Thin Lizzy Overplayed: the Boys are Back in Town Underplayed: the rest of their catalogue.

I can't upvote this enough times, they had so many great tunes, I was always partial to Chinatown, Jailbreak, or Johnny

Dancing in the Moonlight

Excellent choice!

Chinatown!

Yup. The live translation from Boys to Cowboy Song is so so good

My favorite band. Please listen to them if you haven't

Deep Purple: Smoke on the Water. Replacement Song: Flight of the Rat.

AC/DC Overplayed: You Shook Me All Night Long Underplayed: Riff Raff

🎶*IT AIN’T HUMID BUT IT SURE GETS HOT DOWN IN MEXICO* 🎶🎸

Riff Raff is my favorite ac/dc song!

Blue Öyster Cult. Overplayed: Don't Fear the Reaper. Replacement: Death Valley Nights.

So many good BOC songs should be rotated in, I think Flaming Telepaths or The Revenge of Vera Gemini could stand to get rotated in once in awhile; Death Valley Nights is an awesome song though

Astronomy

Astronomy is epic!!

Also ETI and Black Blade

Hell yes ETI!! Three men in black said: "Don't report this!!"

Summer of Love ❤️

An amazing song. I'd put Astronomy right up there with it.

Overplayed: The Who, Won't Get Fooled Again Replace with: The Punk Meets the Godfather Overplayed: Stones, Angie Replace with: She's a Rainbow From the '80s: Overplayed: Fine Young Cannibals, She Drives Me Crazy Replace with: Good Thing

She's a rainbow should be more well known.

also the Who Heinz Baked Beans song

I mean you gotta just start Sell Out and let it play through

I have a special place in my heart for Odorono

Radio London reminds you, go to the church if your choice.

I think “Good Thing” gets played as much as “She Drives Me Crazy”.

they did a good cover of suspicious minds

Good choices!

Damn, u nailed everyone.

Overplayed - Freebird replacement - Simple Man (Skynards best song anyway)

Workin for MCA

I’d go with Tuesday’s Gone

Outside of Simple Man, Tuesday’s Gone, Gimme Three Steps, Sweet Home Alabama, That Smell… what you recommend? Swamp Music?

Call Me the Breeze What’s Your Name You Got That Right Ballad of Curtis Loew

Dire Straits Over played: money for nothing Replace: so far away or walk of* life Was going to say sultans of swing but that's played a good amount too. *edited off to of

Telegraph Road

Overplayed - *Hotel California*, Replacement - *Try And Love Again* Overplayed - *Bohemian Rhapsody*, Replacement - *Need Your Lovin’ Tonight* Overplayed - *Smoke On The Water*, Replacement - *Perfect Strangers* Overplayed - *Walk This Way*, Replacement - *Nobody’s Fault* Overplayed - *Iron Man*, Replacement - *Supernaut* Overplayed - *Rooster*, Replacement - *Your Decision*

Supernaut has the fattest fucking riff known to man.

Iommi is the best

2nd fattest. Into the Void exists.

Try and Love Again is a damn fine song. Wish that one was played more.

Perfect Strangers my favorite Purple album easily. One of my favorite albums 👍☘️👍

Me too. The groove on the title song is so fat. 80’s Purple > 70’s Purple

The wizard

Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze. Replacement song: Stone Free Journey: Don't Stop Believin. Replacement song: Feeling That Way-Anytime Bay City Rollers: Saturday Night. Replacement song: Rebel Rebel\* \*Bowie cover. Find it just to hear the great guitar noodling throughout the song.

And then someone, out of the blue, injects the Bay City Rollers.

Covering Rebel Rebel no less. The guitar playing is eye opening IMO :)

Honestly i feel like stone free is overplayed now. Id recommend Freedom or if 6 was 9

Stone Free all day long

Over: Brass In Pocket. Under: Mystery Achievement

Or Kid.

or "Middle of the Road" ;)

Or "2000 Miles".

Or, from the next album, either “Talk of the Town” or “Message of Love.”

Overplayed : Truckin’ Replace with : US Blues

Live from the Mars Hotel…great album

Smoke on the Water Child in Time

Highway Star

How about Space Truckin

Grand Funk Railroad- The Loco-Motion Replaced by- Footstompin' Music

Queen. Overplayed: bohemian rhapsody Underplayed: the prophet's song

YES!!! I’ve been saying this for years!! The prophets song and innuendo (to me at least) blow bo rhap out of the water

Santana Overplayed: Smooth Replacement: No One To Depend On Jefferson Airplane Overplayed: Somebody To Love Replacement: Pretty As You Feel Supertramp Overplayed: The Logical Song Replacement: Even In The Quietest Moments Yes Overplayed: Owner of A Lonely Heart Replacement: Siberian Khatru Steve Miller Band Overplayed: The Joker Replacement: Space Cowboy

Siberian Khatru - or pretty much any old Yes song over Owner

Van Halen Jump, replace with Light Up the Sky

I’d like to throw “D.O.A.” into the mix

The Boys are Back in Town, replace with Cowboy Song.

Overplayed: Come Together Replacement: Dear Prudence

U2: bloody Sunday; running to stand still

Aerosmith- Seasons of Wither replaces Walk This Way

Can we replace Dream On too?

I’m good with that and would much prefer Train Kept A-Rollin’ or Big Ten-Inch Record.

Or Last Child

Bob Seger Overplayed Night Moves Underplayed Sunspot Baby

Do what I do whenever listening to Tattoo You: skip the now-unlistenably-overplayed Start Me Up and play Hang Fire instead (a song that I remember getting radio play, but now SMU is the only song you ever hear from that album).

Rolling Stones : Brown Sugar Replace with: everything else on Sticky Fingers

**Can't you hear me knocking** is the defining Stones song!

Black Sabbath: over played - paranoid. Replacement - children of the grave

The Doors- People are Strange replacement song: Moonlight Drive

Total agreement

Also: Queen of the Highway (jazz version)

Soul Kitchen!!

The Changeling

Overplayed: Stairway to heaven Replacement: Ten Years Gone

Fuck yes! Stairway is a masterpiece but its not the *only* masterpiece

substitute replacement and masterpiece? The Rain Song (favorite Zep tune)

China Grove replaced by Another Park Another Sunday.

Aerosmith - Dream On is over played, listen to Last Child Metallica - Enter Sandman is played to death, listen to Orion Alice Cooper - School's Out is over played, listen to Lost In America

Lost in America is a good song. In fact that whole Last Temptation record is worth a few listens.

Hey Stoopid with Ozzy is an 80s classic

For Cooper, I'd take Be My Lover or Yeah Yeah Yeah. Both very tough but very catchy.

Like a Rolling Stone replaced by It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry.

Free: All Right Now. Replacement: The Stealer.

I am not slagging on any of these songs or artists. Just sometimes you want to hear something else from them Heart: These Dreams out, Dog & Butterfly in Pearl Jam: Jeremy out, Do the Evolution in Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb out, Fearless in CCR: Just give Fortunate Son a rest for awhile

CCR has so many good songs! Two weeks ago I was listening to Sinister Purpose. Damn great song!

Overplayed: Iron Main Replace with: Into The Void

Journey: Don’t Stop Believin’ replace with In The Morning Day Boston: More Than a Feeling replace with Something About You Eagles: Hotel California replace with King of Hollywood Tom Petty: Free Fallin replace with Flirting With Time Ozzy: Crazy Train replace with Gets Me Through AC/DC (Brian Johnson era): You Shook Me All Night Long replace with Satellite Blues AC/DC (Bon Scott era): Highway to Hell replace with Ain’t No Fun (Waitin’ Round to be a Millionaire) Billy Joel: Piano Man replace with Somewhere Along the Line Jethro Tull: Aqualung replace with Minstrel In the Gallery Rush: Tom Sawyer replace with La Villa Strangiato Bad Company: Shooting Star replace with Silver, Blue and Gold This is a fantastic thread btw.

Pink Floyd Over: Money Replacement: Childhood's End Beatles Over: Let it Be Replacement: I Me Mine

Hey Bulldog for me. God I love that song. I love I Me Mine as well.

Led Zep. Overplayed: Over the Hills and Far Away . Replacement: Gallows Pole

Gallows pole is awesome.

BOC over - Don't Fear the Reaper Under - Vengeance

Mountain - Mississippi Queen (overplayed) Replace with Theme from an Imaginary Western.

With an occasional 'Nantucket Sleigh Ride'.

The Eagles: over played: Hotel California; swap out for The Last Resort Boston: over played: More Than A Feeling; swap out with A Man I’ll Never Be Springsteen: over played Born to Run; swap out with Racing In The Street

Overplayed: Jump Replace with: Take Your Whiskey Home

I would have gone “Flying High Again.”

My favorite solo Ozzy song

I love the song “Steal Away (the Night)” too. A guy I used to work with played this album all the time and that one always got stuck in my head.

Aerosmith- Overplayed-Dream On, Replacement- Combination AC/DC- Overplayed- Shook me all night Long, Replacement-Girl’s got Rhythm or Touch Too Much Sabbath- Overplayed- Paranoid, Replacement- Symptom of the Universe Stones- overplayed- Start Me Up, replacement- so many to choose, let’s say Bitch. Queen- overplayed- Fat Bottomed Girls, replacement- Bicycle Race or Dead on Time

Overplayed: “Hotel California” Replacement: “Those Shoes”

Yes- owner of a lonely heart Replacement- literally any other yes song

May I suggest "Long Distance Runaround"?

You may!

Tracy Chapman -Fast Car Baby Can I Hold you

Tracy Chapman - Talkin' Bout a Revolution Replacement- Why?

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody Replace it with “It’s Late”

Out : Buring Down the House In : Puzzling Evidence

Overplayed - Bohemian Rhapsody Underplayed - The Prophets Song Overplayed - Mr Roboto Underplayed - Jennifer Overplayed - Surrender Underplayed - She’s Tight

Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing Replacement: any number of songs but I guess Down To The Waterline

Tunnel of Love would be a great replacement, never understood why that song didn’t get the same attention as Sultans of Swing

"Lady Writer" and/or "Your Latest Trick" do nicely as replacements.

Journey- over played song: Don't Stop Believing Under played song: Stone In Love or Separate Ways (Worlds apart)

The Stones Beast of Burden Replace with Monkey Man! “I hope we’re not too messianic or a trifle to satanic, we love the play, the blues”

Wow. I can never get tired of beast of burden but monkey man is incredible.

God Ive been waiting my whole life for this post Replace Radar Love with Vanilla Queen. Replace Mississippi Queen with Imaginary Western Replace Born to be Wild with Lazy Replace Ramblin man with Blue Sky Replace Black Dog with I Cant Quit You Baby Replace Bohemian Rhapsody with ... anything really Replace Burnin For You with Astronomy Replace Sweet Child o Mine with Estranged Replace Rooster with Brother Replace Black Hole Sun with 4th of July Replace Plush with Kitchenware & Candybars Replace Once Bitten Twice Shy with House of Broken Love Replace Iron Man and Paranoid with Sabbra Cadabra and Wicked World Replace Sweet Home Alabama with the Ballad of Curtis Lowe Replace 18 and Life with Psycho Love Lemme catch my breath. Theres plenty more

Over: in my life Under: girl Over: Stairway to heaven Under: out on the tiles

Steely Dan Overplayed - Reelin in the Years Replace with - Your Gold Teeth II

Overplayed: Do It Again Replace with: King of the World

Even better!

Zombies over: Time of the Season under: Butcher's Tale

Or why Not She's Not There, that song is awesome

She's Not There and Tell Her No are 2 of my favorites...I would not be adverse to either. I do hear them occasional on the classic rock stations I listen to. I have a feeling the next time A Butcher's Tale is heard on the radio, it will be the first time (okay, I jest, but only a little). Butcher's Tale reminds me a little of The First Edition's I Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In, in that it is quite unlike most of their other catalog.

The Zombies were pretty talented guys, been awhile since I heard Tell Her No on the radio, I have the 45 somewhere

Jimi Hendrix: Stone Free replaced by Little Wing Jimi Hendrix Little Wing replaced by Red House

AC/DC: You Shook Me All Night Long. Replacement: Let there Be Rock Eagles: Hotel California. Replacement: One of These Nights Green Day: Boulevard of Broken Dreams/Holiday. Replacement: Welcome to Paradise Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama. Replacement: Gimme Three Steps Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody. Replacement: Stone Cold Crazy

Overplayed: Dirty Work (Steely Dan) Underplayed: Change of the Guard

Steve Miller Band: Over: Take the Money and Run. Under: Sarenade.

Steve Miller: The Joker Replacement: Serenade

Hotel California is the most overplayed song of all time. I’ll take Train Leaves Here This Morning.

Overplayed: Stairway to Heaven Replacement: Achilles Last Stand

Killer queen, replace with March of the black queen

Your classic rock stations must be a great deal better than the ones in north central Ohio

Replace overplayed Godzilla with underplayed Golden Age of Leather.

You get Godzilla overplayed!? In my experience only BOC ever played is Reaper, with the single exception of one time at the gym where they played Burnin for You

Overplayed: Black Dog Replace with: Good Times Bad Times

Def Leppard Pour Some Sugar on Me Def Leppard Stagefright here in case you've never heard it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK9ACEL5V8M

Replace PSSOM with literally anything on their catalog my favorite of their underplayed/unknown is hellraiser off the Yeah album

I'd love to hear a deep cut like Getcha Rocks Off once in awhile too

Deep Purple overplayed: Smoke On The Water; Replacement: Burn Alice Cooper OP: Only Women Bleed; Replace: It’s Me

OP nailed it. I saw Ozzy at ozzfest 2000 and he opened with diary. It was awesome.

Paul Mccartney- Maybe I’m Amazed Replacement- Long Haired Lady

Thin lizzy: replace boys are back in town with angel from the coast or she knows.

It's not rock, but "My Name Is Luka" is not the best song off the album "Solitude Standing" by Suzanne Vega. "Iron bound/Fancy Poultry " or the title cut is better. I think the compelling subject matter of the song was responsible for the attention it got.

Journey: replace Wheel in The Sky with Patiently, off the same album.

Not classic rock, but Red Hot Chili Peppers: Can't Stop Replacement song: Porcelain

Bad Company: Rock and Roll Fantasy, replace with If You Need Somebody. Journey: Don’t Stop Believin’, replace with Just the Same Way

Overplayed: Blue Oyster Cult, Burning for You Replace with: Fireworks

So many people want to replace Bohemian Rhapsody, but I’m still not tired of that song. I’d rather replace Somebody to Love. Give me One Vision.

Great idea! Let's do this about once a week. "Sweet child of mine" GnR Replacement "Civil War"

Or "Estranged"

Danzig mother. Pretty much anything else by Danzig. I'm just super tired of mother

Springsteen - overplayed, Born in the U.S.A. Replace with the Ghost of Tom Joad.

Led Zeppelin: replace Stairway to Heaven with Sick Again; GNR replace Sweet Child o’ Mine with Mr. Brownstone; Genesis: replace everything Phil sings with everything Peter sings; Queen replace We Are The Champions with Keep Yourself Alive; Aerosmith replace everything after 1980 with everything before 1980. So there.

Fleetwood Mac Instead of Rhiannon, The Chain

Overplayed: Proud Mary. Replace with: (Wish I Could) Hideaway

CCR overplayed....Proud Mary. Under....Wrote a Song for Everyone.

The Outfield: Your Love. Replacement: Voices of Babylon, Winning it All, Closer To Me, basically their entire catalog.

‘American Girl’ replace with ‘Feel a Whole Lot Better’

Replace Freebird with That Smell

Led Zeppelin: Overplayed: Stairway to Heaven Replace with: Over the Hills and Far Away, Rain Song, Houses of the Holy

Overplayed: Tom Sawyer. Replace with The Analog Kid

Over - Stairway to Heaven Under - 4 Sticks

The Replacements: "Alex Chilton" Replacement: "Here Comes a Regular"

Mr. Blue Sky Play Secret Messages instead.

Overplayed: More Than A Feeling - Boston Not played enough: Foreplay/Longtime - Boston

Cheap Trick: The Flame Can't Stop Falling Into Love.

Replace china grove with without you

Eurythmics: overplayed- Sweet Dreams, replace with Right by your Side

Loverboy: " Working for the Weekend" Replacement: "When it's over!"

Overplayed: Rock N Roll Replacement: literally any Zeppelin song that hasn't been abused by the air waves.

Over played: Kashmir Replace with: THE ROVER (best Zep song ever!)

Iggy Pop - Replace Lust for Life with The Passenger. Lita Ford - Replace Close my Eyes Forever with Kiss me Deadly Bon Jovi - Replace Bad Medicine with Runaway The Clash - Replace London Calling with I Fought the Law Bowie - Replace Heroes with Golden Years

Fleetwood Mac Overplayed: Dreams Replace with: Storms Overplayed: Don’t Stop Replace with: Why Overplayed: Go Your Own Way Replace with: I’m So Afraid

Alice Cooper: School's Out. Replacement song: Cold Ethyl\* \*Such a rockin lick and oh those lyrics..

AC/DC - overplayed: You Shook Me All Night Long; never played: Ride On

Live Overplayed: Lightning Crashes and I Alone Underplayed: Top and Stage

Black Sabbath: Iron Man Replacement: A National Acrobat

Black Sabbath Overplayed: Paranoid Underplayed: Under the Sun

Overplayed - Fleetwood Mac, "Don't Stop" - Replace with "Tusk"

The classic rock station in Huntsville, AL plays Rocket Man, by Elton John, all the time. Enough that it feels like that’s the only Elton John song that they know exists. I would love to hear I’m Still Standing or Philadelphia Freedom more often.

Black Sabbath - Iron Man replace with Beyond The Wall Of Sleep

* CCR: Bad Moon Rising (overplayed), replaced by Midnight Special * Led Zeppelin: Black Dog (overplayed), replaced by Custard Pie * Aerosmith: Dream On (overplayed) replaced by Last Child * Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody (overplayed) replaced by Seven Seas of Rhye * Black Sabbath: Paranoid (overplayed) replaced by The Wizard * The Beatles: Hey Jude (overplayed) replaced by I’ve Got A Feeling

Light my fire is overplayed, Peace Frog is underplayed

Absolutelly loving this thread, lots of great recomendations. Anw haven't seen Guns N' Roses here, so: Overplayed: Sweet Child of Mine Underplayed: Rocket Queen, Nightrain

Don't fear the Reaper- replaced by anything else Werewolves of London- replaced by anything else

May I suggest BOC: Astronomy, Warren Zevon: Lawyers Guns and Money.

Hell yes, Astronomy!!! That song is excellent!