Most Overhyped Song...

[M GO BLUE!!!]

What has been the most overhyped song ever?

Billy Vera and the Beaters "At This Moment" was a song that did nothing for me. I never saw what made it popular other than being on Family Ties.

I just found the history of the song online.

"This was written in 1977, but no one wanted to record it, although Dionne Warwick and Olivia Newton-John came close to doing so. Billy Vera And The Beaters finally released it in 1981 as the followup to "I Can Take Care of Myself" on the Japanese-owned Alfa label. The band's second LP was issued and three weeks later, Alfa pulled out of the US and stopped distribution."

If it had played on Silver Spoons, it would have passed like a poot in the wind...

[Karlifornia]

Snow Patrol-Chasing Cars

Ok, maybe not the most overhyped EVER, but it really bugs me.

[rowech]

It's going to sound stupid but I think "Stairway to Heaven" isn't even close to Zepp's best song but yet so many people talk about that song.

[Logan]

This doesn't really fit the category...but I would like to use this thread as an outlet to once again bash Kirk Cameron's TV dad's real son's popular song.

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by Logan

This doesn't really fit the category...but I would like to use this thread as an outlet to once again bash Kirk Cameron's TV dad's real son's popular song.

From what I heard of it last week, it deserves its own thread for bashing.

[MIJB#19]

5 posts in and Billy Joel hasn't been mentioned yet?

[Fidatelo]

What is the criteria here? Is 'overhyped' a synonym for 'overplayed', or does it mean something that got played a tonne but I don't care for?

Because the most overplayed song ever, in my mind, was Hey Ya by Outkast, although it is a good song. If it had to be a song that got hyped but I hated, I'd have to go with that London Bridge song by Fergie, or maybe the Humps song. Those are terrible, and yet played all the time.

[ThunderingHERD]

Freebird.

"I know I've said this before; the odds of us actually playing Free Bird are...there ARE no odds. It is not going to happen. I'll start with the first reason: we have NO idea how to play Free Bird. [...] Even if some, like, pick your deity, whoever, came down from the heavens or the hills or wherever your deity lives, and just blessed us with this knowledge of Free Bird and things, and we could play it backwards, sing backwards, we could do all that crazy shit, we still just wouldn't do it. If this were the Make A Wish foundation and you were gonna die in 20 minutes, just long enough to play Free Bird, we still wouldn't play it. And here's the end reason, the end reason is that life is just too fucking short to play--or hear--Free Bird."

[Tigercat]

Originally Posted by rowech

It's going to sound stupid but I think "Stairway to Heaven" isn't even close to Zepp's best song but yet so many people talk about that song.

I agree with you completely, and this has always been my choice as well. And I also don't think its all that great compared to the rest of the LZ catalog.

[sabotai]

Just about every "rock/metal" band's most popular song could fit. As mentioned, "Stairway To Heaven" by Zepplin, you could throw in "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath, "One" by Metallica and "Breaking The Law" by Judas Priest.

[Ksyrup]

"Overhyped" suggests a song that attained a status, by word of mouth, radio play, or critical praise, when it was released that outweighed its worth from a purely musical standpoint. Songs like Iron Man, One, and Breaking the Law weren't all that popular when they were released, and if anything, fall into the "overplayed" category. Breaking the Law isn't even JP's most popular song, it's just the one that people liked to make fun of back in the early 90s when metal went out of style, Beavis & Butthead played it, and it kinda stuck out with the ridiculous video. That song wasn't "overhyped" by anyone.

[rkmsuf]

Wouldn't "overhyped" be something that was built up before or at the time of release that fell flat on it's face?

Can something be "overhyped" when it's widely popular?

[SirFozzie]

You Oughta Know - Alanis Morisette

"Breakthrough!" No it's not.. it's a whiny stalker bitch stalking an old boyfriend.

[rkmsuf]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

You Oughta Know - Alanis Morisette

"Breakthrough!" No it's not.. it's a whiny stalker bitch stalking an old boyfriend.

See I think something that popular is justifiably hyped. People loved it and do to this day. And it was something totally different at the time.

Overyped, meh. It sold and that's the bottom line.

You can argue the artistic merit I guess but she was a nobody when that came out and it came out with very little fanfare. Once it catches on what they aren't supposed to play it?

[johnd2442]

for me:

Come On Eileen
My Sharona
December 1963 (Oh What a Night)

[Ksyrup]

Yeah, I think hype has to precede the release. Nothing about Alanis Morrissette's first album was overhyped.

In fact, the more I think of it, it seems that a song being overhyped would be pretty rare, while an album being overhyped is more plausible. For instance, we've been waiting 253 years for Chinese Democracy, not the first song from that album. If anything is overhyped, it would the release as a whole, not just a particular song.

[Milton]

"Happy Birthday"

[Maple Leafs]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

For instance, we've been waiting 253 years for Chinese Democracy, not the first song from that album. If anything is overhyped, it would the release as a whole, not just a particular song.

"Oh My God" was the first new GNR song in over five years when it came out in 1999, and it was freaking horrible.

[st.cronin]

Originally Posted by ThunderingHERD

Freebird.

"I know I've said this before; the odds of us actually playing Free Bird are...there ARE no odds. It is not going to happen. I'll start with the first reason: we have NO idea how to play Free Bird. [...] Even if some, like, pick your deity, whoever, came down from the heavens or the hills or wherever your deity lives, and just blessed us with this knowledge of Free Bird and things, and we could play it backwards, sing backwards, we could do all that crazy shit, we still just wouldn't do it. If this were the Make A Wish foundation and you were gonna die in 20 minutes, just long enough to play Free Bird, we still wouldn't play it. And here's the end reason, the end reason is that life is just too fucking short to play--or hear--Free Bird."

Yes yes yes. I'm not one to use the word "faggoty" but the guitar solo on Freebird is the most faggoty thing of all time.

[cubboyroy1826]

Um how about most of the Garth Brooks collection especially his later songs.

[Fidatelo]

Originally Posted by cubboyroy1826

Um how about most of the Garth Brooks collection especially his later songs.

I think you're on to something here, but slightly off: Chris Gaines. Tonnes of hype, and absolutely nothing worthwhile to show for it.

[14ers]

Originally Posted by rowech

It's going to sound stupid but I think "Stairway to Heaven" isn't even close to Zepp's best song but yet so many people talk about that song.

Spoken by someone that has never played a guitar in their life. Let me guess; you must play the RADIO.



What guitar wannabe has not dreamed of going on stage with their very own 12-string guitar and bringing down the house. Those with a little more guitar experience probably preferred the 6/12 guitar that Page always used for Stairway.


The results speak for loudly for all the guitar freaks of the world.

"Stairway to Heaven" is the biggest-selling single piece of sheet music clocking up an average of 15,000 copies yearly

FWIW. I never made it past my beginner, acoustic 6-string and I still had the dreams of playing Stairway to Heaven on stage with electric 12-string guitar.

[Karlifornia]

Originally Posted by 14ers

Spoken by someone that has never played a guitar in their life. Let me guess; you must play the RADIO.



What guitar wannabe has not dreamed of going on stage with their very own 12-string guitar and bringing down the house. Those with a little more guitar experience probably preferred the 6/12 guitar that Page always used for Stairway.


The results speak for loudly for all the guitar freaks of the world.



FWIW. I never made it past my beginner, acoustic 6-string and I still had the dreams of playing Stairway to Heaven on stage with electric 12-string guitar.

Well, there's no doubt about the place Stairway To Heaven holds among guitar players. Myself, I can play the intro, and the end. The solo is something I won't touch yet, as I consider myself a perpetual novice, and I feel attempting to play it would be nothing more than an insult to the art form.

[Scarecrow]

('Cause You've Had A) Bad Day

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by Scarecrow

('Cause You've Had A) Bad Day

At Royals games, they like to play that when an opposing pitcher has gotten knocked around the yard and it kindof makes me snicker. Unfortunately, haven't heard it this year at any games I've been to

SI