Guilty Pleasures!!!!!

[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

[Methem]

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

http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2...voyager%29.mp3 (another version of "Wizball")
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2...Edition%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/3...ce rto%29.mp3

Ok, will stop now...


-Methem

[podakayne]

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?) but will say i like louie/louie armstrong

[Naganon]

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]

Originally Posted by Naganon

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! 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.

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

[RogorMortis]

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

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by RogorMortis

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]

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

http://online.wsj.com/public/article...ml?mod=blog s

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by JRV

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

http://online.wsj.com/public/article...ml?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

[Bmithra]

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.

Originally Posted by Bmithra

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.

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

[ricb]

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]

Originally Posted by ricb

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."

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

Be honest!!!!

[Ted]

Originally Posted by KeithieW

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!!

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

[PeterG]

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

[MrMagoo]

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

[PeterG]

Originally Posted by Yesspaz

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]

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.

"Peace Maaan said dylan.
Boing said zebedeee time for bed!"