Favorite band/musician you "might" worry others think is uncool

I always liked their stuff; I just wish they had come up with a better name.

 

Like STRYPER

 

In high school, everybody was working for the weekend.

 

For the most part, I'm quite secure about the very uncool music I like.

I do feel very guilty about liking this one, however:

 

Had a few moments tonight, and stumbled again onto this - Huey Lewis and the News' MTV special from 1982.

They only had one hit at this time ("Do You Believe in Love") and, perhaps thanks to MTV being still in its relative infancy, scored the Saturday Night Concert.

Watching again (despite the audio mix being a little off on "Change of Heart" to open), God, they could really, really sing. And play. Truly accomplished players.

Really fun to watch before they hit it big, playing songs from their first two albums before "Sports" exploded.

But it's all there. You can see the success that would come. Huey closes with, "And maybe for the first time, you've just heard The News..."

(And the Tower of Power horns show up for "Workin' for a Livin'".)

 

When not staring at Andrea Corrs, hard to miss the Leo DiCaprio doppelganger at 3:19.

 

This 1988 throwback to New Wave doomed Loverboy more than anything else.

 

Love me some Fitz and the Tantrums. They've gone way away from the sound of their first album, which had a really distinct, old school late 60s Motown vibe, and evolved to a much more synthy pop sound. Great beats and hooks, though, that the ad departments of the world seem to love. I think about a dozen of their songs have been used in commercials for one thing or another, and "Handclap" is becoming a rotation regular at stadiums.
I kind of respect how big of a sellout they are in that regard. They were asked about it once and the lead singer was basically like, "Yeah, we're in this to make money. We'll license to anybody except maybe Halliburton or somebody like that."
Anyway, they're very much a pop band now that people might think is a bit schmaltzy (especially their latest stuff). But I really dig 'em.

 

Slade.
You either love them or say WTF.

 

I remember seeing the Runaway video in the early 1980s and thinking that was really cool. Only saw it once, but stuck in my head. Years later, the record store I haunted in high school had a cover of “slayed” on the wall and I thought those guys look really cool. Then I learned they did the original versions of “Momma where all crazy now” and “come On feel the noise.”

 

My copy of Keep Your Hands off My Power Supply is sandwiched between Skid Row's Slave to the Grind and Slayer's Show no Mercy. I had to be able to listen to Run Runaway whenever I wanted to (which was often).