What song is the "most overrated" and "most underrated" at the same time?
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 9:28 pm
It has to be "Say Say Say" by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson.
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Enter Sandman fits this post.LAglamrocker wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 9:53 pm Until It Sleeps- band was supposed return to thrash sound. We got this. Song is great just not Metallica
It is a great song. A lot of Al Stewart's albums and songs were very good. He still plays a lot of shows each year. (His old guitar player, Tim Renwick, played as live second guitarist for Pink Floyd from '87 to '94.)Hellsinkey wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:42 pm Al Stewart's Year Of The Cat is a great song and a big hit in the 70's, but you don't hear it mentioned or played often. Maybe somewhere else it is.
Odd - I've never heard it, but I got sick of Time Passages as a kid after hearing it a million times.Hellsinkey wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:42 pm Al Stewart's Year Of The Cat is a great song and a big hit in the 70's, but you don't hear it mentioned or played often. Maybe somewhere else it is.
Much like Gerry Rafferty. Classic rock stations only play Baker Street and Right Down The Line, but the entire City To City album is excellent.CrankerBait wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2025 3:52 amIt is a great song. A lot of Al Stewart's albums and songs were very good. He still plays a lot of shows each year. (His old guitar player, Tim Renwick, played as live second guitarist for Pink Floyd from '87 to '94.)Hellsinkey wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:42 pm Al Stewart's Year Of The Cat is a great song and a big hit in the 70's, but you don't hear it mentioned or played often. Maybe somewhere else it is.
You're right about not hearing it played much. Classic/album rock stations still played it and "Time Passages" through the 80s, as did some oldies stations, but that hasn't been sustained over the past few decades, except for the rock stations that do those Sunday morning, classic rock deep dives. I think of heard him played on that classic vinyl channel on Sirius. That's the only satellite station my father plays.
Funny coincidence that you mention, Gerry Rafferty in this thread. I actually have a Spotify playlist that is half Al Stewart, and half Gerry Rafferty. All of City to City is great, and each of his other albums generally had at least three or four really good songs. Like Kate Bush and another big British artist largely ignored in North America, Chris Rea, Rafferty barely if ever played on this side the pond.Gibsonite wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2025 10:03 amMuch like Gerry Rafferty. Classic rock stations only play Baker Street and Right Down The Line, but the entire City To City album is excellent.CrankerBait wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2025 3:52 amIt is a great song. A lot of Al Stewart's albums and songs were very good. He still plays a lot of shows each year. (His old guitar player, Tim Renwick, played as live second guitarist for Pink Floyd from '87 to '94.)Hellsinkey wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:42 pm Al Stewart's Year Of The Cat is a great song and a big hit in the 70's, but you don't hear it mentioned or played often. Maybe somewhere else it is.
You're right about not hearing it played much. Classic/album rock stations still played it and "Time Passages" through the 80s, as did some oldies stations, but that hasn't been sustained over the past few decades, except for the rock stations that do those Sunday morning, classic rock deep dives. I think of heard him played on that classic vinyl channel on Sirius. That's the only satellite station my father plays.
It's 50 years old... how fucking long are they supposed to play it? Half the people who liked it when it came out are dead now.CrankerBait wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2025 3:52 amIt is a great song. A lot of Al Stewart's albums and songs were very good. He still plays a lot of shows each year. (His old guitar player, Tim Renwick, played as live second guitarist for Pink Floyd from '87 to '94.)Hellsinkey wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:42 pm Al Stewart's Year Of The Cat is a great song and a big hit in the 70's, but you don't hear it mentioned or played often. Maybe somewhere else it is.
You're right about not hearing it played much. Classic/album rock stations still played it and "Time Passages" through the 80s, as did some oldies stations, but that hasn't been sustained over the past few decades, except for the rock stations that do those Sunday morning, classic rock deep dives. I think of heard him played on that classic vinyl channel on Sirius. That's the only satellite station my father plays.
Great choice, sir!Hellsinkey wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:42 pm Al Stewart's Year Of The Cat is a great song and a big hit in the 70's, but you don't hear it mentioned or played often. Maybe somewhere else it is.