Overrated Songs!

[Minty]

"I just don't get the hype..." How many times have you said that after listening to a song? I know it's happened to me a lot. Let's keep all the songs strictly "New Wave" please!

I'll get the ball rolling with a couple of my most notorious:

[b]Simple Minds: New Gold Dream[/b] - This has got to be one of the most overrated songs I've ever heard. Many people say it's the Minds' best track! I completely beg to differ. Don't get me wrong, i LOVE the New Gold Dream album, it's just that this track pales in comparison to the rest (Ok, "Somebody Up There Likes You" is crap). Starts out well with a solid disco beat, nice bassline and that catchy, danceable melody. Then, once Kerr's voice kicks in, it's all downhill. It begins to lose steam, gets repetitive and Kerr sings the most ridiculous vocal hook ever ("81,82,83,84"). The track's well over 5 minutes long, but after about 3 minutes you're just wishing it would end. Seriously overrated.

[b]OMD: Joan Of Arc (Maid Of Orleans)[/b] - Could never understand the appeal of this song. IMO it's one of OMD's weakest. At least the last song (NGD) starts strongly, I think everyone would agree with me that the first MINUTE of this track is just noise. Then, finally the drum machine arrives with a solid beat and a quite nice synth line is introduced. The first verse is promising, and you begin to think we're actually building up to something here. But guess what? The song goes NOWHERE. The military beat gets irritating and the synth becomes boring and repetitive. McCluskey's usually wonderfully charming voice becomes too strained and he just sounds awful. The song ends that way it started - tuneless. Don't get me wrong, i LOVE Architecture & Morality, it's just that this is by far the weakest track on it.

So, what do you find are some of the most overrated new wave tracks out there???

[schwenko]

Joy Division Love Will Tear Us Apart
B-Movie Nowhere Girl
Freur Doot Doot
A Flock of Seagulls Wishing (If I Had A Photograph of You)
Tears for Fears Pale Shelter
New Order Blue Monday
Heaven 17 Let Me Go
The Smiths How Soon Is Now?
The Smiths There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Joy Division Transmission
The Clash Train in Vain
Japan Quiet Life
Simple Minds New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
Roxy Music More Than This
Echo & The Bunnymen The Killing Moon
OMD Souvenir
The Human League Seconds
New Order Bizarre Love Triangle
Siouxsie & The Banshees Dazzle
The Comsat Angels Will You Stay Tonight?
Psychedelic Furs Love My Way
Thomas Dolby One of Our Submarines
The The Uncertain Smile
Talk Talk It's My Life
Yaz Situation
Ultravox Reap the Wild Wind
Gary Numan Cars
The Chameleons Up the Down Escalator
The Cure Just Like Heaven
Ministry Revenge
The Church Under the Milky Way
New Order Temptation
Visage Fade to Grey
New Order Your Silent Face
INXS Don't Change
Split Enz I Got You
Big Country In a Big Country
Ultravox Vienna
The Damned Alone Again Or
The Cure In Between Days
Thomas Dolby Europa & the Pirate Twins
The Chameleons Swamp Thing
Tears for Fears Change
The Jam Town Called Malice
Berlin The Metro
Blancmange Blind Vision
OMD Electricity
Duran Duran Planet Earth
Echo & The Bunnymen The Cutter
Aztec Camera Oblivious
ABC The Look of Love
OMD Joan of Arc (Maid Of Orleans)
Gang of Four I Found That Essence Rare
Howard Devoto Rainy Season
XTC Life Begins at the Hop
Nick Lowe Cruel to Be Kind
Depeche Mode Get the Balance Right!
Spoons Nova Heart
Blondie Dreaming
Kraftwerk Tour de France
Icicle Works Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)
Talking Heads Psycho Killer
The Cars All Mixed Up
The Armoury Show Castles in Spain
OMD Messages
Duran Duran Save a Prayer
Public Image Ltd. Public Image
Slow Children Spring in Fialta
Missing Persons Destination Unknown
New Order Dreams Never End
Talking Heads This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
The Bongos Numbers with Wings
Gang of Four I Love a Man in a Uniform
Bill Nelson Flaming Desire
Joy Division Atmosphere
The Human League Don�t You Want Me
Intaferon Get out of London
Gary Numan/Tubeway Army Are "Friends" Electric?
Alphaville Forever Young
Kate Bush Running up That Hill
The Clash Janie Jones
Pete Shelley Homosapien
Industry State of the Nation
Propaganda Duel
The English Beat I Confess
Psychedelic Furs The Ghost in You
The Cure Let�s Go to Bed
The English Beat Save It for Later
Secession Touch
The Blue Nile Downtown Lights
A Flock of Seagulls I Ran
Pet Shop Boys West End Girls
The Vapors Turning Japanese
U2 New Year's Day
Yaz Only You
The Records Starry Eyes
The Fixx Stand or Fall
Altered Images I Could Be Happy
The Cars Good Times Roll
The B-52's Rock Lobster
Talk Talk It's My Life
Psychedelic Furs Pretty in Pink
New Order Ceremony
Modern English I Melt with You
Kraftwerk The Model/Das Model
Depeche Mode But Not Tonight

[i_like_lectric_motors]

[:D][:D] LOL, schwenko ... nice list.

[RiverHockey]

Nena - 99 Red Luft Balloons or whatever.
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams

[bigwavedave]

I got a chuckle out of Schwenko's list too...must be a pure coincidence that it looks somehow familiar.

I do think "How Soon Is Now" by the Smiths deserves to be in the overrated category. It's kind of hypnotic, but I like a lot of their other tunes way better. The various artist compilations keep coming back to this one over and over...

[Wayne]

"Enveloped Ideas" by The Dawn. It's number one in the Philippines.

[zill]

Apart from the Crowd - Violins

Come one! Someone had to say it!

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by zill[/i]
<br>Apart from the Crowd - Violins
[/quote]
It's only overrated by the idiot who penned it.

[rotator]

stupid

[Minty]

schwenko, I honestly don't know what your doing on this board. It's Ok to think many songs are overrated, but your list contains some of the greatest ever new wave songs, some seriously UNDERRATED songs, and some of the best songs ever recorded in the history of music (Love Will Tear Us Apart, More Than This).

[Barmy]

schwenko, why isn't "We Built This City" on your list?

[rotator]

I think Schwenko was rightfully being sarcastic about an absurd topic.

[Minty]

absurd topic? [:0]

rotator, you're honestly telling me you've never thought a song to be overrated in your life?

[eight6]

LOL...first SMoKaLoTaPoT, now this.

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[plagiarism]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Minty[/i]
<br>schwenko, I honestly don't know what your doing on this board. It's Ok to think many songs are overrated, but your list contains some of the greatest ever new wave songs, some seriously UNDERRATED songs, and some of the best songs ever recorded in the history of music (Love Will Tear Us Apart, More Than This).
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What's the difference? One person's sacred cow is another's filet mignon. Can't we all get along?