Overrated songs
 

Ok, I know there's a thread called "overrated bands", but i'd like to know some songs you guys think get way more attention than they deserve. I'm gonna have to say Hotel California. I like the song, don't get me wrong, I mean, it's decent. But the radio station i listen to had people vote for the top 1043 rock songs of all time and Hotel California got to #6, beating about 500 other songs that are IMO way better than that, like Let it Be, which was at #17. What do you think?

Led Zeppelin "Stairway To Heaven"
Weezer "Beverly Hills"
Hoobastank "The Reason"
Green Day "Boulvard Of Broken Dreams"
Bob Dylan "Like a Rolling Stone"
Fall Out Boy "Sugar Were Goin Down"
The Used "All That Ive Got"
Blood Houndgang(Every song they've ever done)

Any think by David Bowie

Anything By Metallica

Would you say he played it left hand, but made it too far?

Ziggy Stardust:)

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Seven Nation Army - White Stripes :)

Well Said Boo Boo!!!

Yeah, i still like that song though, but i think people give it way too much attention compared to the other WS songs off Elephant, its probably my least favorite song off that album in fact.

Well... see........i dont like the white stripes and when I see a song by any group..whether i like them or not is played that many times....it just gets annoying

Pink Floyd "Another Brick In The Wall II"

Yeah i feel that....again.....overplayed and i hate kids who are like "have you heard that song We dont need no education"....i feel like hitting them lol

The Who - Pinball Wizard

some stations i used to listen to said "Yeah, we play The Who" and they just play Pinball every time. Good song, but shouldn't be played as much as it is

That reminds me of all the kids who call Baba O'Riley Teenage Wasteland.

I'm gonna say it......*gulp*

Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana

They have better songs...I do not know why this is the one that is the eyes of MTV defines them

Hmmm nothing to do with the fact it was the first grunge song to hit the mainstream

It wasnt the first grunge song to hit mainstream...

What was then?

Sonic Youth had signed to Geffen before that record came out

Did they release the single that blew up and started the grunge revoution?

I'm not saying that SLTS didnt throw grunge into a whole nother level....it did, but the songs on Bleach were better and off Nevermind...almost everysong is better. I'm saying why was SLTS chosen to be the defining song and not another, better song

MTV didn't force nirvana to put out smells like teen spirit it was their choice to record that video and release that song as a single.

I understand that. That song is not good though....they have better. Why was that song chosen...

Nothing to do with the lyrics reaching out to the youth of course :rolleyes:

And their other songs don't.......and that are better

EDIT:WTF am i trying to say......let me re phrasse...

They have other songs that do as well....and that are better

List them and they have to be from nevermind.

Sonic Youth are not grunge.

Metallica - Enter Sandman
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Greenday - Amreican Idiot, Boulevard, Jesus, basically the whole of American Idiot.
Foo Fighters - Best of You
Audioslave - Be Yourself
U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, the album.
Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills
Coldplay - Speed Of Sound, Fix You, pretty much all their hits:(
Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
Rammstein - Du Haast

You really put a lot of thought into that one didnt you? :rolleyes:

My point is...

Nirvana may have been the first band to take grunge to the mainstream, but they did not invent it. Others did it earlier and better. Smells like Teen Spirit became their revolutionary, ground-breaking single...but really, what ground did it break. The only thing that changed was the label on the CD case. Green River and Soundgarden were making grunge music 6 years before Nirvana and they have songs just as good if not better than SLTS.

Nirvana started grunge, it wasn't a genre it was a movement. Kicking off the movement would be starting it.

Ok

Drain You
Lounge Act
In Bloom
Breed
Lithium

All are better than SLTS and just as "grungy"

How you define a good song is subjective, of course many people consider it a good song, why is that so ****ing hard to believe?... Its got a nice catchy riff with a bassline to match, a catchy as hell verse and a great hook... Have you ever took the time to accept that maybe thats all a good song needs?...And im sure the songs generation x message played a part as well...Admit it, once upon a time you ****ing loved this song, until the damn radio and MTV kept playing it over and over and you got sick of it, so blame them, not the band. You are just jumping on a trend that got tiresome years ago, it dosent make you look cool, deal with it.

In Blood a song the youth can relate too?!?!

Sell the kids for food
Weather changes moods
Spring is here again
Reproductive glands

He's the one
Who likes all the pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
And I say aahh

We can have some more
Nature is a whore
Bruises on the fruit
Tender age in bloom



Nope 'fraid not.

Nirvana did not start grunge. Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone, Green River, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, were all grunge bands and were all formed BEFORE Nirvana

Did you even read my post?
GRUNGE WAS A MOVEMENT.
IF A BAND KICKS OFF THE MOVEMENT
THEN THAT WOULD BE STARTING IT

Really what makes a grunge band grunge?

Flannel,Hair,Distortion,Seattle.

Load up on guns, bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
She's over bored and self assured
Oh no, I know a dirty word
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
I'm worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
And I forget just why I taste
Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard, it was hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind
hello, hello, hello, how low?
With the lights out it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My Libido
Yay, a denial

Tell me exactly what makes this youth relatable

Not entirely true, the grunge movement DID exist before Nirvana, however it was never popular outside of the local seattle area. The Melvins, Green River, Soundgarden and Mudhoney are some pre Nirvana grunge bands.


That being said, you are dead on right about one thing, which is the most important thing, no one would give a rats ass about grunge or any grunge band if it werent for Nirvana. They launched the movement and made it as huge as it was, they didnt just effect the music that was around at the time, but the rock star image and look as well, their influence is still quite present today, even if grunge is dead, Nirvana lives on. If thats not major impact, i dont know what is.

Honestly.
Read the lyrics its not that hard to figure out.

Then tell me......If all the bands I mentioned were around before Nirvana, and Nirvana started the movement, then what style of music were they before Nirvana came around.

And the first person to use the term "grunge" was Mark Arm of Mudhoney/Green River. And guess what...he used it to describe the music BEFORE Nirvana