Guilty Rock and Pop Pleasures

[teamsaint]

Got to be a place for things that inexplicably cheer us up , good taste out of the window , band in question forgiven for all their other crimes against art, hairdressing, whatever.


Love this. No apologies.

[Bryn]

Way better than the ELP effort!

[teamsaint]

sort of a guilty pleasure, not the song so much, which is wonderful, but the lyric, which for some reason is one of my favourite pop lyrics.

Kind of encapsulates the easy way that Americans often have of writing so well about place.

so not really a guilty pleasure at all !

I left my home in Norfolk Virginia California on my mind
I straddled that greyhound and Rode and Raleigh
And on across Caroline.

We stopped at Charlotte the bypass rock hill
We never was a minute late
We were ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown
Rollin' outta the Georgia state.

We had motor trouble it turned into a struggle
Half way 'cross Alabama.
And that 'hound broke down and left us all stranded
In downtown, Birmingham.

Right away, I bought me a through train ticket
Riding across Mississippi clean
And I was on that midnight flier out of Birmingham
Smoking in the New Orleans

Somebody help me get out of Louisiana
Just help me get to Houston town
There are people there who care a little 'bout me
And they won't let the poor boy down

Sure as you're born me, bought me a silk suit
Put luggage in my hand
And I woke up high over Albuquerque
On a jet to the Promised Land

Workin' on a T bone steak at La Carte
Flying over to the golden state
And when the pilot told us in thirteen minutes
He would set us at the terminal gate

Swing low sweet chariot, come down easy
Taxi to the terminal zone
Cut your engines and cool your wings
And let me make it to the telephone

Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia
Tidewater four ten O nine
Tell the folks back home this is the Promised Land callin'
And the poor boy's on the line

[jayne lee wilson]

Oh God, how long have you got...?

This sums up the glorious excess-is-best 1980s perfectly ....vid quality not great but wow! Sends you out laughing and with one hell of an ear worm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS4ALgm6Rsc

Feargal was always good for a tune!

You know that California-freeway-hair-in-the-wind top-down-convertible feeling....? Never more gorgeous than here....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CmadmM5cOk

...just wait for that break into the gliding beat when the bass comes in.....sooooo addictive...

Classic hit from 2009 truly great pop & vid to match....

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

Love the humour here.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_UYYPb-Gk

Good job I have to eat now or I'd be here till midnight...

[teamsaint]

Oh God, how long have you got...?

This sums up the glorious excess-is-best 1980s perfectly ....vid quality not great but wow! Sends you out laughing and with one hell of an ear worm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS4ALgm6Rsc

Feargal was always good for a tune!

You know that California-freeway-hair-in-the-wind top-down-convertible feeling....? Never more gorgeous than here....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CmadmM5cOk

...just wait for that break into the gliding beat when the bass comes in....sooooo addictive...

No need to feel guilty about Feargal, great record although that haircut.....

The Taylor Swift is good , I grant you..

which puts me a bit in mind of

Definitely a guilty pleasure.

But oh boy......

And the sound on that little drum roll...if you could bottle that........

[teamsaint]

this is all wrong, and miles away from their incendiary classics, but somehow makes me smile.

SLF playing Running Bear.

[Edgy 2]

[jayne lee wilson]

No need to feel guilty about Feargal, great record although that haircut.....

The Taylor Swift is good , I grant you..

which puts me a bit in mind of

Definitely a guilty pleasure.

But oh boy......



And the sound on that little drum roll...if you could bottle that........

God that's gorgeous...how did I miss that one back then? Twinkling Johnny Marr Guitar....!

Speaking of haircuts...look at these.....but. this is all about le rouge et le noir, lipstick & gender-play (we called it something less genteel then...) brasses like Feargal and....
A WALL OF NOISE....!!!

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

It was't only Dads who couldn't dance either.....

[jayne lee wilson]

Pure Gold Prince.....

Sheila E on drums (outfit!!!)...
Sugar Walls Sheena E matadorially tough & tailored....!

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

It never got much better than this....

(Long intro, stick with it...but its all about hair again of course...)

[jayne lee wilson]

Its Friday Night, Tommy Vance, and he slings this one on.....

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

So I go - Volume up to 11, Nigel!

"Heavy Record" says Tommy afterwards...

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Pretentious, Moi?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs&list=PLd9auH4JIHvupoMgW5YfOjqtj6Lih0MKw&index=3

Sting was actually rather pretty then...

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...oh the pure exhilarating uplift of great pop...!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RHBAd5YUR8&list=RD1RHBAd5YUR8&start_radio=1&t=49

...and the Reverend is now a revered broadcaster.... on Radio 4....

way-oh way-oh way-oooh way-oooooohh....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk&list=RD1RHBAd5YUR8&index=3

god I loved that fringed dress.... and I never got one....

[Joseph K]

How are The Cranberries a guilty pleasure?

I don't really have guilty pleasures in music - unless it's Serial Apologist making me feel guilty for liking some techno

[johncorrigan]

Maybe I've not quite got over the guilt I felt back in the early 70s when I realised how much I loved Karen's voice (took a few pelters from my pals on that one back then); because when the original question was asked I immediately thought of the Carpenters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evETS8_WFGE

[teamsaint]

How are The Cranberries a guilty pleasure?

I don't really have guilty pleasures in music - unless it's Serial Apologist making me feel guilty for liking some techno

Isn’t it about judgement and ego , and our tendency to try to sort out the “ authentic “ and the “ inauthentic” .

Anyway, as you say, you either like it or don’t.

[Joseph K]

Anyway, as you say, you either like it or don’t.

Actually, don't you think it's possible to have mixed feelings about some music?

I think it is possible.

Also, I have found my tastes have expanded when I've dismissed or got over my own initial doubts about certain types of music. Some music I've thought - initially - was too dissonant, some - too cheesy or schmaltzy, some too crude and repetitive etc. I think the idea is that these initial doubts also contain some fascination so that one returns to the music under more propitious circumstances so that it clicks.

[Flay]

A contemporary guilty pleasure: I was impressed by this young lady's live performance at the Brits:

https://youtu.be/gi7xZN46q9I

And she gave a lovely acceptance speech acknowledging her parents' contribution. (And yes, guilty m'lud, that dress is hot).