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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!

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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. :)

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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:

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

that is sooo bad!

hahahaha

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

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

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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.

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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!

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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!

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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm TMI??? 8-o

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

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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

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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

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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

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hey Chris-

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

K

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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


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