Your guilty musical secret...?

I loathe the genre of "Classic Rock". Of course, there are bands of that era which transcend the genre, such as the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath.

However, your standard-issue longhairs being helicoptered in to some 'free-love festival', with, like six guitarists and a bunch of stuid hats, make me wanna retch. Roger Hodgeson and Mick Fleetwood, I'm talking to YOU!

That said, I can't get enough of Jethro Tull.

So, what about you?

There, I've said it!

"Every little step I take, you will be there..."

Canuck, I love ya man, but you like Jethro Tull but hate Mick Fleetwood. No Way!

I love ALL things TOM Jones...I love every song he's ever covered and even if I hated the song before, i like it when HE sings it! I've even tossed my undies at him :D

My sister-in-law (lib'rul to the core) is your soulmate, owns all of TJ's records, gets weak-kneed seeing him in Vegas. I still love her.

That guy can wail! Did you see him on the episode of "The Blues" about British blues. Playing with Jeff Beck, et al, and he was ripping it up.

He can just flat sing!
The Professor

His version of Motherless Child is my all time favortie "I'm bummed" tune. He rocks on Little Green Bag...there's a song I didn't much care for until he covered it.

And back in the 80's I was a Hair band person. But in my defense, I have healthy respect for Chapin, Croce, Pink Floyd, Loretta Lynn, Eagles, The Dixie Chicks... should I go on? I think my tastes is embarassing....lol EXCEPT for CASH

Do you really hate Supertramp that much? They've got a new album out!

For some reason, I abhor them above all others. Could be the near-total radio saturation of "Breakfast in America" during my formative years, or the tiresome pretension of Crime of the Century or Even in the Quietest Moments, or even the video for "It's Raining Again".

Whatever. DIE, SUPERTRAMP, DIE!

Cause the early stuff is pretty cool.

But I agree with you assessment of Supertramp.

Oh I love my Rosie child....you got the way to make me happy.

Baby, that is rock'n'roll! :hippie:

Tom Jones' "Delilah" (playing it now), Porter Wagoner's "Cold Hard Facts of Life" and Faron Young's "Occassional Wife" are in my library. I also like the "Horst Wessel Lied".

"Die Fahne hoch, die Reihen fest geschlossen!
S. A. marschiert mit ruhig festem Schritt!
Kameraden, die Rotfront und Reaktion erschossen,
Marschiern im Geist in unsern Reihen mit!

Die Strasse frei den braunen Bataillonen!
Die Strasse frei dem Sturmabteilungsmann!"

"Our flags fly high, our ranks are closed tight!
The SA marches with steady solid steps!
Comrades slain by the Red Front and the Reaction,
March in spirit within our ranks!

The streets are open to the brown battalions!
The streets are open to the Storm Troopers!"

A damn fine street fighting song, regardless of its history. Of course I am leaving out most of it.

Sometimes I play the same song for hours.... hours.

Yep, it does kick butt as a fighting song!

It's growing on me like a disease, from all the concerts on PBS. I used to watch shows like "Austin City Limits" when they were mostly blues, and now it's almost all bluegrass. If I don't get the remote fast enough, I'm sucked in and tappin' my toes.



Just call me a sheeple.

I have tons.

Alison Krauss is great regardless of genre. Can't get enough.

Doc & Merle Watson, John Hartford, Merle Travis, Vassar Clements.

You've flushed me out, nesco - I've downloaded tons of this stuff and burned lots of CD's for myself and converts. There - I feel better.

The Country Gentlemen, "Matterhorne" is fabulous, "Coal, Black Gold", "Moonshine" "Salt Creek"
David Grisham and Jerry Garcia, "Little Sadie" is mind blowing
Jody Stecher: "Table Mountain Road" "Way Down Town" "Wedding Dress"
Lester Flatt and Scruggs: "Rolling in my Sweet Baby's Arms."
Claire Lynch: "Missionary Ridge"
Gary Biscuit Davis: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown"
I got more but my library is organized by name not genre.

There is also some bitching straight country --- Highway 101 cooks.

This is what Krishna, Buddha, God and all the others listen to.

She makes it a classical instrument..used to be Alison Kraus' banjo player with Union Station way back when.

but ever since buying a banjo last year I have been listening to more and more bluegrass (Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson...) in order to steal some good licks.

He's absolutely amazing. Hope the banjo is going well for you. I've played guitar for 20+ years, and have started expanding my string-instrument repetoire. Right now I'm learning flamenco-style guitar (hence the avatar), and have often thought of learning the five-string banjo next. It sounds like fun!

Bon Jovi
Britney Spears's new album (not interested in her others)
M2M (their second album, The Big Room, is a very enjoyable pop album! Shades Of Purple is also good except for the vocals)
Lillix (I really like them whereas the critics completely dismissed them)
Good Charlotte
Blink 182
Kylie Minogue
Tim McGraw
Debbie Gibson's Electric Youth
Mandy Moore's self-titled album
Stella Soleil

I love classic rock, so many of them are just great IMO. I have one hit wonder guilty pleasures from that era.

...well, except for Neil Diamond -- that should be kept secret! :D

I confess: ABBA!

But then, they told me they wouldn't let me into Australia unless I pledged allegiance to ABBA, so...

isn't bad (playing it now).

"Does it feel the same,
When she calls your name."

I agree with you on the Neil Diamond thing. Some things are best not said in polite society.

And Abba's a fave. Amazing song structures. I also don't feel guilty about Alanis or bluegrass.

I like Neil Diamond, but don't enjoy him a whole lot.

Night, everyone! Fun topic - sorry I can't stay.

this one time, at band camp...

I loved Leslie Gore and her music (she was a singer in the mid 60's for those who don't know of her). Leslie Gore was sort of the Debbie Gibson of her time (and even that reference is dating me)

Leslie Gore's music was pure bubble gum...songs about teenage love, walking along the beach, malt shops. But absolutely infectious stuff. I loved it! :-)

Terry

I love Leslie Gore! When "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows" comes on the radio, I turn it up real loud and sing along, much to the chagrin of my husband. I do the same with "It's My Party" and the sequel song "Judy's Turn to Cry". Boy, she does have a lot of songs about crying.

The opening piece, Prelude/Cruncy Granola Suite on Neil Diamond's Hot August Night album remains one of my all-time favorite pieces.

I know, i know. I'm a musician with a jazz background who takes his music seriously and i like Three Dog Night. Can't help it.
The Professor

(when I was 13), and my first serious crush was on Danny whatshisname, one of the lead singers.

Hey, they had great taste in covers! They did Laura Nyro, Randy Newman, Hoyt Axton - they picked good songs.

to sing the role of Emma Goldman in "Ragtime." Broadway would be nice, but since I haven't the talent, I'll settle for community theatre.

that is my only guilty musical secret. Everyone already knows I still dig the Captain & Tennille.

Which was quite good. I've never seen the musical, though.

Terry

I couldn't stop crying the whole way through. Partly because it was so fantastic, and wonder makes me cry, but partly because, at age 35, sitting in that theatre, I knew I'd finally found my calling, and it was too late.

.."...all for one and one for all because the Beastie Boys have gone AWOL!" :D

".....NO...SLEEP....TILL BROOKLYN....THE BEASTIE BOYS COLD KICKIN' IT LIIIIVE!!!" :loveya:

...."...you gotta FIGHT...for your RIGHT...TOOO PAAARRRTAAAAAAAY!!" :7

all off...LICENCED TO ILL 1986 :evilgrin:

nm

n/t

10th Avenue Freeze Out, live version.

If I ever need to start the heart a bit I throw this song into the CD player. The CD is in the car right now and I have noticed it does make me drive faster. Tickets to follow shortly.

I was nuts for Klaatu as a kid. Poor, poor dumbass me.

my husband still makes fun of me for the Monkees, but hey, they made some bouncy catchy pop songs. And I can't help it, the Village People are just fun.

Hawkwind is possibly the worst band EVER, universally hated by almost everyone except their hardcore fans, but for some stupid reason I like them in all their goofy sci-fi stone age glory.

ELP, OTOH, is a guilty pleasure I've had since high school in the early-mid 80s. I own a copy of all their early LPs, even the absolutely horrid "Love Beach" from 1978 (all on vinyl, of course!). I must be a masochist.

I remember seeing him on TV from time to time when I was growing up. But after seeing "Sleepless in Seattle" (which featured some Durante songs, such as "Make Someone Happy"), I bought a Jimmy Durante CD. I play it every once in a while, and my wife doesn't understand why I like it.

:shrug:

those harmonious hotties don't have to make another cd ever. i'll just play and play the old ones.

The worst, most geekiest, most loathsome, most pretentious musical genre ever. I think everything that prog-rock stands for runs flat out full speed in the face of everything rock and roll should be about.

That being said I enjoy quite a few albums and songs by certain prog bands, particularly Yes.

I have a sizable prog-rock vinyl collection, including every Yes album up to 90125, every King Crimson album to "Three of a Perfect Pair", and every damn ELP album pre-1987.

It's that naughty pleasure we don't want our "cool" friends to know about, IMHO :D

"come on lets go merry go merry go merry go round". Almost 35 yrs and I still can't get it out of my head. FZ was a cruel man.