Bring Out Your Guilty Secrets ....

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:10 pm

I wish you guys would knock it off with these threads of oldies titles. Now I have an overwhelming urge to put on some Roxy Music.

More than this there can be

... nothing.

djm

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:41 pm

I seem to like You Light Up My Life by Debby Boone. It's so fun to sing along into a pretend microphone with, especially if you want to drive someone crazy. I used to think I loved to hate it. But I think I actually like it.

And I finally found a website that has it!

JS · Post by JS » Tue Dec 06, 2005 5:47 am

Ah, Roxy Music. In every dream home, a heartache...

Anyway, this thread got me wondering about the whole idea of trashy music. A long time ago (in a mind-set far, far away) there was an article in The Whole Earth Catalog on how to manage a rock band. The author said that you had to remember that successful bands made good music, maybe not the kind of music you liked or thought of as art, but music that reliably met the audience's expectations. So is there anything better of its kind than "I Fought the Law and the Law Won"--when Lou Reed quoted it on "Street Hassle," that was more arty, but was it really any better?

My current guilty pleasure is a cd that my son passed along, in his continuing efforts to educate me, by a British rapper, The Streets, "A Grand Ain't Nothing." I don't know enough about rap to be any kind of judge, but I read a lot of fiction, and this guy creates an interesting character and puts him through a bunch of changes with some good music backing it. It's like a bunch of linked short stories, and just the right length for my commute.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 5:56 am

Alice Cooper. Some of their stuff has some neat chord changes.

Blood Sweat and Tears. (With Thomas). Though I don't really consider them trashy.

Kansas.
Supertramp.
Talking Heads.

Whistlin'Dixie · Post by **Whistlin'Dixie** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:29 am

Gulp....

Lynnerd Skynnerd!

Although

I also love

The Lion Sleeps Tonight....
Wild Thing
Betty Davis Eyes

Mary

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:34 am

REALLY bad music itself is one of my guilty pleasures. Check out:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000 ... nce&n=5174

Be sure to listen to some of the sound clips. Mae West singing Twist and Shout is not to be believed. And then of course, there's William Shatner's Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds...

There are at least three more volumes of this stuff!

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:54 am

I like Miki and Griff.

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:49 pm

brewerpaul wrote:
jsluder wrote:I like just about anything by The Bobs.

The one I really want to hear is not out on CD quite yet: Rhapsody in Bob. It's Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue with Bob Malone on piano (the guy has MAJOR chops!) and the Bobs doing the rest of the orchestra.

The Bobs are not a pleasure to feel guilty about.

I was wrong. Rhapsody In Bob IS out:

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/thebobs

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:18 pm

Flyingcursor wrote:Talking Heads.

GASP!

I love the Talking Heads, and am slightly insulted that you are guilty about listening to them.

burnsbyrne · Post by **burnsbyrne** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:53 pm

I like Tom Jones. There, I said it. When he had a weekly variety show on US television, around 1969ish, I never missed it. I even went to one of his concerts once. The fact that the tickets were free has nothing to do with it. What a smoking band he had with him!

Why, why, why, Delilah.....
Mike

amar · Post by **amar** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 5:07 pm

Cynth wrote:I seem to like You Light Up My Life by Debby Boone. It's so fun to sing along into a pretend microphone with, especially if you want to drive someone crazy. I used to think I loved to hate it. But I think I actually like it. And I finally found a website that has it!

I like that song alot too.

brianormond · Post by **brianormond** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:58 pm

My "Bobs" faves: -Drive-by Love (Full Time Four-Wheel Love)
-Sign My Snarling Doggie

-I won a Herb Alpert 45 rpm record for marksmanship at the Detroit Auto Show at Cobo Hall in the late '60s -by shooting a ping-pong ball weapon at a target. The shine wore off quick when the "prize" turned out to be Herb singing "White Christmas" and something else forgettable on the B side. Herb's rendition was mounted quickly as a target itself on our basement BB gun range and decimated with great glee. His trumpet music was perky, but his excellence didn't extend to voice music.

-Heard a radio interview a few years back with the woman whom posed for his "Whipped Cream..and Other Delights"
album cover clad ostensibly in nothing but the white stuff. She seemed only vaguely aware of the adolescent dreams she'd inspired! (Well.. her and Diana Rigg in her black leather catsuit in the "Avengers")

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:43 am

All of you people are sick, and need help.... and you need it real soon!

Me?
I liked Bobby Sherman's "Julie, Julie, Julie do you love me?" It just doesn't get any better than that.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:18 am

Congratulations wrote:
Flyingcursor wrote:Talking Heads.
GASP!

I love the Talking Heads, and am slightly insulted that you are guilty about listening to them.

You're right. Actually none of the aforementioned by me are that bad.

JES really hit paydirt with Bobby Sherman.

OH, I got one. When I was about 11 I liked "The Archies".

I was also a big Herman's Hermits fan.

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:19 am

Flyingcursor wrote:

I was also a big Herman's Hermits fan.

I hope you drew the line at Freddie and the Dreamers.

Actually I left out one of the greatest trashy-but-wonderful records: Link Wray's Raunchy.