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...has got to be "Smells Like Teen Spirit" surely, no? Discuss.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

My vote is for "She sells sanctuary much" by the Cult.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Heretic!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

hrayyyyyyyyyy

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

brown eyed girl or anything else by Van Morrison

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

No one goes around suggestiing that "She Sells Sanctuary" changed the course of history, though.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Hotel the fuck California

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Imagine.

― Paul T, Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

OOooh....good one, Paul.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Rapper's Delight.

Worst rap record ever?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"Imagine", seconded.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything from Loveless

― hmmmm, Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

or Hey Ya!

― hmmm, Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck a bunch of that noise. Try "Anarchy in the UK".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"Happy Birthday To You."

― mike a, Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

.. but it's probably still Imagine.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

NOT WHILE "ANARCHY IN THE UK" EXISTS!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

imagine - i mean wtf - a junkie laying in his own filth in a white room in some mansion writing a song about absolutely NOTHING (imagine there is nothing it is easy if you try) - and somehow it turns into a world peace anthem? imagine wins, easy.

― jimmmy the doom saint, Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"Eighties"

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Imagine...

― ModJ (ModJ), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

What's wrong with 'Rapper's Delight'?!?!?!

― ENRQ (Enrique), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex in NYC preposterously OTM in the first place! I was thinking 'hope he says smells like teen spirit' as my slow-azz computer slowly opened the thread!

I would also like to suggest Yesterday by the Beatles. Now that is godawful

― M Carty (mj_c), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Imagine. Runner-up: American Pie.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Good god yes! American Pie! Why didn't I think of that one?

― M Carty (mj_c), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

anything by the sausage party boyds

― winstonsalem, Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Rappers delight - Dull, Boring, various bits nicked off other rappers, best rap record until the next one was made.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

If "Imagine" stays then throw "Walk on the Wild Side" up in this list as well post haste.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Imagine.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"I believe in a thing called love" in the over celebrated section...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, possibly This Charming Man.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, can we start a "only one thread with the word 'overrated' in the header per month" rule or something?

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

If I see "Imagine" mentioned on this thread one more time my head might actually literally explode.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

various bits nicked off other rappers

Hmm, tune familiar as well. Obviously 17min is pushing it. Which raps were stolen btw?

Oh -- 'Imagine'

― ENRQ (Enrique), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Bohemian Rhapsody i mean cod opera really take a step back and listen it is truly awful

― trevor johnson, Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Milkshake, Yeah, I Luv U, etc., at least as far as ILM sacred cows go.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i agree 'Rapper's Delight' is over-rated - rubbish plagiarised lyrics, i still quite like it tho

i think 'Imagine' is quite a well-written song, Lennon has done worse (but Macca's done even worse than that, heh)

i think 'hotel california' definitely, and robbie williams 'angel', and 'wonderwall'

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Eighties"

Har, Har and thrice Har, but once again...no one (except me, of course) is running around proclaiming "Eighties" to have been the spark that ignited a maelstrom of cultural change.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Trevor 100% OTM.

― Nick H (Nick H), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

IMAGINE WINS BECAUSE IT WAS VOTED THE "WORLD'S PEACE ANTHEM" and that lame-o Yoko had it played everywhere the anniversary of the day that Lennon died. FUCK I HATE THAT SONG!

personal points: my teacher once rented a billboard and plastered the words to imagine on it. IT'S ABOUT NOTHING. IT'S ABOUT A VOMIT-COLOURED JUNKIE GETTING LOST IN THE H-HOLE.

― Jimmy the Doomed Saint, Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Somebody should rent a billboard and plaster the lyrics of "Cadaveric Incubator of Endoparasites" by Carcass on it.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

WHAT SOME TEACHER SHOULD NOT DO IS FORCE KIDS TO SING 'IMAGINE' IN FRONT OF THE BILLBOARD TO SATISFY SOME SICK, CATHOLIC PEDEO THING ABOUT JOHN LENNON!!!!

― Jimmy the doom saint, Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Well reminding us of how much you hate Nirvana every other week sort of loses its intended effect after a while (intended effect being "canon-smashing revolution"; unintended yet prevalent effect being "pee on the popular kid's locker during gym class")

I gotta go to work so I'll shut up now; feel free to excoriate me for liking derivative trash. I like Atmosphere, so I got no cred to lose.

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Even if Lennon did intend it as such it is very hard to not interpret it as a peace anthem...which makes me wonder how many other songs have been interpretted as something entirely different from the songwriter's intent.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Who knows, maybe "Thong Song" was a cry for REVOLUTION!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

nicked bits: I don't have the article to hand, but there was one bit where the guy rapping uses most of some other guy's rap, even without changing the name included...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Heck, when Damon wrote "Woo Hoo", he wasn't thinking about ice hockey / whatever...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Well reminding us of how much you hate Nirvana every other week sort of loses its intended effect after a while

Get used to it, `cos it's never going to stop.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Better still, put the lyrics from "Imagine" up, but after they've been put through a h4x0r text convertor.

Hey nate, I like "Smells like Teen Spirit"!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

WHERE CAN I FIND THE TRANSLATOR OF WHICH YOU SPEAK NORMAN?

― JIMMY THE DOOM SAINT, Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

just for you!@#

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"imagine all the fucking people, fisting life in peace

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

imagine tehres no cou|\|treiz,
it isnt ahrd to do,
onthing to kill ro dei for,
no rleigion too,
maginE 4l7 the LAMERz
LviiNg l1Fe 1n peace!!!!!!111~~~~~ lololollolololo !!!!!!!!!!!!!1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11~~~ lololoolololo....

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the fistfucking world will live as one.

― I (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmm, hard to choose between Imagine and Smells like teen spirit so i'll second BOHEMIAN RHAPSODYAAAARGH

― detroit delinquent (nathalie), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't mean to needlessly worsen the bug up Nate's butt about Nirvana, but here's my point in full: I don't even think "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is a bad song....and from what I've read, it certainly wasn't composed to become the anthem it now is (but rather it was tossed off as a, to Kurt's mind, rather obvious tribute to the Pixies' style). My point was that what Nirvana were doing just wasn't all that original, but that because they did it with more of a knack for accessability, they lucked out and what started out as just another track became "the song that changed everything," as it is tirelessly referred to today. Well, it certainly opened the ears of some of the folks who up until then had been listening to Poison, Richard Marx and Bell Biv Devoe, but let's not pretend for a fuckin' nanosecond that Nirvana concocted that sound on their own, shall we?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"the genius is not the inventor but the person who convinces the world it is a good idea"

i forget who said that and i am paraphrasing anyway, but the point is does anyone really credit Nirvana with inventing anything anyway? i don't think so, credit for igniting why certainly

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm. Fair point, Stevem. However, I do think there is a large contingent of their fanbase that believe it all starts with Nirvana. That's what I object to.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

We Are the World.

― Tab25, Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Which is exactly why I'm so irked by "Anarchy in the UK" often being cited as having supposedly kicked off the punk rock movement or what the shit ever.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex, I agree that that song is overrated as any song can get. That makes me regret that one week it was my favorite song.

But, I thank God for that song at times. I mean, we'd still have hair metal around if that song didn't come out.

I always wonder what it would have sounded like and what would have happened if Chad Channing was still in the band.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Which is exactly why I'm so irked by "Anarchy in the UK" often being cited as having supposedly kicked off the punk rock movement or what the shit ever.

Yeah, Nickalyrical, it's the same syndrome.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" is several good songs squashed together to make an "epic" mess. The "hello hello" bridge is utterly redundant and pushes the song out to the overblown 5min+ length. I like the opening riff, but that's by the Kingsmen anyway. I think the two-note guitar bit over the bassline before the verses would've sounded good sampled in a 90s dance song but people were too scared to do it.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" has no redeeming features at all.

― Nick H (Nick H), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I like "Bohemian Rhapsody"

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but if "Smells..." had never taken off and was still a cult song by a relatively unknown band, you'd be creaming all over it.

― Tab25, Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but if "Smells..." had never taken off and was still a cult song by a relatively unknown band, you'd be creaming all over it.

I doubt it. I don't think I'd be as repelled by it, but I'd still brand it as derivative.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

If Nirvana were a relatively unknown band the songs I'd be creaming myself over would actually be "Territorial Pissings" and "I Hate Myself and Want to Die" probably.

Okay actual I cream myself over those songs anyway.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"Bohemian Rhapsody" has no redeeming features at all.

Actually, the heavy bit in it is quite good.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything by Paul Simon

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't listened to "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in a long time.

Maybe when my cousin visits me, I will. She likes that song.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"Endless Nameless"!

Gezz.

You can't understand one word Kurt says but I love the music!

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"Play that funky music whiteboy"

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe any No Doubt song?

I mean, how can you even like it in the first place, let alone it become a hit single?!

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

How can you not?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Gwen Stephanie

Her voice

Makes me want to kill her

She has a nice speaking voice

God awful singing voice

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

That stupid Led Zeppelin song. Y'know. The one about a stairway or something.

― Stupid (Stupid), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"Stairway to Heaven"?

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't mind Gwen's voice that much - it's mostly girls who mind her at all ;) 'Hella Good' is hella good

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Stupid otm

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh Hell no!!!

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

What does OTM stand for?

― Stupid (Stupid), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

On the money

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe any No Doubt song?

I mean, how can you even like it in the first place, let alone it become a hit single?!

:::sigh::::

Aja, you're not reading the question correctly. As No Doubt may be overrated, none of theirs songs qualify for the Most Overrated, Overglorified, Unjustly Celebrated Song of all time. They're simply a silly pop band. No one is holding them up on a pedestal of artistic achievement.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

...as they are Nirvana for "..Teen Spirit" or Lennon for "Imagine", etc.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmm i do wonder how high 'Don't Speak' figures on All Time Favourite lists for radio stations like Capital, Heart and Virgin now (it was huge at the time)...

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

You also said unjustly

The reason I think it might qualify is

NOT ONE OF THOSE SONGS IS DESERVING ENOUGH TO BE A HIT SINGLE

At least SLTS was a good song but it got too much attention.

No Doubt songs are bad and get lots of attention too. Maybe not as much but they don't even deserve 1/95 of the attention they get!

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks for hijacking my thread and running it into the ground, then.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

You're welcome.

I didn't hijack you're damn thread though.

I just put my opinions.

Do you hate opinionated people?

I bet if I had said any Hole song, you wouldn't mind.

I'm listening to Killing Joke2003. Don't bother me!

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

stevm otm

stevem otm
since when does having a "knack for acessability=lucking out"

thread title should read :
Single Most Overrated, Overglorified, Unjustly Celebrated Song of All Time That Just Wasn't All That Original, but that because they did it with more of a knack for accessability, they lucked out and what started out as just another track became "the song that changed everything SONG.

― winstonsalem, Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

alex is such a crybaby

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Then it would be, without question, "SLTS"

(x post)

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Aja, you're still not listening. This isn't about songs being merely overrated, this is about songs that are championed as being more significant in forging the path of popular culture than they rightfully deserve to be.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I.E. NO ONE is suggesting that "Don't Speak" changed the way people listen to music.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

than they rightfully deserve to be.

Yeah!

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

since when does having a "knack for acessability=lucking out"

I didn't equate them. Kurt's songwriting had a stubborn accessible streak, AND they lucked out via Sonic Youth's insistence that DGC sign them.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Too many hit songs off of Nevermind

Way too many. Just about the whole ablum

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"Imagine" popped into my head before I'd even finished reading the thread title. Ergo, that is the right answer.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 19 February 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

See, Charlie figured the premise of the thread out, Aja....

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Aja, Aja, Aja

You secretly love me!

Sure, I'll be your step daughter. You just have to be able to deal with my mom

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

No thanks.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Although it's not trumpeted about as such, I fully believe that "Ain't Nuthin Like a G Thang" had just as powerful an impact on modern music as did "Smells Like Teen Spirit". I still get all woohoo and shit when "...G Thang" comes on the radio though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 February 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

the reason i know and got into the pixies (who were a bit before my time) is because it so well known that smells like teen spirit was intended as a pixies pastiche...
i don't think anyone ever credits nirvana with inventing that sound,certainly no one who would hold smells like teen spirit up as anything special would be unaware of the pixies,the fact is,(and i much prefer most pixies songs to smells like teen spirit)that nirvana managed to take the sound and,when you or they like it or not,create a song that meant an awful lot to an awful lot of people...

― robin (robin), Thursday, 19 February 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Blowin' in the Wind

― maypang (maypang), Thursday, 19 February 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

If that song really was his tribute to the Pixies then it was a deep failure, seeing as the song sounds nothing like the Pixies. Great song though.

Doomie should come back to this thread and start typing in capitals about "Imagine" again, it sits unchallenged by any sane beign at the top of this rotten and diseased tree. It is a pompous bowl of truffle-fed wank by a complete unpleasant twat END OF.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 19 February 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

No thanks.

I understand. It's hard to deal with my mom.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I always thought that Teen Spirit sounded a lot like the Pixies' U-Mass but those the two songs came out so close to one another that it must've just been a coincidence.

― maypang (maypang), Thursday, 19 February 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Stevem's quote about the genius inventor is totally otm here. It IS true that Nirvana changed the music biz. Putting the word "alternative" on the lips of 50-somethings in suits who'd spent the previous ten years selling Tiffany, Michael Jackson and Gloria Estefan is not small potatoes. They may have been imitators, but so was Bill Gates.
That shitty John Lennon so owns this thread, there is no contest, except for maybe "Candle in the Wind", which is a similarly decent little ballad that has been highjacked by peaceniks and wedding DJ's the world over.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 19 February 2004 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

it's gotta be a tie between "Yesterday" by the Beatles...and "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 19 February 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i think any song that' s HUGELY celebrated is likely to have a bunch of things going for it

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 19 February 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Beat me to it...
I concur on "Yesterday." Yuck!

― direct_program, Thursday, 19 February 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

amateurist otm

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 19 February 2004 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"Makin' Whoopee"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"stan" by M&M. typical "literary" critics fave & crap piece of music.

― lovebug starski, Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue". I am a ginormous fan of this song, don't get me wrong, and it is a very good example of Miles' knack for gorgeous simplicity, but I really don't think it's one of his most distinct pieces of that era, and if any of his work from then should be singled out as a point at which jazz changed, I'm just not sure this song should get that credit.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"nights in white satin" may not qualify for "single most," but it comes close.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Killing Me Softly, The Fugees.

Begat an aberrantly joyless epoch of pop singles which featured unmusical, lazily skeletal arrangements, divas with seemingly uncontrollably melismatic vocal styles and - most irritatingly of all - useless blokes gruffly muttering "uh, uh" in the background.

Fuck them and the horse they rode in on.

― Palomino (Palomino), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha. I enjoyed that thoroughly.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

actually yeah i do find that song notably joyless

but i dont even like the original version

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure American Pie has come up.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

this would be the most boring thread ever if it didn't have such stiff competition from all the other "[band more than 3 ppl like] = overrated tosh" threads.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

American Pie
Anything by Mellancamp
Anything off of Vitalogy

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Friday, 20 February 2004 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Seeing as how the song in question exposed yours truly to a vast spectrum of great music and even better poetry (Joy Division, Pixies, et al), I hardly see how it could be 'overrated.' After all, I am going to change the world for the better.

― JesusMaryChain, Friday, 20 February 2004 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Not with poetry you ain't.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 February 2004 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

LIKE A ROLLING STONE

Dylan, eat yr heart out!

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 20 February 2004 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

OHH OHH WAIIIIIT

STAIRWAY TO FUCKIN' HEAVEN

yep, that would probably be my real choice if I had to narrow it down

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 20 February 2004 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"Not with poetry you ain't."

What about with water slides and lemon jello?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 20 February 2004 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe too brit an example but that fucking La's song, is it "there she goes"? Inoffensive three minutes of guitar jangles, but a ridiculous number of people appear to think it's the second coming...

― Jacob (Jacob), Friday, 20 February 2004 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

isnt imagine about socialism?

― juiceboxxx (juiceboxxx), Friday, 20 February 2004 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

It's about a future where gelatinous desserts and water-soaked sheets of cellophane make people happy.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 20 February 2004 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Love Will Tear Us Apart". Turn the fuckin' heater on.

― dave q, Friday, 20 February 2004 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

but the delicate subtext of that song is that the heater is broken

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 20 February 2004 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

How are the lyrics to "Rapper's Delight" plagiarised?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 20 February 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

check it out, i'm the c-a-s-an-the-o-v-a
and the rest is f-l-y
ya see i go by the code of the doctor of the mix
and these reasons i'll tell ya why

these lyrics were nicked wholesale from another rapper actually called Casanova Fly

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 20 February 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

the majority of Rappers Delight lyrics is bordering on Blondie 'Rapture' naffness, even for the time

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 20 February 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, well.

― NERQ (Enrique), Friday, 20 February 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

deffinately rappers delight, that's a piece of shit.

― silent bob, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i was gonna post "nights in white satin" but i did a ctrl+f first to see if anyone else said it. i said it, it turns out.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

ah but it's about HEROIN do you see

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Aretha

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck i meant to quote

Maybe too brit an example but that fucking La's song, is it "there she goes"? Inoffensive three minutes of guitar jangles, but a ridiculous number of people appear to think it's the second coming...

before posting that

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Since Imagine has already been taken, got to be Losing My Religion or Everybody Hurts, whichever is more overrated and has further to fall.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

If it's not 'Teen Spirit', it could be Bob Dylan - 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door'. My God, what a turgid self-important piece of unimaginative strumblebumming that song is.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"Teen Age Riot"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"How Soon Is Now?" I mean, yeccch.

― Lewis J. Bateman (Lewis Bateman), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"God Save The Queen" (no, not UK's National Anthem)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

hoiw the fuck is nights in white satin sabout heroin?

my vote is for fucking any grime xsomnf siong sonmg ever recorded.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

no no scratch that. mty vpte is for aNYTHING SIMON REYNOLDS LIKES.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

oph waity. the thread says "SINGle MOST OVERRted..." so i gotta choose one song, don't I? OK them, i choose galang by mia.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

hoiw the fuck is nights in white satin sabout heroin?

It isn't - Cindy corrected herself shortly afterwards. "There She Goes" is the smack-hymn to which she was referring.

I'm still yet to read a convincing argument on this thread to topple "Imagine" from its tippermost-of-the-toppermost position.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 30 December 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Rock Around The Clock

Now, only clueless British news journos would claim this was the first rock 'n roll song, but it probably was the first one many British people heard. Doesn't make it especially significant - when you see Bill Haley lumped in with Little Richard, Elvis, Chuck Berry et al on these tacky rock 'n roll shows, it's like wtf?

It's not without charm, but Hank Williams' Move It On Over, which it shamelessly rips off, rocks much harder and has an awesome guitar solo to boot.

― stew, Thursday, 30 December 2004 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe london calling?

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Thursday, 30 December 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

'Hey Hey My My' (Rock and roll will ne - ver die)....obsequious rubbish, deemed critic-proof becuause as the man says 'this is a tribute to Johnny Rotten'.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Thursday, 30 December 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

brown eyed girl or anything else by Van Morrison

amen!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 30 December 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Deep Purple's 'Dan Dan' song also has strong claims.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Thursday, 30 December 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

anything and everything by that ridiculous charlatan bob dylan.

and imagine. which is such an imbecilic song that i'm not entirely convinced it isn't actually a piss-take.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

'Hey Hey My My' (Rock and roll will ne - ver die)....obsequious rubbish, deemed critic-proof becuause as the man says 'this is a tribute to Johnny Rotten'.
-- Fred Nerk (phurt196...), December 30th, 2004.

Oh no you didn't.

― David Allen (David Allen), Thursday, 30 December 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"Rock around the Clock" is a piece of shit, but it's all about the great guitar solo, the first "great guitar solo" in rock, no?

I'd go with "Day in the Life" by Beatles as overrated, overglorified. "Stairway to Heaven," of course.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 30 December 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

'hey jude' is always in the top ten for greatest songs ever, no idea why. i like paul.

deep purple 'dan dan'? is that widely known? i wonder if i've ever heard it.

grimly is on the right track.

― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"Light My Fire" by The Doors.

*the organ solo in particular*

― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Deep Purple's 'Dan Dan'.

You know:

"Dan dan daan, dan dan da-daan, dan dan daan da-dan daan....' etc.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Thursday, 30 December 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Funny, I thought it was "Nur Nur".

― briania (briania), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"Rock Around The Clock," by Bill Haley and the Comets

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 31 December 2004 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

brown eyed girl or anything else by Van Morrison

-- lukey (picninj...), February 19th, 2004.

And that takes the cake right there I'm afraid. Van Morrison OWNZ this thread as far as I'm concerned. When someone can explain why I must endure Brown Eyed Girl for the 60,000,000th time, I am all ears. Perhaps the man was talented. But sometimes talent makes for very, very bland music.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"Stairway To Heaven". Overplayed, overrated, and not half as good as "Over The Hills And Far Away".

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 31 December 2004 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

>>>Well reminding us of how much you hate Nirvana every other week sort of loses its intended effect after a while (intended effect being "canon-smashing revolution"; unintended yet prevalent effect being "pee on the popular kid's locker during gym class")>Yeah, but if "Smells..." had never taken off and was still a cult song by a relatively unknown band, you'd be creaming all over it.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 31 December 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

xx-post: van morrison is indeed a pompous old curmudgeon, but at least people only ever really rhapsodise over his dull melodies. with dylan, otherwise intelligent people start bandying about words such as "genius" and "thinker" and "poet". and he's not any of those, he's just a nasal wanker with a very poor line in abstract imagery.

who can't even play.

there, i feel better now.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Anything by the Libertines or the Streets.

― stew, Friday, 31 December 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"Rock around the Clock" is a piece of shit, but it's all about the great guitar solo, the first "great guitar solo" in rock, no?

i can't recall that solo offhand, but there were plenty of good ones before "rock around the clock" - scotty moore on any elvis song, for sure.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 31 December 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so tired I read this: I always wonder what it would have sounded like and what would have happened if Chad Channing was still in the band with Carol Channing's name instead, and dreamed of how much better Nirvana would've been.

― Vic Funk, Friday, 31 December 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

First great guitar solo in rock? Rocket 66 anyone? Ike Turner gettting distortion from a fucked up amp. Oooh baby.
Then there's all the rockabilly cats - Chet Atkins is completely rad! Charlie Feathers!

― stew, Friday, 31 December 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so tired I read this: I always wonder what it would have sounded like and what would have happened if Chad Channing was still in the band with Carol Channing's name instead, and dreamed of how much better Nirvana would've been

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 31 December 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I would like to put in another vote for "Yesterday"

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 31 December 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello hello hello hello....

.... Dolly...

― Pangolino again, Friday, 31 December 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I say Nirvana should reform with Carol Channing as their new singer. Is she dead already? Well, than can use samples of her, then.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"hey jude"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 2 January 2005 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Carol Channing is alive. I just went and saw her a few months ago. She's fucking awesome.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 2 January 2005 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Britney Spears - "Baby One More Time"

― sleep (sleep), Sunday, 2 January 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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