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    Join Date: Feb 2017

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    Default What are your very very guilty musical pleasures.

    Maybe in asking this question I could highlight that my guilty pleasure is someone's not so guilty pleasure, but I'll take the plunge bravely. I can always say that because I like the music, I have nothing to hold my hand up to. Lol.

    But here goes. My guilty pleasures, that I sometimes might turn the car stereo down to at the traffic lights on a hot summer evening with the windows down, to avoid snide looks, is as follows ;

    - Richard clayderman. I must admit i latched onto him from my dads 80s listening pleasure shall we say.
    - julios iglesias. I don't know how that happened. But I admit I like the melodies and taking his cronning Spanish voice out of the equation for a bit. My sister takes the piss in a friendly way when I like to embarrass her at the traffic lights with his music loud, if she is travelling with me. We get on great still. Isn't life in your forties when you don't care sometimes, great!
    - Nicholas des Angeles- you might have to google him but I recommend you don't. He is the type of tossy easy listening French guitar playing hope to get mega bucks from this genre type of music artist, but again my defence is it was playing on my dads mid 80s escort xr3i when I was ten and driving through rural France with the family (and with the gb sticker on the 'essex' mobile), so I blame my dad for possibly shaping maybe an Ill informed early music choice. He still often has poor music taste while I love the guy.

    But I can seriously say I listen to this stuff still.

    I don't sometimes take myself seriously unless it's a debate about aerofoils, to which I know a lot about aviation, but I'd be interested in your guilty pleasures if you can take the plunge too......

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    Julio is s great singer.

    Sure most here find what I listen to embarrassing but I don't
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    Been trying to think of some music that if someone found me listening to it I would be embarrassed/guilty but can't really think of anything. I don't think I care enough any more to be bothered. Maybe it was different when I was younger and there was stuff that was definitely 'uncool': Fleetwood Mac (not the Peter Green stuff obvs) or Dire Straits, maybe.

    Remember once I was listening to some Average White Band with the lights down low and a mate came around. He was convinced I had a woman hidden away somewhere despite my denials: 'Well why have you got make-out music on, then?'

    Mind you he thinks Beyoncé is good so where do you go from there?
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    Hmmm, not so guilty pleasure, as i never feel guilty, but another take on this for me are artists/ bands who i mainly play when alone, and never with friends.
    A good example would be ' the incredible string band'. First heard them when a friend was given one of their LP;s when we were young. We were both into Zep/Floyd etc and folkish stuff Pentangle/ John Martyn and the like, so incredible string band we thought must be, well, incredible.
    We laughed so much on first play. Out of tune, very muddled as in no structure to any tunes, but there was 10 seconds of pure genius.
    Myself and my friend would take turns standing by the turntable to keep queuing back to start of those 10 seconds. We soon got bored doing that, and would just let it play to end of the song. Then que start of song, eventually was just playing the whole LP from the start. Those 10 seconds now made more sense in the bigger picture, and we kind of understood the whole thing. The joys of LP;s and not being able to skip forward at a touch of button.
    To this day, if i want people to leave my place after a party, i will put the string band on, they soon leave. So guilty i like them no, but i kind of keep it secret as in the passed spent so much time trying to explain why i like them etc, that best not to play anything by them when i have company.
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    I don't think I have any guilty musical pleasures. Stuff I thought was naff when I was young (eg anything remotely 'easy listening') still strikes me as naff now. I liked Abba before it was fashionable to like them, and I still like them. I have several LPs I've 'outgrown' and never listen to any more, but I'm too lazy/disorganised to get shot of them. In any case, they're mostly too knackered to sell, and even charity shops might look askance at their condition.

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    Ever since my early youth my constant guilty pleasure was Paul McCartney's LPs from the '70s. Starting with "Ram", ending with "Wings at the Speed of Sound" (no, ending with "London Town"; everything after that is unbearable for me to listen to). I always kept returning to those albums. But always making sure that no one is around when I put them on, because, well, it's a bit embarrassing for an ex-Beatle to be putting out such shamelessly sappy and sellout material. But I just enjoy listening to those vacuous songs, can't explain why.
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    I'm not embarassed by anything I play - I'm not out to 'impress' anyone. However, I'm sure many people would think my tastes in '60s pop quite 'un-cool' and not 'hip'. (The Hollies, The Searchers, Manfred Mann and yes, The Incredible String Band ....).

    I enjoy the compositions of Burt Bacharat, especially sung by Dionne Warwick and the film music of John Barry. Love Shirley Bassey, Ella Fitzgerald, as well as the 'cooing' of Francoise Hardy.
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    Cascada, Scooter, Lasgo amongst others that you're really supposed to just dance to.

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    Im a bit of a Sinatra buff. Certain to cause a few sniggers but he was and is cool man
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    Yes, had a few people express surprise that I own Sinatra CDs.
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