Most overrated rock and roll SONG/HIT

[TZ]

I'm gonna nominate Meatloaf's "I would do anything for love..but I won't do that"...I mean thats just stupid..:wtf:
Starships "We built this city on Rock n Roll" comes in a close second for just awfulness.....

[pokerfan]

1. a couple

http://www.youtube.com/v/Vp-is6S_b_g
http://www.youtube.com/v/okqEVeNqBhc

[HopeHoops]

2. "I'm a Little Bit Country. And I'm a Little Bit Rock-n-Roll"

Face it, anything by Donny and/or Marie is over-rated if it so much as REGISTERS a rating.

[Jetboy]

34. The Osmonds doing rock n roll is hilarious.

I think I saw Donnie singing 'Playing in a Traveling Band' on the Love Boat once. What do they say in the South? Bless his lil ol' heart!

[HopeHoops]

35. I received a great gag gift when I was in high school (late 70's).

Someone gave me a Donny Osmond album - the cover was him in a white suit with white baby grand piano and both were on railroad tracks. I found the irony rather sweet - COME ON TRAIN! I never opened it, and unlike most unopened albums, it is worth less on eBay now than it cost when my friends bought it from the cut-out bin at some record store.

[mitchum]

50. This is a hoot...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI32XXo

[Sebastian Doyle]

53. Hey, "Crazy Horses" almost rocked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiNnDpIW918
And the Osmond playing the Telecaster almost looks like Jimmy Page

[carlyhippy]

60. Hey, Down by the lazy river rocks!

haha
Carly

[pink-o]

3. First comes to mind is "Stairway to Heaven"

But that's not fair: it was just too overplayed and worshipped when I was young. Haven't heard it in years, and never want to again.

Even Led Zep don't love it as much as their real masterpiece: "Kashmir".

[Dr. Strange]

5. I like the way you think.

I feel the same about Stairway and about "Light My Fire."

[TZ]

12. Ooh it's good you have that Rush cred...

Or you wouldbe in such trouble with LynneSin for that one..;)

[LynneSin]

27. How would he be in trouble?

Most Led Zeppelin fans, the true fans, we hate Stairway

[TZ]

28. My mom is a "true" Zeppelin fan

has even been to a concert or two and she LOVES Stairway to Heaven..Her most favorite song actually...Why are you hating on my mom..:cry:

[Mythsaje]

55. Okay, guess I'm not a true fan.

Too bad. I like Kashmir just as much.

I can SING Stairway...

Ah, well... I'll just have to be a true RUSH fan or something. Damn. What a disappointment. Rejected.

[BeachBaby]

13. NOOOOOOO!!!!

You're hatin' on my Jim. You're toying with the DTBB list, babe. :cry:

[Dr. Strange]

18. Not really.

I love the Doors. But I do think that LMF is over rated. I much prefer Break on Through and Not to Touch the Earth.

[southpaw]

29. +1 on "Light My Fire"

and Steppenwolf's 'Born to be Wild'. The band and the song are both terrible.

[pink-o]

46. My favorite Doors Song ever: LA woman.

Just dripping with great atmosphere. Love it Love it Love it.

Oh, sorry! This is a thread about overrated, most loathed rock songs. Didn't mean to veer off-topic so badly!!!

[carlyhippy]

61. my favorite too

and I am a huge Doors fan.

[blue_roses_lib]

8. Oooo.... Kashmir

LOVE that song; it's one of my all time favorites :bounce: I would have to say anything that's overplayed, and that Meatloaf song, especially the LONG version gets a definite :wtf: out of me.

[carlyhippy]

62. Have you heard Kasmir played backwards? It sounds like a normal song backwards too haha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh6KaRaABVs

[Captain Hilts]

11. Agree. I NEVER want to hear it again. Ever. nt

[LynneSin]

26. Even Robert Plant would agree with you on that one

He hates that song.

[flvegan]

4. FREEEEEBIIIRRRRRD!!!

[AllieB]

6. I was just going to post that!

:o

I hate that freakin' song.

[TZ]

10. DTBB

I'll save her the effort of posting that..;)

[BeachBaby]

14. +44-6! Goddammit!!!!

[Kingofalldems]

7. Convoy

They even made it into a movie.

[Liberal Veteran]

9. Hotel California.

Bleh. Just bleh. The funny thing is, the rest of the album is pretty good, but I hate the title track.

[BeachBaby]

15. You already posted the first song I thought of.

"We Built This City". God - I remember when that came out. I was embarrassed for our generation.

[Release The Hounds]

16. With Or Without You

[Condem]

17. Not overrated, but on the list of songs out of nowhere.

Don't Fear The Reaper. Blue Oyster Cult never did anything like that before or after. Godzilla. I still hear it and wonder how?

[southpaw]

30. "Reaper" is a Donald 'Buck Dharma' Roeser song

Written and sung by Roeser, whereas most of their catalogue was primarily penned by and almost always sung by Eric Bloom.


Listen to BOC's 'Burnin' for You' which is also written and sung by Roeser. Much more in the 'Reaper' vein than, say, 'Godzilla' or 'Astronomy'

[Condem]

31. Thank you, southpaw

Good info

[southpaw]

33. Hope I dindn't come off as pedantic...

I can't really call myself a Blue Oyster Cult fan because I typically only like the BOC songs written and sung by Buck Dharma. With a few exceptions, I really don't care for the Eric Bloom stuff.

[Condem]

38. Not at all.

Always appreciate info.

[mitchum]

43. No...here's the TRUE story about the writing of "Don't Fear The Reaper"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dyNw0UfuVI
:)
something tells me that Sandy had also been listening to the Byrds. A lot.

[southpaw]

44. Ha!

Buck with a mullet wig and a fake mustache!

[Frank Cannon]

58. I had no idea that Buck Dharma sang that

I guess I just assumed that Bloom sang everything.

They have very similar voices, no?

[southpaw]

59. At times they do...

Buck sings in a smoother style in general and he tends to write harmony lines. Bloom is more the traditional classic-rock vocalist, but they sing in the same general vocal range.

I like Buck. Bloom's good at his thing, but, to me, Buck Dharma is BOC.

[stewartcolbert08]

19. Anything by AC/DC

Shook me all night long, Hells Bells........they are okay but not as great as everyone makes them out to be in my humble opinion! and it IS humble! LOL

[wickerwoman]

20. Billie Jean, Michael Jackson

#1 on Blender's list of top 500 songs since you've been born
#58 on Rolling Stone's top 500 songs of all time

Basically a lot of whooping and bubblegum pop about a stalker. Woo hoo.

[Tabasco_Dave]

21. Pinball Wizard by The Who

The Tommy album is a masterpiece but pinball is the weakest song on the album.

[Deep13]

39. Oh come on!

It is an existential masterpiece. You have to look beyond the plain meaning of the lyrics and see them as a metaphor for life in general. It is about the distractions of life and how they divert us from our goals.

[Dulcinea]

22. Stairway to Heaven and Free Bird.

I immediately change the station if either song comes on in my car. Both make my ears bleed.

[AngryAmish]

23. They Saved Hitler's Cock

[Throd]

37. If Hitler's cock could choose it's mate, it would ask for Sharon Tate

What is not to love?

[cherish44]

24. I'm gonna get trash but I"m going to say "Hey Jude"

I'm one of the biggest Beatles fans on the planet but I find it hard to believe that particular song became elevated to rock anthem status. The Beatles produces many songs that were way better than that one.

[Captain Hilts]

32. The Beatles are my favorite, but I agree about probably their top five songs.

I Want to Hold Your Hand - unless I'm watching a film clip.
Hey Jude
Let it Be
Yesterday
All You Need is Love

I'd like to hear MORE of:
Two of Us
I'm Only Sleeping
Norwegian Wood
All My Loving
I'm Looking Through You
Things We Said Today
She's So Heavy
If I Needed Someone

[XemaSab]

51. I have nothing but awkward memories about that song

x(

[billyoc]

25. Hey Jude.

[Iggo]

36. Hits are never overrated.

They may be awful, and lousy, and no goddam good. But they're never overrated.

[MissMillie]

40. "Old-Time Rock & Roll" by Bob Seger

actually, anything by Bob Seger

[Occam Bandage]

41. Anything by The Eagles.

"We built this city" is fortunately recognized by all of humanity as an atrocity, so it's not overrated.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

42. A little musical blasphemy here:

"We built this city" is actually well written and well crafted.

There are LOTS of hits that are much worse and far less melodic than that.

You want annoying? Either just bad songs or played to death???
Freebird, Freefallin', Muskrat Love.

Played to death: Dark Side of the Moon, Tapestry by Carole King, Morning has Broken (the Unitarian National Anthem ruined by Cat Stevens).

There are a whole lot more.

[jobycom]

45. This should be a good song list for us normal people.

Those of us who aren't motivated more by hatred of other people's pleasure than by our own musical preferences. :P

[madinmaryland]

47. Anything by Rush. 'nuff said.

[Mythsaje]

56. Blasphemy!

Get thee behind me, Satan!

[cherish44]

48. I like Stairway to Heaven

Well I DO, there I said it! :P

[Mythsaje]

57. Me too...

It's okay. It just means we're not "true" fans.

;)

[OmahaBlueDog]

49. "Free Fallin'" Tom Petty or "Jack & Diane" by John Cougar

"Everybody Wang Chung Tonight" should get an honorable mention

[Art_from_Ark]

52. "We Built This City" certainly is awful

as is "Seasons In The Sun" (does that even count as rock?).

And then there's Rocket Man by Elton John

"Mars ain't the kind of place to raise yer kids
In fact, it's cold as hell
And there's no one to raise them, if ya did"

:wtf:

[MrSlayer]

54. Born to Run.

That jackass wailing about sentimental nonsense like a constipated moose in heat. I don't get the whole Springsteen thing.

[carlyhippy]

63. Africa by Toto

I am so sick of hearing that song, I think I read somewhere it's the most played classic rock song on radio. I believe it.