Since most of us won’t be available on Monday, here’s Monday Morning Thread #4
Seems that everytime somebody starts a music related thread people post obscure bands. I don’t know if I’m just out of the musical loop or what, but I’ve never heard of groups like “Beefy Beefcake and the Big Beefy Bus” or whatever. Are people just trying to vie for the “I know the most obscure band” award?
Don’t get me wrong, I dig music. All music (b’cept rap - I like some, but most is dreadfully hard to take). I like many bands, some of which I don’t like to admit. Here’s a list of the bands for which I am a closet fan - I’d NEVER admit to it if asked.
REO Speedwagon
Cyndi Lauper (just “True Colors” and “Time after Time”)
Donovan
Alice Cooper
Billy Squier (both hold-overs from my youth)
Floyd Cramer (piano dude)
Zam Fir, Master of the Pan Flute (just kidding)
Woodie Guthrie
Erasure
YAZ
Awright, time to come out of the music closet, y’all.
I’m not proud of this. I prepare myself for the inevitable mocking that will follow. But I perservere:
I kinda like the Archies. I know better, but I still do. And I even have all their albums, (including their final, hard to find album “This is Love”. I have a copy of the Cufflinks album (by the main singer of the Archies, after the Archies).
I even had the Josie and the Pussycats album, until someone offered me obscene amounts of money for it.
On the other other hand, what group, other than the Archies would take such daring political stances like:
Hey, Mr. Factory!
Don’tcha caaare?
Soon the little children won’t have
Any air!
Hey, Mr. Motorcare
Stop a while.
We can’t breath
Another mile.
I proudly admit to owning CDs by the following artists:
Elton John
Billy Joel
Linda Rondstadt
John Denver
ABBA
Air Supply (including their Christmas CD)
George Michael
Probably only Midwesterners will get this one, but The Michael Stanley Band. They were Cleveland-based, and were pretty huge regionally through the late 70s up until the mid-80s. They were not the greatest band in the history of music, but they were pretty good at what they did, which was play bar rock. And they worked with people like Clarence Clemons and Joe Walsh on their albums, which ain’t too shabby. (Walsh covered Stanley’s “Rosewood Bitters” on his album The Confessor.)
In regards to other posters, I don’t think Woody Guthrie, Elton John, Billy Joel or Cyndi Lauper should evoke any shame whatsoever. The rest, well . . .
Black Sabbath (Ozzy Years Only) (Not a surprise, I know)
Alice Cooper.
AC/DC
Quiet Riot
Why, yes, I did wear a denim jacket in high school in the 80s.
L7
Rob Zombie
J-Pop of various sorts
Danny Elfman
Oingo Boingo
Men without Hats
The Bangles
Thomas Dolby
The Village People
Mel Torme
Cab Calloway (Mr. Minnie The Moocher)
Gloria Gaynor
Aqua (I love them. They make me laugh and the music is entertaining) (Barbie Girl)
Kansas
Bruce Springsteen
And my guitar heroine: Joan Jett (Her latest, Fetish, is gorgeous)
YES! Loved MSB – took my sister to see 'em in Mansfield when she didn’t get a date for her prom. We had much more fun with Michael Stanley! Thanks for bringing me THAT blast from my past…
Other guilty pleasures:
Depeche Mode
New Order
Yaz – gotta love Alison Moyet
The Peanuts soundtrack – which has been playing over the Local Forecast on the Weather Channel this week.
I have to confess. I am a closet Barry Manilow fan (barricading herself behind a fortress of pillows). I also like Madonna, but only the stuff from the 80s.
