What are your most "un-hip" music likes/loves?

[mvd]

This is not a guilty pleasure topic. It's what you proudly love.

I just gave into the Click Five for one. I had heard only samples, but after I heard the full version of "Just the Girl," I started getting hooked. They are what the boy bands of the 90s/early 00s should have been. Newer Hanson is also good.

I like many of the young, female pop/rockers. Not Ashlee Simpson or Hilary Duff (and maybe not Hope Partlow - will give her one more chance if the full album can be listened to online.) But I like more than Avril, Michelle Branch, Hope 7, Alexz Johnson, and Fefe Dobson - also Aly & AJ, Brie Larson, and one Emma Roberts song so far. I buy music from artists young and old if I like the sound.

I like country, including much from the mainstream.

What are yours?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre (nt)

[jpgray]

9. Parts of the Blade Runner soundtrack and China are pretty cool (nt)

[no name no slogan]

13. I own Oxygene on vinyl

GREAT synthesist. Very cool stuff.

[ET Awful]

2. None, by viture of my liking it, it all becomes hip :)

I mean . . . I'm so cool you could store a side of beef in me for a month.

Everyone else is so un-hip it's a wonder their pants don't fall off.

[mvd]

3. LOL

I prefer to not be hip, though. I do like some artists (Radiohead, Fiona Apple, Sufjan Stevens, New Pornographers) that balance things out somewhat.

[ET Awful]

4. Sure, but that stuff they play on the radio and on M-TV is NOT hip

it's very far from hip . . . it's the opposite of hip, in fact, it's pih :)

Everything I listen to is hip strictly because I listen to it. :)

[mvd]

5. So what artists would you consider hip?

Just curious. :-)

[ET Awful]

6. It varies from one moment to the next and runs the gamut from

Dan Bern to The Coup (very political rap) to the Grateful Dead to bluegrass to some classical and everything in between.

Pretty much the only thing left out is Freep-minded country music (other country music is on rare occasions acceptable) and the vast majority of "popular" music these days.

[mvd]

7. Funny - Grateful Dead always had a cult following, but..

they don't seem hip to me.

[supernova]

8. I like Broadway show tunes

so sue me. :P I also like Gilbert and Sullivan.

This in addition to my more "normal" tastes of rock, classical, and bluegrass.

[eauclaireliberal]

10. Devo!

Ever since They first came out, I have been listening to them (not so much in the last ten years though).

As for country, I like the Dixie Chicks (of course)...Brad Paisley and Blake Shelton are pretty cool too. I got into country after having moved to Eau Claire from Milwaukee years ago. Kind of inevitable. Other than what I've mentioned above, the rest of it is a bunch of whiny shit.

[terrya]

11. Mahler. Boy, is he un-hip

[Blue-Jay]

19. I love Gustav Mahler.

His music is quite.....large.

[Initech]

12. I'm a HUGE death metal fan

I love bands like Nile, Dark Tranquility, Katatonia, Opeth, Obituary, Death, and tons of others.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

14. Thomspon Twins. There is no cure.

[khashka]

34. Doctor, doctor....

Yeah me too. And I cringe.

But really, they weren't that bad were they?


Khash.

[no name no slogan]

15. The Bee Gees. And "Eye of the Tiger"-era Survivor

God I'm a reprobate.

[distantearlywarning]

16. John Denver.

Blame it on my parents - they indoctrinated me when I was little and now it reminds me of my happy childhood so I can't stop listening.

I also confess to liking some of the young female pop stars too.

[philosophie_en_rose]

20. Awww....

I love John Denver.

[CandyCrim21]

17. New Kids on the Block

I know I know, sometimes I crank up my radio and clean my house to the Hang in Tough album. LOL

I know its pathetic.

[huskerlaw]

18. OMG, that is TOO funny.

I haven't done that in yeeeeeears, but you know, if I can find the tapes, I just might give it a try tonight. I need completely senseless fun. ;)

[Xipe Totec]

24. Sorry, Misposted n/t

[no name no slogan]

25. Ever hear of Hevia?

That's the only other well-known Galician piper I can think of. Very nice.

[Xipe Totec]

27. Yes, Have one of the albums

Hevia tends to be more New Age than traditional, but I love some of the selections on "Tierra de Nadie" ( Gaviotes, Naves ).

I also love Carlos Nuñez, also from Galicia but more well known because of his involvement with the Chieftains.

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[mulsh]

21. Bobby Sherman

I just organized about 2500 lp stored in my basement last week. I found Bobby mixed in with Test Dept and Foetus. hope he was happy there.

[chaska]

22. Spice Girls!!!

[djeseru]

23. 1920's Jazz Age jazz.

Duke Ellington with Bubber Miley, Bix and Tram, Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens. The love just extends right into the Swing Era...

[Ron Green]

32. Don't look now, but that's the hippest thing on this whole thread.....

...take it from a musician who's played every style.

[djeseru]

37. Excellent!

I knew one day I'd be in time with the drums! Seems I've always been one-half-step off...

Wow, to be able to play it as well, that's amazing... =)

[Xipe Totec]

26. Bagpipes!

Yea, I know, weirdo.

But I especially like Galician Bagpipes (Northern Spain)

Right now I'm on a Susana Seivane Kick. She is hot... :loveya:



http://www.susanaseivane.com /

[khashka]

28. Human League, Heaven 17, Blue Oyster Cult

and that really bad pop rock War of The Worlds album with Richard Burton

Avril (I'm so ashamed).


Khash.

[Initech]

30. Needs more cowbell!

[Shredr]

29. I work out to all those stupid neo-punk bands...

Good Charlotte, Sum-41, Bowling For Soup, Blink 182.

Dumb, I know, but at the gym they're just right.

[Ramsey]

31. Nickleback

I really like this band. I wouldn't argue that they are especially original or anything, but they do rock! Yet LynneSin makes fun of me for listening to them :cry:

[blondeatlast]

33. The Carpenters and I don't care what anyone thinks. nt

[oregonjen]

35. Josh Groban and John Denver

I can only imagine what new songs John Denver would be writing given the problems in the world right now.

[Clintmax]

36. Isn't it Josh Groban who sings the song used in the...

commercial advertising some italian food? I think it is, and it's wonderful! I wish I could find it!

[mitchum]

38. Philip Glass...

honest, I have many music snob friends (I'm somewhat of one myself) who feel that my liking of his work must be a "guilty pleasure" No, I really like his work.