TEN GUILTY PLEASURES - ALBUMS I SHOULDN'T LOVE ... (BUT DO)
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- Ten Albums I'm Embarrassed to say that I love. These are my guilty secrets that I've never fessed up to before.
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Enya's 'Watermark' is a definite classic album, and it's such a wonderful album.
Gorgeous!
I've never felt guilty for liking Enya. I keep hoping she'll release a death metal album entitled Enya Face
Or a house album called Enya Butt.
Made me laugh
I'm Doug Stanhope... and that's why i drink LoL
🤣
Take your upvote and go
Enyama.
I don't believe in "guilty" pleasures.
I like what I like and never apologize. It's no one else's business.
Inevitably, someone else will enjoy something that sounds crap to me.
Spot on.Who are we supposed to feel guilty to?the editor of the NME or Rolling Stone?Rock / music snobs?
Yep if I like something could not give a monkeys cuss if others dont.
It's about time someone acknowledged Enya!
And Clannad for that matter. I picked up the Magic Ring for a fiver in a second hand record shop, got a bargain. Quality album.
Yes, they acknowledged her down on the psyche ward unfortunately she couldn't acknowledge too much herself!
Yes, love Enya. Odd thing is most of my old prog rock buddies all listen to her
Yes, Enya is no "guilty" secret. Surprising how many metal heads listen to her (and admit it). Anyone who stopped listening with Watermark missed out big time.
Yes, I love Enya. She has a stunning voice and lovely melodies. Like Mike Oldfield, who has a stunning voice from his guitar and lovely melodies, too.
Karen Carpenter....That voice
Yesterday once more 🎶🎶
But the sickly sweet and syrupy songs!
Great Voice, and she was a good drummer
@@paulannable3734 'Goodbye to love' with that bitchin guitar solo by Tony Peluso ..cmon maaaan ?
@@earlgrey691 I’ll check it out and get back to you.
I’m secretly also ok with ‘calling octopus of interplanetary craft’ (as I thought it was called as a kid)
But I’ve honestly tried to enjoy the Carpenters as I’ve grown older and found them just too saccharine - too soft.
If Paul McCartney had written 'We don't talk anymore' people would say it was a classic of that era. I think your brother had the right idea, listening to what sounded good and entertaining to his ears and not worrying about what is, the dreaded word, 'cool'. I enjoyed hearing about your guilty pleasures, very entertaining as always.
Sheeeeep!
There's no such thing as a guilty pleasure and don't let anyone tell you otherwise!
We all like what we like, and to be fair I enjoy most albums on this list.
As Frank Zapp[a said, "If it sounds good to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds bad to you, it's shitty."
@ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1 Wise words great mate.
Guilty pleasures?
Zappa: "If it sounds good to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds bad to you, it's shitty."
I'm a metal head but good music is good music and I'm seeing Leo Sayer live this year, he's brilliant!!
His vocals on 'Thunder in My Heart' are brilliant IMO
Steve Hughes said about Enya, ''it's just silence coloured in'', and he was right.... and it's great.
That description, to my mind, is more appropriately applied to much of Eno's work.
“ straight , it’s the new gay “
Love Enya and Clannad. Its a surreal trip for the senses listening to these beautiful vibes. And lets not forget Robin of Sherwood and Clannads music that wove a mystical tapestry.
Theme from Harry's Game still haunts me.
Oh yes the Robin of Sherwood album is truly wonderful!
@@SJHUE Utterly brilliant. Still play it now, the music and vocals are sublime and brings back memories of more innocent times. They dont make em like that anymore. I belive there were tracks that were ommited from the original album. Wouldnt it be great if they released those as well? Long live Robin, Nazir, Little John, Marion, Much, et al 😃👍
@@samdemic3373 Yes it is a wonderful soundtrack. You are likely correct about the first series as the album is very short but I know for certain they made some new music for the second series and the master tapes for these have been lost now for many years. Such a shame. There is a track called "Caislean Oir" on the album `Macalla` which came out after `Legend`. That track is a reworking of one of the tracks from the second series of RoS and I think that`s all we`ve got! Sorry if you knew this already!
@@SJHUE Yeah, I have a copy of Macalla and other albums as well. I fell in love with Clannad after the series ended. There is a beautiful Cathedral concert they performed thats available on DVD. A Robin medley is performed amongst many wonderful Clannad pieces.
I have always loved Kate Bush's first record The Kick Inside. I was 12 years old, and very much in love with her.
Shouldn't that be Behswars 😉
My fave is Dreaming. "This house is full of ma-ma-madness..."
@@markkumanninen6524Play it loud Ok! 😊
Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb: a Guilty guilty pleasure. Sorry not sorry.
They made some magic on that album - perfect pairing!
Your extensive knowledge - overlaid with a wonderful choice of words and metaphors …
I’ve been reading/ listening to music reviews since 1969
You are the Best!!
ABBA - The Visitors album, found a tape of this in my dads car when I was a long haired rocker (and wouldn’t admit to liking my sisters Kate Bush albums) went out and bought the vinyl;still have it, still love it. Of course there’s a bit of cheese in there but the title track is superb, Slipping Through My Fingers is the best song ever about being a parent and Like an Angel Passing through My Room is sublime - possibly the song I would listen to on my deathbed !
Cliff Richard’s I’m No Hero is an album I still listen to regularly. That is the follow up, followed then by Wired For Sound. I’m No Hero featured ‘Dreamin’, ‘A Little In Love’ and the gems ‘In The Night’, ‘A Heart Will Break’, and ‘Everyman’. Amazing Pop/Rock.
Excellent album - his best, I think. Packed with quality songs. 'Everyman' is one of the great album-closers - but virtually no-one knows it!
Yes fantastic Album
Enya and Moya Brennan from the Clannad realm,what gorgeous gifts bestowed upon our planet.
I much prefer Moira's solo stuff to her sister's.
Theme from Harry's Game being one of them
I'm a huge KISS fan, they're my number one favorite band and i also really like Unmasked, Tomorrow and Naked City are my favorite songs on it, I call it their ''Pop rock'' album too.
Barbara Dickson - January February. Love it, there I’ve said it.
Great singer, good song.
If memory serves both this song and Cliff's LP were arranged and produced by Alan Tarney. The signature quirky chord changes and sparkly synths give the game away (see also: Tarney Spencer Band's version of Cathy's clown)
Love it too
Lovely folkstress.
Love that song, love the sweeping feel. A fairly big hit in Australia too.
But as long as we're on the subject, Leo Sayer was legit. I didn't even realize he was the original singer of "The Show Must Go On" before Three Dog Night did their famous version of it.
Show Must Go On is a fantastic song. That little strangled falsetto on "leave me outside my address" gives me goosebumps every time
He initially wrote 'One man band' for Roger Daltry but he didn't want it, or something like that.
I do believe that You Make Me Feel Like Dancing is not on Endless Flight. The other big hit was How Much Love.
Leo Sayer had great stage presence...particularly in the early years.
Long Tall Glasses is a great track by him.
I'll never forget his appearance on Top of the Pops in 1974 performing that song , dressed as a clown. I was blown away ! Still have his debut album
Chris de Burgh's Spanish Train is very good, I also like his Crusader release from the 70s.
👍👌 -Also like Far Beyond These Castle Wall's which contains my favorite song Turning Round (Flying)
@@erniericardo8140 - FBTCW does have it's moments but can get a bit "twee" on occasions!
De Burgh? Im an admirer of The Getaway from 1982. Don’t Pay the Ferryman is a great track.
People forget that Ferryman rocked
Transmission Ends from Man on the Line is wonderful as well.
@@TheCurseofStCustardsMan on the Line is a great album with stunning production.
Stranger on the Shore was my grandmother's all-time favourite - I actually saw Acker Bilk play this live
I love all of the Katrina and the Waves albums and they had so many brilliant songs. I also love the Cliff Richard era from 74 through to 80 - a change in style but some great pop songs.
Besides, Kimberly Rew was in the wonderful Soft Boys and that band means he can make wonderfully uncommercial albums to this day.
A common theme here is that there is an emotional attachment with some of the albums. It's from childhood or reminds him of a person.
Cliff Richard´s collaborations with Alan Tarney are absolutely brilliant. The one album I have by Cliff is 1987´s Always Guaranteed, ten songs of brilliant pop music for adults of the Thatcher era, written and produced by Tarney, who also did great work with Norwegian pop sensation A-ha around the same period.
Have great memories of Cliff's Love Songs compilation. Soundtrack to teenage fumbles.
I can't imagine that you would NOT think highly of Spanish Train. It's CLASSIC!
No issue with Chris DeBurgh. I saw him as an opener for Asia in 1983 and was pretty impressed. Some of his better writing put him in Al Stewart territory IMHO, which is high praise as I like Al's music an awful lot. I think "The Getaway" is a super recording. I have the CD that has "Lady in Red" on it and like it a lot, though I think there are multiple songs on that which are better than "Lady in Red". Go figure. I don't think I have heard anything he's done since though. Yes, Bon Jovi's from New Jersey. They have a rest stop on the parkway named after him.
'Lady in Red' is so grotesquely banal it could easily have been a Webber/Rice composition.
@@earlgrey691 when I think of the songs of his I know and like they’re usually faster songs like “Don’t Pay the Ferryman”. I read a comment on Wikipedia calling him the Irish Barry Manilow. I didn’t realize he was held in such low esteem. Then again, I’m only familiar with some of his earlier stuff.
@@redbirdct I can forgive him for his descent into vanillaism just for that incredible xmas tune of his.
"Rock 'n Roll Juvenile" is a real beauty. No ballads, a touch of new wave. Terry Britten could write a hit in his sleep at this point.
Bobby Darin, a prodigious multi talent. His Mack the Knife (USA No.1 in 1959) is one of the greatest vocals in pop history. A 1920's song about a serial killer.
Don't forget Beyond the Sea by Bobby Darin either.
@@chrismiller1183 And '18 Yellow Roses'. ? Good enough for Tarrantino's inclusion in one of his films.
If I Was A Carpenter is fantastic
That Leo Sayer Endless Flight album really jumped out at me because I also used to have a copy based on the fact that whatever small amount of pocket money I got, you would try and bolster the fledgling record collection with whatever fit your meagre pocket and whatever was in the bargain bin. So that was one of them. And occasionally I'd get lucky. Foolish Behaviour by Rod Stewart was a excellent album as was Autoamerican by Blondie and lastly Landscape and their synth Pop brilliance of From The Tea Rooms Of Mars... Guilty pleasures maketh the man and broaden the musical palette! Keep up the good work sir!
Demis roussos forever and ever always reminds me of my dad. I love the album.
Aphrodites Child 👍👌
Rain & Tears 🎶🎶
Same here. The album including that song and 'My Friend The Wind' was constantly on in the background in my childhood
@DarkSideOfTheMoule my dad has a lot to answer for. My music taste has lot to do with car rides as a child. Not that I'm complaining. I'm so glad I listen to loads a different styles of music.
@@ianlongland69 Yeah, same here. It was Eight Track cartridges in the car on journeys down to Cornwall: The Stylistics, Bread, The Carpenters but also Issac Hayes Shaft album and Cream!
I enjoyed your list! Here are some of my own guilty pleasures: Barry Manilow II, the Monkees "Meet the Monkees," all early and mid period Neil Diamond through "Beautiful Noise," Johnny Cash, especially the live "prison" albums from San Quentin and Folsom Prison, Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass "Going places," and all the Carpenters' hits.
One could include the ultra-comforting Roger Whittaker. "Durham Town" leaves a warm, consolatory feeling even though the lyrics are quite dark. Its no mean feat to create coziness out of such subject matter. Cheers.
"If" was his masterpiece.
the early albums by Roger Whittaker are astonishingly good.
Val doonican or Andy Williams anyone?
@@johnnythefox9830 Andy for sure.'For all we know' by Ray Conniff gives me good vibes, recalling those halcyon 70's childhood days with it emanating from gramps Austin Maxi player.
Refreshing video. My wife has always loved Watermark by Enya and I was surprised that I find it as pleasant as I do. My dad wasn't a music guy. My mom was and took me to my first concert when I was 10, to an relatively unknown signer/songwriter named Willie Nelson. I talked with Willie when I was 10, so thanks, Mom. Dad liked very few things musical but loved this Acker Bilk album. Dad's been gone 27 years so thank you for sparking the memories of listening to it as a wee lad with him. Best
I'm with you on Chris DeBurg; I had a teacher who had us analyze Spanish Train (Grade 9?). I also have a soft spot for Unmasked; it brings back memories of teenaged summers. Enya, as you say, is good for that sonic experience - just float on the sound. Would Toto IV be considered a guilty secret (not sure: I no longer feel guilty about my weird likes)? If yes, then that's mine. If not, I'll own up to liking the Village People (for reasons - mostly nostalgic).
Imagine Enya recorded at 432 hertz rather than industry standard 440 ? It could cure cancer.
I love unmasked. It’s full of great songs. It’s just not heavy . Love enya too. My guilty pleasures are less albums but artists I enjoy; Madonna, Bee Gees, Gershwin, Duran Duran, missing persons, the go gos, the big limp bisket album, split enz
Fantastyczne ujęcie, po raz pierwszy nie musimy słuchać o Metal Machine Music
Loved this. Thanks. I have gulity pleasure songs more than albums. I've been a rocker typically, but I do secretly venture into country. I get your early Taylor Swift thing: "Picture to Burn" never fails to elicit a singalong in me. Sometimes I go way back: "Pop a top again. I think I'll hsve another round. Another one, my friend . . ."
And then there is, for me, the great Dwight--Yoakam, that is. So many great songs--"Thousand Miles from Nowhere", "Fast as You," and his remake of Elvis "Suspicious Minds", a song I was apathetic about, frankly, but Yoakam's remake made me love the song.
Anyway, I'll stop. Thanks again, and be well.
Great choices !! My top 10 are:
1. Olivia Newton John - Totally Hot
2. Emmylou Harris - Bluebird
3. ABBA - The Album
4. Sky - Sky 1
5. Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds Of Silence
6. Supertramp - Even In The Quietest Moments
7. Texas - Careful What You Wish For
8. Mike Oldfield - Crises
9. Sparks - Number 1 In Heaven
10 Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
Now I’m going to hide in a darkened room 😊
Your videos are invariably interesting. (This is a video I shouldn't love . . . but do!) I always think I'll skim through them and wind up listening to every word. Ha! Perhaps most importantly (for me, the music lover), your videos ALWAYS cause me to look up music I haven't heard, or haven't heard in a while, and it opens new treasures for me. Great job as always, sir!
I was at that Chris De Burgh Crystal Palace gig too, it was The Bluebells rather than The Housemartins but a great gig, starting with A Spaceman Came Travelling was an unusual choice but it got the crowd singing along from the off.
Arguably a contender for GOAT yule tune.
Bing Crosby and David Bowie singing together on Bing's Christmas Special in 1977 has always held a special place in my heart, in spite of the fact Bowie said he didn't care for it and only agreed to appear on the show because his mother wanted him to. Never could figure out why he he disliked it so much. From a musical standpoint it is awesome. I also had a special place in my heart for Ringo's first solo album, Sentimental Journey. Yeah, the critics beat it up pretty bad when it was released and they haven't gotten kinder with age, but it was the only Beatle-centric album my Dad and I could listen to together. My brother brought it home not really knowing what was on it, played it one time, then forgot about it. But I love those old songs from that era. So that's my guilty pleasure I guess.
Okay, Ringo's vocals don't rival the originals, but he sang em with heart and it comes through on the record, so good on him. Sure beat the crap John was burping up at that time with the woman whose name shall not be uttered here.
Your mention of Our Price and Woolworths makes me nostalgic! That's where I used to get all my stuff before I discovered Tower Records (also sadly no more). Love Enya but keep it under my hat. When my daughter was born in 1995 it used to calm her when I played the Watermark album so it is inextricably linked to memories of her at that age. Interesting that 3 of your 10 are Irish artists.
Found myself driving through Donegal on a road trip to Ireland recently and played, Enya. it felt so right
Aerosmith "Done With Mirrors". Was supposed to be in the middle of their comeback from drugs, but I actually like it quite a bit. Got NO air play, but it's good stuff.
I fell in love with KISS when I was about 12. I was made to feel guilty about it by other kids who fancied themselves more sophisticated than I was (even though I got much better grades in school). For decades I hid my love for the band out of embarrassment I’d been taught to feel. Finally in my 30s, around the time of the first Reunion Tour, I “came out” as a KISS fan and have never looked back. People who make other people feel guilty or stupid for their personal tastes are nothing but bullies. Fifty years on I still love KISS.
There sure was some crap there. I'm glad you got it off your chest. My own guilty pleasure is Best Of The Dooleys.
You are one of the chosen few.
Big fan of The Dooleys here also! The Best Of is great but the first two studio albums are even better! The writers/producers Findon/Myers/Puzey don`t get anywhere near enough credit.
Remember a R1 DJ introducing "you can't get me by the Dooleys"
I like The Dooleys best of as well .
Wanted is a great track. Benny and Bjorn themselves would have been proud writing that one.
Interesting video as always. If you keep them coming, I'll keep listening 🎶 👌.
Out of all of those albums, I'll agree with the one by Enya. I love her early albums. And I like a couple of tunes on KISS' Unmasked, mainly the ones written/sung by Ace.
Spanish Train by Chris de Burgh is a classic, as is The Getaway from 1982, Kalidescope World by Swing Out Sister is fantastic, I Know There's Something Going On by Frida (Abba) is great
When I was a kid in the mid 60s, before I could afford to buy my own albums, I'd listen to my mom's small collection of albums. My favorite was Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass....." Whipped Cream and Other Delights."
"Is That It?" should have been a huge hit for Katrina and the Waves, and "Tears For Me" was a great track, too. Of course, the only song that got any attention was the unremarkable "Sun Street," but overall this album deserved a better fate. Would be interested in hearing your thoughts on Paul McCartney's very obscure offering from 1986 called PRESS TO PLAY...
Acker Bilk's Strangers on the Shore is wonderful piece. I recall it from my childhood in the mid-sixties. It was the theme to a drama series.
One of the most beautiful tunes ever recorded - and brilliantly so by Bilk.👍
I got the original Strangers On The Shore Lp by Acker Bilk and a gem it is too😊
Never feel guilty about any musical pleasures..my collection is littered with such uncoolness.
Watermark is a gorgeous listen, chilled and atmospheric.
Fleetwood Mac - Tango In The Night
Howard Jones - Dream Into Action
Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams (1 song but damn I love it)
Just a few I wouldn't necessarily crank while driving but do at home.
Great choices!
I saw Level 42 and Squeeze at the Crystal Palace Bowl, that was a great gig.
Not bad. I agree you can't talk about Christmas tunes without Bing Crosby. Kiss Unmasked is a decent album and has some catchy songs. Though I prefer The Elder. I would say The Pet Shop Boys have some great albums that don't get much love. I like listening to the Larsen Feiten Band debut album and Johnny Cash is always a favorite, maybe not for a heavy rock and roll fan but I love listening to them.
Harry Chapin is one of my guilty pleasures. Same with early Abba albums.
Pretty impressive. I was expecting you to cop to Genesis's debut, or Supertramp's Crisis What Crisis. You let your freak flag fly, and I salute you.
Yep, I like all of these. Enya's "Shepard Moons" is really good, too. Also, that first Bon Jovi album is nearly perfect, along with "7800 degrees Fahrenheit".
Yeah, I think _Shepherd Moon_ is possibly even better than _Watermark_ . "Caribbean Blue" alone is worth the price of admission. To be honest, she never released a bad album.
Kings of the Wild Frontier is one of my all-time favorites - a gateway to the 80's that took me from "classic rock" to new wave. Love all the songs and can't think of anything like it.
A Spaceman came travelling always gives me goosebumps - magical song.
As an old metal head I must say that Acker Bilk was one of my favourites from the Trad Jazz era (he was much more than that) I saw them live on four occasions when they toured Australia and the band contained some truly gifted players including their guitarist.
That Cliff Richard album reminds me of boarding school…so many memories. Pretty handy tunes on it, cheers for the reminder.
I love “Unmasked”. Good decent rock from a band breaking apart at full tilt.
Glad to see Kiss unmasked on hear. It always satisfies.
Top choices for #1 and 2! Might I also give Cliff props for the amazing "Green Light" song from this era!
My musical tastes are almost entirely hard rock and heavy metal, but in my various playlists I have strange anomalies like '80s/'90s pop songs, which are almost exclusively there for nostalgic purposes. In my '90s Spotify playlist [which is mainly Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Metallica, KoЯn, and Stone Temple Pilots] I have some songs from Ace of Base - specifically because my older sister was obsessed with The Sign album in 1994 when I was 9 years old - so hearing those corny Swedish dance songs nowadays reminds me of simpler times when inflation was low, Pepsi was crystal-clear, and my only worries in life were getting yelled at by my 3rd grade teacher for drawing on my desk.
Crystal clear Pepsi was even shorter lived than Ace of Base.
Well done that man! 😃 anybody who likes Enya and Taylor is fine with me. One of my guilty pleasures is the 1964 recording on EMI classics of Bizet's Carmen with Maria Callas in the title role. Her version of the Habanera is perhaps the guiltiest pleasure of all. Great stuff! 🙂
Spanish Train is one of my favourite albums totally agree, also Stranger on the Shore great choices songs that take us all back to our “youf” (as they say these days)....
Excellent choices! Kiss Unmasked is a good example. If they had no make-up shtick . Today.People would be like i found this killer power rock band from the 70s. I have DJ many times at hipster Party's and before shows. Playing songs from Dressed to Kill and Rock and Roll over And Hotter than Hell. Someone always freaks out when they find out what it is that is playing. Kinda funny to mix them in with garage rock and stuff like the Stooges.
I am 63 and a child of the 70s, so many of my guilty pleasures include Slade, early Leo Sayer, and even some Carpenters. However, one of my biggest guilty pleasures is My Chemical Romance - I love every album, including of course The Black Parade. To me they are the natural progression of 70s rock.
Haha, we all have a secret admiration for Cliff’s music.
My dad bought the original Acker Bilk album of Stranger on the Shore back in 1961 (the cover had a striking 'period' photo of the Maestro) so it was music I grew up with in my childhood. Sadly it's been lost, probably in a house move, as it might have been worth something as it was an original pressing. Bilk was a fabulous clarinet player and even hearing the track today gives me goosebumps.
Agreed re Chris de Burgh - I like Spanish Train & Other Stories and Crusader. Another artist is Suzi Quatro - my first concert.
My brother being 6yrs older sharing the same bedroom and a musical Mum &Dad,meant I have a 'comforting' list like yours.
Kinks, Klaus Wunderlecht, Osibisa,Tellingbone, Seballius, Jack Parnell. To name a few.
Great vlog. All the best 😎☯️🌱
Herb Alpert is one of my faves.
Lee Hazelwood and Nancy
Herb Alpert is the king of Guilty Pleasure :-). Love him too. And might I add - Burt Bacharach.
What, no Pickettywitch!
'i still get that same old feeling...
Classic
Quite so.
'Car 67' anyone ? ''Yes we may have another job for yer''...awesome bit of kitschery.
Mega teenage crush on her!
As a teenager in the 70s I grew up on punk then got into classic/prog rock by 79 as the punk thing was dying off. Then onto heavy rock/ metal in the 80s and beyond..Couple of my guilty secret albums are Diamond life - Sade, Can't Slow down - Lionel Richie and Bad - Michael Jackson..🤷♂️..these days I listen to anything that attracts my ear... from psychedelic freaks Acid MothersTemple to English folkers Show of Hands..from Canadian bluegrass The Dead South to Pokey Lafarge.
The Bon Jovi debut is the only one of theirs in my collection. Love Unmasked too.
I love Unmasked, its probably the Kiss album i come back to the most. Its pure power pop glory.
That Leo Sayer album ain't bad either.
I favt i really don't think too much about music genres anymore, and for that reason i enjoy music even more nowadays.
The only real shame is the one we inflict upon ourselves my friend!
I highly recommend Leo Sayer's catalog from his debut, Silverbird (1973) to "Here" (1979) ("Endless Flight" was released in 1976, btw) there are some terrific songs from those albums.
I've always loved Matt Monro, beautiful voice and beautiful songs that bring back memories of my late parents. My real guilty pleasure is Back Street Boys, some great songs!
I remember borrowing and then being enthralled by Herb Albert’s “Rise” in 1981. It triggered fond memories of the trumpet solo in Gerry Rafferty’s “ Baker Street “ from just six years before, and cemented the sound of trumpets as steamy summer nostalgia that not even Chuck Mangione could spoil. So when something like Capital Cities’ “Safe and Sound “ comes out my ears still perk up.
It was a tenor saxophone solo on Baker Street not a trumpet!!!!
@@BobClark-ll7zc Well there goes my youth! Seriously dude, calm down. No likes a fact-checking nerd.
@camo_for_cocktails I'm totally calm 'dude' - not a nerd but know the difference between a saxophone and a trumpet - that's called 'ears' my friend!!!
But if you really want me to be a nerd I can tell you the name of the saxophone player!!!
Be 😎 cool
Mine: 1) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 Greatest Hits; 2) TB Sheets, my favorite album by Van Morrison; 3) Saved by Bob Dylan; 4) Behind Closed Doors by Charlie Rich; 5) Age of Aquarius by Fifth Dimension; 6) Gone for the Day by June Christy; 7) Music from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, by Burt Bacharach
For my money, it ain’t Christmas until I hear Bing Crosby in my ears. Nothing brings back those old memories like that album.
"Mule-skinner Blues" by the Fendermen has to be the daftest song of all time - but a compelling listen.
Mine is Abba, but these days even the hardest of old rockers will offer them a grudging nod.
From a technical perspective you can't deny that songwriting skill, and by all accounts they were great live. Still popular with the younger generation too...
😆 excellent point ! That says a lot for today’s brand of music.
ABBA have always been a guilty pleasure, Eagle is a tour de force - that guitar..
I, too, bought and enjoyed Enya's WATERMARK. Still sounds nice. Good for you, Barry! Bing Crosby IS a classic. No apologies required. All this video shows is that you have a wide range of musical interests and are open to accepting good music for what it is!
Some definate guilty pleasures which we all have. Good video
Some great tunes, many I own, my parents and grandparents were stationd in Germany around 66 RAF, I was born there, acker bilk used to play in the local NAAFI,,he used to sit with them drinking ,great tune.
‘Red’ was my first Swift album and remains a favourite. It came to my attention via a recommendation from Bret Easton Ellis - so we are in good company.
Early Kiss are my guilty pleasure along with Angel!
That's what amazing about music. We all have our dirty secrets. I like a couple of Robbie Williams songs.
Crosby is wonderful. So nice you chose him. And so happy Cliff is on there. The follow-up album (I'M NO HERO) might be his best of the era. He's in marvelous voice.
Went to sea chris de burgh in Cyprus while I was stationed at RAF ,akrotiri, 1993,he played a local amphitheatre, warm up gig before touring Europe, great concert.
I decided to put together a compilation disc o' my guilty pleasures tracks a couple o' years ago. Immediately I realized I didn't feel guilty at all for likin' these songs so I called it Secret Pleasures. There are now five 80 minute Secret Pleasures discs collectin' together one hit wonders, oddball recordings, lewd, humorous, bizarre, creepy, commercial, children's music, etc. Each one is a treasure trove 'n appreciated by all who lend an ear.
I usually don’t like Country, but I’ve always loved Alabama. Lots of good hooks and vibes, and the vocals don’t sound as exaggerated like much of Modern Country.
same have ghits a few othera went to packed arena show 80s one of the best country bands of that era waylon ghits in my cassette player now another todays no thanks just now on radio new johhny cash single well alright
Raptr: Then I'll suggest your listening to the wrong sort of country.
"We Dont Talk Anymore" is a classic. I don't care.😂
Absolutely, one of the best pop songs ever.