OK - Heres a twist on a theme.........Fav songs..........but............

bertie

songs you've always loved, but for some reason they've become a bit "not cool" either through over-playing on "dad rock radio" or association with something naff  etc etc ,  I dont mean  songs that were naff from the start, but ones that were once cool, but now not so.

Ok I'll get the ball rolling.

BTO - Aint Seen Nothing Yet ,      still think its a great choon,  damn you Smashy and Nicey

Free  - All Right Now   -    still gives me goose bumps when I hear the first few bars................

JAYJO

Dont stop believing!   Journey

ICBM

Stairway To Heaven and Smoke On The Water are still really great songs.

mike_l

SCoM and November Rain.......

Ace of Spades

randomhandclaps

Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone

not_the_dj

Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark. The mega fans hate it, but it was the song that first brought him to my attention and I still love it.

benmurray85

Agree with all right now similarly wishing well. Too many bands cover it badly

NPP

I may have excessively simple tastes but much of the overplayed stuff is overplayed because it's simply great. I still enjoy_

Mustang Sally

Brown Eyed Girl

Smoke on the Water

Hey Joe

Born To Be Wild

All Right Now

Sweet Home Alabama

etc.

etc.

As songs, they are great, however out of place they may be in a third-rate pub gig or mainstream radio programme. 

EricTheWeary

Love Cats.I was listening to a documentary about The Cure. Apparently it's the song all the die hard fans hate. But I love it.

axisus

I don't get this thread ...... but then I am Mr Dad Rock Radio.

xSkarloey

I'm not sure where Def Leppard stand in terms of cool or if they were ever cool, but most of the Hysteria tracks are stunning pop music.

That actual track Hysteria is such a great, great song.

not_the_dj

Skarloey said:

I'm not sure where Def Leppard stand in terms of cool or if they were ever cool, but most of the Hysteria tracks are stunning pop music.

That actual track Hysteria is such a great, great song.

Total agree, fantastic album.

ICBM

EricTheWeary said:

Love Cats.I was listening to a documentary about The Cure. Apparently it's the song all the die hard fans hate. But I love it.

Same here. My favourite Cure song by far.

drwiddly

So far we've got about a third of one of my old band's set lists!

richardhomer

The Police's 'Every Breath You Take'. An eerie, atmospheric piece which built subtly as the song progressed, with an undercurrent of menace in the lyrics.... I can clearly remember hearing for the first time and being instantly struck by it. Years of over exposure and sampling by Jay Zed Puff Diddy Biggy Smalls (or whatever he's called) have really spoiled it.

equalsql

Slade's Gudbye To Jane - Still beltin' after all these years
Radar Love by Golden Earring - Sounds as cool as hell nowadays.
Black Betty from Ram Jam - damn fine number
Run Run Run - Jo Jo Gunne  -- Their first album is just superb
Roxanne - The Police - still find it haunting and unique
School's Out - Alice Cooper
More Than A Feeling - It never fails to send a chill down my back when Brad Delp goes into the stratosphere.
Candle In The Wind - Elton John.. the original from Yellow Brick Road. Simply stunning completely unlike that odious POS version that was trawled out for Princes D's funeral.

DiscoStu

The Knack - My Sharona.

I think it is one of the truly great riffs and the song has such energy but it seems to have become karaoke/dad rock without warrant.

Shame.

monquixote

I find it odd when bands a momentarily heralded as the future of music and then become a byword for all that's naff and should be ridiculed. In the 90's it seemed to happen with Gomez, Kula Shaker and Reef. 

EricTheWeary

mike_l said:

Ace of Spades

I love Ace of Spades. I have recently been strumming the slow blues version plus the Hayseed Dixie version is tres awesome but the original is still great.

I don't want to live for ever! Hmmm...

Kebabkid

Hold the line - Toto

Run to you - Bryan Adams

bobblehat

Wanted Dead or Live - Bon Jovi

Truly great song