Uncool music that you love

[Raad_Man]

rush is cool as shit.  i have two rush shirts.  when i met sebastian bach, he got all excited when he noticed i was wearing a fly by night shirt.  he thumped me in the chest and told me i was a sweet dude.

[dave from knoxville]

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. 

You're dead to me, you damn sandwich lover. Probably like cake too.

[yesno]

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.

Yeah, I read that the Monkees were unable to see the flaws in Searle's Chinese Room argument, but I listen to them anyway.

[masterofsparks]

ooooh! "night moves"  gets me every time. also, "against the wind"

Yeah, I like Night Moves a whole lot. Anyone who considers Seger uncool has never heard his early singles and LPs, though. There's some hot stuff in there. I think I've heard Tom play the Bob Seger System track Lucifer on the show before.

I never gave his early stuff a chance because, years ago, I heard him sing on a track called "Ballad of the Yellow Beret" which disgusted me. Here it is:

http://cockeyedabsurdist.vox.com/library/audio/6a00cd970622754cd500d41425a718685e.html

Yeah, I'm familiar with that song and it was definitely a jerk move. He obviously turned around because his first album (which came several years after Ballad of the Yellow Beret) has one of the most powerful anti-war songs ever, 2 + 2 = ?

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Rush has always been too divisive to every comfortably call "cool" though.  In any room of people you can probably find three people who absolutely love Rush and three more who are sent into convulsive fits from them.   

Heck, that divide even exists in some bands. 

[masterofsparks]

I will stand by Hot Rats 'til the bitter fucking end.  "Willie The Pimp" featuring Captain Beefheart is an awesome song. 

It is a good song, but I have to give most of the credit to Beefheart for the awesome vocal - that's what really sells the song for me, especially since Zappa has a long history of either choosing horrible vocalists or, even worse, performing the vocals poorly himself. Jim DeRogatis played "Catholic Girls" on this week's Sound Opinions podcast and hooo-boy it brought back into focus just how God-awful the majority of Zappa's output is (for me, anyway - I'm not trying to run down yours or anyone else's tastes, JJ).

Having said that, I really do need to hear those early Mothers albums again.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

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.

Yeah, I read that the Monkees were unable to see the flaws in Searle's Chinese Room argument, but I listen to them anyway.

Actually, Michael Nesmith has been fairly critical of Searle.  I believed his work in this area was his reason for not joining the 1980s reunion.

[masterofsparks]

Van Halen (DLR-era only)

[Jouster]

Michael McDonald.

[Come on, Jason]

Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
Wham - Make it Big
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium, Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Oh, and I really love the song Abacab.

[Omar]

Skid Row - Slave to the Grind

This album is very cool.

[Martin]

Lots and lots of cheesy 80s groove. It's turning around though - soon it's cool again.

[Phantom Hugger]

Tie my bonnet and call me junior, I like metal.

It's the genre fiction of music.

[yesno]

Tie my bonnet and call me junior, I like metal.

It's the genre fiction of music.

Me too.  It's not my favorite kind of music, but it has great moments.  And I wouldn't call a band like Jesu childish.  There's a lot of different kinds of metal bands.

[masterofsparks]

Skid Row - Slave to the Grind

This album is very cool.

Agreed. In a similar area, I like the first 2 LPs by both Def Leppard and Motley Crue.

And ZZ Top is my favorite rock band ever.