Guilty Pleasures!!!!!

[Rick and Roll]

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

[roger]

I love Alison Krauss.

and Rufus Wainright.

[mossy]

Lawrence Welk (not EVERY week)

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

[mossy]

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



Well, at least my taste in music is eclectic

[podakayne]

okay mossy , 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

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

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

lovingly sis
who'll admit to liking "alone again naturally"
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!
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.

poda

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

[progdirjim(Admin)]

Originally Posted by podakayne

who'll admit to liking "alone again naturally"

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

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...

[QuantumJo]

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]

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]

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

[pelothar]

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

[Hawksun]

-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.

[Lemur]

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(Admin)]

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.
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? If it was anybody else I'd be MORE honest!!

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.)

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by progdirjim

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? If it was anybody else I'd be MORE honest!!

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?

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.

[Yesspaz]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Is that the same Rany Jackson on the panel that used to play bass and was on Ponty records?

Yep, the same one who played on Journey's Raised on Radio album too.

[kirk]

Originally Posted by progdirjim

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

I stand vindicated.

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]

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

[Methem]

(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/5...le%20Remix.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2...20Remix%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/1...%20Warlock.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/4...Sanxion%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/3...ers%202006.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/1...20rmx%29.mp 3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/8...ghtment%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2...e%20mix%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/3...%20Sanctum.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/3...oade r%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/1...Club%20Mix.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2...coustic%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...

Bands that play C64/game music:

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


-Methem

[Yesspaz]

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

[Yesspaz]

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



I'll have to add that I'm a sucker for Mary Chapin Carpenter. She's just anti-Nashville enough to earn my respect. Great singer and musician if you like that folkie-Americana stuff. Hunt down an mp3 of her version of the folk classic "Why Walk When You Can Fly?" or her own "I am a Town."