Guilty (musical) pleasures

[antongould]

Ralph McTell and Streets Of London

[LMcD]

The Cascades - Rhythm Of The Rain - it takes me back to a cafe in Southampton some 55 years ago. I believe there was an accompanying video, which was unusual at that time.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Totally agree - especially love The Carnival Is Over ......

I still prefer the HIPP version:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?vl=en&v=CKZJddUnZY4

[Petrushka]

I still prefer the HIPP version

Now there's a comment I never expected to see!

[gradus]

The Generation Game song, Bruce Forsyth.

[David-G]

My guilty musical pleasures are of a somewhat different nature. A serious confession! If I happen to see a performance of one of my favourite operas where the production is excellent and the singing and playing are superlative, there never seems to be any good reason to not repeat the experience. (Provided that a cheap ticket can be procured!) Hence why this summer I found myself going to see "Giulio Cesare" four times, and "Saul" three times, at Glyndebourne - and to the recent Covent Garden "Semiramide", six and a half times...

[LMcD]

My guilty musical pleasures are of a somewhat different nature. A serious confession! If I happen to see a performance of one of my favourite operas where the production is excellent and the singing and playing are superlative, there never seems to be any good reason to not repeat the experience. (Provided that a cheap ticket can be procured!) Hence why this summer I found myself going to see "Giulio Cesare" four times, and "Saul" three times, at Glyndebourne - and to the recent Covent Garden "Semiramide", six and a half times...

The half would presumably be 'Semisemiramide' (or 'Demisemiramide').

[johncorrigan]

'Jake the Peg' except I can't watch it or listen to it anymore for obvious reasons, but I've always found the video really funny...I feel guilty for even wanting to look at it again. Clearly I need help!

[David-G]

The half would presumably be 'Semisemiramide' (or 'Demisemiramide').

Indeed!

[HighlandDougie]

Never ever heard (of) that one, Conchis.

The 'Ditto' one for me is this, my favourite programme when I was the age of the lad featured therein - (it was on English TV despite the song being in French wouldn't happen nowadays one suspects...)

Filmed in and around my village in France - “Clonqueur” (I’m sure that’s wrong - but the dog) the real star.

[vinteuil]

Filmed in and around my village in France - “Clonqueur” (I’m sure that’s wrong - but the dog) the real star.

... 'Flanker', I think.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=flanker+dog&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj6--6EwpzdAhXRSsAKHS3yBGoQsAR6BAgFEAE&biw=1093&bih=498#imgrc=N9RHAt81Z4fJZM:

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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chien_de_montagne_des_Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es

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[teamsaint]

Dreams, by the Cranberries.

Love that drum sound.

[Braunschlag]

Tsfasman Jazz Suite - especially this version in which Ms Chochieva seems to be having great fun

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RAyw2CfS1Gg

There’s also a Pletnev version which breaks the world speed record in the final section, he might as well flaunt it but Zlata seems more tasteful. There’s a gloriously swoony tune at around 15.45’ which is pure schmaltz, it disappears soon after which is such a shame!

[LMcD]

Just to be clear, it's Andre Rieu that's bad for you, not The Groves of Blarney, or Thomas Moore's immortal song (your starter for 10 - which fictional detective whistles it? ) - here it is as set by Flotow in "Marta", sung by the divine Anneleise Rothenburger - and of course recently heard on the soundtrack of 3 Billboards by Renée Fleming.... Some things are sacred.

I really can't think of any (seeing as Abba's OK). I do have a guilty reading pleasure, which I believe I share with the late AA Gill - occasionally re-reading John Buchan. A challenge, perhaps for the likes of Sir A L-W - Prester John - The Musical?

I believe the fictional detective is Sergeant Cuff.
I love early Beatles love songs.

[Serial_Apologist]

OK here goes then.

I was very much brought up on light music alongside heavier classical stuff, largely from the classics and the romantics - this having been on the wireless, providing a background to my Mum's domesticities during school holidays, when it was often on the Light Programme, along with a good deal of similar sorts of music, much of it twee, that for me still epitomises the 1950s in an escapist, we're getting out of the woods now sort of way. It is Benjamin Frankel's "Carriage and Pair" from the 1950 British film "So Long at the Fair".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUEzU8G-FCU

Each month The Big Issue contains an article in which some celebrity writes an essay on the "what would I tell my 16 year old self?" theme. This short piece, as well as one or two others, acted as a mental comfort blanket for me when I first attended boarding school at the age of nine. The way in which the piece sort of peters out in uncertainty at the end reflected my sense of unease at the breakdown of a previously safe home existence as a single child, and I was powerfully reminded of it and that particular time with a sudden strong lump in the throat when Radio 3 included it in a short series about British Light Music, which prompted discussion here on the forum. I don't remember ever having seen the film; it would be another three years before I first encountered rock 'n' roll, like so many others, in the shape of Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock", which only interested me in the two guitar breaks, thus ineluctably preparing me for my lifelong love of jazz improvisation, and another two before I started seriously engaging with "modern classical music" in the form of Sibelius's Second Symphony, which to my 14-year old ears sounded new, challenging and adventurous. It would be about another seven years before I found out that Benjamin Frankel also wrote radical contemporary music, as well as easily memorable film themes, when The Third Programme broadcast a performance of the tough serial Violin Concerto.