Thanks Schubert. And Ive heard that story about the Freshmen too.
Here's another one of my faves which will give away my age....
Jo Stafford.
And if anyone is still reading...one of my ultimate faves is 'Nat Cole sings, George Shearing plays'. |
Bread - "The Best Of" is a great collection...leastways it is to me.
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Breakaway (album) by Art Garfunkel. Scmaltzy pop tunes and predictable arrangement but very enjoyable.
More nostalgiac tunes in my guilty pleasure bucket:
Ambrosia--Biggest part of Me
Cyndi Lauper--When You Were Mime
Black Eyed Peas--Where is the Love
Earth, Wind & Fire--September
Belinda Carlisle--Mad About You (great beat)
Alison Moyet--Invisible (strong vocal)
Asia--Only Time Will Tell
Carol King--So Far Away
Elton John--Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Freddie Mercury--The Great Pretender
Hall & Oates--Rich Girl
Jim Croce--I Got a Name
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Geez, this is like true confessions. Ok, ok, my name is falconquest and on occasion I listen to America, Adele, Phoebe Snow, and Dream Academy. But then it's back to Robin Trower ok?
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bryan adams, cuts like a knife. unambitious and unfashionable as hell, i know, but the guy does have a knack for the big hook and the songs stick with you whether you want 'em to or not
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Speaking of knife, Shonen Knife’s classic Let’s Knife. |
ABBA Live. Two LP set. They try to rock it out here and there and (occasionally) succeed. Most notably, the album's version of "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (a man after midnight) works well. It's a fun reminder of the close kinship between straight pop and rock n roll. |
Funny, before I clicked on the thread, from the headline the first one that popped into my head was also Carpenters Singles (high rez). Others that get more airtime than I should admit are the soundtracks to Guardians of The Galaxy and Jackie Brown. Cheers,
Spencer |
Who could ever forget- Milli Vanilli |
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Hah! Too much fun here! I love folk music. Anything could be coming out of my system. I'm a big Mason Williams fan. He did very traditional stuff in his early days. Abba works for me also. Pop on! Joe |
Billy Idol- Flesh for fantasy.
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Wham’s "Make it Big"
Huey Lewis & the News’s "Sports"
Run DMC’s "King of Rock"
+1 on Carpenter’s "Greatest Hits"
Sugar Hill Gang’s "Rapper’s Delight"
And J. Geils' Band's "Greatest Hits" and "Bloodshot" |
Jnovak,
Have you ever hear Tommy Emmanuel's solo guitar arrangement of Classical Gas? If not, I say "head straight to YouTube". Pretty incredible take on the tune and you may never think of that song in the same way again.
On another note......For some reason, your mention of Mason Williams brought Jimmy Webb to mind. I don't know how guilty that pleasure should be, but I'm gonna cue some up now. |
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Going Places I love that album! |
AC/DC If You Want Blood (You’ve Got it) (live and with Bon Scott) |
The Monkees Greatest Hits, Alice Cooper Goes to Hell, The Donnas, Mel Torme, Dean, Sammy and Frank, Goose Creek Symphony...
I don't feel guilty, but they aren't what I'd call crowd pleasers to my friends. |
Probably Men At Work: Business as Usual. I may ad some Hall and Oates to my collection, for which I'm already feeling guilty. (-: |
Neil Diamond - Hot August Night.
The Clash - London Calling
the most secret - The Ray Conniff Singers |
Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw and the Cooked, Bee Gees 1st, Their Satanic Majesties Request |
R&B from the 50's
Like Crazy For You by the Heartbeats. Or Story Untold by the Nutmegs.
Also a lot of Disco.
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Electric Light Orchestra. Was just listening to and enjoying their, "Out of the Blue". Don't really care what the "effete audio snobs" think...so not so guilty, I guess. |
All of Uriah Heep's early stuff. |
+1 Uriah Heep
Also, Bobby Darin's "Mack the knife"
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I was a top 40 radio DJ in the seventies, which meant I developed a tolerance for bubblegum and breeze pop music. Also classic 'tear in your beer' country. I learned to appreciate those songs as three minute soap operas.
I won't bore you with details of my Norman Luboff choir records...or Anita Kerr library, and certainly not 'the rain the park and other things'.
Happy listening, Everybody
PS...don't forget Jo Stafford and Noel Coward |
The 'Little Miss America' theme from Palisades Amusement Park http://www.palisadespark.com/sounds_LMA.htmlIf you lived in the NY metro area during the '60's, it will bring back memories. Now if only I could find the Raceway Park, and Lincoln Savings Bank commercials.... Bob |
Wham! and George Michael (solo).
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ABBA is the best pop music ever produced, Agnetha & Frida has one of the best singing harmonies in pop history, if not the best. ABBA is tasteful, very melodic & fun music, and very professional in everything really. I honestly can´t imagine better (simple) and honest pop music. Their approach and attitude is the most positive in the business. They surpassed Beatles IMHO. Musically I mean. The happiest pop act, and a huge influence to so many. The best thing is they come from non-English speaking country but their English is perfect. They are perfect.
Karen Carpenter´s voice is incredibly strong and very beautiful, I really love dark female voices, Cher´s too.
I never was embarrassed about ABBA. And all loved them here, boys and girls, young and old. They were hugely popular, much more than Beatles ever were. In 1976 I loved both ABBA and BÖC. And early URIAH HEEP, of course. Still do.
I may mention another very positive and happy pop band lead by a lovely blonde girl... What that band might be ? Hint: they came from one English speaking country and from the 70´s...
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ASIA, the 2 first albums are the very best the utterly dull 80´s produced. In everything. John Wetton is a genius. And Carl Palmer rock´s best drummer, still is. Period. |
I love ABBA! Great songs, singing, and production. Agnetha's solo albums are swell too. She does a killer version of Jackie DeShannon's "When You Walk In The Room". Pure Pop pleasure! |
Schmaltz of the highest order and I cannot stand that or the crooner genre.
"I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis. Man, I do take some punches on the chin whenever I play it. But it's good schmaltz well recorded--which schmaltz usually is. |
