Favorite band/musician you "might" worry others think is uncool

[UNCGrad]

I will note, I am way past what anybody else thinks about my taste in music. But I'm sure we all have our favorites others might not have known or thought was cool.

So, whether that time is now or years ago, who were your absolute favorites no matter what anybody could say, then or now?

Mine, forever, will be Huey Lewis & the News. Simple, sure. Straight R&B-influenced rock? Mainstream? Yes. But, damn it, I stand firm. They were good.

Who are yours?

(I bet we could all find fun "new" stuff through this.)

 

[Batman]

I will note, I am way past what anybody else thinks about my taste in music. But I'm sure we all have our favorites others might not have known or thought was cool.

So, whether that time is now or years ago, who were your absolute favorites no matter what anybody could say, then or now?

Mine, forever, will be Huey Lewis & the News. Simple, sure. Straight R&B-influenced rock? Mainstream? Yes. But, damn it, I stand firm. They were good.

Who are yours?

(I bet we could all find fun "new" stuff through this.)

Obligatory:

 

[dixiehack]

I very seldom sit through a whole movie and I have never seen that one either. Based on the title, I was guessing it would by a psychologically terrifying scene at most. That was … vivid.

 

[DanOregon]

All this video is missing is Christopher Cross. Loggins, McDonald and David Foster on piano. The Rushmore of "uncool." Foster just continued to show up on the liner notes of album after album I'd buy - EWF, Chicago (them too), Toni Braxton, the Tubes....

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Don’t apologize for liking Huey Lewis.

 

[swingline]

Don't care what anyone thinks:

 

[Cosmo]

This is the Rush memorial award.

 

[HC]

Don't care what anyone thinks:

Wait ... what? Gerry Rafferty is the bomb. I don't want to live in a world that considers the man who sang "Stuck in the Middle With You" uncool.

 

[Cosmo]

Baker Street is a fascinating song. The sax flourish coming out of nowhere in an otherwise quiet song is great.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

None. All musicians and bands I like were/are cool. It's always been that way. It's not my fault other people might have **** taste.

 

[micropolitan guy]

I always liked the Dave Clark 5 way, way more than the Beatles, who I could take or leave (that has never changed). The DC5's singles stand up as good listening 50 years later.

And the original Southside Johnny and the Jukes were amazing.

 

[da man]

Probably 90 percent of the music I listen to is considered uncool. Starting with 1920s jazz and including 1950s rock and roll.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

Viola Turpeinen, the goddess of the Finnish accordion.

 

[FileNotFound]

My playlists and album collection practically scream out a description of me: White, fiftyish Southern straight cis male with a left-wing bent and a weakness for the literary. Isbell, Sturgill, Shovels & Rope, Brandi Carlile, John Prine, all the Americana typicals, plus many bands who never have and never will play a place bigger than The Orange Peel in Asheville.

With all that on the table: I will not apologize for my deep and abiding love for the Go-Gos.

 

[Octave]

I don't ever worry about that, but I had a heck of a time getting someone to come to a Steely Dan show with me several years back. My wife and her cousin finally agreed to go.

 

[da man]

Viola Turpeinen, the goddess of the Finnish accordion.

Is that anything like Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute?

 

[da man]

 

[swingline]

My playlists and album collection practically scream out a description of me: White, fiftyish Southern straight cis male with a left-wing bent and a weakness for the literary. Isbell, Sturgill, Shovels & Rope, Brandi Carlile, John Prine, all the Americana typicals, plus many bands who never have and never will play a place bigger than The Orange Peel in Asheville.

With all that on the table: I will not apologize for my deep and abiding love for the Go-Gos.

It's funny (to me): At the music festival I went to last fall, I saw Brandi Carlile — but I thought I was going to see Belinda Carlisle.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

Is that anything like Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute?

I love the pan flute! I think Art Bell used to hype this band on his talk show.

 

[da man]

I love the pan flute! I think Art Bell used to hype this band on his talk show.

The Zamfir commercial was a late-night fixture on Channel 17 in Atlanta (better known to most of you as WTBS) back in the day.