# Accordian Rock is cool! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accordian-rock-is-cool/682941 "2014-03-05T17:27:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accordian-rock-is-cool/682941/1 "2014-03-05T17:27:49Z")
OK, these are four words I thought would go together like chocolate covered olives, however I have been converted…[Behold!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz2GVlQkn4Q&feature=kp) And the video is pretty cool too! Chocolate covered olives, however, are still gross. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accordian-rock-is-cool/682941/3 "2014-03-05T17:47:43Z")
[They Might Be Giants](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrc9siok3IU) have been rocking the accordion for quite some time now. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accordian-rock-is-cool/682941/4 "2014-03-05T17:56:31Z")
[Those Darn Accordions-Whole Lotta Love, Black Dog](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ2QoOs-WRo). Fun band. ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accordian-rock-is-cool/682941/5 "2014-03-05T18:04:53Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > [They Might Be Giants](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrc9siok3IU) have been rocking the accordion for quite some time now. Beat me to it. Originally they were just accordion, guitar and a backing tape. If anyone ever needs someone to talk about TMBG with for a good 10 hours or so, I’m your man. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accordian-rock-is-cool/682941/6 "2014-03-05T18:12:17Z")
[Brave Combo](http://www.brave.com/bo/index.html) has been playing rock, polkas, various Latin styles (including Tejano polkas) & everything else for years, now. And accordions are heavily featured. Here’s the [Brave Combo Accordion Book](http://www.brave.com/bo/index.html)! Every September, San Antonio hosts the [International Accordion Festival](http://www.internationalaccordionfestival.org/artists.php). Not all the genres _are_ Rock, but they all \*do \*Rock! ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accordian-rock-is-cool/682941/7 "2014-03-05T18:16:55Z")
Ages ago I went to a big party event in what was then East Germany…mostly people in their 20’s attended. At one bar they had live entertainment - it was three guys with accordions. They played music from Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Who…and to say it was bizarre would be an understatement. Still, it was a night I will never forget and I was simply fascinated. BTW, the old joke from back in those days: “What is the definition of an optimist?” “An accordion player with a beeper.” ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accordian-rock-is-cool/682941/8 "2014-03-05T18:34:59Z")
Any talk of accordion rock has to include [The Pogues](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyrivemQpkQ)! ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accordian-rock-is-cool/682941/9 "2014-03-05T20:16:14Z")
Welcome to the dark side. May I serve you some [DeVotchka](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7WmLrqZtAU)? Or [Gogol Bordello](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_81l4DXlwM)? If you dig that, try searching whatever music service you like for a little compilation album called “Gypsy Beats and Balkan Bangers” (there’s a couple of them, actually). But be warned… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accordian-rock-is-cool/682941/10 "2014-03-06T15:17:33Z")
OK, I listen to and really like TMBG, The Pogues and Gogol Bordello but I never really thought of them as Rock, per se. TMBG is in a class all its own, and I always thought of GG and Pogues as more punk. I’ll check out the other links though. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accordian-rock-is-cool/682941/11 "2014-03-06T15:26:49Z")
[Rammstein](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr7ymJwx4-Q). [Celtas Cortos](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5zurj6CLZg). ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accordian-rock-is-cool/682941/12 "2014-03-06T17:39:39Z")
Ignorance Fought! I’ve heard DeVotcha without realizing and Those Darn Accordians are awesome! Brave Combo is almost more Zydeco, which is a whole different class of awesomeness! If that doesn’t make your feet tap you might as well audition for the Walking Dead as a walker. I guess you could kind of throw Paul Simon in with the Graceland album though I don’t really think of that as Rock in the traditional sense. I’m going to look at more of Celto Cordas as well, I like it, Gypsy Kings meets the Pogues…