13 most ever-rated songs of all time - Page 2

Dr. Johnny Fever · 07-11-2005, 09:41 AM

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/07/06/100215.php

I agree with most of this other than U2 and Def Lep... especially agree with Free Bird.

1. “American Pie” - Don McLean

Listen... I understand it's a tribute to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper all dying in the plane crash, but the song could've easily been a fitting tribute at the four minute mark. I'd even take five. But nearly nine minutes? Number one on my list of most annoying pub sing-a-long songs - best time to take a piss or a cigarette break outside.

Selected by Drake of Thus Spake Drake

2. “Light My Fire” - The Doors

There are some words that do not belong in a rock song. “Pyre” is one of these words. “Mire,” and “wallow” also fall into the category. All three of these words are featured prominently in the Doors “Light My Fire.” For some inexplicable reason, the Doors are viewed as some sort of spiritual counterpoint to the more hedonistic examples of rock decadence in the 60s. But “Light My Fire” illustrates an almost paralyzing lack of any redeeming qualities, a fact that seems to have been overlooked by critics and fans alike for more than three decades.
Bands that feature a piano or keyboard prominently are generally pretty goofy to begin with, but Ray Manzarek’s circus riff and odd organ stabs are headache inducing. The opening figures are some of the most memorable in rock history, because, like “Stairway” for shoddy guitar players, many aspiring rock pianists pick it out on whatever keyed instrument they find themselves in front of. Also, the shambling mid-song guitar/organ breakdown is a relic of an age of psychedelic rock that mercifully has passed for all but the heaviest drug users of the present day.

Lyrically, Jim Morrison’s poetry-set-to-music resembles the scribbling of someone who has just finished the Romantic Poetry section of their tenth grade English class. This doesn’t even cover the fact that in the chorus, “fire” is rhymed with “fire,” the second of which is delivered with a strangled bellow that is supposed to convey some sort of passion that is missing in Morrison’s morose and flat delivery during the rest of the song. Also, “girl we couldn’t get much higher”? He sounds like an eight grader who just smoked some oregano he bought in the bathroom of the mall. Morrison is considered a rock god because he removed his pants in public, took too many drugs, and let disgusting overconfidence mask an obvious lack of talent. If this is what makes someone a rock god, then we all went to college with about 50 rock gods who now work at Morgan Stanley.

“Light My Fire” is a novelty song of the psychedelic age. Somehow it has become tied up with equally inexplicable mythology surrounding Jim Morrison and received critical acclaim far beyond anything that it deserves. The gap between the adoration for “Light My Fire” and the intense awfulness of the song is so large, it’s easily one of the most overrated pieces of popular music created in a long time.

Selected by Morgan from Earvolution.com

3. “Free Bird” - Lynyrd Skynyrd

One of the most overrated songs in rock history has to be Lynryd Skynryd's "Freebird." The song has good intentions; it is dedicated to the memory of fellow southern rocker Duane Allman. However, the good intentions have gone bad. It is now one of the ultimate rock cliches. Anyone, who has ever attended a rock concert, will almost certainly hear someone yell out, "Freebird." The song has become a parody of itself. Unfortunately, I have to report that this disturbing trend may have its origins in Chicago, my hometown. There are many theories as to how this annoying habit started, one common thread among them involves The Brady Bunch, an overrated TV show, and a Chicago radio personality.
I would like to quote no less an authority than the Wall Street Journal:

“Kevin Matthews is a Chicago radio personality who has exhorted his fans -- the KevHeads -- to yell "Freebird" for years, and claims to have originated the tradition in the late 1980s, when he says he hit upon it as a way to torment Florence Henderson of "Brady Bunch" fame, who was giving a concert. He figured somebody should yell something at her "to break up the monotony." The longtime Skynyrd fan settled on "Freebird." saying the epic song "just popped into my head."
But he bemoans the decline of "Freebird" etiquette. "It was never meant to be yelled at a cool concert -- it was meant to be yelled at someone really lame," he says. "If you're going to yell "Freebird" yell "Freebird" at a Jim Nabors concert."

Maybe it is time to start a new trend. What songs can drunken, obnoxious, morons, request in the 21st century? How about a Jim Nabors song or the antithesis of "Freebird's" long winding jam session? How about a short intense hardcore punk song, (by the way I like this style of song in small doses) such as the Circle Jerks' "What's Your Problem?" I can hear it now..... "What's Your Problem?.....What's Your Problem?....What's Your Problem?"

Selected by Mr. Bond of Covalent Bond

4. “Hey Ya!” – Outkast

Ya, Ya, Ya, I know Outkast’s 2003 album “Speakerboxxx/The Love Below” was on top of a myriad of critic’s “best of” lists, even leaving the Onion A.V. Club to proclaim Outkast's Andre 3000 and Big Boi the “Lennon and McCartney of hip-hop”

The Lennon and McCartney of hip-hop? Quick my pills….

“Hey Ya!’s basic 4 chord (G,D,C,E) repetitive structure sounds like it was recorded in a guitar 101 class. Not that there’s anything wrong with 4 chord songs per se, but this one is strummed without any sense of dynamics, much like the way my two year old daughter bangs her toy drum.
I think there’s an attempt at melody since the track is a combination of “singing” and talking as opposed to rapping. What that melody is however, escapes me. Well, can you hum it?

It doesn’t end here though. It’s the lyrics that put this over the top.

“Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa.. (Don't want to meet your daddy, OHH OH)
Heeyy Yaaaaaaaa.. (Just want you in my Caddy OHH OH)
Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa.. (OHH OH, don't want to meet yo' mama OHH OH)
Heeyy Yaaaaaaaa.. (Just want to make you cumma OHH OH)”

“Just want to make you cumma”? Are they serious? Case closed.

Selected by Robert of the Radish

5. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” - Def Leppard

In an age of overrated songs 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' rose to the occasion. Has anyone listened to the lyrics? "Mirror queen, mannequin, rhythm of love.. Do you take sugar? one lump or two?" It makes absolutely no sense. And the drums might as well be a beat box, or a late 80's Casio keyboard with the 'Rock Drum' button to play along with. The guitar riffs are bland, and for some reason Joe Elliot is trying to passionately scream words like 'saccharine'. It just doesn't work, but for some reason people love this song. I guess it's the loud kick and the double tracked vocals.

Selected by Bryan of Liquid Rivet

6. “Wonderwall” – Oasis

The press was declaring them the second coming of the Beatles, but Lennon/McCartney never wrote anything this sappy.

Selected by the FIQL team

7. “Memory” - Andrew Lloyd Webber

The toughest part of this challenge was to define overrated. Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical, entitled “Cats”, received numerous awards and was shown live for years and years. Why??? Could it be the tights and the dancing? The story?? The music? I just don't get it. Someone please help me!!

Selected by Pantagruel, everlasting rhaplink poster on the Radish Message Board

8. “Bohemian Rhapsody” – Queen

Back in May the British selected "Bohemian Rhapsody" as their "favorite single of all time." Now they've done it again, with "BoRhap" taking top honors in the Official UK Charts Company Top 50 #1 Singles of the last 50 years. Allow me to say that I despise "Bohemian Rhopsody" with a fervor that makes want to crush something, anything British. How perverse can one nation be?

I HATE every possible aspect of that song: from the nonsensical pretentious lyrics, to the nauseating waves of overdubbed choral vocals, to Freddie Mercury's lisping diva lead, to the wretchedly awkward lurching from (bowel) "movement" to (bowel) "movement." Even the rock-out part near the end that I could at least tolerate when it first came out now sounds utterly artificial, strained, grafted-on, and stupid.

I loved, really LOVED the first Queen album, but there was no way to ever take Queen seriously again after that song, which was okay because the group pretty well sucked ass from that point on anyway, but I remember the sick feeling in my stomach when that poodle puke dribbled out of my friend's stereo. I had to go take a nap, and I had really bad dreams.

Selected by Eric Olsen of Blogcritics.org

9. “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For” - U2

I wanted to pick something I was really familiar with I considered something like 'Brown Eyed Girl' which is far from Van's best work - and for me Rolling Stone ranking at 109 is high...but again I can understand the rating. It is one of the catchiest songs ever with all those "Sha La La"s. "Money" from Pink Floyd was another option - one of the weakest songs yet most played from "Dark Side of the Moon" - but it is still a damn good song and I can still understand why it is on the list. But finally I went with the U2 song,. "I Still Haven't Found What I am Looking For". I do own the CD. I quickly got tired of that song. I am not going to criticize it beyond that. Music likes and dislikes are a very personal thing and what may seem pretentious to me may be meaningful to somebody else. It just didn't' work for me.

Selected by Mark Munroe of Musicrocker

10. “Totally Wired” - The Fall

Trailblazing indie rock sacred cows the Fall are generally lauded as cooler than anybody. Well, 50,000 Fall fans can kiss my ass. Sure, Pavement's first album is a wholesale appropriation of the Fall's sound. But Pavement moved on to different sonic pastures on four subsequent records, while the Fall have recorded over forty albums of this annoying claptrap. If being the first band to combine stunted chops and speaking lyrics because you can't sing makes you unassailable musical pioneers, then bravo to the Fall. (Now will somebody please bring a shoehorn to help me extract this tongue that seems to have lodged itself in my cheek?)

Selected by Jshifty of Ribaldry & Schmaltz

11. “Born To Run” - Bruce Springsteen

It likely won't make me any friends, but I've picked "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen. It may be a result of preconceived music tastes, but The Boss's everyman rock just doesn't resonate with me at all. "Born to Run" sounds like Bruce has just run a marathon and now he's trying to sing, with its breathless lyrics and insistent chiming. What place do those chimes have in a rock song? Sir, step away from the xylophone. "Strap your hands 'cross my engines"? Please. There's nothing here for me to hold onto. Keep on running, Bruce, I'll take a pass on this one.

Selected by Amanda of Rhapsody in Blog

12. “Chewing Gum” – Annie

Every critic is ranting and raving about Annie and even the almighty online indie rag Pitchfork gave this particular song #11 on the best singles of 2004 chart, but I just don't get it. This song sounds like some of the worst drivel from the late 80's/early 90's when dance pop was dying a slow death. Nothing to this song at all. "Oh no, oh no/You've got it all wrong/You think you're chocolate but you're chewing gum." Are you kidding me? At least her song "Heartbeat" has a melody and some sort of emotion...

Selected by Chris Anderson of worthymusic.net

13. “Imagine” – John Lennon

"Imagine" was a top-10 hit in 1971, and received enormous airplay when Lennon died. As a result, it has come to represent Lennon; it's a signature tune and a symbol of both Lennon the artist and Lennon the man. However, if one ruthlessly strips away sentiment and sympathy, "Imagine" is actually one dreary song, not among Lennon's best. "Imagine" is an amelodic dirge really, with lyrics cribbed from the communist manifesto. Its Phil Spector production is murky, it's not hummable, and it's too soupy for rock, but too joyless for pop. It's not even the best on the Imagine album; the very next track on side 1, "Crippled Inside" (not a single) far better captures what Lennon was all about: it's playful, jaunty, ironic, tongue-in-cheek, absurd, and catchy-- a far more fitting Lennon tribute.

Selected by uao of Freeway Jam

Dr. Johnny Fever · 07-11-2005, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by ExtremeChief

I'd would have to put Stairway to Heaven at the top of my list, cause my ears bleed everytime I hear it. And I actually like Led Zepplin.

Agreed... I'd include Hotel California too.

siberian khatru · 07-11-2005, 10:25 AM

"Wonderwall" is overrated. Some of the others, though, are good songs that have just been overplayed.

StcChief · 07-11-2005, 10:25 AM

Actually most everything made since late 70's was overrated and hyped is 'new' sound rock,rap, whatever.

Mostly just crappy music.

Hammock Parties · 07-11-2005, 10:26 AM

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1. “American Pie” - Don McLean

Love it. Screw you. Weird Al parody rocks too.

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2. “Light My Fire” - The Doors

The first minute or so is OK. Gets boring.

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3. “Free Bird” - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Horrible. Boring.

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4. “Hey Ya!” – Outkast

Never heard it. Probably sucks since it's hip hop garbage.

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5. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” - Def Leppard

Who cares about the lyrics? SHOOK UP TOP RAMEN! THIS SONG RULES!

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6. “Wonderwall” – Oasis

Never heard it.

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7. “Memory” - Andrew Lloyd Webber

I know this song by heart. HOW THE HELL AM I NOT A HOMOSEXUAL?

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8. “Bohemian Rhapsody” – Queen

I also have this one memorized. Anyone who doesn't like it should be destroyed by fire.

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9. “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For” - U2

I Still Don't Know What The Hell This Song Sounds Like Because I've Never Heard It - Oh Wait It's By U2 So It Must Suck - LIVE!!!

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10. “Totally Wired” - The Fall

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11. “Born To Run” - Bruce Springsteen

Everything he ever produced sucks. Why single out this one?

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12. “Chewing Gum” – Annie

Sounds really gay.

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13. “Imagine” – John Lennon

Yeah, this is overrated.

Jenson71 · 07-11-2005, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by siberian khatru

Some of the others, though, are good songs that have just been overplayed.

What he said.

**Nzoner** · 07-11-2005, 10:33 AM

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I loved, really LOVED the first Queen album, but there was no way to ever take Queen seriously again after that song, which was okay because the group pretty well sucked ass from that point on anyway,

What an asshat,I'm all for people having opinions and their own tastes but come on,A Day At The Races and News Of The World pretty much sucking ass?Whatever.

Jenson71 · 07-11-2005, 10:36 AM

Like Oasis, I never really understood what was so great about The Clash's London Calling.

**BigMeatballDave** · 07-11-2005, 11:55 AM

5. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” - Def Leppard

In an age of overrated songs 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' rose to the occasion. Has anyone listened to the lyrics? "Mirror queen, mannequin, rhythm of love.. Do you take sugar? one lump or two?" It makes absolutely no sense. And the drums might as well be a beat box, or a late 80's Casio keyboard with the 'Rock Drum' button to play along with. The guitar riffs are bland, and for some reason Joe Elliot is trying to passionately scream words like 'saccharine'. It just doesn't work, but for some reason people love this song. I guess it's the loud kick and the double tracked vocals.

I loved this song when I was a kid, having just graduated from HS, and all. Great party song. Now, eh, I'm so sick of it...

**BigMeatballDave** · 07-11-2005, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by beer me

Agreed... I'd include Hotel California too.

Wha? You are talking about the Eagles! Blasphemy!

Spicy McHaggis · 07-11-2005, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by ROYC75

Some people are just too damn picky..........

BTW, never heard of # 4,6,7,10,and 12.........

I'm stuck in my own time warp.........

Man you must have never turned on the TV or radio in '95 to have missed out on Wonderwall. That song was everywhere.

And I bet you recognize Hey Ya if you heard it. Hell the KU band played it during B-Ball games my freshmen year. Then they switched to "Zombie Nation" this year like the rest of the world

. It seems that the general population is about 5 years late when it comes to techno.

**BigMeatballDave** · 07-11-2005, 12:04 PM

I'm surprised Manfred Mann's tune "Blinded by the Light" was not on this list. I love the song, but the lyrics are silly. Bruce Sprinsteen wrote it...

Spicy McHaggis · 07-11-2005, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by gochiefs

Love it. Screw you. Weird Al parody rocks too.

Maybe Vader someday later...

**cdcox** · 07-11-2005, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by BigChiefDave

I'm surprised Manfred Mann's tune "Blinded by the Light" was not on this list. I love the song, but the lyrics are silly. Bruce Sprinsteen wrote it...

And recorded it first.

I can appreciate lyrics that make an interesting sound even if I don't completely understand the meaning.

Rukdafaidas · 07-11-2005, 12:23 PM

The band I always thought was WAY overrated, but all my friends just loved, was the Police. I thought Every Breath You Take was decent, but the rest went like this:

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

If someone made me listen to one of their songs over and over for a few hours, I'd freaking kill someone. It's like Sting sat in bed, came up with a couple of verses, then just F___ it, that's good enough.

Sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS (send that fugger out and

)

Roxanne (Put on the red light)
Roxanne (Put on the red light)
Roxanne (Put on the red light)
Roxanne (Put on the red light)
Roxanne (Put on the red light)
Roxanne (Put on the red light)
Roxanne (Put on the red light)
Roxanne (Put on the red light)
Roxanne (Put on the red light)

SOMEBODY GET ME AN AXE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**cdcox** · 07-11-2005, 12:27 PM

By about '86 or so I realized that pop artists were no longer making very much music that I really liked. "Classic Rock" stations were even worse since they played the same songs over and over till I began no longer liking them. Now I don't listen to music on the radio very much at all. Once in a while my wife will buy a new CD that I like. I listen to those and old music that I like. Since I listen to pop music less than 10 hours a week, I never get sick of the old stuff.

07-11-2005, 09:41 AM
Dr. Johnny Fever stax of wax Join Date: Feb 2004 Casino cash: $10004900	13 most ever-rated songs of all time http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/07/06/100215.php I agree with most of this other than U2 and Def Lep... especially agree with Free Bird. 1. “American Pie” - Don McLean Listen... I understand it's a tribute to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper all dying in the plane crash, but the song could've easily been a fitting tribute at the four minute mark. I'd even take five. But nearly nine minutes? Number one on my list of most annoying pub sing-a-long songs - best time to take a piss or a cigarette break outside. Selected by Drake of Thus Spake Drake 2. “Light My Fire” - The Doors There are some words that do not belong in a rock song. “Pyre” is one of these words. “Mire,” and “wallow” also fall into the category. All three of these words are featured prominently in the Doors “Light My Fire.” For some inexplicable reason, the Doors are viewed as some sort of spiritual counterpoint to the more hedonistic examples of rock decadence in the 60s. But “Light My Fire” illustrates an almost paralyzing lack of any redeeming qualities, a fact that seems to have been overlooked by critics and fans alike for more than three decades. Bands that feature a piano or keyboard prominently are generally pretty goofy to begin with, but Ray Manzarek’s circus riff and odd organ stabs are headache inducing. The opening figures are some of the most memorable in rock history, because, like “Stairway” for shoddy guitar players, many aspiring rock pianists pick it out on whatever keyed instrument they find themselves in front of. Also, the shambling mid-song guitar/organ breakdown is a relic of an age of psychedelic rock that mercifully has passed for all but the heaviest drug users of the present day. Lyrically, Jim Morrison’s poetry-set-to-music resembles the scribbling of someone who has just finished the Romantic Poetry section of their tenth grade English class. This doesn’t even cover the fact that in the chorus, “fire” is rhymed with “fire,” the second of which is delivered with a strangled bellow that is supposed to convey some sort of passion that is missing in Morrison’s morose and flat delivery during the rest of the song. Also, “girl we couldn’t get much higher”? He sounds like an eight grader who just smoked some oregano he bought in the bathroom of the mall. Morrison is considered a rock god because he removed his pants in public, took too many drugs, and let disgusting overconfidence mask an obvious lack of talent. If this is what makes someone a rock god, then we all went to college with about 50 rock gods who now work at Morgan Stanley. “Light My Fire” is a novelty song of the psychedelic age. Somehow it has become tied up with equally inexplicable mythology surrounding Jim Morrison and received critical acclaim far beyond anything that it deserves. The gap between the adoration for “Light My Fire” and the intense awfulness of the song is so large, it’s easily one of the most overrated pieces of popular music created in a long time. Selected by Morgan from Earvolution.com 3. “Free Bird” - Lynyrd Skynyrd One of the most overrated songs in rock history has to be Lynryd Skynryd's "Freebird." The song has good intentions; it is dedicated to the memory of fellow southern rocker Duane Allman. However, the good intentions have gone bad. It is now one of the ultimate rock cliches. Anyone, who has ever attended a rock concert, will almost certainly hear someone yell out, "Freebird." The song has become a parody of itself. Unfortunately, I have to report that this disturbing trend may have its origins in Chicago, my hometown. There are many theories as to how this annoying habit started, one common thread among them involves The Brady Bunch, an overrated TV show, and a Chicago radio personality. I would like to quote no less an authority than the Wall Street Journal: “Kevin Matthews is a Chicago radio personality who has exhorted his fans -- the KevHeads -- to yell "Freebird" for years, and claims to have originated the tradition in the late 1980s, when he says he hit upon it as a way to torment Florence Henderson of "Brady Bunch" fame, who was giving a concert. He figured somebody should yell something at her "to break up the monotony." The longtime Skynyrd fan settled on "Freebird." saying the epic song "just popped into my head." But he bemoans the decline of "Freebird" etiquette. "It was never meant to be yelled at a cool concert -- it was meant to be yelled at someone really lame," he says. "If you're going to yell "Freebird" yell "Freebird" at a Jim Nabors concert." Maybe it is time to start a new trend. What songs can drunken, obnoxious, morons, request in the 21st century? How about a Jim Nabors song or the antithesis of "Freebird's" long winding jam session? How about a short intense hardcore punk song, (by the way I like this style of song in small doses) such as the Circle Jerks' "What's Your Problem?" I can hear it now..... "What's Your Problem?.....What's Your Problem?....What's Your Problem?" Selected by Mr. Bond of Covalent Bond 4. “Hey Ya!” – Outkast Ya, Ya, Ya, I know Outkast’s 2003 album “Speakerboxxx/The Love Below” was on top of a myriad of critic’s “best of” lists, even leaving the Onion A.V. Club to proclaim Outkast's Andre 3000 and Big Boi the “Lennon and McCartney of hip-hop” The Lennon and McCartney of hip-hop? Quick my pills…. “Hey Ya!’s basic 4 chord (G,D,C,E) repetitive structure sounds like it was recorded in a guitar 101 class. Not that there’s anything wrong with 4 chord songs per se, but this one is strummed without any sense of dynamics, much like the way my two year old daughter bangs her toy drum. I think there’s an attempt at melody since the track is a combination of “singing” and talking as opposed to rapping. What that melody is however, escapes me. Well, can you hum it? It doesn’t end here though. It’s the lyrics that put this over the top. “Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa.. (Don't want to meet your daddy, OHH OH) Heeyy Yaaaaaaaa.. (Just want you in my Caddy OHH OH) Heeeyyy... Yaaaaaaa.. (OHH OH, don't want to meet yo' mama OHH OH) Heeyy Yaaaaaaaa.. (Just want to make you cumma OHH OH)” “Just want to make you cumma”? Are they serious? Case closed. Selected by Robert of the Radish 5. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” - Def Leppard In an age of overrated songs 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' rose to the occasion. Has anyone listened to the lyrics? "Mirror queen, mannequin, rhythm of love.. Do you take sugar? one lump or two?" It makes absolutely no sense. And the drums might as well be a beat box, or a late 80's Casio keyboard with the 'Rock Drum' button to play along with. The guitar riffs are bland, and for some reason Joe Elliot is trying to passionately scream words like 'saccharine'. It just doesn't work, but for some reason people love this song. I guess it's the loud kick and the double tracked vocals. Selected by Bryan of Liquid Rivet 6. “Wonderwall” – Oasis The press was declaring them the second coming of the Beatles, but Lennon/McCartney never wrote anything this sappy. Selected by the FIQL team 7. “Memory” - Andrew Lloyd Webber The toughest part of this challenge was to define overrated. Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical, entitled “Cats”, received numerous awards and was shown live for years and years. Why??? Could it be the tights and the dancing? The story?? The music? I just don't get it. Someone please help me!! Selected by Pantagruel, everlasting rhaplink poster on the Radish Message Board 8. “Bohemian Rhapsody” – Queen Back in May the British selected "Bohemian Rhapsody" as their "favorite single of all time." Now they've done it again, with "BoRhap" taking top honors in the Official UK Charts Company Top 50 #1 Singles of the last 50 years. Allow me to say that I despise "Bohemian Rhopsody" with a fervor that makes want to crush something, anything British. How perverse can one nation be? I HATE every possible aspect of that song: from the nonsensical pretentious lyrics, to the nauseating waves of overdubbed choral vocals, to Freddie Mercury's lisping diva lead, to the wretchedly awkward lurching from (bowel) "movement" to (bowel) "movement." Even the rock-out part near the end that I could at least tolerate when it first came out now sounds utterly artificial, strained, grafted-on, and stupid. I loved, really LOVED the first Queen album, but there was no way to ever take Queen seriously again after that song, which was okay because the group pretty well sucked ass from that point on anyway, but I remember the sick feeling in my stomach when that poodle puke dribbled out of my friend's stereo. I had to go take a nap, and I had really bad dreams. Selected by Eric Olsen of Blogcritics.org 9. “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For” - U2 I wanted to pick something I was really familiar with I considered something like 'Brown Eyed Girl' which is far from Van's best work - and for me Rolling Stone ranking at 109 is high...but again I can understand the rating. It is one of the catchiest songs ever with all those "Sha La La"s. "Money" from Pink Floyd was another option - one of the weakest songs yet most played from "Dark Side of the Moon" - but it is still a damn good song and I can still understand why it is on the list. But finally I went with the U2 song,. "I Still Haven't Found What I am Looking For". I do own the CD. I quickly got tired of that song. I am not going to criticize it beyond that. Music likes and dislikes are a very personal thing and what may seem pretentious to me may be meaningful to somebody else. It just didn't' work for me. Selected by Mark Munroe of Musicrocker 10. “Totally Wired” - The Fall Trailblazing indie rock sacred cows the Fall are generally lauded as cooler than anybody. Well, 50,000 Fall fans can kiss my ass. Sure, Pavement's first album is a wholesale appropriation of the Fall's sound. But Pavement moved on to different sonic pastures on four subsequent records, while the Fall have recorded over forty albums of this annoying claptrap. If being the first band to combine stunted chops and speaking lyrics because you can't sing makes you unassailable musical pioneers, then bravo to the Fall. (Now will somebody please bring a shoehorn to help me extract this tongue that seems to have lodged itself in my cheek?) Selected by Jshifty of Ribaldry & Schmaltz 11. “Born To Run” - Bruce Springsteen It likely won't make me any friends, but I've picked "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen. It may be a result of preconceived music tastes, but The Boss's everyman rock just doesn't resonate with me at all. "Born to Run" sounds like Bruce has just run a marathon and now he's trying to sing, with its breathless lyrics and insistent chiming. What place do those chimes have in a rock song? Sir, step away from the xylophone. "Strap your hands 'cross my engines"? Please. There's nothing here for me to hold onto. Keep on running, Bruce, I'll take a pass on this one. Selected by Amanda of Rhapsody in Blog 12. “Chewing Gum” – Annie Every critic is ranting and raving about Annie and even the almighty online indie rag Pitchfork gave this particular song #11 on the best singles of 2004 chart, but I just don't get it. This song sounds like some of the worst drivel from the late 80's/early 90's when dance pop was dying a slow death. Nothing to this song at all. "Oh no, oh no/You've got it all wrong/You think you're chocolate but you're chewing gum." Are you kidding me? At least her song "Heartbeat" has a melody and some sort of emotion... Selected by Chris Anderson of worthymusic.net 13. “Imagine” – John Lennon "Imagine" was a top-10 hit in 1971, and received enormous airplay when Lennon died. As a result, it has come to represent Lennon; it's a signature tune and a symbol of both Lennon the artist and Lennon the man. However, if one ruthlessly strips away sentiment and sympathy, "Imagine" is actually one dreary song, not among Lennon's best. "Imagine" is an amelodic dirge really, with lyrics cribbed from the communist manifesto. Its Phil Spector production is murky, it's not hummable, and it's too soupy for rock, but too joyless for pop. It's not even the best on the Imagine album; the very next track on side 1, "Crippled Inside" (not a single) far better captures what Lennon was all about: it's playful, jaunty, ironic, tongue-in-cheek, absurd, and catchy-- a far more fitting Lennon tribute. Selected by uao of Freeway Jam
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07-11-2005, 10:25 AM	#17
siberian khatru 21st Century Schizoid Fan Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: The Gates of Delirium Casino cash: $2274950	"Wonderwall" is overrated. Some of the others, though, are good songs that have just been overplayed.
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07-11-2005, 10:25 AM	#18
StcChief Playing for #1 Draft Pick Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Just West of Lambs land Casino cash: $10004900	Actually most everything made since late 70's was overrated and hyped is 'new' sound rock,rap, whatever. Mostly just crappy music. __________________ sig test for this screwy schema
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07-11-2005, 10:36 AM	#22
Jenson71 fides quaerens intellectum Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: United States Casino cash: $8330900	Like Oasis, I never really understood what was so great about The Clash's London Calling.
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07-11-2005, 11:55 AM	#23
BigMeatballDave GBM 8-12-15 Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Dayton, Oh. Casino cash: $10052154	5. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” - Def Leppard In an age of overrated songs 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' rose to the occasion. Has anyone listened to the lyrics? "Mirror queen, mannequin, rhythm of love.. Do you take sugar? one lump or two?" It makes absolutely no sense. And the drums might as well be a beat box, or a late 80's Casio keyboard with the 'Rock Drum' button to play along with. The guitar riffs are bland, and for some reason Joe Elliot is trying to passionately scream words like 'saccharine'. It just doesn't work, but for some reason people love this song. I guess it's the loud kick and the double tracked vocals. I loved this song when I was a kid, having just graduated from HS, and all. Great party song. Now, eh, I'm so sick of it... __________________ 2015 Adopt-a-Chief: Tamba Hali
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07-11-2005, 12:04 PM	#26
BigMeatballDave GBM 8-12-15 Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Dayton, Oh. Casino cash: $10052154	I'm surprised Manfred Mann's tune "Blinded by the Light" was not on this list. I love the song, but the lyrics are silly. Bruce Sprinsteen wrote it... __________________ 2015 Adopt-a-Chief: Tamba Hali
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07-11-2005, 12:23 PM	#29
Rukdafaidas lifelong Chiefs survivor Join Date: Mar 2003 Casino cash: $4689900	The band I always thought was WAY overrated, but all my friends just loved, was the Police. I thought Every Breath You Take was decent, but the rest went like this: Don't stand, don't stand so Don't stand so close to me Don't stand, don't stand so Don't stand so close to me Don't stand, don't stand so Don't stand so close to me Don't stand, don't stand so Don't stand so close to me Don't stand, don't stand so Don't stand so close to me Don't stand, don't stand so Don't stand so close to me Don't stand, don't stand so Don't stand so close to me Don't stand, don't stand so Don't stand so close to me Don't stand, don't stand so Don't stand so close to me If someone made me listen to one of their songs over and over for a few hours, I'd freaking kill someone. It's like Sting sat in bed, came up with a couple of verses, then just F___ it, that's good enough. Sending out an SOS Sending out an SOS Sending out an SOS Sending out an SOS Sending out an SOS (send that fugger out and ) Roxanne (Put on the red light) Roxanne (Put on the red light) Roxanne (Put on the red light) Roxanne (Put on the red light) Roxanne (Put on the red light) Roxanne (Put on the red light) Roxanne (Put on the red light) Roxanne (Put on the red light) Roxanne (Put on the red light) SOMEBODY GET ME AN AXE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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07-11-2005, 12:27 PM	#30
cdcox www.nfl-forecast.com Join Date: Sep 2000 Casino cash: $2211769	By about '86 or so I realized that pop artists were no longer making very much music that I really liked. "Classic Rock" stations were even worse since they played the same songs over and over till I began no longer liking them. Now I don't listen to music on the radio very much at all. Once in a while my wife will buy a new CD that I like. I listen to those and old music that I like. Since I listen to pop music less than 10 hours a week, I never get sick of the old stuff.
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