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Is there a film or a band that nobody secretly likes unless they’re pretending not to like something that everybody else secretly dislikes when they’re pretending to like something they don’t actually dislike, unless they secretly do?

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I’m nominating Einstürzende Neubauten, or that film about the guy who went back in time to stop zombies or something.

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  5. I think this means “don’t like, even ironically or as a shameful dirty secret”. This means ELP are excluded, as many folks have shared their heartfelt inner-most feelings here. For this crowd, Nickelback? Stadiums full of punters may feel otherwise, but they are wrong.

    • @Vincent I don’t like ELP – never have done, never will do – my friends wanted me to, I even risked friendship because I couldn’t pretend. They even bought me a ticket for a gig because they so wanted me to like them. Wasted their money – Keith Emerson dressed in leather ejaculating sparks from a moog plank is an image that stays with me for all the wrong reasons.

      I nominate The Corrs.

      • That is definitely an image to conjure with, and one that I also found rather embarrassing when i saw them 25 years ago (the sparks/ willy proxy thing is also used by Rammstein, WASP, and god-knows who else – Tracy Chapman, probably). Never got the weird noise moog freak-outs either, which got in the way of actually playing music. If you like that sort of thing, they had their moments; but history has not been kind.

  8. On the subject of the Neubautens perhaps on record yes, live thrilling – at the Hacienda and in Paris provided two of the most memorable ‘gigs as events’ I’ve been to.

  10. I’m not 100% sure what we’re talking about now, but bearing in mind it’s the biggest movie of all-time, have you ever met an actual fan of “Avatar”? Has anyone invited you ’round their house to watch it lately, or have you seen anyone wearing a T-shirt, a kid playing with a toy, someone listening to the soundtrack, writing slashfiction about the characters, in cosplay at a Halloween party, anything?

    [Nothing personal about the movie BTW, just strange that such a massive sci-fi/fantasy film doesn’t seem to have attracted any of the pop culture baggage other movies have…]

  13. Conditional Secrets. Joyous second album from The Suburban Set.

    Is there any way of rephrasing this question in mathematical terms, so that I might get a better grip on its fundamentals?

  14. With the 12 year olds getting into vinly unlikely to get anywhere near original copies of, say, “Blonde on Blonde,” but guaranteed to stumble across dross in the Oxy for £1, you’re going to get a lot of “You know what, I reckon “Knocked Out Loaded” is a much better record than “Blonde on Blonde”” type comments until the vinly bubble bursts circa 2021.

    Is that what the questioner was getting at?

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