Best Ever Albums

Re: Least cool genre

newbands1 — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 02:19:14 GMT

Author: newbands1

Posted: 04/22/2014 06:19

smilefromyrheart wrote:

Top 10 most Essential Hair Metal Albums (in chronological order) ...

Misfits - Walk Among Us (1982)

Slipknot - s/t (1999)

Honorable Mention
The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy (1975)

Slipknot is Alt/Nu metal

Misfits (at least the Danzig era) is Punk rock and sometimes Hardcore Punk

Re: Least cool genre

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 00:46:55 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/22/2014 04:46

smilefromyrheart wrote:

Alice Cooper - Love It to Death (1971)
New York Dolls - s/t (1973)

That's glam rock (not to be confused with glam metal).

Quote:

Honorable Mention
The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy (1975)

That's punk rock.

The others have at least some metal in them (maybe Alice Cooper too), but Def Leppard and Motley Crue are the only ones that I would say are unambiguously hair metal.

Re: Least cool genre

Defago — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 00:45:00 GMT

Author: Defago

Posted: 04/22/2014 04:45

smilefromyrheart wrote:

Top 10 most Essential Hair Metal Albums (in chronological order) ...

Alice Cooper - Love It to Death (1971)
New York Dolls - s/t (1973)
Kiss - s/t (1974)
Van Halen - s/t (1978)
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love (1981)
Misfits - Walk Among Us (1982)
Def Leppard - Pyromania (1983)
Van Halen - 1984
Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction (1987)
Slipknot - s/t (1999)

Honorable Mention
The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy (1975)

You're the new JMan I ordered, right?

Re: Least cool genre

Jackwc — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 00:40:55 GMT

Author: Jackwc

Posted: 04/22/2014 04:40

smilefromyrheart wrote:

Well there you've gone and made me vomit all over my shiny new keyboard.

Re: Least cool genre

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 00:22:42 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/22/2014 04:22

Top 10 most Essential Hair Metal Albums (in chronological order) ...

Alice Cooper - Love It to Death (1971)
New York Dolls - s/t (1973)
Kiss - s/t (1974)
Van Halen - s/t (1978)
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love (1981)
Misfits - Walk Among Us (1982)
Def Leppard - Pyromania (1983)
Van Halen - 1984
Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction (1987)
Slipknot - s/t (1999)

Honorable Mention
The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy (1975)

Re: Least cool genre

Jackwc — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 23:56:59 GMT

Author: Jackwc

Posted: 04/22/2014 03:56

It really is a hard toss up between post-grunge and hair metal

Re: Least cool genre

Sexaybachay — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 14:32:32 GMT

Author: Sexaybachay

Posted: 02/26/2014 19:32

Techno and Disco don't belong there at all.

Re: Least cool genre

RockyRaccoon — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:17:58 GMT

Author: RockyRaccoon

Posted: 02/26/2014 17:17

Despite the fact that I actually like the genre, power metal is generally considered to be pretty uncool from what I've seen. The various dragon-related bands and all.

Re: Least cool genre

SuedeSwede — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:25:20 GMT

Author: SuedeSwede

Posted: 02/26/2014 16:25

Norman Bates wrote:

Not much talk of psytrance on this forum. Not a bad thing either. Especially uncool. Plain horrible.

Ugh, psytrance is horrible. It kills me how like 50% of psytrance artists think it's cooler to have mushrooms on their album covers.

Classical Mushroom by Infected Mushroom

such an ugly album cover

Re: Least cool genre

Cymro2011 — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:10:32 GMT

Author: Cymro2011

Posted: 02/26/2014 16:10

Hair Metal easy.

Re: Least cool genre

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:45:14 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/26/2014 15:45

SquishypuffDave wrote:

The more white or anglophilic a genre is, the less cool it is. Hip-hop, jazz and blues would be at the cool end of the spectrum, whereas stuff like hair metal, post-grunge, prog and polka sit firmly in the uncool category.

Definitely some truth in that, though one thing seems to have changed since when I was in school. This clip from Office Space sums it up pretty well...

Link

When I was a teenager, white guys weren't supposed to like hip-hop. It was worse than uncool... it was downright ridiculous. It's not that the music itself was uncool, just that white guys would be viewed as "posers" (or worse) if they tried to imitate contemporary black culture. Dunno if that was true outside the US, though.

Re: Least cool genre

Norman Bates — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 03:58:03 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 02/26/2014 08:58

SquishypuffDave wrote:

stuff like hair metal, post-grunge, prog and polka sit firmly in the uncool category.

Polka's cool.

Re: Least cool genre

SquishypuffDave — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 03:50:54 GMT

Author: SquishypuffDave

Posted: 02/26/2014 08:50

The more white or anglophilic a genre is, the less cool it is. Hip-hop, jazz and blues would be at the cool end of the spectrum, whereas stuff like hair metal, post-grunge, prog and polka sit firmly in the uncool category.

Re: Least cool genre

Norman Bates — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 02:50:47 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 02/26/2014 07:50

Not much talk of psytrance on this forum. Not a bad thing either. Especially uncool. Plain horrible.

From the poll, hair metal I find is gross. That would be the contrary of cool.

Also, neo-medieval death metal Aryan-nostalgia shit I find is very uncool, but obviously not on BEA.

Re: Least cool genre

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 02:47:36 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/26/2014 07:47

lethalnezzle wrote:

The electronic music boom that's been going on for like thirty years?

When I was in school (again, mid-90s), most electronic music was pretty uncool, in large part due to the many silly things artists did with it in the '80s. Techno was popular in clubs, but serious music lovers didn't listen to it. Now the whole "indietronica" thing has made it cool for hardcore music lovers again, so... no, I wouldn't say it has been cool for thirty years.

Re: Least cool genre

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 02:37:04 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/26/2014 07:37

sp4cetiger wrote:

the electronic music boom.

The electronic music boom that's been going on for like thirty years?

Re: Least cool genre

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 02:12:44 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/26/2014 07:12

ihh2013 wrote:

Maybe a thread for 'underdog genres' could follow on from this :-k

Get out of my head!

Yeah, that's actually the plan, I just want to leave the poll up a little longer.

Re: Least cool genre

latenighttv — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 00:57:51 GMT

Author: latenighttv

Posted: 02/26/2014 05:57

Forgot about hair metal. Would have thought pop-punk and post-grunge were the uncoolest, along with maybe any genre that is more single than album-oriented and / or a little bit manufactured (Philly Soul, '90s Eurodance, etc.).

Maybe a thread for 'underdog genres' could follow on from this 🤔

Re: Least cool genre

junodog4 — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 22:05:53 GMT

Author: junodog4

Posted: 02/26/2014 03:05

The right country music is very cool... I scoff at the assumption that country should be on this list. That said, I'm not really crazy about the idea of this poll in the first place.

Re: Least cool genre

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:34:27 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/26/2014 01:34

SuedeSwede wrote:

Hair metal, easily.