Which cool Band, of their time, now sound dated and a bit naff to you??

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

Bay city rollers
The Osmonds
Slick
Mud
The Rubettes (except sugar baby love)
Gary Glitter
The Glitter band
Barry Blue
Bobby Crush
Alvin Stardust
Sweet
St Winifreds school choir

What about Clare and friends?

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

The Shamen

 

[BadFish]

]Ride[/B]
Suede
Roni Size - If anyone other than the Mercury award committee thought he was cool anyway
Everything that Frankie GtH did after Two Tribes, although that record still sounds great to me.

I'm gonna add my voice to those who say that early Sabbath and Roxy and much of the Beatles stuff has not aged at all - with the exception of some filler album tracks in the Beatles early career.

nnnnnoooooooooo. I still love ride. I listened to the first Suede Album the other day too and thought it sounded good.

I think I am ready for an early 90's revival.

But then Listening to To Toy, Love, Palmer Violets et al brings it all back.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Adam & The Ants.
When Adam Ant started his fancy dress stuff, Prince Charming and all that, sounds terrible now.

 

[BadFish]

Adam & The Ants.
When Adam Ant started his fancy dress stuff, Prince Charming and all that, sounds terrible now.

sounded terrible then

 

[BN9 BHA]

Edit Reread the question yep Beatles are in
I would love to agree with you on this one, but I think we could be seriously outnumbered on this one.

I would have to go for the Stone Roses, they still sound to me like a very average sixties band and I don't get how anyone could get so worked up by them.
Duran Duran, probably because I never liked them anyway.
Simple Minds, just because

Stone Roses are a great shout. Totally of their time & therefore hasn't aged well.

No sorry you can NOT have The Stone Roses, brilliant band still sound great to me.

 

[BN9 BHA]

sounded terrible then

I forgot to say that!!

 

[El Presidente]

nnnnnoooooooooo. I still love ride. I listened to the first Suede Album the other day too and thought it sounded good.

I think I am ready for an early 90's revival.

But then Listening to To Toy, Love, Palmer Violets et al brings it all back.

I am with you on Ride! Love those EP's.

 

[Ken Livingstone Seagull]

Eddie brought out a CD of ukelele songs last year (which did, admittedly test my loyalties somewhat).

Then Nibble wrote: Yes, I heard the Ukelale album, hmmm.

Holy aloha, peeps. its "ukulele", which is Hawaiian for "jumping flea". The instrument is derived from something similar the Portuguese immigrants brought over from Madeira in the mid-1800s and the name was given for the quick hand movements required to play. Still popular over here in paradise, especially after the deserved acclaim for Braddah Iz -- Israel Kamakawi'wo'ole (Somewhere Over the Rainbow etc.).

You have not been charged for this Hawaiian Culture tutorial.

Anyhoo, for me:
Howard Jones
Flock O'S
OMD
Thompson Twins
Adam Ant
And other early to mid 80s big hair exponents that sound a bit naff now. Loved them at the time, it must be said.

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Their rididculous drug addled hodgepodge albums in the middle of their career.

Their best albums you mean? Revolver, Rubber Soul and Abbey Road are in the top 10 albums in almost any chart you check. They are, in fact, the very definition of timeless. Agree with you on their earlier stuff though, I can take it or leave it.

I'd like to add The Smashing Pumpkins to the list as well please. Still a firm favourite of mine but once you get through your angst teen years and get a haircut, Billy's lyrics are a bit one dimensional.

 

[tinycowboy]

I am with you on Ride! Love those EP's.

I will also defend Ride (probably only up to the second album). Most shoe gaze is also time proof, being hermetically sealed in eternity.

 

[Albumen]

If you liked The Senseless Things, you liked MC4 - they came as a crusty kind of package.

You wannit?
You wannit?
****ING HAVE IT!

 

[Albumen]

I will also defend Ride (probably only up to the second album). Most shoe gaze is also time proof, being hermetically sealed in eternity.

Chelsea girl and drive blind still do it for me. *shivers*

 

[BadFish]

Chelsea girl and drive blind still do it for me. *shivers*

Taste and Dreams Burn Down for me. Used to cover Drive Blind for encore.

 

[tinycowboy]

Chelsea girl and drive blind still do it for me. *shivers*

Taste and Dreams Burn Down for me. Used to cover Drive Blind for encore.

If I want pop, I'll take Taste, Twisterella or Like A Daydream. If I want wistfulness, I'll take Sennen. For noise, Chelsea Girl, Leave Them All Behind, Seagull, Dreams Burn Down. If I want to be disappointed, I'll take half the second album plus most of what followed. If I ever start a thread for unlikely Top 10 hits, Leave Them All Behind will be up there...

 

[JBizzleBeard]

The Offspring.

 

[Buzzer]

The Rubettes (except sugar baby love)

Glad you mentioned that song as an exception. I love that song, genuinely I do. It's my all-time favourite guilty pleasure.

 

[BadFish]

If I want pop, I'll take Taste, Twisterella or Like A Daydream. If I want wistfulness, I'll take Sennen. For noise, Chelsea Girl, Leave Them All Behind, Seagull, Dreams Burn Down. If I want to be disappointed, I'll take half the second album plus most of what followed. If I ever start a thread for unlikely Top 10 hits, Leave Them All Behind will be up there...

Nice selection, Ride are definitely going on today's playlist.

Starting with Sennen

Kaleidoscope, Seagull and Vapour trail deserve a mention too. agreed on half the second album and all that followed I just try to ignore there existence.

 

[Leighgull]

Prince.

 

[Ali_rrr]

Busted. Or maybe because I was 6 they sounded good...