Most Overrated Songs
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1)
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
“a load of crap”
“If Kurt Cobain doesn’t commit suicide, Nirvana goes down in music history as a mere footnote. However, the man kills himself, and Nirvana becomes viewed as some kind of revolutionary, innovative band. The acclaim given to this band is quite disproportionate to their music’s level of creativity and ingenuity.”
“I don’t understand what all the hype over nirvana is about. the songs are horrible. the only good one in the whole band is dave grohl.”
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“she was lucky to be that famous”
“Madonna needs to thank god for her luck.”
“Horrible song from an even more horrible woman who like to adopt African babies for all the wrong reasons.”
listen to sample of Like a Virgin - Madonna
“"Hey Jude" is a good song, but it’s certainly not an all-ending song that people make it out to be.
I’m a huge fan of The Beatles. If any Beatles’ songs are going to appear on this list, they should be "Yesterday" or "Let It Be. " Those songs made it to 13th and 20th on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs list, respectively. When I ranked The Beatles’ songs, neither of those songs made the top 50.”
“Juday... juday juday juday... oww!... WOW!... NAH... NAH... NAH.. NAH.. NAH.. NANA.. NAH NANA NAH.. -AWFUL!
”
“Everything Beatles did was extremely overrated. There are better bands out there!”
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“except for the last part, this sucks big time.”
“I agree. Everyone has a huge BoRhap phase, but it ends. Mine was a few months ago, and within a few weeks, it got old. Now this is a good example of an overrated song.”
listen to sample of Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
5)
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
“I hate everything I have heard by Led Zeppelin!”
“Stairway is the best song in history, these people who left these comments are MEATHEADS? who don’t know there asses from there elbows period!”
“Most boring song ever! I thought it would be good but ZZZZZ”
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“It’s an average song. It’s a watered-down "Live Forever. "”
“It’s an average song. It’s a watered-down "Live Forever. "”
listen to sample of Wonderwall - Oasis
7)
Good Riddance (Time of your Life) - Green Day
“Did someone graduate? Did someone die? Did some sort of life event end? Yes? Okay, let’s play this song, again!”
“If this song ceased to exist I would say "good riddance!"”
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8)
...Baby One More Time - Britney Spears
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9)
Crank That (You) - Soulja Boy Tell'Em
“No talent whatsoever”
“TALENTLESS”
“The worst song ever made period.”
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10)
Home For A Rest - Spirit of the West
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11)
Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
“It’s played on the radio way too many times and it just gets so annoying!”
“This song was voted the number 1 songs of the 80s by VH1, despite that fact there were other songs that are way better than this song in that decade.”
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“she sucks :]”
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13)
The Boy is Mine - Brandy & Monica
“This song was huge for like 6 months straight and it’s the most annoying song EVER!!!!!!!!!!”
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14)
Don’t Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
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“One of the most overrated songs of all time; even more overrated than Stairway to Heaven and Like a Rolling Stone.”
“If you REALLY listen to yesterday, you’ll realize it’s CRAP. McCartney’s lyrics are always insipid... Yesterday especially.”
“A very overrated song!”
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17)
I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
“A STUPID SONG! Everybody absolutely ADORED it for the 2 months it was out but I got fed up after 2 days! It’s repetitive and stupid!
BUT I do like the black eyed peas”
“If I was a smelly hippy then I think I might like this song a little more but this song is overrated.”
“As for songs being overrated then I think Imagine has to be in the top 100 category.”
“Dreary, pretentious, boring. Sorry, but thats how it is.”
listen to sample of Imagine - John Lennon
19)
Thriller
“Waaaaaay over rated.”
20)
Behind Blue Eyes - Limp Bizkit
“In all honesty, Fred Durst should have left this song alone... Pete Townshend would even say they destroyed it!”
“The band itself is overrated and Fred Durst sucks at everything.”
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21)
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
“this song sucks”
“it sounds like a crappy imitation of country music
”
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22)
Requiem For A Dream - Paul Oakenfold
23)
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
“Jimi is the most overrated artist of all time and his most overrated song is easily Purple Haze”
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25)
Go The Distance - Michael Bolton
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26)
Barracuda - Heart
“My god this song is annoying. Hell, I can’t say I haven’t heard a Heart song that isn’t.”
“eww he just annoys me period. trying to act all gangster with a girl voice, seriously thought he was a girl the first time i heard the song”
listen to sample of Baby - Justin Bieber
28)
Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - Beyonce
“This song was played WAAAAAYYYY TOO MAAAANNNYY times. OMG! I think it is such a stupid song, it reminds me of don’t worry be happy. The song was truely overrated; I think everyone just jumped on board and don’t know why. This song just got on my nerves.”
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29)
Rehab - Amy Winehouse
“She has no talent what so ever.”
“It’s so nasty!”
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31)
Replay - Iyaz
“Omg!”
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“Boring and overplayed”
listen to sample of Tom Sawyer - Rush
33)
Dude (Looks Like a Lady) - Aerosmith
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34)
Fire Burning - Sean Paul
“boring”
listen to sample of Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
36)
Rock And Roll All Night - Kiss
37)
Candyman - Christina Aguilera
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38)
Hard to Handle - The Black Crowes
“Over played to the extreme”
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39)
You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift
“Its just an above average song that got way too popular as it made girls cry.”
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40)
SexyBack - Justin Timberlake
“aaaaahhhh”
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42)
Yellow Submarine - The Beatles
“A HUGE FAILURE. NO point in the song at all only got famous because Beatles sung it.”
43)
Mmmbop - Hanson
“Waste of time, space, energy - and the song was just as bad.”
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44)
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da - The Beatles
“oh my good god how irritating is this song”
45)
Hello/Goodbye - The Beatles
“ITS ANNOYING AND WAYY TOO OVERPLAYED! ESPECIALLY IN THOSE TARGET COMMERCIALS. :/”
46)
Waterfalls - TLC
“I just wasn’t feeling this song at all. There was a good message but it was just annoying after a while”
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47)
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
“so annoying when everyone starts singing along.”
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48)
Save the Best for Last - Vanessa Williams
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49)
Alone - Heart
“Heart itself is overrated, let alone their music”
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listen to sample of Heartbeat - Don Johnson
52)
We Built This City - Starship
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