Cool Bands.

kneemos

What was the the last band to start a trend?Bands such as The Pistols or Bowie were mega trend setters but even Dexies Midnght Runners did wonders for the sale of dungerees,Adam Ant even set a trend of sorts.
As far as I can see today's "musicians"don't have what it takes apart from a few comically styled hairdos.
Please support my theory that "cool"has left the building.

wazky

The Artane Band.

DrumSteve

Queens of the Stone Age.

DwightSchrute1

Elastic Bands

Black Swan

Russian punk band Pussy Riot may not be setting a trend, but their controversial memes have been heard around the world.

darkdubh

There were other bands to do cross dressing before The Virgin Prunes but they deffo had to be the first Irish band to do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHZo_b9hcWU

preston johnny

The Clash

Super-Rush

Vanilla Ice.

maughantourig

MUSE

SilverScreen

Who needs trends?

Duff

The Gaslight Anthem. Brian Fallon is the definition of cool.

darkdubh

Ha but are any of them as cool as these guys?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLK5ZOjWaXE

kneemos

darkdubh wrote: »

Ha but are any of them as cool as these guys?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLK5ZOjWaXE

Still beats One Direction.

Hotale.com

DrumSteve wrote: »

Queens of the Stone Age.

I love them and they're undoubtedly cool, but what trend did they start?

hynesie08

The libertines? Fairly sure they're responsible for that English jangle guitar ****e.

biko

Hip hop and rap have had a massive impact on dress codes.

StewartGriffin

Wife was talking about how great 80's music was this evening, crossed my mind that Stock, Aiken and Waterman rolled in about the mid-late 80's, laying the seeds for the manipulated and business oriented music charts of today.

Not blaming said trio however, business is as business does, and that is exactly what mainstream music is today - business.

Not art.

cometogether

Quiffs have become all the rage again, possible influence from the Arctic Monkeys?

biko

Hmm, doesn't anyone know that the Sex Pistols was a manufactured band, just like today's boy bands?

SilverScreen

biko wrote: »

Hmm, doesn't anyone know that the Sex Pistols was a manufactured band, just like today's boy bands?

So were The Clash.

Even the 60's were full of manufactured bands such as The Monkees, The Osmonds and pretty much the whole bubblegum pop craze.

DEFTLEFTHAND

hynesie08 wrote: »

The libertines? Fairly sure they're responsible for that English jangle guitar ****e.

Libertines were heavily influenced by The Kinks, jangle guitar sound is garage rock to another ear.

Lisha

Loom bands are by far the coolest bands I know at the moment











I may need to get out a lot more

Cienciano

As biko said, hip hop, rnb and rap are all influential now.

Beef

I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too.

Doris300

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DEFTLEFTHAND

Cienciano wrote: »

As biko said, hip hop, rnb and rap are all influential now.

Ian Brown and the Stone Roses were super cool in the late 80s and early 90s, Introduced a whole new genre, indie/birth of britpop, a movement which dominated English music in the 90s. Music as in people who write songs and play instruments not entertainers like the Spice Girls and naff DJs.

Doris300

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Ian Brown and the Stone Roses were super cool in the late 80s and early 90s, Introduced a whole new genre, indie/birth of britpop, a movement which dominated English music in the 90s. Music as in people who write songs and play instruments not entertainers like the Spice Girls and naff DJs.

i hope you're being ironic :pac:

MRnotlob606

Manic Street preachers

Vinz Mesrine

The Strokes, when their first album was released rock music was on it's arse while dance/electronic music was thriving. That album came out and everything changed.

SilverScreen

The coolest band ever was Sonic Youth. The only band who could sign to a major label and appear on The Simpsons and still maintain their cool as **** status.

Vinz Mesrine wrote: »

The Strokes, when their first album was released rock music was on it's arse while dance/electronic music was thriving. That album came out and everything changed.

Remember nu-metal?

dobman88

Beef wrote: »

I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too.

Is that a quote from The Fresh Prince by Geoffrey??

Jake Rugby Walrus666

biko wrote: »

Hmm, doesn't anyone know that the Sex Pistols was a manufactured band, just like today's boy bands?

Malcolm?

Davarus Walrus

Creedence Clearwater Revival.

pookiesboo

Radiohead. OK Computer onwards.

Wacker The Attacker

SilverScreen wrote: »

The coolest band ever was Sonic Youth. The only band who could sign to a major label and appear on The Simpsons and still maintain their cool as **** status.


Remember nu-metal?

Some of sonic youths music is unlistenable. It not even good noise.

super_furry

Can we at least do something about all those weedy, little bed-wetters who insist in having a banjo track in every song?

pookiesboo

Also Arcade Fire and The Pixies.

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hynesie08 wrote: »

The libertines? Fairly sure they're responsible for that English jangle guitar ****e.

Definitely the Libertines are the most recent.

The Strokes too.

Birneybau

pookiesboo wrote: »

Radiohead. OK Computer onwards.

Big time. The mixing of electronic elements and an experimental outlook really shook things up. I'd say 'Kid A' is the most influential album of at least the last 15 years.

L'Enfer du Nord

A bit of a chicken and egg thing going on here, how often are the Bands adopting a street style and popularising it?
It's not all good either, Bowie invented the Mullet!

kneemos

L'Enfer du Nord wrote: »

A bit of a chicken and egg thing going on here, how often are the Bands adopting a street style and popularising it?
It's not all good either, Bowie invented the Mullet!

Probably wouldn't fit the marketing strategy.
If you watch old videos the difference is very noticeable,much more emphasis on the music.These days it's slick and generic where style reigns over substance.

darkdubh

Throbbing Gristle invented an entire genre in Industrial music.Kraftwerk did pretty much the same with synthpop.

joe swanson

I would tell you but if i did too many people would know and then they wouldn't be cool.


That is how it works, isn't it?

nyarlothothep

I listened to Imagine Dragons on the same question about cool bands. WTF has happened. A lot of music seems to have this dubsteppy vibe with choruses that are neither happy or sad but in between, modal, which are so formulaic and singalong that they have no real soul. It's either that or sanitised sh1tty British jangle guitar pop and even that back in the day was slightly better.

BaronVon

dobman88 wrote: »

Is that a quote from The Fresh Prince by Geoffrey??

Abe Simpson I believe....

Beef

dobman88 wrote: »

Is that a quote from The Fresh Prince by Geoffrey??

Grandpa Simpson.

RikkFlair

Talking Heads

losthorizon

REM started american jangle pop which led to September Gurls by Big Star possible the greatest song of all time.

darkdubh

losthorizon wrote: »

REM started american jangle pop which led to September Gurls by Big Star possible the greatest song of all time.

September Girls(or Gurls) by Big Star was released in 1974 a full six years before R.E.M were formed.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_Gurls

Birneybau

losthorizon wrote: »

REM started american jangle pop which led to September Gurls by Big Star possible the greatest song of all time.

Wow.

wendell borton

REM are so cool that can transcend time.