The Clash were ultimately cool with their debut album in 1977, uncool in 1978 on the back of Give 'Em Enough Rope, cool again by 1979's London Calling, then laughing stocks with 1980's triple album Sandinista!, although that album, too, has been re-evaluated in recent years.
On my February visit, I had made the error of forgetting to warn Cressida of my scheme to immerse ourselves in "classic, uncool" Miami.
And while the British fresher typically decompresses for a year in an uncool hall of residence then hits a cool shared house, this crowd stay in PBSAs for the duration.
Sure your Facebook ad gets big reach and polished measurement, but it comes in an uncool context.
MAC Cosmetics was the first brand to use a gay spokesperson back in the '80s; Apple painted Microsoft uncool in its PC Guy campaigns by associating it with a stuffy middle aged white man. 5. Urban.
One cited the "Pac-Man" theory in the accordion's popular resurgence: the instrument had become so uncool in recent decades that like that video game hero, it popped back out the other side, becoming cool once again.
Originally Erdelyi Tamas, a name my Hungarian wife can pronounce better than I, he was the last survivor of the four men who got together in the decidedly uncool New York neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, to form the Ramones in 1974.
In addition to hurting Starbucks's reputation — the ubiquity in itself was uncool, and the assembly-line coffee brewing was bad for quality — this had cost too much.
Uncool not in a Jarvis Cocker, Stuart Murdoch, Jobcentre advisor-chic kind of way, but uncool in a "volunteer paintball marshal" kind of way.
A real milestone in its uncool-ness is this advert for Blu e-cigs, which features an androgynous woman herding cattle using a helicopter, who then takes a drag on a black smoke-computer.
