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Cool Bands.

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    #32
    Jake Rugby Walrus666
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 528 ✭✭✭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?


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    #33
    Davarus Walrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭Davarus Walrus


    Creedence Clearwater Revival.


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    #34
    pookiesboo
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    Radiohead. OK Computer onwards.


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    #35
    Wacker The Attacker
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    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.


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    #36
    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,322 ✭✭✭✭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?


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    #37
    pookiesboo
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    Also Arcade Fire and The Pixies.


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    #38
    nxbyveromdwjpg
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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.


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    #39
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,237 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #40
    L'Enfer du Nord
    Registered Users Posts: 587 ✭✭✭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!


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    #41
    kneemos
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    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.


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    #42
    darkdubh
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    Throbbing Gristle invented an entire genre in Industrial music.Kraftwerk did pretty much the same with synthpop.


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    #43
    joe swanson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭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?


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    #44
    nyarlothothep
    Registered Users Posts: 5,176 ✭✭✭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.


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    #45
    BaronVon
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    dobman88 wrote: »
    Is that a quote from The Fresh Prince by Geoffrey??

    Abe Simpson I believe....


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    #46
    Beef
    Registered Users Posts: 1,182 ✭✭✭Beef


    dobman88 wrote: »
    Is that a quote from The Fresh Prince by Geoffrey??

    Grandpa Simpson.


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    #47
    RikkFlair
    Registered Users Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    Talking Heads


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    #48
    losthorizon
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    REM started american jangle pop which led to September Gurls by Big Star possible the greatest song of all time.


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    #49
    darkdubh
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    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


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    #50
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,237 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


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

    Wow.


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    #51
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    REM are so cool that can transcend time.


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    #52
    Fescue
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    I would have said the recent trend for facial hair had its beginnings in the popularity of Americana style music such as that made by bands like the Fleet Foxes.


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    #53
    LordSutch
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    RoXy Music

    Coolness personified . . . .


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    #54
    Jesus Wept
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    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.

    Are you 12?


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    #55
    darkdubh
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    Heres one trend that diden't catch on too much.Gay cowboy disco.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X9tBHX_Fl4


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    #56
    Diabhal Beag
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    Can't believe somebody thinks Libertines had an influence on anything tbh


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    #57
    MRnotlob606
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    manic street preachers


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    #58
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    kansas


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    #59
    nullzero
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    ****


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

    Yeah the Sex Pistols were no better than one direction and sid vicious wasnt even a drug addict and he's not even dead, infact he's actually living off a fat pension that he received for spending three decades as a senior civil servant. All those people who thought they were a thought provoking band are idiots and stupid and idiots.


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    #60
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    kneemos wrote: »
    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.

    Exactly. I mean, there was Wham!, Duran Duran, the list is endless.


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    #61
    nullzero
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    ****


    Cool bands are every half decent band that have yet to make it and are known only to the readers and staff of the NME etc until they become as successful as those people thought they should be and then are by definition a bunch of sell outs and corporate whores who have had an vestige of coolness stripped from them. I thought that was common knowledge.


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