Top Ten Songs that Don't Deserve to Be a Bands Biggest Hit

The Top Ten
1 Another Brick In the Wall Part 2 - Pink Floyd

Another Brick In the Wall Part 2 is an outstanding song, though not even one of the eight best on The Wall, those being (in my opinion) Goodbye Blue Sky, One of My Turns, Don't Leave Me Now, Hey You, Is There Anybody Out There? , Nobody Home, Waiting for the Worms, and The Trial. Searching through the band's expansive collection, the song doesn't hold a candle to masterpieces such as Money, Brain Damage, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Have a Cigar, Astronomy Domine, Dogs, Pigs (Three Different Ones), Learning to Fly, On the Turning Away, When the Tigers Broke Free, and many more. Personally, I believe The Wall is overrated as well, paling in comparison to my personal favorite, Meddle, which features two of their greatest songs of all in One of These Days and Echoes.

To be honest, I prefer part 1 and 3 over this one.

Awesome song, but they've made better.

2 Jump - Van Halen

They have way better songs and its giving a bad example of a hard rock band with a soft rock song.

3 Hey Jude - The Beatles

Even though it has great lyrics, the melody is boring. A Day In The Life, Let It Be, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I Am The Walrus, and many more Beatles songs I enjoy more than this one.

4 Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

Technically, LZ's biggest hit is "Whole Lotta Love", since "Stairway" was never released as a single. Much like The Beatles, LZ did not bother to release some of their best work as singles, they felt it was cheating the fans.

Kashmir deserves it, something they didn't rip off.

5 All Along the Watchtower - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Either Red House or Voodoo Chile deserve it. Its still a fantastic cover, though Bobby Dylan should get more credit.

Great Bob Dylan cover, however, Voodoo Child is a true masterpiece. I also love the song Foxy Lady.

Voodoo child is better

6 Creep - Radiohead

This is a grunge song. It does not define the true style of Radiohead. Paranoid Android is, unquestionably, Radiohead's best song. And there are many more Radiohead songs that are better than Creep.

Better than Paranoid Android or Karma Police? Really?

7 Back in Black - AC/DC
8 White Room - Cream

White Room was not their biggest hit, that title belongs to Sunshine of Your Love.

If it wasn't so overplayed, I might like it.

9 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

Let the unpopularity grow, but I think "Come as Your Are," "Lithium" and "In Bloom" are better songs.

10 Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
The Contenders
11 Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
12 Lonely Boy - The Black Keys

They used to be blues, until they realised they weren't popular and they sold out. Hard Row or Keep Me deserves to be their biggest hit.

13 Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard

Basically the same with Black Keys except Leppard used to be hard rock/heavy metal in 1980 and 1981 until they released this and Pyromania.

14 Thunderstruck - AC/DC

By this point, Brian's voice was lost.

15 Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
16 Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden
17 Master of Puppets - Metallica

This is not even close to being Metallica's biggest hit it did not chart anywhere in the world.

18 Rocket Man - Elton John

This song is great and all, but Tiny Dancer has a more complex piano melody and chord progression. (trust me, I play both songs on the piano) Also, Candle In The Wind is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

19 With or Without You - U2

This has got to be one of the most boring songs I've ever heard. Well, most of U2's songs are very boring, (they're just a boring, overrated band in general) but this one especially. Their biggest hit should either be New Year's Day, or Where The Streets Have No Name.

20 Light My Fire - The Doors

Who else finds this song just really cringe? Silly keyboard melody, not very creative lyrics, boring vocals, there are so many Doors songs that are more experimental, and more complete than this song.

21 Sweet Child O'Mine - Guns N' Roses

Overrated riff, sounds like the guitar is having a stroke. Not very explosive vocals from Axl. Great guitar solo from Slash, though. Still, nothing beats November Rain.

22 Every Breath You Take - The Police
23 Bring Me to Life - Evanescence

Don't get me wrong, I really do like this song and just about everything else with Amy Lee's vocals, but songs like "My Immortal", "Hello" and "Call Me When You're Sober" aren't as well-known and are a lot better. (This is just my opinion)

24 Wonderwall - Oasis
25 Song 2 - Blur
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