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Rickbass-
I'm so glad Keith revived this thread! For some reason, I didn't
receive an update, missed your post.

Thanks for the good words and support! I've recently relocated to
Fox Island, aprox. 12 miles from Gig Harbor...so we're only
100 miles or so distant.

Your friends will be glad to know there's an entire branch of
Christian prog, AKA "CProg"!
Steer them toward Glass Hammer, Salem Hill,
or do a Google search. There's many indie bands on the web doing
some very good material in this genre.
"Vertical Alignment" comes to mind. Tell them I sent you.
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Back on thread-

Guilty pleasures...OK...I watched every show of American Idol
this past 3 years...shutup, Rick.

I also listen to Comcast's Music Choice/Soundscapes until around 11
every day. It's about all I can handle until I'm 100% awake...
or on the 3rd cuppa, whichever comes first.

Oh, and I like Metallica, have several of their cds.
I use "Enter Sandman" to showoff the Klipsch speakers.

Kirk

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KW, why don't you search for your thread of favorite gigs. I could not find it. I was/is awsum..

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Ditto Kirk on the American Idol. Every episode for two years, and if I'm not there it gets recorded.

I'm so glad you mentioned this. I was getting lost in Welk.

There's a new one on now till the end of the summer with Tommy Lee, Jason Newsted and Gilby Clarke doing the judging for their new band. Complete fodder but great fun.

Soundscapes - usually on a Saturday when I'm cleaning the house. It's one of the music channels on telly here.

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Hey Moon Budz,
I like the new look for the site!!

My friend with all the CD’s is now getting them to me 50 at a time and my iTunes library is now up to 5250 songs. The Terry Bozzio, Tony Levin & Steve Stevens - Black Light Syndrome & epically Situation Dangerous are some of my new favs from the last batch. Poda luv the new avatar ( E.Q. fits you well), all is well on the home front ill be popping in from time to time. My best wishes to all :)

PS
Rick, Puleo has a new band named Haiku the CD’s are only available locally at the show. Drop me a line for more info.

Adieu.
 

Bon eh bien comme on dirait que ce site a l'air de s'épanouir encore plus, je vais tirer ma révérence après pas grand chose. Va falloir être beaucoup plus conciliant sans déconner si on veut me revoir par ici. allez que le grand cric vous croque.

Adieu.

Cédric.

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Translation? Babelfish mangled it-

Good eh well as it would be said that this site seems to open out even more, I will draw my reverence after large step thing. Will be necessary to be much more reconciling without talking cock if one wants to re-examine me by here go that the large jack crunches you. Good-bye. Cédric

Wuzzle?

K

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Hey now! Kirk, enter the metallica thread posted yesterday! Yea!

I'm not wasting space on American Idol lol.....

Quantum I'll drop you a line soon, sounds cool!

Resurrecting Manilow, I talked with Matthew Parmenter at the 2005 Nearfest for three hours about Barry. Anybody hear the big hubbub in Austrailia recently? They were using barry's music to frive out local ruffians, and it worked. Check it out sometime.

Ok, I've named a million before but here are my top guilty pleasures...

The Cult
Molly Hatchet's first record (a classic!)
anything from the 50's except for Pat Boone (I enjoy his metal period better!)
early 70's funk
Love Beach (THAT was a joke)
Ambrosia's "Biggest Part of Me"
"Baby Come Back" (band escapes me)

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You almost had yerself a bucket full of trouble there, Keithie, until I realized that you had me and Rick mixed up. HE likes Dylan, and I like ...well, you know what I'm saying.

Of course, you DID get me and Rick mixed up, which in and of itself gets you into at least a medium sized bucket of trouble.

Roger -Dot- Lee, of course I'm kidding. But which part shall remain a mystery...

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I can tell you i like Dylan as much as an Eskimo likes Brazil....poet mt ass :zzzzz:

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- Pearl Jam (im from the grunge generation)
- The Doors
- Cat Stevens
- The Clash
- White Stripes
- and a lot of south american bands

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-Cryptopsy
-Skinny Puppy
-Throbbing Gristle
-Devo
-Les Georges Leningrad
Among other ones...

But since I'm not a prog only fan, these are actually un-guilty pleasures. :D

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I used to listen to classic rock, so that sort of music really doesn't make me feel guilty. One thing I do feel guilty about is liking Maroon 5.

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Some of the things people call guilty pleasures are interesting. White Stripes? That's a great band, and I feel no guilt whatsoever. Dylan? Massively overrated, but still an icon and no guilt. Doors and even Pearl Jam? That's some pretty good quality straight ahead rock, no guilt. The Cult? They're pretty damn good. Molly Hatchett's first? I first heard their version of Allman Bros' "Dreams" live, and that's still one of my favorite live moments EVER. Believe it.

Onto the slams. :neener:
American fing Idol?! Are you kidding me? I have NEVER seen an episode. How can two people that I respect so much (Mossy I've met in person, and Kirk I've heard his music (and added it to the moon for crissake!!)) like that show? :headscrat If it was anybody else I'd be MORE honest!! :rofl:

Lawrence Welk? That's so bad it's almost cool. I can live with that.

My recent confession - I'm thinking about buying Johnny Cash's last album, America V. (Not for the moon, don't worry.)

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I still think my Roxette collection trumps you all. Oh, except for the Barry Manilow fans...

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Is Daft Punk considered a guilty pleasure?

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Barry Manilow was wunnerful on American Idol :D

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Thank you for speaking for me regarding the Idol. I don't need to see an episode, I hear it all the time at work. Is that the same Rany Jackson on the panel that used to play bass and was on Ponty records?:hrm:

I used to watch Lawrence Welk all the time. That and Gunsmoke and everything else my dad thought was worthwhile...I do miss Arthur Duncan's tap dancing though.

One show that I was forced to watch was Hee Haw. Except for Roy Clark, there's some absolute awful performances on there.:haha:

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Yep, the same one who played on Journey's Raised on Radio album too.

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okay mossy =8^O, you did it ... i cannot beleive you actually have that down in writing where eeeeeeeevery one can read it and point fingers at you!

lawrence welk :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

i'll only say my mom use to have it on esp. when leslie uggams joined the program...dont like her and lawrence give me hives :neener:

we'll have to get you in for therapy on this one O_o ;)

lovingly sis
who'll admit to liking "alone again naturally":rolleyes2
the instrumental "Telstar" i felt like the universe was talking to me

and why would elton john be a guilty pleasure? ..."Madman" makes me sing and how come they dont play ballad of danny bailey(am/fm radio classic rock)...luv that – hate funeral for a friend and candle in the wind, but that's another thread.

no one's admitted to ...Bread yeah Bread the group! :boxing:
America...the group
Sparks is cool but scary (my mom said so) thanks tee8 for bringing that one up.(i'd rather here that guy then Magma's female? any day)

but really folks in my house all classical rock let alone prog was a guilty pleasure, "you listen to that weird music" which also included opera & classical so i guess i was always guilty.:angel:

poda :o

p.s. this is a greatly entertaining thread...i'll post more to it as i purge myself

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Bread and David Gates...........stunning
America..........ditto

That inspired me to put the old vinyl on the turntable and spin them again.

"If a picture paints a thousand words.................."

I see the Doors mentioned a fair amount. What's guilty about the Doors? Crikey, I even go by the name "Maurice Jimson" when we do a Doors covers set.........now THAT is something to feel guilty about (but I don't ;) )

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a few <snip>s in there. Alone Again Naturally I loved when I was in grade school, but I got over it. Good ole Gilbert O'Sullivan. How scary is that that I can remember his name?

Bread? Maybe I can top that - Cake's cover of "Guitar Man". I own two Cake albums and enjoy them quite a bit...

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I discovered the electronic dance music, or club music, in the early 1990s, when I was a teenager. I've been at least somewhat interested in it ever since... on and off. Acid, house, "techno", trance, etc... that stuff.

I also often seem to like the old hippie/flower-power music whenever I hear it. I Have to buy some Melanie (Safka) someday. Gather Me is nice.


-Methem

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Agree about Melanie.....she's still playing the circuit here in the UK. I might be going to see her in a while with my old Hippy mate Steve. ;)

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:)

Her music sounds quite simple, but it's pretty and somehow genuine. My father has got GM as an old LP, so that's where I listen to it sometimes, at my parents.


-Methem

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The Who, Journey, Tom Petty, Boston, The Eagles - none of these should be considered guilty pleasures! But Bee Gees, Michael Jackson, Aimee Man, Bangles, Bondie, Huey Lewis... WOW.

PS. I'm an ordained Baptist minister and I can't stomach Stryper. Moses, you really are suffering for the Lord :)



I'll have to add that I'm a sucker for Mary Chapin Carpenter. She's just anti-Nashville enough to earn my respect. Great singer and musician if you like that folkie-Americana stuff. Hunt down an mp3 of her version of the folk classic "Why Walk When You Can Fly?" or her own "I am a Town."

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Except for the occasional joke, I'm recusing myself from any more "guilty pleasures" threads. your post exemplifies why.

How you can put Aimee Mann in with that crowd is beyond me. It's obvious you think of her as some bubble gum artist. Nothing could be further from the truth. You remind me of the guy in concert who was yelling for her to play "Time Stand Still". Like she's going to play a Rush song she spent a few lines singing on instead of her many songs (at an acoustic show with a piano and bassist no less). Go find any of her last six solo records and tell me with a straight face she is anywhere near those other groups. All you're doing is putting something you don't like as a guilty pleasure and something you do as not. WOW is right :(

Stryper is just a hair band that happens to have a lyrical content about religion. Just because you're religious doesn't mean that you will like Stryper. If you're not, you don't automatically hate them. "I'm an ordained Baptist minister and I can't stomach Stryper" sounds like...well I think you know what I'm implying.

It's wonderful that you have this jones for Journey. I was a teen when they turned from rock band to commercial pop machine. It wasn't pretty. Guilty I say!

Respond if you like, you may have the last word here.

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damn, Spaz, for being so religious you sure are judgmental...

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Rick, chill out man. Relax.

Roger, I'm not being judgemental here. This is a thread about musical guilty pleasures - which is all relative to taste - not about world events. I'm expressing my WOW reaction to someone liking those artists. That's all.

Hi Methem and KW
 

1st, I saw 1971, and pleasure and had to reflect on my 18th year, sorry, not in the spirit here, I guess Im anti-negitivity, I just dont understand why we would want our worst music as RQs or hear the one thing that we should be embarrassed about enjoying, .........so

Methem, in the 70's I went to a 10 day Woodstock like Concert. Powder Ridge was cancelled by a Judge and all the acts cancelled because the court ordered no one could use the stage. 50 thousand still came for a weeklong festival.
One night at our Campfire, a young lady came and began to play to us acoustic.

Melanie was such a beautifull soul as she entertained us and then went on to another fire. ....Ill never forget her and this is not a guilty pleasure, just a pleasure

oh...Good Times, the '70s Ghetto Sitcom Theme

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I always wanted to bone the lead singer for the Bangles.

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Good ol kev, ok then sing with me....

"Walk with an erection"......

Susanna Hoffs has done some things with Matthew Sweet, another non-progger I like a lot. They were playing a singing couple in one of the Austin Powers movies also...

Sharc..."temporary layoffs, easy credit ripoffs, ain't we lucky we got em, good times"

ok that was the "occasional joke"..

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I actually mostly took this thread as an opportunity to say, "oh, and I also like this and this stuff, in addition to prog. rock." No big feelings of guilt here -- except over some of that dance stuff.

Thanks for the recollection, sharc. Sounds great. I saw this on Wikipedia: "In 1970 Melanie was the only artist to brave the court injunction banning the Powder Ridge Rock Festival and played for the crowd on a homemade stage powered by Mr. Softie trucks."

Hey, Rick, some day you need to do a show on Airplane and those other like-minded artists from that era... :)


-Methem

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Good point. To me, a guilty pleasure is not necessarily liking Barry Manilow, it's wanting to see Barry in a tutu.

I did do a show of old stuff some time ago (Airplane, Cream, etc) and Cozy did a great show of more obscure artists (surprise!)....

However, there is another "old school" show in the works, and I know of one live Airplane song to be included. Consult your local listings...

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Guess I've missed those. I do remember you playing a couple of songs by Hot Tuna in one of your shows...


-Methem

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He's had some Roger Dean inspired cover art, though. :rofl:

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I think I figured why this post elicited a reaction Spaz. I thought about it awhile, becuase I've posted a "WOW" thought (American Idol) and some support (Cult et. al.), but no one took offense at my posts. I hope it's not because I'm the "program director" - if I say something stupid or inappropriate, I want people to call me on it! I think the difference is that you've made no secret in the past of your love of those bands, especially Journey and Petty, but the others as well. So even if you didn't mean it as such, your post READS as if you're saying "If I like it it's not a guilty pleasure, but if I don't it is." I'm not complaining about your post, but putting a thought out there as to why it wasn't taken so well. For the record, I have 4 Aimee Mann albums, and I like them better than anything Journey did with Steve Perry. So there! :haha:

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And I have mp3s of the Michael Jackson songs "Thriller" and "Beat It" (but can't take him as a whole).

It's always hard to get tone and inflection from the written word unless one is purposefully constructing it that way. In a message board form, there's no edit time, etc. If people knew me they'd know I'm a mellow guy. I've got strong opinions, yeah, but so do most folks here. Nothing wrong with that. :) And I understand your thought about "your post READS as if you're saying "If I like it it's not a guilty pleasure, but if I don't it is."" But hey, I've listed things I like and fully admit they're a guilty pleasure! Roxette! Hello?!? :neener: And there are things I don't like that I don't consider guilty pleasures. I'm not an AC/DC or Van Halen fan, but if someone said here it's a guilty pleasure, I'd be puzzled why they say that. Above I was expressing WOW about prog people liking Huey Lewis and Bangles, not in a "WOW, that's sad" sense but a "WOW, that's surprising sense." And I was saying that I'm surprised anyone would consider claiming Boston or The Who as guilty pleasures. Hoping that clears things up.

If not... :boxing: :haha:

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It's just that there's so much to choose from Jim, to call you on it would be time consuming! :rofl:

That's how I read it too. Methem had it right in his post. And I really think Guilty Pleasure is a misnomer...

I'm still peeved about the Aimee Mann thing. Not comparable to the Bangles or Huey, sorry.

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I stand vindicated. :rofl:

Seriously...can you imagine being a teenager, standing on stage w/
2000 in the audience, 20,000,000 watching, belting your
ass off...? Despite the image of the show, hats off to those kids.

Btw- Zenpool charted #4 on American Idol Underground's
Classical chart a few months ago.


K