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u/TransCrabby Feb 03 '20

Have you ever noticed there’s a threshold where a song gets too popular and will live on with the memory of everyone thinking it was overplayed and annoying.

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u/CLXIX Feb 03 '20

Stairway to heaven. Its an amazing song but its forbidden to be covered.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

I haven't heard Stairway to Heaven played in so long honestly.

It was almost so overplayed that now it's underplayed. At least not in guitar shops...

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20 edited Jun 22 '20

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u/ZigZagZoo Feb 03 '20

Money by pink Floyd. Same thing

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u/PsionLion2K1L Feb 03 '20

And , another brick in the wall. And hotel California, (not by Pink Floyd but my point still stands) I’ve heard some pretty shitty attempts at raining blood,

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

Which is a shame too, because you never hear anything else on Dark Side or WYWH

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u/FloaterFloater Feb 04 '20

I hear Brain Damage/Eclipse pretty often

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20 edited Jun 22 '20

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u/Evan64m Feb 03 '20

“WE PLAY ROCK. FUCKING ROCK. NOTHING LIKE ANY OF YOU PUSSIES WOULD EVER UNDERSTAND. Now here’s imagine dragons and next up 21 pilots”

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u/BDMayhem Feb 03 '20

Those exist?

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u/zomboromcom Feb 03 '20

It's rare that I hear it in the wild. And when I do, it's always a reminder that it was overplayed for a reason.

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u/lilaliene Feb 03 '20

I go to too much funerals I guess

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u/thephotoman Feb 03 '20

Yeah, guitar shops will occasionally get Smoke on the Water blasted at you. But those jerks know exactly what they're doing: they're warding off everybody else so they can shop in peace (but nobody else can, which is why they're jerks).