"Uncool" music you dig. Out with it!

@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"

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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.

I think trendy music tends to become deeply uncool as time passes on. Yeah several 90's alt bands are very uncool at this point... Smashing Pumpkins is the first one that comes to my mind. In the early to mid 90's they were one of the cool bands the cool kids listened to. Corgan himself kind of pissed on that and public perception of the band and its fans is either non-existent or uncool.

Recent one that comes to mind is that quirky sweet indie music in the early to mid 00's that finally ended its course around the Juno movie. It's very very uncool music that got associated with the DIY trend but really it was more like ad music for selling food and light drinks.

Richard Marx - Endless Summer Nights

jon secada - just another day

Ben Folds Five is cool!

i listen to TONS of 50's jazz and vocal stuff that nobody under the age of 70 listens to. definitely not "cool".

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.

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.