Guilty Pleasures

lyle_from_minneapolis · Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:46 pm

Should I feel guilty for still listening to T.Rex? And really getting off on it? There it is.

lyle_from_minneapolis · Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:48 pm

And yes, Steeleye Span, Thomas the Rhymer...

randyz · Post by **randyz** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:11 pm

Bob: I've always liked 'Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter'. I've got a video of it being played on 'Hullabaloo' (I believe). It's interesting because one of the guitarists is playing an RM 1997 or 1998. Just before they start the song, you can see him pull out a handkerchief from his pocket and slip it under the guitar strings in front of the bridge. He then goes on to mime the plinky-plonky (banjo?) intro. I wonder if that was how they handled the song on stage. He seems to do it very easily as though from habit.

randyz · Post by **randyz** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:14 pm

Roy: I might be mistaken, but I believe Katrina may have been an American military brat who grew up in the UK at various air bases. It seems like I read that somewhere.

admin · Post by **admin** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:59 am

Roy: I very much appreciate the link to Fog On The Tyne and Run For Home. I am going to go way out on the limb and guess that the former is not your cut of tea. Is it because you don't like cowbells?

Both songs have their own redeemable features to me, with Run For Home being the easier to embrace.

I always though that Fog On The Tyne was late 1960s. I guess that fog was blowing too close to my memory circuits. Thanks for not crying foul.

royclough · Post by **royclough** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:33 am

Fog on Tyne was a number one album in October 71 here in UK, not released as a single till 74 and did not chart.

However the song made number 2 in Nov 90 when they got that lovable Geordie (some say) Paul Gascoigne, a soccer star, to record the song with them, done very much tongue in cheek.

Yes you were correct in your assumption.

kenposurf · Post by **kenposurf** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:21 am

Too many guilty pleasures to list here..but a few...Tom Jones, Arthur Lyman, The Kalin Twins, Little Wille G & Thee Midnighters, Tom Leher, Korla Pandit...the list is endless...

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:27 am

Who's Korla Pandit?

kenposurf · Post by **kenposurf** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:41 am

Hey Paul... www.korlapandit.com the godfather of exotica music...had a TV show in the 50's I can tell you more then you want to know!

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:18 pm

I don't know if they're anything to feel guilty about, but I love the "American Standards", as sung by Sinatra, Bennett, Ellington, Ella, as well as a few newcomers, like Diana Krall (BTW congrats to Ms. Krall and Elvis Costello on the birth of twins!).

lyle_from_minneapolis · Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:48 pm

Sometimes I feel a bit of a dork for enjoying Jesus Christ Superstar, and Cat Stevens' Mona Bone Jakon album...and when something from Carole King's Tapestry album comes on the radio, I listen to it.

expomick · Post by **expomick** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:09 pm

Sorry. Once again, I didn't notice this was the "60's" Forum, so to speak.

Therefore, my guilty pleasure would have to be Glen Campbell; but then again, weren't most of his hits in the early 70's? Help!!!

(Yup, I also like Jesus Christ Superstar...what's da buzz???)

randyz · Post by **randyz** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:11 am

Jerry: Nothing wrong with classic Sinatra. I'm always relieved when my parents are playing Sinatra during my weekly visits, because it beats the heck out of Perry Como or Andy Williams! Actually, at the advanced age of forty-six, I'm really learning to appreciate Sinatra's style.

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 6:24 am

Ooops, wrong decades(s)!

johnashfield · Post by **johnashfield** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:37 pm

I like all sorts of things that make my friends cringe! I gave up feeling guilty about it a while ago!

I watched one of those "freeview" concerts on direct tv last night, it was Amy Grant, I first started watching because of Owsley, who performed at a IPO show my band played at a few years ago, but the songs were pretty cool, some very beatle-esque! Especially the ones that Amy Grant mentioned were co-written by him.

Here are some that would be considered guilty I am sure...

The "crazy horses" and "the plan" LP by The Osmonds are really great, very rocking, and they played and wrote the tunes themselves.

I also love the first 3 Partridge Family albums, "somebody wants to love you" is an amazing song, a really great rocker! A bunch of great pop songs played by hal blaine, joe osborn, and tommy tedesco? The Partridge stuf gets worse as you go deeper in the catelogue, but that first album is great!

Finally, "yummy yummy yummy". Listen to the intro. The Cars ripped off this intro for "just what I needed", they just made it longer.