Egad, this is a busy week!
As I am immersed in all things theatrical and university-like, lets talk about something else today! We all have guily pleasures hiding in our closet. From a musical perspective, what's yours? (You know, that album or song you're deathly afriad someone will find out you love! Or do you listen to Barry Manilow songs cranked full tilt in your hummer, whilst singing along at full volume? What? Tell me, dammit! I'm here to help!)
You show me yours, and I'll show you mine...ps - the mystery song in question is from one of my dirty little secrets... get it right and DOUBLE your score!!!! (unless you haven't scored yet, then you'll just get two points!)
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the name of the album is "look what the cat dragged in",I thought we were supposed to name the album also, people have been whoring for points, getting points without naming the album, I'm working my ass off just to answer these questions. tim, you know how competitive I am about rock trivia. skoehler, there is nothin' wrong with duran duran!! and i believe krokus should be on any true metal-heads eighties list!!
First of all, I am almost afraid to admit here that I hate 99% of musicals out there. I'm sorry, but they're as cookie-cutter as Nashville's latest boot-scooters. I state this now only because this is a theatre-themed blog and I know it's coming.
That aside, my guilty pleasures include:
* I like Mariah Carey's version of "Bringin' On the Heartbreak". It's not *better* than Def Lep, but it stands well on its own. I've been scared to say this publicly anyhere near timxx for years.
* I like techno and other dance music genres. I particularly dig the marriage of good beats with either acoustic instruments OR, on the other end, heavy metal (think Billy Idol).
* I like the Backstreet Boys. Hate N'Sync. Someday I will draw first blood on Justin Timberlake just for breathing.
* This morning on the way to work I was cranking J Lo's "Waiting for Tonight"... on CD.
OK. How many Hail Marys and Our Fathers is that gonna be?
oh, my dirty little secret is a serious love for sade, the marquis, not the singer! just kidding, halfway anyway. btw tim, didn't we think that poison were a HOT girls group when the album first appeared??? also skoelher, tesla were never satanic. stoned maybe, but never satanic. a true metal-head should always note the subtle distinctions, it is hard enough to be a fan in the first place with all the ridicule we get.
Actually, wasn't that on "Open Up and Say... Ahh"?
I'll check that.
Uhh, yeah. I was right. And I *am* ashamed.
You only need the album when i axe for it, Fletch..and anyway, you got the wrong one! (Mike was right...it was OPEN Up..and yes, I do have the album..on vinyl, no less!) btw...we did indeed think they were hot chicks when we first saw the CAT DRAGGED IN album. I think the convo. went some thing like this...("Hey, dude, check out these hot ch...ARGGGHHHH! Adam's Apples! ARGGGHHH!!")...btw, I love Sade...saw her at a shed in Nashville in 89, during a torential downpour...cool show.
Krokus Ruled!!! ...
and as much as I loved the Seattle thingat the time, Pearl Jam is the only group out of that bunch still active, and the Metal dudes are all making Millions out on the oldies circuit, so I gues they got the last laugh after all...the grunge guys can't ever DO the oldies circuit, as most of their lead singers are now dead...
Maybe it doesn't count, but Dave Grohl is still turning out real rock in my book. Out there fighting foo. Or are you talking purist "grunge", thereby disqualifying the follow-up projects of Grohl, Cornell, Love, Cantrell, Corgan etc? It has kinda morphed into "rock" without the anti-media media around it. I mean, Neil Young was wearing flannel long before "Singles" came out.
I don't put the Foo's or Audio Slave, Velvet Rev., etc...in that GRUNGE-y movement...talking the real deal (NIRVANA, ALICE, SOUNDGADEN, PEARL JAM, SCREAMING TREES, etc...)
Neil Young wore flannel cause he was a Canadian, and was cold....
I proudly wear my musical likes and dislikes on my sleeve. A music snob or sorts. I'm getting better. What I mean is that when I hear something that I personally don't like, I make sure that everyone else around me understands just HOW SHITTY the music they are listening to is.
I love Glass Tiger. Oh, come on. You know Glass Tiger. GT? The Thin Red Line? Big hair and big sound. Duran Duran's bastard step-brother from Canada? Now you remember.
I'm not really ashamed of anything, but I will say that ABBA's song "The Winner Takes It All" and Anne Murray's You Needed Me" makes me tear up. I sing those songs in my head when I'm on stage to make the tears flow.
So Tim, during All My Sons, when you were yelling that you didn't belong in prision, I was singing "The winner takes it all. The loser takes the fall." It worked a few times.
No, I'm kidding. I think of how lonely my life would be if I didn't have Dakota Fanning in my life.
Or Sum 41.
Bet you didn't know I listen to classical music when I'm in my car.
And I also put on lipstick and a dress so I can perform my Dakota Fanning monologes. Then I get hammered on tequila and sing Slayer songs set to church hymns at the shrine I've made of her out of chewed bubble gum. Then Dakota puts me to bed. At least I think it is her.
JAL, I'm givin you 2 pts JUST FOR THAT POST!!! You made my cofee squirt outta my nose...
and BTW- Mikey gets TEN POINTS for manning up and admitting his CURRENT guilty pleasures...of course, I'm taking 8 of those away for liking Mariah's BRINGING ON THE HEARTBREAK- com'on dude...that song was on HIGH AND DRY , the last vestage of credibility the Leps had before they pussed out! How can I NOT take away points for that????
Tim, I expected no less and I almost mentioned the deduction myself. I know that you know that I know that you know that I love High-n-Dry-era Lep. I went for 2 years refusing to listen to the Mariah version then it came up on random play on my Internet radio. Sorry. I was kinda shocked at how much I like it. I like her new song too. Do I lose all my points now? C'mon. I haven't been whorin' like you-know-who.
Oh, one more guilty pleasure. I was listening to Neil Diamond long before "Saving Silverman". I also saw Wayne Newton on Letterman a long time ago (pre-Sullivan Theatre) and Wayne sang "Help Me Make It Through the Night". I started to laugh and change the channel, but he was so damn good and played multiple instruments. I loved him in that Bond movie (which one? Dalton sucked).
Anyhow.
My musical dirty secret is I don't know most of the bands or music that have been mentioned here by anyone.
Rock 'n Roll ceased to exist for me shortly after the British invasion (and my preference is still doo-wop). I'm a standards, film and theatre music, Great American Songbook kinda guy. Give me Miklos Rozsa and Buddy Clark.
I have such diverse musical tastes and like JAL...I am bit of a music snob (SKINNY PUPPY, JAL!!!! Fond memories.. :-)
I even wrote a concert review for ACE when the mag was reasonably happening. So nah-nah-boo-boo. (Don't I SOUND snobby?)
I am not ashamed of my Bluegrass love. Yonder Mountain String Band to Del McCoury.
I am not ashamed of my hippie love music like The Grateful Dead or Widepread Panic. Although I have never loved Phish.
I am not ashamed of my gloom baby music like Ani DiFranco or Tori Amos.
And I love my funky stuff like D'Angelo, Prince...
So what would it be...?????
I guess it would be that I LOVE TO BELT OUT DONNA SUMMER.
I even do a sexy lip-sync to "Last Dance" Some of u have even seen it...I was inspired by the best drag queens in Lex.
I also love 80's power ballads like "I Miss U" by Climaxx. It still makes me feel sad...sigh..sitting in my room all alone at 12...thinking of Eric Something...and just *sniff* losing it. Our love was not meant to be...
Oh yeah...and like the kids...I enjoy me a little (and I think I most guilty about this..) Dixie Chicks. "Sin Wagon" Nowwwww I am embarrrrrrassed....
AND WE HAVE A WINNER!!!
LGP, Listen to Skinny Puppy's first album cranked up to 10 wearing headphones and you'll be cured. ;0
And beware: any song that uses single letters for an entire word should NEVER be trusted.
Words to live buy.
Well, I COULD go on and on about all the COOL 80's stuff I like (Replacements, Husker Du,Dream Syndacate,Furs, Peter Murphy, etc...) and most are familiar with my love of all things Springsteen...(hardly a guilty pleasure.) And while I remain ever unashamed of my love for Heavy music (Priest, Maiden, Motorhead, AC/DC, etc...) it did, unfortunately mutate into a flirtation with the Hair stuff (Poison,Whitesnake, Nightranger- whom I STILL like, btw), but I'd have to say my most embarrasing gilty pleasure can be summed up in two MIGHTY words...
John....
DENVER!!!!
(ROCKY MTN HIGH is a great song, dammit!!!!There...MAN i feel better...)
...and personally, I think SIN WAGON kicks ass!!!
I, too, was born in the summer of my 27th year. ha.
waqsn't that glass toger song called "don't forget me when i'm gone"? with backing vocals by none other than also canadian bryan adams? yes, i thouroughly botched the poison album. thank you for the (somewhat arrogant) correction. btw, tim, I personally thought lep wussed out after pyromania. denim and leather!!!!!
Scott, why should anyone be ashamed to like classic Broadway musicals? Give me a good solid book show from the fifties or sixties (or even the thirties and forties) with real songs that are melodic and have great lyrics (it's tough to beat Lorenz Hart..."Once I laughed when I heard you saying/That I'd be playing solitaire/Uneasy in my easy chair").
Much preferable to the Lloyd Webber, Les Miz tripe we get inundated with now these days(thank God, Mr. Sondheim's still around)...where they ratchet every succeeding chorus up an octave in some false attempt to wring some faux drama out of inert, mediocre tunes and banal, trite lyrics.
They trade in cheap, easy, obvious treacle and rank sentimentality instead of genuine emotion and sentiment.
"The heart must bleed, not slobber." -- Frank Loesser
oh my god! i can't believe someone actually had the same dirty little secret as me! timxx, you surprised me! i was debating whether or not to confess that shameful secret, but yes, i am a john denver fan. i briefly flirted with the idea of moving to colorado during one of my heavier john denver obsessed phases, and whenever i'm in wva, i sing country roads at the top of my lungs.
i am not, however, ashamed of my cheesy 80's pop obsession, nor do i think anyone else should be.
oh, and my other really embrassing shamelful obsession du moment is [cringes and hides face behind hands] rent. yes, i have been obsessed with rent...about 10 years after everyone else was at that. but it all has to do with the breakup of a long and crappy relationship with a musician who used to be a squatter on avenue b during the tompkins square riots and well it makes me think of him and i can wallow in my self pity to "without you" and "your eyes".
yes, i am truly pathetic. do i get a point for that?
1 pathos point, coming up!
How can i not give extra points to a fellow" Denver-head"?
I played a helluva kick-ass country roads in my i.c. days. a rendition borrowed from the most fabulous, outrageous, rootin' tootin'rock and roll band ever to come outta tennessee!!! Jason and the Nashville mother f&%$*n' Scorchers!!!
wow...did we play Country Roads? SHows you what become of most of mt brain cells....anyhoo...you played the hell outta everything, baby!
I thought Rockwell was going to be the next Michael Jackson. Turned out I was wrong. Instead it was Billy Ocean that became the next MJ. Who knew? Saw him at USM in the late 80's.
Hey, "We're all sharing the same dream!"
Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Right Round". I'm singing it right now.
I am currently into trance music. A.K.A techno a.k.a. rave.
I traded a live-recorded Styx CD for a Pat Boone cover CD. Thanks, Tim.
I own the ZZ Top Six Pack Collection. I'm actually proud of that.
I'm also bad, bad, bad, bad, baaaaad....I'm nationwide.
I love Soft Cell's "Tainted Love".
I used to lip-sync Styx's "Kilroy Was Here" in front of my mirror. The whole damn cassette.
Damn, I don't know if this was refreshing or disorienting.
Now I'm singing "Carribean Queen" and can't stop! Somebody call a doctor!
Rick St. Peter.....There is nothing wrong with Jason Mraz. Great voice, decent lyrics. Leave him alone...he's a sensitive guy.
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