Name Your Musical "Guilty Pleasures"

Its like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

But there’s The Mac for yer.

 

Ok. Ill cop to it.

Walking on Sunshine. Now heres the thing. Johnnys never coming is he? He's never gonna write, never gonna call...shes just gonna keep pinning away isn’t t she.

 

Barclay James Harvest 1974 - 1983. I was a child back then. Listening to them now brings a lot of fond childhood memories back

 

I don't have guilty pleasures anymore, but back in the day I guess one of 'em would've been the synthy dancepop genre somewhat nonsensically known as "freestyle" or "Latin hip hop". I had to keep my Exposé and Cover Girls records hidden behind my thrash metal and Sonic Youth albums.

 

The Presidents of the United States of America
Liza Minnelli
Lots of '60s A&M acts, usually on comps alongside Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
The Louvin Brothers
Yma Sumac

 

I don't know why but The Mission just came into my head.

 

Shakin' Stevens and a bit of Chas and Dave.

 

I really love me some Modern Talking every now and then My wife thinks i'm insane

 

Guilty pleasure?

Barclay James Harvest is a top five band for me and their mid - late Seventies records are probably my favourites!

Glad they bring back fond memories though!

 

One sometimes hears Bossa Nova disparaged as 'lounge music', but I listen to a lot of it from all eras, and seldom hear compoers with the refined and advanced melodic sense of Jobim or Carlos Lyra, the poetic sense of Gilberto or Nascimento, the deft rythmic sense of pianists like Helio Celso, the vocal abilities of Gal Costa, etc etc. More etc. Listen how powerfully Gal nails this, without sounding strident or over emoting (like every other singer today).

 

I like Shaun Cassidy.

 

Yeah, I recently found their first LP for $2 in a thrift store...the whole album is really good, especially the weird stuff.
Best $2 I've spent in a while.

The Poppy Family - There's No Blood In Bone (with lyrics)

 

I picked up a very nice copy of Dennis DeYoung's Desert Moon LP for $1.99 last weekend, and thoroughly enjoyed it, though I was intoxicated with primo nostalgia at the time.

 

Paramore's last album

 

5th Dimension
Amy Grant's "Lead Me On" album.
Glen Campbell
Petula Clark
Godspell
Riverdance
Stoner Rock

 

There are loads of recent pop songs I find very efficient and enjoy, here are some examples:
- Spice Girls - Wannabe
- Britney - Baby One More Time
- Justin Bieber - Love Yourself

 

Always enjoyed his cover of the Hendrix song, Fire, on Desert Moon.

 

For a very middle-aged (and very straight) male, I get odd looks when I tell people I'm a big Lady GaGa fan. I look at it as modern glam music really - with over the top theatrics.

I'm also a Lisa Stansfield fan, though her album (which is quite overproduced!) usually gets played during housecleaning duties.



Both of them, needless to say, are pretty far out of my usual musical orbits of post-punk, Americana, old country, and classic British rock groups.

 

This CD would be the biggest stretch in my collection, but Karen Carpenter singing "Rainy Days and Mondays" is a Top 10 song.

 

Bieber's Love Yourself is on of the best pop songs this century!

 

The Louvin Brothers a "guilty pleasure"? Are you sure you didn't mean The Geezinslaw Brothers?

 

Nothing guilty about liking The Carpenters. They are awesome! My personal favorite is Superstar.

 

I did enjoy the "Roar" video. Rrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

 

Oh I remember the looks the wife and I got in our 40's when we went to see Morphine. The children were freaked out adults were present