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Guilty Pleasure recording?

I will date myself by this, and hate to admit to it, but one of the reasons that I love getting into vinyl now, is that there is some music that is not available digitally. I wish I could say I was talking about some legendary, sublime classic recording of a great orchestral performace, but instead in this instance I am talking about bad 80's rock.

Right now I am listening to my guilty pleasure record: The Producers "You Make the Heat". No one ever likes it as much as I do when I play it for them. Some have heard "She Shiela", but usually they have not heard the album before, and don't care to again. But I love it.

Anyone have bad, guilty pleasure records, that are not available digitally, probably because there is no demand?
macdadtexas
bongofury
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Although these survive on iTunes, here is some ear candy from your beloved 1980s:
"Denis" by Blondie
"Police and Thieves (Dub)" by Culture Club
"Lips Like Sugar-12 inch Remix" by Echo and the Bunnymen
"Money" by the Flying Lizards
"Private Life" by Grace Jones
"88 Lines about 44 Women" by the Nails
"Make a Circuit with Me" by the Polecats
"I Know What Boys Like" by the Waitresses
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wharfy
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Macdadtexas-

Your response has got me thinking that one man's guilty is another man's pleasure :-) It's funny how some guilty pleasure songs are really good, and others like "Funkytown" aren't.

Slothman-
My 82 year old mother finally got me to cart away a bunch of records I had been storing in a box somewhere in her crowded basement. Turns out I have that record and bought it when it was first released.

While they didn't write a lot of their own tunes (I think) they had an ear for good songs written by other people. Mama told Me Not To Come is a Randy Newman song and I think Joy To The World was written by Hoyt Axton.
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mapman
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The Three Dog Night hits all are classics and great works of pop/rock art. Nobody should feel guilty appreciating them.

There are a lot of great tunes out there by acts that perhaps could not assemble a single great accompanying album and hence got the cold shoulder from the all knowing and way all too cool "rock music critics" in the day.

Finding these and appreciating the one off pop/rock classics on a good sounding system can be extremely rewarding.

A lot of these tunes are just plain FUN, something many music critics have tended to not give much credit for over the years.
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mapman
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Milla Jojovich

I used to think this a guilty pleasure, then realized that it was actually quite good and others thought so as well.
martykl
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Ah, there are so many, but one takes my personal cake. I actually have a weakness for the song "Patches", written by Norman "General" Johnson and taken to the pop charts by IIRC Clarence Carter. This is an almost unbelievably bad (story of Job) lyric coupled to a sappy melody delivered in a near monotone by Carter (Johnson vocalizes more energetically on his version) that almost never fails to put a smile on my face.

No good explanation available.

Marty
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