Outhouse of Uncool discussion

I'll start off with John Denver's Greatest Hits. I jam to that little beauty regularly. I can sing every damn song, word-for-word!

Any takers? Can you beat the uncoolness of The Denver?

Um, I listen to a LOT of show tunes. I think that's pretty uncool.

Only if you're a guy and claiming to be straight, darlin. :)

(No offense to Brent...)

He listens to almost EXCLUSIVELY show tunes. And polka. He actually likes polka.

I have the soundtrack to the Broadway show 42nd Street. I love those Harry Warren songs.

Wow, polka...why isn't Brent in here?

What do you do when he's blasing the Polka tunes honey? My ears would bleed.

He doesn't listen to it around me.

Yes, my husband is most DEFINITELY uncool.

I want one of them..."perfectly uncool", you know? Lucky girl!

Apparently, my entire music collection is deeply uncool. And a bit frightening. To me, it's just enjoyably eclectic.
Nerdiest? Probably my Harry and the Potters CD, called "Voldemort Can't Stop the Rock". It's nerdy, and it's pretty bad.

There is no such thing as Harry and the Potters CD, called "Voldemort Can't Stop the Rock". I refuse to believe that such thing exists!!


Now does my love for the ‘NSync song Bye Bye Bye makes me uncool right??? (please nobody let KD now that I like that crap…. Is the only one that I like!!!! I swear!!!)

Apparently, my entire music collection is deeply uncool.

I think this is worth further exploration as a definitely possibility.

I like Amy Grant.

In the 80s I listened to Amy Grant's Christian tapes all the time! I actually liked her better as a Christian artist than as a secular one.

I can top that, Elijah. I have a Queensryche tape and a Dream Theater tape.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3QSku...

Hey Donald...

http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Hits-A...

Voldemort Can't Stop the Rock!


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See, Harry and the Potters came to the Olympia Library last summer on their tour, and did a show in the middle of the library, after hours. They are much better live, by the way.
It was really cool - lots of families came, everyone was dancing the whole time, and many fans came in costume.
Awesome!

You know how certain songs evoke memories? When I was very young I used to listen to Amy Grant while I colored. Her song "Stay For A While" reminds me of my Popples coloring book.

http://www.popplespopp.com/

RA, it doesn't count if you mainly like Amy Grant because you think she's hot!

Sarah, my momma Wendy used to sing "In This Very Room" to me...

My mom sang that in church a couple of times. But I don't think Amy Grant recorded it, did she?

I was both 1) crushing on her, and 2) liked her music. But it wasn't like "dude, Amy Grant is sooooo hot..." it was more like I thought she was cool and pretty. That kind of crush.

I went through an Amy Grant phase, too, thanks to being a Presbyterian youth camp couselor.

I guess you're right Sarah, I had a wee look and couldn't find it. I thought she did, but...that was a long time ago.

It's still a classic though Ames!

Huh. Good questions. I imagine all three.

Heh!

Elijah, Amy Grant is a little, white girl, Christian, singer. Well, she went main stream after a while, but didn't really make it far in general population. Anyway, she was pretty bubble gum even then and it was in the late 80's / early 90's.

This is one of my favorite all time songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_...

also... I still like folk music.

I love A Mighty Wind! Mitch and Mickey get me every time.

I don't know if folk music is nerdy, but I hate most of it anyway. Like...NPR folk music is terrifying to me. I hate it I hate it I hate it. But I don't associate people who like it with the term nerdy.

And that Garrison Keilor guy or whatever his name is...oh my god, he is awful.

Nerdy music I like...beyond Amy Grant...let me think some more...

I had to go to a Fitzgerald party once at Keilor's house in St. Paul a few years ago. The guy is pompous beyond belief---all that folksy crap is fake as my toupe.

OK, confession time: I'm a surf music geek. Jan and Dean all the way.

Me, too, Kirk! I love Jan and Dean, and Dick Dale. Oh, and Shadowy Men On a Shadowy Planet.

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:::cries::: I love Garrison Keillor!!! And Thistle and Shamrock makes me go all misty eyed and want to drink whiskey and kiss bagpipe players.

:::weeps uncontrollably::::


ah man... I should have married the damn Irish guy.

they do that in Tahoe for the retro festival. i would love to go to that some day.

I love that "Mummer's Dance" by Loreena McKennit. And Enya. I like Enya!!!

Hey! I liked that, Jackie---very cool. OK, I almost confess a fondness for beach movies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL0zQk...

OK, Charissa, I take it back. He was a nice guy (to important people. Of which I wasn't one).

No, that wasn't a costume party, Sarah, but I've been to plenty of Gatsby parties. They are fun; it's a much more elegant drunk when flappers are around.

Yeah, Kirk and Jackie, surf music is awesome...hm...I wonder if we're just uncool people listening to cool music...

There was a Gatsby party in Sac last weekend. I think it was a fundraiser.

We were having a Fitzgerald Conference in St. Paul and GK had people over to his house. I snagged an invite bc I was on the board of the Fitzgerald Society....

which now that I write that sounds pretty uncool.


That could be, RA. I think surf music became retrospectively cool. I know I had to hide my Jan and Dean records in the late 70s in jr high lest I get the living k-rap beaten out of me.

Doo wop? Is that uncool?

We were having a Fitzgerald Conference in St. Paul and GK had people over to his house. I snagged an invite bc I was on the board of the Fitzgerald Society....

which now that I write that sounds pretty uncool

To me being on the board of the Fitzgerald Society is pretty damn cool.

It is, Dave; we have fun. Is it uncool that I remember seeing this as a kid? And that I had the 8 track? (Wait for the "special effects"):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbh9c0...

:::shudder:::

Kirk, you've gone too far this time...

I love Thistle and Shamrock!

I'm pretty sure this isn't cool:
Little Darlin' by the Diamonds

I first heard this at a lip-synch contest at my high school. The guys lip-synching to it wore mariachi outfits. I had a crush on both of them...

I will make no excuses - I have loved this song since I was three or four.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn481K...

Rusty, that is definitely not cool, but that doesn't mean there isn't some good advice in that song.
You DO gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run...



I know, I know, KD, having a crush on lip-synching mariachis is NOT cool.

Okay, so "Little Darlin'" IS cool, according to King Dinosaur, not counting mariachis.

But, what about THIS song? Falsetto, references to lions in jungles, when everyone knows lions sleep in savannas, and a guy in an incredibly dorky hat. I give you... The Lion Sleeps Tonight, by The Tokens!

Alright, try some of this. Neither this song, nor this movie, was ever remotely cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWVhiI...

That didn't stop my siblings and me from watching it a couple dozen times, however.

Rusty, you're a bastard, I watched that nearly the whole way through (Kenny)...I wanted to turn it off, but I just couldn't. UGH!

As far as the other, I can honestly say that I have never seen that movie, or heard the song. The guy was kinda hot without a shirt though, if he did something with his hair... I like me a clean cut boy really. The semi-fro didn't work for me.

That's right Amelia - that movie has something for everyone.