Musical guilty pleasures

[ManDownUnder]

ok - what are those songs that just hit you "there" when you hear them. The old, nostalgic songs the really hit home... if you have one - you'll know it.

Here's mine.

Sammy Davis Jr - Mr Bojangles.

Used to sing it to my little man while showering him as a none year old... and I have a feeling my Dad probably did something similar - must check.

[Disco Dan]

Talking of songs... That advert for yahooxtra... luv it... heard the whole song, called "fidelity" or something similar. Listen to that over and over!

An oldie?? well would have to be David Bowie - Absolute Beginners

[skelstar]

Usually songs from girlfriends past. The Cure catalogue is a good example.

[Trudes]

Anything by Led Zep, especially 'Kashmir' or The Doors, 'People are Strange' and 'When the Music's Over' reminds me of when I lived in Coromandel, the best time of my life (so far).
'Johnny be Good' by Men at Work reminds me of my Brother and 'Driving Wheels' by Jimmy Barnes and anything by Cold Chisel always reminds me of some of the wicked road trips my mates and I used to take!

[avgas]

Fresh Prince of Bel Air - did it last night. was so sad.
On another note - Locomotive Breath, diamonds on the soul of her shoes and tusk.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Bob Seger "Hollywood Nights". I know its derivative, MOR completely naff, but its a song that often loops through my head.

and whoever said "Absolute Beginners" by Bowie was an "oldie" must be a child! "old" bowie is some of that awful crap he did in the late '60's: like "The Laughing Gnome" for example: the worst song ever recorded by anyone anywhere.

He did come fairly spectacularly right in about 1972/73 though: that period through to David Live in 1976 is my favourite of his: Ziggy Stardust, Diamond Dogs, David Live.. then Stage after that. (He toured that show here in 1978 I think). He has remained cool ever since which is saying something.

[judecatmad]

'Laid' by James
'Local Boy in the Photograph' by Stereophonics
'She Bangs the Drums' by Stone Roses
and my favourite for reasons which shall remain mine to hold dear to my heart and smile at....
'Champagne Supernova' by Oasis

[Motu]

Saturday in the Park...Chicago.

It's the most button pushing song I hear,I can't get enough of it.It takes me back to when it was a played on the radio in the early '70's - I can almost smell those times,I feel as young and nieve as I did then...a boy in a mans world.There are other songs of course,but Saturday in the Park is a direct connection to sweeping out the workshop in the afternoon,driving my '38 Chev Coupe and riding my B31 with 8'' over chrome forks.....

[Lissa]

For some reason this song: Don't Go Breaking My Heart - by Elton John always brings back nice memories of when I was little.... I use to sing it alot, and was always playing on the radio.

ACDC brings me back to when I was a teenager.. but they arent always good memories.

[James Deuce]

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

[Trudes]

"The Laughing Gnome" for example: the worst song ever recorded by anyone anywhere.

Some smart arse once reckoned that should be my theme song
I'm rather fond of Bob Seger too, especially like 'Turn the Page', love Metallica's version of that also!

[Joni]

Still love "When doves cry" to this day... I cant belive its 23 years since it was released...

[Colapop]

"Thunderstruck" AC/DC - most people are after they've met me...


And "Butterfly kisses" - Bob Carlyle. Always gets me. My daughter sings it to me sometimes, and it chokes me up.

[MSTRS:Me]

Alice Cooper's 'Dead Babies' will do 'it' for me. Not what you would think it's about either....Sue Bradford take note -

Little Betty ate a pound of aspirin
She got them from the shelf upon the wall
Betty's mommy wasn't there to save her
She didn't even hear her baby call
(Waaah!)

Dead babies can't take care of themselves
Dead babies can't take things off the shelf
Well we didn't want you anyway
Lalala-la, lalala-la, la la la

Daddy is an agrophile in Texas
Mommy's on the bar most every night
Little Betty's sleeping in the graveyard
Living there in burgundy and white

Dead babies can't take care of themselves
Dead babies can't take things off the shelf
Well we didn't love you anyway
ma ma ma-ma, ma ma ma-ma, ma ma ma

Goodbye, Little Betty
Goodbye, Little Betty
So long, Little Betty
So long, Little Betty
Betty, so long

Dead babies can't take care of themselves
Dead babies can't take things off the shelf
Well we didn't need you anyway
ma ma ma-ma, ma ma ma ma-ma, ma ma ma

Goodbye, Little Betty

[Maha]

Just posted it in Big Daves thread......'Higher Trails'...by John Hanlon....1975'

It tells the story of two Hang Gliders in the Southern Alps and how they run out of steam (thermals) and they need to find an updraft to get out of were they are, which is spiraling towards a glacier....meters away from the crashing onto the glacier, they find what they need and climb out of the shit.


Sort of discribes how my life was a few years ago, thats one reason why i love the song.....i also found my Thermal.....