I'm going to have to go with the Lighthouse Family. Scandalously bad music, enjoyed by Vectra driving salesmen who thought they were hip.
That group are so bland that they are verging on vile.
What's the situation with E.L.O. at the moment ? They seem to fluctuate between seen as creaky old fart music and being fairly cool.
I like them at the moment, partly due to realising Jeff Lynn is a good musician.
That group are so bland that they are verging on vile.
What's the situation with E.L.O. at the moment ? They seem to fluctuate between seen as creaky old fart music and being fairly cool.
I like them at the moment, partly due to realising Jeff Lynn is a good musician.
I love ELO, I wouldn't say they fit in this catagory though.
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
Remember how she said that
We would meet again
Some sunny day?
Vera! Vera!
What has become of you?
Does anybody else here
Feel the way I do?
I'm a Britney fan as well but I'm not a music snob. I do however get into arguments with people who dare slag off our Britney. About two weeks ago I was in a bit of a Britney mood and I was randomly singing her songs at odd moments, as I tend to do. I was playing Mario Party with some friends. One guy (who was on his laptop playing Goat Simulator) overheard me and he was shocked when I admitted I listened to Britney Spears. He kept going on about what a talentless idiot he thought she was and he reckoned she can't sing, she can't dance, she can't write her own songs, she's crazy... I could go on >:( Anyway I got really angry and told him a few home truths about her He was a metalhead.
Yep! And yet nobody can name a single Nolans song, but then who can name a Saturdays song apart from us fans? And yes I am a Sats fan, have been since the beginning.
Chemistry
Don't make waves
Attention to me
Spirit, body & soul
Gotta pull myself together
Love country music, the schmaltzier, the better. I feel no shame and although its not considered cool I feel a million dollars blaring out country hits from my car stereo.
From my youth Andy Stewart and Jimmy Shand, even most people in Scotland would run a mile from this pair. I am a soldier, a Scottish soldier, nooooo!!1
Is it still obligatory for Scottish men to listen to The Corries after drinking too much whisky, at least once every few years?
Were ABBA ever considered unfashionable? They've probably made more money in the last twenty years than when they were together.
Abba were possibly the most unfashionable band of the 1980's. They were considered too mainstream, safe and being former Eurovision contestants didn't help matters. But anything associated with the 70's was the epitome of uncool. (If you were a youngster in the 80's, you had to make sure your drainpipes had no sign of a flare or risk fashion humiliation)
Barry Manilow was similarly uncool due to the 70's link. In the 80's Glenn Madeiros had a huge hit single despite looking a little suspiciously Manilow-esque. Things were going quite well for him until he made the fatal mistake of admitting he was actually an admirer of Manilow - his career immediately bombed!
Another artist I remember who whilst releasing studio albums was deemed 'naff' and 'unfashionable' was Billy Joel.
However in the 20 plus years since his last pop studio album in 1993 he is now viewed in a completely different light and respected for his back catalogue and achievements possibly the ABBA effect. Younger generations don't have the stigma of those who actually were there at the time being shown cooler alternatives.
If the music is good enough, things will turn full circle and younger generations re-evaluate the music without the stigmas of the past.
Other bands to shed their uncoolness in later life: the Stranglers; Fleetwood Mac
Until the 90s, any progressive rock band that wasn't Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin or
Soft Machine. *
(I can remember Tom Dunne, Irish DJ and former punk, saying "If in the early 80s, you'd suggested to me listening to any prog album, I'd have probably thumped you!" )
* Maybe Can as well, but Michael Karoli seems to have denied that Can were ever prog.
Until the 90s, any progressive rock band that wasn't Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin or
Soft Machine. *
(I can remember Tom Dunne, Irish DJ and former punk, saying "If in the early 80s, you'd suggested to me listening to any prog album, I'd have probably thumped you!" )
* Maybe Can as well, but Michael Karoli seems to have denied that Can were ever prog.
On that note Fish era Marillion were hated in the eighties by music snobs, they were doing Prog in the early eighties. I have been revisiting their work on Youtube recently and with the distance of time some of it is majestic. Look up Garden Party.
On that note Fish era Marillion were hated in the eighties by music snobs, they were doing Prog in the early eighties. I have been revisiting their work on Youtube recently and with the distance of time some of it is majestic. Look up Garden Party.
Yeah, it'd be difficult to think of a band more at odds with the early 80s
rock scene than Marillion. They've been pretty durable, though- they
were still hitting the Top Ten in 2004.
Yeah, it'd be difficult to think of a band more at odds with the early 80s
rock scene than Marillion. They've been pretty durable, though- they
were still hitting the Top Ten in 2004.
They were one of quite a few, but they were the ones that 'made it big' so to speak. There were others who were much more akin to the prog of old, IQ in particular. I think Fish was the unique aspect they had that the others lacked. He and his old band are still going strong
They were one of quite a few, but they were the ones that 'made it big' so to speak. There were others who were much more akin to the prog of old, IQ in particular. I think Fish was the unique aspect they had that the others lacked. He and his old band are still going strong
They weren't "neo-prog", but Camberwell Now (the later incarnation
of This Heat ) were an 80s band that did an unusual but engaging
mix of prog, industrial music and post-punk.
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That group are so bland that they are verging on vile.
What's the situation with E.L.O. at the moment ? They seem to fluctuate between seen as creaky old fart music and being fairly cool.
I like them at the moment, partly due to realising Jeff Lynn is a good musician.
Wow
Maybe it's just where you live? Country music is hugely popular in Scotland
and Ireland.
Roger Waters will be pleased. From The Wall.
Chemistry
Don't make waves
Attention to me
Spirit, body & soul
Gotta pull myself together
I'm surprised! Were any of those songs hits back in the day?
Is it still obligatory for Scottish men to listen to The Corries after drinking too much whisky, at least once every few years?
Abba were possibly the most unfashionable band of the 1980's. They were considered too mainstream, safe and being former Eurovision contestants didn't help matters. But anything associated with the 70's was the epitome of uncool. (If you were a youngster in the 80's, you had to make sure your drainpipes had no sign of a flare or risk fashion humiliation)
Barry Manilow was similarly uncool due to the 70's link. In the 80's Glenn Madeiros had a huge hit single despite looking a little suspiciously Manilow-esque. Things were going quite well for him until he made the fatal mistake of admitting he was actually an admirer of Manilow - his career immediately bombed!
If the music is good enough, things will turn full circle and younger generations re-evaluate the music without the stigmas of the past.
Other bands to shed their uncoolness in later life: the Stranglers; Fleetwood Mac
Soft Machine. *
(I can remember Tom Dunne, Irish DJ and former punk, saying "If in the early 80s, you'd suggested to me listening to any prog album, I'd have probably thumped you!" )
* Maybe Can as well, but Michael Karoli seems to have denied that Can were ever prog.
On that note Fish era Marillion were hated in the eighties by music snobs, they were doing Prog in the early eighties. I have been revisiting their work on Youtube recently and with the distance of time some of it is majestic. Look up Garden Party.
Only if you live in Brigadoon or believe Braveheart is historically accurate ;-)
Yeah, it'd be difficult to think of a band more at odds with the early 80s
rock scene than Marillion. They've been pretty durable, though- they
were still hitting the Top Ten in 2004.
They were one of quite a few, but they were the ones that 'made it big' so to speak. There were others who were much more akin to the prog of old, IQ in particular. I think Fish was the unique aspect they had that the others lacked. He and his old band are still going strong
They weren't "neo-prog", but Camberwell Now (the later incarnation
of This Heat ) were an 80s band that did an unusual but engaging
mix of prog, industrial music and post-punk.
Really? I though people were had fond memories of Carol Decker's crowd.
Sonia only performs at gay clubs nowadays- apparently she was tried of
straight blokes making lecherous comments at her at regular gigs.