Musical guilty pleasures

[SixPackBack]

Used to be "Sweet child of mine' - but yeah, doesn't work for me anymore for some reason.

Guess its more like 'what a drag it is getting old'.....BAHAHAHAAH

[The Stranger:Me]

Guess its more like 'what a drag it is getting old'.....BAHAHAHAAH

And you would know all about drag wouldn't you?

[BAD DAD]

A MILLION MLES AWAY- RORY GALLAGHER
FREEBIRD- LYNARD SKYNARD
WEATHER REPORT-GRATEFULL DEAD
18-ALICE COOPER
ACHILLES LAST STAND- LED ZEPPELIN
WAR PIGS-BLACK SABBATH

I could probably keep on going but you have probablygot the gist.

[Hitcher]

Two albums have endured despite my first prolonged experiences with them:

1. Fleetwood Mac Rumours. I had a flatmate at university who used to feverishly copulate with his then screamer girlfriend in the room next to mine while Rumours played loudly in an effort to conceal said female vocals and dilute the percussive impact of his innersprung bed that had concrete blocks for legs. Special. But one of rock's best rhythm sections endured despite.

2. Eagles Hotel California. I spent four months working for the world's meanest tee-total sheep farmer at a place called Te Wera -- approximately equidistant between the pubs at Toko and Whangamomona. About 10 days of this sentence was spent confined in a woolshed with two extremely average shearers, no radio reception, a cassette player and one cassette. You guessed it, Hotel California. One of the world's best country music bands triumphed despite. Warm smell of policemen rising up through the air...

[Hitcher]

And you would know all about drag wouldn't you?

I didn't think you were talking about k d Lang's greatest ever album...

[Big Dave]

Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen.
'And the poets down here don't write nothin' at all
they just stand back and let it all be.'

Khe San - Cold Chisel.
I hit that Hong Kong matress.

Blue Day - Mi sex
Unburdened with knowledge of the preceeding Cabaret act he came across as a cool rocker - they were quite huge in Aus.

Us and them.
No words req.

Song for Guy. - Reg Dwight.
Yeah he's an old queen - but what a piana piece.

The Valley Road - Bruce Hornsby.
Roll on Roll on Roll on.

Roll me away - Bob Segar
Walked out to my big two wheeler...
I just rolled that power on...
And we rode - we rode clear outta sight.

Sounds of then - Gangajang.
An Aussie anthem.

Downunder.
Who's 6'4 and full of muscles.

[SixPackBack]

And you would know all about drag wouldn't you?

Giz a kiss ol' boy

[Macktheknife]

Anything by Queen, but especially Bohemian Rhapsody, We are the Champions, and Who Wants to Live Forever.

Billy Idol, White Wedding
Elton John, Daniel.
Judd Strunk, Daisy a Day.
John Denver, Sweet Surrender.
And many others I can't be arsed posting.

[Lorax]

Night Swimming - REM

Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through - Meatloaf

Turn the Page - Metallica

I Ain't Mad at Cha - 2Pac

All very diff genres but hell's of goodness.
Oh and so many more!!!!!!

[pzkpfw]

Too many to list, but playing Warren Zevon's Greatest Hits right now on my PC.

Lawyers Guns and Money
Werewolves of London
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Down at Detox Mansion
etc.

[Maha]

Judd Strunk, Daisy a Day.

Is it ok to say that i know that song?.....

Old Dogs and Children and Watermelon Wine......
Funeral for a Friend......Elton John....Haunting with a pinch of rock...
Rock n' Roll All Night abd Party every Day.......KISS.....

[Big Dave]

Funeral for a Friend......Elton John....Haunting with a pinch of rock...

The epic meatlof wishes he'd thunk of.

[smoky]

When I hear 'harvest moon' by Neil Young, I remember a certain Ausy girl and I dancing naked in the Rye by moon light (pissed).

Also 'Put another dime in the dukebox baby' by Joanie Jet and Black hearts, it takes me back to when it first came out, I heard it at a party dancing the night away with a certain georgous girl called J9.

A perfect date; a good bottle of wine, a sexy woman (my wife now days) and music by Lenoard Cohan - 'dance me to the end of love'.

[Quartermile]

It's not that old, but 'How you remind me' by Nickelback is defiantly mine with 'we built this city' a close second cos it reminds me of Riding probably cos of this video clip:
damm can't find it, its an Adrenaline Crew one anyway

[vifferman]

showing your age methinks...

Bowie's stuff is 'old' ...all of it! "labrinth" anyone?

And perhaps you're showing your ignorance (including of spelling - it's "Labyrinth"). Bowie has always (apart from that awful 60's crap we won't mention ever again) been avant garde and somewhat ahead of his time. And he's still active in his 60's. What about "Heathen" and his Tin Machine stuff?

I'm kinda freaked out by some of the crap that pushes people's buttons. Dear oh dear...

Mind you, I have some very strange musical button-pushing going on myself.
My oldest musical memory is from about 1964-ish (yes, I'm fucking old - get over it). "Downtown" by whoever was playing on the radio when we were in SeedKnee, on our way back to UnZud. I don't particular like the song, but it makes me feel weird when I hear it (thankfully, not very often, especially as I don't listen to the radio).

I have some good memories from the 70's - I heard Stairway to Heaven and Smoke on the Water when they were first released (magic!) and listened to some kewl stuff: Uriah Heep, Led Zep, Iron Butterfly, Iron Maiden, Emerson Lake & Palmer, T-Rex, Steppenwolf, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, etc. Strangely, I didn't really get into Bowie till later (along with MOR stuff like Supertramp, Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young), The Eagles and - like Beemer - Frampton) then Van Morrison, The Allman Brothers, Neil Young (especially live stuff), Lynyrd Skynard, JJ Cale, etc., and in the 80s was distracted by punk, Talking Heads, Split Enz, The Cure, The Clash, The Angels, Cold Chisel, Devo, B-52s, and a whole lot of forgettable stuff like Gary Numan and Ultravox.

When I became for a time a born-again, fundamentalist looney, I got ride of my pile of vinyl and tapes, and have since replaced an awful lot of it with CDs of exactly the same stuff. Unfortunately, some seems to be irreplaceable.

Poignant memories? Frampton's Baby I love Your Way (girlfriend of 1977), and Boz Scaggs (girlfriend of '78, who's now my wife).
For over 30 years I've had the lyrics to Desperation by Steppenwolf (their Rest in Peace album was the first album I bought) playing in my head whenever I feel crap. Due to the wonders of modern technology, I listened to it just a few minutes ago, but due to the crappiness of late-60s recording, the supposedly remastered edition sounded worse playing on the PS3 through 6 channels of the 115W/channel Onkyo and the B&W speakers than it did on my parent's crappy valve-amp Hi-Fi.

What else is a button-pusher? I've found some new stuff. The live version of Sarah McLaughlin's Building a Mystery makes me feel really sad, and for a while the opening lyrics of Better Be Home Soon were my theme song,. U2's One and With or Without You have also made me sad at times.

I have a strange brain that plays music almost continuously, sometimes not stuff I'd listen to by choice, so I have to be careful what I listen to, lest I'm plagued by some particularly drossful piece of elevator music.