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
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.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
Richard Marx - Endless Summer Nights
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link
jon secada - just another day
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
Ben Folds Five is cool!
― alpine static, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
i listen to TONS of 50's jazz and vocal stuff that nobody under the age of 70 listens to. definitely not "cool".
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
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.
― gospodin simmel, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
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!
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
I like early KoL too, up to and including [Because of the Times.
my real answer though is Blue Rodeo
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
haha love me some blue rodeo, that's a great one
― flopson, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
I thought Justin Trudeau was cool?
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
I have to listen to P.D.Q. Bach's "The Seasonings" at least once a year.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
not in my house
Tremolo is a classic album and not just for featuring a pre-9/11 anti-Giuliani song
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
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.
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
a couple of those forgotten, ill-favored jam-type band albums from the '90s I always liked. Stratagem by Big Head Todd & Red by God Street Wine. I haven't heard them in twenty years, I probably wouldn't like them know.
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
I seem to like pretty much any trip hop, even stuff that people largely dissed or dismissed at the time when trip hop was a thing (e.g. Baby Fox, Smoke City).
― Scott Staph (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
The odd Sarah McLachlan numberLaura BranniganSome Coldplay but recent work is beyond redemptionSome Happy Hardcore
― the article don, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
blue rodeo is great
sarah mclachlan is extremely cool imo
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
I still like the My Dick album
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 19:02 (six years 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 (four 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 (four weeks ago) link