“ Overplayed” instead of “overrated” …

Any time Bohemian Rhapsody is played on the radio , I change the station fast.. FM Classic Rock stations recycle it beyond too much ..

Not sure why this format you all have created is so addictive, but great work, it's a true music appreciators channel, please keep it up - this is literally the only youtube subscription i have haha, everything else is random clicks around youtube, but what is happening on this channel makes me want to keep up and be informed of new content as it comes up

These songs immediately came to mind for me: Queen - We will rock you/We are the champions Rush - Tom Sawyer Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight Loverboy - Working for the Weekend Styx - Mr. Roboto Bon Jovi - Livin’ On A Prayer April Wine - Sign of the Gypsy Queen Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn Twisted Sister - We’re Not Gonna Take It Bryan Adams - Summer of ‘69

Jason's dog just submitted his own list. He thinks Cat's in the Cradle is incredibly overrated.

I've never heard Tupelo Honey on the radio, I wouldn't mind that

Sweet Home Alabama - 3 chords of utter boredom for me!

Amazing! You actually mentioned Blue Oyster Cult. I just started getting into your show recently and I noticed BOC was absent from every list from the 70's (unless I missed it). I don't agree at all with Kramzer's assessment of Burnin' For You, but I do like the fact that he likes Blue Oyster Cult. Kudos for Joe and Jason for praising it. Burnin' For You was supposed to be for Buck Dharma's solo album, but BOC begged him to put it on Fire of Unknown Origin. A great song, showing that BOC were not one hit wonders. Any chance of a Blue Oyster Cult album ranking? That would make this mega BOC fan very happy. Thanks guys. Great show. I'm hooked.

I agree about Satisfaction... but it must've sounded great in 1965, I guess. My (controversial?) pick is IMAGINE... I've heard it too many times, I'm bored to tears by it, if I hear that piano at the beginning one more time... oh boy

Journey - Don't Stop Believing, ACDC - Shook me all night, Queen - We are the Champions, Black Sabbath - Iron Man

I am a huge Blue Oyster Cult fan but their talent goes way beyond Reaper.

Freebird Most of Rumours Queen post Day at the Races

He guys! Great format and love to see you all revisiting and enjoying the golden era of R&R. Now some clarification from an old dude on the VH song Running with the D, which was baffling to you. It’s 1978 and the drone bass intro, guitar rake effect and backward siren sound were extremely captivating and sounded like nothing that had come before. Enter Edwards guitar tone and distortion, which absolutely was like nothing we had heard. Way heavier than LZ, DP or Sabbath. It was mind blowing back in the day and had all of us yearning to get our hands on an album copy or 8 track since we only had the radio to rely on at the time. No streaming, no replays, only having or not having a recording to hear this captivating new and unique band. Although I have mostly outgrown listening to Van Halen, I remember those days very vividly and how excited and amazed I was at the heaviness of VH’s first.

My issue is with the program directors who work in classic rock radio. Certain songs from the past have been overplayed to death

Satisfaction by the stones. Overplayed - Yes Overrated - insane

I'm going to guess that none of you is old enough to have teenage children. If you did, your perspective on some of these songs might change. I am old enough to have heard all of these classic rock songs when they were first released. As a life-long dedicated music nerd I had nothing but contempt for the way rock radio flogged these songs into sonic wallpaper. I had pity for those of my age who had turned off their ears and minds to the joys and challenges of staying reasonably in touch with contemporary music. Every song you mentioned (with the exception of "Won't Get Fooled Again" which is on my short list of greatest rock songs ever) would never have been heard in my car or in my house. Then, one day my 13-year old song came down for breakfast and asked, "Dad, have you ever heard of a song called "Sweet Home Alabama"?" And just like that I was transported back to the first time I heard Ronnie Van Zant say "Turn it up" as that riff took hold. For the next few years my son would help me reconnect to the sheer awesomeness of songs I had long ago written off. Don't get me wrong, I have no desire to hear "Baba O'Reily" or "Feel Like Makin' Love" or anything by Steve Miller but I can't deny another early teen white boy his initial infatuation with these songs. On the other hand, yesterday I heard him listening to "Ghost" by Neutral Milk Hotel as loud as his speakers could play. I was relieved and very proud.

10. Free Fallin' 9. Jump 8. Eye of the Tiger 7. Don't Stop Believin' 6. Creep 5. Wonderwall 4. November Rain 3. Jeremy 2. Smells Like Teen Spirit 1. Enter Sandman

Don't think there are any overrated songs. There are songs I like, songs I dislike and songs that are neutral for me.

Yeah the point about classic rock stations recycling the same 100 songs these days is spot on. It's even worse in Canada where you also have to hit a certain percentage of Canadian content. The least they could do is throw in more deep cuts.

Satisfaction was considered so great because when it came out it was ground breaking. I noticed that a lot of these songs are from the 60's very early 70's.. One thing to consider is that 90% of what you've heard today wasn't written yet back then. But then, my first big concerts were Duke Ellington, Count Basie and such.

The problem that I have with these lists is that none of these tracks are awful but the classic rock format is awful. I was driving to one of my favorite hiking spots in San Diego and Prince's "When Doves Cry" was playing. As I was pulling into the parking spot where the trail began the song finished. My hike lasted about 2 hours and when I got in my car and turned on the radio that very same song was played again! Anything can be done to death and that's what classic rock radio does. They run these hit songs into the ground until after awhile they simply become ambient noise.

Hello Boys and Everyone: I think the problem is that there are too many LAZY consumers of music. Programmers are concerned that if they don't play a classic song from the "approved 100" . . then consumers will switch stations . . . and they are RIGHT!! Bar bands - don't let these worthy warriors off the hook - are concerned that if they play a classic song not on the approved 100 then patrons will go to the bathroom . . . and think they are playing an original composition. I've been saying for a long time that consumers need to be more adventurous, aggressive, take chances. Try something new. Demand it. And by "new" I also include previously undiscovered or underappreciated. This is why it's so frustrating to see comments that people discovered a song that has been around 50 years just because it was featured in a movie or commercial. Lazy!

this problem is easily solved by not listening to classic rock radio. These songs are great if you only listen to them when you want to.

Joe, you broke my heart with that Van Morrison comment. 😂

1.Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen 2. Changes by Bowie 3. Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty 4. Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon (literally the ONLY song of his EVER played on British radio) 5. Livin' Thing - ELO

Metallica version of turn the page is even worse

I wasn't kidding when I wrote that you guys are professionals. With the amount of quality content you guys regularly churn out, you deserve to be making a comfortable living doing just this.

I completely agree with you for that Stones song. I would also add Jumpin' Jack Flash. Others off the top of my head include: Rock Lobster by the B52s, Touch Me and Roadhouse Blues by The Doors, Don't Stop by Fleetwood Mac, We Will Rock You by Queen, Hey Jude, and Let's Dance by Bowie.

Brown Eyed Girl....thanks Joe.

pour some sugar on me def leppard rock and roll all night kiss werewolves of london wzevon beth kiss babe styx jump and panama vh walk this way, dream on aerosmith bicycle race queen love jasons stones pick and disagree with ryan about satisfaction

1. Bohemian Rhapsody 2. Space Oddity 3. Hey Jude 4. Pinball Wizard 5. Kashmir.

Great topic. The list of songs is endless so not surprised that there wouldn't be much overlap. If I did my list once a month I'd probably not agree with myself! For what its worth here's my list today; 1. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven (great song massively overplayed. Dig deeper and you find many other great Zep songs) 2. The Hollies - Long Cool Woman (great song but sad that this is the only one radio ever plays while ignoring other Hollies songs) 3. Tom Petty - Dont come around here no more (love Petty, never liked this song. Not sure how overplayed it is but once more would be too much for me!) 4. Eagles - Hotel California (great band, great song, way overplayed) 5. Derek & Dominos - Layla (great song, massively overplayed)

Here in Perth, we have a couple of horrendous radio stations that play old stuff all the time. One of them plays 60’s, 70’s and 80’s only and they’ll play a lot of really bad number 1’s like “Billy Don’t Be A Hero”. It is f**cking mind numbing and the oldies at work (people my age) love it. You get the picture. I try to get in before anyone else so I can choose what we listen to (which is more alternative) so I don’t have to hear bad pensioner music all day and leave work severely depressed.

Go your own way, Fleetwood Mac! A year ago I came back to the states from being stationed overseas for 5 years. The first song I heard as soon as I turned on the radio was that awful song. My only reaction was I can’t believe they are still playing this song on radio. I can go the rest of my life and never hear that song again.

How could I forget 7. Born In The USA by Springsteen

Welcome to the Jungle is the most overplayed song, one of the most overrated songs by one the most overrated bands.

Speaking as a fan of classic rock, we definitely have some commonalities with what artists we find overrated. However, in terms of the Steve Miller Band and Tom Petty, I don't hear "The Joker" or "Free Fallin'/You Don't Know How It Feels" on the radio that much. That being said, "Keep On Rocking Me" from the Steve Miller Band and "Refugee/Mary Jane's Last Dance" from Tom Petty are songs that are slowly beginning to rub down on me. In fact, the radio station I listen to can't get enough of these songs. I swear I hear at least one of the aforementioned songs, as well as "Fat Bottomed Girls" or if I'm lucky, "Killer Queen" by Queen and "Hotel California" by The Eagles every time I'm in my car.

Don't get the low opinions about Runnin with the Devil either.

I played in cover bands for decades and its telling how in the mid to late 70s the youth were generally requesting to hear Led Zeppelin or The Eagles in moderation. The youth also wanted to hear Deep Purple, Blue Oyster Cult, Montrose, Heart, UFO, Ten Years After etc...Led Zeppelin were incredibly huge but the love for that band was shared with many other bands. The same applies to The Eagles. That's basically the way the youth reacted to Rock music in the 70s. When I played the national circuit in the early 80s the youth still had that mentality. By late 80s people began overrating both bands. It wasn't like that during the "Golden Age Of Rock"...a time when kids lived for Rock. But yes..that all changed. However if somebody tries to literally say that they were the most popular bands in the 70s then they misunderstood the time period.. The difference between then and now. In the 70s you could play a Rock Club 6 nights a week...and it would usually have a decent crowd on a Wednesday. You could play covers of Jethro Tull or Yes...Rush or UFO....Rainbow and everybody knew the music. Today? If you play in a bar...people don't generally know that the musicians in Deep Purple were classically trained. Most people never heard of them or B.O.C. etc. People today follow a handpicked list of songs and that's what most of the bar bands play. But in the 70s at the shore one band might be playing Bowie....across the street would be a band playing Genesis...next block a band playing YES and further down Zeppelin. You don't see that happening in the tri state area today do ya? Rock is dead...but this image of what it was suppose to be like during the Golden age of Rock is all wrong. The publications industry got it wrong. It's disrespectful what they do. A lot of people wouldn't know what it was like living in those times. You mention Duane Allman in the early 70s and everyone knew how great he was. It was instantaneous and today in bars people look at you and say...:Duane who?" ""Never heard of him...do you know Hotel California?"

Hindsight is 20/20. Many of the songs mentioned here were fresh & exciting when they came out. Not all, "The Joker" was always pathetic. Radio formats of the day did the music a disservice by overplaying certain songs into oblivion. "Stairway to Heaven" is a fine song but I can't enjoy it anymore after hearing it a billion times on the radio. I disagree about "Satisfaction". The song's message is universal, and the guitar riff was very impressive in 1965. Right up there with Johnny River's Secret Agent Man. Many picked up a guitar for the first time after hearing those riffs.

Nailed it with Turn The Page and Sweet Home Alabama. Skynyrd is one of my favorite bands but they have soooooo many other killer songs. Gimme Back My Bullets like you mentioned is definitely one of them!! And Workin for MCA ;)

It’s just like how all greatest hits albums are simply a collection of singles. Yet the radio only plays one or two of them. Plus, sadly to say but most people are sheep in nature and they want to hear the same songs over and over because that’s what they’ve been programmed to want. I’d love to turn on the radio and hear “Certain Kind of Fool” over “Desperado” bits never gonna happen.

How ironic and awesome would it be to tune into a classic rock station and hear Radio, Radio by Elvis Costello playing? lol

WGFA is deservedly one of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time.

I agree with Kram's picks except for "Won't Get Fooled Again."

As soon as "All Right Now" was mentioned, "We're an American Band" popped into my head as as one of the most overhyped and overplayed songs.

Overrated and Overplayed can be very different, but with same result. Except, I usually loved the overplayed songs but started to get tired of them. Overrated I was from the start like, why? Good lists as always boys.

Might depend on the station on how often it gets play - since it wasn't technically a hit - but Bad to the Bone by George Thorogood was a hard thing to escape from in pop culture for way too long.

i feel like this could be 2 lists; hit songs that aren't as good as everyone seems to think they are, and, hit songs that have just been played too much. There's a lot of both on your lists and a lot of crossover between the 2, but i can see a difference between songs that you might still enjoy if they hadn't been played to death, and songs whose popularity you don't get. Especially from bands you like. --- Damn, you've got me making lists in my head. i won't bore you with them, cuz i've already bored you with this.

Thanks to your show. I have created the ultimate playlist for this weekends party Piano man Satisfaction Burning for you Free Fallin Feel like making love Won’t get fooled again Hotel California You can’t always get what you want Thanks guys

Popular songs / classics I dislike: - Yellow Submarine, Hey Jude and Let it be by the Beatles. For a long time I thought that was their signature sound - what a mistake. - I'm with Kramzer on Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones being not THAT good. But thanks to Sympathy for the Devil I got into their catalog much sooner than The Beatles (which I eventually find to be of higher calibre) - Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan. Here too, the classics (Blowin, Tambourine Man, The times ...) are not what I think to be the true gems in his repertoire. - Losing my religion and Night Swimming by REM (but I dislike most of their post Green output) - With or without you by U2 (it's better now but back in the day you couldn't escape it, and I didn't think it was the instant classic it was turned into)

Kiss - rock n roll all night

Excellent idea for a Side 3 show. Classic rock radio can be just brutal. Three songs that are so overplayed (at least on Philadelphia/NJ area classic rock radio) are Pat Benatar "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," Billy Joel "Piano Man," and Stevie Nicks "Edge of Seventeen." But the most overplayed "artist," and IMO the worst rock band of all time, by far is BON JOVI. Yikes. So much freakin airplay, so hugely undeserved. Often I will flip between 3 of the big market stations around here and all 3 are playing Bon Jovi simultaneously. It's a crime against humanity. 😄

For Greatest Rock compilers 'Boys Are Back In Town' is the only song Thin Lizzy ever recorded. Wouldn't it be refreshing to see Sabbath's 'Supernaut' or Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' on compilation albums rather than the obligatory 'Paranoid' or 'Iron Man'. The Jam & The Stranglers have superior singles to the over played 'A Town Called Malice' & 'No More Heroes' respectively.

I am a big DEVO fan. It's upsetting that MANY people ONLY KNOW "Whip It" - a horrible disposable "filler song" . Pretty boring.

Bohemian rhapsody by queen...feels like that song is on the radio at work every second day

Most overrated song: Kars For Kids.

Great job guys, not a criticism but observation. It seemed as the video went on you were mixing overplayed and overrated with some examples. I think Stairway is an overplayed great song, as is Bohemian Rhapsody, but are they overrated? Hotel California is a very good song but played to death and propped up as a whole due to the dueling guitar solos. Maybe follow-up episode, "is this song overrated and/or overplayed?" You guys would have disagreements, as usual, and could debate whether a song is an overrated good song or an overplayed great song. And which great songs have been diminished due to overplaying.

When free fallin was a hit I couldn't switch the station fast enough, easily Petty's most annoying vocals in the chorus

I actually hate Sweet Home Alabama. Every time it starts up in a movie I just wanna throw up. It's not that it's a bad song but MY GOD is it overplayed on the radio and in movies. If I were to pick a song I'd probably say Here I Go Again by Whitesnake.

What I've heard of the US Classic Rock Radio format makes me kind of glad I'm British! It seems really dispiriting to me that you can have a band which I'm not really a fan of but I can still name 10 or 12 songs by but they are only ever represented by 2 or 3 songs.

Come on, guys, "Hotel California" is an extraordinary song: chords, lyrics, voice, guitar solo(s). Brilliant, beautiful, cinematic, hypnotic, timeless yet magnificiently 1977. And "Alright Now"? The ultimate song about everything and nothing, all of Rock rolled into one. Attitude on steroids, indestructibly pure 1970 Zeitgeist. In the end it comes down to a question of taste, don't it, but on those - and "Satisfaction" (you are too young I guess to begin to imagine the adrenaline flow it generated in 1965) - I'll just say it, you are wrong.

I'm a very patient person but there's only one nauseatingly overplayed (and overrated) song I have to either turn off or switch channels on the radio for: Bohemian Rhapsody. Then, in 2018, just when I thought this was maybe getting less airplay, the biopic comes out. Kill me now.

I know I'm a little late to this party but.... I have to drop Hells Bells on the list for me.

I stopped listening to Classic Rock radio years and years ago. They really know how to ruin some good tunes by overplaying everything. So I only hear these songs when I want to hear them ...

I think PinkFloyd is incredibly overrated

I think "Satisfaction" is a bit of a case of "had to be there." I think it's impact was much more apparent when it came out than it is today.

paul rodgers one of the greatest vocalists ever

I agree that Bad Company were pretty ordinary, but for a brief period (1969-70), when Paul Kossoff was at the top of his game, Free were a seriously good blues-rock band.

I'm a huge, HUGE Rush fan but I have never got the fascination with "Tom Sawyer." It's an average Rush song and it annoys me that it has that title and those lyrics, none of which make any sense if you've actually read the book.

I agree with Money.... "Dark Side..." is actually super overplayed, all around.

Jason, I’m with you 1000% on Freefallin and You Can’t Always Get. Can’t stand the former and can barely tolerate the latter, even though I probably love at least 30 Stones songs.

We have the same issue here in Canada on classic rock radio.

I'm a PATTI SMITH FAN. Many people MY AGE only know "Because the Night" !! And she did not even WRITE it !

“Don’t stop me now” by Queen- way overplayed; in fact (London radio) seems like the only song of theirs known by the stations.

I absolutely love Steve Miller Band, a lot of their more obscure stuff too. They’re pretty much what got me into rock! However, The Joker.. not anywhere near their best work.. there’s so many bands that I love whose biggest song is.. not one of my favorites.

You could actually make this more an argument for underrepresented artists. I think if all you heard of the Beatles in public was "Hey Jude" and all you heard of Stevie Wonder was "Superstition," those would be candidates for "overrated" or more accurately, "overplayed."

Thank you. I've been bitching about Paul Rodgers forever.

Won't Get Fooled Again. Best Who song

Every Bruce Springsteen hit Def Leppard- Pour Some Sugar on Me Kiss - Rock and Roll All Night Every Queen hit Rolling stones - Jumpin Jack Flash The Who Baba O Reily and Wont Get Fooled Again

Bohemian Rhapsody and Smells Like Teen Spirit!

Born in the USA and Santa Clause is coming to town by Springsteen. Born sounds like a man struggling with constipation and if i hear Bruce ask Clarence if he wants a new saxophone for christmas one more time....

1. Queen- We will rock you 2. The rolling stones- Satisfaction 3. Metallica- Nothing else matters 4. ELP- Lucky man 5. Deep purple- Smoke on the water 6. John Lennon- Imagine 7. Led Zeppelin- Rock n' roll 8. Black Sabbath- Paranoid 9. The doors- Roadhouse blues 10. Radiohead- Creep

A lot from the 80s/90s from me, less so from the 70s rock era. "Don't Stop Believin"- Journey has to top the list, this song is just too over the top cheesy "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"- Cyndi Lauper ("Time After Time" and many other songs are so much better) "Little Red Corvette"- Prince (not a bad song just overplayed) "Snow (Oh Hey)"- Red Hot Chili Peppers "Lithium"- Nirvana (fine song in context of album, but one of the tracks I skip away from fastest on the radio for some reason) "Paradise City"- Guns N Roses (I do like this song but more so the faster ending section, which is almost never played on the radio) "Panama"- Van Halen (everything you say about "Runnin with the Devil" for me applies to "Panama") "You Shook Me All Night Long"- AC/DC (definitely in my bottom half of AC/DC songs) "Dream On"- Aersomith (this one pains me, I remember liking this song once but now it is near intolerable) "We Will Rock You"- Queen (like "We are the Champions" just fine, only applies to this one for me) "Basket Case"- Green Day I feel like I am just getting started

I hate “Don’t Start Believin! Absolutely hate it. Throw in Jack And Diane as well. Ugh! But maybe the song I hate most is Paradise City by Guns ‘n’ Roses. Makes me start to think rock and roll is for whiny losers. Won’t Get Fooled Again Is an embarrassing song as well. Ha ha John Mellencamp said that Paul Rodgers was the best rock singer of all time. I only like about five of Mellencamp songs. Freebird, to me at least, is an incredibly wimpy song, “Oh whoa, whoa I can’t change!” “Man up and change ya loser” is how I start to feel rather quickly.

100 percent on Tom Petty! Anything by Pink Floyd , Dylan , Springsteen

I agree! Next to "Born In The U.S.A.", "Free Fallin'" is awful.

I love the Thin Lizzy album Jailbreak, but "The Boys are Back in Town" sucks.

I've heard Queen since Killer Queen when I was about 6 but I've always had it in my mind that they were only big over here , same with Status Quo. How big were Queen in USA, were they a headline act coast to coast ? I always thought Queen's singles dropped off after they cut their hair.But the radio stations over here have always favoured their 80's singles. Well done on picking All right now & Money by the way. I'd add Back in Black & You shook me all night long.

Radio Stations are a problem in general, they play the same songs from every legendary artist, probably one of the easiest jobs you could ever do a Radio DJ, all the stations have the same playlists

Wonder Wall Don't look back in anger Don't stop me now We are the Champions Come as you are Linger Should I stay or should I go - I love the Clash but not this song Hungry heart Sex on fire

'All Right Now' by Free came to mind for me as well. It is considered a classic here in the UK, and I think it's a decent song but nothing to get excited about. I haven't heard much by Free but I much prefer 'Wishing Well'.

Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf seems to be in every single mid life crisis/ buddy movie ever. I just can’t take it anymore. I know every single note to the song without wanting to. Others: - Don’t Stop Believin’ - Any Bon Jovi hit - Enter Sandman - Takin Care of Business - Pour Some Sugar on Me - Back in Black/ You Shook Me All Night Long

Rolling Stones - Start Me Up Anything by Billy Joel post 1976 Aerosmith - Walk this Way Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me (early Def Lep is where it's at) Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird The Beatles - Hey Jude The Beatles - Let it Be John Lennon - Imagine Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall Pink Floyd - Wish you were Here The Eagles - Taking it Easy (Eagles are so overrated) Tom Petty - I Won't Back Down (love TP but not this song)

I really enjoy the videos you guys have been putting out but I think they'd benefit a lot more from actual debate & discussion on each take instead of just silently nodding or shaking your head & moving on.

Like these bands but a few that I can do without: Juke Box Hero- Foreigner, Feel Like Making Love - Bad Company, Gimme Three Steps- Skynyrd, Old Time Rock N Roll - Seger

I love Sweet Home Alabama but it is definitely overplayed. It’s weird how some songs I don’t get tired of and others I don’t want to hear ever again for the rest of my life (for example U2 I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For)

The blue oyster cult reference is the take away for me boooyyyzzz

Queen's We Will Rock You has not only been played to death but also been ripped off to death. And it's just not that good to begin with.

Against the Wind by Bob Segar and Take the Money and Run by Steve Miller have been played to death over the past 40 or so years.