Confessions

Britney Spears. She rocks.

When she was alive, bluegrass. Anything with the high lonesome sound.

I'm not sheepish about anything I like - it all fits one mood or another, and I like a pretty wide range of stuff.

Reading the audio rags, I'm always amused by the discussion of "guilty pleasure" listening - what the heck is there to feel a sense of "guilt" about? I'm into audio and music because they make me happy, period - there isn't, and doesn't have to be, any higher order aspiration to it than that.

I once read that Guns 'N Roses "Appetite For Destruction" was MoFi's biggest selling Gold CD (before their bankruptcy and re-emergence). That tells me a lot of people share my passion :-)

McGarick,

Never, ever be embarassed by Todd Rundgren! Although his philosophy may not be your cup of tea (I presume you mean his vaguely spacey zen-liberal musings), for my money the guy ranks up there with Brian Wilson and Lennon/Macca as the greatest pop songcrafter of my lifetime. I would certainly acknowledge that he experiments even more aggressively - and often less successfully - than either of the above (Zappa comes to mind). OTOH, if you were to compile all of his great successes in one box, you'd have an astonishing set.

As to what is really embarassing:

I'm a big fan of "General" Johnson, the lead singer of the group Chairmen of the Board. You may remember the song "Just Gimme a Little More Time". Johnson also wrote, among many other songs, "Patches" - one of the sappiest lyrics ever penned through the course of human history! I smile every time I cue it up.

Marty

BTW - fun thread.

I'm like Kthomas, like too many genres to afford feeling guilty. I suppose I'm particularly fond of really obscure stuff from the late 60's, early 70's, listening to this stuff really brings to mind the zeitgeist of a unique moment in time.

Just last night, Dana Gillespie, what a find! In the past few weeks music by Mellow Candle, Principle Edwards Magic Theatre, Stud, Giles,Giles & Fripp, Man, Horslips, Sweet Smoke, Wendy/Walter Carlos.