Guilty Pleasures

[sonicpharmacist]

I’ll maybe give Styx a spin next. @doncornelius which one should I play first?

I agree with @doncornelius, The Grand Illusion is their best album....though I do have a soft spot for Crystal Ball too.

 

[Dirtbag Auntie]

I have a soft spot for schmaltzy orchestral 70's pop a la The Carpenters and Barry Manilow.

I love the Carpenters. I feel no guilt.

Karen’s voice isn’t celebrated enough!

 

[Biscuit]

I agree with @doncornelius, The Grand Illusion is their best album....though I do have a soft spot for Crystal Ball too.

Those two are awesome but I like Equinox best and Cornerstone is a favorite.

 

[displayname]

My guiltiest pleasure has to be Miley Cyrus. Something about working the industry like a machine deserves respect. Tswift gets equal respect for the same reason.

 

[Bsdmr2]

I love the Carpenters. I feel no guilt.

Karen’s voice isn’t celebrated enough!

Amen! The Carpenters are amazing. The soundtrack of my childhood.

 

[Englishbob]

Adam and the Ants!

 

[sonicpharmacist]

Those two are awesome but I like Equinox best and Cornerstone is a favorite.

I like Equinox, but I never could tolerate Cornerstone. Well, except for Lights and Borrowed Time. I do love Pieces of Eight though!

 

[Phaneronic]

I played this track all the way through @Phaneronic and it’s weirder than I remembered it, in fact all I remembered was the ‘I’m gonna got you good refrain’. That weird slowed down reference to Man I Feel Like A Woman, that strange little keyboard bit that bridges it, that it sounds like a bit of a cut and shunt of 3 different songs in the first minute but by the end the pop logic has righted itself, the weirdly dark music video for what is essential a bright pop song (there’s nothing predatory about Shania, and her sexiness is not that of an S&M dominatrix but your friend’s friendly hot mum). I enjoyed it.

Well, with that album there were three versions - the broad appeal 'pop' red version, the to-her-roots 'country' green version, and the international 'bollywood' blue version that we don't talk about. If you listen carefully, any version contains elements of the other two, the one I posted was the red. The darkness did catch me as well, but in all honesty I don't know that I'd seen that music video before. This is the one I remember, it's weirder by a long shot {why'd they pair it with the green version???}. Seriously, rewatching this made me feel weird nostalgia things. I'd be pitying it if I wasn't sentimental towards it things:

 

[Biscuit]

Well, with that album there were three versions - the broad appeal 'pop' red version, the to-her-roots 'country' green version, and the international 'bollywood' blue version that we don't talk about.

No, let's talk about the blue Bollywood version