Most overrated songs ever...

[Dissident]

Talking about things you don't like is overrated.

[Failed Creation]

I don't get most 80s music.
Not sure if it's overrated, but I just don't get most of it.

Actually now I think about it, it's the hype that's overrated, not the song/artist.

I love Hanson.

I tend to think we 'get' music from our generation, more so than others. Hell knows I'm still on a 1990s trip...

I 100% agree about your hype statement. I think that calling something 'overhyped' as opposed to 'overrated' is way more fitting. We should change the title of the thread to that.

[Dissident]

I think there is more music that is underrated than is overrated. By almost 100 to 1.

[Failed Creation]

Mike Patton is underrated.

AGREED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dissident]

90's is my favourite era (inclusive of the start of the 2000s)
Followed by the 70s
Then 60s
Then 50s
Then 40s

[The Dark Knight]

Case in point.

I don't particularly like U2.
But I don't consider them overrated.

A difference in taste does not directly correlate to being overrated

Exactly, I think some people have got confused with this topic.

Some bands have songs that were/are massive and very popular but I think they have much better material than that particular song, eg. Hey Jude as TSG just posted, All the Small Things, Satisfaction and Bohemian Rhapsody.

I like those songs and will always sing along to them but I think The Beatles, Blink, Stones and Queen have better songs than those examples.

[Dissident]

Mike Patton is underrated.

AGREED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I only said that to be in your good books...

[Dissident]

Yes, I agree.

Massive Pearl Jam fan - but I really can't stand listening to Betterman more than once every two years.

[Failed Creation]

90's is my favourite era (inclusive of the start of the 2000s)
Followed by the 70s
Then 60s
Then 50s
Then 40s

For me:
90's
light years
80's (especially in metal)
70's
60's
50's

[Failed Creation]

Mike Patton is underrated.

AGREED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I only said that to be in your good books...

No need to impress me, for I am just a young bootlick.

[Dissident]

I don't really like Satisfaction either. Middle of the road song.

Don't really like "finite" lists of best songs anyway. So subjective.

I remember Eddie Vedder saying something when they won video of the year for Jeremy - mentioned he wasn't sure how you could judge art.

[Failed Creation]

Yes, I agree.

Massive Pearl Jam fan - but I really can't stand listening to Betterman more than once every two years.

Spot on, and Daughter too. Rearviewmirror is totally underrated though.

[Dissident]

90's is my favourite era (inclusive of the start of the 2000s)
Followed by the 70s
Then 60s
Then 50s
Then 40s

For me:
90's
light years
80's (especially in metal)
70's
60's
50's

I don't consider metal as 80s I guess.
I was more so thinking of that definite "80s" style.
I do love metal though.
I was probably tarring the 80s with too large of a brush.

[Failed Creation]

Case in point.

I don't particularly like U2.
But I don't consider them overrated.

A difference in taste does not directly correlate to being overrated

Exactly, I think some people have got confused with this topic.

Some bands have songs that were/are massive and very popular but I think they have much better material than that particular song, eg. Hey Jude as TSG just posted, All the Small Things, Satisfaction and Bohemian Rhapsody.

I like those songs and will always sing along to them but I think The Beatles, Blink, Stones and Queen have better songs than those examples.

Spot on mate.

[Dissident]

Yes, I agree.

Massive Pearl Jam fan - but I really can't stand listening to Betterman more than once every two years.

Spot on, and Daughter too. Rearviewmirror is totally underrated though.

Daughter is better than Betterman, but yes.

Reason I do like daughter is that I believe it's a sequel to RVM.
(I wrote about it on a Pearl Jam mailing list in the late 90s)

Blood is underrated.

[Dissident]

My guilty pleasure is listening to my vinyl copy of the Daughter single.

But only because I play the live version of Yellow Ledbetter over and over again.

"We're gettin' Yellow Ledbetter requests, we could play that..."

[The Dark Knight]

Yes, I agree.

Massive Pearl Jam fan - but I really can't stand listening to Betterman more than once every two years.

Pearl Jam is my favourite band, love them to death and while I like Betterman I think it is overrated, they have better songs than it. I find myself always skipping it when it comes on my Ipod.

[Failed Creation]

Yes, I agree.

Massive Pearl Jam fan - but I really can't stand listening to Betterman more than once every two years.

Spot on, and Daughter too. Rearviewmirror is totally underrated though.

Daughter is better than Betterman, but yes.

Reason I do like daughter is that I believe it's a sequel to RVM.
(I wrote about it on a Pearl Jam mailing list in the late 90s)

Blood is underrated.

Agreed. What about Hail, Hail? That song should've been HUGE.

[Failed Creation]

My favourite Black Sabbath album is easily Born Again , but it's largely underrated.

[The Dark Knight]

I remember Eddie Vedder saying something when they won video of the year for Jeremy - mentioned he wasn't sure how you could judge art.

I remember that, saw it on a PJ doco or PJ20 maybe. He hated it, left everyone quite shocked from memory.