Your Favorite Artist That's Not Hip.

Hip is in the ear of the behearer.

Stan Getz
Ben Webster

Personally I think Stan Getz and Ben Webster are about as hip as you can get. But my boss whose tastes run more to Jay Z, Pit Bull, and Bruce Springsteen mocks me when he hears them playing in my office.

I once walked into his office and he was listening to Jay Z, he said,”I bet you don’t even know who this is.” My boss is obviously super-cool.

I thought to myself, that’s right because I don’t reside on the planet earth with the rest of humanity.

 

Basically all classic art/prog rock of 1970s - bands like Yes, ELP, VDGG, Magma, Genesis, The Moody Blues, etc.

 

In my opinion I don't think she is so political. I think there was a longstanding assumption by the general public that she was conservative or republican - and also criticism on her not speaking out about women's issues and yet having a feminist viewpoint when it came to her uncomfortable with how some articles were portraying her. Now that being said . . . . my lack of affinity just comes from not having a relatable personality to me or one that I really connect with - and also her playing the victim while, in my opinion, orchestrating some things behind the scenes that got her into trouble or bad press later on. I just feel like she needs to be more honest about potential general public moral shakiness for some general public likability but also I guess I can understand how some things may be more difficult for her because of her large young fanbase.

 

Weird Al

Huey Lewis (It's hip to be square)

 

Status Quo
Chas & Dave
Hot Chocolate

 

I think Dennis is probably the only Beach Boy who was 'cool.' And I love the Beach Boys.

I'm also a massive Genesis fan. Were they cool? I guess it varied by person and era. I think Steve Hackett is pretty bad-ass.

 

Dire Straits

 

"If cool were a color, it would be black – and Billy Joel would be kind of a burnt orange."

- Chuck Klosterman, in: The Stranger

 

It remains these four guys...whoever they are... Just as un-hip today as they were here in the Winter of 1973-1974...

Not that it matters. Great songs are great songs. "Hip" can come and go!

 

Ross Bagdasarian/David Seville's non-Chipmunk releases.

 

Yeah. I liked her until she got political. Don't get me wrong. She's no Barbra or Joan Baez, but there was enough there to put me off. It's something I liked about The Who. Townsend said that if you want to get political, put it in the music. And we got "Won't get fooled again".

 

Kid Rock

 

The Beatles?

 

Genesis is my all time favorite band. If this thread had been started in the 70's, I'd have included it in this thread. But they became cool.

 

Seriously, a lot of them

Genesis
Springsteen
Dire Straits
Sting
Kiss
Judas priest
Vanilla fudge
Mama's and the Papas
Graham Parker
The Hollies
Lynyrd skynyrd

I could go on and on..

 

I like an immeasurable amount of stuff that I guess isn't hip, but I don't really know what is hip lol

Ultravox - with Midge
Kiss
Bee Gees
Phil Collins
Genesis
Billy Joel
Chris De Burgh The Albums up to Man On The Line, and a few other later tracks
ELO
Abba?
Neil Diamond

Idk really ... they're probably all unhip

 

and they're all great
I didn't even realise some of them were unhip lol

 

Oh my god, yes. The Beach Boys are my favorite un-hip band by a wide margin. Those shirts. And the way the kids talk so cool being an outtasight thing. I could go on.

 

Soul Asylum
R.E.M.
They Might Be Giants
& to people who aren't on SHF:
The Monkees

 

The Beach boys are one of the hippest bands ever. They have god status in the indie hipster community

 

Ha ! I thought at first that Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters were one of those ' bands' featured in those crappy 60's beach movies cause the name rang a bell. I wasn't too far off!

 

Don't Start
Ana Ng
And the Flood album are great

 

You like Billy Joel ?

 

Anyone who says : " I bet you don't even know who this is ?" is not hip himself.

 

Taylor Swift, Britney, Bread, Carpenters, Nicki Minaj