guilty pleasures???? ;)

[dave_mc]

i agree that you shouldn't be embarassed. what really gets my goat is non-musicians telling me i should be embarassed about liking a certain type of music.

[_tom_]

I'm really liking Amy MacDonalds album 'This is the Life', that's really cool. Quite a fan of Blur, but i'm not really embarrassed about that :)

Yeah Blur are awesome. I dont get why a lot of people think they're cr@p, they have so many good songs.

[PhilKing]

I still like bands like Black Box, Snap, Haddaway, Londonbeat and all that music from the early 90's plus I have around 200 12" singles from the early 80's with bands like Change, The Weather Girls, D Train, Luther Vandross,Change...

I remember a lot of those Phil. Its what made me get into thrash!  :lol:

I admit to having the Change album on vinyl, there were quite nice.

There is some great bass playing on the Change album and also Naked Eyes from the same era.  I'm not embarrassed by any of it.  I have a ton of Tamla and Reggae.  I pretty much like all music other than some gangsta rap and really old county and western.  I love the stuff on your list Johnny, and I have most of them too! I'm a big fan of English, Scottish and Irish folk too (also 'Celtic' music as it's now called)

[gwEm]

i agree that you shouldn't be embarassed. what really gets my goat is non-musicians telling me i should be embarassed about liking a certain type of music.

+1

people tell me i should be embarrassed for liking scooter and basshunter, but i'm proud to talk about it

[AndyR]

I got laughed at recently because I said I'd downloaded a Glen Campbell album..like I give a sh*t.

The Wichita Line Man is one of the nicest sounding songs ever!  8)

Yeah, I've only heard it a few times but there's something really powerful about the sound.  But powerful's not the right word... it just gets to you somehow.

:D

I was a BIG Glen Campbell fan when I was first learning to play guitar. Witchita was one of my favourites, but Galveston and, even more so for me, Where's the Playground Susie? are higher up my list of favourites :D

By the time I get to Phoenix - sigh... and I was listening to some old vinyl the other day, and found that Rhinestone Cowboy is actually superb as well (!) :lol:

I haven't got a copy of it, but I remember he did a version of "If You Go Away (Ne Me Quitte Pas)" that was on a "Best of" we (me and my Dad) used to listen to on a cassette on the way to school/work - that was one of the songs that made me a singer/songwriter (and therefore guitarist :D).

[Stevepage]

Seal, Kiss From A Rose  :lol:

[phlip]

No embarresment here but pleasures certainly.

80's LA Sleeze Rock - Faster PussyCat Rule!

Propper 80's Goth - The Sisters, Bauhaus, Virgin Prunes, Christian Death etc.

The Current Folk revival stuff, Kris Drever, Kate Rusby, Lau,

Big Banging European EBM, Front242, Funker Vogt, Project Pitchfork

[Johnny Mac]

I still like bands like Black Box, Snap, Haddaway, Londonbeat and all that music from the early 90's plus I have around 200 12" singles from the early 80's with bands like Change, The Weather Girls, D Train, Luther Vandross,Change...

I remember a lot of those Phil. Its what made me get into thrash!  :lol:

I admit to having the Change album on vinyl, there were quite nice.

There is some great bass playing on the Change album and also Naked Eyes from the same era.  I'm not embarrassed by any of it.  I have a ton of Tamla and Reggae.  I pretty much like all music other than some gangsta rap and really old county and western.  I love the stuff on your list Johnny, and I have most of them too! I'm a big fan of English, Scottish and Irish folk too (also 'Celtic' music as it's now called)

Your right Phil, the bass playing from the early 80's stuff on your list is very good. For me that was the focal point on a lot of that music. The bass was as popular as the guitar as I remember it back then.

[AndyR]

i agree that you shouldn't be embarassed. what really gets my goat is non-musicians telling me i should be embarassed about liking a certain type of music.

:lol: I just re-read this Dave.

Personally, I'm happy with non-musicians telling me this because I can usually construct a well-reasoned response explaining what they're missing, and if they listen to this, they usually seem to agree with me and end up going "yeah, well, that type of music isn't really my cup of tea...", and I can then go "now you're talking :D ..."

But I do tend to get p1ssed off when musicians do the same thing... (assuming it's not just good-natured banter) ... I kinda feel musicians ought to know better, and that they haven't thought the consequences of their prejudices through as well as they might :lol:

[dave_mc]

yeah, that's a good point. :)

[noodleplugerine]

Absolutely NOTHING wrong with Manowar!!!!

[Twaddlefish]

Bauhaus

Anyone who doesn't like Bauhaus is a card carrying pinko commie!

[nfe]

Absolutely NOTHING wrong with Manowar!!!!

Well, there wouldn't be if they were joking...

[il˙ti]

...why would they be joking when they are so awesome?

[nfe]

There is nothing awesome about power metal. Not ever. Especially not people who sing "May your sword be wet like a young girl in her prime" without even a wink or a smile.