Your Favorite Artist That's Not Hip.

Hey, he married Angie Dickinson. Now that's hip !

 

Elvis

And I like stuff from McCartney beyond Ram and McCartney II (the “hip” choices for his albums)

 

The Carpenters
Gilbert O'Sullivan
ABBA
Barry Manilow

 

ASIA

and that includes all the albums with the “other” singer.

 

U2 - been a diehard for 30 years but they have fallen out of favour now.
Boney M - fave group as a kid. Ok, I still like the big hits, sue me!
Post-Lou VU - ok, so I have the 1971-1973 box set and I like what’s on there. So, not the VU really but a damn good tribute band instead!

 

we have a winner - although someone still has to pick S Club 7...

 

The list would be shorter if I told you who I listened to who IS "hip"!

Besides, doesn't "hipness" eventually become "unhip" by it's own definition?

And aren't some artists so "unhip" that it actually becomes "hip" to like them?

 

what's hip?

 

I have a similar feeling myself, and I’m 38.

Yet I get the feeling that if I was only a few years younger I would be referred to as a ‘hipster’.

So what is the age bracket for hipsters?

 

Probably the solo work of Paul and Ringo for sure.

Lennon, probably at 50% hip.

And George at 100% hip.

 

Most hipsters are in their late 30s and 40s

 

Also:

Lennon + Nilsson: 100% hip

 

Specifically Status Quo/Beach Boys collaboration on Fun, Fun, Fun from Don’t Stop album:

 

Elvis, Venom, countless guitarists with output more easy listening than rock (Jerry Byrd, Buddy Merrill, Billy Mure etc.)

 

I want to add Phil Collins to this list as well. There’s some Phil that sucks rotten eggs but man his best is tops.

 

I've assessed the lay of the land at this forum and I'm definitely going with BON JOVI

 

Are The Kinks Hip?
Don't care anyhow.

 

Forget Joan As Policewoman, first there was Angie!

 

eminently respected in his native Austria and Germany

 

Au contraire! I in no way question the genius of Brian Wilson. *genuflects.*

I'm thinking a tracking session on disc 5 of the GV box where Brian references a comedy album from the 1950's called "How to Speak Hip." To paraphrase Louis Armstrong, if you gotta ask, you'll never know. Brianv s so un-hip, he's totally hip, if you follow my logic.

 

Green Day
Andrew Gold

 

REO Speedwagon
Toto
Survivor
Leo Sayer
Post-Kath Chicago
Graham Nash
Great Big Sea

Many others.

 

Only when compared to Alice Cooper.

 

Yeah, the Kinks are hip IMHO.