#8211; (&#8230;suck utterly. Skip)<br \/>\nBeastie Boys &#8211; No Sleep Till Brooklyn (alt: Brass Monkey or Paul&#8217;s Boutique era stuff)<br \/>\nBush &#8211; (Skip)<br \/>\nEMF &#8211; (Skip)<br \/>\nDuran Duran &#8211; Hungry like the wolf\/New Religion\/New moon on monday\/anything else really<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I notice that I apologize or explain myself when I say &#8220;Skip&#8221; for Van Morrison, but no explanation is necessary when I &#8220;Skip&#8221; Warrant. Hehe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon experiencing This List Of Dance Rock Songs I&#8217;m Totally Sick Of, I realized that I could look at every song and think immediately of another song by the same artist that I&#8217;d prefer to hear. Several bands have no better songs and should obviously be skipped entirely. One or two bands I am sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}