You know...that tune you just can't resist but somehow....for some odd reason you have a difficult time admitting you like!


A few of mine:

"Dancing Queen"....Abba
"Three little Fishes"....Kay Kyser
"Hair".....The Cowsills
&......Those goofy Ray Stevens tunes.

Go ahead! You're safe through the anomity of the internet! :)

Russ

Boogie Wonderland: Earth Wind and Fire :smoke:

Big on 70s prog stuff like Nektar and Camel, love Zappa and stuff like that but...
uhg. I got an Abba one too, "SOS". I also play Frankie Vallies "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" at a far lesser volume.

Nope! not going to do it! :no: :no: :no:

















Well ...






































(Marty Robbins, Gunfighter ballads)

I'm the definition of www.youhavebadtasteinmusic.com

I've been hounded by both the fasion and music police for decades :scratch2:


*turns down the Michele Branch that is radiating from the speakers*

HEY! how'd THAT get on there...

;)

I've got 2 prizes that get a spin now and again....

Aldo Nova -"Fantasy"
Cathy Dennis -"C'mon and Get My Lov"

"Disco Inferno" The Trampps

Another reason not to overimbibe :drunk: :beer: :beerchug:

Shaggy, Sean Paul, Shabba Ranks, UB40...

Not ashamed as such, but these get the most arched eyebrows from my stepkids and their friends.

I do love drownin' those Gen-Xers' noisy azzes out with some vintage Reggae, though! :thmbsp:

Many, many including some "pop" pap from the 1950's and 60's (y'know, Deano, Frank, Doris Day, New Christy Minsstrels, that sort of thing).

I shall name one here:

"Motorcycle Mama" by Sailcat

mmmmmm...

Oh, dear God...there's SO many..."Cattle Call"-Slim Whitman, "Shaving Cream", Paul Wynn, "Der Fuehrer's Face", Spike Jones, "Witch Doctor" & "Alvin's Harmonica", David Seville, "Last Song", Edward Bear,"Jeans On", David Dundas,"How Do You Do", Mouth & Mac Neil,"Come Go With Me", Expose...Shit, that's enuff to get started...Now, try & get some o' those outta yer heads....Mbwahahahahaha !!-Sandy G.

Thank you SO much, Sandy! My wife read over my shoulder, now she is singing the "Witchdoctor Song".

OO EE OO AHH AHH, TING TANG WALLA WALLA BING BANG!




Yep, thanks a ton, Mister!

Album version of "Crimson & Clover" by Tommy James & The Shondells.
(now hiding in the corner ashamed)

No problem, Ernie-Happy to be of help !! You just better hope I never get to meet yr Missus at an AK fest-I bet we could have SOME kind of Big Fun...Hey, Mrs Ernie, sing along-you KNOW you want to-"I Have A Sad Story to Tell You/ It May Hurt Yr Feelings a Bit/ Last night When I went to my Bathroom/ I stepped in a big Pile of SSSSShaving Cream, Be Nice & Clean, Shave Evry Day & You'll Always Look Keen...".Heheheheheh...-S.

OK, CELT, my wife says she is coming to visit you, as she likes YOUR taste in music much better than mine! :D

"Crimson & Clover, Over & Over,crimson & clover, over & over, crimson&cloverover&over..."-Sandy G.

Thank you SO much, Sandy! My wife read over my shoulder, now she is singing the "Witchdoctor Song".

OO EE OO AHH AHH, TING TANG WALLA WALLA BING BANG!




Yep, thanks a ton, Mister!

:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
I was just gonna say that there ain't nuthin' wrong with that song

Thank you Mrs. Luvvinvinyl!!!

Don't really have any trouble admitting to it, but the one that seems to raise the most eyebrows due to it's extreme difference from my normal listening fare would probably be my complete collection of Neil Diamond LPs.

I guess my men Les Baxter, Martin Denny, Leroy Anderson could be construed as "guilty pleasures". But compared to what passes for "music" nowadays, they're musical geniuses...-Sandy G.

Yeah, I liked "Longfellow Serenade" from '75, but never could quite figure out if it was gay as hell or not.-Sandy G.

Yeah, I liked "Longfellow Serenade" from '75, but never could quite figure out if it was gay as hell or not.-Sandy G.

Funny you should put it that way. Last time I was spinning Neil, my stepdaughter's first reaction was "That is SO Gay!" :lmao:

Several commercial hits from groups I collectively label ".38 Journey Wagon".

I like Wierd Al, and quite a bit of the old Dr. Dimento stuff like fish heads and they're coming to take me away ha ha ho ho he he to the funny farm

I won the Little Rock Pig Out in 92 when I ate 12 jars of pickled pigs feet in 45 minutes.
It gave me the worst gas ever.

Musically I will admit to enjoying anything by Mama Cass.Her voice was sublime and her figure was intrigueing.I would have lined up at her trough any day of the week.
Mr.Kittens
pro eater extrordanaire

Uh, Well...... I did put "The Knack" album on the table today. I think I like it because nobody ever listens to the lyrics. :thmbsp:




She's your adolescent dream
School boy stuff
A sticky sweet romance
And she makes you want to scream
Wishing you could get inside her pants
So you fantasize away
While you're squeezing her
You thought you heard her say

(Chorus)
Good girls don't, I should be telling you
Good girls don't, I should be telling you
Good girls don't, but I do

So you call her on the phone
To talk about the teachers that you hate
And she say's she's all alone
And her parents' won't be coming home 'til late
There's a ringing in your brain
'Cuz you coulda swore
You thought you heard her saying

(Chorus)

And it's a teenage sadness
Everyone has got to taste
An in-between age madness
That you know you can't erase
'Til she's sitting on your face (3rd verse)

You're alone with her at last
And you're waitin' 'til you think the time is right
'Cuz you heard she's pretty fast
And you're hopin' that she'll give you some tonight
So you start to make your play
'Cuz you coulda swore you thought you heard her saying

(Chorus)

*repeat 3rd verse

Here's a few more- C'est Magnifique, Ferrante & Teischer, 1956, Wilkommen-Joel Grey,1967, Dardanella, Paul Whiteman, 1919, I Can't get Started, Bunny Berigan, 1935, Bei Mir Bist Du Schon, Guy Lombardo, 1935, Some Enchanted Evening, Ezio Pinza, 1949, That Lucky Old Sun, Vaughan Monroe, 1949, Babyface & I'm Looking Over (A 4-Leaf Clover) Art Mooney, 1948 Tan Shoes & Pink Shoelaces, Dodie Stevens, 1958, & of course, Purple People Eater, Sheb Woolley, 1958.-Sandy G.

What? No Ashlee Simpson? "La-La" is kinda good.


A real gem: "Hungry Like The Wolf" (Duran Duran)



Russ

America: Is there a better song than Sister GoldenHair?

Alan

I...like...(and this is hard to say)....Meatloaf.

And sadly that was my 500th post...could have something deep and profound, but nope, it was about friggin' Meatloaf!!!!

Story of my life!

Brandy-Looking Glass
Aint got no Home-Clarence "frogman" Henry(not even a brudder......)
Pink-"trouble"
Smokey Joes Cafe-the Robins
Id call them guilty pleasures,but Ill crank em up in my car anytime,day or night!!!!
Jimmy

Well, I, um...sorta like...THE VILLAGE PEOPLE! :yes: There, I said it. :banana:

Also:

Marty Robbins
Wham!
Right Said Fred
Murrah Head (the "One Night In Bangkok" guy)

Not all their songs, mind you, but a song here and there. Oh, and Barry Manilow... :thmbsp:

You know...that tune you just can't resist but somehow....for some odd reason you have a difficult time admitting you like!

"Dancing Queen"....Abba
You're not the only one. For me, it's anything ABBA. Add to that (gulp!) Pat Benatar, Ace of Base, and ( :beerchug: to Jimmy) P!nk.

Tom

Sadly...I would have to admit - Madonna. I bought it to test the timbre of my car audio installations. I wound up liking it. Lots of '80s bands. Bon Jovi; Slippery When Wet. Winger: Pull. Cinderella: Heartbreak Station. Dokken: Tooth and Nail. I recently mentioned Saturday Night Fever. I'm a closet Bee Gees fan. Huey Lewis and the News: Fore! Guess those are mine. Is this exclusive to music? What about TV shows? Newlyweds was on my GP list for TV. Now it's Cathouse and perhaps Veronica Mars. Smallville is another one.

America: Is there a better song than Sister GoldenHair?

Alan

Yep. Undercover angel. Alan Oday

...and "Telephone Man" by Meri Wilson from about the same time, along with "Heaven on the 7th Floor" by Paul Nicholas....Remember "Stumblin' In" by Suzi Quattro a year or 2 later? She was supposed to be a female hard rocker, & her only hit over here was a smarmy ballad....And Kiss, the hero of countless hormone-enraged 16 year olds everywhere, had a flaccid hit w/"Beth"...That song was about half ghay, too, I always thought.-Sandy G.

Yep. Undercover angel. Alan Oday

Windy maybe? The Locomotion? Puff the Magic Dragon? Goodbye Girl? Ride Like the Wind and Sailing by Christopher Cross? Don't Go Breakin' My Heart by Elton John and Kiki Dee? Radio Ga-Ga or the Flash Gordon theme by Queen? Believe it or Not, the theme to Greatest American Hero? Pop Music by M?

I cant help it but I always turn up and sing along with Johnny Horton " We filled his head with cannonballs and powdered his behind, and that poor gator lost his mind" Great Thank alot now I gotta go find it and put on next.:guitar: :banana: :rockon:

Ahh, the one I like is Homer & Jethro's take off on it, "The Battle of Camp Kookamonga"= "A Rooty-Toot-Toot, A Rooty-Toot-Toot, We are the Boys from the Boy Scout Troop. We don't cuss, & we don't chew, an' we won't go with girls that do..." -Sandy G.

Well, since Micropassatman ask: "What about TV shows?".......The theme from Hawaii 5-0 is pretty cool.

I could probably tap my feet to a couple Partridge Family tunes as well!!
.....guess I've got brass ones to admit THAT!


Russ

This is hard to admit. This is hard to admit. This is hard to admit. This is ha...




AW heck: Glenn Yarbrough. Always have and I guess I always will. :yes:

Now I feel better! :thmbsp: Confession is good for the soul.


Terry

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AW heck: Glenn Yarbrough. Always have and I guess I always will.


Oh yeah, did the soundtrack for "The Hobbit". One of my personal favorites!

Well, since Micropassatman ask: "What about TV shows?".......The theme from Hawaii 5-0 is pretty cool.

I could probably tap my feet to a couple Partridge Family tunes as well!!
.....guess I've got brass ones to admit THAT!


Russ

"...and I think I love yo-o-u-u-u..." (gag) :lmao:

Umm...OMD--Ozark Mountain Daredevils, great harmonies. Front porch music! Reminders...."Jackie Blue"..."If You Wanna Get To Heaven (You've Got To Raise A Little Hell)...It'll Shine When It Shine's...........email me, I'll be glad to turn u on!..roadie1

yello
art of noise
kraftwerk
spike jones
skinny puppy

(Marty Robbins, Gunfighter ballads)

Marty Robbins was an absolute genius and that's no guilty pleasure.

-dave

Any y'all remember THIS l'il gem from Summer '77 ?- "I picked her up in my new Vee-Dubya/she wore a peasant blouse w/nothin' underneath/I sez "Hi!" she sez "Yeah, I guess I yam"...Ahhhhh-Ahhh-Ree-alll....Ariel...Again, try & get that one outta yer noggin tonite...Peace, Love, Dove...-Sandy G.

I always loved the opening themes to Quantum Leap and Magnum P.I. Both were Donald Belissario productions.

I am here once again to correct a most serious oversight. Shame, shame on all of us, indeed, for not mentioning that EXTREMELY gifted artist & talent...TERENCE TRENT D'ARBY !! Was he, as in the opinion of Teeming Millions,an under-appreciated genius, or a shameless"Aretist-Formerly-Known-as-" Oops, he's calling himself Prince again this week"-clone, a skinny black/white/Frenc/Italian/Who Knows/Who Cares guy w/a silly, pretentious name. I'll err on the side of caution, & go the under-appreciated Genius route. I mean, look at his string of hits-Uhh, well, he did have ONE big hit-that's more than YOU have, bucko....and the way he influenced the music industry for...well, maybe 5 minutes or so. Didn't I see him running pizzas for Dominos last week ? <grin>-Sandy G.

i just scanned this post for the first time, just to see how far it would go before someone mentioned tommy james and the shondells, or, crimson and clover. i gotta say, C and C is just one of the best pop psych tunes ever. and TJ and the Shon's are certainly one of my all time guilty pleasures.

but now i've gone over the deep end with guilty pleasures: i have become an exotica/lounge/tiki/cocktail/easy listening freak, on vinyl of course: les baxter, martin denny, arthur lyman, july london, korla pandit, on and on....love that shit man. anyone else out there?

Ok...you drug it out of me...

I like 70's Disco!!!!! :banana: :banana: :banana:

I love the vision of scantly clad women out on the dance floor... 'shakkin' their thang!!!! :naughty:

Michael Jackson _ Off The Wall.
In my opinion the best Michael Jackson album. :thmbsp:

clint.

Yeah, that was back when Michael was still a reasonably cute little black kid...Wonder if he ever wishes, deep down in his heart of hearts, that he could just go back there & start over again, before the rot set in ?...-Sandy G.

Hey Sandy
Does anybody ask him that question?

clint.

I doubt it. All the "yes-men" he has around him, I doubt if any of them are brave enuff to ask. I always got the feeling Michael is/was a lonely guy w/few if any real friends to just hang out with, & "shoot the chit", like we do here. He can't do the little things like run to the store, go cruisin', go to a mall, for fear of being mobbed/mugged. I don't see him getting good 'n' dirty, working/playing w/his car.Or mowing the yard. Or any of the other things that add fullness to our lives. No wonder the poor bestid's so weird... And don't think for a minute I'm offering an excuse for what we all know damn good & well he did w/those little boys-I'm not. But maybe if he'd had a pal earlier in his life, the freakazoid he's become wouldn't have happened...-Sandy G.

Yeah,yeah,the same old BS "yes men" rules the world...of music.
I agree with you Sandy.Michael can not be a happy person.Do what he did to himself and the others (?!) is clear symptom that something is very wrong with him. :worried:

clint.

The Donna Summer techno-y stuff that was produced by Giorgio Moroder: Love To Love You, Baby, I Feel Love, and its ilk.

I often hum the music from Final Fantasy X video game.

...but now i've gone over the deep end with guilty pleasures: i have become an exotica/lounge/tiki/cocktail/easy listening freak, on vinyl of course: les baxter, martin denny, arthur lyman, july london, korla pandit, on and on....love that shit man. anyone else out there?


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I really like John Denver. And I REALLY like "Thank God I'm a Country Boy"

***Bow's his head in shame***

Mouth & MacNeil's "How Do You Do" from '72. They were part of the "Dutch" invasion of the early '70s. He was Willem Duyn, she was Skopje Vant'Leer, or something like that. How DO I remember all this chit? -Sandy G.

I really like John Denver. And I REALLY like "Thank God I'm a Country Boy"

***Bow's his head in shame***


Hold your head up, sir. John Denver rules and everybody knows it. Some refuse to admit it. These individuals are misguided.

I would list John Denver myself, but I feel so little actual guilt.

As for ACTUAL guilty pleasures - I'll go with the Carpenters. Or Olivia Newton-John. ONJ's version of "If Not For You" is quite good!

Olivia Neutron-Bomb ! Loved the "Physical" video-Yes, l'il Livvy is a true "Guilty Pleasure"...as are Richard 'n' Karen. I remember being on a trip w/my folks when "Goodbye To Love" was big, rolling on I-81 in Virginia. I was about half asleep, the radio was fading in/out, & the last part of that song came boomin' in. The trip from Bristol to Roanoke is thru basically SW Virginia mountains, pretty desolate. I remember thinkin' "I'll be stuck on this Interstate forever..." Every time I think of The Carpenters or hear that song, I think of that...-Sandy G.

I like to keep as much distance between Rap and myself as possible but I cant get enough of these two tunes from 80's Rapper Tone Loc

Funky Cold Medina
Wild Thing

There, I said it.
Funny, I dont feel any better for admitting it. :D


RC

Yeah, well, at least those songs were fairly clever & humorous...for cRap, anyway....-Sandy G.

:scratch2: - :scratch2: - :scratch2: - :smoke: - :smoke: - :scratch2: - :D
Who can make the sunrise ,sprinkle it with dew-The candyman Sammy Davis Jr., Delihlia- Tom Jones. Take a letter Maria- R.B.Greaves,Eric Carmen -ALL by myself and abba and Tommy James. After reading all the post I was compelled. :D

Two of mine are Cry Me a River-Julie London, a voice that could melt vinyl.

Hocus Pocus-Focus, who knew yodelling and rock mixed?

(Marty Robbins, Gunfighter ballads)

outlawmws, I thought it was cool to like that album, I love Marty Robbins, a friend of mine always makes fun of me if I play that in the car.

So apart from that mine would be Destiny's Child,

I feel so dirty now........... :worried:

Forgot to mention:

"Wanna Be" by the Spice Girls.


(Doooon't tell me want I want...what I really, really want.....")

Russ

'70's funk.

Parliament Funkadelic, The Brothers Johnson, Wild Cherry, Heatwave amongst others. :banana:

Oh, yeah- "Tear the roof off, we gonna tear the roof off the muthasucka, tear the roof off the sucka..." What tearing a roof off a place had to do w/Being Cool was unfathomable to me, but I liked that one too. Also "Git dat funk out mah face, I said git dat funk out mah face..." Historians from say the year 2525 will surely look back on the late '70s in utter bafflement...-Sandy G.

Historians from say the year 2525 will surely look back on the late '70s in utter bafflement...

That's probably because they won't have any cocaine...

Here's one that for some strange reason I CAN'T GET OUT OF MY FREAKIN' HEAD-and now you won't be able to, either...OK, everbuddy, sing along, & make sure you use that strange accent these phluckers did..."When da sun shines on da mountains, an da nite is on da run, itsa new day, itsa new way, and I fly up to da sun..UNA PALOMA BLANCA, I'm just a bird in da sky...-Sandy G., yes, I know I should be shot...

Go get yerself the Slim Whitman version. And follow it up with Roger Whitaker doing "The Last Farewell." Then top that off with any Frank Fontaine or Jim Nabors that happens to be lying around the house.

B'lieve it or Nutz, I DO have a Frankie Fontaine album-"Songs I Sing on the Jackie Gleason Show"-"Heart of my Heart, I LOVE that Melllodeee..."-Sandy G.

Guess I gotta confess.

Thelma Houston Don't Leave Me This Way
Some Donna Summer
Early Whitney Houston
And ...... the soundtrack to A Chorus Line

There...I said it.

Alan

Any of you guys around my age (46)...might remember this.

In the early 1970's some brand of cereal...I can't remember which...had 45 rpm record singles on the back that you had to cut out with a pair of scissors.

They were "The Archies" singles. "Sugar,Sugar".."Twingle Tangle", etc.

Uh...yeah. As a kid I loved 'em!! I just always had a hard time getting those cardboard backed "records" to play well.

Russ

Ok.One of mine came with my jukebox"Family Tradition" by Hank Williams Jr.Also I'm not crazy about rap but in that jukebox I got"Push It" by Salt and Pepa and "It takes Two" Rob Base and Dj Easy Rock.Love both songs.My jukebox sounds like one of those teenagers cars going by when playing those songs.Wonder how far away the bass can be heard...lol.

So you want me to spill it all,huh....you want me to show my dark side....my...my....INNERSELF!!! People can be so cruel....so heartless....so MEAN!!!Why don't you pick on someone else....You asked for....now take it and leave me ALONE!!!!

Percy Faith,Mantovoni,Ray Conniff,The Hollyridge Strings,Bert Kaempfert,Frank Pourcel,James Last,Hugo Montenegro,Hugo Winterhalter,Geoff Love (Manuel and the Music of the Mountains),Henry Mancini,Tommy Garrett and his 50 Guitars,101 Strings,Paul Mauriat,Ferrante & Teicher....and many more......

Are you happy now,I came out of closet,now leave me alone....to my records....they don't laugh at me........ :lmao: :naughty: :D

Helen Reddy - Greatest hits.

That includes, Kylie Minogue, Bananarama, Donna Summer and Rick Astley (maybe more I can't recall?). I loved this music and I still do. It's what I jump rope to 20 minutes a day/5 days a week. :music:

Rick Ass-ley ! Wow, haven't thought of him in YEARS ! Remember he had that sort of big, booming voice, figured he was a great big man-surprise, he was kinda shrimpy-lookin' & reminded me of Howdy Doody. Didn't look a thing like I imagined him.-Sandy G.

Madonna - her latter day stuff, I can't stand her first two albums.

Janet Jackson(Ms Jackson if ya nasty) - I have the greatest hits CD, Design Of A Decade and her last(?) studio album, All For You.

I liked Kelly Clarkson's last album; bought it and gave it to my daughter for a present.

Garth Brooks, including Chris Gaines CD, which I think is a great adult pop album.

OK, here's my second try at it. MS IE Locked up on my first try. I've included some Amazon links for your listening samples pleasure, no sales intent here. However, if that causes a problem, I can delete the links.

All from the 60's:

Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66 - With sultry Lani Hall as lead female vocal, and swinging Bossa Nova beat, Equinox (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000631D2/qid=1134032479/sr=8-5/ref=pd_bbs_5/002-7545087-6853609?n=507846&s=music&v=glance) is their best album of Brazilian/Portuguese songs with a couple of Pop covers. Try Constant Rain, For Me, and a great cover of Cole Porter's Night and Day, and Michel Legrands Watch What Happens, sort of a French version of The Girl from Ipanema.

The Greatest Hits (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002GCB/ref=pd_sim_m_3/002-7545087-6853609?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=5174) album also features Brasil 66's upbeat version of Look of Love, a great swinging anticipatory excitement celebration contrasted with Dusty Springfield's smokey, come hither, jazzy standard (which is great too!). Also try Like a Lover - whisper-sing it into her ear while dancing close to your sweethart, I think you'll like the effect!! :scratch2: :tears:

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - just fun music and some great beat, SRO (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009I7O70/ref=pd_sim_m_6/002-7545087-6853609?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=5174) was my favorite for upbeat latin pop like a cover of Our Day Will Come (done well by Karen Carpenter a decade later), For Carlos, and some toe-tapping inducing songs like Mexican Road Race and Don't Go Breaking My Heart - That one I played over and over because at 3 minutes, its just too short, especially for a young teen in love torment - don't ask :tears:

However, the Whipped Cream (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007MRXUQ/ref=pd_sim_m_3/002-7545087-6853609?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=5174) album put them on the map with some classics like A Taste of Honey and Whipped Cream (AKA The Dating Game Theme - Bachelor #1?). Listen to that one and tell me if you don't smile! :music:

Others that quickly come to mind are Glen Campbell (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000DQT3/qid=1134033319/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/002-7545087-6853609?s=music&v=glance&n=5174) (Wichita Lineman (haunting), By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Dreams of an Everyday Housewife) and Bobby Goldsboro (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008W2UF/qid=1134033455/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-7545087-6853609?s=music&v=glance&n=5174) (Honey).

Oh, and any of Spanky and Our Gang (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000K1H5/ref=pd_sim_m_6/002-7545087-6853609?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=5174) - They had some great songs and Gag tunes too (Commercial (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001FMN/ref=m_art_li_3/002-7545087-6853609?s=music&v=glance&n=5174), Like to Get to Know You, Give a Damn, Sunday Will Never Be the Same, etc.) and finally, The 5th Dimension - pick anything from them, it all works!!

You'll excuse me now, I've got to warm up the turntable. Happy Listening from the 60's. Does anyone make music like this anymore??

Warmest regards,

Bart

Awww, man, Dr Bart, you melted my heart w/ yr selections...Nope, no one makes music like that anymore-helluva shame, too. Lani & Spanky could actually SING-something that seems lost on the modern chantoozies. Plus, when I have a love song sung to me, I'd prefer it to be sung by a WOMAN instead of some Lolita who's still hitting the pimple cream...I guess, at 48, I've maybe finally growed up a bit...-Sandy G.

Anything by the CARPENTERS. Karen's voice and Richard's arrangements were magic! There, I said it.......................

Mostly it's just pleasures. But as for guilty:

Falco. As in "Rock me Amadeus" " Vienna Calling" "Der Kommisar" and for the ballad fans "Jeannie."

Speaking of ballads - "Beth"

This kinda parallels another thread and I have to agree with pretty much everthing mech986 says (but Al Hirt was left out). How about Nelson Riddle's "Route 66", or Winchester Cathedral (coupla diff. versions) Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (where my Rosemany goes), Pipkins - Gimme Dat Ding, My Baby Loves Lovin'(can't remember group but I beleive these last three had same lead singer). Theres a bunch more that nobody I see daily could possibly relate to - How about Richard Harris' "Macarthur Park", Paul Muriat - Love is Blue? I would never class TJ and Shondells Crimson and Clover as a guilty pleasure. I did a lot of serious makin' out to that as well as "Crystal Blue Persuasion" and "Sweet Cherry Wine". I even throw C&C in the mix at my Daughters parties.

They DID all have the same lead singer-Tony Burrows. The last "group" was White Plains. These were all in the late 1969-early 1970 era.-Sandy G.

:music: Ok....ok.....
The Harmonicats :thmbsp:

Thanks SandyG, my memory unit stalls alot these days, i'm really gonna haveta start writing things down (most everthing) Oh yeah, anything Sergio Mendes (Lani Hall!).

Jerry Murad & His Harmonicats !! Now, THAT'S going back a ways !! Myself, I always liked "Alvin's Harmonica" by Alvin & The Chipmunks...<grin>-Sandy G.

I like Grand Funk Railroad.

Walk on the wild side..........Lou Reed :sigh:

Lefty

Round and Round - uh, Perry Como.

Greg, who doesn't know why

Oh, and any of Spanky and Our Gang (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000K1H5/ref=pd_sim_m_6/002-7545087-6853609?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=5174) - They had some great songs and Gag tunes too (Commercial (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001FMN/ref=m_art_li_3/002-7545087-6853609?s=music&v=glance&n=5174), Like to Get to Know You, Give a Damn, Sunday Will Never Be the Same, etc.) and finally, The 5th Dimension - pick anything from them, it all works!!

You'll excuse me now, I've got to warm up the turntable. Happy Listening from the 60's. Does anyone make music like this anymore??

Warmest regards,

Bart

I've been known to enjoy every artist on your list, a big co-sign especially on Spanky & Our Gang - their final release, "Without a Rhyme or Reason", remains one of my all time fave pop albums, right next to "Pet Sounds" etc....

<Bump> Remember that Brian Hyland song from late 1970, "Gypsy Woman"? Kind of a haunting song about unrequited love.It was also done back in the early '60s by a black doo-wop group, & I think Santana covered it in '91. Another one was "Close Your Eyes", by Edward Bear, the follow-up to "Last Song" from '73. I liked another Canadian group, Lighthouse-they had a minor hit in '73 w/a song called "Pretty Lady", too bad it didn't make more of a splash down here. It was sorta another "unrequited love' themed song. I gotta million of 'em....

People can be so cruel....so heartless....so MEAN!!!Why don't you pick on someone else....You asked for....now take it and leave me ALONE!!!!

Percy Faith,Mantovoni,Ray Conniff,The Hollyridge Strings,Bert Kaempfert,Frank Pourcel,James Last,Hugo Montenegro,Hugo Winterhalter,Geoff Love (Manuel and the Music of the Mountains),Henry Mancini,Tommy Garrett and his 50 Guitars,101 Strings,Paul Mauriat,Ferrante & Teicher....and many more......

Are you happy now,

There aint nuttin' wrong with those..they are great...I spin that stuff all the time.

Hell...I like 70s disco!...and I dont care who knows it! it makes me feel good..

We were programmed to dislike a lot of stuff when we were kids . It's too bad that a lot of people dislike something just because others do, and they will follow along just to fit in...

So go ahead and spin some 'percy'..or some 'Hugo'!.......hell...throw in some 'Swingle Singers' while yer at it.....enjoy... :thmbsp:

All right, I'll admit it. It'll probably be good to come out of the closet after all these years. <choke> I...like....<OK Boggy, thake a deep breath and just spit it out> 60s bubblegum music! Yeah, you know what I'm talking about, Bobby Sherman, Partridge Family, Cowsills, Osmonds, Lulu, Melanie, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Daddy Dewdrop, Archies et al, I love them all! Now that I've finally gotten this off my chest, I'll probably come back tomorrow and see banned under my name, but I don't CARE anymore! I'm tired of closets! I like makeup and dresses and Hollywood! (did I mention I also like Alice Cooper?) 10 trivia points to anyone who can tell me where that last rant came from...both album and song title!

Remember Horst Jankowski & his '65 hit "A Walk in the Black Forest" ? Talk about schmaltz...Boggy-Don't you feel better now that you've finally popped that zit 'n' let it out ?!? Here's one for everbody who had to fly into the Fest this past weekend: "Silver Bird" by Mark Lindsay, 1970- "Get aboard the Silver Bird, departing Gate 19, Satisfy your Walter Mitty mind, tryin' out a dream. Your sign is Capricorn & every corner of your mind, says you'll remain my friend, my friend until you're mine...
Silver Bird, fly my Lady away, Silver Bird take her over the bay.Silver Bird, Give my Lady a ride, & let her go see what's on the other side..."

Hee-hee, IIRC, Yamaha borrowed "Silver Bird" for commercials in the 1970's: "Yamaha, won't you fly me away?"

Dmitri Tiomkin's soundtrack for John Wayne's "The Alamo".

Buffy Sainte Marie. I guess she is an acquired taste. My wife cringes when I listen Buffy.

I can't get enough of Yanni. Yep, that's right. I can listen to Dream Theater, Opeth, Judas Priest, or Quuensryche and go stright into any Yanni CD. Yanni is Da man! :thmbsp:

MRH-Yep, you're right. The redoubtable Mr Lindsay also had a hit w/"Arizona", another song that seemed like it shoulda been a commercial, too..

I have to admit that I really can't think of any 'guilty' pleasures, if it pleases me I damn sure won't feel guilty about it.

Rob

but now i've gone over the deep end with guilty pleasures: i have become an exotica/lounge/tiki/cocktail/easy listening freak, on vinyl of course: les baxter, martin denny, arthur lyman, july london, korla pandit, on and on....love that shit man. anyone else out there?

Right there with ya'

Oh, to have been a bachelor in '62 or so, have a "pad" w/a "hi-fi" & Martin or Les playing on it. When I wanted to Get Daring, I'd put on Thelonius Monk... Woulda had a T-Bird w/the SportsRoadster thingy...and, of course, a roundie...

I find that Les always sounds best when I'm wearing my red velvet smoking jacket & smoking my pipe

...an' yr "woman" looked like Jackie & wore capris & a boatneck shirt, when she wasn't wearing her "pillbox" & "A-line skirt", that is....She was in the "secretarial pool" at IBM or Ford, but had high hopes of moving up into Personnel by '63 or '64 by the latest...She kinda liked "Beatnik" music, just like them grubby punks down at The University, but otherwise she's a SWELL gal...

Damn, I'm a freak as I like most of the groups posted. Damn!

Pete Seeger - kinda like those old commie songs - for a straight ticket Republican like myself, that's a guilty pleasure.

I hear ya about Pete Seeger. I'm no fan of either party especially now, but he's very sincere(rare commodity today) and like Woody Guthrie there's something reassuring about his songs...even though I totally disagree with both of these Pinkos...Pete and Woody, you're cool...

"Little Boxes, on the Hillside, Little Boxes made of Ticky-Tacky..... or the haunting "Where Have All The Flowers Gone ?".....

Everyone sing along with me, and lets do it with feeling!!....."99 luft baloons, da da da da da da da , OHHHH, 99 luft baloons da da da da da da da da!" --ok, wanna murder me yet??

--ok, wanna murder me yet??

Sounds good to me! :yes:

Terry

Motley Crue... don't judge me lol

Partridge Family - I Think I Love You

I know it's just a bunch of studio musicians with Cassidy on vocals but I like that song.

There, I've said all I'm gonna say.

Cheers

You know I can't say I understand why I like these groups. Sigh...Here it goes.

Culture Club's first(was it the only) album. I actually thought Boy George(shudders involuntarily) did a great job on the vocals.

George Micheal Faith.....and its sad to say I like the Wham Rap.

All them talking trucker country songs.....you know the ones. Country rap, its not a pretty sight.

All new age music on Windham Hill.

And the kicker is. I hae a disc called....um I am going to put this in a new thread. Go look for it

Regards
Mister Pig

Hiya,

I know most of the songs listed by all those posters before me and I love them all!

We feel guilty because we have developed "taste". As we grow we tend to move with issues which are popularly accepted by exclusive circles of people. This is sophistication. A very nice word for something which should not have happened!

In my opinion; this can be damaging as it prevents an individual from realising what he/she is really worth. It is public opinion that matters now and not what you feel, think and know to be right.

Follow thine heart I always say :-)

I still have all of my old favourite singers on vinyl. It is for my personal enjoyment and thankfully I have a wife that seems to bloom like a flower when I enjoy myself. So there never was any guilt! Guilt will always be there so long as you have divisions of good and bad! I live right in the middle like a high-wire walker and have as my balance pole my common-sense. If I fall, I do injure myself, but I quickly climb back up!

1) Dickey Lee's Patches; my first song I played on me guitar when I was a teenager.
2) Box Car Willie's King of the Road; makes me feel carefree and happy :-)
3) Dan Byrd's Boulevard; we used to play this song a lot in the club-circuits of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with yours truly on lead guitar and vocals :-). I don't have this one on vinyl and am looking for it.
4) Merle Haggard's Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star; the song I sing to girls :-)

There are a lot more but I have to stop here and say that I state these songs because I know people do not enjoy them anymore and they should!

Thank you :-)
cosmicdust

I have no shame. Show tunes.

ALMOST anything from the Disney movies for me. Zippity-Doo-Dah gets me pretty fired up. Louis Prima doing "I Wanna Be Like You" from Jungle Book. "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid and I start a conga line for one if I'm home alone.

The show tunes? "Getting to Know You" from The King and I, or "Some Enchanted Evening" from South Pacific.

"I Wanna Be Like You" got me pumped in '67, it still does. "Some Enchanted Evening"- Well, y'all know what a sucker I am for a deep baritone or bass...

Well as a kid my guity pleasure was taking my sisters Barry Manilow albums and using them as frisbees.... I hated Barry back then.... Well I dont hate him anymore but i dont listen to his music. I dont think the guy has come up with anything new since the mid eighties but i havent paid much attention either

Nena's "99 Luftballons" could be considered a guilty pleasure..but in my book, she's about as hot as that Tawni Kittean character...

Shanana :banana:

So you want me to spill it all,huh....you want me to show my dark side....my...my....INNERSELF!!! People can be so cruel....so heartless....so MEAN!!!Why don't you pick on someone else....You asked for....now take it and leave me ALONE!!!!

Percy Faith,Mantovoni,Ray Conniff,The Hollyridge Strings,Bert Kaempfert,Frank Pourcel,James Last,Hugo Montenegro,Hugo Winterhalter,Geoff Love (Manuel and the Music of the Mountains),Henry Mancini,Tommy Garrett and his 50 Guitars,101 Strings,Paul Mauriat,Ferrante & Teicher....and many more......

Are you happy now,I came out of closet,now leave me alone....to my records....they don't laugh at me........ :lmao: :naughty: :D Percy Faith,Mantovoni,Ray Conniff,The Hollyridge Strings,Bert Kaempfert,Frank Pourcel,James Last,Hugo Montenegro,Hugo Winterhalter,Geoff Love (Manuel and the Music of the Mountains),Henry Mancini,Tommy Garrett and his 50 Guitars,101 Strings,Paul Mauriat,Ferrante & Teicher....and many more......
AHGGGGGGGGGGGGG!! STOP!! You Sadistic bastard!

What, no Frank Chacksfield? :sigh:

Laurie Anderson, everytime I play anything by her, my wife leaves the room/house.

Why did Laurie Anderson's name make me think of Dory Previn??? :-P

...did jesus have a sister?
what was her name?
did she long to be the savior
saving everyone
she met?
and in private to her mirror
did she whisper
saviorette?
saviorwoman?
saviorperson?
save your breath!