https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnakUvv2U-Y
― carpet_kaiser, Monday, 18 September 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2O9ryz7Eik
In 1982 i was on a field operation in south Korea as a Marine, Me and a friend got to go out to a small village for a little R&R before anybody else on our base, wandering around we came upon a mud and straw building, but on the inside you could hear loud music we opened the door and Rosanna was playing on a system that was worth more than the building itself, there was about 8 working girls sitting around talking we stayed all afternoon drinking beer and enjoying the company of those fine lady's.
― barbarian radge (NotEnough), Monday, 18 September 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
Der Langrisser doesn't have embarrassing vocals that would have people at a cool party climbing up walls.
Hokuto No Ken/Fist Of The North Star soundtrack You Wa Shock.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxkezvGwI20
I think Christmas music is often the height of uncoolness.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 18 September 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
Nada Surf. Probably the most "uncool" band I've stuck with since their first lp. Feels like dad-rock avant là lettre, in that I'm not a dad yet, but I grew up with these guys since both they and I were teenagers. And their music is still thoroughly uncool, unnoticed, unreviewed, completely outside of the reviewers eye. I get why. Which is what makes it so uncool. But boy are they consistently great at what they do. Every new album. It's not even by choice; we'll grow old together in spite of each other.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 2 October 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
I heard a busker singing "Wind of Change" earlier and it made me so happy
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 00:12 (six years ago) link
I can see Styx being mainstream school-dance cool in 1981 but not today.
In 1981 you'd have Styx playing out on your driveway while you had your driveway barbecue going, it was great, man, I was there. Wasn't old enough to go to school dances then, though.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 00:47 (six years ago) link
Also, where does They Might Be Giants fit in here? I still really like those records A LOT. The difference is, I like Styx records and enjoy that they're in no way cool, while They Might Be Giants records are, in my view, extremely intrinsically cool records that cool people largely never got into and which are thus not widely thought of as cool, quite the opposite in fact.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 00:48 (six years ago) link
TMBG are really awesome but they do have a bit of a nasally singing voice and have the classic nerd look down. the music is extremely good -- coolness really has nothing to do with music quality imo.
first time i heard them was "Particle Man" on Tiny Toons and that is probably as uncool as you can get lol.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 01:07 (six years ago) link
I used to love the most saccharine-laced love songs released during the 80's, which I blame by growing up in that decade. Just to let you know I'm not equivocating, 80's-era Genesis ("Hold on My Heart") and Richard Marx's "Angelia", which lets be honest, is kind of a badass Def Leppard B-side, is two songs that I bet I'd still love if I fired up again.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Monday, 30 October 2017 00:28 (six years ago) link
Speaking of Richard Marx - the epitome of uncool - the song "Hazard" is fucking brilliant. I mean, it essentially portrays the Tim Robbins' character in Mystic River a decade before it happens; not in every element, but the general gist.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Monday, 30 October 2017 00:37 (six years ago) link
Everyone likes "Hazard" iirc.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 30 October 2017 01:39 (six years ago) link
Is there still such a thing as uncool music?
― pomenitul, Monday, 30 October 2017 01:42 (six years ago) link
????? explain...
― brimstead, Monday, 30 October 2017 03:25 (six years ago) link
feel like uncool music is more music you feel embarrassed about when played in the wrong company, than any music being uncool
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 30 October 2017 03:28 (six years ago) link
^ otm
― flappy bird, Monday, 30 October 2017 04:04 (six years ago) link
"uncool" is relative
OBVIOUSLY
i don't know about that... we've got a pretty good list goin here!!
― brimstead, Monday, 30 October 2017 04:13 (six years ago) link
exactly
― flappy bird, Monday, 30 October 2017 04:20 (six years ago) link
ah a thread about what's cool! can't wait to post
― it me, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
wheeeeeeeee!
― brimstead, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjoJlM2r3qs
― how's life, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link
Amazed I didnt post this abomination.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsfhADiaP5EFor anyone who doesn't know, the Marvel Vs Capcom 2 soundtrack is widely considered terrible and terribly fitting for the game. But the select screen music caught on to people and became a kind of guilty pleasure.
I prefer the select music from the previous gamehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxMdFMJdeYg
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 9 April 2020 23:09 (four years ago) link
I wonder how many people request the most embarrassing or inappropriate music for their funeral just to make their family and friends squirm?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 9 April 2020 23:22 (four years ago) link
i was rocking the second stealers wheel album a couple days ago
maybe that's actually cool, but if it is i'm insufficiently cool to know this, so i would argue it counts
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 10 April 2020 02:05 (four years ago) link
Ben Folds Five― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Wednesday, September 13, 2017 8:57 AM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Wednesday, September 13, 2017 8:57 AM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Playing this morning for the first time in a long time, and yeah, same.
― Indexed, Thursday, 14 March 2024 14:07 (one month ago) link
i can't say i ever listen to ben folds five but i will always have a soft spot for them as the epitome of freshman year of college music
― na (NA), Thursday, 14 March 2024 14:08 (one month ago) link
First album in particular is just stacked top to bottom with hits. The playing is ragged and loose but accomplished, the vocal parts surprisingly challenging, the lyrics unserious but smart... Folds is a knob but the band had something no other band of their era (or since?) had.
― Indexed, Thursday, 14 March 2024 14:10 (one month ago) link
Third Eye Blind is not a band seen by anybody as "cool", but boy I sure love that first album.
― henry s, Thursday, 14 March 2024 14:36 (one month ago) link
yeah I've never cared about Ben Folds solo career, but those first two BF5 albums are classic
― jaymc, Thursday, 14 March 2024 15:06 (one month ago) link
The first two Dido albums are absolutely fantastic.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Thursday, 14 March 2024 15:46 (one month ago) link
Never listened to a Dido album but could absolutely see that. Will give them a go.
― Indexed, Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:04 (one month ago) link
Country music -- I really like a couple Sara Evans albums and she's definitely not one of those country artists who would ever show up in respectable year end lists plus she's pretty MAGA. Little Big Town is frequently pretty great, they have some really stunning tracks and some good albums but nobody outside of country music fans seems to give them much notice.
I still like Tranceport by Oakenfold.
― omar little, Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:17 (one month ago) link
I have a weird soft spot for God Bless the USA, probably because in spite of being the most "normal" and conservative song imaginable, it's actually kind of weird and awkward compositionally and lyrically.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:22 (one month ago) link
Doesn't really get any less cool than that.
The worst (from a music criticism perspective) bands I like are 311 (really just Grassroots and Transistor) and Sublime (I’ll take almost all of it still) but I still listen to them at least yearly if not more frequently…great for road trips too when you are looking for something familiar that doesn’t require too much focus/concentration.
― Slim is an Alien, Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:36 (one month ago) link
I still like lots of very uncool dubstep & d&b music, the kind of dubstep & d&b that people seem to want to distance themselves from.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:50 (one month ago) link
I didn't know Ben Folds Five was uncool???
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:11 (one month ago) link
I just found an early 2000s fan page for "geek-rock" bands, with pages for Ben Folds Five, Weezer, and They Might Be Giants.https://geek-rock.tripod.com/main/main.htm
I think I'll leave it at that.
― jaymc, Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:25 (one month ago) link
I have defended 311 a bunch, not to say I *love* them but I think they are underrated. FWIW they just did a Tiny Desk concert, which I'm curious to check out.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:30 (one month ago) link
hello.as anyone who follows my twitter knows all too well re my love of cheesy dubstep mixtapes.also, add bloghouse to the list.
― mark e, Thursday, 14 March 2024 17:30 (one month ago) link
I think those styles of music would prompt 90% of the population to say, “Whatever this is, it’s too cool for me”(!)
― Hippie Ernie (morrisp), Thursday, 14 March 2024 19:10 (one month ago) link
I actively disliked ABBA when I was a kid. They are now a guilty pleasure.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 16 March 2024 20:35 (one month ago) link
It’s been cool to like Abba for ages. Where you been, jimbeaux?
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 March 2024 20:42 (one month ago) link
Josefa just recommended a book about this very topic.
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 March 2024 20:43 (one month ago) link
They still strike me as deeply uncool. Anti-cool, actually.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 16 March 2024 21:02 (one month ago) link
I have similar feelings about the Bee Gees, although I think they are cool now.
beegees cool as fuck glad u reconize lol but not lol
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Saturday, 16 March 2024 21:15 (one month ago) link
― omar little, Thursday, March 14, 2024 11:17 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
hah, should relisten to that, I remember liking it a lot when I was a teenager but yeah even then some of those vocals going "ooooh aaaahh you are the gamemaster" was a bit much
speaking of I do like Shpongle a lot. they're pretty embarrassing in spots but I think their records are really well crafted and all have a lot of great moments. and Nothing Lasts is an absolute tour de force album
― frogbs, Saturday, 16 March 2024 21:20 (one month ago) link
Same deal with Bee Gees.
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 March 2024 21:33 (one month ago) link