groban definitely up there. stuff thats not targeted to people under 35 even remotely.
― Rob Lowe fresco bar (m bison), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 03:34 (six years ago) link
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)
― Rob Lowe fresco bar (m bison), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 03:35 (six years ago) link
there was a brief time when there was ILM love for some of the early idol contestants I think -- did I dream that?
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 03:46 (six years ago) link
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.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 04:48 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSvCNBxF6dI
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 04:50 (six years ago) link
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.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 04:58 (six years ago) link
Example:
https://youtu.be/S38sf1zi_Fk
I know it's uncool but isn't it adorable?
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 05:02 (six years ago) link
I really like Charlie Puth and Selena Gomez's "We Don't Talk Anymore." Now that's uncool music even by poptimist standards.
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 05:16 (six years ago) link
there's some contemporary Christian pop and rock that I like!
― alpine static, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 05:42 (six years ago) link
^ woop!
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 05:45 (six years ago) link
moka, what makes you think that song is "uncool"?
― Beret McKesson (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 06:00 (six years ago) link
@josh az: i am right there with you. that song rules.
hell yeah it does
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 06:23 (six years ago) link
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.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 07:19 (six years ago) link
Which makes me think it's uncool music... it's kind of quirky but quirky has been uncool for a decade now.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 07:21 (six years ago) link
Dido
― heaven parker (anagram), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 07:43 (six years ago) link
Loads of commercial EDM and Drum & Bass.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 07:49 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biTMPeQm4jE
― oder doch?, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 08:01 (six years ago) link
Also, Cotton Eye Joe.
― oder doch?, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 08:03 (six years ago) link
"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
― flopson, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 08:05 (six years ago) link
Uncool music: anything they play on Radio X in the daytime. Biffy Clyro, Kasabian, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Blossoms, Foo Fighters etc.
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 09:19 (six years ago) link
Ed Sheeran's "Galway Girl". It's catchy.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 10:23 (six years ago) link
xp to flopson: resurgent popularity of darude sandstorm probably linked directly to the darude - sandstorm meme, right?
― how's life, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 10:29 (six years ago) link
no Pat Boone fans here?
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 10:36 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Yc3HhSl1Q
― ufo, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 10:47 (six years ago) link
I love Stan Freberg
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 10:49 (six years ago) link
I love the first two Kings Of Leon albums. They're uncool right? I don't know anymore....
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 12:03 (six years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link
10cc
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 12:45 (six years ago) link
Xpost Guys they said "uncool", not "artists whose stink will be permanently seared into your DN"
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 12:46 (six years ago) link
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.
― Scott Staph (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 13:28 (six years ago) link
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, September 13, 2017 8:46 AM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes, of course! Keep the ilx meme alive!
― Evan, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
i still have a soft spot for some of the bad trance i listened to in high school
eg robert miles <3 <3 <3
― marcos, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 13:46 (six years ago) link
I genuinely like Easy Lover - is that still uncool?
― thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 13:50 (six years ago) link
wait. i've got it. for me this is counting crows
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
brad!
― marcos, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
no
I still like the first Shiny Toy Guns album a lot
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 13:55 (six years ago) link
Ben Folds Five
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 13:57 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-xvK7eUXog
― piscesx, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 14:11 (six years ago) link
Styx
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 14:21 (six 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), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
Does anyone consider Bach or Mozart or Schubert cool?
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWHNwmzf1o
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
oh you can get away with those if you say yr actually listening to glenn gould xp
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 14:57 (six years ago) link
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 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
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
― Left, Friday, 22 March 2024 17:46 (three weeks ago) link
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.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 22 March 2024 17:46 (three weeks ago) link
My first exposure to punk (as a kid) was Repo Man, the movie and soundtrack, which was one of the first tapes I owned.
― let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Friday, 22 March 2024 17:49 (three weeks ago) link
mine was sk8er boi
― Left, Friday, 22 March 2024 17:51 (three weeks ago) link
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, 22 March 2024 18:35 (three weeks ago) link
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
― brimstead, Friday, 22 March 2024 18:37 (three weeks ago) link
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)
― 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.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 22 March 2024 18:49 (three weeks ago) link
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
― soref, Friday, 22 March 2024 19:09 (three weeks ago) link
brimstead, what's the best swedish dbeat to check out?
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 22 March 2024 19:18 (three weeks ago) link
I was listening to Totalitär yesterday, and that's not a bad place to start tbh
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 22 March 2024 19:21 (three weeks ago) link
Thanks, will check it out!
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 22 March 2024 19:28 (three weeks ago) link
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!
― brimstead, Friday, 22 March 2024 20:12 (three weeks ago) link
D7Y not DK7 lol. This recordhttps://www.discogs.com/master/1534066-D7Y-D7Y
― brimstead, Friday, 22 March 2024 20:14 (three weeks ago) link
those are all great picks
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 22 March 2024 20:30 (three weeks ago) link
Oh ffs ANTI CIMEX
― brimstead, Friday, 22 March 2024 20:34 (three weeks ago) link
Toy Dolls was the first punk band I ever saw, I think I saw Meat Loaf in the same week
― I saw three hippies saving a whale (Matt #2), Friday, 22 March 2024 20:44 (three weeks ago) link
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.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 24 March 2024 01:04 (three weeks ago) link
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
― scott seward, Sunday, 24 March 2024 01:25 (three weeks ago) link
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
― scott seward, Sunday, 24 March 2024 01:28 (three weeks ago) link
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.
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 24 March 2024 12:39 (three weeks ago) link