As this post dislodges dai’s delightful 80s top ten thread from the front page to the digital chip paper obscurity of the 2nd page and beyond, I’m left with a quandary from considering and posting a lot of Bauhaus album titles – is/was Bauhaus cool?

Mike_H quoted Christopher Brookmyre saying something about a character’s “love of Queen’s music and pretended to love Bauhaus in his student days, because they were “cooler”?”. Diddley Farquar used to like their ‘cracking songs’. but they ‘weren’t ever cool though. Too arty farty – pretentious basically. All pose.’

I liked them because I thought they were cool – older, sophisticated, dangerous and glamorous – I wanted to be them.

I am left with a lot of familiar questions re-emerging for me. What is cool? In your younger, more impressionable years, were you cool? Who did you think was cool, if anyone? Does ‘cool’ mean anything any more? Is it a positive or negative attribute?

Questions, questions – just not cool. I double dare* you to answer them.

Here’s a rather interesting infographic presenting the history and different strands of cool to help you formulate your answers.

*Did you see what I did there?

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