What Are The Most Overrated Songs From The 70s & 80s?

1. Don't Stop Believin' (I don't care if it is Journey or the Glee cast, I wished they would just stop singin')

2. Summer Love (from "Grease")and Paradise by the Dashboard Light (Meatloaf) both tie as two really long songs sung by drunk, out-of-key people at Karaoke and piano bars.

3. Piano Man (Billy Joel) and Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)--people these singer/songwriters did write and record other great tunes--PLEASE, PLEASE pick something ELSE. Okay Sweet Caroline came out in 1969, but it was extremely popular in the early 1970's and has joined the songs at #2 for obnoxious bar/store Muzak tunes

4. Escape-The Pina Colada Song (Rupert Holmes) and Margaritaville (Jimmy Buffet) I get them confused. They both have drinks in them.

5. The Humpty Dance (Digital Underground)-Came out in 1990, but it seems like it's been around FOREVER. Middle-aged suburbanites dancing to this like rhythmless zombies--MY EYES! MY EYES! And my ears! Sampled by many other rap/r&b artists.

6. Sir-Mix-a-Lot's Baby Got Back (1992-but like the above--seems like forever) I notice that only women with no backside at all seem to dance to this--desperately shaking what their mamas clearly did NOT give them.

7. And "Thriller" by Michael Jackson. His best album, but not his best song, along with the Paul McCartney collaboration of "This Girl is Mine" from the same album.

8. Mr. Roboto (Styx). This is your brain on drugs. Or it should be to listen to this song and like it.

I agree with the other choices as well. Some of them really aren't bad songs, just they need to go away quietly for awhile. A long while.

Endless Love

Paul McCartney & Wings - Mull of Kintyre

Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Flock of Seagulls - And I Ran

Foreigner - Waiting for a Girl Like You

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

Lynyrd Skynrd - Freebird AND Sweet Home Alabama

The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up

Def Leppard - Hysteria

Run DMC - Walk this Way (Aerosmith Cover)

Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight

Eric Clapton / Cream / Derek & the Dominoes or whoever the hell it was - Layla - the same 8 measures played into the ground over the course of six minutes.

Anything that was ever featured on a Casey Kasim American Top 40 long distance dedication.

EDIT #1 - LOL and thumbs up to Birdgirl. Even if I didn't agree with some of her choices, her descriptions of those choices are classic. You go girl!

EDIT #2 - Quite, has anybody ever told you you resemble Mitch Hedberg? (Assuming that is in fact your photo; nobody every uses anybody elses every in YA, right?)

American Woman

Riding the Storm Out

Fly Like An Eagle

for the 70's

Everybodys Working for the Weekend

Hungry Like the Wolf & Girls On Film

Little Red Corvette

Bad

for the 80's

Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

The entire Queen output following Sheer Heart Attack.

Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison

Girls, Girls, Girls - Motley Crue

Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones

Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones

> I love the Stones and all, but I can't stand those two songs.

Rock n' Roll - Led Zeppelin

Black Dog - Led Zeppelin

Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

Time - Pink Floyd

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd

Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns 'n' Roses

...and so on.

Overrated dosent necessarily mean bad but if it's from the 80's it most likely is:

70's:

Stairway to Heaven

Sweet Home Alabama

Cat Scratch Fever

80's

Any Song by George Michael or WHAM!

Thriller

Poison's whole Discography

I think one of the most overrated(I hate that term) of the 1980's is I Want To Know What Love Is!

It's a good song but it got played to death,Hell even Mick Jones admits it not one of his best songs!

It pains me to say this but I think 2 of the most overrated(God,I hate that term)songs of the 1970's are:Stairway To Heaven and Hotel California!

Stairway is a good song,but it tends to get a mite overplayed at times and people continually call it the greatest song of all time(which it isn't),heck even Led Zep will admit that its not one of their best!

Why I chose Hotel California was because of the guitar solo at the end,its a good song till it gets to that point and then it gets to that point and the only thing you're thinking is:"Please dear God,Make it stop!"

Sweet Child O' Mine

Baba O' Riley

Smoke on the Water

Jump

Stairway to Heaven

Freebird

Raining Blood

Run to the Hills

Iron Man

Jailbreak

Mr.Blue Sky

We Will Rock You / We Are the Champions

As much as I love Sabbath, Paranoid and Iron Man...

Master of Puppets (the song) ...

With a Little Help from My Friends by the Beatles (yes it was written in the 60s but released as a single in the 70s so I'm counting it)...

Welcome to the... Or Sweet Child O'... or... Paradise Cit... screw it, all the Appetite for Destruction album

Everyone hates Styx now, so idk if Come Sail Away counts as overrated...

Don't Stop Believing by Journey

everything by Michael Jackson

I'm probably going to get a lot of thumbs down because of the songs I listed on the 70's...

70's...

Stairway to Heaven

Bohemian Rhapsody

Free Bird

Dream on

Sweet Home Alabama

Rock n' Roll all Nite

80's...

Thriller

Livin' on a Prayer

Billy Jean

Sweet Child o' Mine

Like a Virgin (Madonna)