Welcome to Boardsies Greatest - Most Overrated Song - Live Thread.
There are 170 songs in contention to be crowned the most overrated song.
We will kick off with a qualifying round.
Format will be announced before each round.
ccr..good song but overated and overplayed ...they have much bettet songs
pass..both underappreciated and mainly un heard by newer generations
billy joel..good song but overrated
weather girls...overated but still a fun song.
ok after reading both le vars and quickbeams post..I have kind of figured it out so votes with explainers just to remind myself
OASIS..cos loads of people like jimis song but many people of other tastes musically probably havnt heard its brillance yet hence jimi is underated.
Drake see quicbeams note 2..its boring and ed who I can take or leave in general as a musician song castles is quite good so hence possibly underated by people who dont listen to that genre? So ed is underated.
stone roses... just think this is an undersppreciated song and other overated but good. So I vote STARSHIP.
Rod steward a lot throw this song under the bus as kindof of a novelty song but it actually does what is os on the tins label while the beatles song is good but not one of their greatest. So vote BEATLES
bloody heck typing posts on the new site..the box keeps dropping everytime and you lose where you are.
Apologies Kolido these are my votes if you cant change them thats ok
AC/DC - Highway to Hell Vs Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Tweet - The Birdie Song Vs Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved
Boney M - Rivers of Babylon Vs John Lennon - War is Over
I prefer the latter but I think it is somewhat overrated!
Calum Scott - Dancing on My Own Vs Lewis Capaldi - Hold Me While You Wait
PASS - Like Cdeb, I find it hard to choose between two songs I never heard before.
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved
Abstain
Lewis Capaldi - Hold Me While You Wait
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Tweet - The Birdie Song
Boney M - Rivers of Babylon
AC/DC? Ah here!
9 - Pass. I like both.
10 - Lewis Capaldi. No-one actually rates the Birdie Song.
11 - Boney M. Have to vote for my nomination. Second biggest selling single of the entire 1970s? Rivers of Babylon?! That's pretty much the definition of over-rated for me.
12 - Pass. Never heard of either, which makes it hard to judge which is more over-rated.
Lewis Capaldi is basically a more boring version of ed sheeran
Q9
Q10
Q11
Q12
Jimmy Hendrix - Along The Watchtower 2 Vs 0 Oasis - Champagne Supernova
Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now 1 Vs 2 Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored - Golden Vote cdeb
Ed Sheeran - Castle on the hill 1 Vs 2 Drake - God's Plan - My Vote
Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think Im Sexy 0 Vs 2 The Beatles - Twist and Shout
The Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand 2 Vs 3 Creedance Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart 2 Vs 3 Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity 2 Vs 3 Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire 5 Vs 1 The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men
The Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand Vs Creedance Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart Vs Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity Vs Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire Vs The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men
Last match is two over-rated songs!
Creedance Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
Both are great
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity - both are overrated
Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire - I like it but it's way overrated and overplayed
Gosh I am confused Kolido.. my above vote should be the opposite of the above as they are the songs I think are the most underappreciated yet enjoyed by many of the two choices? And hence the others which many may like over rated that I didnt post? Very confused?
So we are voting on a negative theme named 'overated'?
Just trying to figure it out to do justice to those who spent their time compling entry lists
Jimmie hendrix
ed sheeran
stone roses
rod stewart
I think I will be voting a little less than usual, because I consider most of the songs (so far at least) great and having no place in an overrated comp.
Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
I'll save you all the trouble of this.
Its Mr Brightside and we all know it.
But for the sake of the game!
The Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire (This is the only one I actually think is over rated on this list)
Oasis - Champagne Supernova
Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
Drake - God's Plan
Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think Im Sexy
Ah lads - there's some great songs in here! I can't bring myself to vote for a song that I think doesn't deserve to be nominated, so I'll go -
5 - Pass. I Wanna Hold Your Hand is brilliant in its simplicity, and I do like Creedence too.
6 - Simple Minds. Two good songs, but neither quite at the level where I can't understand what they're doing here. I'll pip Simple Minds here, but wouldn't expect it to go far.
7 - Jamiroquai. Just not really a fan, although I guess that's not what the question is.
8 - Kings of Leon. Similar to (6) here - two good tunes, though KoL do suffer a bit from overplay at times, so I'll give it to them on that count. Again, wouldn't expect them to be there at the business end.
Creedance Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain? ; I wonder who nominated this one... 😋
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart ; neither of these deserve to be anywhere near this tournament
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men
If it helps, I'll vote -
Oasis. Always hated them; awful voice on Gallagher that sounds like a cat being tortured.
That Starship song is a good tune, and the Stone Roses one bored me in the clip I listened to, so Stone Roses for me.
Don't know either of the songs in tie 3, so I can't really judge which is the most overrated tbh. Bit of a Catch 22 I guess. Pass.
Rod and The Beatles are two good songs. I wouldn't call either overrated. Twist and Shout in particular is a cracker, but I can't bring myself to vote for Rod even by default. Pass.
Q5
Q6
Q7
Q8
Well I don't know if it is the platform, lack of interest, or people are busy, but we are not getting the usual numbers today. I will do another 4 and see how it goes.
Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now 1 Vs 1 Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
Ed Sheeran - Castle on the hill 1 Vs 1 Drake - God's Plan
Jimmy Hendrix - Along The Watchtower
Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
Ed Sheeran - Castle on the hill
The Beatles - Twist and Shout
Tougher than I thought already, a lot of perfectly good songs coming up against each other, feel a bit sh*t calling any of them overrated, except for Drake of course... Drake can get f**ked.
Q1
Jimmy Hendrix - Along The Watchtower Vs Oasis - Champagne Supernova
Q2
Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now Vs Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
Q3
Ed Sheeran - Castle on the hill Vs Drake - God's Plan
Q4
Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think Im Sexy Vs The Beatles - Twist and Shout
Welcome to the Qualifying Round
First to 6 votes or 1 hour time limit
If there is a tie, 30 mins golden vote followed by my vote.
This tournament is slightly different than the others, we are looking for the most overrated song in each match, so it may not be the song you like or dislike the most, please consider this when voting.
The abuse of auto-tuning is what makes it so offensive to peoples' ears. Personally I think the lyrics and music are crap too, but really it's the bloody auto-tuning that's the real problem.
Believe is a great choon. It won loads of praise and broke records in the US and the UK though I would as far as to say that 23 years on, it is underrated at this point. I really dont get all the negativity towards it.
Bold of you to lump me in with puny and mortal humans...
Did you learn nothing from Buffy The Vampire Slayer? It is only we otherworldy demons who truly appreciate the greatness of Believe...
Out of that lot above I'd probably vote Ed Sheeran as whilst I don't mind it I do think the affection slavered all over his gingery body is way overblown.
Hotel California is a classic, not overrated
Love Complicated and I think people just dislike it rather than think it's overrated
Ironic could go either way, the lyrics of that song make no sense and are in no way ironic (chorus aside perhaps). Probably second out of the five listed.
Aside from LeVar no human alive likes the distorted warbling of Cher in that specific track so I wouldn't consider it overrated, more crap.
