Well, I might as well get in on this thread as well. I always find that when I first hear a good song I'll listen to it over and over and will gradually listen less, but I will rarely listen to a song so often that I would get sick of it. I think its because there are so many good songs.

Certain good songs get played over and over and you do get sick of them. Danny Boy and Only our Rivers Run Free are two songs which have been done too much. If you change the style of singing and do it a little bit differently, you can really bring life into it.

I agree with DG that its usually the singers that do it. I loved the song "She moved through the Fair" until an advert for Bushmills Whiskey used it in their adverts with seriously unmelodious and crabby voices. The song is ruined! Likewise the DoE used the beautiful Barbara Striesand song "You don't send me flowers anymore" in a drink-drive public safety commercial and there's another song ruined.

There are many songs that I would come back to again and again, but I think the ones that I would vote for on "Not to Ditch" would be Dougie McLean's "Green grow the Rashes-O", Silly Wizard's "If I were a Blackbird" and Billie Holliday's "God Bless the Child".

Slan

Laoise.