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coffeeintheface 
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el böthy
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Posted: April 08 2006 at 17:10 |
Guilty pleasures?...mmmm no I guess not...damn it, I have such a good taste in music it makes me sick
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Rust
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Posted: April 08 2006 at 17:34 |
Tormato is great! 
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We got to pump the stuff to make us tough
from the heart
Its astart
What we need is awareness we cant get careless
Mental self defensive fitness
Make everybody see in order to fight the powers that be
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mystic fred
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Posted: April 08 2006 at 17:34 |
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Dirk
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Posted: April 08 2006 at 17:42 |
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Some confessions:
I like a lot of the poppy Oldfield albums like Platinum, Qe2, Five miles out, Discovery etc...
I like Tubular bells II more than Tubular bells I.
I'm also rather fond of ELO especially Time.
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Zitro
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Posted: April 08 2006 at 17:54 |
 Dirk wrote:
Some confessions:
I like Tubular bells II more than Tubular bells I.
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You are not alone
I LOVE TB II (I would give it 4/5), but I can't stand the rough sound and boredom of the original one. I would only give it (2/5) for historical importance and the good intro
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Suki
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Posted: April 08 2006 at 18:47 |
coffeeintheface wrote:
Stupid post. Who cares what one person considers a "guilty pleasure". If it's enjoyable, listen to it. That's that. I enjoy everything from progressive bands such as Tangerine Dream and King Crimson to mainstream pop bands like Vertical Horizon and Alterbridge. To me, nothing's a guilty pleasure. I would go insane if I could only listen to prog for the rest of my life. But I would also go insane if I could only listen to poppy stuff my whole life. |
Indeed. There is no shame in liking pop music, it's all a matter of taste. Music can be as entertaining without odd time signatures, epics, etc.
I like DT's 'I walk besides you', for example. Be as poppish as it may, I still find the song to be charged with emotions.
However, coffeeintheface, I must disagree on the part of Alter Bridge being poppish and mainstream.
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Tenemos
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Posted: April 08 2006 at 19:03 |
Neal Morse - Lead Me Lord (worship sessions volume 1)
Neal Morse - Send The Fire (worship sessions volume 2)
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Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?
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Losendos
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Posted: April 08 2006 at 21:45 |
This thread is no stupider than any other.
I also like 90125 . I like From Genesis to Revelations and Duke . I think Mike Oldfiled made the right move doing those half prog half pop albums . I also like The Eagles and America a lot
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How wonderful to be so profound
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coffeeintheface
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Posted: April 08 2006 at 23:21 |
Suki wrote:
coffeeintheface wrote:
Stupid post. Who cares what one
person considers a "guilty pleasure". If it's enjoyable, listen to it.
That's that. I enjoy everything from progressive bands such as
Tangerine Dream and King Crimson to mainstream pop bands like Vertical
Horizon and Alterbridge. To me, nothing's a guilty pleasure. I would go
insane if I could only listen to prog for the rest of my life. But I
would also go insane if I could only listen to poppy stuff my whole
life. |
Indeed. There is no shame in liking pop music, it's all a matter of
taste. Music can be as entertaining without odd time signatures, epics,
etc.
I like DT's 'I walk besides you', for example. Be as poppish as
it may, I still find the song to be charged with emotions.
However, coffeeintheface, I must disagree on the part of Alter Bridge being poppish and mainstream. |
Hey man, that's cool you disagree on Alterbridge "being mainstream",
because the only reason I kind of lumped them there is because it is
basically Creed with a new singer. And EVERYONE seems to have hated
Creed (even though I loved their debut album, and their 2nd and 3rd
albums had good material in between). And Mark Tremonti is one of the
better guitarists in mainstream rock, in both his work with Creed and
Alterbridge.
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E-Dub
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Posted: April 09 2006 at 05:26 |
Journey is a big " guilty pleasure" of mine. One of the first bands I got into
as
a kid, and I am instantly transported as soon as I pop Escape or Frontiers
into the player. I even like this latest incarnation of Journey with Steve
Augeri
on vocals. Very impressed with Arrival and their latest disc, Generations.
Mike + The Mechanics is another one. Such a shame about Paul Young,
though. A great voice silenced forever. RIP, Paul.
Others are REO Speedwagon, Squeeze, The Style Council, and newer
bands
like Train, Dave Matthews Band, and Matchbox Twenty.
There...I said it. 
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E-Dub
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Posted: April 09 2006 at 05:30 |
<< Stupid post. Who cares what one person considers
a " guilty pleasure".>>
I actually find this one fun. And there's no such thing as a stupid post...only
stupid responses.
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BaldFriede
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Posted: April 09 2006 at 05:34 |
bhikkhu wrote:
I have always liked Steve Hackett's "Cured," but man does it get lambasted
by most people. It surprises me to see that Progadicto considers "So" and
"Us" to be pop albums. They did hit the charts, but I think that was just an
abberant surge of the masses having some good taste. |
Nay, they were pop. Gabriel will have a lot of work to polish his now tarnished image.
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 BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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Blacksword
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Posted: April 09 2006 at 06:58 |
90125 -
Genesis - Genesis
Big Lad in the Windmill - It Bites
Once around the World - It Bites
Images & Words - Dream Theater 
'Kayleigh' - Marillion 
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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jonirob
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Posted: April 09 2006 at 07:43 |
Spice Girls!
Only kidding.
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Paco Fox
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Posted: April 10 2006 at 03:46 |
Zitro wrote:
Dirk wrote:
Some confessions:
I like Tubular bells II more than Tubular bells I.
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You are not alone
I LOVE TB II (I would give it 4/5), but I can't stand the rough sound and boredom of the original one. I would only give it (2/5) for historical importance and the good intro
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Hey, count with me for the TB2 appreciation society.
Anyway, thanks to the techno music and the neverending Tubular albums, just being a Oldfield fan like I am forces me to sya it as a guilty pleasure!.
Another guilty thing I like to listen to now and then is Rhapsody. And, of course, that really catchy pop album called GIANT FOR A DAY! . I mean, I even like 'I'ts only goodbye', which is the song even the only reviewer ever I've read praising this album dislikes!.
By the way, regarding the utility of threads like this: well, it's fun. The term 'gulity pleasure' is just one of those 'nudge-nudge-wink-wink' things that just doesn't deserve being taken too seriously. I know a lot about this things, specially from my experience in movie programming.
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FragileDT
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Posted: April 10 2006 at 03:51 |
BaldFriede wrote:
bhikkhu wrote:
I have always liked Steve Hackett's "Cured," but man does
it get lambasted
by most people. It surprises me to see that Progadicto considers "So" and
"Us" to be pop albums. They did hit the charts, but I think that was just an
abberant surge of the masses having some good taste. |
Nay, they were pop. Gabriel will have a lot of work to polish his now
tarnished image.
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Yeah and it's called "UP"
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One likes to believe
In the freedom of music
But glittering prizes
And endless Compromises
Shatter the illusion
Of integrity
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Rocktopus
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Posted: April 10 2006 at 04:33 |
The question is guilty Prog plesaures, right?
One of my first favorite albums was ELO's 'Time'. I must have been six when my parents bought that (and 'The Wall'). I still love it.
Two or three songs by italian comically overblown, operapowerspeedmetallers Rhapsody, can often get me in a stupid, happy mood. Are they for real? I think they are.
These two acts does not go well with my official VdGG, Cantebury,
Kraut, Magma prog taste. I don't mind, but its not the part of my music
taste I focus on while talking to strangers.
Progrock is generally considered the ultimate guilty pleasure in music, isn't it?
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Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
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Dirk
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Posted: April 10 2006 at 04:45 |
Rocktopus wrote:
The question is guilty Prog plesaures, right?
One of my first favorite albums was ELO's 'Time'. I must have been six when my parents bought that (and 'The Wall'). I still love it.
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Paco Fox
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Posted: April 10 2006 at 06:40 |
Rocktopus wrote:
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Progrock is generally considered the ultimate guilty pleasure in music, isn't it?
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Of course!
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