Guilty (musical) pleasures

[LMcD]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pznujlzyls

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I held on grimly for 26 seconds before clicking on 'back'.....

[Petrushka]

I still love the 1960s pop that I grew up with, the Beatles of course, but more especially my guilty pleasure is listening to The Seekers! Judith Durham's fantastic voice still haunts me 50 years on and I, like most of the male population at the time, was hopelessly in love with her. Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Zi...=RDz4ZipKdI1sY

My other guilty pleasure is military band music. Those marches, especially the British ones, still stir. Here's a cracker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCDgOz-Zwlc

[Joseph K]

I'd say some kinds of electronic dance music, if I'm in the mood...

[Richard Tarleton]

I still love the 1960s pop that I grew up with, the Beatles of course, but more especially my guilty pleasure is listening to The Seekers! Judith Durham's fantastic voice still haunts me 50 years on and I, like most of the male population at the time, was hopelessly in love with her. Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Zi...=RDz4ZipKdI1sY

Brilliant, Pet, thanks for the memory.
The Red Army Choir version of the original is pretty good too

My other guilty pleasure is military band music. Those marches, especially the British ones, still stir. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCDgOz-Zwlc

Likewise, only they have to be Scottish, with bagpipes - but as I've said before, this is probably genetic. This played by the regiment whose piper wrote it, incidentally selected by Fitzroy Maclean when he was on DID. (Best wishes to Kirsty Young by the way).

[Nick Armstrong]

I still love the 1960s pop that I grew up with... especially my guilty pleasure is listening to The Seekers!

Oh yes I'm a sucker for that and other '60s classics... (ditto certain TV programme themes - White Horses, anyone? )

My other guilty pleasure is military band music. Those marches, especially the British ones, still stir. Here's a cracker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCDgOz-Zwlc

Oh me too - as a trombonist brought up playing in a concert band directed by an ex-Kneller Hall Captain with a penchant for Kenneth J. Alford. This is one I especially liked playing and like now:

Mind you I never felt the least bit guilty since purchasing this as one of my first and very few LPs as a teenager: even then, I knew that if it was good enough for Sir Adrian and the LPO, it was good enough for me!



Richard Rodgers's Guadalcanal is a cracker from the other side of the pond...

[Padraig]

Thomas Moore's immortal song... Some things are sacred.

Here's to you Mr.Tarleton.

I hope I can cause a guilty blush by restating my undying delight on hearing Mozart's Serenade in G K525 - any or all of it. Yes. It did come up before.

[Petrushka]

Richard Rodgers's Guadalcanal is a cracker from the other side of the pond...

I had that LP too! First heard the Guadalcanal March on a Grenadier Guards Band LP as long ago as 1967 and, yes, it's a cracker.

[muzzer]

Puccini was a great operatic composer but I can only listen to his stuff behind closed doors and when I'm on my own.

Not 'guilty' because I'm an unashamed and vocal admirer of David Bowie's novelty hit The Laughing Gnome. In fact, I'd say it's probably the best novelty record ever to come out of Britain - it's gloriously sincere in its cheesiness and 'Bromley Dave' comes across as an affable young uncle, so completely does he enter into the childlike fantasy, terrible jokes an' all! Some great musicianship took, from some wonderful Decca staffers. The associated album, David Bowie, is also highly recommendable, though unrepresentative of what Bowie would later become (he's obviously trying to be an English Jacques Brel, so deserves full marks for ambition!). I've always enjoyed the eerie Hammond playing of session hero Derek Boyes (just listen to the fade-out on Gospel According to Tony Day: psychedelic!).

Haven’t you got gnomes to go to?

[muzzer]

White Horses, there’s a tug at the cheese strings. The indie band Lush ripped that tune off shamelessly for an album track, name escapes me, but it was with much affection. [a]https://youtu.be/Xw6jNJB_VCE[/a] hope that works

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh yes I'm a sucker for that and other '60s classics... (ditto certain TV programme themes - White Horses, anyone? )

Oh, now we've definitely had a "Kids' TV Theme Nostalgia" Thread before, because thed White Horses theme was mentioned there: I have a sneaking suspicion that it was I who mentioned it - if not, I certainly posted this YouTube video in response:

... a great favourite of my older sister, who bought the 45rpm single.

[MickyD]

Winifred Atwell and her "other" piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT0SZftatIA

[Conchis]

Oh, now we've definitely had a "Kids' TV Theme Nostalgia" Thread before, because thed White Horses theme was mentioned there: I have a sneaking suspicion that it was I who mentioned it - if not, I certainly posted this YouTube video in response:

... a great favourite of my older sister, who bought the 45rpm single.

People of a certain age can't listen to it without welling up. Ditto, this one:

https://youtu.be/ENblHOxi1c4

[Lordgeous]

La Boheme, in fact anything by Puccini.

[verismissimo]

Honky Tonk Women

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

La Boheme, in fact anything by Puccini.