Guilty pleasures- music edition
 

For a little lighthearted coming clean... what are your guilty music pleasures? The ones you'd never admit to friends you listen to, but, when you're by yourself, you may have been known to belt along to.

For me... it's the Grass Roots. I don't think they were even a real band, so much as a revolving door of studio musicians, but I am a sucker for the overuse of a brass section.

Okay, there's my midnight confession. Sooner or later, you all will fess up yours. Don't keep it to yourself; live for today.

I can only hope I have given an earworm to a few of our members who were around when the Grass Roots were recording.

The Archies....Damn, there I said it.

I voted for The Dave Clark Five as better than the Beatles :o

The Monkees, long overdue for the hall of fame

I know I'm playing on a different field than a lot of DT-ers, if the What Are You Listening To? thread is any indication. If "coming clean" is about listening to the Grass Roots? I've actually posted a youtube video or two of them in that thread. More than half of my collection (CDs and vinyl) would probably raise questions about my geezerdom in many eyes here. Still, there are a few songs by Glen Campbell and . . . (gasp) . . . Barry Manilow that I have to admit I really enjoy when it's just me and the dogs. :o

I love this video, complete with 60s babe. As if the lyrics needed to be illustrated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WpU4p3MaOs

And who else could adapt Chopin to a pop song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDEynk7SwxE

My love for the Grass Roots is not guilty because they're from the 60s (I wasn't around for the decade, but I loooooove a lot of 1960s music); it's because they were cheesetastic. I was originally going to note my love for Herman's Hermits, except I think "No Milk Today" is actually a really good song so I have no shame for my adoration of 1960s Peter Noone and his horrible teeth.

For a guilty pleasure for which I was around during their heyday... i also, erm, at some point may have purchased Asia's Greatest Hits.

And I've watched the Chatroulette version of "Call Me Maybe" at least fifteen times. Because it's AWESOME.

"Pleasant Valley Sunday" is a great pop song.

yes classics..

#1 The Bee Gees (F*ck off, I like 'em)

#2 ABBA - Dancing Queen. Because when a 3yo blonde hair beauty looks up at you with those big blue eyes and says "Daddy, can I be dancing queen?", then dammit, you fire up You Tube and make her dancing queen for 2 hours, if that's what she wants.:{>::{>:

Yanni.

Carpenters

Bee Gees were great.
ABBA great. Love their music. Loved Mama Mia both on the screen and on Broadway.

You sound like my husband in this regard. He also likes the carpenters, which i saw someone mention. But his uncle used to drum a bit for the bee gees, and andy gibb, so we will listen to them if we are changing stations and they are on.

Vegas is the best place to see all the old has beens of yesteryear. Saw Barry there. Have to say he puts on a decent show. Last one I saw out there was Rod Stewart. Guy is about as old as I am. Women still hanging all over him.

In addition to the above,
How bout Neil Diamond,Al Martino, Engelbert Humperdinck,Barbra.Linda Ronstedt and the youngsters Heart..



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vhFnTjia_I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArbsU-UCSOE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kNJBnhJPO8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZLqZ_H_nZc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41P8UxneDJE


http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...E2A34D&first=0

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2q...you-1977_music

3 Dog Night:

"Just an old fashioned love song playin' on the radio"
"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever know"
"Won't you try a little tenderness."

Burt Bacharach:

"What the world needs now is love, sweet love, no not just for some, but for everyone"
"Do you know the way to San Jose?"
"Birds fall down from the sky, everytime you walk by. Just like me, they long to be, close to you."

There's nothing guilty about loving Burt Bacharach! If he's good enough for Elvis Costello, he's good enough for me.

Though credit where credit is due; the lyrics you quote are all Hal David; Bacharach was the composer. I love "I'll Never Fall in Love Again." The man's ability to mix love and heartache was unequalled by anyone except Lorenz Hart.

Here's a great cover of it by Splitsville:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8xvbJp1BK8

When they go into the ELO-esque harmonies for repeat of the third verse, my toes just curl in joy. Listen for the Buggles homage at the fade out.

Rainy Days and Mondays was the very first song I ever sang on karaoke, out in some dive bar in the midwest.

I was terrible.

Hey, that beats my 2-year-old blond boy demanding 2 hours of Gangnam Style. Especially when he demands "Mama do it." I managed to spasm my back doing those damn hops for him.

I think Hal David died within the last year didn't he?

Jog my memory. Can't remember who sang "Rainy Days and Mondays always make me cry?"

Surprised you didn't like 3 dog night. Paul Williams wrote Old Fashioned Love Song. Have no clue who wrote the others.

Carpenters. I had forgotten that one. Jut listened to Superstar. That was a good one.

You're right. The NY Times ran a really nice piece on him, filled with interesting tidbits about some of his big songs. If I remember right, it said it took him over two years to write "What the World Needs Now."

Wholehearted agreement on the Monkeys, Carpenters (playing their Christmas album last night), everyone bigrun mentioned, and especially Three Dog Night. My fave:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ1tF6LgB40

Gosh, I'm feeling more mainstream than evah!

Don't forget the Doobies (this song really gets the synapses sparking)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_iTbzc2K4U

Does anyone know who wrote the lyrics in my sig below?

Love listening to these old songs. Problem is, if I get started, can't stop until 2 or 3 in the morning and then my dogs want to wake me up about 6 or 7. listened to 3 dog night, Carpenters, Dave Loggins, Kenny Loggins and Stevie Nicks, Joe Cocker and a few others last night and into the wee hours. Good stuff.

Here's the Chatroulette version of "Call Me Maybe." For those who aren't aware of Chatroulette, it's a random visual hook-up via the internet- you get randomly connected with other people on line to talk or whatever. As the Daily Show hilariously discussed a few years ago, the vast majority of users seem to be guys showing their dongs, but sometimes you get something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAQhG59zqZc

Sadly, since I last saw it, it looks like one of the people in the video found out he was in the video and demanded his face be blurred. Heh.

I've been on a Motown binge on Pandora this week.

I love Pandora. Though this summer it did seem like no matter what I put in- "The Hooters" (don't be hating), "Fountains of Wayne", "The Mormon Tabernacle Choir," within four songs, it was playing Journey.

tough voice to follow as kAREN CARPENTER WAS ONE OF THE GREAT VOICES THE COUNTRY HAS EVER PRODUCED, someone shoulda smoked some good green with her and got her eating again. Tragic loss. Not my kind of music, but that voice was incredible

Have a box full of old lp vinyls, here's a few.
Carpenters,Close to You & Now and Then...Karen died way too young.
Barry - I made it through the rain
Aretha's Gold
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles greatest hits
Introducing The Beatles
Andy Williams - The Shadow of your smile
Richard Pryor's Greatest Hits
Christmas with the Chipmunks Vol 2
A real old jazz fav, June Christy with Stan Kenton..
and a host of others.

Also have about 50-60 cassette tapes,Patsy Cline my fav..Four Seasons, Kenny Rogers, George Jones, Eddy Arnold,and an real old fav, Joni James and a ton of others...

My son worked for a major record company and i have several promo records.

Great thread.

Barry Manilow
Anne Murray
BJ Thomas
Carpenters

So true. That woman could phrase like no one's business. Those long sections of "Goodbye to Love" when you just can't figure out how she hasn't needed to take a breath yet are just incredible.

Eating disorders are a terrible mental illness because sufferers are so resistant to treatment. And I don't know that they're ever really cured; just controlled. In a high stress career like music, and because we didn't know much about anorexia nervosa then... just such a shame.

Oh my God. Richard Pryor. So freaking funny. I was a little too young for his stand up when he was big, but now I really love him. What a brilliant, brilliant comic.

My brother's and my first cassette tape was a copy of Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits. In retrospect, we probably shouldn't have been listening to it. Between "Coward of the County" and "Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town" those are some mighty adult topics for elementary grade kids to be singing along to.

Of course, we also knew every word to "Centerfold" so, you know, what're you going to do.

Okay, I just thought of another guilty pleasure- (deep breath)- Juice Newton. I admit it.

Oh... as a little kid I just loved Anne Murray's cover of "Daydream Believer." I knew that version long before I'd ever heard of the Monkees.

Wife and I were having a discussion the other day about Sitar music after Ravi Shankar died. I asked whether she like any of it. She said no. I said I thought I liked a song or two, but couldn't think of any songs. Finally remembered it was in BJ Thomas' song Hooked on a Feeling. Other than that I didn't care for it. Love Ravi's daughter, Norah Jones though.

My wife's fave was Snowbird, i liked yours but all her songs were great...

Wife and i love Norah Jones, Don't know why a fav...

The Beatles' "Norwegian Wood" uses a sitar (though I read somewhere at the time they recorded it, George Harrison hadn't yet learned how to hold it properly).

Norah Jones was on an episode of Sesame Street and did an absolutely hilarious version of her big song. On Sesame Street it was, "Don't Know Why 'Y' Didn't Come."