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The most overrated songs EVER!!
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Come On Eileen. Dexys made much better songs than that dirge but it’s still played now 40 years later."
Yes,I can't stand it,also karma chameleon by culture club,utter garbage |
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"Come On Eileen. Dexys made much better songs than that dirge but it’s still played now 40 years later."
Kevin Roland said that on a documentary about the band. They are reluctant to play Eileen or Geno live as they came from points in their history where the label insisted on putting them out against their wishes.
Iirc they tend to create an album-esk type of show with a narrative in recent years. And put on a show of good songs rather than the hits. |
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Final countdown- Europe
Eye of the tiger- Survivor
We are the champions, We will rock you - Queen
All lame lazy excuses of songs used to back a video clip or used in/or for events, sport in particular.
Sick of them all.
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"Come On Eileen. Dexys made much better songs than that dirge but it’s still played now 40 years later.
Kevin Roland said that on a documentary about the band. They are reluctant to play Eileen or Geno live as they came from points in their history where the label insisted on putting them out against their wishes.
Iirc they tend to create an album-esk type of show with a narrative in recent years. And put on a show of good songs rather than the hits. "
Yeah but I bet they weren't complaining about the royalty money! |
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"Controversial but ...
Most of the Beatles and most of Elvis.
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You've hit on the head, no denying their influence but could you listen to 'she loves you, yeah yeah yeah'. It hasn't stood the test of time. A pop band, nothing more. Think of the bands of same era.
Beach Boys
Stones.
Who
Eagles,
Thin lizzy
Lynyrd skynyrd
Need i go on.
Ok I'm biased towards rock, not pop.
In fact, a lot of beatles music is no better and sometimes inferior to the other bands at same time.
Freddy and the dreamers
The tremeloes
Kinks
Hollies and so many more.
If you grew up on radio 1 and totp fodder and think Elton John is rock, you need out more. The Tube, No Limits, ogwt, In concert, Bob Harris and Johnny walker (obligatory to listen to) where the influences back in the day and thankfully Harris and walker still going strong. |
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Wind beneath my Wings - Bette Middler. Truly awful song just so schmaltzy.
However even worse ….
‘Pina Colada’ song awful lyrics as are ‘24 hours from Tulsa’ just read the text, horrible people trying to justify disgusting behaviour. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Another controversial pick.
Anything by Pink Floyd"
Agreed. Playing a Pink Floyd album is like listening to paint dry.
I think Dylan is over rated too (I’ll get my coat). |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Bit of a Floyd fan but will be the first to admit they have done some stinkers...prime example would be the entire Final Cut album...a prime example of how naff Waters is when he thought he WAS Floyd...proven by the dirge that is his entire solo releases compared with the breath of fresh air Momentary Lapse was once he buggered off.
Of course before any Waters fans start throwing rocks at me..it's just my personal opinion 
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Bit of a Floyd fan but will be the first to admit they have done some stinkers...prime example would be the entire Final Cut album...a prime example of how naff Waters is when he thought he WAS Floyd...proven by the dirge that is his entire solo releases compared with the breath of fresh air Momentary Lapse was once he buggered off.
Of course before any Waters fans start throwing rocks at me..it's just my personal opinion
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I detest the Scissor Sisters version of Comfortably Numb. |
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"Definitely anything by the Beatles. If I had to name my top 1000 tunes I don't think there would be a single one of their songs in my list. "
Oh I would definitely put A Day In The Life right up there with the best.
Forget The Beatles popy hits and look for the later album stuff, that’s some good music.
Like any band, they did their share of populist commercial crap. |
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"Bit of a Floyd fan but will be the first to admit they have done some stinkers...prime example would be the entire Final Cut album...a prime example of how naff Waters is when he thought he WAS Floyd...proven by the dirge that is his entire solo releases compared with the breath of fresh air Momentary Lapse was once he buggered off.
Of course before any Waters fans start throwing rocks at me..it's just my personal opinion
I detest the Scissor Sisters version of Comfortably Numb."
Scissor sisters are great live though |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Bit of a Floyd fan but will be the first to admit they have done some stinkers...prime example would be the entire Final Cut album...a prime example of how naff Waters is when he thought he WAS Floyd...proven by the dirge that is his entire solo releases compared with the breath of fresh air Momentary Lapse was once he buggered off.
Of course before any Waters fans start throwing rocks at me..it's just my personal opinion
I detest the Scissor Sisters version of Comfortably Numb.
Scissor sisters are great live though "
It's just that one track. It's almost sacrilegious. Otherwise they seem great fun. |
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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago
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For me it sort of depends what the song is trying to say. The emotions it's putting forward.
What are the lyrics saying. There are some really powerful lyrics mixed up in mediocre packages. And some super catchy songs and ear worms that are just enjoyable noise but they don't make me feel anything.
I'm not a massive Ed Sheeran fan but 2 of his songs have a special place for me - Photograph and Castle on the Hill. Alone they are nothing special but their meaning within lyrics elevate those songs to something that I could never class as overrated. Ever.
Plenty of other songs out there that get looked down on which are mediocre as music but go beyond being just that. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"For me it sort of depends what the song is trying to say. The emotions it's putting forward.
What are the lyrics saying. There are some really powerful lyrics mixed up in mediocre packages. And some super catchy songs and ear worms that are just enjoyable noise but they don't make me feel anything.
I'm not a massive Ed Sheeran fan but 2 of his songs have a special place for me - Photograph and Castle on the Hill. Alone they are nothing special but their meaning within lyrics elevate those songs to something that I could never class as overrated. Ever.
Plenty of other songs out there that get looked down on which are mediocre as music but go beyond being just that. "
I agree with you. People should look at the positives in everything. I don't generally like these threads. Because they just attract negativity about something or someone.
I mean who am I to trash someone or something, unless I think I can do that better myself. Same as armchair football managers, thinking they are the oracle on the subject. Well your not, if you were you would be in the football industry or music industry. |
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"My heart will go on - Celine Dion
Unchained melody - Robson & Jerome
Anything Adele "
I done my duty and took my ex to an Adele concert. She loved it, I detested it. I'm a rocker and I like my gigs to produce energy in the audience. What Adele provoked in the crowd was a gentle sway. Like a funeral without a body, pure shinola. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Each to their own here , some of the songs mentioned are unbeliveabely brilliant to some people , if there's a particular artist or song that you don't like or ever will ..don't listen to it it's really that simple, l know it's only a thread regards songs but if you don't like the song don't listen to it.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Summer of 69
Living on a prayer
There I've said it 
Living on a prayer...agree, the local radio station plays it every day and even planet rock joins in. "
Haha. I've heard them so many times at parties, pubs etc. But I know loads of people love them... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Each to their own here , some of the songs mentioned are unbeliveabely brilliant to some people , if there's a particular artist or song that you don't like or ever will ..don't listen to it it's really that simple, l know it's only a thread regards songs but if you don't like the song don't listen to it. "
I think the issue with some of the songs noted above are that they become inescapable. When you are shopping you hear them, in doctor's offices, on hold on the phone. What may start out as a fairly innocuous track that just isn't your cuppa after months/years of being aurally assaulted by it can become a focal point of intense hatred. Purely on an individual level mind. I'm well aware others do not have the averse reactions I do to particular tracks and nor should they. |
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By *tooveMan
over a year ago
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"Each to their own here , some of the songs mentioned are unbeliveabely brilliant to some people , if there's a particular artist or song that you don't like or ever will ..don't listen to it it's really that simple, l know it's only a thread regards songs but if you don't like the song don't listen to it. "
The threads not about liking or disliking songs though, is it? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"As said before likes and dislikes of music all personal. I can’t stand anything from ABBA
You won't be going to see Abba Voyage then? "
Sooner watch paint dry |
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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago
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"Each to their own here , some of the songs mentioned are unbeliveabely brilliant to some people , if there's a particular artist or song that you don't like or ever will ..don't listen to it it's really that simple, l know it's only a thread regards songs but if you don't like the song don't listen to it.
The threads not about liking or disliking songs though, is it?"
As you can see by a large number of the replies most songs people mention are not songs they feel are just okay but get great praise but songs they clearly dislike. So it pretty much is about like and dislike by this point. |
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