Start Me Up...over played but not overrated...

Hell it's some god damn dirty automobile
lyrics and a filthy riff slung on a 45 frame.....

Play it LOUD back to back with Johnson's Terraplane Blues and ya might grab ya doll...



ROCKMAN

On this board, Tumbling Dice by a long shot.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2006-10-31 15:59 by stonesfan70.

Angie ? whoever said this one is over rated has got a screw loose !!

streamer Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> sway

yep.

Let's Spend The Night Together is my pick for most over rated...

When I listen to it, it's hard to believe it was a top hit back in 1967.

Perhaps it was a hit for the mere taboo and "naughty" nature of the song title and theme rather than the song composition and production which are rather mundane and monotonous for Stones classic standards.

Well, the song title may have caused a stir 39 or so years ago however the song itself hasn't maintained much muster. It's a "go to the bathroom, take a smoke break, grab a beer song" for me...

But more power to ya if ya indeed dig it...won't hold it against anyone...

This is a no-brainer. The most overrated Stones song is Sway. When you compare the accolades on this song from the die hard fans to the degree this song interests me, the gap is by far larger than for any other song.

How anyone can diss Angie, Miss You, Start Me Up, Have You Seen Your Mother Baby .., or Sympathy for the Devil is unbelievable.

"make up your mind, 'cause I gotta go"



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2006-11-01 08:48 by BOBM.

Sympathy is a bit overrated as well, dunno how I forgot about that one. It's still one of my 10 favorite Stones songs, but the song isn't as great as most fans say it is, Keef's solos in particular. Ther are far better solos in Rock music that the ones on Sympathy.


Most overrated song is NOT Sway. If anything, it's underrated, as only hardcore Stones fans know it.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2006-10-31 09:53 by it's_all_wrong.

Any song which has logged either, (1) 500 live performances, or (2) 5000 radio plays, automatically qualifies.

Sway is overrated. Its boring and sure its good but more a filler than a real gem. Keiths ballads of the 90s. Rock and a hard place used to be overrated. Black Limo. Tumblin dice is good and overplayed but i dunno if its overrated. Street fighting man is overrated. HTW is overrated. The studioversion is good and I like the sloppy 1975-76 version but its not one of their best songs and yet its considered to be just that.

I completeley forgot about Anyone Seen My Baby?... huh

"Rape, murder, it's just a shot away..."

Start me up :The intro riff is very good, the rest of the song doesn't really take off.

Street fighting man is overrated. HTW is overrated.


I've read it all now!!!

I would say Sympathy.
It's a good song but all this devil thing blowed it out of proportion.
I mean, there's Stones songs with way cooler lyrics and better grooves,
and nowadays it's turned into a carnival thing when they play it live, it ain't menacing no more.

My criteria for "most overrated" = weak but was considered a "hit" with lots of airplay.

Emotional Rescue

Although I would like to see this played live...simply because they haven't
played it much or at all (not sure). A fresh/different live version might be interesting. Did they ever do this at any CLub shows during the 40 licks tour?

Start Me Up overrated with them riffs??? You are crazy....

2 1 2 0

Mother's Little Helper.

Esperola Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> I completeley forgot about Anyone Seen My Baby?...
> huh

Do people even rate that one?

ANybody Seen My Baby is a great one...too bad you missed it.

Other than you and k.d. lang, I think most people could live without that one.

gomper

Street fighting man

Rockman Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Arrrr dats an easy one.....Streets Of Love


Well, in fan-discussions, I don't see any tendences that this song is overrated.
Most of the fans don't like the studio-version too much, but the song got accepted, after been played on stage. But it's not overrated at all.
For me, Start Me Up and Tumbling Dice are overrated.
I can't understand, why the crowd just beginns burning, when the first riffs of Tumbling Dice are played...don't know.

RollingStonesFan Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> I can't understand, why the crowd just beginns
> burning, when the first riffs of Tumbling Dice are
> played...don't know.
Hope you're kidding us here, ain't you?

Fool To Cry

Big T

RollingStonesFan wrote: "I can't understand, why the crowd just beginns burning, when the first riffs of Tumbling Dice are played...don't know."
*****************

I agree somewhat that TD is overrated. I think it sounds out of place on Exile.
Don't get me wrong...it's a very good song but it's another one that has been played to death. It has become obvious that it's one of Mick's favorites to perform live.

Re: "overrated" songs.....differentiating between "least favorites" and "overrated".......I might have to add YOU GOT ME ROCKING as "overrated". Good groove but the lame lyrics are NOT worthy of being an opening song at a Stones concert. (YGMR opened a few ABB shows)

"I was a butcher cuttin' up meat" (??) almost as lame as "Let's work".

This thread has been closed.

Thanks Erik for closing

__________________________

"I was a butcher cuttin' up meat"

Well that's what butchers do....would be funnier if

I was a butcher cuttin' the hedge....!!!!



ROCKMAN

Start Me Up live - overrated

Start me Up studio - underrated

Yeah, thats overrated lyrics, glad it aint 94.
And whats that "Hey hey hey"-thing,
and the boxer with that ring... Sounds a lil kinky?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2006-10-31 21:42 by Baboon Bro.