Barry Manilow should be on the AM playlist! Who's with me?!

Right on!!!!!!!!!!

Could it be Magic starts with a quote from a Rachmaninov piano piece so that could please the Classical Music bods and kill two birds with one stone......LOL!

Is that because it's the "Steps" version and not the Bee Gees or does Mrs Roger hate the Bee Gees too?

heh. nah, it's the BeeGees. the CD is mine... :p

and yes, Mrs. Roger(:D) hates the BeeGees!

I thought I was embarrassed enough for liking Hawkwind.

Nothing wrong with liking the Ramones, Richard Hell, and so forth. But I blush to admit liking the Psychedelic Furs.

Hidden classic from the new wave catalog: Tom Verlaine's Warm and Cool. All instrumental, very simple, wonderful music.

My wife likes a lot of mid-70s radio rock so I find myself listening to "Radar Love," "Come Sail Away," and so forth. It's not so bad...better than Madonna or Eminem, anyway. Or Barry Manilow. (My dad calls him Barely Manenough.)

Barry
 

That's the funniest nickname I've heard since Englebert Humperdick!

THIS IS THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR - COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP! DROP THE BARRY MANILOW RECORD! DROP IT!

If Barry makes it on the playlist, I'm taking my CDs and going home.

But, this has got to be the most entertaining thread in a loooong time. Thanks to everyone's shameless revelations. I've got one more - I've always loved the soundtrack to "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly", particularly the main theme. I know that California Guitar Trio covered it, but I'm talking about the original version...

My dad also calls that other prog titan "Elfin" John. :)

Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What about Doris Day then Jim??????

Lets all blow into the Windy City. The Windy City is mighty perty!!!!

Agreed. Humiliation has never been so much fun!

Elton
 

I sensed sarcasm in the title "prog titan". He's done some proggy kind of stuff.

Elton is a hard one for me to classify. I wasn't even thinking of him in this thread. I like everything he's done immensely through "Blue Moves", which is a great record.

Keith - I think you must have slept with Doris - or could you have mistaken her with Florence Henderson?

'Madman Across the Water' for example. Especially the long version (bonus track on Tumbleweed Connection)

I must confess I love early Elton and I'm proud of it.

Madman
 

I was not aware of this bonus track. Interesting!

The 'standard version' is better, though. The extended version has a sort of mick-ronson-psych-wank-guitar-solo part which is quite out of place there.

More Elfin!
 

I agree about his earlier stuff being good, but Funeral For a Friend has always been my personal favourite. Just felt that I had to throw that in during this Elton John love-fest.

I Agree
 

it's my favorite by him. I guess I meant earlier in comparison to his 80's schlock. My favorite record is Captain Fantastic.

I accept Elton John is a great artist, but I don't like most of his music.

Can you imagine what would happen if he had been accepted by King Crimson when he auditioned for them?

In the Court of the Crimson Queen?

Sorry couldn't resist the joke.

Iván

Re: Elton
 

If only.....if only!!!!!!!!

Trying to forget about this bulge I'm developing thinking about Doris let's get on the subject of Elton.......oh! It's gone.

"Yellowbrick road" is, for me, his best album. The opening "Funeral for a friend" and "Love lies bleeding" would grace any top ten I tried to put together.

It's a shame that "Candle in the wind" was SO OVER USED a few years back as it totally ruined it for me. I can't hear it without thinking about that wave of mass hysteria that swept over the UK (and other parts of the World) at THAT time.

EJ is a very important artist in the history of popular music. No doubt about that!

Seems to me
 

It's a travesty he used that song for Lady Diana - it lost all of its original intention. As always, I like the more obscure cuts from that record.

my guilty pleasures
 

First, the heavy:
Iron Maiden (betcha couldn't guess that one!), Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Metallica (the new album is the worst piece of crap I've heard in a while, however), Anthrax, Rammstein, Ministry, Static-X, L7, and Overkill.

Then the alternative (at least, at one time):
REM, Weezer, Presidents of the USA, Nirvana, Ween, They Might Be Giants, Primus, Hum, and Radiohead.

The eighties:
Blondie, Men At Work, Duran Duran, Elvis Costello, The Church, and The Police.

The seventies:
Foreigner, Dire Straits, Boston, Meat Loaf, Tom Petty, Journey, and Rainbow.

Lastly, some newer rock bands that I find enjoyable:
The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Shins, Interpol, and Wilco.


There's not much embarrassing stuff in there, except maybe for the fact that I still listen to all of the above bands on a regular basis.