Songs you hate to love- your secret shame

[missy]

Speaking of tunes recorded by Glen Campbell I like "Gentle on My Mind" and "By the Time I Get To Phoenix".
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I like "Gentle on My Mind" - but rather hear John Hartford do it.......

[burnsbyrne]

I like Barbra Streisand's "The Way we Were." Or to be more precise I like the arrangement of the song. I also like "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams. I remember him playing CG on the Smothers Brothers show, using a guitar with a plexiglass body filled with water and fish. No explanation was given. Everyone acted as if it was perfectly normal.
Mike

[Nanohedron]

www.jeffiscool.com/numanuma.html

[Joseph E. Smith]

I just remembered... Good Morning Starshine... if that's its' title, from Hair.

[cowtime]

I like Barbra Streisand's "The Way we Were." Or to be more precise I like the arrangement of the song. I also like "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams. I remember him playing CG on the Smothers Brothers show, using a guitar with a plexiglass body filled with water and fish. No explanation was given. Everyone acted as if it was perfectly normal.
Mike

I've got the piano music for Classical Gas too. I saw that on tv and went crazy over that tune, just had to get the music.

like "Gentle on My Mind" - but rather hear John Hartford do it.......

Me too. I heard an interview of him on NPR not long before he died. He said that one song, and it's huge success, enabled him to spend his time doing only what he wanted to.

[Tony]

Who's Wagner?

[emmline]

I just remembered... Good Morning Starshine... if that's its' title, from Hair.

Yes, cool...but I like the title song more. I don't think that's shameful.

Who's Wagner?

Brilliant 19th C. composer who also happened to be extremely antisemitic.

[Tony]

Wombat's from Australia... I thought Wagner might have been a musicial group from 'down unda' you know.. like The Wiggles...

[Tony]

Here's another that's been unearthed and recorded into a Coke commercial

Put The Lime In The Coconut

Written by Harry Nilsson

Lyrics... 'cause you wanted to know.
http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/coconut.htm





The Muppets version:
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/coconut.htm

[Doug_Tipple]

Who's Wagner?

Wagner was a musical genius, and he revolutionized classical music. We had a humorous thread about his Ring Trilogy recently. But, as is often the case, there can be a dark side to genius. As has been mentioned, Wagner was antisemitic, and his work has only recently been performed in Israel to some disapproval.

Away from Wagner, I have always liked folk singers from the 20's and 30's, such as Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rogers. Back in the folk song revival of the 60's I fancied myself a folk singer, and I sang in coffee house and wherever I could find an audience. A couple of funky songs that I remember are: "When it's peach-pickin time in Georgia", sung by Jimmie Rogers and "The Great Grand Coulee Dam", written and sung by Woody Guthrie. The voices of both men were silenced in midlife by diseases.

"Oh, the world has seven wonders,
the travellers always tell,
some towers and some canyons,
I guess you know them well,
but now the greatest wonder
is in Uncle Sam's fair land,
on the king Columbia River,
it's the Great Grand Coulee Dam."

"When it's peach pickin time in Georgia,
apple pickin time in Tennessee,
cotton pickin time in Mississippi,
everybody picks on me.
When it's roundup time in Texas,
the cowboys make hoopee,
but down in old Alabama,
it's gal pickin time for me."

[Dale]

"Give It Away" RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

Completely void of any redeeming musical qualities, absolutely silly lyrics, and utterly irresistable.

I didn't know that people were supposed to be ashamed for liking that song.

I probably listen to a lot of stuff that's shameful and don't even know it...

YOU don't have to be. YOU aren't nearly 50 years old.

[Jack]

"Give It Away" RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

Completely void of any redeeming musical qualities, absolutely silly lyrics, and utterly irresistable.

I didn't know that people were supposed to be ashamed for liking that song.

I probably listen to a lot of stuff that's shameful and don't even know it...

YOU don't have to be. YOU aren't nearly 50 years old.

Well, nobody I know my age likes Sinéad O'Connor, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, or much ITM so I should probably be ashamed for that but I'm not.

[Dale]

I didn't know that people were supposed to be ashamed for liking that song.

I probably listen to a lot of stuff that's shameful and don't even know it...

YOU don't have to be. YOU aren't nearly 50 years old.

Well, nobody I know my age likes Sinéad O'Connor, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, or much ITM so I should probably be ashamed for that but I'm not.

You have yourself some good taste there, Cran. I got to see Emmylous Harris sing live with Bruce Springsteen a couple of years ago. It was just fine.

[Jack]

YOU don't have to be. YOU aren't nearly 50 years old.

Well, nobody I know my age likes Sinéad O'Connor, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, or much ITM so I should probably be ashamed for that but I'm not.

You have yourself some good taste there, Cran. I got to see Emmylous Harris sing live with Bruce Springsteen a couple of years ago. It was just fine.

I saw (and heard) her sing with Dave Matthews...but it was on TV.

[SteveShaw]

"After The Ball" by Arcady, sung by Frances Black. It's bloody awful and sentimental but if* I've had a few it brings a tear to my eye.

*Wife interjects: "Whaddya mean, if?"

Steve