OT: The Color My World Memorial Guilty Pleasure Thread

[DogBoy]

I did say ALL of it. No? That includes rhinestone.

But my favorite is gentle on my mind.

Here is Glen and Gentle on my mind author John Hartford doing live duet.

 

[whaler11]

Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl (My imagination just takes off when I hear it).

New BY goal. Find a girl to kiss AreBee. After we find one for Shizzle that is.

 

[DogBoy]

I’ll admit to owning a Bread album. Some of the most seriously depressing songs came from that group....

David Gates " Baby i'ma want you, baby i'ma need you" Classic

 

[HuskyHawk]

David Gates " Baby i'ma want you, baby i'ma need you" Classic

Bread tunes have a weird effect on me. When I was young, my parents gave me their old "Stereo". It had a turntable, AM/FM and an 8 Track. The only 8 tracks I had available where some old ones of theirs, including The Best of Bread (also greatest hits of America and Jim Croce). So I actually know pretty much every damned Bread song by heart. As a result I tend to start singing along when they come on the radio. Nostalgia is pretty powerful.

 

[DogBoy]

Guilty, I guess. I still have my 45 RPM'ers of Nos. 2 and 4(b). I also have an ABBA's Greatest Hits CD, which obviously includes both No. 4 items.

I don't like "Brand New Key" but I do have the 45 RPM of the Melanie song "Lay Down".

Some others for me..."Wedding Bell Blues" by "The Fifth Dimension", "The Rain, The Park and Other Things" by "The Cowsills" and "Our House" by "Crosby Stills Nash and Young".

I mock no one.

I still have melanie "candles in the rain" LP

 

[boba]

Yeah, I was there, and she's a grandmother too...

 

[Bezzz]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Haircut 100. We'll yeah, I can believe it. Summer of '81. This was the go-to cassette in the boom box where a group of young lions and lionesses and I rented a beach house in the Hamptons. Hearing this brings me to a sunny beach, rum and cokes and beautiful young women in bikinis.

Don't get me started on The Go Go's. Our Lips Are Sealed! Belinda!

 

[storrsroars]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Haircut 100.
Don't get me started on The Go Go's. Our Lips Are Sealed! Belinda!

There's bad bad music and there's good bad music. Bad bad music takes itself seriously. Good bad music is just fun. And both Haircut 100 and Go-Go's are firmly in category 2.

I mean who can really hate on Toto Coelo? Or Bow Wow Wow for that matter.

 

[AreBee1969]

New BY goal. Find a girl to kiss AreBee. After we find one for Shizzle that is.

Katy Perry will do...

 

[whaler11]

Katy Perry will do...

What size shark suit do you wear?

Your feelings on Jill Sobule?

 

[ctchamps]

1. Stand (Sly & The Family Stone)
2. Stop In The Name Of Love (The Supremes)
3. One (Three Dog Night)
4. Age of Aquarius (The 5th Dimension)
5. Unwritten (Natasha Bedingfield)

Also:
Mr. Bojangles (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
Thriller (Michael Jackson)
Hair (The Cowsills)
Roxanne (The Police)
California Dreamin' (The Mamas & The Papas)
Summer In The City (Lovin' Spoonful)
Green Tambourine (Lemon Pipers)
Grenada (John Williams)
Time In A Bottle (Jim Croce)
Songs From the Woods Album (Jethro Tull)
The Lord Of The Rings Album (Howard Shore)
Cat's In The Cradle (Harry Chapin)
Signs (Five Man Electrical Band)
These Eyes (The Guess Who)
Let's Live For Today (The Grass Roots)
My Sweet Lord (George Harrison)
Here Comes Santa Claus (Gene Autry)

Additionally:
Turn, Turn, Turn (The Byrds)
Time Has Come Today (The Chambers Brothers)
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Iron Butterfly)
Journey To The Center Of The Mind (The Amboy Dukes)
Eve Of Destruction (Barry McGuire)
Incense and Peppermints (Strawberry Alarm Clock)
San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) (Scott McKenzie)
War (Edwin Starr)
Time Of The Season (The Zombies)
Something In The Air (Thunderclap Newman)
People Got To Be Free (The Rascals)
Abraham, Martin & John (Dion)
In The Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)
Get Together (The Youngbloods)
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rudolf Serkin, piano; The Philadelphia Orchestra)
I Got A line On You (Spirit)
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia On A Theme By Thomis Tallis (Adrian Boult: London Philharmonic Orchestra)

 

[storrsroars]

1. Stand (Sly & The Family Stone)
2. Stop In The Name Of Love (The Supremes)
3. One (Three Dog Night)
4. Age of Aquarius (The 5th Dimension)
5. Unwritten (Natasha Bedingfield)

Also:
Mr. Bojangles (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
Thriller (Michael Jackson)
Hair (The Cowsills)
Roxanne (The Police)
California Dreamin' (The Mamas & The Papas)
Summer In The City (Lovin' Spoonful)
Green Tambourine (Lemon Pipers)
Grenada (John Williams)
Time In A Bottle (Jim Croce)
Songs From the Woods Album (Jethro Tull)
The Lord Of The Rings Album (Howard Shore)
Cat's In The Cradle (Harry Chapin)
Signs (Five Man Electrical Band)
These Eyes (The Guess Who)
Let's Live For Today (The Grass Roots)
My Sweet Lord (George Harrison)
Here Comes Santa Claus (Gene Autry)

Additionally:
Turn, Turn, Turn (The Byrds)
Time Has Come Today (The Chambers Brothers)
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Iron Butterfly)
Journey To The Center Of The Mind (The Amboy Dukes)
Eve Of Destruction (Barry McGuire)
Incense and Peppermints (Strawberry Alarm Clock)
San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) (Scott McKenzie)
War (Edwin Starr)
Time Of The Season (The Zombies)
Something In The Air (Thunderclap Newman)
People Got To Be Free (The Rascals)
Abraham, Martin & John (Dion)
In The Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)
Get Together (The Youngbloods)
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rudolf Serkin, piano; The Philadelphia Orchestra)
I Got A line On You (Spirit)
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia On A Theme By Thomis Tallis (Adrian Boult: London Philharmonic Orchestra)

That seems to be a pretty normal playlist. If those are your "guilty pleasures", should we assume your normal listening is black death speed metal?

 

[HuskyHawk]

That seems to be a pretty normal playlist. If those are your "guilty pleasures", should we assume your normal listening is black death speed metal?

Agreed. That's mostly a collection of all time classics.

 

[ctchamps]

That seems to be a pretty normal playlist. If those are your "guilty pleasures", should we assume your normal listening is black death speed metal?

You missed Here Comes Santa Claus.

Although not the same venue I watch Project Runway with my wife. That's what happens when you're with the same women 45 years and she has learned to watch football, basketball, hockey and golf. So I found myself looking at the gowns during the royal wedding.

 

[Kenny11]

kids bop

 

[8893]

kids bop

Kidz not Kids.

Fake fan.

 

[8893]

I watch The Voice fairly regularly. Big fan.

 

[housekeys]

That seems to be a pretty normal playlist. If those are your "guilty pleasures", should we assume your normal listening is black death speed metal?

Agree. At one point in my life, I used to feel guilty about liking some of these songs, but not anymore. Thanks to Pandora and equiv. I have realized my taste in music is all over the place. It is said that one of Tupac's favorite songs was Vincent. It's all good.

In the spirit of the thread, songs by the Osmond's, Partridge Family, Helen Reddy, Carpenters, qualify for my list.

 

[CAHUSKY]

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"You Spin Me Round" by Dead or Alive

It doesn't get any better than that. When I was a long haired 20 year old I could do one hell of a Pete Burns (RIP) impression signing that song.

 

[Bezzz]

BTW The Cowsills can still bring it.

 

[Dove]

"Kiss Me Deadly" - Lita Ford

[looks left....looks right] "Joey" and "What's Up?" by 4 Non Blonds...another volume crank

"Don't You Want Me Baby" by Human League

@storrsroars ...hat tip on "Drive". Great tune.

@UConnWingman ...hat tip on Chiliwack and Deisel!! But Sweet Jesus..."Perfect Way"? Man card?

 

[storrsroars]

BTW The Cowsills can still bring it.

I can't read your posts w/o being reminded of this legend.

 

[Bezzz]

One more. I just think this is one of the greatest pop songs ever recorded. The way it starts mellow and builds and builds to the end. Perfect.

Bev Bivins was such a sixties cutie.

 

[superjohn]

Everything from Survivor, especially the Rocky 4 soundtrack. Another classic from the Rocky 4 soundtrack is from John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band "Hearts on Fire." When I was a kid I always thought Springsteen sang the Eddie and the Cruisers track when it was really New England's Springsteen, John Cafferty...

 

[uconnfan68]

Michael Jackson, “Beat It”. Daughter was taking a dance class, using that song, and had my stereo cranking, for hours a day, for many days. I grew to like it. Especially Eddie Van Halen’s riffs.