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Started by JamesC, 30 April, 2014, 06:16:48 PM

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JOE SOAP


NapalmKev

I can't believe nobody's mentioned Hollywood Beyond!


As a youngster I was a massive fan of Adam and the Ants, and then ANTHRAX came on the scene. Despite them dressing like Surfer dudes, I thought they were cool as Fuck. How wrong I was, but they wrote some quality tunes.


Cheers
"Where once you fought to stop the trap from closing...Now you lay the bait!"

Spaceghost

Quote from: blackmocco on 01 May, 2014, 02:26:20 AM
T'Pau. There. I said it.

I am saddened to inform you that you are hereby banned from holding any opinions from now on.

I was another 'Ant Person'. Thought Adam Ant was the coolest fucker on the planet. I'm very, very ashamed to say that when rumours arose that he might be gay, I ripped his poster off my bedroom wall in a petulant rage about something I didn't even fully understand. Silly little 13 year old me wasn't very enlightened I'm afraid. I'd like to go back in time and tell myself not to be so daft.

A few years later and the Beastie Boys and RUN DMC were the epitome of cool to me. Still are to be fair.
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DaveGYNWA

Quote from: blackmocco on 01 May, 2014, 02:26:20 AM
T'Pau. There. I said it.

I seem to remember you had quite a thing for the singer, Mick.
Peas sell. But who's Brian?

JamesC

Lots of people here listing bands that they probably still think are cool (and some are). But are they really the first pop stars that struck you? I can't believe that no naive child on the board thought that Black Lace or Toni Basil were where it was at.

I, Cosh

Quote from: JamesC on 01 May, 2014, 12:44:09 PM
Lots of people here listing bands that they probably still think are cool (and some are). But are they really the first pop stars that struck you? I can't believe that no naive child on the board thought that Black Lace or Toni Basil were where it was at.
Hang on! Choreographer for Bowie in the 70s; video director for Talking Heads in the 80s; boozing with Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson when she was in Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces; massive, singalong, worldwide hit single? If Toni Basil isn't cool then nobody on Earth is.

Can't really remember being unwisely struck by the coolness of anyone until the dark teenage goth days. I vaguely remember thinking Toyah was pretty awesome though and I'll swap your Kim Wilde for an uncomfortable sexual awakening at the hands of Bellshill's finest, Sheena Easton. For Your Eyes Only indeed!

If you just want to hear about naff things that I thought were cool then I can submit Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Although, to be fair, I still find that pretty entertaining.
We never really die.

JamesC

Never knew all that about Toni Basil. You learn something new every day!

And Love Missile F1-11 is cool and Ferris Bueller will back me up!

Frank

Quote from: The Cosh on 01 May, 2014, 01:31:31 PM
I'll swap your Kim Wilde for an uncomfortable sexual awakening at the hands of Bellshill's finest, Sheena Easton

If the stories I've heard are to be believed, that statement should be read literally. Hey Mickey still comes within my definition of cool, but I consider Say You'll Be There to be an overlooked example of Dre production and the g-funk era, so I'm probably not to be trusted in these matters. Love Missile F1-11 is exactly as annoying and gimmicky as a 10 year old boy needs it to be, and everything I drew for months afterwards had outsize mohawks and red crosshairs all over it.

Continuing the hijacking of this thread and repurposing as a reminiscence for folk who became self and culturally aware in the mid-to-late eighties, how about Westworld and Silver Bullet?


Skullmo

I was one of those kids who hated anything that was cool and loved things that were uncool. I spent a lot of the early 90s listening to Cutty Ranks and Helloween
It's a joke. I was joking.

Old Tankie

My lad's 36 and the early to mid '90s was certainly loud in our house!  Don't know what you youngsters think but he was heavily into Nirvana, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Pearl Jam, Sound Garden, and James, to name but a few.  Now, tell an old sod, were they "cool" or not?

ZenArcade

Nirvana were: the rest were only cardboard soldiers! Z
Ed is dead, baby Ed is...Ed is dead

Skullmo

Quote from: ZenArcade on 01 May, 2014, 02:43:33 PM
Nirvana were: the rest were only cardboard soldiers! Z

I hated Nirvana, they were lame commercialised angst.
It's a joke. I was joking.

Old Tankie

I think he went to see most of them live, before they were famous, would they have toured England in the early to mid '90s or have I got that wrong?  Pretty sure he saw some of them at the Cambridge Corn Exchange.  He definitely saw Oasis before they made it big, they were a warm up group for someone else, but I can't for the life of me remember who.  All I do recall is that I clocked up some serious mileage taking him and his mates all over the place to see these bands I'd never even heard of!! (Of course, I was just their taxi service, they wouldn't let me go in with them, that's definitely not "cool").

ZenArcade

Skulmo, yeah well you know, that's just like your opinion man... Z  :-\
Ed is dead, baby Ed is...Ed is dead

8-Ball

Quote from: ZenArcade on 01 May, 2014, 03:14:22 PM
Skulmo, yeah well you know, that's just like your opinion man... Z  :-\

Seconded. :cool:

As a wee kid I had no concept of singers or bands as "cool". It was only when I became a teenager and started to find my own identity that "coolness" became a factor in whether I liked something or not. Firstly with Kurt Cobain/Nirvana and then with Richey Edwards/Manic Street Preachers... whom I love to this day no matter how old and Radio 2-centric they become.
Whatever happened to Rico, Dolman and Cadet Paris? I'm sooo out of the loop.