"Uncool" music you dig. Out with it!

groban definitely up there. stuff thats not targeted to people under 35 even remotely.

random american idol/talent show contestants maybe falls under this?

(sorry, thats two separate ideas, plenty of singing show artists are marketed to under 35 audiences)

there was a brief time when there was ILM love for some of the early idol contestants I think -- did I dream that?

John Mayer maybe. You'd probably get a few "well he really can play the guitar" takes but mostly reviled.

is lawrence welk still uncool? i have a couple of his cds i inherited from an ex, i think they're actually genuinely fun weird background noise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSvCNBxF6dI

I don't know what genre it is exactly but that cutesy minimal electropop that usually comes from germany and japan. It's very uncool and completely lacking in sex appeal but I love it.

Example:

https://youtu.be/S38sf1zi_Fk

I know it's uncool but isn't it adorable?

I really like Charlie Puth and Selena Gomez's "We Don't Talk Anymore." Now that's uncool music even by poptimist standards.

there's some contemporary Christian pop and rock that I like!

^ woop!

moka, what makes you think that song is "uncool"?

@josh az: i am right there with you. that song rules.

hell yeah it does

Well it's the sort of music I play mostly for myself... whenever I have anyone else in the room and something like this comes on I get silent looks of dissaproval.

Which makes me think it's uncool music... it's kind of quirky but quirky has been uncool for a decade now.

Dido

Loads of commercial EDM and Drum & Bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biTMPeQm4jE

Also, Cotton Eye Joe.

"sandstorm" was inescapable at loft parties in montreal 2 years ago (when the latest wave of getting into house & techno began but before anyone took it too seriously) generally raver 90s (even though darude was very late and euro-corny within that) are looked upon favourably now

there's lots of stuff that's uncool in the age of poptimism but it's more middlebrow than lcd; like rock for normie college students (alt-J, black keys, uhh cage the elephant?) or bros (festival edm), or non hipster white alt like the beardo bluegrass/folk scene or like the hippie festival circuit, shit like Cat Power if they still exist

Uncool music: anything they play on Radio X in the daytime. Biffy Clyro, Kasabian, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Blossoms, Foo Fighters etc.

Ed Sheeran's "Galway Girl". It's catchy.

xp to flopson: resurgent popularity of darude sandstorm probably linked directly to the darude - sandstorm meme, right?

no Pat Boone fans here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Yc3HhSl1Q

I love Stan Freberg

I love the first two Kings Of Leon albums. They're uncool right? I don't know anymore....

Dave Matthews because his guitar parts/melodies are interesting and because my parents would play his music during very happy family gatherings back when everyone was younger and alive.

10cc

Xpost Guys they said "uncool", not "artists whose stink will be permanently seared into your DN"

I dig Norah Jones. I guess Zero 7 is considered uncool. I like them a lot. I love Basia to kind of a ridiculous degree. It's like if your uncool mom decided to become a pop singer. You can't help but love and support the guileless charm which informs the endeavor.

Xpost Guys they said "uncool", not "artists whose stink will be permanently seared into your DN"

― Neanderthal, Wednesday, September 13, 2017 8:46 AM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, of course! Keep the ilx meme alive!

i still have a soft spot for some of the bad trance i listened to in high school

eg robert miles <3 <3 <3

I genuinely like Easy Lover - is that still uncool?

wait. i've got it. for me this is counting crows

brad!

no

I still like the first Shiny Toy Guns album a lot

Ben Folds Five

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-xvK7eUXog

Styx

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.

Does anyone consider Bach or Mozart or Schubert cool?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWHNwmzf1o

oh you can get away with those if you say yr actually listening to glenn gould xp

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

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.

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.

maybe the priming I had from crass et al meant I had no more expectations of the clash than I did of springsteen or whoever

I was lucky and didn't hear the Sex Pistols at all until sometime in the mid-2000s. When I did, I thought they were terrible, and have never changed my mind. Other than the Clash, my experience of punk as a teenager was the Dead Kennedys and Black Flag and Flipper, and a compilation of weirdo electronic art-punk stuff called Red Spot with Minimal Man, Jed Speare, Fried Abortions and a bunch of bands like that. And then sometime in junior high I heard the Cramps' Bad Music For Bad People and that was obviously the greatest thing ever.

My first exposure to punk (as a kid) was Repo Man, the movie and soundtrack, which was one of the first tapes I owned.

mine was sk8er boi

In early 80s Southern California, when I was growing up, punk was definitely still a big thing. People with mohawks and torn denim jackets held together with safety pins, wearing spiked dog collars etc. In my mind, it was primarily about a look and an attitude and only secondarily about a style of music. The important thing was a general aggressive vibe against authority and not giving a shit. If the music was fast and loud and the singer was sneering and shouting, it was punk.

I will die for Swedish dbeat. If you were Scandinavian and pacifist/vegan/antifa in the 80s, chances are your punk band is brutal and electrifying af

In early 80s Southern California, when I was growing up, punk was definitely still a big thing. People with mohawks and torn denim jackets held together with safety pins, wearing spiked dog collars etc. In my mind, it was primarily about a look and an attitude and only secondarily about a style of music. The important thing was a general aggressive vibe against authority and not giving a shit. If the music was fast and loud and the singer was sneering and shouting, it was punk.

― o. nate, Friday, March 22, 2024 11:35 AM (nine minutes ago)

Always loved that Black Flag (up until Rollins), Minutemen, Circle Jerks et al always looked (and sounded!) absolutely disconnected from any punk fashion imported from London/NYC.

iirc there's a bit Julian Cope's Head On where he talks about him and the Teardrop Explodes going to New York for the first time and the anglophile NY punks receiving them with great excitement, but then being embarrassed to find out Cope and company were still calling each other "man" and using other non-punk slang, and Cope being surprised when they take him aside to explain that it's not cool to do that anymore, and how Liverpool was kind of simultaneously out of the loop of what was considered cool and punk compared to NY, while also being defining what was cool for these anglophile Americans

brimstead, what's the best swedish dbeat to check out?

I was listening to Totalitär yesterday, and that's not a bad place to start tbh

Thanks, will check it out!

Mob47, asocial, crude ss, Riistetyt are some of my fav bands, the latter is from Finland tho..

modern bands, I like Dk7, destruct, physique, but I defer to colonel poo who knows way more I think!

D7Y not DK7 lol. This record

https://www.discogs.com/master/1534066-D7Y-D7Y

those are all great picks

Oh ffs ANTI CIMEX

Toy Dolls was the first punk band I ever saw, I think I saw Meat Loaf in the same week

Remembered after referring to them in the prog thread, that hands down the least cool music I'm into is Marillion. I even like the Hogarth albums, although it's been diminishing returns post-Marbles.

if you like hardcore punk, i made a 1980-1984 hardcore playlist on Youtube. it is free to the public at large. plenty of good euro/swedish stuff on it. #diy

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1-7P1reTFgTJcv2kWOAoUr3t4distfZ

then you can listen to my french hardcore techno playlist for the double whammy of bpm mayhem.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1-7P1reTFiWlUEb5uz-w_VmmGxgf0WE

XXXP - I was reading the thread and thinking that Marillion probably wins this for me, I liked them at the time when I was a youth but I can't listen to much of the Fish era nowadays as the lyrics and delivery are so cringe, I still quite like the Hogarth records though, and yeah after Marbles it's been a bit meh.