Surely many, perhaps most of us have something in our musical libraries that are considered something of 'skeletons', they don't fit the mold of our personality and otherwise go against the grain of what we normally like. But for whatever reason, you just happen to like that one particular song. You just make a point of removing and hiding it whenever someone might go perusing the library-lest your sentimental side or closet Top 40 picks come out. So come clean. What are they?

Here are some songs that I am ashamed to admit that I actually like.

Hillary Duff "Wake Up" (A full on teenybopper song of the highest order. But it has a decent guitar riff, good beat, good harmonies and rhythm, and yes...a pretty damn respectable recording)

Tracy Ullman They'll Never Know"

The Two Live Crew "Hoochie Momma"

Jennifer Paige "Crush"

John Denver "Calypso" (AWESOME song and tribute to science and Jacques Cousteau)

The Vengaboys "We Love To Party" (If you were alive in 1999, you heard this song. Just something about it is catchy and the song did make it onto one of my reel to reel tapes)

Thelma Houston "Don't Leave Me This Way" (except for 'If I Can't Have You' by Yvonne Elliman and 'Take A Chance on Me' by ABBA, I usually pass on most Disco. Yet one can grow an Afro and be compelled to buy bell bottom pants and platform shoes merely by hearing this song. Not really sure why, but I kinda dig this song.)

Let's hear 'em
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DL-But no Spice Girls. I have some dignity left

Frankie Goes to Hollywood ~ Relax. Just gotta thump the feet when it's plazing. It's contagious.

Pon de Replay(Hey Mr. DJ)-Rhianna.Just too damned catchy for its own good.

Hungry Like the Wolf-Duran Duran.Actually,most of their early stuff is pretty catchy.

I Can Dream About You-Dan Hartman.I just like this song cause I remember the scene in Streets Of Fire when the Doo Wop group is singing it.

Im Alright,Danger Zone,Footloose-Kenny Loggins.These songs are just soo catchy and infectiously fun.

Cowboy-Kid Rock.What a no talent bozo otherwise,but I do love this song.
Jimmy

Yes, I'll have to agree...with the Hilary Duff song, but the one that I really like is "What Dreams Are Made Of" from The Lizzie McGuire Movie

Hanson - Mmmbop
Jonas Brothers - SoS..

and a lot of the top 40 stuff like Rhianna, Fergie...etc

LOL...
oh and to embarass myself even more "One Bad Apple" by The Osmonds, I actually thought it was the Jackson 5 when it first came out!!! LOL

Sorry. I....I....just can't admit to those things. :D

Thriller the whole album, sounded good twenty years ago, and it still does to me, although what has happened since has dampened my enthusiasm for the artist. ;)

ELO - Telephone Line

Anything Disco.:music:

Please don't tell anyone, OK?:worried:

:D

Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
Slade - Run Run Away
Soft Cell - Tainted Love

ELO again, this time, Mr. Blue Sky.

Donnie Iris - "Ah, Leah!"
Level 42 - "Something About You"
Yvonne Elleman - "I Don't Know How To Love Him," From "Jesus Christ, Superstar"
The Monkees - "Pleasant Valley Sunday"
Led Zeppelin - "Stairway to Heaven" (Why is it banned in guitar stores?! If I'm buying a guitar, I'll play what I bloody well want to!)

OK I'll play, but I'll regret it later.

Bee Gees - "Nights on Broadway" Had the vinyl cranked to 110db the other day
Earth Wind and Fire - "Boogie Wonderland" This one came back cause the kids like it in Madagascar
Henry Mancini - All of his tunes.

I Heard a Rumor- Bananarama
Alone Again, Naturally- Gilbert O'Sullivan
How Deep Is Your Love- BeGee's (and other BG songs)

Herman's Hermits ~ I'm into Something Good. So syrupy you can pour it on pancakes, yet so contagious you just can't stop tapping along.

Herman's Hermits ~ I'm into Something Good. So syrupy you can pour it on pancakes, yet so contagious you just can't stop tapping along.


Yes this one and Mrs. Brown...in fact the whole Herman's Hermits first album or any of their albums!!! LOVE Them!!!!:thmbsp: I think their version was better than the Cookies

Jerry Reed - Amos Moses
Eric Prydz - Call on Me

Sorry. I....I....just can't admit to those things. :D

Agreed, if there is one place that there are no skeletons in the closet, that would be music. There maybe some music that I used to like, but not so much anymore.

Thriller the whole album, sounded good twenty years ago, and it still does to me, although what has happened since has dampened my enthusiasm for the artist. ;)

Like nobody saw that coming. I mean with him hanging with all the little boys going back to the "Home Alone Kid" and the use of his crotch as a handle.:puke2: By his own admission he sees nothing wrong with a 50 year old man sleeping in the same bed with a child that is not his own.:twak: Even OJ thinks he did it.:D Then there is the obsession with plastic surgery that has him looking like this.:alien::yikes:

"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do"

"Two can be as bad as one"

"It's the loneliest number since the number one"

Snade

2 Become 1 by The Spice Girls

But you can't tell anybody, ok?

'Crackers' by Barbara Mandrell. It's so honest, straight forward, and so catchy..... I have to download it one of these days - when no one is watching... :yes:

Along the Teeny Bopper line Best of Both Worlds by Hannah Montana, it's been running through my head all day. Some of the other Disney stuff isn't half bad for what it is.

Along the Teeny Bopper line Best of Both Worlds by Hannah Montana, it's been running through my head all day. Some of the other Disney stuff isn't half bad for what it is.


I'll have to admit bopping along to some of the Disney stuff also as my nieces play it all the time..I'll admit to toe tapping to some of the High School Musical stuff...guess I'll always be the King of The Teenyboppers as my older brothers call me....LOL

You Baby - The Turtles
I've Got You Babe - Sonny and Cher
sigh, yes, and... Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - Cher

...I was born in the wagon of a travelling show My momma used to dance for the money they'd throw...

You guys mentioned just about all of them, except never Gonna Give you Up Rick Astley). I have the LP AND the cassette..........

Ironic - Alanis Morissette

Did you ever notice none of the things she mentions are actually ironic? Just really unfortunate. The real irony of the song is that it's a song about irony that contains no real irony written by a woman who obviously doesn't know what irony is. Now THATS ironic.

No that's not original. I'm not nearly that clever.

Incense and Peppermint - The Strawberry Alarm Clock
The Hokey Pokey

No, there is not any tunes I like that I would be embarrassed over. I listen to music for my own enjoyment, not to impress others. I'd rather impress myself.

I'll date myself and admit to actually seeing Strawberry Alarm Clock perform Incense and Peppermint at the Hollywood Bowl in I think.... 1968?

posted wrong thread--oopps Oh well how about Carl Douglas --Kung-Fu Fighting..

"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do"

"Two can be as bad as one"

"It's the loneliest number since the number one"

Snade
Math major in college? :D

As for me:
Madonna: "Beautiful Stranger".

Yeah, I know it's at best a mediocre song written for a mediocre comedy flick, but the reverb on that guitar just sounds so nice...

Wannabe by the Spice Girls :tongue:
Cruel Summer - Bananarama :yes:
Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead or Alive :banana:
She Bop - Cyndi Lauper :naughty: :D


should I go on? :no: :no:

Discovered in a "bargin bin" at a record store, "The Very Best of the Chipmunks"
Mostly the songs that everybody knows (though may not admit to knowing) of Ross Bagdasarian's (AKA David Saville) early "studio magic" tape speed trick novelty musical group.
Except, there was one cut I had never heard before. The Chipmunks version of "Tonight You Belong to Me". The recording was amazing! Of course, you could hear the tape and analog electronic "hiss" (no Dolby in those days), but the purity of the recording, the quality of the micing, and the rock-solid spatial image (!?) was... well, we actually used this cut as a demo at CES and IHF shows... with the preface. "this is a bit strange for demo material, but humor us and give it a listen..."
Most of our audiance agreed, it was a spectacular recording.
You never know what you'll find in the "bargin bin"...

Black Hole Sun - Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme

actually this whole CD - LougeApalooza

http://www.amazon.com/Lounge-Palooza-Various-Artists/dp/B000000OK8/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1199094144&sr=1-1

Good Night - Beatles: White Album [Schmaltziest song Lennon ever wrote and/or recorded?]

Patches - Clarence Carter

Everything by Abba.

I Want Candy-the Bow Wow Wow version
My Sharona

The Jones Girls-
Nights Over Egypt

Barbra Streisand-
Speak Low

Madonna-
Crazy for You

Barry White-
Get up

Cindy Lauper , girls just wanna have fun

"Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot"

Dug this song "when I was (much) younger than 2day" :-) Thought it was by a Norwegian group, but I think I was VERY wrong (for 20 years.....) .. not much info to be found ?

check it out, its a true classic :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oml89-BS7c0

(if you mention this to ANYONE!!!!!! ... !!) ;)

"Angie Baby" by Helen Reddy. The lyrics are so twisted, I couldn't help but like it.

You live your life in the songs you hear
on your rock and roll radio
and when a young girl
doesn't have any friends
it's a really nice place to go
folks hoped you'd
turn out cool
but they had to take
you out of school
you're a little touched you know
angie baby

lovers appear in your
room each night
as they whirl you across the floor
but they always seem to fade away
when your daddy
taps on your door...
angie girl are you alright?
tell the radio goodnight
all alone once more... angie baby

Chorus
angie baby
you're a special lady
living in a world of make believe
well maybe

stalking her house
is a neighbour boy
with evil on his mind
'cos he's been peeking
in angies room
at the night through
the window blind...
I see your folks have gone away
won't you dance with me today
I'll show you how to have a good time
angie baby...

( angie baby ) (angie baby )

when he walks in the room
he feels confused
like he walked into a play
and the music's so loud
it spins him around
till his soul has lost it's way
and as she turns
the volume down
he's getting smaller
with the sound
it seems to pull him
off the ground
no more the radio is bound
never to be found...

the headlines read
that a boy disapeared
and everyone thinks he died
except a crazy girl
with a secret lover
who keeps her satisfied
it's so nice to be insane
no one asked you to explain
radio by your side
angie baby...

Chorus
angie baby
you're a special lady
living in a world of make believe
well maybe...
well maybe...
well...maybe...

Rapper's Delight-Sugarhill Gang......

I know that it goes against my signature, but I think that this one track has a lot of appeal.

Life is a Rock, But the Radio Rolled Me - Reunion
Rock your Baby - George McCrae
Deep Purple - Donnie and Marie Osmond
Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
Come and Get Your Love - Redbone
More More More - Andrea True Connection
Knock on Wood - Ami Stewart
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
Archies - Sugar Sugar
Herman's Hermits
Monkees

Can you tell I listened to Top 40 radio a lot? WLS and WCFL in Chicago.

George Michael ~ A Different Corner

Songs You're Embarassed To Admit You Like

There is a reason why you're embarassed to admit stuff like this... cause people like me will call you a sissy.

Sissy.



btw... I'll add myself to the list cause I like most of the songs already listed. Including Abba.
:D

mmm... many guilty pleasures......

MMMBop by the Hansons
anything by the Spice Girls (my daughters have moved on, why can't I?)
and the ultimate-makes you look around when you are singing along with the radio in traffic cheesy song:

"We've only just begun" by The Carpenters

...and the ultimate-makes you look around when you are singing along with the radio in traffic cheesy song:

"We've only just begun" by The Carpenters

You think that's bad, the most LPs I have of anyone artist is The Carpenters. Somewhere around a dozen.

I'm just waiting for someone to admit liking Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks.



Edit: To regain a little composure my next biggest pile of LPs and CDs is Led Zepplin. :D

...on the bedpost over night?"

Seriously that one's done by Lonnie Donegan who did wonderful skiffle music in England just before Tommy Steele/Cliff Richard/British rockabilly/Beatles etc.

I have his greatest hits CD and I get it out maybe once a year and play it at home, in the car, the garage, for a couple of weeks until I get it out of my system again.

How deep is your love, by the Bee Gee's
Say goodbye to love, by the Carpenters
Take me on, by Aha.
Never can say goodbye, by the Jackson 5

I have all these hid. Only play em when I'm alone.

"Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies.
"Knock Three Times" Tony Orlando and Dawn, et. al. plus most of all the ones you guys listed. I guess they can't be all that bad.
Oh, and must not forget "In The Year 2525" by Zaeger and Evans.

No, there is not any tunes I like that I would be embarrassed over. I listen to music for my own enjoyment, not to impress others.

I'm with you, but there are lots of songs I like that embarrass my wife. :D

"Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies.
"Knock Three Times" Tony Orlando and Dawn, et. al. plus most of all the ones you guys listed. I guess they can't be all that bad.
Oh, and must not forget "In The Year 2525" by Zaeger and Evans.

Ha ha! I have the Zager and Evans - In The Year 2525 album, but which one was Zager and which was Evans. I always thought Zager was the one with the goatee and Evans was the one with out????:yes:

Lessee now-"A Man Without Love" -Englebert Humperdinck
"Draggin' The Line" Tommy James
"Last Song"-Edward Bear
"3rd Man Theme" Anton Karas
"Atomic Dog" George Clinton
"Electric Boogie"-Marcia Griffiths
"Go Away Little Girl" Donny Osmond
"Chanson D'Amour" Art & Dotty Todd
"Every Little Star" Linda Scott
"Ghost Riders In The sky" Vaughn Monroe
...There's more. A LOT more....

Patches - Clarence Carter



You're killing me.



I dig C.W. Mcall's "Convoy" and The Jimmy Castor Bunch's "Bertha Butt Boogie" (Parts I and II).

Two Avril Lavigne CD's and "Faith" by George Michael...

Poor Avril ! Can't spell EITHER one of her names right-"April Levine"...(grin)

Flock of Seaguls...I ran.:yes:
c-ya
ToddG:music:

George Michael....

I Want Your Sex/ Parts 1&2...
Hard Day...
One More Try...
Monkey...

Okay, Okay, the whole album Faith!..........R1

Wannabe by the Spice Girls :tongue:
Cruel Summer - Bananarama :yes:
Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead or Alive :banana:
She Bop - Cyndi Lauper :naughty: :D


should I go on? :no: :no:

Wow! Don't know the Spice Girls song, but the Cruel Summer and the Dead or Alive song were mine. Love the Lauper too, but I think she's pretty talented and nothing to feel bad about liking. But I hate Cats in the Cradle.

My Guilty Pleasures.....
Meat Loaf--anything on Bat out of Hell or anything by Jim Steinman: Making love Out of Nothing at All (Air Supply), Total Eclipse of the Heart ( Bonnie Tyler) plus others.
Pop Goes the World--Men Without Hats
Children of the Sun--Billy Thorpe

"Every rose has its thorn
Just like every night has its dawn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song
Every rose has its thorn"

RUN DMC - You Be Illin'::music:

Last Train to Clarksville - The monkees - my kids cringe
Red Rubber Ball by The Cyrkle - that will send them running
Dragin the line - Tommy James
Take a letter Maria - RB Greaves

That is all I am willing to admit :D

Last Train to Clarksville - The monkees - my kids cringe
Red Rubber Ball by The Cyrkle - that will send them running
Dragin the line - Tommy James
Take a letter Maria - RB Greaves

That is all I am willing to admit :D

Nothing wrong with ANY of those! Great songs all! :thmbsp:

It's not "manly" song, but "You're Still the One" by Shania is one of my faves. And not the country version...............

The Cowsills - The Rain, The Park and Other Things

The Cowsills - The Rain, The Park and Other Things

I LOVE that song !! Just a piece of late-Sixties pop fluff, but what a piece of fluff it was...Lush arraignment, beautiful harmonies, exisistential lyrics-"Was she reality/Or just a dream to me ?", even the name-The Cowsills- could only have come from that era. To me there are a number of Sixties one hit wonders that are monumental in their own right.

i saw Duran Duran and Strawberry Alarm Clock...i can agree with those lol

the cowsills...ok I'll admit to liking The Rain, The Park and Other Things...but I'm really liking "Indian Lake" and "Hair" ...LOL

Love Me Love Me Love.......Frank Mills
Rainbow Connection.........Kermit The Frog
Thats Where I Went Wrong.......The Poppy Family

Anything by Lobo. :D

"Rings" by Cymarron, 1971
"Close your Eyes" Edward Bear, 1973
"Jeans On" David Dundas, 1977
"Sally Go 'Round The Roses" Jaynetts, 1963
"It Must Be Him" Vicki Carr, 1967
"Every Little Star" Linda Scott, 1961
"Wheels" The String-A-Longs, 1960
"Give Ireland Back to the Irish" Paul McCartney, 1972
"Son of my Father" Giorgio, 1972
"Alvin's Harmonica" David Seville, 1958
"Rockitt" Herbie Hancock, 1986
Chew on those. -Unca Sandy

Nothing wrong with ANY of those! Great songs all! :thmbsp:

Ditto that. :thmbsp:

Every time one disses a song God kills a kitten. Keep an open mind about disparate tastes in music. Save the kittens. :D

So embarrassed by this....but,

I'm gonna get you good - Shania Twain (The R&R version)

Sally go round the roses, by the Jaynetts
I love that song. I make cds to put on the jukebox at the local VFW. That one is on there.

Gosh, This winter I "found" "The Partridge Family Christmas Card" I played it all the Christmas season. Might play it now.

Oh and the Bee-Gees Tragedy........

"A Partridge Family Christmas Card" has been a holiday staple in my family's household since we bought the lp in 1971. Does yours have the slit for the card or is the card printed on which was issued in 72. The printed on version is much rare from what I heard.

Chevy Van....... and that's alright with me
Seasons in the Sun ...... we all had fun with that one
Julie Julie-Bobby Sherman
Actually most of the bubble gum rock from the 70's probably more for the memories they stir than the music itself.....

And somewhat related to the topic but I did win a radio contest a couple of years ago because I was able to name "Don't Give Up on Us Baby by David Soul in about 3 notes......scary huh

Its got the slit. Its actually a good album :)

I have the two original Spice Girls CDs in my collection, along with an Andy Williams (with Osmonds) Christmas CD. Although to be fair that last one was a gift and I wouldn't otherwise be owning it.

Chevy Van....... and that's alright with me
Seasons in the Sun ...... we all had fun with that one
Julie Julie-Bobby Sherman
Actually most of the bubble gum rock from the 70's probably more for the memories they stir than the music itself.....

And somewhat related to the topic but I did win a radio contest a couple of years ago because I was able to name "Don't Give Up on Us Baby by David Soul in about 3 notes......scary huh

Reference to "Chevy Van".

That was by Sammy Johns who is from a smaller town in the county that I live in.

During the late spring to early fall season, the local "Logans" Steakhouse hosts "Harley Night" on Thursday nights. They usually have live entertainment. Occasionally, Sammy Johns is the featured entertainer.

One night I asked him how good that song had been to him. He said he had made a lot of money off of it, but made more from other songs he had written for many country singers. He lives off the royalties to these songs and just likes to play occasionally to "stay in touch".

Its got the slit. Its actually a good album :)

When I got the album in 71, I was so excited ripping off the shrinkwrap and getting the inserted Xmas Card. It was ever PF fans dream...now if I were to receive a "real" Xmas card back then who knows what would've happened..I was only 7. LOL My Mom and Dad would always laugh when they'd buy me a PF or David Cassidy album back then cuz I'd be all happy, and if they got me an Osmonds, J5 or Bobby Sherman I would be thanks and then ho-hum...LOL

Turn up the Radio - Autograph
Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head - BJ Thomas
Puff the Magic Dragon - Peter, Paul and Mary
Most ABBA songs
The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats -- Oh the humanity

Rainbow Connection.........Kermit The Frog


Crap, beat me to that one.

I'm just waiting for someone to admit liking Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks.


I have no problem with Seasons in the Sun... actually it tears at my heart..:tears:

As for the guilty pleasures... 95% of what was already mentioned...

And I can listen to 70's Disco all day and not get tired of it ...:banana:

And I can listen to 70's Disco all day and not get tired of it ...:banana:

Now THAT'S worth being ashamed of! :thmbsp:

Me too, but only the Best of Disco All Day Long all day long... lol....lol

It's so nice to be with you - by Gallery

Big girl (I think it's the name) by Fergie

Brandy, (You're A Fine Girl)-Looking Glass

That goes without saying.

Brandy

Brandy, (You're A Fine Girl)-Looking Glass

To long ago..to far apart
She couldn't wait another day for, the captain of her heart.

The follow up song by Double.

Brandy?

I like that one too but am completely unashamed of it!

He ain't heavy, he's my brother - The Osmonds version
Any Monkeys tune sung by Mickey Dolenz.
Everything The Kingston Trio did.
I also liked 'Aha', 'Men in Hats', and that other group that sounded like them.

Just about every hit Bread had, other than "Make It With You"

I have no problem with Seasons in the Sun... actually it tears at my heart..:tears:

As for the guilty pleasures... 95% of what was already mentioned...

And I can listen to 70's Disco all day and not get tired of it ...:banana:

Gotta admit...I like Sister Sledge's Got to Love Somebody, from a dollar bin LP I bought.

I think one of the major problems with 70's disco is that people who had no business doing it were trying to perform disco music.

Reference to "Chevy Van".

That was by Sammy Johns who is from a smaller town in the county that I live in.

During the late spring to early fall season, the local "Logans" Steakhouse hosts "Harley Night" on Thursday nights. They usually have live entertainment. Occasionally, Sammy Johns is the featured entertainer.

One night I asked him how good that song had been to him. He said he had made a lot of money off of it, but made more from other songs he had written for many country singers. He lives off the royalties to these songs and just likes to play occasionally to "stay in touch".

Interesting update. Did not know he was down in the Carolinas for some reason I thought he was Canadian but I am probably thinking of Terry Jacks. Both one-hit wonders of the same era. Well I get down to NC now and then and I guess I will just have to look for him in the local steakhouse.....

99 Luftballons - Nena

Top that in terms of embarrassing!

Chad & Jeremy's "Summer Breeze."

Barbara Streisand & Barry Gibb, Guilty

I'm just waiting for someone to admit liking Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks.

I have that on a 45
MMMMBop
Quite a bit of the Jonas Brothers stuff
Many others but lets not go there.

I remember in college we gave one of the guys a hard time for playing his 'Donny & Marie' tape. I dropped by one day when he had it on and he offered to turn it off. "No, I actually like them, I just can't admit it."
and 'Season in the Sun' is, I think, a haunting and beautiful piece of music; just certain people start snickering when it's mentioned.
well, joke'm if they can't take a ...chance.

All by myself..Eric Carmen

My wife hides when she sees this record getting yanked out of it's sleeve.

Mike

Ok, since this is our little secret and we are playing pretend.

For Your Eyes Only- Sheena Easton
She Blinded Me with Science- Thomas Dolby
I've Never Been to Me- Charlene

I still have She blinded me on '45, bought it in '82 I believe.
I was a teen in the 80's.
You already know too much.:yes:

"Chevy Van" I'd forgotten all about that one.
How about "Me and You and a dog named Boo"? I actually grew up with a schnauser named Bullet, but we called her "Boo" all the time.

And how about "Dead Skunk in the middle of the Road"?

"You got your dead cat and you got your dead dog,
On a moonlight night you got your dead bullfrog,
Got your dead rabbit and your dead raccoon,
The blood and the guts are gonna make your swoon"

Jesus Christ, that guy could write a song! Anybody know who he was?

Loudon Wainright 111. Was a guest star on "M*A*S*H" a few times early on...

Loudon Wainwright... now I remember. He was also in the movie The Aviator, as a bandleader.

Frank Zappa - "I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth"

"Rivers of Babylon" -Boney M from '78. German studio group made up of West Indies singers exclusively. Check out the video on YouTube, & have yrself a good laff at the hairstyles...Especially the one dude who looks like he's trying to make a side-part on a sky-high Afro....

Karma Chameleon - Boy George.

"Rivers of Babylon" -Boney M from '78. German studio group made up of West Indies singers exclusively. Check out the video on YouTube, & have yrself a good laff at the hairstyles...Especially the one dude who looks like he's trying to make a side-part on a sky-high Afro....


LOL! I have a few of their albums and one DVD...You are right about to muti-storied sky-high lopsided afro! We used to laugh at this disco group at the time, but some of the music was pretty catchy:lmao:

"Rivers" was a MONSTER hit in Germany when I was there in summer '78...Every time you'd turn on the radio, there'd it would be..It IS a catchy tune though. I liked their Christmas song, "Mary's Boy Child", too.

Did anyone mention "Rock Me Amadaeus" by Falco? Corny, but very very catchy.

Yeah, liked that one, too. Falco got killed in a car crash several yrs back, hated to hear that. Somewhere I read or heard that "Amadeus" & "Vienna Calling" are NOT strictly sung in German, but rather in the Viennese dialect...

Somewhere I read or heard that "Amadeus" & "Vienna Calling" are NOT strictly sung in German, but rather in the Viennese dialect...

I'll ask my German professor audiophile friend back in PA. He goes to Austria each summer with his classes.

:eek: I always try to hide the fact that I am a closet "Shakira" Fan.

that michael jackson song from Free Willy - shameful...

Magnet & Steel-Walter Egan
I don't why, but I've always loved this song.
I'm still looking for the Jeffery Gaines version from about 15 years ago.

Yeah, liked that one, too. Falco got killed in a car crash several yrs back, hated to hear that. Somewhere I read or heard that "Amadeus" & "Vienna Calling" are NOT strictly sung in German, but rather in the Viennese dialect...

Falco was Austrian, so that might lend a bunch of credence to the story.

I'll ask my German professor audiophile friend back in PA. He goes to Austria each summer with his classes.

"Austria has the world's best Public Relations Department. They have convinced the world that Mozart was Austrian, and that Hitler was German."
-- Tom Leher

"Austria has the world's best Public Relations Department. They have convinced the world that Mozart was Austrian, and that Hitler was German."
-- Tom Leher

Who'd want to claim Falco?!? :D

Aww darned, i'll fess up.

I'll go all out, so it will be so bad nobody will care here. :D

Ben's Bother - Stuttering
Tom Jones - Letter to Lucille
Limahl - Never Ending Story
David Bisbal - Ave Maria
Aaron Nevile - Grand Tour
Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry
Cher - Walking in Memphis
Rhapsody(with Christopher Lee) - Magic of the Wizard's Dream
Dropkick Murpheys - The Gangs All Here
Brad Paisley & Allison Krauss - Whiskey Lullaby
Nightwish - Sleeping Sun
ABBA - Anything by them
Beetles - Come and Get it
Anything by Billy Joe Royal ---I have no shame
Bob Segar - Like a Rock
Breaking Benjamin - Diary of Jane
Brett Dennen - Aint No Reason
Del Shannon - Hats Off To Larry ---Oh the humanity
Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
Dolly Parton - Coat of many colors
Dwight Yoakam - I like almost half of his songs
Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes
Anything by Il Divo
Engelbert Humperdink - Please Release me and There's a kind of hush
Eric Clapton - Lady in Red
FallOut Boy - This Aint A Scene, Its An Arms Race

Oh, will it stop? Hell no

ff6 - Celes' Opera
Flaming Lips - Do You Realize
Girls Aloud - Stay Another Day
Haddaway - what is love
Hugh Jackman - I still call Australia Home
I'm A Long Way From Home - Shooter Jennings
Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole - Some Where Over The Rainbow
J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers - Last Kiss (50's)
James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover
Jerry Lee Lewis - That kind of Fool
Jerry Reed - Eastbound and Down
Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs - Bottle of Wine
Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang
Hannibal - Vide Cor Meum Opera
Linkin Park - In The End
Lionel Richie - Say You Say Me

---Oh man, I aint done yet

Nickelback - If Everyone Cared
Peter, Paul, and Mary - Puff The Magic Dragon
Our Lady Peace - Are You Sad
Anything Randy Travis
Rascal Flatts - What Hurts the Most
Roy Orbison - Crying
Joan Baez - sad eyed lady of the lowlands
Scott McKenzie - If you're going to San Fransisco
Skeeter Davis-The End Of The World
Taylor Hicks - Do I Make You Proud
Tennesse Waltz - Almost any version
The Island Soundtrack- My Name is Lincoln
The Monkees - Day Dream Believer
Whitney Houston - One Moment In Time
Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying
Lawrence Welk's Theme Song
and anything by the East Village Opera Company.

Hope nobody thinks less of me now, although I might think less of myself.:lmao:

Abba - Waterloo............ there I said it, I'm gunno go and listen to some Black Sabbath...................I feel so dirty............................the dirt it wont come off......................

Aww darned, i'll fess up.

I'll go all out, so it will be so bad nobody will care here. :D
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Hope nobody thinks less of me now, although I might think less of myself.:lmao:

Isn't that list available as a K-tel box set? :D

K-Tel...Oh, Dear God...Still, K-Tel had songs on their compilations you couldn't find anywhere else...An' every now & then, they'd screw up 'n' slip in a gem..case in point was 1973's "Pretty Lady" by a Canadian group called Lighthouse..Think I heard it about 3 times on the radio down here, but it was one of those tunes that just kinda "BOINKS" you right between the eyes...And the only place I've ever seen it was on one of those awful, low-fi K-Tel compilation albums.

Engelbert Humperdink - After the Lovin'
Richard harris - Macarthur Park

Hi,

I like Herman's Hermits and am a proud owner of a minty Mono example of "Introducing Herman's Hermits". The Bay City Rollers are also a guilty pleasure on occasion.

Hi,

I like Herman's Hermits and am a proud owner of a minty Mono example of "Introducing Herman's Hermits". The Bay City Rollers are also a guilty pleasure on occasion.

Herman's Hermits and Bay City Rollers! Wow!:banana: Which Rollers album do you like best. I like Rock N' Roll Love Letter, Dedication (like their covers of the Raspberries Let's Pretend and Beach Boys "Don't Worry Baby" and It's A Game (their cover of David Bowie's Rebel,Rebel and their original song "Sweet Virginia". I thought I was the only who admitted to liking the BCR's!

I heard it the other day on the radio, but "You are the Woman", by Firefall is pretty sappy.

But I like it :dunno:

Alexkerhead....

Come and Get It was Badfinger, not the Beatles
and you would've been OK if you'd said "Runaway" by Del Shannon instead of that other one....

Those songs weren't that bad, I liked a few of 'em...

I'll reveal that I'm a closet Tommy James & the Shondells fan.

Oh Shit, and I like "Sweet Pea" by Tommy Roe.


There I feel better already.

"Oh Sweet Pea, C'mon & dance w/me..." (grin)

"Oh Sweet Pea, C'mon & dance w/me..." (grin)


Jam Up and Jelly Tight and Dizzy are my fave Tommy Roe songs:music:

How about this one.. a blast from the past... Last time I was DJ'ing for a while in this little place, it was a big request, and I liked it too :-\

20 Fingers Featuring Gillette - Short Dick Man

Disco Duck... :music:

Sal Brisindi

Nights are Forever Without You
Afternoon Delight
The Pina Colada Song

I'll reveal that I'm a closet Tommy James & the Shondells fan.

Oh Shit, and I like "Sweet Pea" by Tommy Roe.


There I feel better already.

I'll bet you like "Dizzy" too

It was one of my favorites when I was about 13...

anything by the mamma's and pappa's

(Cringing)
"Reach Out" - Burt Bacharach (Great LP recording and bee-yootiful melodies)
From my Navy Days in the Tonkin Gulf.
"Brazil '66" - Sergio Mendez. Great Latino rhythms. Nobody I know listens
to this.
Toto - A few songs I had on tape. My friends think I'm lame when I
play "Africa", "Rosanna", and whatever that other one was.
K.D.Lang - Best pipes on earth. But only other writers songs, like Cole
Porter, etc. She cannot write music. Please make her stop.
Basia - Her first 2 albums, with Peter White, were fantastic. Only my
wife and a couple of friends like her stuff. Saw her in concert
in the 80's. What a show!

Oh, there are more. I can't say that I'm really 'embarassed', it's just a feeling that 'people don't understand'....you know the feeling....

also, Andy Narell. One of the most talented jazz artists in the known universe. I have all his CD's. Can be enjoyed on many levels.

(Un-cringing) There! I've said it and I feel better.

Rick

"Close to you", by the Carpenters

"So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold
And starlight in your eyes of blue."

Don't tell anyone.:puke:

"Close to you", by the Carpenters

"So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold
And starlight in your eyes of blue."

Don't tell anyone.:puke:

Now that took some guts............:yes:

anything by the mamma's and pappa's

No need to be embarrassed there!! :no:

Embarassed?? No one has mentioned these, but a good John P. Sousa march almost gets me tromping around the house,and a hollering from the wife.

I turn into a blubbering idiot with Amazing Grace on the bagpipes.......sheese.

[SIZE="1"]I can't beleive it.......

Embarassed by a bunch of narrow minded cretins who wouldn't know good music if it crawled up and bit 'em on the ass?

Fat chance.
Chas

Hey, Chas. Is it all 'good music'? Nothing listed is 'offensive' to me, but...

Ever since the stroke, certain songs will set me a-bawlin'. Its not that they UPSET me, its just for some odd reason they'll turn the waterworks on. "Amazing Grace" is one-the 1970 Royal Scotts Dragoon Guards does it, as does the Mother Maybelle/Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's version. Those of you who DON'T know who Mother Maybelle is/was, shame on you. And I LOVE Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66's coolly sophisticated Sixties sound. It's better than a whole lot of the dreck that passes for "music" nowadays...

Maybe it ain't all good music, but a feller shouldn't be embrassed about what he likes.

Personally, I like your play list. One of my all time favorites is Linda Ronstadt's "Round Midnight". Own a mint three album boxed set. When I play it for the younger set, they grimace like it hurts, guess they'd rather hear "Nickel Bag" singing about shooting cops with a Glock .40. With a heavy bass track.

Don't know exactly where to draw the fine line here, lest I become a "narrow minded cretin" myself, so I'll go out on a limb. There's "music" and there's "disgusting noise".

Your thoughts, kind Sir,
Chas

...An' then there's always Bill & Taffy Danoff's paen to Makin' Whoopee...Afternoon Delight !

(Cringing)
Toto - A few songs I had on tape. My friends think I'm lame when I
play "Africa", "Rosanna", and whatever that other one was.





Africa is a classic. Have it on 45. Beautifully produced.

Africa is a classic. Have it on 45. Beautifully produced.


Toto IV - Great album: Rosanna, Make Believe, I Won't Hold You Back Now, Africa, Afraid Of Love, We Made It....not one bum song on the lp!!!

Yep. Toto was pretty good around that time. I liked that odd song "99" too...

Madonna. No specific song in mind...

Some of the songs just flat out sound good, IMO.

How you been, you old cuss? Still puttin' that little Uzi to bed every nite?

I've still got my Python & Diamondback locked up in a case, hoping they'll breed. Maybe I need to get 'em some Viagra.

Second thought, maybe I need to get me some Viagra, then sweet talk my wife into an Anaconda.

I know she'd love it...the Anaconda anyway.
Chas

I have an Anaconda. Wish I had a Python...

Wish I had an Anaconda.

Colt's REALLY fumbled the ball on the Anaconda, IMHO. 1st, it was about 15 yrs too late-allowing S&W & Ruger to get almost insurmountable leads.Second, they really should have made it a "44 Magnum Python" instead of a "44 Magnum Trooper", if you follow me. Next, at first, they only offered it in 2 or 3 barrel lengths-and I know, but I think they should have offered a blued version, for the purists. Other calibers, like 45 LC,41 Magnum, 460 Ruger, hell, even 500 Mag might have helped. Anacondas are pretty guns, w/the class Colts have, & mine shoots well, but it's kinda a "Me, Too !" product. Do they even still make them ? That's another problem w/Colt-they act like its a terrible imposition on them to even SELL you a gun....I haven't fooled w/'em in a while, but where Smith goes from strength to strength, Colt's seems content to be a purveyor of .45 autos & Pythons...And a few hysterical reproductions, that's about it.

I thought Colt was pretty much busted out. Are you saying that the Anaconda was was built on a Trooper frame?

It's a shame to see an American Icon like Colt go belly up, but you're right, they dropped the ball. Didn't keep up with the times, lot's more competition than they're used to be.

Great thing about Colt, they will command a collector's price in the future, shoot your Ruger's & S&W's like it do. Leave the Colt in the case.

Chas

Africa is a classic. Have it on 45. Beautifully produced.

That's why I love this place. I can confide in you. :thmbsp:

Is that Toto song "Tow the Line"? (....love isn't always on time....). I'm not big on lyrics as I focus on the overall sound.

You have it on 45, Bordeno? I didn't think they made them since the '60s! :banana:

I guess I was simply raising a flag to see who salutes. Like I said, I'm not really 'embarassed' per se. I find some songs a bit iffy to play when I'm trying to impress my friends with my system. It's a little ego thing.

As noted in previous posts it's hard to get people to sit back and enjoy music for music's sake. We try to nab the listener with what might be something they're interested in at first. Then we steer them, song by song, towards what we think they should like (hopefully). Then it's "Oh Well! WTF!!" I give up.:D

Didn't mean to hijack! Just a train of thought about music.

Hey, you gun lovers (talk about 'hijacking'): Ever see a Colt 12Ga. Shotgun?
I got one.

Rick

Everything Bee Gees:screwy:

One I'll always like...

Wildflower by Skylark

O.k, I'll chime in....
A Taste Of Honey-Herb Alpert & The TJB

Dumont-First with the finest in television.:yes:

Alexkerhead....

Come and Get It was Badfinger, not the Beatles
and you would've been OK if you'd said "Runaway" by Del Shannon instead of that other one....

Those songs weren't that bad, I liked a few of 'em...

Oops, A minor slip when typing that(it was a long list). Paul's Demo version for BadFinger. :)

hats off to Larry is awesome. :D

I am going to come perfectly clean here now. As if my previous list wasn't bad enough. I am a Garth Brooks fan.:para:

I have two whole albums of embarrassment.

The Curse of Blondie, by Blondie, Silverline 284599-2

And

This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In),by Chevelle, Epic EN 93680

Wow! What a thread... you guys have already mentioned all the ones that popped into my head, plus some others that I hadn't thought of, and some I actually don't like (LOL)... what a trip down memory lane!

A few thoughts/reactions:

"Seasons in the Sun" has made my eyes tear up more than once. I don't think the music is all that inspired, but anyone who has lost a loved one can associate with the lyrics...

Some "secret embarrassments" change over time. I used to secretly like "Sugar, Sugar", but today it does nothing for me. Guess I outgrew it.

Then again, I saw a music video on TV a year or two ago of a song that was obviously manufactured "bubble gum" at its worst, but I found it catchy and likeable, even as I wanted to dislike it. I don't remember the group's name, but the song was "Roller-Coaster". Maybe I haven't outgrown ALL that stuff. LOL

I had never heard of Boney M until I moved to Hong Kong, but they were all over the place here once I arrived here. Even now, their LPs outnumber Herpes All-pert and almost everyone else in the used-LP bins! Corny but very catchy stuff; I remember liking to dance to "Rasputin".

Some of the songs mentioned in this thread I don't think should be embarrassments, but I guess this is all relative to context: I like Japanese Koto and Shakuhachi music, and Flamenco and some "Native American" chanting and the more soulful Russian folk songs, but my fellow students used to want to tar and feather me and chase me out of the dorm when I'd crank that stuff up. I had to dub it from the University music department's reference library to even get it at all back then. Today that kind of stuff gets its own section in the music stores under "world music" and is considered acceptably "sophisticated". Play classical stuff at a Hell's Angels gathering and watch how much "respect" you get, but admit to liking Guns 'n Roses at a highbrow string quartet concert and you'll notice some raised eyebrows and sniffing noses. I like it all, just choose when to admit to liking what so people feel more comfortable with me (more than the other way around). It's all music, and one shouldn't look down on someone for liking any of it (except for rap... :D ).

Then there are the songs that maybe you are supposed to hate or not, but that I DO HATE: Ben, by Michael Jackson, and You Light Up My Life, by Debbie Boone, for example; these songs can still make me :puke: .

Herb Alpert and the TJB, I'll proudly admit that I like them. Same goes for "Ghost Riders in the Sky" by Vaughn Monroe. I can't believe that one made it on this list, that's one of my all time favorite songs. It's interesting how everybody has a different idea about music they don't want to be caught listening to.

Arkay, methinks that song you are referring to is "Love RollerCoaster" by the Ohio Players, from '75 or thereabouts. There was a minor kerfuffle at the time about it, as purportedly there were the screams of someone being murdered in the track. Seems like it was remade a few years back by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, & the vocals sounded like they were shouted thru a megaphone. No murdering this time, though.

O.k, I'll chime in....
A Taste Of Honey-Herb Alpert & The TJB


Hey, I just picked up "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" at the SA (mostly, well, fully for the cover :yes:) I hd it for about a week and decided to put it on for shits and giggles, and I love it!

Hey, I just picked up "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" at the SA (mostly, well, fully for the cover :yes:) I hd it for about a week and decided to put it on for shits and giggles, and I love it!

The same exact experience happened to me about 1 year ago, been playing their stuff ever since, other than "Whipped Cream", my other two favorite albums of theirs are "The Lonely Bull", and "Going Places", both easy to find cheap at thrift stores.:thmbsp:

Nice call on Seasons in the Sun, Arkay...

A classic one hit wonder.

Terry Jacks is the answer to the oft-asked trivia question.

{ahem}
Rupert Holmes - Answering Machine
(Nobody noticed, did they?)

Geez - I remember Looking Glass playing at my middle school when I was a kid. Free "concert" in the assembly area. They were trying to sell broken drumsticks and torn drum heads after the show. How sad.

Then again, I saw a music video on TV a year or two ago of a song that was obviously manufactured "bubble gum" at its worst, but I found it catchy and likeable, even as I wanted to dislike it. I don't remember the group's name, but the song was "Roller-Coaster".

The Ohio Players' song titles (like Love Rollercoaster, Who'd She Coo, Jive Turkey, Skin Tight, The Worm, etc.) and lyrics tended to border on the lighthearted and nonsensical but they were a serious 1970s funk band, IMHO ranking with groups like The Olympic Runners, Parliament/Funkadelic/P-Funk All Stars, Confunkshun, Brothers Johnson, Atlantic Starr, et al.

Pretty much all the songs on the great Rhino 'Have a Nice Day' collection of 70's mostly one hit wonders. Have all 25 CD's and love 'em all!

I wouldn't say it's not my personality but I like Rod McKuen albums but I have to listen when no one is around for I might be locked up !

Joe Jeffery Group-My Pledge Of Love

Anything Barry Manilow, Carpenters, Afternoon Delight ( starland vocal band) Andy Kim rock me gently, Nick Gilder hot child in the city, the sweet love is like oxygen, Brotherhood of man save your kisses for me, Defranco family heartbeat is a love beat, andy gibb love is thicker then water, Andrew Gold Lonley Boy, Bay City Rollers Saturday night, Cher Gypsies Tramps and Theives, Exile kiss you all over, Jay Fergerson Thunder Island, The entire Grease soundtrack, Leo Sayer more then I can say and you make me feel like dancing, terry jacks seasons in the sun, Henry Gross Shannon, Starbuck Moonlight, Steve Forbert Romeo's tune.....





OK I think I have embarrased myself enough for one day

Anything Barry Manilow, Carpenters, Afternoon Delight ( starland vocal band) Andy Kim rock me gently, Nick Gilder hot child in the city, the sweet love is like oxygen, Brotherhood of man save your kisses for me, Defranco family heartbeat is a love beat, andy gibb love is thicker then water, Andrew Gold Lonley Boy, Bay City Rollers Saturday night, Cher Gypsies Tramps and Theives, Exile kiss you all over, Jay Fergerson Thunder Island, The entire Grease soundtrack, Leo Sayer more then I can say and you make me feel like dancing, terry jacks seasons in the sun, Henry Gross Shannon, Starbuck Moonlight, Steve Forbert Romeo's tune.....





OK I think I have embarrased myself enough for one day
Don't feel so bad!
I'll cop to just about all the above, as well!!

Ahh...1970's AM radio!!
Kids today will never ever know how great Top 40 radio, in the 60's and 70's truly was.:music:

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Shortly after I graduated from college and landed my "Career Position", I acquired a girlfriend that would definitely be considered to be "trading up a level or two". She was drop dead gorgeous and most of the guys where I worked would have liked to date her. (wonder what she looks like now?)

She liked Boz Scaggs and Leo Sayer :sigh:. So in the spirit of togetherness (wink wink) I bought those albums and we would listen to them together in the romantic blue glow of the dial light from my Pioneer TX-9100 tuner, which was on just for the cozy atmosphere.

That may be one reason I like the blue glow of a silver-series Pioneer!

And the reason that an occasional song from Boz or Leo on the oldies station isn't too unwelcome. :D

It's taking every once of energy I have, NOT to stick my finger in my throat.

It's up to you now, bud.

Any Herb Alpert song from the T.J. era...

I grew up with it (I'm 44 and my older brother is 55), and used to play the "gazoo" to all their songs when I was 6 or 7 ( now is that an admission or what!) :D

It's up to you now, bud.

Thanx. You saved me from some acid reflux.

A couple of Mark Lindsay songs " Silver Bird" and "Arizona" They hit home with me, But dont tell anyone.....lol