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Boardsies Greatest - Most Overrated Song - Live Thread

  • 18-07-2021 8:21am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭


    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.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Early preview

    Could any of these songs take home the title of Boardsies Greatest - most overrated song? Join us tomorrow as we kick off the tournament.

    Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud

    Eagles - Hotel California

    Alanis Morissette - Ironic

    Avril Lavigne - Complicated

    Cher - Believe




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    There are two types of song that I'll be voting against

    1. The type where I think the song is brilliant, so no way is it overrated (eg, Hotel California above)

    2. The type which is totally crap and everyone knows it's crap so nobody really rates it highly enough for it to be overrated (eg, Believe above).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Just so I have the spirit of the game straight in my own mind, we should be voting for the song that makes us roll our eyes the most when it comes on, and we can't comprehend why people love it so much, rather than a song that we really like or think is absolute garbage, right?

    So if it was for example Nickelback - How You Remind Me (a song I personally love and don't think is overrated in the slightest, but understandable why someone may have nommed it) VS Rebecca Black - Friday (a godawful song, but no one is claiming its good, so hardly overrated) VS Guns N' Roses - Paradise City (deep down I know its not a bad song, but I'm not a fan and if it came on at a wedding, while others flocked to the dancefloor screaming "CHOON", I who was already on the dancefloor from the previous track would sigh and take this opportunity to go for a wee/smoke/pint).

    So in that scenario, if I had to rank those three in order of preference, it'd be...

    1. Nickelback
    2. Guns N' Roses
    3. Rebecca Black

    So taking into account everything I've said, Paradise City is the one I consider to be most overrated of the three, even though I like it more than Friday, so in that case I should be voting for Guns N' Roses - Paradise City right? From my understanding of the intention behind the tournament, this is the one I feel I should be going for

    Or should I vote Rebecca Black - Friday because its the song I like least even though I wouldn't consider it "overrated", and you want to see the categorically worst song win the tournament?

    Or should I be voting for the song I like most and go Nickelback - How You Remind Me because you actually want your favourite to win the tournament in a kind of "look at all the songs I've beaten" kind of way?

    I'm sure I'm vastly overthinking things, but its the first tournament following the move to the new platform and I want to take it extra seriously... 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Eh, Believe is amazing and if anything its criminally underrated. One of the most iconic and greatest songs ever... 😋




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Well, so glad you've completely cleared that up for me... 😑

    😂😂😂



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    In your scenario, you should vote GnR as you personally think it's overrated. At least that's how I understand it



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Yeah that would be my vote in LeVars scenario. Basically vote for what you deem to be more overrated regardless if you like the song or not.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,127 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    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...




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    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.



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,336 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    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



    Jimmy Hendrix - Along The Watchtower Vs Oasis - Champagne Supernova

    Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now Vs Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored

    Ed Sheeran - Castle on the hill Vs Drake - God's Plan

    Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think Im Sexy Vs The Beatles - Twist and Shout



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Jimmy Hendrix - Along The Watchtower

    Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

    Drake - God's Plan

    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.



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,357 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    Jimmy Hendrix - Along The Watchtower

    Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored

    Ed Sheeran - Castle on the hill

    The Beatles - Twist and Shout



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    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.

    Jimmy Hendrix - Along The Watchtower 2 Vs 0 Oasis - Champagne Supernova

    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

    Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think Im Sexy 0 Vs 2 The Beatles - Twist and Shout



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Q5

    The Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand Vs Creedance Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain?


    Q6

    Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart Vs Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me


    Q7

    Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity Vs Billy Joel - Uptown Girl


    Q8

    Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire Vs 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



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,264 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    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.



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,357 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    Creedance Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain?

    Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

    Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity

    The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    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

    Billy Joel - Uptown Girl

    Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,264 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,941 ✭✭✭✭ShaneU


    Oasis - Champagne Supernova

    Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

    Drake - God's Plan

    Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think Im Sexy

    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭kg703


    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)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,146 ✭✭✭Irish Aris


    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.

    Creedance Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain?

    Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭speckle


    Jimmie hendrix

    ed sheeran

    stone roses

    rod stewart



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭speckle


    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



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭Sawduck


    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,171 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    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!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Q9

    AC/DC - Highway to Hell Vs Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill


    Q10

    Tweet - The Birdie Song Vs Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved


    Q11

    Boney M - Rivers of Babylon Vs John Lennon - War is Over


    Q12

    Calum Scott - Dancing on My Own Vs Lewis Capaldi - Hold Me While You Wait


    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

    Calum Scott - Dancing on My Own Vs Lewis Capaldi - Hold Me While You Wait



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭Sawduck


    Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

    Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved

    Boney M - Rivers of Babylon

    Lewis Capaldi - Hold Me While You Wait

    Lewis Capaldi is basically a more boring version of ed sheeran



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,264 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    AC/DC - Highway to Hell

    Tweet - The Birdie Song

    Boney M - Rivers of Babylon

    Lewis Capaldi - Hold Me While You Wait



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,357 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

    Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved

    Abstain

    Lewis Capaldi - Hold Me While You Wait



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,171 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    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.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭speckle


    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



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭speckle


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,146 ✭✭✭Irish Aris


    AC/DC - Highway to Hell Vs Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill - seriously people, what's wrong with you?? 🙄

    Tweet - The Birdie Song Vs Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved - I have very fond memories dancing to The Birdie Song is a kid, so can't vote for it

    Boney M - Rivers of Babylon Vs John Lennon - War is Over

    Calum Scott - Dancing on My Own Vs Lewis Capaldi - Hold Me While You Wait - Dancing on my Own is a fantastic song!!



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭speckle


    pass both good agree Irish Aris

    lewis

    boney m

    lewis



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    AC/DC - Highway to Hell 1 Vs 3 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

    Tweet - The Birdie Song 2 Vs 5 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved

    Boney M - Rivers of Babylon 4 Vs 1 John Lennon - War is Over

    Calum Scott - Dancing on My Own 0 Vs 5 Lewis Capaldi - Hold Me While You Wait



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,171 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    It's about whether a song is overrated or not. It's not about whether you like the song or not. So, you could like a song but still think it is more overrated than the other it is up against. Conversely, you might dislike a song but not think it is overrated. Of course, you might dislike a song and also think it is overrated!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    This is basically it, you can like both songs but still pick one over the other. With the low numbers around today, we can do with all the votes we can get :D

    If you are not familiar with both songs in a match I can understand a pass.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,146 ✭✭✭Irish Aris


    Fair point, still though Highway To Hell and Running Up That Hill: how can anyone consider either of this as overrated.

    I can understand Don't You Forget About Me that appeared earlier: a song that even Simple Minds have mixed feelings about it - Not necessarily overrated, but definitely overplayed, still a great song though :)



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,264 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    I think with 170 songs in this, there's going to be some...controversial choices in there. But hopefully we can weed out the chaff (ie the good stuff!) in this early on and leave us with some proper dross in the business stages of the comp 🙂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    I'm a fan of Highway To Hell myself, but can definitely see why someone would have considered it as overrated too (basically what you said about Don't You Forget About Me being overplayed can apply to Highway To Hell too), whereas Running Up The Hill for me is still criminally underrated, so objectively I saw reason to vote for Highway To Hell between those two...



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,127 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

    Tweet - The Birdie Song

    Boney M - Rivers of Babylon

    Calum Scott - Dancing on My Own



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Q13

    Freddie Mercury - Living on My Own Vs Tom Petty - Freefallin'


    Q14

    Madness - It Must Be Love Vs Massive Attack - Teardrop


    Q15

    Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody Vs Prince - When Doves Cry


    Q16

    Eminem - Lose Yourself Vs Blink 182 - All The Small Things


    Freddie Mercury - Living on My Own Vs Tom Petty - Freefallin

    Madness - It Must Be Love Vs Massive Attack - Teardrop

    Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody Vs Prince - When Doves Cry

    Eminem - Lose Yourself Vs Blink 182 - All The Small Things



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,264 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Finding it a bit hard to decide on some of these - though not for the usual reasons!

    17 (is it?) - Freddie Mercury. I remember that when it came out and thought it was really cool. But it's not.

    18 - Massive Attack, if only because the Madness song isn't over-rated at all for me.

    19 - Righteous Brothers. It's a good song, but how many weeks did it spend at number 1 in the 90s? I know it wasn't the Righteous Brothers version, but still, I got sick of it at the time and I guess that counts as being over-rated.

    20 - I like that Blink song, and rap in general is hugely over-rated, so Eminem by default here.



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,357 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    Freddie Mercury - Living on My Own

    Massive Attack - Teardrop

    Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody

    Eminem - Lose Yourself



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