Favourite Bands who are deemed 'not cool'

[Gritt23]

Ok, I've never been into something because it was cool, to the extent that I didn't ever really know what was "cool". I just liked what I liked, and sometimes it was very different to those around me. I don't remember my school friends getting into Depeche until around the Personal Jesus time, and that was much later.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

What is the criteria for being a "cool" band? Nothing to do with their political leanings is it?

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Gave up on cool years ago.

U2 - have never really been cool, Bono and their early overt Christianity I suspect being two main reasons.
Prefab Sprout ( one of the most underrated bands of the last 30 years imo)
Coldplay
George Michael
Early Elton John

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Steve Hillage, viewed as a dodgy old hippy by many in the late 70s but transitioned into electronic music in the next century better than many supposedly cooler contemporaries. If you are talking about the seriously uncool guilty pleasures, I give you England Dan & John Ford Coley and Christopher Cross.

 

[jevs]

Another for ELO....i'm a mooohasive fan. Saw them in Brighton as ELO part 2 and saw them at the O2 last year as Jeff Lynne's ELO and i still have an erection to this day!!!!!

Some of the groups/artists on here were considered well cool...Madness, ABC, Human League, U2...etc etc ?

I give you Neil Diamond (think he was mentioned a few pages back)
John Denver.....my dad used to listen to his stuff. Never mentioned that one at school funnily enough

 

[Seat Stealer]

Gary Glitter and the Glitter Band

 

[Mr Bridger]

Another for ELO....i'm a mooohasive fan. Saw them in Brighton as ELO part 2 and saw them at the O2 last year as Jeff Lynne's ELO and i still have an erection to this day!!!!!

Some of the groups/artists on here were considered well cool...Madness, ABC, Human League, U2...etc etc ?

I give you Neil Diamond (think he was mentioned a few pages back)
John Denver.....my dad used to listen to his stuff. Never mentioned that one at school funnily enough

Turned to stone

 

[boik]

I've been listening to Joy Division in my kitchen this afternoon, and in order to better the acoustics I've turned down the extractor fans, so I am LITERALLY not cool at the moment, especially on a day like today.

Wearing your oven gloves? (One for HMHB fans).

 

[Garage_Doors]

Guilty pleasure for me is the Bay City Rollers, Still touring with Les and a backing band, fantastic like at 70's weekends as are The Glitter Band.

 

[matbha]

As British as they come, great stage presence, quality musicianship and football lovers.

What's not to like?

The best metal band on planet earth

 

[Weststander]

The Backstreet Boys, so many great tunes. A hideously guilty pleasure in an otherwise credible record collection.

We liked them inside this house, but didn't admit it to mates!

 

[Weststander]

One of my favourite bands ever...

The Police


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Was it uncool to like them at their peak and before that? That were loved by a mass of young followers.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Glenn Campbell.

Poor sod is in the last stages of dementia/ altziemers and his song adios is one of the most poignant sound at the moment.

His daughter was on the one show and she said that she introduced him to the crowd a while ago and by then he could hardly speak or communicate, but as he walked on stage, he picked up a guitar and started singing Whitchita lineman seemly word and pitch perfect. Not a dry eye in the house.

 

[bobby baxter]

Uncoolest band of all time? Has to be Status Quo.

 

[Icy Gull]

Uncoolest band of all time? Has to be Status Quo.

They were quite cool in their early Pyschedelic period ( Pictures of Matchstick Men) other than that a good introduction to rock music for 13 year olds

 

[Icy Gull]

Glenn Campbell.

Poor sod is in the last stages of dementia/ altziemers and his song adios is one of the most poignant sound at the moment.

His daughter was on the one show and she said that she introduced him to the crowd a while ago and by then he could hardly speak or communicate, but as he walked on stage, he picked up a guitar and started singing Whitchita lineman seemly word and pitch perfect. Not a dry eye in the house.

I thought Jimmy Webb and Glenn Campbell were quite a cool songwriter/singer combination

 

[Wilko]

I've never really been in to pop music but anytime I heard a new sugababes track I thought they were really good, proper catchy. This one in particular-

 

[1234andcounting]

Simply Red. I outed myself as a fan in the car back from the Huddersfield game when we passed the exit to Hucknall. Cue lots of derision......

 

[jevs]

Turned to stone

Where usually....It's over!!!!!

 

[carlzeiss]

do these count as uncool ?

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