Is there still such a thing as uncool music?
― pomenitul, Monday, 30 October 2017 01:42 (six years ago) link
????? explain...
― brimstead, Monday, 30 October 2017 03:25 (six years ago) link
feel like uncool music is more music you feel embarrassed about when played in the wrong company, than any music being uncool
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 30 October 2017 03:28 (six years ago) link
^ otm
― flappy bird, Monday, 30 October 2017 04:04 (six years ago) link
"uncool" is relative
OBVIOUSLY
i don't know about that... we've got a pretty good list goin here!!
― brimstead, Monday, 30 October 2017 04:13 (six years ago) link
exactly
― flappy bird, Monday, 30 October 2017 04:20 (six years ago) link
ah a thread about what's cool! can't wait to post
― it me, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
wheeeeeeeee!
― brimstead, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjoJlM2r3qs
― how's life, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link
Amazed I didnt post this abomination.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsfhADiaP5EFor anyone who doesn't know, the Marvel Vs Capcom 2 soundtrack is widely considered terrible and terribly fitting for the game. But the select screen music caught on to people and became a kind of guilty pleasure.
I prefer the select music from the previous gamehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxMdFMJdeYg
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 9 April 2020 23:09 (four years ago) link
I wonder how many people request the most embarrassing or inappropriate music for their funeral just to make their family and friends squirm?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 9 April 2020 23:22 (four years ago) link
i was rocking the second stealers wheel album a couple days ago
maybe that's actually cool, but if it is i'm insufficiently cool to know this, so i would argue it counts
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 10 April 2020 02:05 (four years ago) link
Ben Folds Five― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Wednesday, September 13, 2017 8:57 AM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Wednesday, September 13, 2017 8:57 AM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Playing this morning for the first time in a long time, and yeah, same.
― Indexed, Thursday, 14 March 2024 14:07 (six months ago) link
i can't say i ever listen to ben folds five but i will always have a soft spot for them as the epitome of freshman year of college music
― na (NA), Thursday, 14 March 2024 14:08 (six months ago) link
First album in particular is just stacked top to bottom with hits. The playing is ragged and loose but accomplished, the vocal parts surprisingly challenging, the lyrics unserious but smart... Folds is a knob but the band had something no other band of their era (or since?) had.
― Indexed, Thursday, 14 March 2024 14:10 (six months ago) link
Third Eye Blind is not a band seen by anybody as "cool", but boy I sure love that first album.
― henry s, Thursday, 14 March 2024 14:36 (six months ago) link
yeah I've never cared about Ben Folds solo career, but those first two BF5 albums are classic
― jaymc, Thursday, 14 March 2024 15:06 (six months ago) link
The first two Dido albums are absolutely fantastic.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Thursday, 14 March 2024 15:46 (six months ago) link
Never listened to a Dido album but could absolutely see that. Will give them a go.
― Indexed, Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:04 (six months ago) link
Country music -- I really like a couple Sara Evans albums and she's definitely not one of those country artists who would ever show up in respectable year end lists plus she's pretty MAGA. Little Big Town is frequently pretty great, they have some really stunning tracks and some good albums but nobody outside of country music fans seems to give them much notice.
I still like Tranceport by Oakenfold.
― omar little, Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:17 (six months ago) link
I have a weird soft spot for God Bless the USA, probably because in spite of being the most "normal" and conservative song imaginable, it's actually kind of weird and awkward compositionally and lyrically.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:22 (six months ago) link
Doesn't really get any less cool than that.
The worst (from a music criticism perspective) bands I like are 311 (really just Grassroots and Transistor) and Sublime (I’ll take almost all of it still) but I still listen to them at least yearly if not more frequently…great for road trips too when you are looking for something familiar that doesn’t require too much focus/concentration.
― Slim is an Alien, Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:36 (six months ago) link
I still like lots of very uncool dubstep & d&b music, the kind of dubstep & d&b that people seem to want to distance themselves from.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:50 (six months ago) link
I didn't know Ben Folds Five was uncool???
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:11 (six months ago) link
I just found an early 2000s fan page for "geek-rock" bands, with pages for Ben Folds Five, Weezer, and They Might Be Giants.https://geek-rock.tripod.com/main/main.htm
I think I'll leave it at that.
― jaymc, Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:25 (six months ago) link
I have defended 311 a bunch, not to say I *love* them but I think they are underrated. FWIW they just did a Tiny Desk concert, which I'm curious to check out.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:30 (six months ago) link
hello.as anyone who follows my twitter knows all too well re my love of cheesy dubstep mixtapes.also, add bloghouse to the list.
― mark e, Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:30 (six months ago) link
I think those styles of music would prompt 90% of the population to say, “Whatever this is, it’s too cool for me”(!)
― Hippie Ernie (morrisp), Thursday, 14 March 2024 19:10 (six months ago) link
I actively disliked ABBA when I was a kid. They are now a guilty pleasure.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 16 March 2024 20:35 (six months ago) link
It’s been cool to like Abba for ages. Where you been, jimbeaux?
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 March 2024 20:42 (six months ago) link
Josefa just recommended a book about this very topic.
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 March 2024 20:43 (six months ago) link
They still strike me as deeply uncool. Anti-cool, actually.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 16 March 2024 21:02 (six months ago) link
I have similar feelings about the Bee Gees, although I think they are cool now.
beegees cool as fuck glad u reconize lol but not lol
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Saturday, 16 March 2024 21:15 (six months ago) link
― omar little, Thursday, March 14, 2024 11:17 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
hah, should relisten to that, I remember liking it a lot when I was a teenager but yeah even then some of those vocals going "ooooh aaaahh you are the gamemaster" was a bit much
speaking of I do like Shpongle a lot. they're pretty embarrassing in spots but I think their records are really well crafted and all have a lot of great moments. and Nothing Lasts is an absolute tour de force album
― frogbs, Saturday, 16 March 2024 21:20 (six months ago) link
Same deal with Bee Gees.
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 March 2024 21:33 (six months ago) link
Carpenters too, if we are going down the alphabet.
I like Christmas carols and the bands James and The Tea Party
― braaam.flac (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 16 March 2024 21:38 (six months ago) link
So, so much...Simply Red's "Holding Back the Years" comes to mind immediately.
(xpost) For a long time, definitely. But didn't the Carpenters get a second life sparked by Todd Haynes, the If I Were a Carpenter tribute album (with Sonic Youth), and the tragic dimensions of Karen Carpenter's story?
― clemenza, Saturday, 16 March 2024 21:43 (six months ago) link
“holding back the years” is awesome, surely it’s been reclaimed by younger generations as one of those Miami Vice “stare through your apartment windows” heavy melancholy mood type thing, it’s quite vaporous I enjoy the “rapping” on blues traveler’s “hook”
― brimstead, Saturday, 16 March 2024 22:03 (six months ago) link
It was used memorably to open an episode of Pose, so maybe you're right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROIxst-LfSU
― clemenza, Saturday, 16 March 2024 22:07 (six months ago) link
( beegees To Live Somebody was my wedding dance 25 yrs ago, a little biased)
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Saturday, 16 March 2024 22:24 (six months ago) link
er “love,” but at this point yo i lived it
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Saturday, 16 March 2024 22:25 (six months ago) link
I think ABBA, Bee Gees and Elton John suffered from overexposure in the 70’s and early 80’s and were considered uncool for a couple of decades but they have been rediscovered as iconic, cool artists with some great music with people born mid 90’s onwards. I have never heard anyone younger than 30 have a negative opinion on them.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 17 March 2024 16:14 (six months ago) link
i was listening to petula clark sing in french last night...
― scott seward, Sunday, 17 March 2024 16:19 (six months ago) link
she is 91 years young i might add...
― scott seward, Sunday, 17 March 2024 16:20 (six months ago) link
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 16 March 2024 bookmarkflaglink
Heard a 12 year old recently muttering "Staying Alive" while walking down the street. I don't get it but I'm old now
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 17 March 2024 16:28 (six months ago) link