We’ve had our share of “guilty pleasure” threads pertaining to musical tastes, so now’s the time to admit to liking certain artists or genres that you have kept hidden from the world. I’ll get you started:
I like Barry Manilow. At least, the mid-70’s stuff.
Disco. I liked a lot of the so-called “disco music”. I just hated the whole white-polyester-suit-black-shirt-opened-to-the-waist-let’s-go-dancing-and-snort-coke" thing.
The Bee Gees. Yes, even the aforementioned disco stuff. Except “Too Much Heaven”. Bad teen party experience.
Count me in as a Barry Manilow fan. Also:
The “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack.
Debbie Gibson–(In college, a friend, looking at my cd collection, which was alphabetized, noticed my Debbie Gibson CD’s right next to my Gun’s ‘n’ Roses CD, and was amazed that it is even possible to like both without going insane from cognitive dissonance)
Steve Taylor. Christian Rock artist, great guy, and author of the absolute best song to start flamethrowing debates with "I Blew Up the Clinic Real Good.
I like Barry Manilow. I still have all my albums and am slowly replacing everything with CDs. I like it all. Hell, my daughter was concieved to the strains of Paradise Cafe.
I have the *Saturday Night Fever * and Urban Cowboy soundtracks.
I have introduced my children to disco. And they like it! Especially KC and the Sunshine Band.
Donna Summer before she got all nice. Love To Love Ya, Baby. Oh, yeah.
I just love the Spice Girls. I really don’t remember much about them when they were popular, but about two years ago, I just fell in love with them. They’re so cute and loud and “Girls Rule!” with their personalities and poppy little songs. I adore them. And Spice World is actually a clever and entertaining film.
Oh, my CD collection has lots of odd choices, for a guy who’s basically a boring old 70s “classic rock” fart.
Among the CDs in my collection that provoke groans or raised eyebrows among people who THINK they know my tastes:
KC & the Sunshine Band’s Greatest hits
The original “Fiddler on the Roof” soundtrack (with Zero Mostel)
The Best of Bread
“Bubble Gum Hits” (featuring the best of the Ohio Express & the 1910 Fruitgum Company… brings back memories of when I cut “Yummy Yummy Yummy” off the back of a cereal box and put it on my Close-n-play phonograph)
The Clancy Brothers at Carnegie Hall (not just on St. Paddy’s Day, either… I play it in my car all the time. Drives my poor wife bonkers.)
“Back Home Again” by John Denver (sue me! Cheesey as he was, I LIKED the guy, and I creid when he died.)
Now, there’s also loads of stuff I like but never bought… I liked a lot of Barry Manilow, Jim Croce, Association, even (gasp!) Petula Clark.
spooje: Johnny Cash is one of the coolest guys going. There’s a bunch of people pretending to be JC, and then there’s JC.
I’m not proud of this, but I sometimes find myself singing Britney Spears songs. In my defence, I started my Britney interest from her videos (she’s so cute.) Now, I actually find I kinda like her music. I’ve never bought any of her music (and don’t plan on it) but I’d probably play it if someone gave it to me. It’s sad, I know.
I must also confess that, despite holding a BA degree in musicology, not only do I own several Barry Manilow CDs, but have actually attended a live concert by the man himself. It’s true, I’m afraid.
My music tastes are very diverse, from a mostly Metallica-based diet to Bruce Springsteen to Swing.
However there are a few skeletons in my cd collection:
John Denver
Waylon Jennings
Kenny Rogers
Flatt & Scruggs
I grew up in VA and those were the songs of my childhood, so I guess listening to them brings me back to that time.
And there are a few cassette tapes hidden in a closet from my teen years that will never get thrown away: New Kids on the Block, Michael Jackson “Thriller”, “Like a Virgin”, Bobby Brown.
