Musical Guilty Pleasures!

[spariam]

Walk Away Renne - I always liked that song...Drew - I was just listening to Tempation Eyes...right after Precious and Few by Climax.I always liked the ChiLites...and The Carpenters.

[davewalton]

OK now, really, who doesn't secretly like Hocus Pocus by Focus? Laugh all you want at the yodelling, but just try and transcribe the guitar solos!

[ernstinen]

Quote:OK now, really, who doesn't secretly like Hocus Pocus by Focus? Laugh all you want at the yodelling, but just try and transcribe the guitar solos! I LOVE that record! That guitarist (Jan Ackerman?) has some of the best rock chops I've ever heard.The keyboardist/vocalist IS pretty bizarre, but it's so cool!Ern

[ernstinen]

Quote:I also love listening to "I Got You Babe" by Sonny and Cher. CaseyGreat record, but I'm an oboe player, so I'm biased. Ern

[ernstinen]

Quote:Four Seasons - Opus 17Buckinghams - Kind of a DrapAnimals - Don't Let Me Be MisunderstoodDonovan - Mellow YellowManfred Mann - Quinn the EskimoBee Gees - Nights on BroadwaySanford Townsend Band - Smoke From a Distant FireGrass Roots - Temptation EyesPhish - Gin & JuiceTemptations - Poppa Was a Rolling StoneElvis - All Shook UpHollies - Crimson and CloverBobby Bloom - Montego BayHoyt Axton - Boney Fingers It has been pointed out many times about how lame I can be so don't waste your breath. A lot of those songs ARE good --- You're feeling guilt about Elvis?I grew up around Chicago, and the Buckinghams never recorded "Kind Of A Drap", as far as I know.How about "Susan," which had a faux Beatles psychedelic bridge? That one takes a great fan to love it!Ern

[drew]

I love "Hocus Pocus", listen to it all the time. So has my son ever since he heard me playing it.

[spariam]

Quote:Quote:OK now, really, who doesn't secretly like Hocus Pocus by Focus? Laugh all you want at the yodelling, but just try and transcribe the guitar solos! I LOVE that record! That guitarist (Jan Ackerman?) has some of the best rock chops I've ever heard.The keyboardist/vocalist IS pretty bizarre, but it's so cool!Ern Jan Akkerman (maybe Jan Ackerman is Will Ackerman's long lost brother)...he was great. I remember buying his solo album Tabernacle years ago, after wearing out my Focus 8-track.

[Casey H]

OKOne my absolute fav albums of all time is the 2 album set, Melanie - Live at Carnegie Hall. And I consider her an influence as a songwriter, but generally keep that guilty thing to myself. Melanie is an excellent songwriter but unfortunately a lot of folks associate her with "Brand New Key," a song I wish she never released.On this double album, Melanie performs at Carnegie Hall for about 90 minutes-- just her and her guitar, nothing else. How many could pull that off nowadays? She was awesome. Casey

[spariam]

I had the Gather Me album (w/ Brand New Key)...got it from Columbia House Records. I think I liked all the songs except the hit...And speaking of Focus, (well it's not related, but it made me think of it) - anybody remember Andrew Lloyd Webber - Variations (based on Paganini 24th Caprice). Gary Moore, Phil Collins, Rod Argent. I remember that being a guilty pleasure in 1978. Have no idea how it would hold up today...

[edteja]

One of mine, besides the Monkees and Melanie (yes, Melanie) is "Walk Away Renee" buy the Left Banke... I also love listening to "I Got You Babe" by Sonny and Cher.Oh yeah! And Gilbert O Sullivan.