Most overrated song in popular music since 1955

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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    BinFrog wrote:
    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 is 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.


    Sorry to say it, but I think Hey Jude could be THE most overrated song ever, yeah it may have the sing-a-long quality to it, but it's also an incredibly boring song both musically and lyrically, American Pie at least has plenty of detail in the lyrics.
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    facepollution wrote:
    Sorry to say it, but I think Hey Jude could be THE most overrated song ever, yeah it may have the sing-a-long quality to it, but it's also an incredibly boring song both musically and lyrically, American Pie at least has plenty of detail in the lyrics.


    Hey Jude boring lyrically? Do you know what it is even about?
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  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    BinFrog wrote:
    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.


    I completely agree with you on the Eagles too.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Not that I'd nominate Imagine, but I'm surprised it hasn't been nominated here. It's one of the great sacred cows of popular music that's given almost holy reverence and deference. Is it a visionary prayer, or a cynical and vacuous cash in on fading hippie platitudes at the start of the seventies?
  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    BinFrog wrote:
    Hey Jude boring lyrically? Do you know what it is even about?

    Didn't McCartney write it for Lennon's son? Yeah sorry, I don't find it that interesting, and the song drones on, and on, and on.....
  • dyaogirl
    dyaogirl Posts: 138
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Not that I'd nominate Imagine, but I'm surprised it hasn't been nominated here. It's one of the great sacred cows of popular music that's given almost holy reverence and deference. Is it a visionary prayer, or a cynical and vacuous cash in on fading hippie platitudes at the start of the seventies?

    Certainly in my mind a pure and brilliantly simple visionary prayer. :)
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  • transplant
    transplant Posts: 1,088
    what year was Elvis's Hound Dog? does it make the cut? If not I think Heartbreak Hotel sneaks in there.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    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 agree. not that it's bad, it's just kind of a boring song i think. i dont understand why it gets as much hype as it does.

    i also kinda agree with sweet home alabama. a good song and i like it, but it's by no means a stroke of genius.
  • bryn_cmbs
    bryn_cmbs Posts: 407
    Post rehab Aerosmith.
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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    bryn_cmbs wrote:
    Post rehab Aerosmith.

    HA HA! I always think of latter day Aerosmith as a fun time band, nothing more, nothing less....
  • Jellyrolls
    Jellyrolls Posts: 523
    Aerosmith - Walk this way





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  • Thumbing My Way
    Thumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    Kraven wrote:
    Here comes the Smells Like Teen Spirit bashing... I can smell it

    Haha funny, that's the first thing that came to mind...honestly
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