Guilty Pleasures!!!!!

JRV said that someone would have to start this thread so here goes!!!

Motorhead - Great stuff to bang your head to, probably the best Metal Band EVER!!!!
Cream
The Doors
Barry Manilow - How's that for honesty???
The Tragically Hip - Just discovered them while in Canada on vacation.
Cat Stevens
Da Da
Stone Roses
Judie Tzuke - The most beautiful songstress I know.

That'll do for starters.

Anyone else like to take a shot?

[zvinki]

I'll jump in with probably my most embarassing one: I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor (I think).

I also enjoy:

Chicago
BTO (for just good straight ahead rock)
Radar Love by Golden Earing
Sarah Maclachlan
Destiny's Child
Neil Young
Gerry Rafferty's City to City
Psychedelic Furs
Strange Advance

I think I'll quit now.

Sorry Zvinki.....I think I still lead with Barry Manilow.

I also have a fondness for kd lang, The Fugs, Doris Day and Frank Sinatra.

The best of these though is Doris!!!!!!! She really is my Secret Love!!!

[Avian(Admin)]

Most AOR classic rock...

New Age ambient stuff...

The Eagles.

Ow, that hurt!

Avian

[progdirjim(Admin)]

Bob Seger

but I'll still defer to Keith's Barry Manilow pick as most embarrassing

[Avian(Admin)]

Cowboy Music (a little). NOT country - Sons of the Pioneers type stuff. <blush>

[JRV]

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]

Guilty pleasures?

[ivan_2068]

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

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]

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!!!!

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]

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]

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]

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".

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]

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

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]

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...

[Rick and Roll]

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]

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

Iván

[roger]

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

Iván

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