Songs you hate to love- your secret shame

RonKiley · Post by **RonKiley** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:16 pm

Ok some of you have confessed to some terrible things but I not only like Danny Boy I am a fan of Mel Torme.

Ron skooby do wa do wa

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:38 pm

RonKiley wrote:Ok some of you have confessed to some terrible things but I not only like Danny Boy I am a fan of Mel Torme.

Ron skooby do wa do wa

To like the Velvet Fog is not shameful.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:43 pm

RonKiley wrote:Ok some of you have confessed to some terrible things but I not only like Danny Boy I am a fan of Mel Torme.

Mel Torme is one of the great jazz singers. I have only listened to him a bit long ago, but he is no one to be embarrassed about liking!
As for Danny Boy, it depends on who's singing it.

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 9:26 pm

SteveK wrote:
Tommy wrote:Sammy Davis ''Candy Man''
Is that the same Candy Man that Mississippi John Hurt recorded.

All you ladies gather 'round
The good sweet candy man's in town.

I don't think so?

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 9:30 pm

''The Beatles'' I try to play some of their music on my whistle. Please don't tell the ITM police.

BrassBlower · Post by **BrassBlower** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:09 pm

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NancyF, Joanie, et.al. - I swear this is not me!

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:50 am

Miki & Griff singing Rocking Alone In An Old Rocking Chair. A song so schmaltzy it should be Irish.

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:03 am

and of course any song sung by Barry Fitzgerald in The Quiet Man.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:16 am

Cynth wrote:
RonKiley wrote:Ok some of you have confessed to some terrible things but I not only like Danny Boy I am a fan of Mel Torme.
Mel Torme is one of the great jazz singers. I have only listened to him a bit long ago, but he is no one to be embarrassed about liking!
As for Danny Boy, it depends on who's singing it.

Mel was one cool cat. I think of him every Christmas when I'm roasting chestnuts.

How about Melanie's "I've Got a Brand New Pair of Roller-skates"... my skin crawls every time I hear it... yet I always listen closely.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 6:59 am

Tommy wrote:''The Beatles'' I try to play some of their music on my whistle. Please don't tell the ITM police.

No one should ever feel ashamed for listening to the Beatles. Although I have to admit that I have never tried to play their music on my whistle....

ISU Trout Bum · Post by **ISU Trout Bum** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:51 am

UGH - I am very embarased to admit this, but here goes. "Sara Smile" and "She's Gone" by . . . . . . Hall & Oats.

My wife just loves to poke fun at me for liking anything by these guys (and I can't say that I really blame her

).

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:53 am

ISU Trout Bum wrote:UGH - I am very embarased to admit this, but here goes. "Sara Smile" and "She's Gone" by . . . . . . Hall & Oats.

My wife just loves to poke fun at me for liking anything by these guys (and I can't say that I really blame her ).

'Abndoned Luncheonette' is a pretty doggone good album. Before they got popular and hit oriented.

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:54 am

Joseph E. Smith wrote:
Cynth wrote:
RonKiley wrote:Ok some of you have confessed to some terrible things but I not only like Danny Boy I am a fan of Mel Torme.
Mel Torme is one of the great jazz singers. I have only listened to him a bit long ago, but he is no one to be embarrassed about liking!
As for Danny Boy, it depends on who's singing it.
Mel was one cool cat. I think of him every Christmas when I'm roasting chestnuts.

Nothin' wrong with being a Mel Torme fan...I'm one too. My fav of his is so cliche that that's what I'm almost embarrassed to admit; I looove his rendition of Stardust.

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 11:55 am

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

No, he's much worse than that.

I was more than half serious. His antisemitism alone would be a serious turn off although if you only appreciate art by people you morally approve of that could narrow the field to the point where there is hardly anybody else bar the Singing Nun. (Whatever happened to her?) What I hate about Wagner most is his music: triumphal, self-satisfied, bombastic, meglamaniacal, oozing all that is worst in European culture. Yuk. Of course, you might find it technically brilliant but I find the things I don't like getting in the road of things I would like if they served a more modest aesthetic vision.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 12:02 pm

Wombat wrote:...if you only appreciate art by people you morally approve of that could narrow the field to the point where there is hardly anybody else bar the Singing Nun...

Nope Wombat. 'Fraid we're going to have to nix her too. Dominique, after all, praises the suppression of the Albigensians during a Catholic inquisition, and therefore must be reviled by any DaVinci Code adherents who believe in that the Cathars were protectors of the truth.