Guilty Pleasures!!!!! [Archive] - Aural Moon - Progressive Rock Discussion

JRV

07-24-2003, 08:43 PM

OK, I guess I'm going to have to go through with it now. Seeing Barry Manilow on the list gives me courage...I don't think I have anything to top that!

- I went to the trouble to burn my favorite Seal songs to CD, and it has occupied a place of honor in my car's changer for at least 3 years. It's the one CD I can enjoy at any time regardless of mood.

- Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 (Oh, the shame!) (Not to mention a band with a Y2K bug.)

- Basia (It's a noooooooo day for yooooooooo) (A Polish woman singing Salsa-influenced music in English)

- Sara McLaughlin (Zvinke, I include her only because you did, but I've never thought she was one to be embarassed about)

Keith: Jonathan Schwartz, the longtime afternoon DJ of NYC's then-prog station, WNEW-FM, was a loyal Sinatra fan and often worked him into sets. There's even a connection to Barry M. in this: I don't know why I remember this 25 years later, but I remember him playing "I Write the Songs" by Manilow when it was a current hit, then breaking in and saying, "Now, don't get me wrong. Barry Manilow is a moderately talented musician. But this man--this man--writes the songs." Then he played a whole set of Frank Sinatra. (Of course he was dead wrong, Sinatra didn't write anything and Manilow did, but who's counting?)

ivan_2068

07-24-2003, 11:02 PM

Guilty pleasures?

ivan_2068

07-24-2003, 11:03 PM

Guilty pleasures? Yes I have some:

Meatloaf: Great voice good instrumentation but the cheesiest lirycs I've ever heard.

Neil Diamond: Don't know why, but I always felt something special for "A Hot August Night" live album.

Fleetwood Mac: With Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham.

A few Tom Jones songs..........Kaith, you still lead with Barry Manilow, embarrasing :D

I don't feel guilty for other artists someone mentions here like Cat Stevens, Frank Sinatra and BTO, because I consider they are good in their style.

Iván

zvinki

07-25-2003, 07:44 AM

This should make you jealous Keith. I saw Barry Manilow Live!! Yeah, when I was courting my wife. She had tickets and I wanted to get into her pants. I have a feeling that this type of story is not unique.

But getting back to the concert, I think that the highlight was when he did a medley of his commercial jingles including "Bandaids". You know the one: "I am stuck on bandaids 'cause bandaids are stuck on me". The crowd went wild!!!!

KeithieW

07-25-2003, 07:53 AM

Originally posted by zvinki
This should make you jealous Keith. I saw Barry Manilow Live!!

Hmmmmmmmm!

I saw BM live at the Royal Albert Hall (quite) a while back and was amazed at the number of blokes there who were with their wives/girlfriends/mistresses. I think a lot of pants were gotten into that night.........

I blush now when I remember singing alog to "I write the songs".

I'm off to blast my brain with some Motorhead to try and get back to reality!!!!!!!!

moses

07-25-2003, 02:48 PM

All right, I'll give it a try...

Boston - don't own any albums but I'm the first one headbanging when it comes on the radio.
They Might Be Giants - for the quirk in me.
Stryper - so cheesy it's ... really bad. In a fun way.
R.E.M. - no comment, no apology.

Rick and Roll

07-25-2003, 09:12 PM

Smithereens, Richard Barone, Extreme, STP, Matthew Sweet, Dada.

All funk of the 70's, pre-disco - Ohio Players, Commodores, EWF, Rufus.

JUDAS PRIEST RULES! (I like Maiden and Sabbath better, but that's not really Guilty).

Sorry, but I really like The Cult, although Astbury sings too much.

Aimee Mann, the Indigo Girls (yes, I know), Tommy Bolin, I Mother Earth, Tool, Thomas Dolby.

Joe Jackson is the MAN.

I even have Jill Sobule and Juliana Hatfield CD's (of course that's balanced out by the Hatfield and the North CD).

Ramones, Pretenders, Richard Hell. I think Blood Sugar.. by the Red Hot Chili Peppers is a masterpiece.

I dig the Cars, Gary Numan, TFF.

Voivod is excellent.

XTC is a personal favorite.

time to go.............................

ivan_2068

07-26-2003, 12:13 AM

I blush now when I remember singing alog to "I write the songs".

Oh my God, just reading that a prog head was singing "I write the songs" makes me blush". :D

I must be honest, I think this will win, 2 or 3 months ago they showed a concert of the Bee Gees on HBO. This guys are the symbol of what I always hated about POP, but I found myself humming and following the rythm of more than one songs. And I found them less cheesy than 25 years ago.

This is embarrasing, I believe this are the first symptoms of Alzheimer.

Iván

JRV

07-26-2003, 01:52 AM

I don't own it, but sometimes wish I did: Michael Jackson's Thriller.

KeithieW

07-26-2003, 03:54 AM

Ye gods guys!

I guess there's nothing as odd as musical taste. This has been proven by the on going debate on the pros and cons of Classical Music and esp. the merits (or not) of Philip Glass.

Ivan: Sorry mate but the Bee Gees don't really qualify as embarrasing. Their Album Odessa (released long before their disco masterpieces....did I say that?????) is superb.

JRV: I DO own MJ's Thriller, and Bad and the Jackson's albums and ............

Rick: Nice to see another mention of DaDa. Their album Puzzle contains a number of excellent tracks and "I know a girl, who believes a girl, who believes she used to be a dog"...Woof, Woof!

As for all this being the onset of Alzheimers. I'd forgotten about that.

'Even Now' there was 'A time in new England' when I was with 'Mandy' and I thought 'Could it be Magic?' Then 'Somewhere in the night' at the 'Cocacabana' I got the 'New York City Rythmn' and thought 'Where do I go from Here?'

Nurse..................the screens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

roger

07-26-2003, 07:31 AM

dare I say it?
Toto

and I always wanted to be Barry Manilow...
and how about The Bangles? someone else mentioned Til Tuesday. great band. uh, Huey Lewis, Dan Fogelberg. always liked Head East, and Boston and Journey rank right up at the top... have to dig through the old vinyl... :cool:

Rick and Roll

07-26-2003, 11:35 AM

Dada's next record, "American Highway Flower", is real good too. I was to see them, and they had an "illness", and cancelled. Since then I've lost track of them.

In the vein of MJ, Prince has some decent stuff, although I don't own any.

Speaking of Toto, I grew up listening to 70's radio - there are numerous songs to mention - "Jackie Blue", "How Long", "So Into You", anything by Sweet - I can still enjoy them, especially since the listening is so infrequent. Remeber "Magic" by Pilot? The lead in that tune sounds like Brian May.

Watch the inclusion of Journey, Yesspaz may get you on that.

Fogelberg has a song called "Power of Gold" that I really like.

On a folk vein, John Gorka is very cool.

I don't own any Til Tuesday, but I do have two Aimee Mann solo records, and they're GOOD.

I still put on the first Foreigner CD. And yes, Styx is still a favorite. But I digress - that's down the path of old rock & roll. I'm sure everyone has a favorite Kiss tune.

I'm waiting for mention of Leo Sayer.

ivan_2068

07-26-2003, 07:05 PM

Ivan: Sorry mate but the Bee Gees don't really qualify as embarrasing. Their Album Odessa (released long before their disco masterpieces....did I say that?????) is superb.

Agree with that, early Bee Gees albims are good, but I have no excuse, I was humming the Saturday Night Fever songs by the Bee Gees :rolleyes:

Iván

roger

07-26-2003, 09:26 PM

Originally posted by ivan_2068
I was humming the Saturday Night Fever songs by the Bee Gees :rolleyes:

Iván

my boys, ages 12 and 8, favorite song is "Tragedy"...
my wife won't let the CD in the car... :D

JRV

07-27-2003, 02:44 AM

Barry Manilow should be on the AM playlist! Who's with me?!

KeithieW

07-27-2003, 05:08 AM

Originally posted by JRV
Barry Manilow should be on the AM playlist! Who's with me?!

Right on!!!!!!!!!!

Could it be Magic starts with a quote from a Rachmaninov piano piece so that could please the Classical Music bods and kill two birds with one stone......LOL!

KeithieW

07-27-2003, 05:12 AM

Originally posted by roger

my boys, ages 12 and 8, favorite song is "Tragedy"...
my wife won't let the CD in the car... :D

Is that because it's the "Steps" version and not the Bee Gees or does Mrs Roger hate the Bee Gees too?

roger

07-27-2003, 08:14 AM

Originally posted by Keith Waye
Is that because it's the "Steps" version and not the Bee Gees or does Mrs Roger hate the Bee Gees too?

heh. nah, it's the BeeGees. the CD is mine... :p

and yes, Mrs. Roger(:D) hates the BeeGees!

black max

07-27-2003, 08:35 PM

Rick and Roll

07-27-2003, 08:48 PM

That's the funniest nickname I've heard since Englebert Humperdick!

progdirjim

07-28-2003, 02:53 PM

Originally posted by JRV
Barry Manilow should be on the AM playlist! Who's with me?!

THIS IS THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR - COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP! DROP THE BARRY MANILOW RECORD! DROP IT!

If Barry makes it on the playlist, I'm taking my CDs and going home.

But, this has got to be the most entertaining thread in a loooong time. Thanks to everyone's shameless revelations. I've got one more - I've always loved the soundtrack to "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly", particularly the main theme. I know that California Guitar Trio covered it, but I'm talking about the original version...

black max

07-28-2003, 03:14 PM

My dad also calls that other prog titan "Elfin" John. :)

KeithieW

07-28-2003, 05:03 PM

Originally posted by progdirjim

THIS IS THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR - COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP! DROP THE BARRY MANILOW RECORD! DROP IT!

If Barry makes it on the playlist, I'm taking my CDs and going home.

Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What about Doris Day then Jim??????

Lets all blow into the Windy City. The Windy City is mighty perty!!!!

JRV

07-28-2003, 06:01 PM

But, this has got to be the most entertaining thread in a loooong time.

Agreed. Humiliation has never been so much fun!

Rick and Roll

07-28-2003, 07:08 PM

I sensed sarcasm in the title "prog titan". He's done some proggy kind of stuff.

Elton is a hard one for me to classify. I wasn't even thinking of him in this thread. I like everything he's done immensely through "Blue Moves", which is a great record.

Keith - I think you must have slept with Doris - or could you have mistaken her with Florence Henderson?

byzantium

07-28-2003, 07:34 PM

I sensed sarcasm in the title "prog titan". He's [Elton John] done some proggy kind of stuff

'Madman Across the Water' for example. Especially the long version (bonus track on Tumbleweed Connection)

I must confess I love early Elton and I'm proud of it.

Rick and Roll

07-28-2003, 07:45 PM

I was not aware of this bonus track. Interesting!

byzantium

07-28-2003, 08:33 PM

The 'standard version' is better, though. The extended version has a sort of mick-ronson-psych-wank-guitar-solo part which is quite out of place there.

zvinki

07-28-2003, 08:58 PM

I agree about his earlier stuff being good, but Funeral For a Friend has always been my personal favourite. Just felt that I had to throw that in during this Elton John love-fest.

Rick and Roll

07-28-2003, 09:01 PM

it's my favorite by him. I guess I meant earlier in comparison to his 80's schlock. My favorite record is Captain Fantastic.

ivan_2068

07-29-2003, 01:13 AM

I accept Elton John is a great artist, but I don't like most of his music.

Can you imagine what would happen if he had been accepted by King Crimson when he auditioned for them?

In the Court of the Crimson Queen?

Sorry couldn't resist the joke.

Iván

KeithieW

07-29-2003, 03:16 AM

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
Keith - I think you must have slept with Doris

If only.....if only!!!!!!!!

Trying to forget about this bulge I'm developing thinking about Doris let's get on the subject of Elton.......oh! It's gone.

"Yellowbrick road" is, for me, his best album. The opening "Funeral for a friend" and "Love lies bleeding" would grace any top ten I tried to put together.

It's a shame that "Candle in the wind" was SO OVER USED a few years back as it totally ruined it for me. I can't hear it without thinking about that wave of mass hysteria that swept over the UK (and other parts of the World) at THAT time.

EJ is a very important artist in the history of popular music. No doubt about that!

Rick and Roll

07-29-2003, 08:17 AM

It's a travesty he used that song for Lady Diana - it lost all of its original intention. As always, I like the more obscure cuts from that record.

Powerslave

07-29-2003, 09:19 AM

First, the heavy:
Iron Maiden (betcha couldn't guess that one!), Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Metallica (the new album is the worst piece of crap I've heard in a while, however), Anthrax, Rammstein, Ministry, Static-X, L7, and Overkill.

Then the alternative (at least, at one time):
REM, Weezer, Presidents of the USA, Nirvana, Ween, They Might Be Giants, Primus, Hum, and Radiohead.

The eighties:
Blondie, Men At Work, Duran Duran, Elvis Costello, The Church, and The Police.

The seventies:
Foreigner, Dire Straits, Boston, Meat Loaf, Tom Petty, Journey, and Rainbow.

Lastly, some newer rock bands that I find enjoyable:
The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Shins, Interpol, and Wilco.

There's not much embarrassing stuff in there, except maybe for the fact that I still listen to all of the above bands on a regular basis.

Rick and Roll

07-29-2003, 09:29 AM

I'll be seeing Maiden tonight (w/Dio & Motorhead). Looking forward to the triple-guitar attack, now that everyone is together. And of course one of my favorite musicians, Steve Harris.

The Church, good one!

KeithieW

07-29-2003, 09:38 AM

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
I'll be seeing Maiden tonight (w/Dio & Motorhead). Looking forward to the triple-guitar attack, now that everyone is together. And of course one of my favorite musicians, Steve Harris.

The Church, good one!

If you get a chance to speak with Lemmy say Hi from me. I met him at a bar in Kensington, London where I used to work and he was charming. drank a few JDs and smoked a couple of packs of Marlborough (I think) while he was doing an interview for a magazine.

Enjoy the gig Rick..........let me know how it goes.

Rick and Roll

07-29-2003, 01:07 PM

I heard a story a few years back where Emma Freud (Ziggy's granddaughter) had a short-lived TV show where she interviewed people in bed (fully clothed). Lemmy tried some moves on her, and was highly unsuccesful. Did you hear that one?

I'm interested to see if Lemmy still has the microphone way too high over his head.

KeithieW

07-29-2003, 01:10 PM

Originally posted by Rick and Roll

I'm interested to see if Lemmy still has the microphone way too high over his head.

I think it's the only way he can get that voice working.

Straining the vocal chords and screwing them up with the Marlboro and JD makes for a great Metal Vocal.

Overkill!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy the Mosh man!!!

Powerslave

07-30-2003, 04:43 PM

that Maiden and the rest of the metal boys aren't coming anywhere near the Twin Cities! Neither is the Dream Theater/Fates Warning/Queensryche tour.

Minneapolis = The Town that Metal Forgot :(

Rick and Roll

07-30-2003, 09:50 PM

Sorry, man, that was low. Last night was great, except for the $11 beer! You are kidding! Motorhead was loud, professional, and just jammed for 45 minutes without a discernable break. Dio was his usual excellent self (I've seen him about 6 or 7 times). He did "Stargazer" - a surprise!

I passed on the Dream Theater show. I'm burnt out on those guys. I saw QR about two years ago again, so I'm OK there. My 15-year old went (he also along with me last night).

Maiden was too good. I can't believe that they still have all of that energy! They ripped through Number of the Beast, Trooper, Revelations, Die With Your Boots On, and Hallowed Be Thy Name before anyone caught their breath. So good to hear a heavy dose of Piece of Mind - not only my favorite Maiden record, but an all-time favorite. Another great inclusion was Fear of the Dark - a very underrated album, too - one of my favorites, along with Seventh Son. There was an exciting version of The Clansman - Dickinson was great on that tune (not even his!) Other tunes were Tailgunner, Iron Maiden, Wicker Man, 2 Minutes To Midnight (encore 1), Run To The Hills (encore 2), The Clairvoyant (my least favorite off of Seventh Son). No Killers, Somewhere In Time, or X Factor. Dickinson went on a lengthy yet interesting tirade about how file-sharing actually helps out bands and how everyone should quit crying. Then they did a new tune (pirated by some on the net) called Wildest Dreams. Good to see Adrian Smith back, so he can complement Dave Murray while Janick Gers jumps around. 25 freakin' years of these guys! Very funny at the end, when everyone chanted Eddie! Eddie! - very topical since Eddie Murray just went into the baseball Hall of Fame as a Oriole over the weekend. BTW, they had all of the Eddies pictured, and a 15-foot walking Eddie!

I shall end this by a special mention of Steve Harris - probably my favorite musician, next to Ian Anderson and Neil Peart. Just a super musician, a class act, and the glue that holds that band together. And he still mouths all of the words.

Up the irons!

KeithieW

07-31-2003, 02:38 AM

Sounds like an excellent gig!!!!

I haven't seen Maiden for a few years.....Powerslave I think, so to hear that they're still good is excellent.

BTW: We call them Maiden over here because Iron is a Cockney rhyming slang term for GAY. Iron Hoof = Poof. Don't ask me where that one comes from.....I haven't a clue.

Motorhead playing for 45 minutes, eh? That's about long enough for most people. Does Lemmy still strain the vocal chords with his mike too high.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Rick and Roll

07-31-2003, 07:31 AM

Not sure about the rest of me. Motorhead was exactly the same as when I saw them 20 years ago. I saw them as an opener for Ozzy on the "Diary" tour about 6 months before Randy Rhoads died. I still remember the staff coming around with buckets of sand so that the cigs could be extinguished. Also, Ozzy's keyboardist almost in the parking lot (not quite as bad as the Who having theirs under the stage).

KeithieW

08-03-2003, 01:34 PM

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
Not sure about the rest of me. Motorhead was exactly the same as when I saw them 20 years ago. I saw them as an opener for Ozzy on the "Diary" tour about 6 months before Randy Rhoads died. I still remember the staff coming around with buckets of sand so that the cigs could be extinguished. Also, Ozzy's keyboardist almost in the parking lot (not quite as bad as the Who having theirs under the stage).

Recovered???????? Sounds like a GREAT night.

I just got back from a wedding. The singer didn't turn up so they asked if I'd do a turn. The band were OK and had a pretty good repetoire so I thought why not!!!!

Looking at the average age of the party I thought it better to start off with some........you guessed it Barry Manilow tunes. They went down OK as did the Sinatra, but when we kicked in with "Light my Fire" the place went nuts!! I've never seen so many grooving grannies........excellent!!!! The band could manage Fleetwood Mac's Green Manaleshi and we ended up with Arnold Layne and See Emily Play. My friends daughter (who's wedding it was) started off REAL embarrased but ended up grooving with the rest of them.

I loved it. No more offers of gigs but a good time anyway.

Rick and Roll

08-03-2003, 03:51 PM

Is that the short version or the long version of Light My Fire? And not the Judas Priest version of the Green Manaleshi?

you are THE MAN. see Emily Play??? Cool.

Next stop - Jethro Tull on Thursday. Hope they mix it up a little - the last several years have been kind of stale.

KeithieW

08-03-2003, 04:45 PM

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
[B]Is that the short version or the long version of Light My Fire?

Pretty good keys player and a REALLY good guitarist. It was great hearing the band jam on that instramental section. I could do my Morrison impression and hold onto the mike stand and writhe about on the floor. My YEAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! was outstanding.....LOL!

Quote:
Next stop - Jethro Tull on Thursday. Hope they mix it up a little - the last several years have been kind of stale.

What size venue????? I saw them in a 500 -1000 seater a year or so back and it was definitely better than the Hammersmith show last time. The also played most of "Stand up" which was cool. Enjoy the gig and report back, eh?

This is the end.......my only friend, the End

Rick and Roll

08-03-2003, 05:21 PM

Wil be seeing them in an ampitheatre (a few thousand, I think) in Northern VA, that usually hosts folky-type rock. I did see Yes about three years ago there and they did Ritual and Gates - outstanding!

They have really been hitting Stand Up a lot the last several years - no problem there. It's just they used to throw in a forgotten gem each time, and I wish they would just trash Budapest. Like the Camera Eye by Rush, good for a few tours but just too :o in concert.

Mother - yes son - I want to aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

KeithieW

08-03-2003, 05:29 PM

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
They have really been hitting Stand Up a lot the last several years - no problem there. It's just they used to throw in a forgotten gem each time, and I wish they would just trash Budapest. Like the Camera Eye by Rush, good for a few tours but just too :o in concert.
Totally agree about Budapest. They could drop that for a decade or so and do Wind up instead.

Mother - yes son - I want to aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
You're sick, man!!!!!

Rick and Roll

08-03-2003, 09:20 PM

I saw them do that twice, once on Veterans Day 1987 during a 8-inch snowfall, and once a few years ago. The 1987 night they also played Dun Ringill, which is a good example of the unexpected tune they roll out every once in a while.

Yesspaz

08-05-2003, 04:21 PM

some of these I won't count as guilty pleasures because they are great artists, just not prog.

Neil Young
Tom Petty
Journey
The Beatles
Simon & Garfunkel

Guilty Pleasures

the Guess Who/BTO
Mary-Chapin Carpenter
Parliament
Pearl Jam
-some 60s oldie rock

Extended Play

08-08-2003, 10:47 AM

My whole music collection is one big guilty pleasure.

This weekend I'm of to Lollapalooza in San Antonio. The weekend after that, it's Motorhead, Dio, and Iron Maiden (kickass!). I'm definitely not all prog.

Of course, if your talking about albums:

Madonna - Ray Of Light (maybe it's just orbit's influence but this album is great)
Billy Joel - Greatest Hits 1 & 2
Anything by Weird Al (the last one even had a Zappa style-parody)

Those are just a few examples . . .

Rick and Roll

08-08-2003, 12:45 PM

Hey EP, if you want a preview of the show, read my post of last week.

Extended Play

08-08-2003, 02:50 PM

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
Hey EP, if you want a preview of the show, read my post of last week.

Yeah, I saw your post. Man, I cannot wait for that show. Of course, I can't wait to Queens Of the Stone Age tomorrow.

Tommy

dinosaur

08-08-2003, 03:20 PM

Has this ever happened to you?
You're groovin to some cool jazz on the radio, thinking "Wow this is pretty cool", and the DJ comes on and says "That was Kenny G..."
Man, I hate when that happens.

Rick and Roll

08-08-2003, 03:44 PM

An old show on network TV, late Friday night, 1980something - Jamming out to a band trading leads, just gettin'it - after 10 minutes, the singer goes "I want you to want me"

OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had to throw myself in the wash!

Rick and Roll

09-05-2003, 10:58 AM

I'm listening to Extreme's "3 sides to Every Story". Like them or not, the musicianship is top-notch. I have their sophmoric first record, but Pornografitti, this one, and Waiting For The Punchline kick some serious ass. It's too bad Cherone had to join Van Helpless. A certain career-killer.

I've also seen them twice, and they were awesome.

KeithieW

09-09-2003, 03:14 AM

Wading through my Vinyl collection yesterday I found "Scum" and "The Peel Sessions" by Napalm Death.

What state of mind was I in when I got those for Christ's sake????

30 second songs and ear bashing guitars.........ye Gods!!!!

Back to the Barry Manilow I think. :o

Yesspaz

09-09-2003, 09:55 AM

Back to the Barry Manilow I think.

That's not funny.

KeithieW

09-09-2003, 11:00 AM

Originally posted by Yesspaz

That's not funny.

You don't like Barry Manilow??

Yesspaz

09-10-2003, 10:00 AM

Originally posted by Keith Waye

You don't like Barry Manilow??

YOU DO?!!:eek:

Rick and Roll

09-10-2003, 10:09 AM

I'm not sure if it's this post, but our English friend has indeed professed his affection for Doris Day and and Big-nose Barry.

KeithieW

09-10-2003, 10:12 AM

"Sportin' a woody" for Doris (but not for Bazza!!!!)

Yesspaz

09-10-2003, 10:59 AM

Wow. You like Barry Manilow.

Oh well, I like Roxette:rolleyes:

KeithieW

01-30-2004, 12:36 PM

I won't tell you what pdj just admitted in the shout box...........:D but:

I think ABC were a classic of their era.

And I still enjoy a bit of 70s disco from time to time...mainly at weddings. Yes, I'm that embarrasing uncle who dances.:rolleyes:

Rick and Roll

01-30-2004, 12:56 PM

in no order:

Chicago
XTC
Iron Maiden
Indigo Girls
Smithereens
Led Zeppelin
The Who
Budgie
Judas Priest
King's X
Tool
Thin Lizzy

I listen to these as much as prog. But I admit, there are more prog band that are great than rock bands.

Rick and Roll

01-30-2004, 12:57 PM

Favorite bands not on Aural moon:

in no order:

Chicago
XTC
Iron Maiden
Indigo Girls
Smithereens
Led Zeppelin
The Who
Budgie
Judas Priest
King's X
Tool
Thin Lizzy

I listen to these as much as prog. But I admit, there are more prog bands that are great than rock bands.

Throw away the key!

progdirjim

01-31-2004, 12:34 AM

I don't think many of Rick's are embarrassing - just not prog. Okay, Judas Priest maybe. But, my brother, who you'll meet at Nearfest if you meet me, once dated a girl whose license plate was: jd prst. I am not making this up.... So if she was good enough for him (it was a serious relationship), I'm not going to abuse Rick over Judas Priest too much...

Anyway, what Keith was too polite to say - I admitted to liking some Duran Duran.

anyone else? c'mon now, don 't be shy....

mossy

01-31-2004, 01:49 PM

A good friend of mine recently said "I just like what I like".

I have to admit I'm as much a folky as a proggy and get very excited when the two genres come together.

David Crosby's newish band, CPR, is wonderful. The talented keyboardist is James Raymond. There's a story behind it all.. David gave him up for adoption at birth and it wasn't until James was 36 or so that they met up again...on Croz' supposed deathbed. But Croz survived!..and they went on to form CPR and make music together. But I digress...

Love music sung by schoolboy choirs, which I guess is why Druid and Sigur Ros appeal so much.

KeithieW

01-31-2004, 03:36 PM

I've just got back from seeing "Anything goes" a musical based on the songs of Cole Porter. I have to admit I was entranced.

"It's delightful, it's delicious, it's delovely." :o

:p

progdirjim

01-31-2004, 05:58 PM

that's not bad Keithie. Cole Porter isn't exactly my cup of tea, but he was a genius at writing show tunes...

podakayne

02-21-2004, 05:24 PM

i'll have to give this another read...after i stop laughing...yes i like:

barry manilow
chicago(why would that be embarassing?)
ohio players, smokey,
(not Roger though:eek:)
funkadelics
most r&b groups of 70s & some yes i dare say it DISCO (though i'd never buy it—i like to dance what can i say)
mike jackson & sister janet (who best to dance to)
someone said the eagles (i like 'em)
frank senatra
louis armstrong
de bussy
elfin john (early stuff)
america (all of it)
dan fogleburg

but no tom jones

must purge myself...this was so much fun...and very entertaining...

and hey keith...i LOVE cole porter...nite & day sends me!

:cool:

JRV

02-21-2004, 06:24 PM

Night and Day was covered by one of my guilty pleasures...Sergio Mendez and Brasil 66. To this day, it's one of my faves. Didn't realize it was a Cole Porter song.

Yesspaz

02-21-2004, 07:19 PM

No one has yet come close to my adoration of Roxette (except for those people who like Manilow... sheesh...).

Rick and Roll

02-21-2004, 11:09 PM

Juliana Hatfield, Jill Sobule, Ambrosia's radio hits, I still have a few up my sleeve...

KeithieW

02-22-2004, 01:00 PM

Gene Pitney
Matt Monro
Robert Goulet
Mel Torme
KC and the Sunshine Band
and Kool and the Gang.

Certainly got my dancing shoes on with KC.......

"Girl, I love you so.
I want you to know.
That I'm gonna miss your love
The minute you walk out the door......

Please don't go, don't go
Don't go away
Please don't go, don't go
I'm begging you to stay"

teermin8r

02-22-2004, 02:51 PM

Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Toby Keith, Joe Jackson, Ozzy Osbourne, Elton John(my nickname was Elton in high school because I was such a huge fan, Sparks(one of my favorite bands), Alice Cooper(eaten in his restaurant in Phoenix many times), A Flock of Seagulls(saw them back up the Go-Go's, most fun I ever had at a concert), David Lee Roth, Gary Numan, Joan Jett, Kiss, Meat Loaf, and yes Elvis Presley.

Rick and Roll

02-22-2004, 04:40 PM

say what you want about his demeanor, but he's an absolute genius. No pangs of guilt should be associated with him.

Sparks?

teermin8r

02-22-2004, 07:57 PM

Yes, Rick. Sparks, mainly there earlier punk rock style. But I do have some of their newer electronic stuff. Ron Mael humor is wonderful, and Russell's falsetto singing is enjoyable to me. Is that worse than Barry M?

Rick and Roll

02-22-2004, 08:27 PM

is I never heard of them. I was into the Plasmatics, Ramones, Richard Hell, etc. but never heard of sparks.

Cool!

teermin8r

02-22-2004, 08:41 PM

http://www.allsparks.com/home_h.php
If you ever saw the movie "Rollercoaster" with George Segal and Timothy Bottoms and Helen Hunt as a young teenager. Sparks was the live band in the movie with the piano player throwing his piano bench around the stage ala Pete Townshend smashing his guitar. They also did a song on MTV in the early 80's with Jane Wieldlin from the Go-Go's call 'Cool Places'. They have been around since the early 70's and just released a new album which I don't have yet, but has been getting good reviews. They didn't get much airplay here, but in England they had some Top 5 hits with 'Talent is an Asset' and 'This Town isn't Big Enough for Both of Us'. Their best albums are 'Woofer in Tweeter's Clothes', 'Kimono My House', 'Propaganda', and 'Indiscreet'. I have most of their albums or cd's. If you wanna try one get 'Kimono' first. If you haven't seen 'Rollercoaster', rent it it is a great movie.

P. S. Sparks is the only band my mom banned me from playing when I was growing up because she couldn't stand the singer's voice. Of course I played it anyway. That's how I got my own record player for my room.

Rick and Roll

02-22-2004, 09:28 PM

After I narrowed the web address down to allsparks.com, I found a band I never knew. How does this happen? What a fascinating bio - very cool.

Love the pics of the drummer, though she looks like she can kick my ass.

The names of the records are a scream, too.

podakayne

02-23-2004, 06:31 PM

hey jrv,
i happen to have loved loni (hall i think) singing with brazil...some of my best memories are singing...when a summer turns to snow...guilty as sin i am of still lovin them...even did out the album and play it (if my turntable worked):rolleyes:

podakayne

02-23-2004, 06:34 PM

teemin8r, i saw them one nite on some music show...couldn't stop singing their stuff...had them preserved on tape...but alas it finally broke.:D

albert's a wiz! he a genius!

Rick and Roll

02-25-2004, 01:25 PM

I don't know how I forgot these guys. I used to listen to Devo's first three records all of the time! Pink Pussycat, Blockhead, Mongoloid, what fun stuff. The "Duty Now for the Future" record is a gem.

I was watching one of my son's shows, "Rocket Power" (which is great) and the Devo guy Mark M. does the music. He also did Pee-Wee Herman's music and tons of others.

Sometimes I'd rather listen to their versions of "Satisfaction" and "Secret Agent Man" over the originals.

Whip it good!

podakayne

02-25-2004, 02:34 PM

mark also has been the musical input for rug rats from the beginning! another show i like...he had tabs in real monsters too, i believe...

we are DEVO

and i confess to M&M too:(
i'm a word monger, what can i say.

QuantumJo

03-09-2004, 07:46 AM

I have no guilt in any of my pleasures music or otherwise but keeping in the spirit of the thread here I go. Sabbath with Ozzy, Ozzy with Randy, Iron Madian with Paul, Van Hallen with David, Accept, Motör Head, Montrose, Ummm Carol King, The Carpenters, Joni Mitchell, ZZ Top, B.O.C., Living Color ( my first CD ). My first concert was Neil Diamond..Went with the prenatal units Fleetwood Mac ( my first LP )

Yesspaz

03-09-2004, 03:39 PM

ah, part of the birth of Journey - Ross Valory - killer groovy bassist.

KeithieW

02-23-2006, 03:59 AM

In a different thread I mentioned a fun thing we had going about Guilty Pleasures.

We have enough new members of the family now to resurrect it I think. Read back through the previous posts and have a laugh. Then add your own to the list.

Rick and Roll

02-23-2006, 07:43 AM

I have no guilt in any of my pleasures music or otherwise

That's two yrs old but still well said...

I finally just bought the Devo CD referred to a couple of posts back.

Money well spent.

dinosaur

02-23-2006, 08:30 AM

My first album was
The Monkees !
You never forget your first one.
Another pleasant valley Sundaayayay...

PFD

02-24-2006, 02:00 PM

My first record was Grease, the soundtrack!!

I admit to liking The Bee Gees and Abba.

In the 80s, I secretly listened to Duran Duran...

QuantumJo

02-27-2006, 09:33 AM

Hey Moon Buds…
It has been a wile for me here in the forums. I am working 2nd shift wile the wife is still working 1st at the Buffalo Museum of Science. With lil Isabella now 1 year old i'm down to 4-5 hrs of sleep a night. A friend of mine has around 2500 cd’s and I have been adding them to my iTunes at about 10-15 cd’s a week. Recently I have added the complete collection of; Accept, AC/DC, Bernie Torme, Budgie, Frank Marino, Gary Moore, Riot & Thin Lizzy. I have Tygers of Pan Tang on deck for this week.

Rick and Roll

02-27-2006, 09:35 AM

roger

02-27-2006, 10:43 AM

the boys are back in town! :D

Yesspaz

02-28-2006, 02:58 PM

I don't know if this counts as a guilty pleasure (I don't, but some will), but I'm totally into the Cranberries right now.

Rick and Roll

02-28-2006, 03:03 PM

I don't know if this counts as a guilty pleasure (I don't, but some will), but I'm totally into the Cranberries right now.

Just don't let Grandma catch you!:rofl:

(sorry I just had to)

roger

02-28-2006, 03:06 PM

Zombie!

Roger -Dot- Lee

03-01-2006, 09:29 PM

Ah, guilty pleasures. There have been many that I've found here on the moon that most people question my tastes by listening to. I question their intelligence, but that's not the point. My guilty pleasures: Yanni, a lot of the no-name "Third baptist church of Springfield Gospel Choir" type groups. UFO, when I feel like giving myself a headache. Bob Dylan when I want to give someone an idea of what it's like to have a bird poop on your shoulder. And some North Georgia Appalachian music. Stuff from the heart by people who are by and large illiterate.

kirk

03-02-2006, 06:32 PM

what happened to some of these folks...and who was the moderator "extended play" ?
i must've been off protesting the war at mp3.com.au, besonic :-V

guilty pleasures... growing up, i had all the Herb Albert/TB records.
"the lonely bull" still holds up IMO. i liked all that stuff, theme songs
like "hang 'em high" by Hugo Montenegro, the john barry 007 soundtracks..
...GO-WOLD-FING-AHHHH.... :p

"love is blue" by paul mauriat was the 2nd single i purchased w/
my lawn mowing money. the 1st was "green tambourine" by the lemon pipers,
then came "words" (Bside "i started a joke") 3rd, by the BeeGees.

it was a great time for music, much less "format" or genre oriented.
we'd hear the beatles, followed by "winchester cathedral"
(New Vaudeville Band) then like "apple,peaches, pumpkin pie" or
something by the supremes.

basically, there was 2 kinds of music- the kind you liked,
the kind you didn't.8-)

@dot- the "oh brother..." soundtrack did miracles for americana folk music!
...anyone else get into that? awesome!

kirk

JRV

03-02-2006, 07:30 PM

> what happened to some of these folks

Well, Kirk, speaking for myself, I got married a year ago 3/19. I haven't posted here much since the birth of the Guilty Pleasures thread in my single days, but I still listen to AM when I can. I was a more frequent poster (and listener) as a single-without-children, when I had more leisure time!

This thread was among my AM forum "favorites" so the recent e-mail notifications brought me back. And, more specifically, I felt compelled to reply to your post because we had such similar tastes.

I didn't have all the Herb Alpert LPs, but I had 3 or 4. And Lonely Bull was my first (and, I agree, probably the best).

I also loved Paul Mauriat/Love is Blue as a teen. I remember the sexy album cover caused some controversy in my very conservative household! But they let me keep it anyway. Probably helped that it sounded enough like Mantovani to make my parents relax. (But if I recall, that model on the cover was very, very hot! Clothed only in body paint. Fueled some young teen fantasies.)

And Winchester Cathedral...one of my faves as a young kid. I was probably 8 or so when that came out. Had a 45 of it that I played to death. The other favorite 45 I had from roughly the same era--odd, but not quite as odd as Winchester Cathedral--was Washington Square by the Village Stompers. Anyone remember that?:dunno:

> the "oh brother..." soundtrack did miracles for americana folk music!
...anyone else get into that? awesome!

Are you talking about O Brother, Where Art Thou, with George Clooney? Happens to be one of my wife's favorite movies. She introduced me to it; I'd never seen it. That was a fun movie & great soundtrack.

kirk

03-02-2006, 08:39 PM

hey Jeff- O brother, long time no hear from!
you're right, "O brother..."...grammatic as the word "O"
may be...:hrm:
wait a mo...you were 8 when winchester cathedral was released..
and you just had an addition to the family!?!?:(

not to worry, you'll be fixing up a corner in the basement
or somewhere soon..dad's little getaway(AKA "the dadcave")
w/ all the "off limits" stuff that makes the wife doubt your sanity...
the LPs, comic books, old natlamps and playboys...
we'll leave a light on for you.

keef- if you intended to do this, great idea!
hopefully, there'll be others that have thread notification
enabled, check in.

kirk

JRV

03-02-2006, 09:15 PM

My "additions to the family" are a stepdaughter, 13 and a stepson, 15. No plans for additions via biological means! :smoooch:

And the stepdaughter just reminded me to add that O Brother, Where Art Thou is also one of her favorite movies.

Another thing I forgot to mention: Not only did I like Love is Blue...I liked it so much I had the sheet music and used to play it on the piano! Being a guilty pleasure spectator is one thing. Being a guilty pleasure producer raises it to a different level.

Alas, no (residential) basements in swampy, tropical Houston. They would be under water without expensive pumping systems like they use in commercial buildings. But at least I'm allowed a little cave time in my home office.

And I second that this thread needs to be bumped periodically!

Okay, everybody sing along (http://lirama.net/song/18932)--Oh-bo-de-o-do
Oh-bo-de-o-do
Oh-bo-de-o-do de-do-duh

Rick and Roll

03-02-2006, 11:03 PM

Does 50's music and punk count as guilty pleasures? I kind of hedge on it because 50's r and r is really the roots. And early punk was really an extension of a lot of that. I was innundated with 50's rock as a kid. I still love the Coasters, Little Richard, and especially the vocal groups like the Platters.

And give me the Ramones or Plasmatics any day.

kirk

03-03-2006, 12:43 AM

ah, OK.. that makes sense...

yeah, "love is blue" fascinated me, no idea why it made
such a connection.

i'm wondering if anyone else here remembers the syndicated
"upbeat" show...it was sort of a forerunner to MTV.
the host Don Webster announced acts, then cut to a film (before tape)
of a top band. they carried the illusion that all these bands
were playing one after the other.
i remember steppenwolf, blue cheer, tommy james & the shondells,
the who, black sabbath on the same show.
hey,found a link! - http://www.esquirerecords.com/citimusic/Upbeat.asp
check out "pictures".
the guys that later would become my 1st bandmates would
gather on saturdays to watch the show,dream of growing hair as long
as Blue Cheer's.
FYI- host Don Webster is now the director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

of course, there was the network shows Hullabaloo, Shindig.
Hullabaloo magazine, became "Circus", which i believe is
still around.

@Rick- SURE the 50's count! the Beatles wouldn't have existed w/o
Little Richard, Chuck Berry..

kirk

Rick and Roll

03-03-2006, 07:18 AM

The Upbeat Dancers look like a karate club! Thanks for the pics///:thumbsup:

RickenbackerBas

03-31-2006, 12:58 PM

The Classics IV.

"Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you"

kirk

03-31-2006, 01:22 PM

The Classics IV.

"Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you"

Hey Ricbass!

Where else do i know you from? are you on Yesfans?
At any rate, welcome!

i've seen the Classics 4 on the aforementioned Upbeat show many times.
very original, mellow grooves. "Stormy" was another great one by them..

Bands like them and the Boxtops got me through the
1910 Fruitgum Co. period.:urp:

kirk

RickenbackerBas

03-31-2006, 02:25 PM

Kirk:

Although I am a Yes fan. I have never been on that form. Must be my twin RickenbackerBass brother. (as I genuflect and pay homage to Chris Squire.)

I love that fact that Dennis Yost played the drums while standing.

I still get choked-up about past loves when I hear "Traces" :heart:Sigh!

kirk

03-31-2006, 04:23 PM

[QUOTE] Although I am a Yes fan. I have never been on that form.

Well...you should check it out! www.yesfans.com
It's like an online city w/ a membership in the thousands.
It's mostly us proud sons and daughters who knew the knowledge
of the land...;) , and a load of musicians.

are you playing in a group, any stuff posted?

i have a new one posted to www.songplanet.com/zenpool
a much less proggy number than the last one, a feelgood sorta
Latin-based progressive world tune (whew!) "Mamaya".
it's my 1st recording w/ the new Chapman Stick,
a rare flute performance.

kirk

RickenbackerBas

03-31-2006, 04:50 PM

Kirk:

I am doing music now - mostly Christian stuff. It has been interesting introducing prog arrangements to individuals who have almost never heard of, nor even considered, the genre. Actually the music director at my church and one of the musicians, both of whom have degrees in music and are accomplished musicians, were fascinated with the concept of progressive music. I burned a CD for them with some classic prog stuff and lifted some info describing prog music from the internet. They were both impressed with the concept and the music and wondered why they had never encountered the genre before.

One day I hope to do produce some progressive arrangements of traditional church hymns. (Somewhat inspired after hearing Chris Squire do a bass solo using Amazing Grace as the melody line in 1976!)

Anyway, I do have some stuff available on line. Look at www.download.com/fragilecreation. My favorite is “Lord, you have My Heart”. “To Him/In the Holy Place” is moderately proggy, especially if you know the original song arrangements. “Cry” is an original written by a friend who was a bit surprised after we produced it as my arrangement changed the character of the song somewhat and moved it towards a progressive feel. “Creation Worships” will never be confused for a prog song.

RickenbackerBas

03-31-2006, 05:10 PM

Kirk:

Just visited your web site: Good stuff, really enjoyed it. We’re kind of neighbors. I’m in the Port Townsend area.

RickBass

KeithieW

07-28-2006, 03:21 PM

Somewhere else there was a suggestion that ressurecting old threads for the benefit of new Moonbuds was a good idea.

Well here we are:

We know that you all like prog bands but what other music is there that pushes your buttons which you would only admit to true friends?

Read back and you will see that I am a life long Barry Manilow and Doris Day fan.

Roger.Lee likes Bob Dylan and Rick and Roll likes being whipped by scantily clad nurses. 8-o OK I made that last one up (I think) but what other guilty pleasures are there on the Lunar Surface?

roger

07-28-2006, 03:25 PM

I love Alison Krauss.

and Rufus Wainright.

mossy

07-28-2006, 04:06 PM

Lawrence Welk :o (not EVERY week)

#1 Q-Tip show. I must be there.

mossy

07-28-2006, 04:10 PM

I can't believe I've fessed up to that.

8-o

Well, at least my taste in music is eclectic :rolleyes:

kirk

07-28-2006, 04:38 PM

Kirk:

Just visited your web site: Good stuff, really enjoyed it. We’re kind of neighbors. I’m in the Port Townsend area.

RickBass

Rickbass-
I'm so glad Keith revived this thread! For some reason, I didn't
receive an update, missed your post.

Thanks for the good words and support! I've recently relocated to
Fox Island, aprox. 12 miles from Gig Harbor...so we're only
100 miles or so distant.

Your friends will be glad to know there's an entire branch of
Christian prog, AKA "CProg"!
Steer them toward Glass Hammer, Salem Hill,
or do a Google search. There's many indie bands on the web doing
some very good material in this genre.
"Vertical Alignment" comes to mind. Tell them I sent you.
----------------------------------------------
Back on thread-

Guilty pleasures...OK...I watched every show of American Idol
this past 3 years...shutup, Rick.

I also listen to Comcast's Music Choice/Soundscapes until around 11
every day. It's about all I can handle until I'm 100% awake...
or on the 3rd cuppa, whichever comes first.

Oh, and I like Metallica, have several of their cds.
I use "Enter Sandman" to showoff the Klipsch speakers.

Kirk

lotus

07-28-2006, 04:44 PM

Somewhere else there was a suggestion that ressurecting old threads for the benefit of new Moonbuds was a good idea.

KW, why don't you search for your thread of favorite gigs. I could not find it. I was/is awsum..

mossy

07-28-2006, 05:00 PM

Ditto Kirk on the American Idol. Every episode for two years, and if I'm not there it gets recorded.

I'm so glad you mentioned this. I was getting lost in Welk.

There's a new one on now till the end of the summer with Tommy Lee, Jason Newsted and Gilby Clarke doing the judging for their new band. Complete fodder but great fun.

Soundscapes - usually on a Saturday when I'm cleaning the house. It's one of the music channels on telly here.

QuantumJo

07-28-2006, 05:44 PM

Hey Moon Budz,
I like the new look for the site!!

My friend with all the CD’s is now getting them to me 50 at a time and my iTunes library is now up to 5250 songs. The Terry Bozzio, Tony Levin & Steve Stevens - Black Light Syndrome & epically Situation Dangerous are some of my new favs from the last batch. Poda luv the new avatar ( E.Q. fits you well), all is well on the home front ill be popping in from time to time. My best wishes to all :)

PS
Rick, Puleo has a new band named Haiku the CD’s are only available locally at the show. Drop me a line for more info.

rick_wakeman

07-28-2006, 06:34 PM

Bon eh bien comme on dirait que ce site a l'air de s'épanouir encore plus, je vais tirer ma révérence après pas grand chose. Va falloir être beaucoup plus conciliant sans déconner si on veut me revoir par ici. allez que le grand cric vous croque.

Adieu.

Cédric.

kirk

07-28-2006, 06:47 PM

Translation? Babelfish mangled it-

Good eh well as it would be said that this site seems to open out even more, I will draw my reverence after large step thing. Will be necessary to be much more reconciling without talking cock if one wants to re-examine me by here go that the large jack crunches you. Good-bye. Cédric

Wuzzle?

K

Rick and Roll

07-28-2006, 06:48 PM

Oh, and I like Metallica, have several of their cds.
I use "Enter Sandman" to showoff the Klipsch speakers.

Kirk

Hey now! Kirk, enter the metallica thread posted yesterday! Yea!

I'm not wasting space on American Idol lol.....

Quantum I'll drop you a line soon, sounds cool!

Resurrecting Manilow, I talked with Matthew Parmenter at the 2005 Nearfest for three hours about Barry. Anybody hear the big hubbub in Austrailia recently? They were using barry's music to frive out local ruffians, and it worked. Check it out sometime.

Ok, I've named a million before but here are my top guilty pleasures...

The Cult
Molly Hatchet's first record (a classic!)
anything from the 50's except for Pat Boone (I enjoy his metal period better!)
early 70's funk
Love Beach (THAT was a joke)
Ambrosia's "Biggest Part of Me"
"Baby Come Back" (band escapes me)

Roger -Dot- Lee

07-28-2006, 07:22 PM

Roger.Lee likes Bob Dylan and Rick and Roll likes being whipped by scantily clad nurses. 8-o OK I made that last one up (I think) but what other guilty pleasures are there on the Lunar Surface?

You almost had yerself a bucket full of trouble there, Keithie, until I realized that you had me and Rick mixed up. HE likes Dylan, and I like ...well, you know what I'm saying.

Of course, you DID get me and Rick mixed up, which in and of itself gets you into at least a medium sized bucket of trouble.

Roger -Dot- Lee, of course I'm kidding. But which part shall remain a mystery...

Rick and Roll

07-28-2006, 07:31 PM

You almost had yerself a bucket full of trouble there, Keithie, until I realized that you had me and Rick mixed up. HE likes Dylan, and I like ...well, you know what I'm saying.

Of course, you DID get me and Rick mixed up, which in and of itself gets you into at least a medium sized bucket of trouble.

Roger -Dot- Lee, of course I'm kidding. But which part shall remain a mystery...

I can tell you i like Dylan as much as an Eskimo likes Brazil....poet mt ass :zzzzz:

pelothar

07-28-2006, 08:12 PM

- Pearl Jam (im from the grunge generation)
- The Doors
- Cat Stevens
- The Clash
- White Stripes
- and a lot of south american bands

Hawksun

07-29-2006, 01:06 AM

-Cryptopsy
-Skinny Puppy
-Throbbing Gristle
-Devo
-Les Georges Leningrad
Among other ones...

But since I'm not a prog only fan, these are actually un-guilty pleasures. :D

Lemur

07-29-2006, 02:15 AM

I used to listen to classic rock, so that sort of music really doesn't make me feel guilty. One thing I do feel guilty about is liking Maroon 5.

progdirjim

08-01-2006, 01:51 AM

Some of the things people call guilty pleasures are interesting. White Stripes? That's a great band, and I feel no guilt whatsoever. Dylan? Massively overrated, but still an icon and no guilt. Doors and even Pearl Jam? That's some pretty good quality straight ahead rock, no guilt. The Cult? They're pretty damn good. Molly Hatchett's first? I first heard their version of Allman Bros' "Dreams" live, and that's still one of my favorite live moments EVER. Believe it.

Onto the slams. :neener:
American fing Idol?! Are you kidding me? I have NEVER seen an episode. How can two people that I respect so much (Mossy I've met in person, and Kirk I've heard his music (and added it to the moon for crissake!!)) like that show? :headscrat If it was anybody else I'd be MORE honest!! :rofl:

Lawrence Welk? That's so bad it's almost cool. I can live with that.

My recent confession - I'm thinking about buying Johnny Cash's last album, America V. (Not for the moon, don't worry.)

Yesspaz

08-01-2006, 11:46 AM

I still think my Roxette collection trumps you all. Oh, except for the Barry Manilow fans...

Hawksun

08-01-2006, 11:55 AM

Is Daft Punk considered a guilty pleasure?

mossy

08-01-2006, 12:26 PM

Barry Manilow was wunnerful on American Idol :D

Rick and Roll

08-01-2006, 06:54 PM

American fing Idol?! Are you kidding me? I have NEVER seen an episode. How can two people that I respect so much (Mossy I've met in person, and Kirk I've heard his music (and added it to the moon for crissake!!)) like that show? :headscrat If it was anybody else I'd be MORE honest!! :rofl:

Lawrence Welk? That's so bad it's almost cool. I can live with that.

Thank you for speaking for me regarding the Idol. I don't need to see an episode, I hear it all the time at work. Is that the same Rany Jackson on the panel that used to play bass and was on Ponty records?:hrm:

I used to watch Lawrence Welk all the time. That and Gunsmoke and everything else my dad thought was worthwhile...I do miss Arthur Duncan's tap dancing though.

One show that I was forced to watch was Hee Haw. Except for Roy Clark, there's some absolute awful performances on there.:haha:

Yesspaz

08-01-2006, 07:52 PM

Is that the same Rany Jackson on the panel that used to play bass and was on Ponty records?:hrm:Yep, the same one who played on Journey's Raised on Radio album too.

podakayne

08-01-2006, 11:13 PM

okay mossy =8^O, you did it ... i cannot beleive you actually have that down in writing where eeeeeeeevery one can read it and point fingers at you!

lawrence welk :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

i'll only say my mom use to have it on esp. when leslie uggams joined the program...dont like her and lawrence give me hives :neener:

we'll have to get you in for therapy on this one O_o ;)

lovingly sis
who'll admit to liking "alone again naturally":rolleyes2
the instrumental "Telstar" i felt like the universe was talking to me

and why would elton john be a guilty pleasure? ..."Madman" makes me sing and how come they dont play ballad of danny bailey(am/fm radio classic rock)...luv that – hate funeral for a friend and candle in the wind, but that's another thread.

no one's admitted to ...Bread yeah Bread the group! :boxing:
America...the group
Sparks is cool but scary (my mom said so) thanks tee8 for bringing that one up.(i'd rather here that guy then Magma's female? any day)

but really folks in my house all classical rock let alone prog was a guilty pleasure, "you listen to that weird music" which also included opera & classical so i guess i was always guilty.:angel:

poda :o

p.s. this is a greatly entertaining thread...i'll post more to it as i purge myself

sharcnorris

08-01-2006, 11:34 PM

This is view 1972 of this thread in Honor of the year 1971, and my guilty pleasure of:
graduating High School, Flying that Summer to England where My 6 week Adventure traveled from there to Norway, around Amsterdam and Stockholm, all by thumb , night Adventures and Hostels. I had a paperback copy of LORD OF THE RINGS that I read in my Napsack each night and Had one Awesome time as I Ended with a week back in London..... How Many times I was picked up and asked about ,CSN&Y and the airplane. I wanted to talk about ELP and Genesis

KeithieW

08-02-2006, 02:01 AM

Bread and David Gates...........stunning
America..........ditto

That inspired me to put the old vinyl on the turntable and spin them again.

"If a picture paints a thousand words.................."

I see the Doors mentioned a fair amount. What's guilty about the Doors? Crikey, I even go by the name "Maurice Jimson" when we do a Doors covers set.........now THAT is something to feel guilty about (but I don't ;) )

progdirjim

08-02-2006, 02:24 AM

who'll admit to liking "alone again naturally":rolleyes2

no one's admitted to ...Bread yeah Bread the group! :boxing:

a few <snip>s in there. Alone Again Naturally I loved when I was in grade school, but I got over it. Good ole Gilbert O'Sullivan. How scary is that that I can remember his name?

Bread? Maybe I can top that - Cake's cover of "Guitar Man". I own two Cake albums and enjoy them quite a bit...

Methem

08-02-2006, 10:34 AM

I discovered the electronic dance music, or club music, in the early 1990s, when I was a teenager. I've been at least somewhat interested in it ever since... on and off. Acid, house, "techno", trance, etc... that stuff.

I also often seem to like the old hippie/flower-power music whenever I hear it. I Have to buy some Melanie (Safka) someday. Gather Me is nice.

-Methem

KeithieW

08-02-2006, 11:41 AM

Methem

08-02-2006, 01:00 PM

Agree about Melanie.....she's still playing the circuit here in the UK. I might be going to see her in a while with my old Hippy mate Steve. ;)
:)

Her music sounds quite simple, but it's pretty and somehow genuine. My father has got GM as an old LP, so that's where I listen to it sometimes, at my parents.

-Methem

Yesspaz

08-03-2006, 11:44 AM

Rick and Roll

08-03-2006, 12:08 PM

The Who, Journey, Tom Petty, Boston, The Eagles - none of these should be considered guilty pleasures! But Bee Gees, Michael Jackson, Aimee Man, Bangles, Bondie, Huey Lewis... WOW.

PS. I'm an ordained Baptist minister and I can't stomach Stryper. Moses, you really are suffering for the Lord :)

Except for the occasional joke, I'm recusing myself from any more "guilty pleasures" threads. your post exemplifies why.

How you can put Aimee Mann in with that crowd is beyond me. It's obvious you think of her as some bubble gum artist. Nothing could be further from the truth. You remind me of the guy in concert who was yelling for her to play "Time Stand Still". Like she's going to play a Rush song she spent a few lines singing on instead of her many songs (at an acoustic show with a piano and bassist no less). Go find any of her last six solo records and tell me with a straight face she is anywhere near those other groups. All you're doing is putting something you don't like as a guilty pleasure and something you do as not. WOW is right :(

Stryper is just a hair band that happens to have a lyrical content about religion. Just because you're religious doesn't mean that you will like Stryper. If you're not, you don't automatically hate them. "I'm an ordained Baptist minister and I can't stomach Stryper" sounds like...well I think you know what I'm implying.

It's wonderful that you have this jones for Journey. I was a teen when they turned from rock band to commercial pop machine. It wasn't pretty. Guilty I say!

Respond if you like, you may have the last word here.

roger

08-03-2006, 01:59 PM

damn, Spaz, for being so religious you sure are judgmental...

Yesspaz

08-03-2006, 03:07 PM

Rick, chill out man. Relax.

Roger, I'm not being judgemental here. This is a thread about musical guilty pleasures - which is all relative to taste - not about world events. I'm expressing my WOW reaction to someone liking those artists. That's all.

sharcnorris

08-04-2006, 07:23 AM

Agree about Melanie.....she's still playing the circuit here in the UK. I might be going to see her in a while with my old Hippy mate Steve. ;)

1st, I saw 1971, and pleasure and had to reflect on my 18th year, sorry, not in the spirit here, I guess Im anti-negitivity, I just dont understand why we would want our worst music as RQs or hear the one thing that we should be embarrassed about enjoying, .........so

Methem, in the 70's I went to a 10 day Woodstock like Concert. Powder Ridge was cancelled by a Judge and all the acts cancelled because the court ordered no one could use the stage. 50 thousand still came for a weeklong festival.
One night at our Campfire, a young lady came and began to play to us acoustic.

Melanie was such a beautifull soul as she entertained us and then went on to another fire. ....Ill never forget her and this is not a guilty pleasure, just a pleasure

oh...Good Times, the '70s Ghetto Sitcom Theme

kevishev

08-04-2006, 07:50 AM

I always wanted to bone the lead singer for the Bangles.

Rick and Roll

08-04-2006, 08:23 AM

I always wanted to bone the lead singer for the Bangles.

Good ol kev, ok then sing with me....

"Walk with an erection"......

Susanna Hoffs has done some things with Matthew Sweet, another non-progger I like a lot. They were playing a singing couple in one of the Austin Powers movies also...

Sharc..."temporary layoffs, easy credit ripoffs, ain't we lucky we got em, good times"

ok that was the "occasional joke"..

Methem

08-04-2006, 11:59 AM

1st, I saw 1971, and pleasure and had to reflect on my 18th year, sorry, not in the spirit here, I guess Im anti-negitivity, I just dont understand why we would want our worst music as RQs or hear the one thing that we should be embarrassed about enjoying, .........so
I actually mostly took this thread as an opportunity to say, "oh, and I also like this and this stuff, in addition to prog. rock." No big feelings of guilt here -- except over some of that dance stuff.

Methem, in the 70's I went to a 10 day Woodstock like Concert. Powder Ridge was cancelled by a Judge and all the acts cancelled because the court ordered no one could use the stage. 50 thousand still came for a weeklong festival.
One night at our Campfire, a young lady came and began to play to us acoustic.

Melanie was such a beautifull soul as she entertained us and then went on to another fire. ....Ill never forget her and this is not a guilty pleasure, just a pleasure
Thanks for the recollection, sharc. Sounds great. I saw this on Wikipedia: "In 1970 Melanie was the only artist to brave the court injunction banning the Powder Ridge Rock Festival and played for the crowd on a homemade stage powered by Mr. Softie trucks."

Hey, Rick, some day you need to do a show on Airplane and those other like-minded artists from that era... :)

-Methem

Rick and Roll

08-04-2006, 12:12 PM

I actually mostly took this thread as an opportunity to say, "oh, and I also like this and this stuff, in addition to prog. rock."
Hey, Rick, some day you need to do a show on Airplane and those other like-minded artists from that era... :)

-Methem

Good point. To me, a guilty pleasure is not necessarily liking Barry Manilow, it's wanting to see Barry in a tutu.

I did do a show of old stuff some time ago (Airplane, Cream, etc) and Cozy did a great show of more obscure artists (surprise!)....

However, there is another "old school" show in the works, and I know of one live Airplane song to be included. Consult your local listings...

Methem

08-04-2006, 12:46 PM

I did do a show of old stuff some time ago (Airplane, Cream, etc) and Cozy did a great show of more obscure artists (surprise!)....
Guess I've missed those. I do remember you playing a couple of songs by Hot Tuna in one of your shows...

-Methem

Yesspaz

08-04-2006, 03:43 PM

Matthew Sweet, another non-progger I like a lot.He's had some Roger Dean inspired cover art, though. :rofl:

progdirjim

08-04-2006, 04:06 PM

The Who, Journey, Tom Petty, Boston, The Eagles - none of these should be considered guilty pleasures! But Bee Gees, Michael Jackson, Aimee Man, Bangles, Bondie, Huey Lewis... WOW.

I think I figured why this post elicited a reaction Spaz. I thought about it awhile, becuase I've posted a "WOW" thought (American Idol) and some support (Cult et. al.), but no one took offense at my posts. I hope it's not because I'm the "program director" - if I say something stupid or inappropriate, I want people to call me on it! I think the difference is that you've made no secret in the past of your love of those bands, especially Journey and Petty, but the others as well. So even if you didn't mean it as such, your post READS as if you're saying "If I like it it's not a guilty pleasure, but if I don't it is." I'm not complaining about your post, but putting a thought out there as to why it wasn't taken so well. For the record, I have 4 Aimee Mann albums, and I like them better than anything Journey did with Steve Perry. So there! :haha:

Yesspaz

08-04-2006, 04:32 PM

And I have mp3s of the Michael Jackson songs "Thriller" and "Beat It" (but can't take him as a whole).

It's always hard to get tone and inflection from the written word unless one is purposefully constructing it that way. In a message board form, there's no edit time, etc. If people knew me they'd know I'm a mellow guy. I've got strong opinions, yeah, but so do most folks here. Nothing wrong with that. :) And I understand your thought about "your post READS as if you're saying "If I like it it's not a guilty pleasure, but if I don't it is."" But hey, I've listed things I like and fully admit they're a guilty pleasure! Roxette! Hello?!? :neener: And there are things I don't like that I don't consider guilty pleasures. I'm not an AC/DC or Van Halen fan, but if someone said here it's a guilty pleasure, I'd be puzzled why they say that. Above I was expressing WOW about prog people liking Huey Lewis and Bangles, not in a "WOW, that's sad" sense but a "WOW, that's surprising sense." And I was saying that I'm surprised anyone would consider claiming Boston or The Who as guilty pleasures. Hoping that clears things up.

If not... :boxing: :haha:

Rick and Roll

08-04-2006, 05:03 PM

if I say something stupid or inappropriate, I want people to call me on it!

So even if you didn't mean it as such, your post READS as if you're saying "If I like it it's not a guilty pleasure, but if I don't it is."

For the record, I have 4 Aimee Mann albums, and I like them better than anything Journey did with Steve Perry. So there! :haha:

It's just that there's so much to choose from Jim, to call you on it would be time consuming! :rofl:

That's how I read it too. Methem had it right in his post. And I really think Guilty Pleasure is a misnomer...

I'm still peeved about the Aimee Mann thing. Not comparable to the Bangles or Huey, sorry.

kirk

08-04-2006, 05:41 PM

Lawrence Welk? That's so bad it's almost cool.
I can live with that.

I stand vindicated. :rofl:

Seriously...can you imagine being a teenager, standing on stage w/
2000 in the audience, 20,000,000 watching, belting your
ass off...? Despite the image of the show, hats off to those kids.

Btw- Zenpool charted #4 on American Idol Underground's
Classical chart a few months ago.

K

kirk

08-04-2006, 05:53 PM

oh...I forgot....Suzanna Hoffs in the 80's........

Methem

08-04-2006, 06:18 PM

(Sorry, this is very computer-related.)

Strange enough, I sometimes listen to the Commodore 64 music, both stuff made for the commercial games and stuff by the cracker/hacker/demoscene groups.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene)

C64 was of course this small 8-bit "computer" that was very popular in the 1980s. It had a sound device called SID which -- while obviously being relatively good in the early 1980s -- is quite modest when compared to the soundcards and other such things these days. (Perhaps some of the electro-musicians here can tell something about it. I distantly remember reading someone mention that he/she started making music on C64...)

Indeed, C64 was a modest machine, but some of the guys who worked on it managed to squeeze enormous resources out of it. Some of the works by Rob Hubbard, definitely the most famous composer ever on C64, are impressive. Ben Daglish made many very entertaining pieces. And so on.

(http://www.geocities.com/vienna/strasse/7329/biog.html)

I thought I would post some URLs to the SID tunes that are available online as MP3s. But PERHAPS it's better to not do that: many of those tunes are, after all, so simple. Instead, here are some remixes made later and with better equipment than the original C64 versions:

http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/555/CZ%20TUNES%20-%20Target%20Renegade%20Title%20Remix.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2399/Teo%20-%20Target%20Renegade%20%28Ambient%20Remix%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/1001/Marcel%20Donne%20-%20Nemesis%20The%20Warlock.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/475/Ferrara%20-%20Thalamusik%20%28from%20Sanxion%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/3127/Franklin%20van%20Uden%20-%20Giana%20sisters%202006.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/1851/Jazzoid%20-%20Wizzball%20%28Full%20guitar%20Intro%20rmx%29.mp 3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/813/FTC%20-%20Druid%202%20%28Fairlight%20Enlightment%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2880/Gammasutra%20-%20Giana%20Sister%20%28white%20reggae%20mix%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/3097/littlepicasso%20-%20Last%20Ninja%20Sanctum.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/3001/Pricer%20-%20The%20Last%20Ninja%20%28%20The%20Palace%20Loade r%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/1/Tim%20Forsyth%20-%20Ace%202%2098%20Club%20Mix.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2006/dor-x%20-%20Out%20Run%20%28Acoustic%29.mp3

(http://remix.kwed.org)

These are remixes of some of the SID tunes that I like. Some of these are very different from the original versions. Many are quite dancey. In any case, stuff that might be interesting to former C64 gamers; I don't know about others... :p

Bands that play C64/game music:

http://www.axesdenied.net/
http://www.machinaesupremacy.com/
http://www.pressplayontape.com/

-Methem

Methem

08-05-2006, 06:17 AM

Related to my previous post... a few more tunes:

http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2953/Andrea%20Baroni%20-%20Wizball%20%28the%20eternal%20voyager%29.mp3 (another version of "Wizball")
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2184/Markus%20Schneider%20-%20Golden%20Axe%20%28Christmas%20Edition%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/3194/Fby%20-%20The%20Last%20Ninja%20%28palace%20garden%20conce rto%29.mp3

Ok, will stop now... :)

-Methem

podakayne

08-23-2006, 05:30 PM

not so much guilty as "i ain't ashamed"

Outcast – they are such a fresh breath of musical musings to have come along in the R&B, hip/hop, rap whatever genre you wanna call it...loved them from the start. if i were my kid i'd be shakin it always to their beat. cant wait to see their movie Idlewild too.

and hey Yspaz i think Mike J jams...but back in the day before he (Eminem) lost himself, and i liked eminem too (okay that's guilt)

and i cant do lawrence welk (did everyone's folks watch that show?:rolleyes2) but will say i like louie/louie armstrong

:boxing: :haha: :rofl:

Naganon

08-25-2006, 10:17 PM

OK...I'm desperate...can't think of anything. I LOVE Alan Parsons Project. Would that be a guilty pleasure? Well, if they are wrong...I don't want to be right!

Rick and Roll

08-26-2006, 06:09 AM

OK...I'm desperate...can't think of anything. I LOVE Alan Parsons Project. Would that be a guilty pleasure? Well, if they are wrong...I don't want to be right!

There's plenty of APP here. And they were mentioned in Austin Powers!:haha: Anyway, the more I look at this thread the more I can't figure out what is and what should never be a guilty pleasure (free Zep reference).

Even if you say it's a guilty pleasure, I still like Lawrence Welk and 50's music.

Latest ones: Pat Benatar, Pretenders, Bread. :boxing:

By the way, I can't believe you don't have ANY.

RogorMortis

08-26-2006, 07:03 AM

Rick and Roll

08-26-2006, 07:36 AM

Okay KW is Manilow and out in front

I have Madonna's Ray of light - but I didn't go to her bash here in my town on Thursday with 85000 others - there was traffic chaos afterwards

I also have loads of J D Lang and gone to see her sing in Copenhagen and by gum can she sing.

Plenty of Niell Young, David Crosby, Grahman Nash and Steven Stills

Radiohead

Colin Blunstone, The Shadows, The Police, The Clash, Level 42, Joni Mitchell, Elton John, Eurythmics, America and several more

Presume you mean kd lang...Ben Mink of FM fame was her musical director for a long time...so there's a prog connection (sort of like Rosenthal from Happy the Man plays with Billy Joel).

You know, I'm hard pressed to catergoize any of yours as guilty Rogor (save for the Madonna).. esp CSNY, Elton, and the Police.

JRV

09-21-2006, 07:31 AM

The author should have linked to this thread from this article--

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115870788096368214-zj9tm7L2xyBtEDP26wwK2OTRb1Y_20070920.html?mod=blog s

Rick and Roll

09-21-2006, 07:47 AM

The author should have linked to this thread from this article--

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115870788096368214-zj9tm7L2xyBtEDP26wwK2OTRb1Y_20070920.html?mod=blog s

Some of his "regular" bands are guilty pleasures to me... nothing like referencing an obscure group to try to proclaim you're cool :rofl:

Bmithra

09-21-2006, 04:00 PM

Well, I think I will have a go at this.

Hank Williams(senior not junior)
Willie Nelson
Dolly Parton(distant relative according to my mom)
Toby Kieth
Oingo Boingo
The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy
XTC
Cheap Trick
The Tubes
Patsy Cline

I am sure there are more, I will add them as I remember them.:neener:

KeithieW

09-21-2006, 05:55 PM

Well, I think I will have a go at this.

Dolly Parton(distant relative according to my mom)

Interesting Bm............there's a couple of Dolly Parton's that I'm rather fond of too. :rolleyes2

OK, OK......you all knew I'd say something like that.

ricb

09-21-2006, 09:29 PM

funny thread~

erm...oh oh...um gonna feel like um nekkid now!

melanie?
billie holiday or
dinah washington (i LOVE her voice ever since i was 4 or 5)
howard roberts?? (lounge jazz master)
mavericks (oops, did i say that?)
mama's and the papa's
james taylor
stylistics
delfonics
three dog night

shit...that's only a snippett .... ok ... put me in jail, i'm all sortsa guilty

Yesspaz

09-22-2006, 05:18 PM

delfonics
three dog night
I love Three Dog Night! Great band and great vocals. And the Delfonics! Man, every time I see that band's name I think of that Tarantino movie "Jackie Brown."

KeithieW

11-29-2006, 08:00 AM

Here you go..........I'd be interested to hear what else you newer members of the family like. :)

Be honest!!!!

Ted

11-29-2006, 08:10 AM

Here you go..........I'd be interested to hear what else you newer members of the family like. :)

Be honest!!!!

KW - thanks for resurrecting this thread!!:rawk:

Along with KW - I too like Barry Manilow - and I have seen him live 4 times (my wife is a BIG fan)
I also like Hank Williams Sr
and Johnny Horton - I love the ballads and the Honky Tonk songs....

I sing with the Go-Go's when my kids play the LPs...

I like most bluegrass - have a few Bill Monroe and
I enjoy Texas Swing - Bob Willis and the Texas Playboys - and a new incarnation of TS - "Hot Club of Cowtown" - 5 CD's and the band has broken up (google them though!)

Walter/Wendy Carlos - I love the Switch-On albums

So - how does that grab you all..

From down Texas way.... Ted:knowing:

PeterG

11-29-2006, 08:32 AM

I 'd have to say for me it's Blondie.

MrMagoo

11-30-2006, 10:14 AM

Been sorta monitoring this thread, and realized I need to fess up: Manhattan Transfer! :rawk:

PeterG

11-30-2006, 10:36 AM

I love Three Dog Night! Great band and great vocals. And the Delfonics! Man, every time I see that band's name I think of that Tarantino movie "Jackie Brown."

Nothing to feel guilty about there. TDN rocked (in their day) except for the cheesy songs. (there were a couple)

I still have "Around the world wiith Three Dog Night" live album on vinyl.

eloy1964

11-30-2006, 01:28 PM

KeithieW

11-30-2006, 08:13 PM

Looking through my collection I think my best offering would be 'The Magic Rounabout - Dougal and the blue cat'. Always did model myself on Dylan the Rabbit! I bought the album cheap at a record fair because it is quite a collectors piece with the film that came out not so long back.

I loved the Magic Roundabout too. Dylan was the guy I and most of my friends resembled too.

I have a fondness for the Clangers. I have every episode on DVD and a CD of all the music used on the Program.

I went to a restaurant the day I bought this CD and asked the staff "Can I play my new Clangers CD". The waiter thought it was a new punk band and agreed. When the music started it took about 10 minutes of odd looks from the staff and a couple of comments from other diners before it was removed from the player and returned to me. Bloody philistines!!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/clangers/

kirk

12-01-2006, 12:18 AM

Nothing to feel guilty about there. TDN rocked (in their day) except for the cheesy songs. (there were a couple)

I still have "Around the world wiith Three Dog Night" live album on vinyl.
Wash away my troubles...
wash away my pain...
Wii-ith the rain in Shambala...

I swear, i'm going to cover that someday.

:-V
Kirk/Zenpool

Rick and Roll

12-01-2006, 06:36 AM

Wash away my troubles...
wash away my pain...
Wii-ith the rain in Shambala...

I swear, i'm going to cover that someday.

:-V
Kirk/Zenpool

love that song!

podakayne

12-05-2006, 10:35 PM

if MrM thinks he's the only one groovin to Manhattan Transfer ....scoot over i'm out here playin in the RED Clay!

great singin', guilty, guilty, guilty :flutter:

so what if i'm guilty of some solo projects by kenny loggins - Nightwatch & ALive lps
got me w/Angelique...and he looks sooo good w/that beard :knowing:

PeterG

12-06-2006, 07:33 AM

Wash away my troubles...
wash away my pain...
Wii-ith the rain in Shambala...

I swear, i'm going to cover that someday.

:-V
Kirk/Zenpool

I think there are a BUNCH of TDN songs that could be stylistically covered, and be popular again.... grreat writing... song structure. :rawk:

Ted

12-06-2006, 07:37 AM

KeithieW

12-07-2006, 04:28 AM

KeithieW,

I just bought - for my wife's birthday - Barry Manilow's "First and Farewell" - it has 2 DVD's - one from his first ever concert on his own (using band he played with for Bette M.) - it is black and white and bad/poor quality - but lots of fun. The 2nd DVD is from his last concert - on the road - in late nineties (early 2000's ?) Haven't watched it yet.

Knowing of your "affection" for BM - or at least his music - thought I'd share. It is a good DVD.

Regards,
Ted :rawk:

Thanks Ted.......we have a good DVD library here. I'll see if they have it on their list and borrow it. If I like it I'll get it. I have to admit that my favorite BM era is the Mid 70s to mid 80s...the "Even Now" era. Some wonderful songs and even better arrangements. BM and Marty Panzer were a pretty formidable writing team.

Ted

12-07-2006, 06:13 AM

Thanks Ted.......we have a good DVD library here. I'll see if they have it on their list and borrow it. If I like it I'll get it. I have to admit that my favorite BM era is the Mid 70s to mid 80s...the "Even Now" era. Some wonderful songs and even better arrangements. BM and Marty Panzer were a pretty formidable writing team.

KeithieW - you are so right. I hope they have the DVD! BM is also a great showman - getting the audience involved in show. :knowing:

Thanks for sharing your "guilty pleasure" with us all!! And giving us a chance to do the same.

BTW - have you heard of RUNRIG? It is a Scottish Rock group. Any thoughts or comments about them?

Regards,
Ted

KeithieW

12-07-2006, 07:16 AM

BTW - have you heard of RUNRIG? It is a Scottish Rock group. Any thoughts or comments about them?

Regards,
Ted

I have a scottish friend who ADORES Runrig. I don't mind them but have never given them enough "ear time". Next time I see Neil I'll do that. Thanks for the reminder.

Ted

12-07-2006, 07:38 AM

I have a scottish friend who ADORES Runrig. I don't mind them but have never given them enough "ear time". Next time I see Neil I'll do that. Thanks for the reminder.

My Pleasure - I too have a friend who adores them. He has been to Scotland once and on a separate trip, his son and sister made to a concert and goto to go backstage and visit with the band.

They are really good - especially the way they mix the "traditional" instruments into a rock format - something about pipes and guitars.... wow.

Well worth listening to!!

Ted

daria

12-23-2006, 09:19 AM

Early Queen ;-)

Rick and Roll

12-23-2006, 10:09 AM

Early Queen ;-)

Guilty as charged!

March of the Black Queen....I think I'll play that today...

fremder99

12-25-2006, 06:41 AM

Hmmm. don't think I've EVER posted to this thread... Time to fess up!

Spacey New Age music - (Some say "new age" rhymes with sewage, but I enjoy it at the "right" time... Have even composed a bit of it)

Kayak - Sorta prog Pop, but Ton Scherpenzeel is a brilliant song-writer.

Innocence Mission - Early stuff is great, but they've gotten almost TOO "precious" lately...

Whew... that hurt, but my soul is cleansed... will anyone speak to me ever again?

DEzerov

12-25-2006, 03:13 PM

You're not alone with the Manhattan Transfer, Poda....too cool...too hot!
Steely Dan...Becker and Fagan...just brilliant
XTC....you are right Rickster....
Tears for Fears
Sparks...the Mael Brothers are very, very clever...Lil Beethoven is unreal as are the core three albums from the early and mid 70's
Bill Nelson (solo and Be-Bop Deluxe)....retro-futurism at it's best
Roxy Music/ Brian Ferry

....these are a few of my favorite things....

mossy

12-26-2006, 09:33 AM

frem, innocence mission! I went through a major aural journey with them, but once done sort of forgot all about them. Birds of My Neighborhood...what a brilliant album.

fremder99

12-26-2006, 01:32 PM

frem, innocence mission! I went through a major aural journey with them, but once done sort of forgot all about them. Birds of My Neighborhood...what a brilliant album.

Absolutely agree! Birdless is a real moment on that album. The "precious" comment is probably in response to a profile of them on NPR for the album of lullabyes. Maybe if I had kids?? :)

I note their website promises a new album in March!

Mighty-Boosh

12-27-2006, 04:01 PM

One of my most loved 'guilty pleasures' has always been Uriah Heep. I was really into them up until Conquest or thereabouts, but I've lost track of them since.

They released some duffers (Innocent Victim, Fallen Victim etc) but these were more than made up for by an earlier run of great albums - The Magician's Birthday, Look At Yourself, Demons and Wizards, Salisbury etc.

I haven't heard much UH for years - there's one track on the Moon, but I'd love to hear some more.

MB

mnpwoods

01-14-2007, 05:18 PM

I took my girl to see BM @ The Academy of Music in Philly. Same reasons, same results...maybe, it was 31 yrs. ago! He sang "The Dr. Pepper Song"...eveybody sang with him.
I love Magma, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, 1st Kansas, ACDC, Rob Zombie, Philip Glass, and I still play Ambrosia alot but I can only play when I'm in the house by myself.
Mat

mnpwoods

01-14-2007, 05:20 PM

KeithieW

01-14-2007, 06:12 PM

kirk

01-14-2007, 06:59 PM

Hey Mat-
Welcome! That may be the 1st time Phillip Glass
and Rob Zombie appeared next to each other on a list!

P e a c e

Kirk

roger

01-15-2007, 06:20 AM

heh. got out my turntable the other day and put on Pablo Cruise and Chilliwack...

Rick and Roll

01-15-2007, 09:10 AM

heh. got out my turntable the other day and put on Pablo Cruise and Chilliwack...

Pablo Cruise I know...Chilliwack? Sounds like some Vermont form of self-pleasure:knowing:

weezie

01-16-2007, 11:35 AM

What about that band from the 70's from Australia called "Daddy Cool" and their song of the same name? ( i confess that I still like it)

zvinki

01-16-2007, 12:09 PM

Chilliwack is a Canadian band from Chilliwack in British Columbia back in the 80's. They were promising at the begining but they seemed to have lost the inspiration pretty quickly.

Chilliwack indeed Rick!! Ouch!

Rick and Roll

01-16-2007, 12:22 PM

zvinki

01-16-2007, 12:26 PM

Always lurking and wurking.

KeithieW

01-16-2007, 12:28 PM

Always lurking and wurking.
I reckon it's time you took a Faff break.........:rulez:

Great to read you again my friend.

zvinki

01-16-2007, 01:16 PM

Thanks Keithie. Unfortunately I no longer work alone. About 18 months ago I hired a guy who works for me. I have to set the right example you know. Can't be chatting to strange people all day. Fortunately he enjoys all things prog so the music is good at work.

KeithieW

01-16-2007, 01:27 PM

Can't be chatting to strange people all day.

I resemble that remark!!!!!!!! :)

roger

01-17-2007, 05:37 AM

here you go, Rick!

Chilliwack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilliwack_%28band%29)

it's damn cold in Vermont today...

Rick and Roll

01-17-2007, 06:52 AM

here you go, Rick!

Chilliwack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilliwack_%28band%29)

it's damn cold in Vermont today...

Quite a discography....i get a feeling I've heard a song or two by them, but I can't seem to put it together...

flashback

01-17-2007, 03:24 PM

I wish you had more Grobschnitt than the 2 albums you have on the site.Your missing a lot of good stuff,anything from thier first album to say 1980 is really great.

DutchMarco

02-03-2007, 10:22 AM

I thought I was embarrassed enough for liking Hawkwind.

Nothing wrong with liking the Ramones, Richard Hell, and so forth. But I blush to admit liking the Psychedelic Furs.

Hidden classic from the new wave catalog: Tom Verlaine's Warm and Cool. All instrumental, very simple, wonderful music.

My wife likes a lot of mid-70s radio rock so I find myself listening to "Radar Love," "Come Sail Away," and so forth. It's not so bad...better than Madonna or Eminem, anyway. Or Barry Manilow. (My dad calls him Barely Manenough.)

I have to partially agree with you on that. But I don't know enoug BM to have anopinion about him, apart from perhaps "Copa ...copa cobana!"
But radar love is one of my fav tunes ((not an alltime fav but it's enjoyable enough for me).My other preferences are:
Slayer (from my teen era)
Jean Michel Jarre (from my preteen era)
I have recently discovered Can, not guilty but good prog/electro.

I like a lot of the old blues / blues rock pieces
Goldemn Earring, Led Zep, Deep Purple etc.

I despise modern talentless (apart from "showing your boobs") factory-pop.

Sorry my list isn't as guilty as some of your lists

kirk

02-04-2007, 01:29 AM

>" BlackMax-
"But I blush to admit liking the Psychedelic Furs."

..It's a heartbreak beat, playin' all night long,
down on my street...
And it feels like love, got the radio on,
and it's all that we need...
Well it's a heartbreak beat..(beat)..((beat))...

Me too.

K

cribguy

02-06-2007, 11:10 AM

ABBA, baby! Erm, I mean, yeah...
I've seen Neil Diamond in concert...Got laid that night!
Herb Alpert, my dad loved him. Zorba The Greek kicks ass.
I'm done embarrassing myself for now.

Rick and Roll

02-06-2007, 11:14 AM

ABBA, baby! Erm, I mean, yeah...
I've seen Neil Diamond in concert...Got laid that night!
Herb Alpert, my dad loved him. Zorba The Greek kicks ass.
I'm done embarrassing myself for now.

Neat about the Neil show! Who was he? :dogpile:

Seriously...neat pic - now is there ANYWHERE that Tony levin's never been?

Zorba The Greek kicks ass...now that's a great line...will never hear that anywhere else!

Nice joke about the food, in the other thread....:thumbsup:

cribguy

02-06-2007, 01:36 PM

Ouch. I guess I deserved that one.

:notworthy

Hawksun

03-03-2007, 08:46 AM

I have to admit I am a huge Fleetwood Mac fan (from the 1975- onward era, not the blues one), indeed Rumours would probably end up in my top 10 albums list easily. :notsure:

pawpoet

03-03-2007, 09:10 AM

Guilty Pleasures

Abba rocks my row boat.
Bonnie Rait - she's right there vulnerable.
I would say Neil Sedaka but no, not really.
Mastodon - somethin about em, don't know
Willie Nelson - croon, croon, croon

a few of many - pawpoet

ViolinCyndee

03-05-2007, 01:13 AM

KeithieW

03-05-2007, 02:13 AM

OMG... Here are some of mine <blush>

The Carpenters
Grease soundtrack (and movie!)
Olivia-Newton John
Duran Duran
the Fixx
B52's
Billy Squire
Def Leppard
VH (with DLR)

various one hit wonders from the 80's:
"Take on Me" A-ha
"Saftey Dance" Men without Hats
"Walk like an Egyptian" Bangles
"99 Red Balloons" Nena
LOTS more 80's stuff I am sure!

:::::::::::::::::::blush:::::::::::::::::::::::

Hi Cyndee,

I don't see a lot wrong with that list. Carpenters, Great. Grease, Excellent, Duran Duran, well if I'm not trance dancing to Hawkwind I'll probably be 'Struttin' my funky stuff' to The Reflex. What a great track that is. :yougo

Oh yes, with a list like that you get an invite to my next party. :)

Rick and Roll

03-05-2007, 07:00 AM

OMG... Here are some of mine <blush>

B52's
Billy Squire
VH (with DLR)

"Take on Me" A-ha
"Saftey Dance" Men without Hats

:::::::::::::::::::blush:::::::::::::::::::::::

the B52's were and still are one of my very favorites.....

I dated a girl who listened to nothing but Billy Squire...:bang!:

The first VH record came out when I was 14. Required listening!

Orphan Project covered the A-ha tune at their shows :)

I believe Ian Anderson played on a MWH song or two...

not so guilty, revealing maybe :)

As for the Carpenters, well we've only just begun..and as I've often said, if Karen Carpenter ate the same sandwich that Mama Cass ate, they'd both be alive today!

That's ok, I enjoy the Bread songs......:jawdrop:

roger

03-05-2007, 09:04 AM

> if Karen Carpenter ate the same sandwich that Mama Cass ate, they'd both be alive today!

that is sooo bad!

hahahaha

ViolinCyndee

03-06-2007, 08:38 PM

Hi Cyndee,

I don't see a lot wrong with that list. Carpenters, Great. Grease, Excellent, Duran Duran, well if I'm not trance dancing to Hawkwind I'll probably be 'Struttin' my funky stuff' to The Reflex. What a great track that is. :yougo

Oh yes, with a list like that you get an invite to my next party. :)

WOW thanks! I guess it's not all that bad then! :imp: :imp:

ViolinCyndee

03-06-2007, 08:39 PM

the B52's were and still are one of my very favorites.....

I dated a girl who listened to nothing but Billy Squire...:bang!:

The first VH record came out when I was 14. Required listening!

Orphan Project covered the A-ha tune at their shows :)

I believe Ian Anderson played on a MWH song or two...

not so guilty, revealing maybe :)

As for the Carpenters, well we've only just begun..and as I've often said, if Karen Carpenter ate the same sandwich that Mama Cass ate, they'd both be alive today!

That's ok, I enjoy the Bread songs......:jawdrop:

I also LOVE Mama Cass! (love Mamas/Papas but also Cass' solo stuff!!!) :alien:

Roger -Dot- Lee

03-07-2007, 09:04 PM

"Take on Me" A-ha

You know, when this was being overplayed on the airwaves of the San Francisco Bay Area, I found that this particular song had the same rhythm of a 1972 Continental(TM) Cab-Over truck pulling a 27' trailer at exactly 56 mph.

You don't want to know how I know this. Trust me.

Roger -Dot- Lee, no, Really.

Turnba

03-09-2007, 06:59 PM

Yeh, I've got to say, there's nothing wrong with ABBA. There's a difference between pop and telented pop. It's just quite rare to find talented pop :-P Eegads, and the example picked would be from 30 years ago!

Just re-registered with AuralMoon after too long in LaLa land. Great to see people finally talking proper nonsense here!!!

On the guilty pleasures front - got to be the Chicago (musical) soundtrack (turn the volume down on the bus) and my recent love of Mika. So happy he folds in on himself and implodes!

Hawksun

03-09-2007, 09:21 PM

Yeh, I've got to say, there's nothing wrong with ABBA. There's a difference between pop and telented pop. It's just quite rare to find talented pop :-P Eegads, and the example picked would be from 30 years ago!

I'd say there's nothing wrong with pop at all, unless you're talking Top40 pop. There's great modern pop (Beulah, The Apples in Stereo, Benoit Pioulard and Architecture in Helsinki comes to my mind) but you gotta put some effort to find it. :D

Oh, and ABBA rocks. A lot. I'm not even joking.

Edit: Oh, and by the way, welcome back to AM Turnba!

ViolinCyndee

03-11-2007, 10:19 PM

You know, when this was being overplayed on the airwaves of the San Francisco Bay Area, I found that this particular song had the same rhythm of a 1972 Continental(TM) Cab-Over truck pulling a 27' trailer at exactly 56 mph.

You don't want to know how I know this. Trust me.

Roger -Dot- Lee, no, Really.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm TMI??? 8-o

claycorn

03-14-2007, 01:14 PM

make it big by wham(hell any wham for that matter)

wildk

03-14-2007, 01:36 PM

Tony Christie!

I recently saw him at a Burnley Football Fund Raising gig in Burnley.

I'm not too sure which of the above two gives me the most guilt?

He was good...

The shame ...wildk

rafitafy

03-15-2007, 01:50 PM

haha come on lets get real, some popy progressive...Asia would be nice, the master in guitars Steve Howe, I still ask myself how could he joined Asia after being in Yes

Yesspaz

03-28-2007, 05:00 PM

Been a while, but I think I'd have to add the only rap group I've ever liked. I recently found a "band" that blew me away with their one hit back in the early 90s, but I hated to admit I liked a rap song. Forgot all about it until VH1's top 100 one-hit wonders special.

Digable Planets

kirk

03-28-2007, 05:12 PM

hey Chris-

I hate to admit it, but...Gorillaz....(sob..don't look at meeee!!!)

K

Roger -Dot- Lee

03-29-2007, 08:52 PM

I liked a rap song.

I'm not afraid to admit that there's one 'rap' song that I find tolerable. I wouldn't go out of my way to find or listen to them, but 'Gangsta's Paradise' by Coolio is one that I won't reach to turn off as soon as I hear it. It's a decent song as those things go, but the thing that got to me was it's strong anti-gang theme.

Two points for Coolio for that one.

And yes, I did find it because of 'Amish Paradise' by Weird Al.

Rick and Roll

03-30-2007, 06:46 AM

I'm not afraid to admit that there's one 'rap' song that I find tolerable. I wouldn't go out of my way to find or listen to them, but 'Gangsta's Paradise' by Coolio is one that I won't reach to turn off as soon as I hear it. It's a decent song as those things go, but the thing that got to me was it's strong anti-gang theme.

Two points for Coolio for that one.

And yes, I did find it because of 'Amish Paradise' by Weird Al.

For crossovers, I've always thought Faith No More's "Epic" was a fantastic song. And early Rage Against the Machine is moving stuff. As long as they keep it interesting....bands like System of A Down combine metal and rap elements ok..

Coolio didn't nail a three?:p

AtomikRooster

03-30-2007, 08:05 AM

For me it's the Steve Miller Band. The lyrics are trite, the music is hopelessly infectious. Some days that's all I want to listen to.

KeithieW

03-30-2007, 08:28 AM

For me it's the Steve Miller Band. The lyrics are trite, the music is hopelessly infectious. Some days that's all I want to listen to.
You reminded me Rooster.....The Joker and Fly like an Eagle.

I want to be a space cowboy and have time keep on slippin' into the future.

Rick and Roll

03-30-2007, 08:30 AM

For me it's the Steve Miller Band. The lyrics are trite, the music is hopelessly infectious. Some days that's all I want to listen to.

As a teen I played the cover off of his records. Maybe it was the breathing inbetween the notes :yougo

It's great stuff!

(don't forget to send me your email)....

prickly

04-09-2007, 11:07 AM

I have so many albums from Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Lionel Hampton and of course Frank Sinatra; my parents have heard their music when I was born and grow up ...and I like a lot of this Country/New Country stuff...George Strait, John Michael Montgomery, Carrie Underwood, Van Preston...it's perfect for relaxing and a nice contrast to all this 11/8-double-base-demisemiquaver...

progdirjim

04-09-2007, 03:12 PM

hey Chris-

I hate to admit it, but...Gorillaz....(sob..don't look at meeee!!!)

K

I have the Gorillaz disc "Demon Days" and it's actually pretty good. Tracks like "Last Living Souls" and "Every Planet We Reach Is Dead" are well written pop/rock. "Feel Good Inc" is a bit trite, but hey...

***separate post response***
And for the record, Abba does NOT rock. I have no problem with anyone liking them, but they do not ROCK. They waft gently, perhaps even pleasantly, in the breeze, but they do not rock. Are we clear? Actually, the drummer from Abba played in a jazz band locally in San Diego in the late 80's/early 90's, and he/it was pretty good.

JRV

04-09-2007, 06:22 PM

Among the top-40 CDs in my 14yo daughter's collection, Gorillaz ranks fairly high in my book. (I can't tell her that, of course, or she'd throw it away.)

Rick and Roll

04-09-2007, 07:03 PM

And for the record, Abba does NOT rock.

That's funny even miles from home :yougo

coyote

04-09-2007, 08:15 PM

Here Goes:
The Fixx Laura Nyro Toad the Wet Sprocket The Cure Dixie Chicks Tears for Fears jazz fusion and all things celtic especially Clannad Solas

coyote

ViolinCyndee

04-10-2007, 02:36 AM

WOW......amazing...

roger

04-10-2007, 05:27 AM

the Four Seasons (Frankie Valli, not Vivaldi...) especially the mid-70s stuff.

KeithieW

12-30-2007, 05:12 PM

More newbies so It's time for a resurrection.

This is for Snard....:)

Rick and Roll

12-30-2007, 08:50 PM

I've come to the realization since the last time we chatted about this that there are no guilty pleasures...... half my likes would fall under that category anyway!

gr8sho92

12-30-2007, 10:49 PM

I'll put one up for now as my brain is on power saver mode.

After reading 17 pages on this thread, and doing a search, I was surprised I didn't see anyone mention the "Greatest band in the land".

Kiss released their Alive! album in 1975 and I enjoyed it as a teenager. but in 2004 I finally had a chance to see them live. One of the best rock concerts I have ever been to. I was able to get one of my sons to attend with me and I do believe he is appreciating the opportunity he had to see them. I love cranking their first studio album leading off with Strutter playing LOUD.