I Got You by Split Enz
The theme from Grease

Hey! I like that Split Enz song! "One Step Ahead" was also good.

Some guilty pleasures for me include
"Lightning Strikes" by Lou Christie
"Disco Duck" - Rick Dees
"Genie In A Bottle" - Christina Aguilera
"...Baby One More Time" - Britney Spears (A lot of people may have just lost their respect for me for that one.)
"The Way I Feel Tonight" - The Bay City Rollers
"Love Will Keep Us Together" - The Captain and Toe-Nail
"Watching Scotty Grow" - Bobby Goldsboro
"Stars On 45 (The Beatles Medley)" - Stars On

There are more, but I've embarrassed myself enough as is.

Disco Duck" - Rick Dees

I like that one too! :-( I'm so ashamed.

"Genie In A Bottle" - Christina Aguilera

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"...Baby One More Time" - Britney Spears (A lot of people may have just lost their respect for me for that one.)

We had respect for you?

"Stars On 45 (The Beatles Medley)" - Stars On

I like the parody, Bra Size 45.

"We had respect for you?"

I didn't really think so. That's why I'm not too worried about my song choices. Am I at least higher on the respect scale than Peter, or am I well below that, too? (I suspect it's the latter.)

"Bras On 45" Oh yeah. A Dr. Demento classic.

(Respect. Boy was I delusional...)

I at least higher on the respect scale than Peter,

With all due respect, that doesn't take much.

What due respect? I'm not respected. Remember?

By the way, Bri, you misquoted me. I said, "Am I at least higher on the respect scale than Peter...?" I didn't say I was.

Pretty much all that 60's and early 70's bubblegum pop. Groups like 1910 Fruitgum Co., Ohio Express and Lou Christie. And I've got the Rick Dees/Disco Duck album, other songs include Jelly Donuts, I'm Barely White, Dr. Disco, a fun album.

"Babe" -- Styx.

The Life of Riley - (forgot the artist's name)
She's Not There - The Zombies
The ***hole Song - Denis Leary
Ole Red - Marty Robbins

"One Bad Apple", "Yo Yo" and "Lazy River" - The Osmonds

"Disco Lucy" - I forgot who does this

"Mechanical Boy" - Jack Wild (from H.R. Pufnstuf

Some of the stuff from Schoolhouse Rock, particularly the "Multiplication Rock" songs and the "Grammar Rock song, "Interjections!"

HEY! WHAT'S WRONG WITH "SHE'S NOT THERE"?

Now the Space Goast songs, THERE'S a guilty pleasure!

"I like beans, whoohoohoo!"

"...Baby One More Time" - Britney Spears (A lot of people may have just lost their respect for me for that one.)
Nahhh!!! I like it a bit, too, but I think it's about her only good one. She's gotta learn some new dance steps, too, cuz everything she does is all pretty much the same thing to varying degrees.

"Watching Scotty Grow" - Bobby Goldsboro
Do you remember his song, "A Butterfly for Bucky"? I like that one but the only place I could find the lyrics are here, if you're interested. It's a guitar chords page. Not surprisingly, Bobby's got his own website.

"Mechanical Boy" - Jack Wild (from H.R. Pufnstuf)
Hooboy, do I remember that one!

I...am...a...me-chan-i-cal boy. Wonder what ol' Jack's up to these days? And speaking of Sid and Marty Kroft shows, I like the original Land of the Lost theme (if only it would come to me now). I also liked the original Holly. I thought she was kinda cute. Wonder what she's up to now?

Jack Wild is a born-again Christian these days. He is not a pretty sight. Looks like he hit the bottle quite a few times before getting saved.

"Marshall, Will and Holly
On a routine expedition
Met the greatest earthquake ever known.
High on the rapids
It struck their tiny raft.
And plunged them down
A thousand feet below.
To the Land of the Lost.
Land of the Lost."

What do you mean, the "original" Holly? Kathy Coleman was the only Holly. Rick Marshall, their Dad, left the show after the second season and was replaced by "Uncle Jack".

This is almost too embarassing to admit, but I've got a Land of the Lost DVD. It has an interview with Phillip Paley (Chaka) and Kathy Coleman on it. You wouldn't recognize her Mark. She's gained a bit of weight, has plenty of lines on her face and she's not much older than me! She may even be younger. She has a son now. From watching her in that interview, I don't think I'd be able to put up with her too long. She's annoying! Her laugh, the way she carries herself. Gaack! I kept wishing they'd feed her to Grumpy or Alice.

Yeah, I know Kathy was the original, but in the 1990s there was an updated version with a new dad, little sister and big brother. This time the girl was a brunette and wore glasses. Kathy Coleman, according to IMDB.com, was born in 1962, has two sons and is divorced. That's about all it says of her. The Tyrannosaurus Lex LotL fanpage has a pic of her at 16 from 1978, taken with Adam Rich of "Eight is Enough", and some other dude. She was pretty cute in it, and pretty much unrecognizable from her LotL days.

So, she's a year older than me, eh?

I'm not sure that this qualifies as a guilty pleasure or not, but what the heck...

One of my favorite albums from high school through college (late 70's through early 80's for context) was The Raspberries Greatest Hits, or was that Best Of? No matter, you know the deal. Anyway this was something that I kept to myself because more often than not I was into going out to see the Dead Kennedys and X and the like ( both of whom I still have a great affection for BTW). You know, the whole combat boots and camouflages scene. Well, eventually I found some friends who could relate, but it took a while.

I still think that "Go All the Way", "Hit Record", and "Tonight" are unqualified pop music masterworks, so that probably doesn't qualify this as a guilty pleasure (which really should be more on the lines of loving William Shatner's version of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds") but I offer it up in the spirit of how I felt all those years ago.

X? "Nausea" is one of my favorite songs by them. Actually, as far as they go, my guilty pleasure for John Doe, Exene Cervenka, et al is the See How We Are album. It's much more mellow than normal for them. I also like Live at the Whisky A-Go-Go On the Fabulous Sunset Strip. "Wrecking Ball" is great. I did see X on their Hey Zues! tour. Best Kissers In the World opened for them. Got to shake hands with Exene (I was at the front of the stage the whole show.).

Lightning Strikes - Lou Christie
Kung Fu Fighting - Anyone know who?
Secret Agent Man - Johnny Rivers
Smile - Vitamin C

And that is ALL I will confess to.

Incidentally, I think Britney Spears is better looking than Christina Aguilera, but Christina has all the talent.

Carl Douglas is the man behind "Kung Fu Fighting". Hyuh!

I've got a friend who can't believe I like "Lightning Strikes". He thinks it's out of character for me to like it. That's why I listed it myself.

Britney's got the body, but Christina's just got to eat something. That girl has absolutely no figure whatsoever! No breasts, no butt, no hips, no nothing!

Yeah, but Christina's got the VOICE! Remember, they're supposed to be singers, not models. Yeah, Britney is easy on the eyes, but Christina is easy on the ears! I heard her on Leno's show, and she was singing the blues, and she was SINGIN' THE BLUES! You can't fake that.

Really? Okay, Scott, you've convinced me. I gotta get Christina's album now. If she can handle the blues, she'll be worth investing the money for a disc.

Here's another embarrassing song I like - "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred. That song is so gay. (Literally, I think.)

Yeah, but it's a great fun song. We had an older engineer who used to go around singing it in the halls... Some of us younger engineers bought him the shirt!

Most anything by Sweet: Little Willie, The 6 Teens, Blockbuster, Teenage Rampage, Wig-Wam Bam.

By the way, I love the way allmusic.com reviewed their greatest hits.
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Abzex9757krdt&uid=FTRALBUMS

You forgot "Love Is Like Oxygen". All six minutes please. (I like "Little Willy". "Little Willy Willy won't/Go home/But you can't push Willy 'round/Willy won't go/Try tellin' everybody/But oh no/Little Willy Willy won't/Go home.") Oh, and "Ballroom Blitz". "Action" was covered by the Eighties heavy metal hair band, Black N' Blue.

How about "Cecilia"?

"Makin' love one afternoon
With Cecilia up in my bedroom.
I got up to wash my face
When I got back somebody'd taken my place"

Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo

"Star Trekkin'" - The Firm
"Best of Babylon 5" - I should know this....

Here's another one:

"Gonna find my baby
Gonna hold her tight
Gonna grab some afternoon delight.
My motto's always been
'When it's right, it's right'.
Why wait until the middle of a cold dark night?

"Well, you see a little better in the light of day
And you know the night is always gonna be here anyway."

Sugar ... ah Honey, Honey ...
You are my candy, girl ...
And yah got me wantin' you!

Aw, Honey ... Hmmm, Sugar, Sugar ...
You are my candy, girl ...
And yah got me wantin' you!

(please note I posted this WITHOUT using the "anonymous" out ... please be gentle!)

Okay, I'll be nice. Still, if we were having a contest to see who likes the worst song, you may've just won it. I mean, come on, dude, "Jingle Jangle" was better!

The really bad thing is, before they fired him, Don Kirshner was going to have The Monkees record this next. I would not be a fan of theirs if they did. It would've beaten "The Day We Fall In Love" as the worst song The Monkees have recorded.

"Sugar
Now it's Equal..."

(Still, damned brave of you to admit it. I admire you for it. I think you're crazy, but you have my admiration.)

No, I've got to say it...

I love "Sugar, Sugar" too. So much that I do the Butt Dance in the car when it comes on the oldies station I listen to.

And I'm proud of it!

No, I didn't forget "Love is like Oxygen." That's the reason I said MOST anything by Sweet! :-)

Why is "Cecilia" a guilty pleasure? That's a good song by a good group.

Sharing the Night Together - Dr. Hook
Ah, Yeah ... Ahright ...

"Can't Fight the Moonlight," LeAnn Rimes.

Why is Sweet a guilty pleasure? They rock as hard as any band there ever was.

Yes, but they put the "bubble" in "bubble gum music." A lot of their music was written FOR them, not BY them, and it was geared towards 16 year olds.

All that said, however, remember that I like them.

They must have been the first hard-rock bubblegum band, years before Bon Jovi.

And if this is going to be an ongoing conversation, I'll start using my usual name. :-)

In the comic book series, Love and Rockets they had a storyline about how one of the lead characters, Maggie, and a childhood friend of hers, grew up listening to Sweet. "Wig Wam Bam" was their favorite tune.

"Am I at least higher on the respect scale than Peter[?]"

Yes, but so is a used wad of chewing gum.

Yeah, that does my ego good. Thanks. I feel so much better. Now where'd I put that gun?

My guilty pleasures are:

Air Supply's "Making Love Out of Nothing at All"
Spandau Ballet's "True"
The Bangles' "Eternal Flame"
The St. Elmo's Fire soundtrack
Journey (although I don't feel the need to apologize for early progressive Greg Rollie-era Journey)

I HATED "St. Elmo's Fire" passionately;the only good thing about it was David Foster's theme, particularly the sax solo.
My guilty pleasures:
Abba: I would have loved to see them in concert. They were one of the biggest industries in Europe in the late '70's; why they never made it equally as big in the U.S., I don't know. As time went on, their music became more depressing, maybe foreshadowing the breakup.
Culture Club: Saw them three times in concert-twice in '84 and once in '85.
"I Touch Myself" by the Divinyls-Great song, the only one I know of by them.

Okay, I hope I don't get banned from the community of Serious Music Lovers, but...

"Oh Sherrie" by Steve Perry.

I don't know, I just like it.

C'mon dude, if I haven't been banned for some of the •••• I listen to (and I'll be the first to admit that some of it is), why should "Oh Sherrie" get you banned? I know a lot of what I like is worse than that.

If somebody already mentioned this, ignore it, but "My Sharona" anyone? (actually, I've never really heard it, but it's been used for so many commercals)

Why stop there? How 'bout anything by The Knack? "Good Girls Don't" (uncensored version, please) or "Frustrated". When they first arrived on the scene, people took to wearing "Knuke the Knack" T-shirts. I kinda liked them, actually. I've heard three or four parodies of "My Sharona" so far. It's one of the most parodied rock songs.

Probably because it deserves it

Yeah, but I actually like it, though. I can think of worse songs that deserve being parodied, and gotten what they deserved.

B*witched - "C'est la vie".

C'mon folks, do you think I'd choose to listen to this on my own? Remember I've got kids the "Radio Disney" age, and it sure beats Barney™ tapes....

Make me a music pariah if you want! I don't care.
But...

Much of Boyzone's later, more grown-up stuff isn't too bad (honest). "The Way You Love Me" is probably their best song to date.
Ditto the complete works of Billy Joel. "Uptown Girl", "She's Always A Woman", "Just The Way You Are" and "Piano Man" still do it for me, I must say.
And there's nowt wrong with Split Enz, either.
And of course, the perennial favourite, "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer. You just can't touch that song. At all.

By the way, "Lightning Strikes" is actually quite good, and one of my favourites from the 60s.

Not actually a guilty pleasure, just one of my favorite non-classical pieces, "Ghost Riders in the Sky" (Anyone know if thats the real title, and if not, what is it?)

I believe Asleep At the Wheel recorded that song and the correct title is "Ghost Riders In the Sky".

I'm too sexy for this board, too sexy for this board, so sexy it hurts!

Asleep At The Wheel did do "Ghost Riders In the Sky". Its one of my favorite tunes.

OK then, hands up all those who bought any of the following:
"Combine Harvester (Brand New Key)" by The Wurzels
"Remember You're A Womble" by Mike Batt
"Mr Blobby" by Mr Blobby
The album "The Smurfs Go Pop!" [but didn't - shame ]

I'm also partial to a little kitsch disco myself - Hot Gossip's "I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper", anyone?

"Little Willy"? Geez, Benn, I haven't heard that for soooo long. Well, except for the occasional glance at a clip of it on a TV ad for cd collections.

I've only heard about two versions (maybe three) of "Ghost Riders in the Sky". One from Marty Robbins and my favorite, the Man In Black himself, Johnny Cash. Nothing beats his version.

Oops! Dang blast it! I forgot all about the Marty Robbins version! I'm not sure, but I think his version is the original. Not sure if I've heard the Johnny Cash version or not.

My favorite Johnny Cash song is "Folsom Prison Blues", by the way.

Every hear the sequel to the "Devil Went Down To Georgia" that Charlie Daniels did with Johnny Cash, Marty Stuart, Mark O' Connor, and Travis Tritt? Johnny Cash was the preacher, and Travis Tritt was the devil, if I remember correctly.

Re: Ghost Riders in the Sky
Was a #1 hit for Vaughan Monroe in 1949
Also a hit for
Peggy Lee #2
Bing Crosby #14
Burl Ives #21
These versions were released as just "Riders in the Sky" They were all on the charts at about the same time. From the 1920's to early 1950's it was very common for there to be several competing versions of a song released at the same time.
Now some more later charting versions
The Ramrods #31 (1961)
Lawrence Welk #87 (1961)
Baja Marimba Band #52 (1966)
The Outlaws #31 (1981)
All these versions added Ghost to the title except for Lawrence Welk's
This info was mostly found at the Lyrics World site.

I forgot to list ABBA as a guilty pleasure of mine. I'm sorry, but "Dancing Queen" rocks!!

>>Re: Ghost Riders in the Sky
Was a #1 hit for Vaughan Monroe in 1949
Also a hit for
Peggy Lee #2
Bing Crosby #14
Burl Ives #21<<

This tune was SO immensly popular that even the "grandpa of Wierd Al" (aka as Spike Jones) did a parody of it in the 1940's.

Ever hear the Ghost Riders bit from Blues Brothers 2000. Not only were the sfx on the video cool, but they did a good rendition of it.

Wasn't that the first song they sang in the bar that the patrons DIDN'T throw the beer bottles at the chicken-wire fence? Then they went on to sing "Stand By Your Man" ...

In Blues Brothers 2000? That was the sequel. In the original Blues Brothers (The real Blues Brothers), Jake and Elwood sang the "Theme from Rawhide, before wowing the audience with "Stand By Your Man". Unfortunately, that I'm aware of, The Blues Brothers' version of "Stand By Your Man" has never been officially released on CD.

I sympathize with you if you saw Blues Brothers 2000. It was the exact same as the first one, only NOT FUNNY in the least.

True the movie was basically the same, but I still liked it. And they had good music which is the prime reason I went and saw it.

Yeah, and the "new" Blues Brothers could have been cool if they tried harder to make us care. Plus, the big car crash is but a shadow of it's predicesors

The first "Blues Brothers" pic back in 1980 was scandalous as it went so far over budget, costing $30 million. (This was six months after "Star Trek-TMP" was released with its record $44 million budget.) Most of that overage was attributed to delays in shooting due to Belushi's drug use. I went to see this pic on opening day and was surprised as to how much I enjoyed it. I bought the soundtrack album immediately after leaving the theater.
I had heard that the cars used in the first film were the same cars over and over-they kept fixing them up, and crashing tham again.

"Are you boys police officers?"
"No, Ma'am, we're musicians."

Music I sing along to when no-one's in the room:

A Horse With No Name and Sister Golden Hair America (Ah, America. Living proof that most of those '70's pop bands were in it mostly for the free booze and girls. )

Wild Boys Duran Duran

Bye Bye Bye *NSync

Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) Looking Glass

Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog Three Dog Night

Holiday Madonna

I like those two America songs. Especially "Sister Golden Hair". I also like America's "The Tin Man", "Ventura Highway", "Sandman", "I Need You" and "Daisy Jane".

The true title to "Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog" is "Joy to the World".

Oh, thanks. I had a feeling I'd gotten that one wrong.
Now if someone could just tell me what the heck a bullfrog is doing in a late-70's pop tune in the first place (I know, I know, making a 'mighty fine wine' ) I'd be grateful.

Uh, "Joy to the World" was an early Seventies song. By about `75, Three Dog Night weren't on the charts much any longer.

About that wine... If it has any of the properties that licking the belly of certain toads has, I might like to try some. But first, I wanna know what it's made from.

Well it *WAS* "mighty fine wine".

I was goin gto post my guilty pleasures as anything by the DK, but, wow, it doesn't fit at all. There is some serious, serious bublegum pop stuff here. Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is too easily out classed in horribleness.

By the way, why be anonymous? Confession is good for the soul.

for guilty pleasures... one name: Hanson.

heheheheh.

mmmm-BOP!

"Dancing Queen" does rock, Todd, but listen to more of Abba's earlier stuff, particularly "Fernando" and "Waterloo." The "Arrival" album is fabulous, particularly the instrumental title cut.
Billy Joel's "Captain Jack" is a great song, before he sold out and started doing corporate rock.
"Addicted to Love," by Robert Palmer. Made infamous in a "Melrose Place" episode, where, I believe, Jane (Josie Bissett) used to strip-tease to it for Michael (Thomas Calabro.) "Melrose Place" is my favorite TV guilty pleasure, seven years of pure, unadulterated, wildly over-the-top trash. I loved every minute of it.

THE CARPENTERS (their Christmas album, especially; always thought Karen's voice was a heartbreaker, and I'm a guy who thinks Archie Shepp and the Art Ensemble of Chicago went soft!)
THE GETO BOYS (unadulterated early gangsta rap on the first album; Pass da Everclear, Bushwick Bill...)
TOMMY JAMES & THE SHONDELLS (maybe it's cause they
were the first band I saw live at a Pittsburgh-area amusement park; never tire of the weird mix of garage-group playing & psychedelic pretentious lyrics)

Bye Bye Bye *NSync

Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog Three Dog Night

Holiday Madonna

N'S*ck? Silicone Queen Spears? God, you guys...

They are fake, plastic, packaged, NO-TALENT whores. Ugg. The songs are all the same, and they all ••••.

Christina was good-looking up until she got the cornrows and the afro. Yikes.

If it was actually about music, bit-bit would be a porn star.


Ooh, "Joy to the World" was one of my FAVE songs as a little girl. I still like it (I'm 17).

CC, that's *WHY* they're "Guilty Pleasures".

On the other hand, I heard Christina Aguilera sing the blues on Leno one night. That girl *CAN* sing.

"Ooh, "Joy to the World" was one of my FAVE songs as a little girl. I still like it (I'm 17)." - Cynical Chick

Lord, knows it was ancient by the time you heard it. I remember it being used in a cartoon called, Kid Power, which was based on Morrie Turner's "Wee Pals".

Would I be stoned immediately if I said I liked listening to Don "No-Soul" Simmons? :-)

Let's see who gets that...

I like his version of "Joy to the World" too.

I know Christina can sing; I've said it before.

And on VH1's "Men Strike Back" last year, she performed "At Last." Incredibly.

I don't think this one classifies as a guilty pleasure, as it's just a great song, but I often sing "Closer," Nine Inch Nails. (Posting the lyrics will get me banned, so..)

Here's some of mine:

"The Bad Touch," Bloodhound Gang

For those who don't remember:

You and me, baby, ain't nothin but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

(hey, it was funny as hell, and so was the video!)

Mariah Carey's old stuff--her newer stuff (anything from "Honey" and "Butterfly" on, sucks
Same with Janet Jackson--started to get bad several years ago
Destiny's Child, stuff before "Survivor"

I love Madonna, too.

I'll have to come back later, as I have to get ready for work (movie theater)

oh, I MUST recommend: K-PAX, The One, Monsters Inc....

Bye Bye Bye *NSync

Hey...I said they were guilty pleasures. I agree completely that the current crop of 'boy bands' are a plague on civilization. But I also tend to be a sucker for anything that has a catchy backbeat.

Surrey down to my Stone Soul Picnic ...

Here's another guilty pleasure: Weird Al

Oh why guilty? I'm PROUD to be a Weird Al fan! Talk about counter-culture and breaking out of the mold! :-)

ALL HAIL AL!

Seriously, I've been a fan for years and I was listening to 2 of his CD's earlier today.

I know, I know.

Not too guilty, but wtf: "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and "Time after Time"

And who here agrees that Al's next album should be a scathing satirical assault on cookie-cutter pre-fab Boy Bands?

Cool idea, Snickerdoodle. They centainly deserve the "Al" treatment.

I can't wait to hear "Pie Pie Pie" and "Show Me The Meaning of Being Homely". :-)

This is pretty •••• guilty:

a couple Jessica Simpson songs:

"Where You Are" like "One Sweet Day"--about death and the loss
"I Wanna Love You Forever" sweet, and she has a good voice

Jet Boy, Jet Girl - Elton Motello. Anyone remember that one?

Watched Tom Hank's That Thing You Do! a couple of weeks ago. Deeply cute movie, equally cute song...also ridiculously catchy...to the point where, quite frankly, I am open to suggestions on how to get it out of my head.

Michael McDonald's "I Keep Forgettin' (we're not in love anymore)" is stone guaranteed to drive any song out of your head, kerriem. Best of luck.

Thanks, DW, I'll give it a try. Beats banging my head helplessly against a wall, anyway...

Really, now that I think of it, a lot of oldies can qualify as my guilty pleasures. Monster Mash, for instance. Also Alley-Oop, Sugar Sugar and Ode to Billie Joe (so depressing it's funny).

There's also this goofy novelty record my mom has called Please Mr.Custer: There's a redskin waitin' out there/A-comin' to take mah hair...Uhm, Mr.Custer, you mind if I be excused the rest of the afternoon? Uh. OK...now, what's the Indian for friend - 'Kemosabe', that's it. "Hey there! Kemosabe!"...<zip> <zip>...Nope, that ain't it...

On the subject of Native American/US Army relations - and depression - my parents also used to own an eight-track that featured a song - I forget what it was called, but it was about how tragic the whole forced-relocation thing was.
Of course, the singer didn't actually use the words 'forced relocation'; how he put it was Cherokee people/Cherokee tribe/So proud to live/Too proud to dieeeeeeee... He belted this out with great feeling, as only '70's message songs can be belted, and this suburban kid felt positively hippie-ish, chanting along.

And of course there's my ultimate Unintentionally Hilarious Oldie, Teen Angel, which my sisters and I used to absolutely love to howl along to in our best campy Connie Francis-esque manner - until we'd get to the They buried yooooou today-ay... part and just collapse all over each other laughing.

Kerriem, the song you're talking about is "Indian Reservation (Lament of the Cherokee Nation)" by the Raiders. Definitely a guilty pleasure. Of course, I'm part Cherokee...

I used to have the 45 of "Mr. Custer" by Larry Verne. Its B-side was a track called "The Okeefenokee Two-Step". It was actually just as funny as "Mr. Custer". Wonder if "Okeefenokee Two Step" is available anymore?

Never liked "Teen Angel" myself. Though mysteriously, I did like J. Frank Wilson's "Last Kiss", which is just as sappy.

In his Book of Bad Songs Dave Barry writes that the Rock Bottom Remainders (the literary band he plays in for charity) included Last Kiss in their playlist for awhile.
He also notes that occasionally fellow bandmember Stephen King would get bored and 'modify the lyrics...describing the first tender moment after the car crash' thusly: When I awoke, she was lying there/I brushed her liver from my hair.

As Barry says, 'If THAT doesn't bring a lump to your throat, nothing will.'

Hmm. That'd almost be worth hearing. They don't record their sessions, do they?

According to Barry, in the same chapter: "No, we have never made a record, and for a very good reason - we su ck."

Somehow I figured as much. Oh well. Still, you would think their respective fans would surely be more than interested in buying a copy of an album of the Rock Bottom Remainders. Maybe not enough to justify the print run, though.

It's an interesting group, that's for sure. Besides Barry and King, members include Amy Tan, Ridley Pearson and Barbara Kingsolver. And their original music director was Al Kooper.

Al Kooper, huh? Well, at least they had one person involved who had talent.

I just discovered this band named Smokey who did a lot of updated covers of oldies. I feel *really* guilty about liking some of them. Try downloading some.

Ooops. That should be spelled "Smokie. "

This is pretty guilty...

The girl group, i5.

*running real hurry-like*

"Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba. It must be the accents.

And just for the record, "Joy to the World" was a childhood favorite of mine, too, and I still like it!

"Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba. It must be the accents.

Nothing wrong with that one at all! Or are there not enough closet anarchists in Nitcentral?

Yes, Sparrow, the same for me ("Joy to the World")

Okay..."Viva Forever," the Spice Sluts

(The video blows, but I can't help but like the song)

The video blows, but I can't help but like the song

Which is an example of how MTV has affected culture. Who really gives a d@mn what the video's like?

[RANT mode="OLD-GEEZER"]
That's the problem with "music" nowadays. Everybody's more concerned with making the bloody video look good than with making the music good.
[/RANT]

There, there, Scott. Here, have a nice cup of warm milk and I'll change the channel to Ed Sullivan reruns, OK?

Anyway, I've never seen the video, but I like Viva Forever, too. Tried hard to stop liking it on principle when I found out it was the Spice Girls, but it's just too nice a song.

Kerrie--I'll send it to ya, if'n you want.:P

It's a girl and her brother running through a field. Then, a green chicken made from Tinkertoys pops out of a plastic Easter egg. The girl follows it into a forest.

The Spice Sluts appear, as fairies with butterfly wings, and fly around her head.

They take her to a giant Rubix Cube, in the forest, and put her in it. The cube closes, with her trapped in it,

The brother runs up, takes the cube, and sadly begins walking home. He sees more 'eggs' in the field, and puts the cube in one.of them. It flies into a nearby toy machine (those things you see at the grocery store), and he walks away sadly.

The machine-thing glitters and glows, and lots of similar eggs fly out.

Hannah,

Your joking, right.

No...uh...thanks for the offer and everything, CC...but no.

Scott, Geezer #2, I take it all back. Make room on the couch, I'm gonna watch those Ed Sullivan reruns with you.

I remember that one, HF and KM! Rumour has it that they melted down the Ginger model shortly after filming the video - it was after Geri Halliwell left the band, leaving them without their credibility IMHO. [I think you've said too much - everyone] Actually, I haven't said enough...

Looking back on this board, I recall mentioning Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" - I like it even more now that, if you slow down a recording VERY slightly (e.g. 0.09 using the Pacemaker plug-in for Winamp on an MP3 recording), you can make Billy sound like George W Bush!

I also mentioned "Combine Harvester" by The Wurzels. Turns out that the Wurzels are making a comeback this month - they're releasing a cover of the Oasis #1 hit "Don't Look Back In Anger" in their own inimitable style. [NO, GOD, NOOOOOO! - everyone]

OK, here's a real guilty pleasure....

The Meaty Cheesy Boys.

For those who don't know, they're the fake boy-band from the Jack-In-The-Box commercials.

OK, they're not a pleasure, but it was fun watching boybands get skewered by a fast-food outlet!

We've got a rilly big shoe tonight, folks!

Ben and Kerrie-You guys just brought back a powerful memory for me. I saw the Raiders at a free concert they gave at the World Trade Center in the summer of 2001, a month or so before it went down. I also saw Dave Davies there, at about the same time.

There's now a Sullivan DVD set, people.

In reference to Derf's post from 2001, it was the Lightning Seeds, led by longtime music producer Ian Broudie, who performed "The Life Of Riley".

They released five regular albums and a best-of, and, as far as I know, have not been heard from in quite some time. Shame, really. They were one of my favorite Britpop groups! I hope they shall return someday...

More guilty pleasures...

"MacArthur Park" -- Donna Summer
"I Write the Songs" -- Barry Manilow

OK, now you can all blackmail me for that second one...

Yeah, I like the Donna Summer version of "MacArthur Park". As for Barry Manilow, I'm more partial to "Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again" and "Could It Be Magic?" myself. Very embarrassing stuff. So far, I don't have any of those three songs in my collection.

np - Tales From the Edge Volumes 5 & 6 - various artists

"Music is a world within itself and a language we all understand."

I have a confession to make.

It's very deep, and very personal, and it is only through a wrenching, soul-searching effort, that I am able to stand before you today, and say without shame...

I like the song "Milkshake" by Kelis. In fact, I don't just like it. I *love* it. I dance to it whenever it comes on. In the car, in clubs, in my own home when it comes on VH1... love it.

The only thing I can say in my defence is that it's the most recent example of the "Baby Got Back" school of bad songs. It is *so* bad, so ridiculously repellent, so horrendously awful, that it sorta becomes kinda good.

You're in good company, Matthew. I'm guilty, too. I love "Milkshake". I've got it d/led on my computer. I need to get her CD.

np - Tales From the Edge Volumes 9 & 10 - various artists (This one has unreleased tracks by 4 Reasons Unknown, [Edie Brickell and] New Bohemians, Timbuk3 and the Buck Pets.)

"Music is a world within itself and a language we all understand."

Baby Got Back is a great song. It's got a good beat, catchy lyrics and when you play it in clubs girls all start shaking there butts.

As part of a laser-light entertainment show I saw last night, the song "I'm Proud to be an American" was included. I used to loathe this song as some relic from the right-wing days of the Reagan era. Last night, it actually moved me. Maybe, it was the laser display?

1. WTF is "Macarthur Park" about, anyway?
2. "God Bless the USA" laserlight show? Saw it about 12 years ago, if it's the one that includes Pink Floyd.
3. It moves me, all right..to dry-heaving.

CC:

1. A cake, believe it or not.
3. To each his/her own.

More Guilty Pleasures:

"Sister Christian" -- Night Ranger

Hahaha, that is a great song.

I LOVE both versions of Nena's "99 Red Balloons." (English & German). Is that embarrassing?

Not only a cake, but a cake left out in the rain.

A cake that took an exceptionally long time to bake.

And they lost the recipe.

OH NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

"Sister Christian" -- Night Ranger

I used to really hate that one for some reason, then saw it used to good effect in "Boogie Nights".

"Motoriiiiinnnnn!"

Hey, Influx, I did list it as a *GUILTY* pleasure!