Most sound bite songs hacked to an over played 10 seconds for a commercial, like Für Elise, are difficult for me to listen to. At least DeBeers payed to play “Palladio” in their adds.
Now if you are bringing in classical snippets, I’ll mention “Zadok the Priest”. Lovely bit of music, but recently every documentary seems to use it.
Hi Cofaidh
The parody was written by Crawford Howard, a Belfast songwriter.
David
Freebird
Stairway to Heaven
Born to be wild
Ode to joy
Hallelujah Chorus
Beethoven’s 5th 1st movt. motive (da da da DUUUMMM)
Kesh Jig
Lark in the morning
Watkins ale
You’l never walk alone
O! there’s just sooo many 
You’ll never walk alone?
Good job you don’t live in Liverpool, then. It’s Liverpool Football Club’s anthem.
Yeah…I still can’t stand that one because it was so overplayed.
Stand By Me is right up there as well for me…and for more recent stuff, Photograph by Nickelback was hugely overplayed when it was popular. I literally had it stuck in my head for a week. I even dreamed it was stuck in my head.
Another one! Red, Red Wine by UB40. I swear, they must have re-released that blasted thing like 100 times. Can’t they do any other songs? That has got to be one of the MOST overplayed songs EVER in the history of overplayed songs. If I never hear it again, it will be too soon.
Plastic Fantastic Lover, when will it ever stop!
Just for the Crawford Howard fans, here’s the full lyrics of his “No Man’s Land” parody:
NO MAN’S LAND - Crawford Howard
Have you heard the old song about Willie Mc Bride?
If I hear it again, it’ll turn me insides!
For its sung in the Springtime and its sung in the Fall
- And mostly by people who can’t sing at all!
You go out for a drink on a Saturday night
For a pint and a song, and things are alright
Until some drunken bowsey sits down by your side
And he asks for the one about “Willie Mc Bride”!
Well you say you don’t know it but this will not do
For now he’s determined to sing it to you
So he spills half your drink and starts off in a key
That was never invented on land or on sea
And as time goes by, sure the whole thing gets worse
For you soon realise that he knows every verse!
With his arm round your shoulder - 'cos now he’s your friend
He’s going to sing the damn thing to the end!
You go out to the Gents for a quarter of an hour
And you watch the TV in the old public bar
And then you come back thinking that he will tire
But he’s still going on about gas and barbed wire!
And ten minutes later you’re all in a trance
For he’s up to his oxters in the Green Fields of France
The crowd are all quiet, you wont hear a peep
Does he not realise they’ve all gone to sleep?
Ah Willie Mc Bride, why the hell did you die?
The trouble you’d have saved if you’d come back alive
And got a wee job or signed “on the brew”
We’d not have to listen to songs about you!
But still I don’t know but I’m glad that you’re dead
With the green fields of France piled on top of your head
For the trouble you caused since the day that you died
- Shooting’s too good for you, Willie Mc Bride!
djm