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oh...I forgot....Suzanna Hoffs in the 80's........

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(Sorry, this is very computer-related.)

Strange enough, I sometimes listen to the Commodore 64 music, both stuff made for the commercial games and stuff by the cracker/hacker/demoscene groups.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene)

C64 was of course this small 8-bit "computer" that was very popular in the 1980s. It had a sound device called SID which -- while obviously being relatively good in the early 1980s -- is quite modest when compared to the soundcards and other such things these days. (Perhaps some of the electro-musicians here can tell something about it. I distantly remember reading someone mention that he/she started making music on C64...)

Indeed, C64 was a modest machine, but some of the guys who worked on it managed to squeeze enormous resources out of it. Some of the works by Rob Hubbard, definitely the most famous composer ever on C64, are impressive. Ben Daglish made many very entertaining pieces. And so on.

(http://www.geocities.com/vienna/strasse/7329/biog.html)

I thought I would post some URLs to the SID tunes that are available online as MP3s. But PERHAPS it's better to not do that: many of those tunes are, after all, so simple. Instead, here are some remixes made later and with better equipment than the original C64 versions:

http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/5...le%20Remix.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2...20Remix%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/1...%20Warlock.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/4...Sanxion%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/3...ers%202006.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/1...20rmx%29.mp 3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/8...ghtment%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2...e%20mix%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/3...%20Sanctum.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/3...oade r%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/1...Club%20Mix.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2...coustic%29.mp3

(http://remix.kwed.org)

These are remixes of some of the SID tunes that I like. Some of these are very different from the original versions. Many are quite dancey. In any case, stuff that might be interesting to former C64 gamers; I don't know about others... :p

Bands that play C64/game music:

http://www.axesdenied.net/
http://www.machinaesupremacy.com/
http://www.pressplayontape.com/


-Methem

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Related to my previous post... a few more tunes:

http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2...voyager%29.mp3 (another version of "Wizball")
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2...Edition%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/3...ce rto%29.mp3

Ok, will stop now... :)


-Methem

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not so much guilty as "i ain't ashamed"

Outcast – they are such a fresh breath of musical musings to have come along in the R&B, hip/hop, rap whatever genre you wanna call it...loved them from the start. if i were my kid i'd be shakin it always to their beat. cant wait to see their movie Idlewild too.

and hey Yspaz i think Mike J jams...but back in the day before he (Eminem) lost himself, and i liked eminem too (okay that's guilt)

and i cant do lawrence welk (did everyone's folks watch that show?:rolleyes2) but will say i like louie/louie armstrong

:boxing: :haha: :rofl:

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OK...I'm desperate...can't think of anything. I LOVE Alan Parsons Project. Would that be a guilty pleasure? Well, if they are wrong...I don't want to be right!

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There's plenty of APP here. And they were mentioned in Austin Powers!:haha: Anyway, the more I look at this thread the more I can't figure out what is and what should never be a guilty pleasure (free Zep reference).

Even if you say it's a guilty pleasure, I still like Lawrence Welk and 50's music.

Latest ones: Pat Benatar, Pretenders, Bread. :boxing:

By the way, I can't believe you don't have ANY.

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Okay KW is Manilow and out in front

I have Madonna's Ray of light - but I didn't go to her bash here in my town on Thursday with 85000 others - there was traffic chaos afterwards

I also have loads of J D Lang and gone to see her sing in Copenhagen and by gum can she sing.

Plenty of Niell Young, David Crosby, Grahman Nash and Steven Stills

Radiohead

Colin Blunstone, The Shadows, The Police, The Clash, Level 42, Joni Mitchell, Elton John, Eurythmics, America and several more

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Presume you mean kd lang...Ben Mink of FM fame was her musical director for a long time...so there's a prog connection (sort of like Rosenthal from Happy the Man plays with Billy Joel).

You know, I'm hard pressed to catergoize any of yours as guilty Rogor (save for the Madonna).. esp CSNY, Elton, and the Police.

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The author should have linked to this thread from this article--

http://online.wsj.com/public/article...ml?mod=blog s

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Some of his "regular" bands are guilty pleasures to me... nothing like referencing an obscure group to try to proclaim you're cool :rofl:

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Well, I think I will have a go at this.


Hank Williams(senior not junior)
Willie Nelson
Dolly Parton(distant relative according to my mom)
Toby Kieth
Oingo Boingo
The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy
XTC
Cheap Trick
The Tubes
Patsy Cline

I am sure there are more, I will add them as I remember them.:neener:

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Interesting Bm............there's a couple of Dolly Parton's that I'm rather fond of too. :rolleyes2

OK, OK......you all knew I'd say something like that.

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funny thread~

erm...oh oh...um gonna feel like um nekkid now!

melanie?
billie holiday or
dinah washington (i LOVE her voice ever since i was 4 or 5)
howard roberts?? (lounge jazz master)
mavericks (oops, did i say that?)
mama's and the papa's
james taylor
stylistics
delfonics
three dog night

shit...that's only a snippett .... ok ... put me in jail, i'm all sortsa guilty

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I love Three Dog Night! Great band and great vocals. And the Delfonics! Man, every time I see that band's name I think of that Tarantino movie "Jackie Brown."

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Here you go..........I'd be interested to hear what else you newer members of the family like. :)

Be honest!!!!

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KW - thanks for resurrecting this thread!!:rawk:

Along with KW - I too like Barry Manilow - and I have seen him live 4 times (my wife is a BIG fan)
I also like Hank Williams Sr
and Johnny Horton - I love the ballads and the Honky Tonk songs....

I sing with the Go-Go's when my kids play the LPs...

I like most bluegrass - have a few Bill Monroe and
I enjoy Texas Swing - Bob Willis and the Texas Playboys - and a new incarnation of TS - "Hot Club of Cowtown" - 5 CD's and the band has broken up (google them though!)

Walter/Wendy Carlos - I love the Switch-On albums

So - how does that grab you all..

From down Texas way.... Ted:knowing:

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I 'd have to say for me it's Blondie.

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Been sorta monitoring this thread, and realized I need to fess up: Manhattan Transfer! :rawk:

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Nothing to feel guilty about there. TDN rocked (in their day) except for the cheesy songs. (there were a couple)

I still have "Around the world wiith Three Dog Night" live album on vinyl.

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Looking through my collection I think my best offering would be 'The Magic Rounabout - Dougal and the blue cat'. Always did model myself on Dylan the Rabbit! I bought the album cheap at a record fair because it is quite a collectors piece with the film that came out not so long back.

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I loved the Magic Roundabout too. Dylan was the guy I and most of my friends resembled too.

I have a fondness for the Clangers. I have every episode on DVD and a CD of all the music used on the Program.

I went to a restaurant the day I bought this CD and asked the staff "Can I play my new Clangers CD". The waiter thought it was a new punk band and agreed. When the music started it took about 10 minutes of odd looks from the staff and a couple of comments from other diners before it was removed from the player and returned to me. Bloody philistines!!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/clangers/

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Wash away my troubles...
wash away my pain...
Wii-ith the rain in Shambala...

I swear, i'm going to cover that someday.

:-V
Kirk/Zenpool

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love that song!

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if MrM thinks he's the only one groovin to Manhattan Transfer ....scoot over i'm out here playin in the RED Clay!

great singin', guilty, guilty, guilty :flutter:

so what if i'm guilty of some solo projects by kenny loggins - Nightwatch & ALive lps
got me w/Angelique...and he looks sooo good w/that beard :knowing:

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I think there are a BUNCH of TDN songs that could be stylistically covered, and be popular again.... grreat writing... song structure. :rawk:

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KeithieW,

I just bought - for my wife's birthday - Barry Manilow's "First and Farewell" - it has 2 DVD's - one from his first ever concert on his own (using band he played with for Bette M.) - it is black and white and bad/poor quality - but lots of fun. The 2nd DVD is from his last concert - on the road - in late nineties (early 2000's ?) Haven't watched it yet.

Knowing of your "affection" for BM - or at least his music - thought I'd share. It is a good DVD.

Regards,
Ted :rawk:

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Thanks Ted.......we have a good DVD library here. I'll see if they have it on their list and borrow it. If I like it I'll get it. I have to admit that my favorite BM era is the Mid 70s to mid 80s...the "Even Now" era. Some wonderful songs and even better arrangements. BM and Marty Panzer were a pretty formidable writing team.

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KeithieW - you are so right. I hope they have the DVD! BM is also a great showman - getting the audience involved in show. :knowing:

Thanks for sharing your "guilty pleasure" with us all!! And giving us a chance to do the same.

BTW - have you heard of RUNRIG? It is a Scottish Rock group. Any thoughts or comments about them?

Regards,
Ted

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I have a scottish friend who ADORES Runrig. I don't mind them but have never given them enough "ear time". Next time I see Neil I'll do that. Thanks for the reminder.

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My Pleasure - I too have a friend who adores them. He has been to Scotland once and on a separate trip, his son and sister made to a concert and goto to go backstage and visit with the band.

They are really good - especially the way they mix the "traditional" instruments into a rock format - something about pipes and guitars.... wow.

Well worth listening to!!

Ted

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Early Queen ;-)

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Guilty as charged!

March of the Black Queen....I think I'll play that today...

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Hmmm. don't think I've EVER posted to this thread... Time to fess up!

Spacey New Age music - (Some say "new age" rhymes with sewage, but I enjoy it at the "right" time... Have even composed a bit of it)

Kayak - Sorta prog Pop, but Ton Scherpenzeel is a brilliant song-writer.

Innocence Mission - Early stuff is great, but they've gotten almost TOO "precious" lately...

Whew... that hurt, but my soul is cleansed... will anyone speak to me ever again?

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You're not alone with the Manhattan Transfer, Poda....too cool...too hot!
Steely Dan...Becker and Fagan...just brilliant
XTC....you are right Rickster....
Tears for Fears
Sparks...the Mael Brothers are very, very clever...Lil Beethoven is unreal as are the core three albums from the early and mid 70's
Bill Nelson (solo and Be-Bop Deluxe)....retro-futurism at it's best
Roxy Music/ Brian Ferry

....these are a few of my favorite things....

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frem, innocence mission! I went through a major aural journey with them, but once done sort of forgot all about them. Birds of My Neighborhood...what a brilliant album.

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Absolutely agree! Birdless is a real moment on that album. The "precious" comment is probably in response to a profile of them on NPR for the album of lullabyes. Maybe if I had kids?? :)

I note their website promises a new album in March!

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One of my most loved 'guilty pleasures' has always been Uriah Heep. I was really into them up until Conquest or thereabouts, but I've lost track of them since.

They released some duffers (Innocent Victim, Fallen Victim etc) but these were more than made up for by an earlier run of great albums - The Magician's Birthday, Look At Yourself, Demons and Wizards, Salisbury etc.

I haven't heard much UH for years - there's one track on the Moon, but I'd love to hear some more.

MB

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I took my girl to see BM @ The Academy of Music in Philly. Same reasons, same results...maybe, it was 31 yrs. ago! He sang "The Dr. Pepper Song"...eveybody sang with him.
I love Magma, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, 1st Kansas, ACDC, Rob Zombie, Philip Glass, and I still play Ambrosia alot but I can only play when I'm in the house by myself.
Mat

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I took my girl to see BM @ The Academy of Music in Philly. Same reasons, same results...maybe, it was 31 yrs. ago! He sang "The Dr. Pepper Song"...eveybody sang with him.
I love Magma, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, 1st Kansas, ACDC, Rob Zombie, Philip Glass, and I still play Ambrosia alot but I can only play when I'm in the house by myself.

Mat

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So Mat....I bet that makes you a fan too, eh?? :) Nice to know that there are more of us out there. :rawk: