Underrated Songs
Oct 4, 2017 22:57:00 GMT 10
Post by SharksFan99 on Oct 4, 2017 22:57:00 GMT 10
What are songs which you believe are underrated and deserved to achieve more success than they did? In all honesty, I could provide a lot of examples of underrated songs, but I will only stick to a few for now.
Song: "My Own Prison"
Band: Creed
Released: 1997
Creed are quite often the subject of a lot of criticism and the band's lead singer, Scott Stapp, often bores the brunt of the criticism. However, I think their first single ("My Own Prison") is completely underrated and is better than their more well-known material (e.g "With Arms Wide Open"). Now admittedly, i'm not a big fan of Creed, however I do like most of their singles and I believe this song is actually quite good, almost on par with a lot of other '90s alternative songs.
This song hardly made a dent on the charts. "My Own Prison" peaked at #45 on the Canadian Top-50 chart, however it failed to chart on other Top-50 charts around the world. In it's native US, it charted at #1 on the US Active Rock chart and #7 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Modern Rock Chart.
Song: "Hieronymus"
Band: The Clouds
Released: 1991
It amazes me that this wasn't an international hit. Unfortunately, this song (and band) suffered from poor promotion by the record company and to be quite honest, a lack of money spent (the music video is a bit cheap, even for it's time). It's a shame, because this really should have been one of the most popular songs of 1991. It didn't even fare well in Australia, the band's home country. It only peaked at #46 on the ARIA chart and it only remained on the chart for two weeks. The song didn't chart anywhere else.
Song: "G#"
Band: Kitten
Released: 2012
To be honest, I only became aware of this song, because it was on the FIFA 13 soundtrack.
Because it's a song released by an "indie" artist, it didn't chart anywhere. This song is one of my favourite songs of the 2010s and although this is solely opinionated, it really should have been a hit. It's too good not too have been a hit!
Song: "My Own Prison"
Band: Creed
Released: 1997
Creed are quite often the subject of a lot of criticism and the band's lead singer, Scott Stapp, often bores the brunt of the criticism. However, I think their first single ("My Own Prison") is completely underrated and is better than their more well-known material (e.g "With Arms Wide Open"). Now admittedly, i'm not a big fan of Creed, however I do like most of their singles and I believe this song is actually quite good, almost on par with a lot of other '90s alternative songs.
This song hardly made a dent on the charts. "My Own Prison" peaked at #45 on the Canadian Top-50 chart, however it failed to chart on other Top-50 charts around the world. In it's native US, it charted at #1 on the US Active Rock chart and #7 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Modern Rock Chart.
Song: "Hieronymus"
Band: The Clouds
Released: 1991
It amazes me that this wasn't an international hit. Unfortunately, this song (and band) suffered from poor promotion by the record company and to be quite honest, a lack of money spent (the music video is a bit cheap, even for it's time). It's a shame, because this really should have been one of the most popular songs of 1991. It didn't even fare well in Australia, the band's home country. It only peaked at #46 on the ARIA chart and it only remained on the chart for two weeks. The song didn't chart anywhere else.
Song: "G#"
Band: Kitten
Released: 2012
To be honest, I only became aware of this song, because it was on the FIFA 13 soundtrack.
Because it's a song released by an "indie" artist, it didn't chart anywhere. This song is one of my favourite songs of the 2010s and although this is solely opinionated, it really should have been a hit. It's too good not too have been a hit!