What songs have been "ruined" for you?

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Through the Fire and the Flames (because of it being on rockband), and just about anything that plays on the radio
 
Typically any time "Weird Al" does a parody. I can't sing either version without going back and forth. This is especially true of "American Pie"/"The Saga Begins"

"My, my this here Anakin guy, drove my Chevy to the levee...wait that's not right"

And I always want to sing the Bohemian Rhapsody about 5 times too fast.
 
Yellow by Coldplay

This part sounds exactly like he's singing: Jeg sked, åh ja, jeg sked en bums.

That's Danish for: I shat, oh yeah, I shat a pimple.


If you are Danish you can't unhear those lines and the song is ruined(made better) forever.
 
There was once a song - Get Up and Dance, by Faber Drive. I really liked it. Then I watched the music video, and couldn't bear to listen to the song (Or any of their songs) anymore.
 
When songs in commercials start to give me a mental picture of the product.

Led Zeppelin-Rock and Roll: All I see is a fucking Cadillac. I will never buy a Cadillac. And fuck Zeppelin for giving them the song to use.

John Lennon-Instant Karma: Fuck Nike.

Edit: I'm so happy DVR has kept me from witnessing commercials these days so I don't have to stop listening to some music.
 
The Killers - Mr Brightside

Every club and bar plays this across the uk a minimum of 3-4 times a night. the song is nauseating, has stupid lyrics, and was never that good to begin with. and its always the twats that start singing it when it comes on.
 
Agnostic said:
When songs in commercials start to give me a mental picture of the product.

Led Zeppelin-Rock and Roll: All I see is a fucking Cadillac. I will never buy a Cadillac. And fuck Zeppelin for giving them the song to use.
Eh. At least that was only for a short time. Chevy had the whole Bob Seger's "Like a Rock" campaign for over a decade I think.
 
ascii42 said:
Eh. At least that was only for a short time. Chevy had the whole Bob Seger's "Like a Rock" campaign for over a decade I think.
Not short enough. The song is still ruined for me.
 
Agnostic said:
Not short enough. The song is still ruined for me.
You hate Cadillac that much? Because I'm a Cadillac fan, and I don't really associate the song with them anymore. I did for a while though. I don't even remember which Cadillac the commercial advertised. First gen CTS, maybe? I never really cared for that model.

Maybe because I was a fan of Zeppelin before those commercials, and still am today, so most of the times I've heard the song had nothing to do with Cadillac. Whereas "Like a Rock" basically never got any radio play, so I've pretty much only heard it in Chevy commercials, or when the song comes up on shuffle on my iPod.
 
ascii42 said:
You hate Cadillac that much? Because I'm a Cadillac fan, and I don't really associate the song with them anymore. I don't even remember which Cadillac the commercial advertised. First gen CTS, maybe? I never really cared for that model.

Maybe because I was a fan of Zeppelin before those commercials, and still am today, so most of the times I've heard the song had nothing to do with Cadillac. Whereas "Like a Rock" basically never got any radio play, so I've pretty much only heard it in Chevy commercials, or when the song comes up on shuffle on my iPod.
You're not me. This is about songs that have been ruined for me.
 
The Surface of the Sun, because of its use in Sunshine.

See, I originally heard the piece first on Youtube and it was absolutely amazing, hauntingly beautiful. My mind created these wondrous scenes of cosmic ballets and a lone space explorer, with his mission suffering extreme danger and despair, rising above and conquering the adversity laid before him.

Then, I saw Sunshine, I was somewhat right with what my mind saw but then this happened.

Now, the only thing that goes through my head when I hear the music is, "GYUH YEUUUUHHH!"

And I laugh.
 
Agnostic said:
You're not me. This is about songs that have been ruined for me.
I get that, but this is a discussion forum. Anyway, I do agree that commercials can ruin songs. For example, I feel "Viva, Las Vegas" has been ruined by Viagra commercials. Also, I wouldn't go as far as "ruined", but for the longest time I thought of the cleaning product instead of the engine when I heard the Beach Boys song "409."
 
Smelly Tramp said:
The Killers - Mr Brightside

Every club and bar plays this across the uk a minimum of 3-4 times a night. the song is nauseating, has stupid lyrics, and was never that good to begin with. and its always the twats that start singing it when it comes on.

Same here for me. The first time I heard the song I thought it was OK but it's just so overplayed now. I can't listen to it.
 
Every single Mars Volta song. One of my friends used to become the stereo Nazi and only would play Mars Volta albums every FUCKING DAMN DAY. To make matters worse he'd play them at abnormally high volumes and then scream along to the songs in the car. We are no longer friends and I can no longer listen to the Mars Volta.
 
Freshmaker said:
I think of that scene too, but it in no way ruins the song for me.

That one song that has "Despite all my rage I'm still just a rat in a cage." Fine I guess. Makes you think of Greenpeace and leads one to wonder how rage gets other creatures out of cages...

Dead once I head the opening line: "Life is a vampire."
Yer talking about "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" by the Smashing Pumpkins.

The song starts with "The world is a vampire..."
 
Peerbreed said:
Every single Mars Volta song. One of my friends used to become the stereo Nazi and only would play Mars Volta albums every FUCKING DAMN DAY. To make matters worse he'd play them at abnormally high volumes and then scream along to the songs in the car. We are no longer friends and I can no longer listen to the Mars Volta.
He was doing you a great favor.
 
There used to be this guy, who possibly had some sort of slight mental problems, who would always be in the piano practice room before our class started, playing one of a handful of songs. Guy had a setlist. And I think he may have been hard of hearing too because he had a hearing aid and played LOUD.

So, even if I just mildly didn't like these songs before, I now really don't like them:

-Don't Stop Believin'
-Faithfully
-Just Dance
-Jump

And I can't remember the others, but those were his most overplayed. Especially the first two.
 
Darklord said:
That Requiem For A Dream song. I used to like it, now I fucking HATE it from hearing it so many times on YT videos.
Along those lines, I always see Vegeta fighting Buu whenever I hear In the End.
 
Darklord said:
That Requiem For A Dream song. I used to like it, now I fucking HATE it from hearing it so many times on YT videos.
By far this.

Second runner up is the stupid piece of music that plays in pretty much ever space movie. Can't remember what it's called but it's mean to be all epic but I cringe every time it comes on.
 
Ctrl-F Nickelback: no results. Ctrl-F How You Remind Me: no results.

Seriously? I thought How You Remind Me was an alright catchy number the first time I heard it. After the millionth time, I grew to hate Nickelback and pretty much anything they've put out since because of how overplayed that one song was. I can't be the only one.

I also can't stand The Cranberries' "Zombie." But that's just personal preference, nothing really "ruined" it aside from all my friends loving it and playing it all the time.
 
"God Only Knows" (The Beach Boys), while not quite ruined, was definitely cheapened a bit by being the opening credits theme for Big Love. I know that it fits the show perfectly, but as one of the greatest songs ever written, it just feels... wrong.
 
I can't listen to Don't Stop Believing anymore after my work played the Glee version constantly on the stereo. And they still do now. And I hear it everywhere in general.
 
Sugar ray - Someday

Instead of "we'll take a dive in the deep blue sea", I always hear "we'll take a dump in the deep blue sea" cause back in like 8th grade my brother and I kept saying that cause we thought it was funny. Now everytime we hear it play, neither one of us can unhear it.
 
RiZ III said:
Sugar ray - Someday

Instead of "we'll take a dive in the deep blue sea", I always hear "we'll take a dump in the deep blue sea" cause back in like 8th grade my brother and I kept saying that cause we thought it was funny. Now everytime we hear it play, neither one of us can unhear it.
I'm afraid to read too many more posts like these since they might ruin one of my favorite songs, haha!
 
Every time Weird al does a Parody of a song, those new words replace the original words in my head every time I here the song from then on.

Same thing with his polka medleys. Every time I hear a song from then on that was in one of his medleys it sounds too slow.

Polka Face.
 
AbsoluteZero said:
Every time Weird al does a Parody of a song, those new words replace the original words in my head every time I here the song from then on.

Same thing with his polka medleys. Every time I hear a song from then on that was in one of his medleys it sounds too slow.

Polka Face.
Another thing his Polkas do is, when I hear the real version of a song he does, I expect it to turn in to a completely different song, just because it's the next song in the polka.
 
When some asshole 'friend' of mine sang 'Sittin' on the cock of the gay' along to Otis Redding's original.

I was absolutely furious and I still am, because although I can listen to the song normally, simply because I always sing along, it's still in the back of my mind.
 
Too many for me to remember.

Some come immediately to mind though:

Massive Attack - Teardrop. Ever since the tv show House got huge, that song has lost almost all meaning since it's the song that plays over the opening credits. So many good memories associated with that song, too.

Sleater-Kinney - Good Things. Song is great but already depressing enough as it is... the girl that introduced me to it and other Riot Grrl music died wayy too young. For that reason, it's also hard for me to listen to Bikini Kill, Team Dresch, etc, too.

All late 90's house/4x4 anthems (DJ Jean - The Launch, Basement Jaxx - Red Alert, etc) - had a roommate in college who DJ'ed and he played these tracks ALL THE TIME.
 
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