What's your favorite album with the least hipster cred?

[abcdefz]

For me: I'd have to say ELO's Eldorado. Great, great record that most folks wouldn't be caught dead even giving a try, and basically only critics in certain quarters seem to agree, and God knows how often they even throw it on.

I think my copy of Randy Newman's soundtrack to Avalon probably comes in second.

You? What record do you prize that gets no respect?

[Guy Incognito]

Homegrown by Dodgy

I also get a lot stick from my mates for likin the monkees - the greatest hits is the nuts.

[Ally Al]

Homegrown by Dodgy




Dodgy eh ? hmmmmmmmmmm

[abcdefz]

I also get a lot stick from my mates for likin the monkees - the greatest hits is the nuts.


Greatest Hits is respectable enough, though; but if you thoroughly listen to the other studio albums, you're getting somewhere!

Like -- debating Pisces, Aquarius, Whatever vs. Pool It! Now, that's suspect. :D

[Guy Incognito]

Dodgy eh ? hmmmmmmmmmm

whaddya mean hmmmm? I liked their first three albums, they seemed to put all the shit out as singles and leave the more experimental stuff on the albums, the third album is really good and they started to embrace electronic stuff a bit and then they split.

[yeahwho]

Chronicle Series - The Carpenters (3CD set)
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream (could be construed hip)

I listen to tunes off the above quite a bit.

The most current least hip record I own is definately U2's latest album, I can barely stand to listen to it, so I guess it doesn't fit in here.

[abcdefz]

Chronicle Series - The Carpenters (3CD set)
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream (could be construed hip)

I listen to tunes off the above quite a bit.





Whoa. I think you're winning so far. :D

Funny enough... I was thinking of a Captain and Tenille song the other day ("Love Will Keep Us Together") and I can't even be objective enough to know if it's a good song. I like the basic hook, and there's something nicely squonky about the arrangement or something, I think. I think.

[Ally Al]

whaddya mean hmmmm? I liked their first three albums, they seemed to put all the shit out as singles and leave the more experimental stuff on the albums, the third album is really good and they started to embrace electronic stuff a bit and then they split.

it was a running joke between me and the missus for years - dodgy ? you're not wrong! Oh we did laugh the long winter nights just flew by

i'll be honest though i always thought the singles were fairly bland and uninteresting so maybe i did miss some good stuff on the albums. They always just seemed to be trying a bit too hard for me

[DroppinScience]

What's the criteria for something with the least hipster cred?

Because it seems that unhip things become hip for irony's sake (i.e. Journey, Supertramp, Hall & Oates, etc.).

[cosmo105]

fuck you, i slept with rock n' soul vol. 1 under my pillow when i was growing up. irony my ass. that white boy could SING.

[abcdefz]

What's the criteria for something with the least hipster cred?

Because it seems that unhip things become hip for irony's sake (i.e. Journey, Supertramp, Hall & Oates, etc.).


That's true, except that Supertramp and Hall & Oates actually have some good songs.

[mickill]

A couple of Oasis albums.

[Lex Diamonds]

Maybe Screamadelica. Depends how you define "hipster".

[paul jones]

Father Abraham and The Smurfs

I fucking love it and hipsters wouldn't understand anyway the fucking spazzies that they are(y)

[abcdefz]

For those who are having a hard time with "hipster," try this:

Your favorite album that it's just awfully darned uncool to love.

"Uncool" by who(m)? Pitchfork editors? House & Garden columnists? Senators?

Whatever. I think you know.

[monkey]

i LOVE abba.

[abcdefz]

i LOVE abba.


monkey=dancing queen :D








































.... a record I love, by the way. Same with "The Winner Takes it All." :eek:

[monkey]

i randomly break out in abba song and dance, and ive been doing it since i was 15. sooooo before broadway came out with their own show about it. (which ive seen. and gotten the cd) :o

[hpdrifter]

Bruce Hornsby's greatest hits.

Listen to the mandolin rain....

:(

[yeahwho]

Bruce Hornsby's greatest hits.

Listen to the mandolin rain....

:(

Hey Bruce is OK, just not hip I guess...he'll be here in Seattle in two weeks and I was seriously thinking about pulling the trigger. I have a solo performance of "Thats Just the Way it Is" I can honestly say is Excellent. (y)

[hpdrifter]

Respond to my pm you jackass

[yeahwho]

Respond to my pm you jackass

The one about which ELO and Carpenters albums are best to buy you hick.

[hpdrifter]

What about the Shins?

[Drederick Tatum]

nah, Pitchfork loves them.

[Guy Incognito]

Maybe Screamadelica. Depends how you define "hipster".

? . Explain

[pshabi]

The Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass

[jabumbo]

how about wang chungs greatest hits

[roosta]

Maybe Screamadelica. Depends how you define "hipster".

nah, its definitely cool to name check that.

[cosmo105]

how about wang chungs greatest hits
that's on a minidisk, right?

[chrisd]

all 50 Cent albums

[DroppinScience]

What about the Shins?

They're referenced in "Garden State" as a life-changing band, so I think that's on the list of "albums you need in order to get hipster cred" list.

[The Notorious LOL]

if you're basing it on a Pitchfork Media standard, it would be anything they said was great six months ago but now dismiss because people found out about it i.e. stuff DroppinScience is just now talking about.

[DroppinScience]

if you're basing it on a Pitchfork Media standard, it would be anything they said was great six months ago but now dismiss because people found out about it i.e. stuff DroppinScience is just now talking about.

It's true. Don't let me listen to anything. I'll just hurt their music. :(