Uncool music that you love

[Gibby]

Madness. Madness are great, though they spawned badness.

[John Junk 2.0]

I still like that first Porno For Pyros album, and I can still enjoy something like "Ocean Size" by Jane's Addiction without irony or embarrassment.

[Gilly]

I always hated Something/Anything but it's grown on me over the past few months. I like a fair amount of Christian Alt-Rock which is probably seen as the most uncool in some circles. But, I'll stand behind Starflyer 59, Johnny Q. Public, PFR and Morella's Forest. Those four bands really shaped my music tastes in middle school and early high school. I also love the Herman's Hermits.

[Raad_Man]

this shit is retarded.  why would anyone like music that's uncool?  it doesnt' make any sense.  if you like something then that makes it cool. 

[Steve of Bloomington]

this shit is retarded.  why would anyone like music that's uncool?  it doesnt' make any sense.  if you like something then that makes it cool. 

Some of us are through being cool, though.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

i don't think zappa has ever been considered "uncool"

SRSLY?  Maybe I spent too many of my formative years reading The New York Press and listening to WFMU, but I've always taken it as a given that every single ex-punk, mixtape-loving, lo-fi, anti-snob-snob hates Zappa.  I would probably put myself slightly on the garage-rock side of the garage/prog debate, but I like a little Zappa every now and then.

Oh, this one should get me excommunicated from the FOT board. 

TOOL.

I think their albums are seriously bloated. They need editing, but some songs are just incredible to me. These include...
Opiate
Prison Sex
Aenema
Hooker with a Penis
The Grudge
Ticks and Leeches
Lateralus
The Pot

I swear, I am not a frat boy.

I love Tool, and that's roughly my favorite-song list too.  Queens of the Stone Age, too, though I never got on the Kyuss bus.

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I've never been able to pin where Zappa fans fall in the grand scheme of things because I've never known any.

[Omar]

Oh, this one should get me excommunicated from the FOT board. 

TOOL.

Aenima and Lateralus are masterofworks.  10,000 Days was mostly a disappointment.

[dave from knoxville]

I've never been able to pin where Zappa fans fall in the grand scheme of things because I've never known any.

I'm one. What you want to know?

[Jonathan Steven]

Aja, Late for the Sky, and Blue Days Black Nights by Freedy Johnston.  I get a lot of crap for that last one but I find strange comfort in it.

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So it's a prog thing?  Ewwww.  Prog is like hippy jam music for rock dudes.

Trying to think if I like any prog (I'm sure there's at least one band...).  Might have to think about it for a bit.

[dave from knoxville]

So it's a prog thing?  Ewwww.  Prog is like hippy jam music for rock dudes.

Trying to think if I like any prog (I'm sure there's at least one band...).  Might have to think about it for a bit.

Sorry holding your nose is an essential. I will try not to hum in your general direction.

[John Junk 2.0]

So it's a prog thing?  Ewwww.  Prog is like hippy jam music for rock dudes.

Trying to think if I like any prog (I'm sure there's at least one band...).  Might have to think about it for a bit.

I thought hippy jam music was hippy jam music for rock dudes.

I like Zappa, but I don't like Steely Dan or King Crimson, though I like some Yes.  Early Frank Zappa isn't really prog.  The earliest stuff is like doo-wop, classical, jazz, and acid rock mixed together.  Then it gets into jazz/rock "fusion" which makes it proggy, but I will stand by Hot Rats 'til the bitter fucking end.  "Willie The Pimp" featuring Captain Beefheart is an awesome song.  The early Zappa stuff like We're Only In It For The Money and Absolutely Free are like proto-prog meets Ween I guess.  Something like that.

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Sorry holding your nose is an essential. I will try not to hum in your general direction.

Aww, c'mon Dave, prog deserves at least a little teasing.  People tease stuff I like all the time.   

I like the idea of prog rock, in theory.  Something just invariably goes awry somewhere along the way. 

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Sorry holding your nose is an essential. I will try not to hum in your general direction.

Aww, c'mon Dave, prog deserves at least a little teasing.  People tease stuff I like all the time.  

I like the idea of prog rock, in theory.  Something just invariably goes awry somewhere along the way. 

Nothing went wrong with Rush.  Unless you could their Ayn Rand dalliances, but I can forgive a good band some philosophical foibles as long as they're not, like, Skrewdriver.