Guilty pleasures- music edition
 

For a little lighthearted coming clean... what are your guilty music pleasures? The ones you'd never admit to friends you listen to, but, when you're by yourself, you may have been known to belt along to.

For me... it's the Grass Roots. I don't think they were even a real band, so much as a revolving door of studio musicians, but I am a sucker for the overuse of a brass section.

Okay, there's my midnight confession. Sooner or later, you all will fess up yours. Don't keep it to yourself; live for today.

I can only hope I have given an earworm to a few of our members who were around when the Grass Roots were recording.

The Archies....Damn, there I said it.

I voted for The Dave Clark Five as better than the Beatles :o

The Monkees, long overdue for the hall of fame

I know I'm playing on a different field than a lot of DT-ers, if the What Are You Listening To? thread is any indication. If "coming clean" is about listening to the Grass Roots? I've actually posted a youtube video or two of them in that thread. More than half of my collection (CDs and vinyl) would probably raise questions about my geezerdom in many eyes here. Still, there are a few songs by Glen Campbell and . . . (gasp) . . . Barry Manilow that I have to admit I really enjoy when it's just me and the dogs. :o

I love this video, complete with 60s babe. As if the lyrics needed to be illustrated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WpU4p3MaOs

And who else could adapt Chopin to a pop song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDEynk7SwxE

My love for the Grass Roots is not guilty because they're from the 60s (I wasn't around for the decade, but I loooooove a lot of 1960s music); it's because they were cheesetastic. I was originally going to note my love for Herman's Hermits, except I think "No Milk Today" is actually a really good song so I have no shame for my adoration of 1960s Peter Noone and his horrible teeth.

For a guilty pleasure for which I was around during their heyday... i also, erm, at some point may have purchased Asia's Greatest Hits.

And I've watched the Chatroulette version of "Call Me Maybe" at least fifteen times. Because it's AWESOME.

"Pleasant Valley Sunday" is a great pop song.

yes classics..

#1 The Bee Gees (F*ck off, I like 'em)

#2 ABBA - Dancing Queen. Because when a 3yo blonde hair beauty looks up at you with those big blue eyes and says "Daddy, can I be dancing queen?", then dammit, you fire up You Tube and make her dancing queen for 2 hours, if that's what she wants.:{>::{>:

Yanni.

Carpenters

Bee Gees were great.
ABBA great. Love their music. Loved Mama Mia both on the screen and on Broadway.

You sound like my husband in this regard. He also likes the carpenters, which i saw someone mention. But his uncle used to drum a bit for the bee gees, and andy gibb, so we will listen to them if we are changing stations and they are on.

Vegas is the best place to see all the old has beens of yesteryear. Saw Barry there. Have to say he puts on a decent show. Last one I saw out there was Rod Stewart. Guy is about as old as I am. Women still hanging all over him.

In addition to the above,
How bout Neil Diamond,Al Martino, Engelbert Humperdinck,Barbra.Linda Ronstedt and the youngsters Heart..



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vhFnTjia_I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArbsU-UCSOE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kNJBnhJPO8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZLqZ_H_nZc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41P8UxneDJE


http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...E2A34D&first=0

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2q...you-1977_music

3 Dog Night:

"Just an old fashioned love song playin' on the radio"
"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever know"
"Won't you try a little tenderness."

Burt Bacharach:

"What the world needs now is love, sweet love, no not just for some, but for everyone"
"Do you know the way to San Jose?"
"Birds fall down from the sky, everytime you walk by. Just like me, they long to be, close to you."

There's nothing guilty about loving Burt Bacharach! If he's good enough for Elvis Costello, he's good enough for me.

Though credit where credit is due; the lyrics you quote are all Hal David; Bacharach was the composer. I love "I'll Never Fall in Love Again." The man's ability to mix love and heartache was unequalled by anyone except Lorenz Hart.

Here's a great cover of it by Splitsville:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8xvbJp1BK8

When they go into the ELO-esque harmonies for repeat of the third verse, my toes just curl in joy. Listen for the Buggles homage at the fade out.

Rainy Days and Mondays was the very first song I ever sang on karaoke, out in some dive bar in the midwest.

I was terrible.

Hey, that beats my 2-year-old blond boy demanding 2 hours of Gangnam Style. Especially when he demands "Mama do it." I managed to spasm my back doing those damn hops for him.