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Following on from a slightly beer-fuelled late night conversation with MartynS of this parish over the weekend, it's time to check in any musical pretensions at the door, and to celebrate the music that you just love even though it's achingly uncool.
I mean, obviously, like most STWrs, when I'm not listening to Giles Peterson on R6M I spend most of my time listening to the Velvet Underground, Miles Davis and Wu Tang Clan, but just occasionally I do love a bit of...
Kate Nash - Made of Bricks. It's just a bloody great pop album.
Reckless by Bryan Adams
Steve Winwood - Back in the High Life; probably the first album I really loved as a child and used to badger my parents to play it all the time.
I don’t think that anything I listen to is ‘hip’, even if it is ‘hip to some’. If I’ve loved some music I’ll generally continue to love it. I bought a Whitesnake album when I was a kid because I thought the cover was cool and the name was hip. But I’ll be honest I couldn’t love the music (and still can’t love their music). I did like Aerosmith and still do. So if talking about cheesy rock bands then there’s always good reasons to like that stuff. ie air guitar in the kitchen, long road trips, getting ready to go out, noisy beery jukebox situations, weddings etc.
Problem with this thread is - some of the stuff I like is maybe SO ‘un-hip’ that it would be accused of being ‘hipster’. Is there no escape from this po-mo mind-rape? 😵💫
some random old songs that I still BIG HEART
Theres nobody naffer than Queen, but I bloody love this album
Ooh, plenty. Let's see:
Levellers - Levellers (and Levelling The Land)
Jesus Jones - Perverse
The Wildhearts - everything they did 1992-1996
Rage Against the Machine - not sure if that's cred-free enough
Green Day - Insomniac (also, go on then, Dookie too)
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
There was an awful lot of crap I listened to and loved at the time. But not many that I still come back to now!
I pretty much only listen to late 80s rock / metal although I do quite like a bit of Taylor Swift now and then.
Current favorite band is:
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Bat out of hell - ****ing love it!
I pretty much only listen to late 80s rock / metal although I do quite like a bit of Taylor Swift now and then.
I think you'd get on with MartynS 🙂
Everyone gets on with martyns
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing.
Iron Maiden - all of them, but particularly Di'Anno two...
Jethro Tull - Stormwatch.
Stone Roses - Second coming.
Supergrass - In it for the Money.
In fact all my favourite albums are less than cool by other people's definition but all the above are CAF in my opinion! Haha
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Supergrass don't really belong here.
For me: first album I ever bought, over 40 years ago, and I'm still listening to it - AC/DC, If You Want Blood. Not cool, but still exciting.
And I've just decided I'm going to watch 'Sing Street' tonight (again).
Iron Maiden – all of them, but particularly Di’Anno two…
Saw Di'anno live with his band Battlezone? just after he left Iron Maiden....
Although I thought he one did one album with IM before leaving?
Supergrass – In it for the Money
Wtf?! 😳
Billie Eilish is kids' music in't she? Although I don't get on with every track on "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" most of it is great.
ooh, Huey Lewis, excellent shout. I quite like 'Sports' too 🙂
Billie Eilish is definitely too cred for this thread
When working I put on music but only two playlists actually help me work better. One is hypnotic and melodic electronic music, the other is (rather perversely) laid back classic rock.
Rumours
Supertramp Live in Paris.
ooh, Huey Lewis, excellent shout
You've not read 'American Psycho' then?
I was given a Power Ballads cd as a tongue in cheek gift and ended up buying II and III. Raking through the cd's the other day I found them. Packed full of unhip crackers for belting out in the car. And fwiw AC/DC and iron maiden might not be hip but they do have cred!
I was given a Power Ballads cd as a tongue in cheek gift and ended up buying II and III
Does it have this one?
Currently on my playlist....
Billie Eilish is definitely too cred for this thread
Or just too NEW?
****ing Huey Lewis : appropriately named, cos his voice induces vomiting in me. I once bought a Paul Young album. Does that count? 😆 (oh no "still" love. I'm oot 😛 )
Depeche Mode. Speak and spell. Excellent debut album.
Anything by Joy Division. Curtis RIP
Ha, made it into the film, too, might have to watch that.
Depeche Mode. Speak and spell. Excellent debut album.
Anything by Joy Division. Curtis RIP
Massive fail of the 'un-hip, cred-free' test I'm afraid.
Bat out of hell – **** love it!
beat me to it
Yes, "Tales from Topographic Oceans".
Surely that cannot be hip, can it?
Same for Genesis, but possibly "Foxtrot" is less unhip, and it is the one I like most of their's.
Some people didn't read the thread title!
Billie Eilish, Depeche Mode, Joy Division and Snoop Dogg are not by any measure 'un hip' or 'lacking cred'. Especially the latter two, goodness me.
Joshua Tree is an interesting call - kind of a classic but its cred value is inversely proportional to Bono's bellendery coefficient, so it has steadily been getting less and less credible ever since about 1992. Shame really because I'd venture that the first 3 tracks are as strong an opening to an album as anything you'll find.
Is this thread just "list Cougar's CD collection"?
Although I thought he one did one album with IM before leaving?
Eponymous debut album (home of the Lucozade advert) and Killers.
Anyway.
You can close the thread now, I win. 😁
I quite like ‘Sports’ too
I came here to post this.
Dire Straits – Money for Nothing.
And this.
Probably need to contribute some Def Leppard or Billy Ocean instead. No... hold on... it has to be this...
Joshua Tree is an interesting call – kind of a classic but its cred value is inversely proportional to Bono’s bellendery coefficient, so it has steadily been getting less and less credible ever since about 1992. Shame really because I’d venture that the first 3 tracks are as strong an opening to an album as anything you’ll find.
Any mention of U2 on here is met with a howl of aggrievement over Bono, sh*te music, un-cool, yaddda yadda...
Yet I am with you - some of U2's music is brilliant.
Anyway.
You can close the thread now, I win. 😁
You would definitely get on with MartynS
Joshua Tree is an interesting call – kind of a classic but its cred value is inversely proportional to Bono’s bellendery coefficient,
When I was at school, that era U2 were about the coolest band on the planet. There was a popularity contest between U2 and Simple Minds, at the time I was a Simple Minds fan but with the benefit of hindsight I think U2 had the edge...
Theres nobody naffer than Queen
Take that back!
I've got a thing for post - Peter Gabriel Genesis. Which i know is basically heresy. Love those 80's bangers like Tonight, Tonight, Tonight and Mama.
Also got a thing for Anita Baker. And Queen obvs.
Pretty much anything by Quo, up to If You Can't Stand The Heat.
Take that back!
I’ve got a thing for post – Peter Gabriel Genesis. Which i know is basically heresy. Love those 80’s bangers like Tonight, Tonight, Tonight and Mama.
Also got a thing for Anita Baker. And Queen obvs.
Can I report myself for using the word 'bangers' in actual discourse. Cringed when I read that back.
I had the special edition of this which had some excellent covers on disc 2. I haven't listened to it for ages.
Also, even though skate/pop punk stopped being cool in around 2010 I still absolutely love these two
No beating around the bush, both these are deeply uncool, and I love them both
Still have my original copy of this, and trot it out regularly
and the greatest of those OTT 70's double (and treble) live albums
Dunno about cool factor, but Pop Art is an exceptional album.
Less sure about Neil Diamond's huge invisible penis there though.
Can I report myself for using the word ‘bangers’ in actual discourse. Cringed when I read that back.
Literally the wurst word you could've chosen.
Peter Gabriel So
Scritti Politi Cupid & Psyche 85
Can I report myself for using the word ‘bangers’ in actual discourse. Cringed when I read that back.
Nah you're ok - 'Mama' is definitely a banger. In fact I'm going to put the 12" version on right now
definitely a banger. In fact I’m going to put the 12″ version on
Footlong?
Graceland is a classic and did somebody mention RATM earlier? Neither of those two belong in this thread. I’ve got a soft spot for ManoWar. They out Spinal Tap every band including Spinal Tap but they’re not in on the joke. Fantastic.
Stripes on a tiger don’t wash away. ManoWar’s made of steel not clay!
and
I am an outcast on the path of no return. Punisher and swordsman, I was born to burn. Black wind always follows where my black horse rides. Fire’s in my soul, steel is by my side.
Eat your hearts out Dylan, Springsteen and Isbell
Every
Single
Album
On
My
Colleagues
IPod...
Last updated, June 1970
My God. Just been enduring something which sounded like the Italian Archers this morning.
Jesus wept 😳
for my sins, I'm still a fan of Ah'a - Hunting High and Low, and I actually bought a physical copy of Crocodile Shoes by Jimmy Nail. and I quite like it.
there, I've said it.
I'm now of to wash myself with some fields of the neph to regain my gothism.
The beautiful south, carry on up the charts.
Scissor sisters.
Theres nobody naffer than Queen
there's something about queen, no idea what, but once you start to like them, you kinda 'get' most of their stuff and it's a slippery slope.
for the record. I am a queen fan.
this is becoming a bit of a confessional.
The beautiful south, carry on up the charts.
Nah, The Beautiful South, like The Housemartins, were superficially uncool in a very timelessly cool way.
there’s something about queen
I suspect it's their live prowess. I was too young to see them myself but watched with my dad Live Magic in what '86? on the telly, also Live Aid. Absolutely thrilling. Freddie was an absolute legend of a performer.
My uncle went to see them. He said it was the loudest gig he's ever been to.
Graceland is a work of near genius, no place for it on this thread.
Read shame Live Magic isn't on Spotify - one of their best albums.
Nah, The Beautiful South, like The Housemartins, were superficially uncool in a very timelessly cool way.
The beautiful south made music for parents to sip wine to, they are not the anthems of rebellion and change. Keir Starmer would listen to the beautiful south, while lying to voters that he enjoys the energy of RATM.
Graceland is a work of near genius, no place for it on this thread.
I concur, it's a laughable suggestion.
Bon Jovi up till about These Days
King's X - Out Of the Silent Planet (a reference to Narnia creator CS Lewis there) and Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
The Quireboys - A Bit Of What You Fancy (they're playing near me soon, I'm vaguely temted to go)
Extreme - the first 3 albums
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Fields Of The Nephilim
Goergia Sattelites
Queensryche
Van Halen / Dave Lee Roth
Fightstar
Living Colour
Take That
Coldplay
Robbie Wiliams first 2 solo albums
I DO get on well with MartynS
Theres nobody naffer than Queen, but I bloody love this album
Queen only became naff towards the end
Their best stuff is spread over too many albums for me to single out one though
Watched Bohemian Rhapsody for the first time the other night. Brilliant film and a great insight into the life of Freddy. I don't have and probably never will have a more favoured performer. Still remember exactly where I was when I heard he passed. One of my biggest regrets never seeing Queen live
Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
Brilliant film and a great insight into the life of Freddy
...and, to a large extent, a complete work of fiction.
Van Halen / Dave Lee Roth
DLR-era Van Halen have no place in this thread. Van Hagar certainly, and definitely DLR solo stuff, but those first few VH albums are off the charts brilliant. They laid the path for all the dross that came after, granted!
Glad to see someone's beat me to Meatloaf and Bat Out Of Hell.
Is it still actually un-hip though? Or has he had a reappraisal since he died and everyone realised they actually loved that album?
I also have a soft spot for 1980s hair metal/rock, this is the pinnacle for me...
Yes, “Tales from Topographic Oceans”.
Don’t get me started on prog
Debbie Gibson - Electric Youth
Johnny Hates Jazz - Turn Back the Clock
Billy Joel - Stormfront
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Gloria Estefan - Cuts Both Ways
Have no fear I am leaving now...😉 I also predominantly listen to 70s and 80s rock with the odd bit of 90s dance music thrown in for good measure
The Quireboys – A Bit Of What You Fancy (they’re playing near me soon, I’m vaguely temted to go)
Do. I (finally) caught them live a couple of years ago any they were, well, exactly what you'd expect and hope.
Extreme – the first 3 albums
Pornografitti at least.
You (and cha****ng) might approve of the wholly underrated Electric Boys.
https://open.spotify.com/album/549lNYxtLcwwKuwglQxdlb
Billy Joel – Stormfront
Wow, even for Billy Joel (and I'm a bit of a fan), that's an out there choice.
Is Billy Idol cred-free?
I suspect so, but I think he's cool AF and has some amazing tunes...
Graceland is a work of near genius, no place for it on this thread.
Graceland is a classic and did somebody mention RATM earlier? Neither of those two belong in this thread.
Now hang on, the brief in the OP was "un-hip, cred-free album that you still just love". So unless you lot are going to tell me that Paul Simon is somehow hip and full of street cred then I think this is still on brief.
It is a great record, but it ain't cool.
…and, to a large extent, a complete work of fiction.
Well, that's annoying - not watched the YT vid yet
The Quireboys – A Bit Of What You Fancy (they’re playing near me soon, I’m vaguely temted to go)
I was tempted, until they booted Spike
Now hang on, the brief in the OP was “un-hip, cred-free album that you still just love”.
It is a great record, but it ain’t cool.
I'll give you un-hip, but it's not cred-free. It is entirely, deservedly, credible.
with the benefit of hindsight I think U2 had the edge
👏
Don't encourage him...
Every song a stone-cold classic on this precious jewel.
Which reminds me in a roundabout memory-bank unlocking way of this post-Propaganda banger:
Ah, I had a big crush on that Teutonic twosome