"Uncool" music you dig. Out with it!

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.

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!

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

haha love me some blue rodeo, that's a great one

I thought Justin Trudeau was cool?

I have to listen to P.D.Q. Bach's "The Seasonings" at least once a year.

I thought Justin Trudeau was cool?

not in my house

Tremolo is a classic album and not just for featuring a pre-9/11 anti-Giuliani song

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.

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.

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).

The odd Sarah McLachlan number
Laura Brannigan
Some Coldplay but recent work is beyond redemption
Some Happy Hardcore

blue rodeo is great

sarah mclachlan is extremely cool imo

I still like the My Dick album

sarah mclachlan is cool agree w/ brad

How is Jamiroquai not cool?

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 Marx
80s 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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLoYFvbR0XY

unclear or extremely cool?

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

I kinda have a soft spot for the Killers that I can't explain

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.

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".

no styx is not cool this is not up for discussion

wait are you saying the 80s pirate broadcast only reached the airwaves a few months ago

lmao why would a pirate radio station play Styx they are already on commercial radio and grocery store and pharmacy playlists all the time

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?

jazz fusion, chiptunes, video game soundtrack music, new age

PHISH those guys and their fans are very very uncool but I think that's the point?

whatever type of music canyon.mid is

those aren't meant to be disparate things btw, they're a single spectrum of uncool

andrew m. at 2:35 13 Sep 17

I have to listen to P.D.Q. Bach's "The Seasonings" at least once a year.

@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.

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

is Pat Metheny cool?

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.)

Afaict, 90s alternative rock is pretty big with young adults these days, tbh.

I saw a toddler wearing a Nirvana shirt the other day. Literally nothing has ever made me feel older.

wait are you saying the 80s pirate broadcast only reached the airwaves a few months ago

― 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.

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

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.

Sappy ballads written by Diane Warren for Hollywood summer blockbusters in the 90s.

Barenaked Ladies

sarah mclachlan is extremely cool imo

otm

Weird Al 4 life.

always liked that first Crash Test Dummies album.

the Presidents of the USA are one of the coolest bands ever but look at those guys they are huge dorks.

i still like RATM even tho they are corny af and really dated

Yeah big love for Sarah Mclachlan she cool.

chantal kreviazuk

Also Sarah founded lilith fair and those lineups were amazing

no styx is not cool this is not up for discussion

― Neanderthal, Wednesday, September 13, 2017 7:54 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

styx is a good choice for this thread

the sarah mclachlan reappraisal is at least two years overdue

does this reappraisal extend to "I Will Remember You" and "Angel", or are cool people still only allowed to like her early stuff? every once in a while I resolve to listen to a Sarah McLachlan album, but then I flash back to all the graduation ceremonies and slideshows I suffered through as SM's music played on repeat in the background, and I immediately scurry back into my hole and stay there until the next time I hear someone raving about Fumbling Towards Ecstasy. I don't know if I'll ever reach a point where I'm able to set aside those unpleasant associations and listen to her music with unbiased ears