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Guilty Pleasures



garfish’s recent thread on c/w music brought to mind the “guilty pleasures” admissions recently submitted by TAS writers and reviewers. a “guilty pleasure,” roughly speaking, is a musical selection one adores but plays only in secret, fearing its publication as an audiophile’s favorite might elicit ridicule or, at least, laughter. so, fellow a-goners, are you willing to confess to a couple of your guilty pleasures? I’ll start with two and add others if this thread gets going: (1) “not for kids only,” j. garcia & d. grisman; (2) ‘the little mermaid,” OST.
cornfedboy
tireguy
1,964 posts
 
What a great thread, we can imberass our selves but we do not know each other(for the most part). That being said I enjoy listening to Thomas Dolby a lot! and even on a bad day I like Bon Jovi but the condition's have to be right for the latter of the two. As for Thomas Dolby most all of his music ANY time is just fantastic.
cornfedboy OP
1,645 posts
 
tireguy: man, there's some wierd stuff goin' on here. one of the lp's i use as a "test" when auditioning new equipment is "aliens ate my buick" ; best track, of course, is "it don't mean a thing, if you ain't got...." here's another example of a "rock" record that's well recorded, despite what one might expect from the "musical profiling" of the genre.
avguygeorge
2,300 posts
 
Don't ya' just love it when one of your freinds/or visiting relatives is flipping thru the albums,picking some of those old ones,holding them up in a crowded living room,"What's this?"/"with no place to hide."
brulee
564 posts
 
Great topic Cornfedboy. Most of my guilty pleasures came from listening to my parents music as a child. The Browns, Mills Bros, Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Johnny Horton, Johnny Rivers and a few more that I am too embaressed to share. Although I do not consider Tom waits a guilty pleasure, I am made to feel that way (r u reading this Jctubes) from neighbors and some of my audio buddies. Hows your head Dekay? Avguygeorge, when someone asks me "whats this?"/"with no place to hide" I say it's my girlfriends.
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joysjane
165 posts
 
Yeah, my wife and I have our own guilty pleasure music. Buster Poindexter... "Who Through the Whiskey in the Well" is great.
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