Many years ago, I first discovered The Cure via a borrowed cassette copy of Standing On A Beach: The Singles. On its B-side, after A Night Like This, it was padded out with Phil Collins songs; a shocking faux pas.
I wonder how long until Phil Collins is officially cooler than The Cure.
Though Mike Oldfield wasn't sufficiently trashily commercial to be ironically cool.
I hate it when you *really* like something and other people assume you're being an ironic hipster. I love a lot of 'trashy' 80s hits, but I *really* like 'em, and when people see my record collection, they think I'm having a lend.
I always knew I'd regret selling my Pink Floyd and Prince CDs to Cash Converters...Alas, even they didn't want my Mark Knopfler.
were New Order ever cool? am i no longer cool for being into them? should i have stuck with Tiffany?
New Order are a borderline case. Joy Division were cool, and so was a lot of NO's early stuff. However, Bizarre Love Triangle is top-40 (it fits in the same category as Neneh Cherry's "Buffalo Stance"; not ultra-daggy/trashy but definitely mainstream).
Funny, I was just listening to _Brotherhood_ at work. See also The Cure's "Lovecats". NO's "All Day Long"'s a better song, anyway.
Actually, Mike Oldfield did have a hit with that nature with "Moonlight Shadow", but that's about the only song of his that did so, unless you count Hall & Oates' insipid cover of "Family Man".
And he's certainly gotten a bit eurotrashy at times. The Berlin Millenium concert is one of the weirdest concert vids I've seen, since they're all in these humungous coats due to the cold.
It's a bit like GYBE! - 70s King Crimson goes indie.
...Joy Division were cool, and so was a lot of NO's early stuff...
Nah. The Fall were cool. Is Mark E. Smith still around I wonder?
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past You must fight just to keep them alive
Mark E Smith and The Fall are still bunging out albums, as far as I recall. Cos?
Not only are Mark and The Fall still around; they're touring in April. (Though the band's site sez that Mark fractured his hip in January or February, and has been recuperating.) Fit and working again, perhaps?
Oh yeah, Mark E's still at it. One of his more famous quotes is "if it's me and yer granny playing bongos, it's The Fall".
not only that, but the most recent album ain't arf bad, too. fluxblog had "theme from sparta f.c." up a while back, it's a great track.
You guys are out of your minds! New Order is great. "Temptation" is a classic song, so is "Blue Monday." Pink Floyd is god's gift to music -- why anyone would sell their floyd CDs is beyond me. Mark Knopfler was cool w/ Dire Straits but his solo shit was definitely questionable. Oh man, Joy Division is classic. Love will tear us apart! What a fucking song.
I'd sell Ummagumma and The Final Cut if I could find someone who'd buy them.
They have Smack^WCash Converters in Albury, don't they?
lol yeah you're right. ummagumma is pretty much just two discs worth of bizarre animal noises and guitar feedback.
We don't, actually.
maybe you oughta sell it to kevin shields for the next MBV album then ? ;P
I knew my ship would come in re: Mike Oldfield.