Guilty Pleasures: Throwaway Pop

Phasecorrect, aside from Cheap Trick, your impeccable reputation remains intact. Mitcheft, on the other hand, has some serious explaining to do. :)

Some of my fun oldies but goodies that also show some pretty good sonics (though not every track) include:

Alan Parson's Project: Turn of a Friendly Card.
Bob James: Touchdown.
Grover Washington: Anthology of.
Herb Alpert: Definitive Hits.
William Ackerman: Past Light
Isley Brothers: Ultimate
Chicago: Greatet Hits.
Al Stewart: Year of the Cat.
Phil Collins: ...Hits.
Jeffrey Osborne: Ultimate Collection
Jethro Tull: Songs from the Wood

Some of these are pretty compressed recordings. The worst is the Isley Bros.. Nevertheless, after recent cabling and amp upgrades, most of these have become amazingly 3-demensional and involving.

I listened my old Grand Funk Railroad Greatest Hits recently. This recording is hopeless.

-IMO

I admit it, I have many lps from the 60s, 70s and 80s that I still like to listen to: Journey, REO, Styx, Human League, The Babys, etc.

So shoot me!

Jim

Must add greatest hits discs from Billy Squier and Rick Springfield.

"Stroke me, stroke me!"

A group which many dismissed as "bubblegum music" and
lightweight, but which I believe will have lasting appeal:

ABBA

The stage production "Mamma Mia!" has been breaking
box office records, and they are still one of the top
selling groups world-wide in history.

the fact that any non audiophile aproved recording should be considered guilty listening is one of the problems with this hobby. I have a moderatly high end system and own very few probably less than 10 albums/cd that wouldnt fall into your guilty category. My system is about making music i like sound good and tht is the real goal of high-fidelity audio equipment after all.