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:

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2nnkBYh]Danger Danger[/url] by Ben Freeman, on Flickr

Bat out of hell – **** 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?
**** 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