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fingertrouble) wrote2010-08-26 07:01 pm
fingertrouble) wrote2010-08-26 07:01 pm
Music 30 #13 — A song that is a guilty pleasure
Guilty Pleasures...hmm. I know starting by any of these questions by questioning them is a little anal, but true guilty pleasures are hard to find since a lot of what I grew up to be TRUE guilty pleasures have been reclaimed by hipsters, something that actually pisses me off a bit. I liked this music for what it was, and like owning a computer before geek = cool got real shit for it.
So Sonic Youth or someone turns up and says that's like, SO COOL and everyone's into it (which I admit is a sort of hipster responses - anti-hipster?) which means in the end you should like what you like and stand by it...although the guilty pleasuress are usually the ones you cannot defend.
So these are the songs I probably cannot defend and used to be slightly embarassed about, but are probably now strangely cool, or something. I lose track.
Carpenters - Close To You
This could be any of theirs...and yes I had the best of Carpenters 1 and 2 as a kid, it's a pretty faggy thing to like but at 13/14 I didn't understand that. I did understand that they were hella unfashionable, that sha-la-la production even grates with me - it represents the worst of 70's AOR slush, but THAT voice. OMG that voice. I like this Bacharach cover best, but also later stuff like Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, or We've Only Just Begun written by the Muppet-molesting and Bugsy Malone songwriter/performer Paul Williams.
RAH Band - Hunger for your Jungle Love
Posting this cos it's probably the worst example, and even I'm a little cringey on those frankly awful lyrics, I hunger for your jungle love, I hunger for your love? *snigger* but RAH band introduced me to space disco which before 4-5 years , back was VERY UNFASHIONABLE. Italo disco, space disco...they recorded the song that basically IS Goldfrapp's career (The Crunch) but then went a bit, well, embarassing. I loved them when I was 13 and still do. I own 'Going Up'
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
Might be hard to believe now, but FM used to be really unfashionable...now you get Vampire Weekend dropping them as an influence, but in the 80's...no. Tango in the Night I bought on vinyl when it came out, closely followed by Rumours and FM and earlier stuff. Everywhere is a great song and great production, and glad now people appreciate it for what it is.
The video is a version of the Alfred Noyes poem, something I read at school (he was a local poet) before I saw the video and recognised it - I loved the fact they knew that poem.
Clannad - Robin the Hooded man OST
This tune still moves me - Lady Marian but we all probably know ROBIN aahhhhh! THE HOODED MAN! which is from this soundtrack, but I wanted to post something good. All Clannad is pretty much a guilty pleasure for me - like Enya it's SO WRONG, floaty new age bollix, but sometimes they get the folk plus electronics right and like Newgrange or Theme from Harry's Game. Probably where my current love for acid folk comes from, as they started as 70's trad oirish folkies.
So Sonic Youth or someone turns up and says that's like, SO COOL and everyone's into it (which I admit is a sort of hipster responses - anti-hipster?) which means in the end you should like what you like and stand by it...although the guilty pleasuress are usually the ones you cannot defend.
So these are the songs I probably cannot defend and used to be slightly embarassed about, but are probably now strangely cool, or something. I lose track.
Carpenters - Close To You
This could be any of theirs...and yes I had the best of Carpenters 1 and 2 as a kid, it's a pretty faggy thing to like but at 13/14 I didn't understand that. I did understand that they were hella unfashionable, that sha-la-la production even grates with me - it represents the worst of 70's AOR slush, but THAT voice. OMG that voice. I like this Bacharach cover best, but also later stuff like Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, or We've Only Just Begun written by the Muppet-molesting and Bugsy Malone songwriter/performer Paul Williams.
RAH Band - Hunger for your Jungle Love
Posting this cos it's probably the worst example, and even I'm a little cringey on those frankly awful lyrics, I hunger for your jungle love, I hunger for your love? *snigger* but RAH band introduced me to space disco which before 4-5 years , back was VERY UNFASHIONABLE. Italo disco, space disco...they recorded the song that basically IS Goldfrapp's career (The Crunch) but then went a bit, well, embarassing. I loved them when I was 13 and still do. I own 'Going Up'
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
Might be hard to believe now, but FM used to be really unfashionable...now you get Vampire Weekend dropping them as an influence, but in the 80's...no. Tango in the Night I bought on vinyl when it came out, closely followed by Rumours and FM and earlier stuff. Everywhere is a great song and great production, and glad now people appreciate it for what it is.
The video is a version of the Alfred Noyes poem, something I read at school (he was a local poet) before I saw the video and recognised it - I loved the fact they knew that poem.
Clannad - Robin the Hooded man OST
This tune still moves me - Lady Marian but we all probably know ROBIN aahhhhh! THE HOODED MAN! which is from this soundtrack, but I wanted to post something good. All Clannad is pretty much a guilty pleasure for me - like Enya it's SO WRONG, floaty new age bollix, but sometimes they get the folk plus electronics right and like Newgrange or Theme from Harry's Game. Probably where my current love for acid folk comes from, as they started as 70's trad oirish folkies.