Most Overrated Rock Song of all Time

[OrnotBitwise]

I'm not talking about hits from hell here. No Muskrat Love or anything like that. I mean drek that otherwise intelligent people seem to think has merit. Way too much merit.

Nominations are now open. I'm going to throw out two that bug the shit out of me, partly because they're always on the damned radio somewhere.

1) Roxanne, The Police. Give me a break, someone, please. Preferrably right in the middle of the CD. Brings all new meaning to the word "whiney."

2) Hey You, Pink Floyd. I was originally going to say "anything off The Wall" but then I remembered that some parts of it are tolerable. This thing, though, is a bloated, over-produced, pretentious sow of a tune. The cyst on the anus at the tail end of an otherwise brilliant body of work. Don't get me wrong: I love Pink Floyd. I'd say the earlier the better, except that I won't. Wish you Were Here, for example.

 

[Beefy]

Benny and the Jets - Elton John - It appears to me that this song was engineered to annoy, but I seem to be alone on it. Stupid lyrics, deplorable rhythm, no continuity, craphouse beat. I've always known that this song's popularity is a testament to how record companied dictate what the sheeple will listen to.

Take the Money and Run - Steve Miller - Never has a bunch of talentless hacks gove farther on less ability than this band, and this song is proof that people will listen to ANYTHING, if it ends up on a major label.

These are only the first two, but I think I'll be a major contributor to this thread.

 

[OrnotBitwise]

Benny and the Jets - Elton John - It appears to me that this song was engineered to annoy, but I seem to be alone on it. Stupid lyrics, deplorable rhythm, no continuity, craphouse beat. I've always known that this song's popularity is a testament to how record companied dictate what the sheeple will listen to.

Take the Money and Run - Steve Miller - Never has a bunch of talentless hacks gove farther on less ability than this band, and this song is proof that people will listen to ANYTHING, if it ends up on a major label.

These are only the first two, but I think I'll be a major contributor to this thread.

I agree with both of those. Either will cause me to reach for the Scan button in the car.

 

[Damocles]

Wheel In the Sky - Journey

 

[Dixie - In Memoriam]

Are you kidding Beefy, Benny and the Jets was a masterpiece, released at the peak of Elton John and Bernie Taupin's success. The brilliantly crafted yet familiar piano melody, to the catchy and quirky lyrical content...

...The spotlight's hitting something
That's been known to change the weather

...She's got electric boots a mohair suit
You know I read it in a magazine

...We shall survive, let us take ourselves along
Where we fight our parents out in the streets
To find who's right and who's wrong.

Sorry, but I think it is one of Elton's greatest hits.

My vote goes to, Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana.

 

[Beefy]

Wheel In the Sky - Journey

Good one. Another Journey Masterpiece of shit - Seperate Ways (Worlds Apart) - You know, that horrifying abortion of music with the "Someday, love will find you" refrain.

 

[Beefy]

Are you kidding Beefy, Benny and the Jets was a masterpiece, released at the peak of Elton John and Bernie Taupin's success. The brilliantly crafted yet familiar piano melody, to the catchy and quirky lyrical content...
.......


Sorry, but I think it is one of Elton's greatest hits.

Say it ain't so Dix. It is everything that has ever gone wrong with music clumped into one festering blister.

 

[Immanuel]

Most over-rated rock song?

Anything modern would fit that bill.

Immie

 

[Cancel7]

Are you kidding Beefy, Benny and the Jets was a masterpiece, released at the peak of Elton John and Bernie Taupin's success. The brilliantly crafted yet familiar piano melody, to the catchy and quirky lyrical content...

...The spotlight's hitting something
That's been known to change the weather

...She's got electric boots a mohair suit
You know I read it in a magazine

...We shall survive, let us take ourselves along
Where we fight our parents out in the streets
To find who's right and who's wrong.

Sorry, but I think it is one of Elton's greatest hits.

My vote goes to, Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana.

How could anyone put anything by Nirvana on a list like this? You just dont understand the song, you were probably already old and cranky when it came out.

I feel stupid, and contagious, here we are now, entertain us...

An athem to alienation. Nirvana is great. Heart shaped box...how can anyone hate Nirvana?

 

[Cancel7]

Say it ain't so Dix. It is everything that has ever gone wrong with music clumped into one festering blister.

Yeah, that's true, and I like Elton John. I've seen him with Billy Joel twice, and I will tell you, you will at many points not even remember that Joel is on the stage. This guy is really a charasmatic performer. But Benny and the Jets, ech.

 

[TheDanold]

How could anyone put anything by Nirvana on a list like this? You just dont understand the song, you were probably already old and cranky when it came out.

I feel stupid, and contagious, here we are now, entertain us...

An athem to alienation. Nirvana is great. Heart shaped box...how can anyone hate Nirvana?

Shit this is getting scary, Darlalaling likes Nirvana. That was like the biggest band for me in my teens. Cobain never really wrote any bad songs, albums were solid from first to last songs. After awhile and to this day I started liking a lot of the songs that weren't big hits.
"Big Long Now" I could listen to over and over, he had a way of naming his songs perfectly to match the tune.

Aren't you like 50 something Darla?

 

[TheDanold]

Ok so worst rock song, I give to KISS for
"I wanna Rock and Roll All Night".
I know it's a hit but I've always found it mobishly boring, even though Gene Simmons is cool.

 

[Beefy]

Yeah, that's true, and I like Elton John. I've seen him with Billy Joel twice, and I will tell you, you will at many points not even remember that Joel is on the stage. This guy is really a charasmatic performer. But Benny and the Jets, ech.

Yeah, I like John also, but Benny is a shitty assed, cookie cutter, piece of booger no matter who did it.

 

[Beefy]

Ok so worst rock song, I give to KISS for
"I wanna Rock and Roll All Night".
I know it's a hit but I've always found it mobishly boring, even though Gene Simmons is cool.

Yeah, that's a pretty bad song.

The Doors have had a couple of stinkers also - Crystal Ship. I'm convinced that anyone who claims to like that song is lying and trying to be deep by overanalyzing Morrison's juvenile poetry.

 

[klaatu]

I read through this thread and all I can say is what a bunch of neurotics! You dont like a song .... You dont sit there and whine for 3 minutes, you turn it off! And Beefy ... Steve Miller doesnt have ability? What the fuck is wrong with you ... try listening to Brave New World ... and then talk shit about Miller ..he is a highly regarded musician. Miller and Boz Scaggs are legends.
Bennie and the Jets is a pop tune written by a pop artist .. while it is not his best ..it comes off of one of the truly great Albums of alltime ..ka Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ...

But then again .. Im communicating with people who committed R&R sacrilege by knocking the Rolling Stones ....

 

[Beefy]

I read through this thread and all I can say is what a bunch of neurotics! You dont like a song .... You dont sit there and whine for 3 minutes, you turn it off! And Beefy ... Steve Miller doesnt have ability? What the fuck is wrong with you ... try listening to Brave New World ... and then talk shit about Miller ..he is a highly regarded musician. Miller and Boz Scaggs are legends.
Bennie and the Jets is a pop tune written by a pop artist .. while it is not his best ..it comes off of one of the truly great Albums of alltime ..ka Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ...

But then again .. Im communicating with people who committed R&R sacrilege by knocking the Rolling Stones ....

Steve Miller Band is one of the most overrated bands of all time. It's like you took a 14 year old kid who just got his first guitar, and is playing the most elementary, basic crap that anyone could play, and making an album out of it.

Believe it or not, I jammed with him in 1992 when I was 16 at my high school - Crespi Carmelite. His bandmate was married to the play director at Louisville High, our sister school (Crespi was all male, Louisville was all female), and he came to play at my school the same day that David Crosby gave an anti drug talk.

I was the captain of the musicians club and was asked improptu to play "In the Mood" with Steve Miller. He held his own, but he was no master of guitar. In fact after the jam, I told my buddy Pete "That is really Steve Miller?!"

His shit was all 1-4-5 and elementary pentatonic stuff. I listened to his music many times thereafter, and have never been impressed. He is a mediocre player at his very very best, and a hack at his worst. But the gut is flat overrated.

 

[Cancel7]

Shit this is getting scary, Darlalaling likes Nirvana. That was like the biggest band for me in my teens. Cobain never really wrote any bad songs, albums were solid from first to last songs. After awhile and to this day I started liking a lot of the songs that weren't big hits.
"Big Long Now" I could listen to over and over, he had a way of naming his songs perfectly to match the tune.

Aren't you like 50 something Darla?

Yes! And fat, and I have a mole and black hair on my chin. My likes are Nirvana, Ho-hos, Ben-gay rubs, and my designer, Omar the tentmaker. My dislikes are, physical activity of any kind but especially hiking, men who want oral sex, and any shoe with a heel over one quarter of an inch.

Why do you ask Dano? (as if I didn't know)

Did you want to ask me to dinner? <coy look>

 

[Care4all]

Yes! And fat, and I have a mole and black hair on my chin. My likes are Nirvana, Ho-hos, Ben-gay rubs, and my designer, Omar the tentmaker. My dislikes are, physical activity of any kind but especially hiking, men who want oral sex, and any shoe with a heel over one quarter of an inch.

Why do you ask Dano? (as if I didn't know)

Did you want to ask me to dinner? <coy look>

see? i told you, that you would be getting along just ''fine'' with all the dudes on this site! hahaha!

good morning!

care

 

[Cancel7]

see? i told you, that you would be getting along just ''fine'' with all the dudes on this site! hahaha!

good morning!

care

LOL

Good morning Care.

I just hope Dano, who is obviously smitten, is going to take me to one of them fancy all you can eat places, because those are my fav.

Have a good one.

 

[klaatu]

Steve Miller Band is one of the most overrated bands of all time. It's like you took a 14 year old kid who just got his first guitar, and is playing the most elementary, basic crap that anyone could play, and making an album out of it.

Believe it or not, I jammed with him in 1992 when I was 16 at my high school - Crespi Carmelite. His bandmate was married to the play director at Louisville High, our sister school (Crespi was all male, Louisville was all female), and he came to play at my school the same day that David Crosby gave an anti drug talk.

I was the captain of the musicians club and was asked improptu to play "In the Mood" with Steve Miller. He held his own, but he was no master of guitar. In fact after the jam, I told my buddy Pete "That is really Steve Miller?!"

His shit was all 1-4-5 and elementary pentatonic stuff. I listened to his music many times thereafter, and have never been impressed. He is a mediocre player at his very very best, and a hack at his worst. But the gut is flat overrated.

Did you ever think that Miller was just amusing the 16 year old and not trying to intimidate? Again .. pick up Children of the Future or Brave New World .. these albums were released before (i believe 1968&69) he jumped to the commercial stuff and are much more complexed and bluesy. The guy is a prodigy of Les Paul fo cris sakes.
As far as the commercial stuff .. I do like Jet Airliner ....