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Most overrated and underrated Elton John songs
djfunnyman
23-07-2015
On these forums Elton gets a lot of stick. Like the Beatles thread, what do you think are the most overrated and underrated Elton songs?

Overrated - Your Song
Underrated - Daniel
ohglobbits
23-07-2015
Overrated: Sacrifice (how can it be too heartbreaking in two seperate words?!)
Underrated: Song for Guy
djfunnyman
23-07-2015
Originally Posted by ohglobbits:
“Overrated: Sacrifice (how can it be too heartbreaking in two seperate words?!)
Underrated: Song for Guy”

Think the lyric is "two separate worlds"
Makson
23-07-2015
Overrated: I'm Still Standing

Underrated: The Way You Look Tonight, Crocodile Rock
RoseAnne
23-07-2015
Overrated: Crocodile Rock
Underrated: Nobody Wins (a brilliant and heartbreaking song about divorce from the child's POV)
chrisqc
24-07-2015
Underated Nikita

Overated Levon
Barney06
24-07-2015
Overrated - The horrible reworking of Candle In The Wind
Under - Someone Saved My Life Tonight
Mrs Checks
24-07-2015
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.
dee123
24-07-2015
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.
Brummy Girl
24-07-2015
Overrated: Candle In The Wind 97'

Underrated: I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues & The Way You Look Tonight
the chauffeur
24-07-2015
overrate - candle in the wind - any version
underrated - blue eyes + empty garden
mushymanrob
24-07-2015
underrated.... nothing

overrated... everything!

never got the appeal....
0...0
24-07-2015
Originally Posted by mushymanrob:
“underrated.... nothing

overrated... everything!

never got the appeal....”

I'm with you on that one!
Too schmaltzy for me.
blue screen
24-07-2015
Under-rated- Ballad of the Boy in the Red Shoes

Over-rated- Your Song
FrankBT
25-07-2015
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
djfunnyman
01-08-2015
Originally Posted by Barney06:
“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
Brummy Girl
02-08-2015
Originally Posted by djfunnyman:
“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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