Most overrated and underrated Elton John songs

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• ohglobbits Posts: 4,480

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  23/07/15 - 21:45 #2

  Overrated: Sacrifice (how can it be too heartbreaking in two seperate words?!)
  Underrated: Song for Guy

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• djfunnyman Posts: 12,581

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  23/07/15 - 22:08 #3

  ohglobbits wrote: »

  Overrated: Sacrifice (how can it be too heartbreaking in two seperate words?!)
  Underrated: Song for Guy

  
  Think the lyric is "two separate worlds"

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• Makson Posts: 30,483

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  23/07/15 - 23:31 #4

  Overrated: I'm Still Standing
  
  Underrated: The Way You Look Tonight, Crocodile Rock

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• RoseAnne Posts: 3,203

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  23/07/15 - 23:46 #5

  Overrated: Crocodile Rock
  Underrated: Nobody Wins (a brilliant and heartbreaking song about divorce from the child's POV)

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• chrisqc Posts: 1,291

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  24/07/15 - 00:14 #6

  Underated Nikita
  
  Overated Levon

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• Barney06 Posts: 123,853

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  24/07/15 - 00:20 #7

  Overrated - The horrible reworking of Candle In The Wind
  Under - Someone Saved My Life Tonight

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• Mrs Checks Posts: 8,372

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  24/07/15 - 03:25 #8

  Overrated: Candle In The Wind reworking
  Underrated: Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters (In comparison to Candle In The Wind's reworking, considering he performed it at the 9/11 benefit concert and dedicated it to the firefighters' families)
  
  I'll also second The Way You Look Tonight. One of my fave Elton John songs.

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• dee123 Posts: 46,267

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  24/07/15 - 05:01 #9

  Some of his more modern day stuff is underrated. The albums as wholes aren't as great as his earlier works but singles like I Want Love, This Train Don't Stop Here Anymore, Original Sin, Tinderbox are very good.

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• Brummie Girl Posts: 22,684

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  24/07/15 - 06:02 #10

  Overrated: Candle In The Wind 97'
  
  Underrated: I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues & The Way You Look Tonight

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 619

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  24/07/15 - 11:46 #11

  overrate - candle in the wind - any version
  underrated - blue eyes + empty garden

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• mushymanrob Posts: 17,992

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  24/07/15 - 11:59 #12

  underrated.... nothing
  
  overrated... everything!
  
  never got the appeal....

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• 0...0 Posts: 21,111

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  24/07/15 - 17:18 #13

  mushymanrob wrote: »

  underrated.... nothing
  
  overrated... everything!
  
  never got the appeal....

  
  I'm with you on that one!
  Too schmaltzy for me.

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• blue screen Posts: 6,412

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  24/07/15 - 20:44 #14

  Under-rated- Ballad of the Boy in the Red Shoes
  
  Over-rated- Your Song

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• FrankBT Posts: 4,218

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  25/07/15 - 04:26 #15

  Underrated: Song For Guy, Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, Blue Eyes.
  Overrated: Most of his songs, but especially Benny And The Jets, Crocodile Rock, Billy Bones And The White Bird, Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

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• djfunnyman Posts: 12,581

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  01/08/15 - 23:18 #16

  Barney06 wrote: »

  Overrated - The horrible reworking of Candle In The Wind
  Under - Someone Saved My Life Tonight

  
  Good choice, nearly went for that as most underrated
  
  I don't understand the Candle in the Wind hate. Yeah the Diana version is a bit lame but the original is very moving

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• Brummie Girl Posts: 22,684

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  02/08/15 - 08:38 #17

  djfunnyman wrote: »

  Good choice, nearly went for that as most underrated
  
  I don't understand the Candle in the Wind hate. Yeah the Diana version is a bit lame but the original is very moving

  
  But everyone, except one, who has mentioned Candle In The Wind in this thread in the overrated section have been talking about the re-worked 1997 version. I know personally I don't mind the Norma Jean/Marilyn Monroe original.

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