Guilty Pleasures

Just listening to some music I have downloaded that I'm sure fits in with guilty pleasures...

• Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle
• Bread - If
• Bread - I Want to Make it With You
• The Hollies - He Ain't Heavy...
• The Animals - Sky Pilot
• Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl

It's quite good isn't it!

if people hated me before then they ain't seen nothin' yet!

hell is for heroes

the darkness

the foo fighters

rage against the machine

audioslave

nightwish

jet

blink 182

blur

america

black label society

stereophonics

system of a down

snow patrol

jamie cullum

daft punk

box car racer

queen

manic street preachers

bowling for soup

lighthouse family

van halen

keane

AC/DC

slipknot

thin lizzy

jamiroquai

I don't know Dick.. even I can't handle Eric Carmen....  or Bobby Goldsboro.. altho 'Honey' and 'Autumn of my Life'.. can make me cry!

I have Pilot's "Magic" on my playlist.. but then it has a specific memory in my past.  Same with Ace's 'How Long'.. which when I met them all back at Max's in 1974.. they claimed it was written about their bass player...(funny how I can remember that)....

Other guilty pleasures:

Prince's -  (the symbol album) with my favorite on that being "7"

Marshall Tucker's "The Marshall Tucker Band"

James Taylor/Carole King - I've got everything she's ever done.. and all of his thru Gorilla.  He got a little to cheesy for me after that - I also have some Jackson Browne, Dan Fogelberg, Dan Hill, Eric Anderson, I loved that folk rock period.... which means I'm really good at Karaoke....

I also dig some Easy/Lounge Music too, stuff like Martin Denney, Arthur Lyman, Burt Bachrach, Esquivel, Dean Elliot, The Living Guitars, Tom Jones, Herb Alpert/Tijuana Brass and such.

However, I wouldn't be caught DEAD with the following:

The Ray Conniff Singers

Ferrante and Teischer

ANY Broadway/Showtunes     

I have the 7 inch of 'Criticize' by Alexander O'Neill

I also have a copy of 'I know him so well' by Elaine Paige & Barbara Dixon. Now I swear I have no idea where it came from. It must have been my mums, honest

The first single I ever bought with my pocket money, aged about 7, was 'Dont go breaking my heart' By Elton John & Kiki Dee. I still have it!

threefates, nothing to feel guilty about in your lot, well not much anyway. AC/DC, David Gray, Hermans Hermits all sounds ok to me..

peringo2 wrote: I bought the David Hasselhoff album and the Traci Lords one (althogh the latter was a present)

The Tracy Lords (that remarkable actress) was a present for ME. And I even listened to it THREE TIMES. And I got AROUSED.

Cesar Inca wrote: How I love Sade's music!!!... and how I love to watch Sade Adu singing on DVDs!! This is not a guilty pleasure, this is good taste for exquisite jazz-pop oriented emotional music for non-prog romantic moments. Long live Sade Adu!!! The older she grows, the prettier she gets!! Never stop whispering and humming your desolate words of love lost to my ears... NEVER, MY SMOOTH OPERATOR!!!

I totally hear you César! No matter what genre you like over another or what kind of music you’re used to listen to, Sade is a must in any type of music collection. Her DVD’s collection is completely enticing, especially “Lover Live” (where you can get the complete track list missing from the CD with the same name) and the most important thing, you get to see her dance, move, sing… and every single detail creates the perfect ambience to get quite moody…

(Saludos desde México al pueblo hermano de Perú!)

HI, THIS IS CÉSAR INCA.

How I love Sade's music!!!... and how I love to watch Sade Adu singing on DVDs!! This is not a guilty pleasure, this is good taste for exquisite jazz-pop oriented emotional music for non-prog romantic moments. Long live Sade Adu!!! The older she grows, the prettier she gets!! Never stop whispering and humming your desolate words of love lost to my ears... NEVER, MY SMOOTH OPERATOR!!!

Enya is also a brilliant performer, both on vocals and keyboards. her sense of vocal chorale is unique. mixing the Middle Ages and the Celtic folk. She's also very beautiful, not in an exotic way, but as a fairy. out of earthly reach, but always by my side in an alternate universe of enchanted forests and mystical rivers. Though her later recordings find her reiterating her own cliches, I regard her first 3 albums as some of the New Age recordings ever. No guilt in enjoying them, either. 

Without any sexual drive implied on the following ones, I also enjoy Vollenweider's and Mannheim Steamroller's works (the ones I know). But let me tell you about this guilty pleasure of mine, since I'm standing among friends - ASIA's poppish love song 'Never in a Million Years', from 'Alpha'. Now, THAT'S A REAL GUILTY PLEASURE!!! I can't help it, specially those synth arpeggios under the final vocals choruses during the fade-out. That and the SPICE GIRLS!! I can't imagine any guiltier pleasures, actually.

Regards

richardh wrote: landberkdoten wrote: ENYA – Watermark (there’s something about her…)

Isn't there just!!!

I think that Clannad and Enya deserve to be in the archives. I just love that music when I need a serious dose of "chill". Shepherd Moons is astounding too.