Only the devil would play the same five songs over and over

For three hours at a time.

He did the same thing with Oasis' Champagne Supernova and Spacehog's In The Meantime, too. In order to fight back, I borrowed my friend's Deep Blue Something album and played Breakfast At Tiffany's over and over again, not because I liked the song, but because I knew he hated it. After a couple of days of playing it over and over again, he comes in and says, "You know, I never really liked this song, but now I think it's pretty cool."

I couldn't win. But at least that was better than hearing Santana's Smooth every time I turn the radio on.

While riding along on a trip from Ithaca to Boston (5-6 hours or so), I was subjected to 5 hours straight of the Macarena...in Spanish.

Now I know what hell is like.

So as not to make this a total GTKY writeup (although I guess this whole node is...), some songs are just catchy to people and courtesy isn't that common nowadays. People don't realize (or care) that they're potentially driving their roommate/hallmates/entire section of the city insane. It's similar to people who don't flush public toilets or don't wear deodorant. Personal space isn't respected much anymore.
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But anyways, if I get stuck in a car with you, and you play the Macarena, you die...

They call it the top 40, but it's more of the top 5, because it's usually the same five songs that get the heaviest airplay. This is great if you like the song, but you'll always be sick of it long before the radio station thinks you should be.

Worst of all, this rubs off the the populace. Obsessive mad girls phone in requesting it be played over and over EVEN IF THEY OWN THE SINGLE.

I had a housemate who'd play Flyby by Blue on a constant loop. Really loudly as well, with "system up with the top down, got the city on lockdown" constantly echoing around the house. And in my first year of uni the evil bastard next door left his minidisc system playing "Why does my heart" by Moby on a continuous loop. I was asleep and had that freaky hearing stuff while you're asleep situation where this music was drifting about and I was hearing it and couldn't block it out but couldn't wake up to turn it off either. Eeeek.