10 Most Underrated/ 5 Most Overrated Songs By Your Favorite Artist or Band

[Vehicle]

First, I hafta say, when you're listing overrated songs, naturally, they're gonna be overplayed as well. That's the dynamic.

They can't be overrated if no one is listening to them, can they?



Overrated

1. Amazing
2. Angel
3. Love In An Elevator
4. Crazy
5. Rag Doll

All cookie cutter songs, with a benign design.


Underrated (in no order)

1. Hoodoo Voodoo Medicine Man (Pump)
2. Think About It (Night In The Ruts)
3. The Hop (Done With Mirrors)
4. Joanie's Butterfly (Rock And A Hard Place)
5. Let The Music Do The Talking (Done With Mirrors)
6. Chiquita (Night In The Ruts)
7. Flesh (Get A Grip)
8. Fever (Get A Grip)
9. Simoriah (Permanent Vacation)
10. My Fist Your Face (Done With Mirrors)


I don't know if you can really call these songs 'underrated' as much as you can call them 'really great Aero songs that you're only gonna hear if you're a big enough fan to own these albums'

You'll note majority of these songs are from their 'transitional' phase. NITR, they were falling apart, RAAHP, Jimmy Crespo & Rick Dufay on guitars. Crespo wasn't bad, but Dufay was more interested in being pretty thatn playing guitar. DWM, the band is back and feeling one another out.

Night In The Ruts, to me, is easily the most underrated album in Aero's extensive catalog.

 

[Jake T]

UFO

Overplayed (but not overrated by any means)

1. Doctor, Doctor
2. Love to Love
3. Lights Out
4. Only You Can Rock Me
5. Too Hot to Handle

Underplayed

1. Space Child
2. Out in the Street
3. Belladonna
4. Martian Landscape
5. Electric Phase
6. Looking Out For No. 1
7. Cherry
8. Pack It Up and Go
9. Venus
10. Baby Blue

 

[architect]

Rush

Underrated

1. The Necromancer
2. The Fountain of Lamneth
3. Different Strings
4. Natural Science
5. Lakeside Park
6. La Villa Strangiato
7. A Passage to Bankok
8. Tears
9. Time Stand Still
10. New World Man


Overrated

1. The Spirit of Radio
2. Limelight
3. Freewill
4. Fly By Night
5. Closer To The Heart

 

[OzzyVanHalen]

Van Halen (DLR Era)

Underrated
1. Light Up The Sky
2..Romeo Delight
3. I'm The One
4. Bottoms Up!
5 On Fire
6. Top Jimmy
7. Take Your Whiskey Home
8. Somebody Get Me A Doctor
9. Feel Your Love Tonight
10. Sinners Swing!

Overrated

1. Jump
2. Panama
3. Runnin' With The Devil.
4. Hot For Teacher
5. Dance The Night Away

Black Sabbath (Ozzy Era)

Underrated
1. Into The Void
2. The Writ
3. Hand of Doom
4. Megalomania
5. Electric Funeral
6. After Forever
7. Spiral Architect
8. Dirty Women
9. Supernaut
10. All Moving Parts (Stand Still)

Overrated
1. Iron Man
2. Paranoid
3. War Pigs
4. Sweet Leaf
5. Snowblind

 

[gigispeed1332]

The Doors

Underappreciated
1. The Wasp [Texas Radio and the Big Beat]
2. Peace Frog
3. The Soft Parade
4. The Unknown Soldier
5. Five to One
6. Crawling King Snake
7. Not to Touch the Earth
8. Soul Kitchen
9. The Crystal Ship
10. When the Music's Over

Overappreciated (note not calling these bad songs at all)
1. Touch me
2. Light my Fire
3. Riders on the Storm
4. Break on Through
5. L.A Woman

 

[TheDoubleNeckGuitar]

Led Zeppelin

Underrated
1. In My Time Of Dying
2. Wearing and Tearing
3. Walters Walk
4. The Rover
5. Bron- Yr-aur stomp
6. Hots On for nowhere
7. Sick again
8. since i've been loving you
9. How many more times
10. Gallows Pole

Overrated
1. Stairway To Heaven
2. Whole Lotta Love
3. Good Times Bad Times
4. Communication Breakdown
5. Black Dog

The Kinks
Underrated
1. Too Much On My Mind (Brilliant song)
2. Mr Pleasant
3. I'm Not Like Everybody Else
4. I Go To Sleep
5. Do you remember Walter
6. This Man He Weeps tonight
7. Well Respected Man
8. Young and Innocent days
9. All Of My Friends where there
10. Autumn Almanac

Overrated
1. You Really Got Me
2. Lola
3. Plastic Man
4. Sunny Afternoon
5. Waterloo Sunset

It was hard to pick out just a selection of underrated songs from each band (and to find their most overrated) tracks but I did it

 

[gigispeed1332]

I know they were already done, but my take on the beatles-- this is one I would be interested in hearing people's opinions of my list because well its the Beatles, would be cool to see which songs people agree with, disagree with on my 2 lists. I put the album that each song is on as well.

Underappreciated
1. Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight/The End--Abbey Road (Consider them 1 song-- hope you agree)
2. Within You Without You- Sgt Peppers
3. I'm Looking Through You- Rubber Soul
4. Two of Us- Let It Be
5. Rain- Paster Masters II
6. I Saw Her Standing There- Please Please Me
7. For No one- Revolver
8. Money (That's what I want)- With The Beatles
9. Mother Nature's Son- White Album
10. I'll Follow the Sun- Beatles for Sale
11. Its Only Love- Help
12- Don't Let Me Down- Past Masters II
13. You Know My Name (look up the number)- Past Masters II

I know I cheated I put 13(and you could even argue 15)..

Overappreciated
1. Yellow Submarine- Revolver
2. Yesterday- Help
3. 8 Days a Week- Beatles for Sale
4. Love Me Do- Please Please Me
5. Hey Jude- Single

 

[Sunny]

^^^ I have to say that quite a few of my fave Beatles songs are in your underappreciated list

 

[gigispeed1332]

^^^ I have to say that quite a few of my fave Beatles songs are in your underappreciated list

I still find the odd person who is a pretty huge beatles fan, yet has never heard the song Rain! Surprising

 

[architect]

Joe Walsh


Under rated


1. Midnight Visitor
2. Dreams
3. The Confessor
4. Help Me Through The Night
5. County Fair
6. One and One
7. Mother Says
8. Here We Go
9. Rosewood Bitters
10. Days Gone By

Over rated

1. Rocky Mountain Way
2. Life's Been Good
3. Turn to stone
4. Happy ways
5. Meadows