What will forever deny you music hipster status?

[jpgray]

My confession is that I'm not a big fan of the Velvet Underground. They wrote some pretty good songs and were cool guys (and gals), but I can't get to the worship level of some with them. A lot of their supposed genius drones make me itch to put something else on. Yet I like twenty-minute Can songs...

[kaitykaity]

1. I don't get punk.

At all. I hear a punk influence in anything and
my skin crawls. I just don't get it.

[Mojambo]

2. I can't stand Math Rock

I like my music simple, aggressive and fun. My favored genres are punk, garage, folk-rock, and other indie pop/rock.

Math Rock seems to exist for the sole purpose of making music that is more complex and hard to like. I guess musicians need to challenge themselves, but it sure isn't fun to listen to... Art-Rock has a similar effect on me.

[tuvor]

3. In truth, I think the Shaggs are extremely awful.

And I like the Spice Girls.

I think I may have said way too much. :scared:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

4. hahaha

that was hilarious.

[leftist_rebel1569]

5. Nothing, I guess

I just don't like to be refered to as a hipster, though.

[stpalm]

6. I play in a ska band...

nobody likes ska.

[amyrose2712]

18. Dont know much ska, but me like it!

[lazarus]

7. I like Neil Diamond

And ABBA and the Bee Gees, and lots of other music that people think isn't "cool" or "hip".

I also love the Clash. Go figure.

[tuvor]

9. Joe Strummer's on the record as liking ABBA.

Feel better? :)

[old mark]

15. BeeGee's wrote and performed some great music:

and yet I love the Ramones and AC/DC live.

I have no use for U2 or Pink Floyd.

Life is strange.

mark

[wakfs]

8. Try this on for size

"Calcutta" by Lawrence Welk. Also "Theme from 'A Summer Place'" by Percy Faith.

I just love those two songs.

[Systematic Chaos]

14. I'll see your "Calcutta" and raise you being drug to a Lawrence Welk CONCERT...

...when I was 10 years old.

My mother had to call every single kid's house in a two block radius to track me down. I knew I should have gone out to the nature trails and hidden in a tree, instead. :cry:

[SteppingRazor]

10. I'm a music columnist...

I mean, I'm kinda by definition a music hipster, yeah?

Oh, and per some of the other threads -- Math Rock IS music created solely to be difficult, and liking ABBA, Neil Diamond, or the Bee Gees doesn't make you unhip.

The Bee Gees and ABBA had some of the best harmonizing in pop music history. And Neil Diamond, in the words of the ultimate music hipster Lester Bangs "Has loved more and lost more than you'll ever know!!"

[lazarus]

11. Thanks, SR

I do love the harmonies. And Diamond is wonderful because he defies categorisation. What genre is he, anyway? Who cares?

[LWolf]

12. I can't call the following "music:"

Rap
Techno

I call it rhyming bullies or aggression in rhyme, and extremely annoying imitation sound.

[radiclib]

22. Thank you!

:fistbump:
Crotchety geezers gotta stick together!

[treblemaker]

13. Gordon Lightfoot

Nothing destroys hipster cred like a love for Lightfoot. I still remember going to see him in my early twenties and not only being the youngest actual fan (that is, not the child of a fan) there, but also noticing that the show was sponsored by the local Easy Listening station. Talk about self-discovery.

And never mind that wretched Dandy Warhols mud-squeak-fest cover of Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I don't hate the Dandies, but blech.

[Fran Kubelik]

16. You.

The fact that I really like you. That alone must disqualify me from any kind of hipster tag.

[abq e streeter]

17. singing along with Edison Lighthouse on the car radio yeserday

Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes....

[progdog]

19. I really like

the Moody Blues. :hide:

[spiritual_gunfighter]

20. I have always loved Hall and Oates

The entire time I have been into music, even when I was full on into hardcore and that was the only thing I really listened to. But now it seems Hall And Oates is hip so I guess it doesn't count. I don't really like most current indie rock, maybe that denies my hipster status. Oh yeah I really like the Pointer Sisters and the Mary Jane Girls too.

[radiclib]

21. "now it seems Hall and Oates is hip"...REALLY?

To WHO?
Does that mean we can come out from under our rocks now? I actually own their entire catalog up to 1984 on vinyl. And I just got done listening to them all again (don't ask) for the first time in over 20 years. Nowadays their stuff sounds like disposable ear-candy to me, and I don't really get what their appeal was all about, although it seems I was pretty much on board at the time.:shrug:

[omega minimo]

28. Hall and Oates are awesome. Always have been. Even at their cheesiest in the 80's

Daryl Hall, to this day, is stunning on acoustic and singing.

Pointers and MJ Girls rock.

[Iggo]

23. I'm too cool to be hip.

;)

[Believing Is Art]

24. I still like . . .

Radiohead and Wilco. Sorry, hipster gods.

Also, I DETEST Animal Collective. And Deerhoof. Pitchfork can bite me. I just wish Fluxblog and Stereogum were a bit easier to navigate :\

[Forkboy]

25. As long as I listen to The Sun City Girls, nothing.

:hide:

[spiritual_gunfighter]

26. I really hate Yo La Tengo

I saw them open for My Bloody Valentine back in 1991 (which I guess insures my music hipster status) and they were horrible, ever since then I have hated them with a passion. Ira Kaplan can't sing a note and their songs meander all over the place.

[Patsy Stone]

27. I don't get Emo music. nt

[japple]

29. I like Hawaiian music. Cowboy music, too, complete with

yodeling. And gospel music. But my favorite singer/songwriter will always be Tom Waits.

Oh yeah, I like Enya, too.