no Pat Boone fans here?
Here! Sure his Little Richard covers are pale copies, but fun junk like this is the reason I love the satellite 50s channel. I think his "cool" maybe got resuscitated a bit via the lounge revival and "Golden Throats," but ultimately Pat Boone will never be cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VIqxobNtGo
― "Celebration" encourages the listener to celebrate good times. (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 14:58 (seven years ago) link
Xpost: there was a guy I knew in highschool who was a huge Bach nerd and pretty much all he listened too, he was also very attractive and easy going so naturally everyone thought he was cool, Bach fixation included. He's the only person I've met who listened frequently to classical music.
So I've no idea how uncool it actually feels is to listen to them, attractive people tend to ruin surveys. You can say you don't like bald men then you meet someone bald but extremely attractive and suddenly you do like bald guys.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link
Some of the '90s 'alternative' I listened to in high school has retained/regained its cachet but much of it is, I fear, deeply uncool at this point but I still enjoy throwing on the tatty flannel poncho and moshing around to those tunes with an OK Soda in one hand and the NYT glossary of grunge speak in the other like a sad latter day analogue of those dudes in the Freedom Rock commercial.
― Scott Staph (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
I think trendy music tends to become deeply uncool as time passes on. Yeah several 90's alt bands are very uncool at this point... Smashing Pumpkins is the first one that comes to my mind. In the early to mid 90's they were one of the cool bands the cool kids listened to. Corgan himself kind of pissed on that and public perception of the band and its fans is either non-existent or uncool.
Recent one that comes to mind is that quirky sweet indie music in the early to mid 00's that finally ended its course around the Juno movie. It's very very uncool music that got associated with the DIY trend but really it was more like ad music for selling food and light drinks.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:54 (seven years ago) link
Richard Marx - Endless Summer Nights
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link
jon secada - just another day
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 16:31 (seven years ago) link
Ben Folds Five is cool!
― alpine static, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 16:32 (seven years ago) link
i listen to TONS of 50's jazz and vocal stuff that nobody under the age of 70 listens to. definitely not "cool".
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link
Does stuff like Thom Bell and Debarge count? Critics act as if liking genius schmalz is cool but in many social circles it doesn't seem so.
― gospodin simmel, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 17:21 (seven years ago) link
i listen to TONS of 50's jazz and vocal stuff that nobody under the age of 70 listens to. definitely not "cool".Actually that IS cool!
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link
I love the first two Kings Of Leon albums. They're uncool right? I don't know anymore....
I like early KoL too, up to and including [Because of the Times.
my real answer though is Blue Rodeo
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
haha love me some blue rodeo, that's a great one
― flopson, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
I thought Justin Trudeau was cool?
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:13 (seven years ago) link
I have to listen to P.D.Q. Bach's "The Seasonings" at least once a year.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:35 (seven years ago) link
not in my house
Tremolo is a classic album and not just for featuring a pre-9/11 anti-Giuliani song
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:38 (seven years ago) link
i have sincere love for U2.
i still own and enjoy Ten Summoner's Tales by Sting.
i consider Whitesnake's self-titled 1987 album to be a pretty fine achievement.
is Jamiroquai uncool? Yes. I love them.
i love '90s acid jazz. like all those random comps that Ubiquity put out and Dusty Groove would blurb all over.
i like Zero 7 as well. Also: Thievery Corporation.
i've always liked the Manic Street Preachers.
Is Supergrass uncool bc of that dude's name? I like 3 of their first 4 albums a lot.
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:44 (seven years ago) link
a couple of those forgotten, ill-favored jam-type band albums from the '90s I always liked. Stratagem by Big Head Todd & Red by God Street Wine. I haven't heard them in twenty years, I probably wouldn't like them know.
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:46 (seven years ago) link
I seem to like pretty much any trip hop, even stuff that people largely dissed or dismissed at the time when trip hop was a thing (e.g. Baby Fox, Smoke City).
― Scott Staph (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:49 (seven years ago) link
The odd Sarah McLachlan numberLaura BranniganSome Coldplay but recent work is beyond redemptionSome Happy Hardcore
― the article don, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:56 (seven years ago) link
blue rodeo is great
sarah mclachlan is extremely cool imo
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
I still like the My Dick album
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 19:02 (seven years ago) link
sarah mclachlan is cool agree w/ brad
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 19:05 (seven years ago) link
How is Jamiroquai not cool?
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 19:06 (seven years ago) link
jamiroquai is considered lame/cheesy and "lol 90s" by most in anglo countries ime
my picks off the top of my head:The Eagles He's already been mentioned itt which made me remember I enjoy a few of the songs of Richard Marx80s Scottish pop that I like for nostalgic reasons but earnestly (Wet Wet Wet, Deacon Blue, Danny Wilson) I don't know much about country but I like random 70s or 80s country songs that I hear that I'm sure don't have any cool cache e.g. I'm No Stranger to the Rain by Keith Whitley is a jam
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 19:07 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLoYFvbR0XY
unclear or extremely cool?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 19:07 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPAbx5kgCJo
my daughters think this is v. cool
re: blue rodeo's coolness, no one can convince me this isn't pure AM gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqpZ5bMkShI
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 19:13 (seven years ago) link
I kinda have a soft spot for the Killers that I can't explain
― bunny slopes, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 19:37 (seven years ago) link
Lots of "cool" music heads like vintage R&B, but I don't know anyone who loves, like, 1990s Charles Brown CDs as much as I do.
― "Celebration" encourages the listener to celebrate good times. (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 19:39 (seven years ago) link
I had been thinking that I don't get this thread at all but Styx is the first example where I can't imagine anyone who would consider them 'cool'. 70s albums are obv classic btw.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r)
a couple months ago i was listening to a canadian pirate radio broadcast from the '80s and they were playing styx. i think if you get played on pirate radio you technically qualify as "cool".
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Thursday, 14 September 2017 02:41 (seven years ago) link
no styx is not cool this is not up for discussion
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 14 September 2017 02:54 (seven years ago) link
wait are you saying the 80s pirate broadcast only reached the airwaves a few months ago
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 14 September 2017 02:55 (seven years ago) link
lmao why would a pirate radio station play Styx they are already on commercial radio and grocery store and pharmacy playlists all the time
― marcos, Thursday, 14 September 2017 03:06 (seven years ago) link
Russell Malone (jazz guitarist) is probably the least cool musician that I like. He's best known for working with the Diana Krall trio. IDK, is the Diana Krall Trio cool?
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 14 September 2017 03:10 (seven years ago) link
jazz fusion, chiptunes, video game soundtrack music, new age
― ciderpress, Thursday, 14 September 2017 03:13 (seven years ago) link
PHISH those guys and their fans are very very uncool but I think that's the point?
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Thursday, 14 September 2017 03:14 (seven years ago) link
whatever type of music canyon.mid is
― ciderpress, Thursday, 14 September 2017 03:14 (seven years ago) link
those aren't meant to be disparate things btw, they're a single spectrum of uncool
― ciderpress, Thursday, 14 September 2017 03:16 (seven years ago) link
andrew m. at 2:35 13 Sep 17I have to listen to P.D.Q. Bach's "The Seasonings" at least once a year.
― how's life, Thursday, 14 September 2017 09:59 (seven years ago) link
@440, B.A.D, Sputnik, U2, B.R.M.C, James Last, Ray Coniff < all get regular airings at mine after a drink or 2.
― mark e, Thursday, 14 September 2017 10:36 (seven years ago) link
cool obv varies regionally. i've got to the point where 90s smashing pumpkins in all their baroque splendour sounds pretty fresh. jamiroquai have always been lovably* naff
*contentious
― ogmor, Thursday, 14 September 2017 11:10 (seven years ago) link
is Pat Metheny cool?
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Thursday, 14 September 2017 11:26 (seven years ago) link
I don't really think most jazz or classical is cool in most people's eyes. (Gould is not my favourite Bach interpreter, by the way.)
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 14 September 2017 12:21 (seven years ago) link
Afaict, 90s alternative rock is pretty big with young adults these days, tbh.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 14 September 2017 12:24 (seven years ago) link
I saw a toddler wearing a Nirvana shirt the other day. Literally nothing has ever made me feel older.
― Scott Staph (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 September 2017 12:29 (seven years ago) link
― Neanderthal
no silly i'm saying i listened to an _aircheck_ of the broadcast on the internet, which has become kind of a thing of late.
― marcos
i don't know, i didn't play them on pirate radio! but in fairness they probably weren't on grocery store and pharmacy playlists in 1981.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Thursday, 14 September 2017 12:37 (seven years ago) link
Sappy ballads written by Diane Warren for Hollywood summer blockbusters in the 90s.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 14 September 2017 14:36 (seven years ago) link
Barenaked Ladies
― MarkoP, Thursday, 14 September 2017 14:37 (seven years ago) link
otm
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 September 2017 15:32 (seven years ago) link
Weird Al 4 life.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 September 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link