"Uncool" music you dig. Out with it!

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

i should dig into sarah mclachlan more, i enjoyed her peak '90s stuff. what's good beyond solace/fumbling towards ecstasy?

i will remember youuuuu yeah that songs rules. having trouble seeing her as ever being uncool.

fwiw i never went to any school dances so maybe i avoided the over-exposure

I tried so hard to like Sarah McLachlan in the late 90s because she was so beloved.

If there was a Lilith Fair held today, I would totally attend that Lilith Fair.

i would have thought Sarah McLachlan would be considered prime MOR Radio 2 approved and hence deeply uncool. What does uncool mean, therefore?

I was on the bus the other day and some gang of late teenage girls were giving some stick to a hapless young schoolboy at the back, who was blasting out some grime music on his loud bluetooth speaker. One of them said: "You're so fucking sad r you. I was listening to that bab in year 7, and it's older than your mother's blouse you sad little prick". Well, you had to be there of course!

The future generation of ILM posters

I might start blasting out some Duke Ellington on the back of the bus, next time I feel like dying!

canada: the uncool country you dig

i would have thought Sarah McLachlan would be considered prime MOR Radio 2 approved and hence deeply uncool. What does uncool mean, therefore?

"Fashionably attractive or impressive" is what my dictionary says and how I've been interpreting it. Idk about now but I really felt like I was missing out by not getting, and frankly hating, her at the time. I can see Styx being mainstream school-dance cool in 1981 but not today. Lots of people like them but it's not an appreciation I see as being especially attractive or impressive to anyone: a bit old and geeky for a mainstream pop or rock listener; mainstream, safe, and a bit retrogressive for a prog snob; goofy-looking dudes.

And I'm realizing that is the most I want to think about coolness in music for the next year.

the sarah mclachlan reappraisal is at least two years overdue

― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, September 14, 2017 3:32 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is exactly right, as proved by this screenshot of my soulseek downloads folder in january 2015 with Mirrorball on it:

hi flopson

paula cole

i saw sarah mclachlan on tour for solace in 1992; she was pretty grebt

jon secada - just another day

― plp will eat itself (NickB), Wednesday, September 13, 2017 11:31 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this song rules, too

I listen to much more old 70s bluzy hard rock or southern rock like Foghat, Rick Derringer, Marshall Tucker Band, Nazareth and Black Oak Arkansas than is probably normal. ILM in general isn't all that 'into' white dudes playing blues rock, although it likes old thuddy stuff. There are some around here that dig old 70 fusion, so there are some fans around here, but I have listened to it a ton too. I'd say the most unkool ILM band I have heard quite a bit is probably Black Label Society. It is totally obnoxious music and definitely not liked by many.