Who do you think is the coolest band ever?
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Re: Who do you think is the coolest band ever?Don't really like them any more myself tbh, but still surprise Oasis haven't been mentioned yet.
Yeah, they went downhill after their first few albums, but 1994-1997 they ruled the world and influenced Britpop that decade, as well as provided inspiration with much of the current rock and indie bands out there. -
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Re: Who do you think is the coolest band ever?Coolest, can't say for sure:
Some cool bands though include Muse, Arctic Monkeys, Black Sabbath were pretty badass.
There's loads tbh, it also depends on how you see/define cool. Blink 182 might appear cool to some but gay to others where as iron maiden might seem gothy to some etc etc. -
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Re: Who do you think is the coolest band ever?Yawn...(Original post by vedderfan94)
Led Zeppelin
They had it all. The groove, the soul, the power, the stage presence. 42 years later and this still blows every other live performance out of the water (NOTE: Should only be listened to LOUD):
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Re: Who do you think is the coolest band ever?Were they ever "cool" as such? Good or accomplished or talented is different to "cool"?(Original post by When you see it...)
Yawn...
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Re: Who do you think is the coolest band ever?Don't really know tbh. They are pretty good, but overrated (especially by veddefan whats-his-name - he ****ing obsesses over them seriously).(Original post by zara55)
Were they ever "cool" as such? Good or accomplished or talented is different to "cool"? -
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Re: Who do you think is the coolest band ever?I like their gentler stuff and some of their tracks, but a lot of it sounds dated now; like a lot of famous bands, some of their things last but most don't. Maybe coolness is partly about longevity? Some people are cool for short periods and then fade away. Others remain cool. In an odd way, I think the Stones have stayed cool whereas Page/Plant have drifted into complete non-coolness. Although Robert Plant's thing with Allison Kraus did slightly rescue his Cool Quotient - his CQ is much higher than Jimmy Page.(Original post by When you see it...)
Don't really know tbh. They are pretty good, but overrated (especially by veddefan whats-his-name - he ****ing obsesses over them seriously). -
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Re: Who do you think is the coolest band ever?Bruuuuuuuccccceeeee!
Damn. He so cool. Apart from during his sell out phase when he disbanded the E Street Band. I mean Lucky Town Bruce? Really? F*** off. His lyrics are just so kickass. 'It's so hard to be a saint in this city'
The E street band as a whole are fricking awesome. One of the Guitarists also happened to be in the Soprano's for many years. Clarence Big Man Clemons when he was still around. Although I'm more convinced that the rest of the band were just short, given that Nils Lofgren for example is a measly 5"3' and none of the guys in the front row, ie those playing guitar/bass, managed 6 foot.
Max Weinberg is also the second coolest sexagenarian Jewish Drummer I know, and I know a lot so that's saying something. -
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Re: Who do you think is the coolest band ever?lol(Original post by zara55)
In terms of what "cool" generally means, I don't think Pink Floyd were as "cool" to the street as bands like The Animals were in their heyday - the Floyd were at first only supported by a tiny Uni-based group and then when they suddenly went huge were too big to be "cool" any more. Similarly, the Beatles were never exactly "cool" because they were too mass-market. Pink Floyd were cooler before everyone knew about them. They might be getting a little cooler again now in old age judging from recent programmes, as are people like Mick Jagger/Keith Richards.
I would go for those who were a little less than stormingly mega-huge but who had an incredibly cool, sexy or powerful image, like the Doors and Jim Morrison. Later on, people like Hendrix were cool, despite being big, because the mass-market was opposed to them. In the 70s, it was bands like the New York Dolls. Some bands keep become more and more cool in hindsight - King Crimson for example. Some groups were hated by the Cool at the time only to eventually be admired by them - Abba? Some people regarded as hyper-cool from that era, like David Bowie and Bob Dylan, have become much less cool as they left the path of Coolness and descended into self-satire and graceless self-admiration.
In the 80s, 90s and 00s it gets harder because a lot of bands knew how to be cool, so they rehearsed coolness professionally and the sort of accidental genius recognised as Cool by an early, perceptive minority (like us) gets sidelined. However, people like Radiohead, Pearl Jam, even mass-market entities like U2 and (particularly) REM - even though U2 has now become anything but cool, they were once, in some long-forgotten time, before everyone just wanted to stop looking at Bono, in the interests of his own mental health.
Coolness has now become so fragmented a concept that it is hard to point the finger and say who is cool.
Throughout musical history since the war, premature death has been the high road to uber-coolness. Hendrix, Joplin, Bolan, Morrison, Curbain - the list goes on. -
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Re: Who do you think is the coolest band ever?I think you are slightly overthinking it lol.(Original post by zara55)
I like their gentler stuff and some of their tracks, but a lot of it sounds dated now; like a lot of famous bands, some of their things last but most don't. Maybe coolness is partly about longevity? Some people are cool for short periods and then fade away. Others remain cool. In an odd way, I think the Stones have stayed cool whereas Page/Plant have drifted into complete non-coolness. Although Robert Plant's thing with Allison Kraus did slightly rescue his Cool Quotient - his CQ is much higher than Jimmy Page. -
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Re: Who do you think is the coolest band ever?Never! I am in search of true coolness.(Original post by When you see it...)
I think you are slightly overthinking it lol.
