Ian Anderson 'Walk Into Light' you should hear the track 'General Crossing' it's a bloddy masterpiece!
Yeah, I've got that on CD -- weird album in some ways, but there are good bits and "General Crossing" is definitely one of them!
As for general guilty pleasures, there are a few standard '80s pop songs that I've got from iTMS, just because I like to hear the melodies now and again. I guess the most "embarrassing" one is Men at Work's "Down Under", but that song just makes me laugh! :) Can't beat the feel-good power of pop! ;)
For some reason, I've always dug the Madonna song "Ray of Light" -- though not her '80s pop classics, just that one, really. Dunno why! I have a secret plan to do a raging Hawkwind-style cover version. 8)
I guess my principal guilty pleasure (that most surprises people who are only passingly familiar with my musical tastes) is Shakira (!), largely thanks to my Colombian wife for whom Shakira's '90s albums were standard listening when she was a university student back in "the old country". I gotta say, I really dig some of the songs on
Pies Descalzos and
Donde Estan los Ladrones?, as well as the performances on the MTV Unplugged album. Really solid pop-rock songs on there. Her newer stuff isn't that bad either, really, though I think it's gotten a bit schizophrenic in what kind of music it wants to be. I can't fault her appearance in the videos, though .... ;)
My wife has a few random, generic New-Agey soundscape CDs that I really quite enjoy popping on in the background when I'm just sitting reading or something. I have a soft spot for that floaty, ambient thing!
Oh, and my fascination with folk-rock means I actually totally dig morris-dancing tunes, courtesy of classic '70s albums like
Morris On. Ruling! :D
