Most overrated song in popular music since 1955

FinsburyParkCarrots
FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
edited March 2006 in Other Music
Is there any song that you often hear referred to as epoch-shattering, superlative and all-encompassing but which you don't "get"? A song that's supposed to sum up the whole mood of an era, of a people but doesn't speak to you much, if at all?

Do tell.
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  • Kraven
    Kraven Posts: 829
    Here comes the Smells Like Teen Spirit bashing... I can smell it
    32 shows and counting...
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Kraven wrote:
    Here comes the Smells Like Teen Spirit bashing... I can smell it


    Haha, I was fraught between Stairway To Heaven and Wonderwall, but now you come to mention it....
  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,094
    sweet home alabama....never liked that song
  • likepilateihaveadog
    likepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    mookeywrench wrote:
    sweet home alabama....never liked that song
    I hope Neil Young will remember
    how much better Powderfinger was than that shit song.
    Good call.
    Teamwork. Rawk. Pwnage. Infinite Possibilities. YIELD. Hells yeah.
  • dyaogirl
    dyaogirl Posts: 138
    Cause this is thrillahhhhh, thrillahhhhh nighttttttttt
    There ain't no second chance against the theeeeeeng with forty eyessssssss
    You know it's thrillahhhh, thrillahhhhh nighttttttttt
    You're fighting for your life inside a keeeellahhh, thrillahhhh tonightttttttttttttttttttttttttttt


    Yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stills scares meee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    '..... Ah! A perfect illustration of the poststructuralist paradox. Does the signifier "Merlot" correspond with the 'truth' of the bottle I polished off last night, or do we hold in our thoughts a different "signified" of bottle-of-Merlot-ness? Perhaps we're dreaming of the same bottle!" -FinsburyParkCarrots

  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    dyaogirl wrote:


    Yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stills scares meee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I always thought Crosby and Nash were scarier! ;):D
  • Kraven
    Kraven Posts: 829
    I never thought of Sweet Home Alabama, I concur! I hate that song...
    32 shows and counting...
  • ms11781
    ms11781 Posts: 88
    Not really groundbreaking or anything, but I never understood all the love for that Don McLean song "American Pie". I really can't stand it.
  • PearlJamHoosierfan
    PearlJamHoosierfan Posts: 68
    I love the Rolling Stones, but I gotta go with Satisfaction.....I know it is sometimes called the greatest rock song of all time, but it just doesn't do it for me.
    "Poopship
    Poopship destroyer
    On the poopship
    Poopship destroyer"
  • likepilateihaveadog
    likepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    ms11781 wrote:
    Not really groundbreaking or anything, but I never understood all the love for that Don McLean song "American Pie". I really can't stand it.
    He wrote that song in a booth in a restaurant in Saratoga, NY. There's a little plaque in the booth today...
    yeah, never really liked that one either.
    Teamwork. Rawk. Pwnage. Infinite Possibilities. YIELD. Hells yeah.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    likepilateihaveadog wrote:
    He wrote that song in a booth in a restaurant in Saratoga, NY. There's a little plaque in the booth today...
    yeah, never really liked that one either.

    I read somewhere about a guy who got a break supporting Don Maclean at some gig. The guy came onstage, and, er, played American Pie. Kinda disappeared after that. Fast. You live and learn, I guess....
  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    St-St-St-Stairway
    printf("shiver in eternal darkness\n");
  • boroff89
    boroff89 Posts: 786
    PearlJamHoosierfan wrote:
    I love the Rolling Stones, but I gotta go with Satisfaction.....I know it is sometimes called the greatest rock song of all time, but it just doesn't do it for me.

    I concur. I think it is an awful song. But then again, I think the Stones are the most overrated band of the last fifty years, so. . .
    It makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
  • JPS79
    JPS79 Posts: 148
    How about a band in general not just 1 song. Like the doors never could get what was so earth shattering and special about their music.
    Seems the more you make
    equals the loneliness you get
  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    ms11781 wrote:
    Not really groundbreaking or anything, but I never understood all the love for that Don McLean song "American Pie". I really can't stand it.


    I think it's an incredibly well written song, to fit that many pop culture references into a song is pretty impressive in my eyes. And to me it's like a little snap shot of the time it was written......

    A couple of songs that are really famous and have been for ages here in the UK are Wonderwall by Oasis, and Angels by Robbie Williams - both make me want to stick red hot pokers in my ears, I genuinely don't get what people see in them.
  • olderman
    olderman Posts: 1,765
    ice ice baby by vanilla ice somesuch nonsense
    Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
    As she slams the door in his drunken face
    And now he stands outside
    And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
    He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
    What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
    Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
    And his tears fall and burn the garden green
  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    olderman wrote:
    ice ice baby by vanilla ice somesuch nonsense

    Yeah, I'm not sure anyone even rates that song though, let alone overrates it......
  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    I definitely prefer the Eagles of Death Metal if I'm gonna listen to anything with "Eagles" in it.
    NERDS!
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    I can see why American Pie is such a popular song though, it's very Hey Jude-esque in that it's easy to sing along with and can get a whole room into it. Not that I like it 1/100,000th as much as I like Hey Jude, but I understand it.

    Many Eagles songs on the other hand...

    Yeah Hotel California has a pretty cool solo in it, but it's just such a boring song. Let alone Desperado and Tequila Sunrise and New Kid In Town (or whatever it's called). Blech.
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    Bon Jovi..............
    My Girlfriend said to me..."How many guitars do you need?" and I replied...."How many pairs of shoes do you need?" She got really quiet.

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