Top 10 Overrated Songs

[starvinmarvin]

Here's my list of the Top 10 overrated songs on this board, listed in no particular order. Please compile your own, and then we'll tally the results. Limit your selections to album tracks:

1. October
2. Bullet The Blue Sky
3. Running To Stand Still
4. Dirty Day
5. Please
6. MOFO
7. Acrobat
8. Love Is Blindness
9. Original Of The Species
10. Wild Honey

 

[BigMacPhisto]

1. Please
2. Exit
3. Acrobat
4. Original Of The Species
5. Last Night On Earth
6. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
7. Crumbs From Your Table
8. Mofo
9. Kite
10. One (not their best song!)

 

[VertigoGal]

1. Pride (by far)
2. Sometimes You Cant...
3. Heartland
4. So Cruel
5. Numb
6. Zoo Station
7. Bullet
8. Love and Peace
9. An Cat Dubh
10. Drowning Man

That was hard...I couldn't really include songs like Stuck in a Moment that are generally overrated but thoroughly despised by half of the Interference population. Hell, I like half the songs on this list!

 

[Axver]

1. One [BY FAR!]
2. Even Better Than The Real Thing
3. Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World
4. Ultra Violet
5. One
6. One
7. One
8. One
9. One
10. Discotheque

 

[Nisse]

1. In A Little While
2. Stuck In A Moment
3. One
4. Lemon
5. Kite
6. Peace On Earth
7. Mysterious Ways
8. Angel Of Harlem
9. Yahweh
10. Love Is Blindness

 

[IrishDawg]

1. One
2. Please
3. Sometimes...
4. Love is Blindness
5. Lemon
6. Numb
7. Dirty day
8. With or Without You
9. Pride (this is like the only U2 song my radio stations play)
10. I Will Follow

 

[MrBrau1]

Discotheque
Mofo
Dirty Day
Native Son

That's it. Just 4 for me.

 

[JOFO]

overrated?

1. Crumbs
2. Numb
3. Dirty Day
4. Acrobat
5. SYCMIOYO
6. Elevation
7. Vertigo
8. Desire
9. Kite
10. Wake Up Dead Man

 

[Jack In The Box]

Bad
Bad
Bad
Bad
...

seriously

Bad
One
WOWY
Beautiful Day
Pride
Angel Of Harlem
Love And Peace Or Else
Bad
Bad
Bad

 

[discothequeLP]

Bad? no. perfection cannot be overrated




most overrated songs

1. One
2. Crumbs
3. Mofo
4. Pride
5. Gloria
6. Heartland
7. Until the End of the World
8. Beautiful Day
9. Running to Stand Still
10. I Will Follow

 

[Jack In The Box]

Bad isn't perfect

 

[mobvok]

Until the End of the World
Some Days Are Better...
Gone
Pride
I Still Haven't Found...

About it, really. Not that they're *bad*, I just never understand the high accolades.

 

[LMP]

ACROBAT!!!
Bullet the Blue Sky
Bad
Numb
Even Better Than the Real Thing
Love is Blindness
The Long-ass album version of New Year's Day
Crumbs from Your Table
Gone
40

 

[jonnytakeawalk]

1. Please (I am dumbfounded as to why so many on this board love this. Perhaps it has something to do with it being one of Bono's favourites )

2. Until the end of the world ( I certainly don't think it's as great as everyone seems to rate it)

3. Kite (honestly I think it's the worst song off ATYCLB)

4. Sometimes you cant make it on your own

5. Original of the species

6. The fly

7. Beautiful day

8. Love is blindness

9. MOFO

10. Do you feel loved

 

[00Kevin]

I can't respond to this. I have no distinction between what's overrated or not, because almost every song listed here that has been called overrated, I like, therefor it isn't overrated to me.

 

[Axver]

I wonder how much the Heartland Appreciation Threads have influenced peoples' impressions of Heartland?

 

[U2girl]

Zoo station
Miami
Playboy mansion
Wake up dead man
Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car
Lemon
Numb
Bullet the blue sky
Walk on
Miracle Drug

 

[Meghan]

I would list some, but I'm afraid I'll list someone's favourite song and piss them off...... Then again, I think ALL of my favourite songs have been listed, so here goes:

If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Acrobat (please don't hurt me )
Bad (studio verison)
City of Blinding Lights
Fire (it's impossible to UNDERrate this song )

That's all. I do like all of these songs, (except Fire) and some of them rate very well on my favourite songs list (Acrobat and Bad), but they're just not quite as good as the talk suggests.

 

[MacPhistoPT]

1. Daddy's Gonna Pay for your crashed car
2. Stuck in a moment
3. Lemon
4. Acrobat
5. So Cruel
6. "40"
7. Miracle Drug
8. Exit
9. Please
10. Discothèque

btw, Bad is 99% of perfection

The first two, IMO are 100% crap and the worst songs included on albums. The first a crappy-distorted-mess and the second the most embarassing song they ever done.

Lemon and Acrobat... I like them but they aren't what many people say they are... they are solid songs but not awesome

 

[Aardvark747]

I wonder how much the Heartland Appreciation Threads have influenced peoples' impressions of Heartland?

 

[Axver]

In that case ... IT'S COMIN' BACK!

 

[Ethlyn]

MOFO!!!!!!
Beautiful Day
Exit
Original Of The Species
Mothers Of The Disappeared
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Gone
Two Hearts Beat As One

Thats all! Couldnt think of any more....

 

[financeguy]

(1) Beautiful Day
(2) Vertigo
(3) City of Blinding Lights
(4) Pride
(5) Sunday Bloody Sunday
(6) Still Haven't Found
(7) I Will Follow
(8) 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (on this forum anyway)
(9) Sweetest Thing
(10) That 'Summer Rain' thing Bono did with Andrea Corr.

 

[MacPhistoPT]

Yeah, I forgot Pride and 11'O Clock Tick Tock in my list.

Heartland is never overrated!! Another orgasmic appreciation thread 'd be cool

 

[God Part III]

How can Lemon, Zoo Station and 11 O'Clock Tick Tock be there????

Both are amongst their very very very best!

Overrated: The Joshua Tree album, With Or Without You especially, Drowning Man, The How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb album, especially Love And Peace Or Else, If God Will Send His Angels. I Will Follow is a little overrated as well.

 

[God Part III]

Oh, and how could I forget: Yahweh = bleh.

 

[shaun vox]

VERTIGO!!!!

hello hello shut up!!!

 

[MacPhistoPT]

Now Joshua Tree is overrated. If so, Achtung Baby is even more

 

[mo786]

ONE may be over rated - but its still the best thing U2 can ever hope to do!

 

[Aardvark747]

VERTIGO!!!!

hello hello shut up!!!