Uncool music that you love

[jbissell]

Destiny's Child. 

YES

[kimota]

Queen's "The Miracle", no matter how extensively I cull my collection, has always made the final cut.  I don't know why either as it's not that good and I never listen to it.  I also have all the Dread Zeppelin albums which I still enjoy.

[Beth]

Also, this is only potentially embarrassing to an FOT, but Tom Waits' "Step Right Up" has been one of my favorite songs for years.

I love that song too--a creative writing teacher played that for our class in 11th grade, and I've been a Tom Waits fan ever since.

Oasis, for sure, and all of that mid-90's Britpop stuff that everyone else has been finished with for ten years.  The Spice Girls.  Is it cool or uncool to like Amy Winehouse? I don't know, but I do.  I also think that Paris Hilton single "Stars are Blind" is really catchy.  I kind of like some No Doubt/Gwen Stefani stuff, too, but what girl didn't own a copy of "Tragic Kingdom" in 1996?  Beth knows what I'm talking about, I bet.

For sure! I had a No Doubt poster on my bedroom wall.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Also:

Sublime
Peter Gabriel

[jbissell]

Also:

Peter Gabriel

I really haven't heard too much of his stuff but I enjoy his voice.

[masterofsparks]

Peter Gabriel is uncool? Who knew?

[Beth]

Ween.

I could do without the juvenalia and misogyny, but their adeptness with different genres makes for a fun mix-tape of a career.

Wait, Ween is uncool? I'm learning so much. Another one of my favorite bands.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

"Sledgehammer" came on my HutTunes, and I just assumed it was a song I loved but that everyone hated.  It could also be that I'm associating him with an old roommate who liked to make love [sic] to "Passion," PG's Last Temptation of Christ soundtrack.

Also, I kinda love Tool.  And Tori Amos.

[masterofsparks]

"Sledgehammer" came on my HutTunes, and I just assumed it was a song I loved but that everyone hated.  It could also be that I'm associating him with an old roommate who liked to make love [sic] to "Passion," PG's Last Temptation of Christ soundtrack.

Also, I kinda love Tool.  And Tori Amos.

OK, yes, So-era Peter Gabriel might be considered uncool. I was thinking of the self-titled solo albums, which are very cool.

[Gibby]

'Sledgehammer' is what got me into African music. Now I know you're thinking it sounds nothing like it, but back when I used to read guitar magazines they tabbed the song and I liked the simplicity of playing lots of quick staccato notes rather than running up and down the board like Zakk Wylde. I asked people who knew these kinds of things and they pointed me to Fela and Thomas Mapfumo and life is better for it.

I also quite like a couple of Gabriel-era Genesis records.

[Beth]

"Sledgehammer" came on my HutTunes, and I just assumed it was a song I loved but that everyone hated.  It could also be that I'm associating him with an old roommate who liked to make love [sic] to "Passion," PG's Last Temptation of Christ soundtrack.

Also, I kinda love Tool.  And Tori Amos.

I looooove Tori Amos. Except for that piece of shit album she put out last year. Ugh.

[masterofsparks]

Oh, a few more:

The Allman Brothers (Duane era only)
Foghat
Mountain
Bloodrock
Blackfoot
Black Oak Arkansas

(OK, I probably don't "love" those last five, but I really like their stuff and own more than one album by each. The Allmans I unabashedly love).

[Steve of Bloomington]

Abba!

Bela Fleck!

[Gibby]

Bloodrock's 'DOA' is way cool.

I like Don MacLean.

[Jennifer]

"Sledgehammer" came on my HutTunes, and I just assumed it was a song I loved but that everyone hated.  It could also be that I'm associating him with an old roommate who liked to make love [sic] to "Passion," PG's Last Temptation of Christ soundtrack.

Also, I kinda love Tool.  And Tori Amos.

I looooove Tori Amos. Except for that piece of shit album she put out last year. Ugh.

I do too, and everyone else I know hates her. And I agree about her last album (or last couple albums). I think the last thing I liked was Boys for Pele.