Music Playlist: Top 13 Most Overrated Songs - Page 6

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• 1 - Sean

  Jul 06, 2005 at 11:17 am

  I nominate every song on Sgt. Pepper.

• 2 - Paul Herrington

  Jul 06, 2005 at 11:18 am

  Finally someone who agrees with me. Jim Morrison was just a junkie with an attitude problem. Real rockers like Jimi Hendrix, Joplin, and even Bowie, had more upstairs than morrison. He was and will forever be a no talent ass clown. A teenager who road his friends to fame and ruined himself on a cross of pop consumerism. I despise morrison.

• 3 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo

  Jul 06, 2005 at 11:30 am

  Great stuff Robert. i second (or third) the Morrisson diss. What a pretentious knob.Poetry???? "There's a killer on the road / his brain is squirming like a toad" is one of the most hilarious lyrics i've ever heard.
  
  And kudos on The Fall, although i don't agree. but still, nice to see them get a slap.
  
  or, "get a slapaaaaaahhh"

• 4 - Aaman

  Jul 06, 2005 at 11:36 am

  This list is a great playlist by itself, even it's mostly fetish music.

• 5 - Robert

  Jul 06, 2005 at 11:40 am

  I found it interesting how rare it is to find anyone who disses the Beatles or Rolling Stones publically. It's like Rock & Roll blasphemy or something.

• 6 - Tan The Man

  Jul 06, 2005 at 11:42 am

  I can't agree with “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen. It's too brilliant. Everything else, I can understand - especially "Hey Ya" by Outkast.

• 7 - Eric Olsen

  Jul 06, 2005 at 12:07 pm

  I disagree with everyone but me - thanks Robbert!

• 8 - Rodney Welch

  Jul 06, 2005 at 12:09 pm

  Someone should have made a video putting bleak footage of pre-1989 East Berlin against the song "Imagine." That's the kind of utopia Lennon is describing.

• 9 - Eric Olsen

  Jul 06, 2005 at 12:13 pm

  RE Morrison: to be dead 35 years and STILL be misunderstood by otherwise sentient, even intelligent, human beings is a shame of sepulchral solemnity

• 10 - SFC Ski

  Jul 06, 2005 at 12:13 pm

  How did "Stairway to Heaven" not make this list?

• 11 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo

  Jul 06, 2005 at 12:14 pm

  Ha! Sir Olsen, do i detect an admiration for our fuzzy-eyed friend??

• 12 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo

  Jul 06, 2005 at 12:17 pm

  my idea for a superhero frontman - Jim Morrissey. the mental images conjured by such a hybrid are staggering.
  
  

• 13 - todd

  Jul 06, 2005 at 12:41 pm

  I gotta agree wholeheartedly with the Bruce Springsteen remarks. I never ever got his early "rock" stuff that peeps rave on about.
  
  Now "Nebraska", thats a different story, and the song, "The River".
  
  

• 14 - Rob

  Jul 06, 2005 at 12:48 pm

  Pretty good list. I had my fill of most of these songs years ago, but the radio stations keep playing them anyway!Here's a few more that bug the crap out of me (even though I do like other songs by these bands):
  You Shook Me - AC/DC
  American Woman - The Guess Who (I was just starting to get this out of my system and Lenny Kravitz covers it!!)
  Smoke on The Water - Deep Purple
  Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan (guess I had to be there? He's got much better stuff)
  Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin (I know, but they have a ton of better songs)
  Like A Prayer - Madonna
  
  

• 15 - Matthew T. Sussman

  Jul 06, 2005 at 12:49 pm

  When I began reading the list, I noticed a trend after the third song. They were all long. And I miss this about songs. Nowadays bands don't know what to do after three minutes except play more of the same chords or scream like a vulture.
  
  If you can rock that guitar, don't stop the rockin'.
  
  And in regards to the drum play on "Pour Some Sugar On Me", what do you expect? The drummer has one freakin' arm!

• 16 - Amanda

  Jul 06, 2005 at 12:52 pm

  I am such a sucker for these group-contribution articles. I can't believe nobody picked the same song. Excellent list, I totally agree with Light My Fire, Freebird, and Def Leppard. "Wonderwall," however, was turned into a totally different song by Ryan Adams. Noel /Liam actually perform it like that now, from what I hear.

• 17 - Robert

  Jul 06, 2005 at 12:53 pm

  I think that "Stairway to Heaven" is brilliant. It only bothers us because we have heard it 58 bazillion times. If I heard it for the first time ever today it would win me over by the word "hedgerow"

• 18 - drake

  Jul 06, 2005 at 1:29 pm

  "Stairway to Heaven" would've been my selection, but it's not digitally available so it's not allowed for the list (in order to make a playlist.)
  
  In fact, my top 4 most overrated songs are all not digitally available, which prolly says something.

• 19 - Eric Olsen

  Jul 06, 2005 at 1:31 pm

  I would say the "overplayed" element contributes to all these choices, except mine of course.
  
  Duker, I think Morrison was a crappy person and a dopey pretentious poet, but one of the great frontmen, lyricists and lead singers in rock history

• 20 - Eric Olsen

  Jul 06, 2005 at 1:37 pm

  Robert, I have taken the liberty of adding a second, explanatory, paragraph to my section, which should help defend my antipathy

• 21 - Robert

  Jul 06, 2005 at 1:43 pm

  Cool... Man you REALLY hate the song.
  Poor Freddy. I am glad he'll never read that...

• 22 - Rodney Welch

  Jul 06, 2005 at 1:49 pm

  Eric, I'll give you great frontman, but the rest of it can blow me. Have there ever been a set of lyrics as dopey as those to "The Soft Parade"?
  
  When all else fails, we can whip the horse’s eyes
  And make them sleep, and cry...
  
  For years, a buddy and I used to recite these words to each other whenever we needed a quick and easy laugh.

• 23 - Barry Stoller

  Jul 06, 2005 at 1:55 pm

  Led Zep should be included, if for no other reason than most of their early hits (including parts of Stairway) were ripped off so they don't fully deserve all their acclaim. Then there are the superstars whose position is way over-valued - Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Fripp, David Byrne, Lou Reed, maybe even the Sex Pistols and White Stripes. (You got U2, right on.) Of course, there's overrated with the critics and overrated with the public, often those lists are very different. Nice to see no Iron Butterfly songs there, ha ha.

• 24 - Rodney Welch

  Jul 06, 2005 at 1:57 pm

  Who did Led Zep rip off "Stairway" from?

• 25 - HW Saxton

  Jul 06, 2005 at 2:03 pm

  'Twas some English cult figure folkie(s)
  Rodney. Im gonna call a friend and get
  back here with the correct answer in a
  short while.