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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: horsehead on March 03, 2010, 05:03:51 PM
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After MrBumps admittance to a bit of Steve Vai, it got me thinking, who'd you listen to/watch etc that get's panned by people but you can't help but like anyway?
I'll kick off with one...Katy Perry. Gotta say, I love the music. Completely...it's trashy, pop music but I like it. She has looks & does tradeo n them, but boy you get caught up in it
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I could endlessly list the hot young pop starlets who have interested me but I think you want real dirt.
While driving I will insanely enjoy singing....
The Bee Gees and The Backstreet Boys :D I f**kin' love em!!
Are you happy now? :?
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DAMN YOU AFGHAN!
I held you in such high regard...you were my hero..... ;)
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Obviously the majority of what I listen to is panned by the general public, or would be if they knew it existed.
I think it's utterly ridiculous to think that you shouldn't like something, or that you should be embarrassed because you do. But in the interest of fun.
I really like A LOT of current electro pop stuff, I think we're in the best period of pop music there's been for a long time, Sugababes, Lady Gaga, Gwen Stefani, Little Boots etc etc, I think the 30's/40's swing vibe you were getting for a while in pop was cool too, Christina Aguilera's Candyman and stuff like that.
I also can't get enough of Nik Kershaw.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXPqrdKNTRo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DwkMDMUgg8
Genius....
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I also can't get enough of Nik Kershaw.
Good god... we finally agree on something!!! :lol:
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I also can't get enough of Nik Kershaw.
Good god... we finally agree on something!!! :lol:
Damn... I thought I was the only one...
Some of the guitar parts on The Riddle and Human Racing are phenominal. And SUCH a great, underrated songwriter...
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I also can't get enough of Nik Kershaw.
Good god... we finally agree on something!!! :lol:
Damn... I thought I was the only one...
Some of the guitar parts on The Riddle and Human Racing are phenominal. And SUCH a great, underrated songwriter...
That's the critical thing with Nik & the BeeGees... Same with Cathy Dennis (wrote hits for Katy Pery, kylie etc)
Long after solo fame, talent remains...
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I'm with nfe, I'm not ashamed of anything...
But to enter into the spirit of the thing (ie, to wind some people up :lol:):
I still think Paul McCartney is an utter genius.
I love Cliff Richard's voice (until he got a bit too "breathy") and I have a very healthy regard for most of what he did up until the mid 80s.
Those two are part of what got me started.
And I'm well-impressed there's some Bee Gees love here. They have to be my biggest musical influence :D
And, for Philly Q (where is he, btw?), I think what Aerosmith did to re-invent itself was superb. I suspect that I possibly regard their resurrection with the torch ballads etc etc as a bigger achievement than getting famous in the first place :lol:
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I'm crazy about The Beach Boys and have been for about 25 years. Brian Wilson is my most important music influence.
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Well as I said in an earlier similar thread, I am not ashamed on anything I like and I don't give a monkeys whether anyone approves or not.
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I'm crazy about The Beach Boys and have been for about 25 years. Brian Wilson is my most important music influence.
There is nothing strange about that or the Beatles - try harder!
NOW...If you said anything Mr Brian Wilson (or Paul Mc) touches I would assume you were one of those nut-jobs who wear a Fireman's helmet and worship at the alter of his washed up madness... :lol: :lol:
i know a person like that.
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Well as I said in an earlier similar thread, I am not ashamed on anything I like and I don't give a monkeys whether anyone approves or not.
Are you voting for The Monkeys?
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Lady Gaga I suppose. Great pop music.
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Shobet
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Shobet
:lol: :lol: :lol: [I feel bad about that too] :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I am afraid Dave I am not keen on the Monkees -I have endured Mrs 38th's "best of Monkees" on odd occasions. We even do "I'm a Believer" in the band when we play functions.
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I'm crazy about The Beach Boys
So is everyone else.
Aren't they? :?
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I just did a search through my mp3s for stuff that most people would consider naff, here's a quick list:
* Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors is an absolute classic
* Tammy Wynette
* The Beach Boys
* Herb Alpert
* 152 megabytes of They Might Be Giants ... they were my favourite band for years, still love their first three or four albums
* The Bee Gees, ELO, The Clash, Rolf Harris, NOFX and many others
All interspersed with Motorhead, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Carulli's opus 34 in G, the Bruck violin concerto and Frank Zappa.
And inexplicably, one Jason Donovan mp3 which I just deleted. Honest, I really did.
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ABBA for me!
Great, great song writing but such clever production too. Love 'em!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ_U9t4cwPM&feature=PlayList&p=C644C49676ADA50E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=73
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRNTQvXSsfA
Admit to liking the odd song by them
Tull http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqZmtq5LhFo
Journey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFC8sDTXlng&feature=PlayList&p=5A3BBB47D2F41E50&index=8
now a bit more upto date dodgy empire of the sun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhUXF80rXAg&feature=related
and Robyn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PDNRTCuPyQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vfLvZCdT9g
Sure there is loads more in my collection from the past like Cinderella, Slaughter, FM, Magnum, Electric Six..even later kansas .could be a long list
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I'm crazy about The Beach Boys and have been for about 25 years. Brian Wilson is my most important music influence.
There is nothing strange about that or the Beatles - try harder!
NOW...If you said anything Mr Brian Wilson (or Paul Mc) touches I would assume you were one of those nut-jobs who wear a Fireman's helmet and worship at the alter of his washed up madness... :lol: :lol:
i know a person like that.
Yes, maybe the correct term would be 'schizophrenic for The Beach Boys', not crazy. I like all the Beach boy's stuff... even the cheese made when Brian was 'in bed' (and all their solo albums too) :D
Is Alison Krauss too cool to mention now that she's worked with Plant? Bluegrass keeps going in-and-out of style :?
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Only like Krauss when she wrote/produced for Nickel creek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaaQ-8cAfkE
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Theres nothing I like that I dont think I should. Thats just silly. There are plenty of things that I like that I shouldnt if you mean 'shouldnt' by music thats usually opposed to what I like the most (metal) in some sort of pigeon holing tribal subculture way, then theres quite a bit - I like a lot of blues, jazz, classical, and some pop, 80s rock and folk.
It does amuse me from time to time to let people think that something or other annoys me because its not metal enough/too pop or whatever (by just remaining silent on the matter; seems to do the trick - I figure if they want to think that Madness or Bon Jovi or Pet shop boys or Lady gaga or something innocuous and pleasant enough like that gets my goat, then thats what they're going to play to try to wind me up, thus avoiding them playing music that really will drive me up the wall)
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I agree with MDV , that no personal musical pleasure should be deemed right or wrong as such ; so I nominate my 'confuse the casual visitor ' choices as :
Tom Waits
Michael McDonald
Gretchen Peters
Steely Dan
Curtis Stigers ( Jazz Covers era )
Dan Fogelberg .
Gustav Mahler.
Portishead
( and even Black Label Society for weight lifting practice ) :o
" A laugh a minute " . :wink:
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I just did a search through my mp3s for stuff that most people would consider naff, here's a quick list:
* Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors is an absolute classic
* Tammy Wynette
* The Beach Boys
* Herb Alpert
* 152 megabytes of They Might Be Giants ... they were my favourite band for years, still love their first three or four albums
* The Bee Gees, ELO, The Clash, Rolf Harris, NOFX and many others
All interspersed with Motorhead, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Carulli's opus 34 in G, the Bruck violin concerto and Frank Zappa.
And inexplicably, one Jason Donovan mp3 which I just deleted. Honest, I really did.
I'd have thought the average cat would consider Motorhead and Deep Purple far more naff than The Bee Gees and especially The Beach Boys, both of whom are all but deified to the general radio listener.
I think they'd be right, too :lol:
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80s synth pop, love the $%&#ing stuff.
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Shobet
I'm still not going to let you bum me, no matter how whiney you get. I've told you, £8.50 minimum.
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I'm crazy about The Beach Boys
So is everyone else.
Aren't they? :?
Nope. I hate the Beach Boys almost as much as I hate ABBA.
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Steely Dan is not embarrassing. Far from it.
I like quite a few Pet Shop Boys songs, and a lot of the songs off Justin Timberlake's first album. Gorgeous melodies and his voice and production fits them perfectly.
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Go West.....
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Go West.....
now that is pushing it..*L* do you have the string vest as well
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looking through I noticed ABBA
Buddy Holly
The Cardigans
Burt Bacharach (or however the hell you spell his name)
The Darknesss( seem to have a bad rep, I don't know why!)
David Arnold (love his themes for Bond Movies)
ELO
Emmylou Harris
Gram Parsons
The Feeling....god such much!
Shobet...be a good man. Let him bum ya for a £5
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i'm with those that say why should you be embarassed by what you like. although i might have to draw the line at Westlife!
one of my all time favourite bands is 80's popstrels Fuzzbox. their Big Bang album is a masterpiece! i don't think that's embarassing, but it does seem to surprise people. oh, and Prince, i LOVE Prince. a girlfriend was also quite confused by the tape in the car with Master Of Puppets on one side and Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes on the other.
still nothing embarassing though. i'm quite embarassed that i don't have anything embarrassing :oops:
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Go West.....
That jogs a pleasant memory or two . I did not buy any of their stuff, but thought his voice was great - and " Call Me" always made me turn the radio up in the car. :)
ELO, Bruch's Violin Concerto .
I loved the early ELO stuff, especially 'Elderado' . ' On the Third Day' was good too.
Bruch's Violin Concerto is an all time fave, as ( cut from similar cloth ) is Samuel Barber's Cello Concerto - and Adagio for strings.
In similar style, a lot of the Leos Janaceck stuff used in the film soundtrack of "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being " was a revelation, as was Gorecki's Symphony No.3
Steely Dan is not embarrassing. Far from it.
I certainly agree Prawnik, - and my list is not really a list of embarrassing indulgences, more a set of choices that most people seem to think quirky, or " not as cool as .... " .
In that respect, I concede that my list may not wholly qualify for / belong in this thread ; but is shared in the spirit of being music that we put on when the guitar and love of it's chief exponents - is put aside .
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i love a lot of things i should be ashamed of (but i'm not, absolutely!)... i've always been a massive fan of commercial dance and soft trance music, indeed...
and i love pop.
enough said...
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I'm not embarrassed about the music I listen to but I have a confession... Matt Monroe, We're gonna change your world. If I hear it I sing along and thoroughly enjoy it. :) Another...It was in a film....I saw years back...Tony Christie....In The avenues and alleyways! There. Its a good one to drink lots of beer and then sound off in an awful pissed up way with your mates. Or woman when your in a fancy restaurant!
Steely Dan, The Clash...What on earth are they being mentioned!!! Steely Dan made fantastic music, I have them on the ipod every week. The Clash, Tommy Gun, Guns of Brixton, London Calling are great old tunes to get the heart pumping.
I cant stand all this autotune pop. I turn into a werewolf as soon as it hits my ears and howl and bite.
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Avenues and Alleyways - class song. I learnt it last year, it's a superb song...
I think it was the theme tune for a TV series, that's certainly how I remembered it. And then a couple of years back I went to see Ocean Colour Scene and they went "Duh, Duh, Da-Duh-Duh..." and I thought, "I know that!" and then the place went bonkers... it appears they play it quite a lot, and their p1ssed up fans seem to like it a lot :lol:
After that I tracked it down on Spotify so's I could learn it. In the same session I got hold of some other songs from my past "Delta Dawn", "Needles and Pins", "Everytime you walk in the room", "You've got your troubles I've got mine"...
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Another...It was in a film....I saw years back...Tony Christie....In The avenues and alleyways!
The film was - Love, Honour and Obey :D
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Another...It was in a film....I saw years back...Tony Christie....In The avenues and alleyways!
The film was - Love, Honour and Obey :D
It was! :D
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Avenues and Alleyways - class song. I learnt it last year, it's a superb song...
I think it was the theme tune for a TV series, that's certainly how I remembered it. And then a couple of years back I went to see Ocean Colour Scene and they went "Duh, Duh, Da-Duh-Duh..." and I thought, "I know that!" and then the place went bonkers... it appears they play it quite a lot, and their p1ssed up fans seem to like it a lot :lol:
After that I tracked it down on Spotify so's I could learn it. In the same session I got hold of some other songs from my past "Delta Dawn", "Needles and Pins", "Everytime you walk in the room", "You've got your troubles I've got mine"...
I heard it a lot as a kid but not sure where though. It would make a great song at a buzzing gig!
Needles and Pins is The Hollies isn't it? Graham Nash?
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Found it!
It was the theme tune to "The Protectors" - http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/protectors.htm (http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/protectors.htm) that's where you heard it a lot. Me and my Dad used to sit on the sofa singing it at the tops of our voices...
Needles and Pins is the Searchers.
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Yup, deffo The Protectors with Robert Vaughan, classic Sunday afternoon ITV entertainment
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Yup, deffo The Protectors with Robert Vaughan, classic Sunday afternoon ITV entertainment
I was almost sure it was a Sunday afternoon, but couldn't remember well enough... I think it was about tea-time wasn't it? It was one of my Dad's favourites at the time :D
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I confess to liking a lot of Random pop stuff with a good tune or a quirky voice
Katy Perry , Gwen Stefani, The Corrs, The Cardigans, Savage Garden, Darren Hayes, Anastascia, Pink
Love Lady GaGas videos , and some of the songs are catchy - love Bad Romance
My old favourite band may surprise some : Sad Cafe they were great live- must have seen them 15 times
Most people have heard this song that went to the top of the charts - a ballad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LNOhZI72AY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LNOhZI72AY)
ON TOTP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4hYfrPpcaA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4hYfrPpcaA)
Nice guitar break at 2:50
The best song the Stones never recorded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxxbxJgjrjk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxxbxJgjrjk)
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I saw Sad Cafe a few times as well - very very good live. I was at Uni, and they were almost perfect - the girls in our crowd liked them because of the ballads and image, us rockers liked them because of the stones-but-more-tuneful vibe (and we didn't get treated to much rocking stuff in those days down where I was!) :D
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And, for Philly Q (where is he, btw?), I think what Aerosmith did to re-invent itself was superb. I suspect that I possibly regard their resurrection with the torch ballads etc etc as a bigger achievement than getting famous in the first place :lol:
I've been in Exeter being used as a punchbag by my two young nieces..... :?
Anyway, Aerosmith.... as said before, Permanent Vacation was awesome but in retrospect it was the beginning of the end. Everything since has been utter toss and I honestly think they should be shot for inflicting "Crazy", "Jaded" and (especially) "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" on the world. Just split up and $%&# off. :x
My not-so-guilty pleasures.... I love just about anything that was in the UK top 40 between 1977 and 1981, which was my period of listening non-stop to Radio 1. That includes the disco stuff.
I also liked loads of '80s AOR/wimphem (the stuff Dave Reynolds used to write about in Kerrang! - Jonathan may know what I'm talking about). Much of it so utterly wet and weedy that it barely qualifies as "rock" music at all. Doesn't stand the test of time too well either.