Really overrated pop songs

[Flat_Eric]

Far too many to mention but here's a few off the top of my head (and in no particular order) that have me reaching for the "skip" / "Off" buttons:

1) Imagine - John Lennon
2) Mull of Fucking Kintyre - Wings
3) Eternal Flame - The Bangles (buy any '80s / ballads / "soft rock" compilation CD and chances are this'll be on it)
4) Centrefold - J. Geils Band (another piece of crap that seems to find its way onto countless compilation CDs)
5) Feels Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
6) Like A Virgin - Madonna
7) Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (a revelation in '75 but it's been so done to death since to the point that I can't listen to it any more)
8) Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper (a poor man's Madonna)
9) Three Times A Lady - Commodores
10) She Loves You (yeah, yeah, yeah, woooooooo) - Beatles (possibly THE most overrated band ever??)
11) I Feel Good - James Brown
12) Jesus To A Child - George Michael (music to slash your wrists to)
13) Wonderwall - Oasis (another massively overrated bunch of charlatans with their heads very firmly up their own arses)
14) Su-Su-Sudio - Phil Collins
15) Walking Back To Happiness - Helen Shapiro (an oldie but baddie)

I could go on ............

[Flat_Eric]

Arginald Valleywater wrote:

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John (bless him) often raved about bands and toons that were decidedly - well - average. And yet anything that got his blessing seemed from then on to be regarded as sacrosanct and almost beyond criticism. JP liking it seemed to be like some ultimate seal of approval, and I could never quite get that.

[Flat_Eric]

Arginald Valleywater wrote:

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Agreed. What about "Burn", "Gypsy" (from the Stormbringer album), "Perfect Strangers", "Soldier Of Fortune", "You Keep On Moving"? Again I could go on.

[steve56]

bohemian rhapsody-queen.

[one eyed jack]

Man you guys are just harsh....Their all fookin great. Over rated by your standards maybe but where were you when it was voted as popular eh? EH????

I reckon most people voted withtheir wallets back in the day. Just cos you didnt dig it doesnt mean no one else does.

Still, this is your little corner so feel free to rant away. Its amusing.

[udcmm7]

Anything (except Slide Away & Some Might Say) by Oasis. The most overrated band in the world...ever.

[steve56]

well i like them .

[Ace]

warren zevon rip wrote:


>
> It is is the same childish scenario as being into e.g. the
> Smiths before they got famous then saying they were rubbish
> after they got on TOTP. Or those that pretend that the first 2
> Clash albums are as important as London Calling, which they say
> was a sell out.
>

If anything, the Clash's second album, 'Give 'em enough Rope' was the sell-out as it was over produced by American producer, Sandy Perlman, it went against everything punk was about. The REAL punk phenomena had 'died' by 1978 with friendly new wave music, because of this, Strummer and Jones went back to their initial appreciation of music with Jazz, Folk, Soul and Punk and re-defined their music, hence London Calling which is nothing less than a classic.

> My advice is "like music you like", regardless of what other
> people think, or how many people bought it. As you can see
> from my nickname, I like slightly more obscure artists as well
> as Beatles, Abba, Floyd, Queen, etc. It's all good if you like
> it

Spot on with this part though.....I can't stand some of the songs mentioned, however, they are classics and I doubt thta ANYONE on this forum could come up and write/arrange/record/produce and distribute with anything close to what would be deemed as a classic song