Songs that you like but you're too ashamed to admit to

Tonedef · 2011-01-18T08:30:47+00:00

Ice Ice Baby. Damn I dig that song. ? Or that song by Jack Parow, the one about pep stores broeke and whatnot. What about you?

Songs that you like but you're too ashamed to admit to

BMU

Stratisfear wrote:
Chad Adam Browne wrote: Frou Frou: "Details" - It's not a song it's an album, but for some strange reason I really enjoy it... :?
Dude. :-\ That is a fine, fine album. No reason to be anywhere near ashamed.

BTW, Imogen Heap is playing four shows here in SA later this month. Unfortunately, I gotta say the promoter isn't doing a very good job of letting anyone know...

I was gonna say, what's wrong liking Frou Frou.

She's touring here??? Holy bleep! Thanks for the headsup.

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Warren wrote: I think that as you get older, you realise that it's a lot more fun to love what you love openly, and without fear of disdain, than to belong to some or other clique and miss out.

Totally. But, Dan Brown? Nein, nein bangbangblinkenlichtenscatenstorytellen. Sheisse. ?

(Oh, and, it's interesting you should name Eco in that context - his Foucault's Pendulum predated The Da Vinci Code (obviously) and in every way still blows it out of the water. It's an intellectual wankfest of epic proportions, though.)

Riaan-Combrink

Warren wrote: I had a mate who couldn't accept that I could have a copy of Eco's "Name of the Rose" next to Stephen King's "The Stand" and Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" on my book shelf...

I've read (and enjoyed) all three of those, so 'nuff said!

Warren wrote: I think that as you get older, you realise that it's a lot more fun to love what you love openly, and without fear of disdain, than to belong to some or other clique and miss out.

That is it exactly IMO. Peer pressure is no longer an issue then, I suppose.

BMU

I'm totally NOT ashamed of *loving* Duran Duran (1st 3 albums). Root of my love of synths. ("Sevensting techmetal" notwithstanding HAHA)

Hard to think of anything I'm actually ashamed of... Vanessa Carlton might be a surprise but I think she's brilliant.

Warren

BMU wrote:
Hard to think of anything I'm actually ashamed of... Vanessa Carlton might be a surprise but I think she's brilliant.

She's amazing. I also like Colbie Caillat and Michelle Branch ?

Warren

Stratisfear wrote:
Totally. But, Dan Brown? Nein, nein bangbangblinkenlichtenscatenstorytellen. Sheisse. ?

Haha, if it helps I don't hold his stuff in high regard. ?

Riaan-Combrink

BMU wrote: I'm totally NOT ashamed of *loving* Duran Duran (1st 3 albums). Root of my love of synths. .

I loved the first one. Everything up to and including Arena was cool. Planet Earth and Girls on Film were garage party hits in my town!

Squonk

This is almost like that scene in 'Almost Famous' when the band think that the plane is going to crash and start admitting things to one another!

Well there was that Smokie song... Just Kidding

Warren

Stratisfear wrote:
(Oh, and, it's interesting you should name Eco in that context - his Foucault's Pendulum predated The Da Vinci Code (obviously) and in every way still blows it out of the water. It's an intellectual wankfest of epic proportions, though.)

In the 80s, "Name of the Rose" was the book you kept on your coffee table if you wanted to pass yourself off as an intellectual. If you WERE an intellectual, then "Foucault's Pendulum" was the book you kept on your coffee table to thumb your nose at "Name of the Rose" people ?

I own copies of and have read most of Eco's stuff, including various essays and bits of random prose, in addition to his novels. I loved the way that Foucault's Pendulum started, and then absolutely hated the middle third of the book. ?

vic

PeteM wrote: Fully agree Riaan C. A well written article.

I also was going to comment positively on Riaan's writing skills. ?

Bob-Dubery

Stratisfear wrote:
Warren wrote: I think that as you get older, you realise that it's a lot more fun to love what you love openly, and without fear of disdain, than to belong to some or other clique and miss out.
Totally. But, Dan Brown? Nein, nein bangbangblinkenlichtenscatenstorytellen. Sheisse. ?

I agree with you there.
BUT

There's no accounting for taste and what the public decide to embrace. The best songwriters don't get all the hits, the best musicians don't necessarily make it onto TV. The best authors do not necessarily sell truck loads. There is little correlation between quantity and quality.

A truer test for me is the test of time, though that necessarily takes time. What will we have on our record shelves in 10 years, 20 years time that is on them now? Even then experts will not agree. For Riaan Kiss would seem to have stood that test - I wouldn't let a Kiss album into my house.

With popular music this is an especially futile exercise as people tend to enjoy music for the memories that they have attached to it. A lot of people - and I'm not saying this is wrong or bad or that the people involved are fools, just that it is so - happily accept that what gets airplay or makes it onto "classic" radio shows must ipso facto be the best.

Brother Stratisfear, you fight the good fight and I will stand next to you. But I can tell you how it will end - like the last few British soldiers left standing at Isandlwana we will shake hands, draw swords, charge into the enemy, fight like lions and then shortly thereafter drop like stones.

PS: How many Richard Thompson albums do you own? Just asking. Nick Drake? Incredible String Band? Sandy Denny?

IceCreamMan

Hey,,,KISS aint ever cheesy ,,.,,,,ok!!! ?

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Agreed, Bob, and I'm not too fussed about it. The world is a far, far funnier place the way it is.

On a similar note, it's a depressing tendency for some 'artists' to cling to the reverse notion that if they don't sell much of their work, or they aren't ludicrously popular, it means they're quality. Or something similar.

Anyhoo, I own works by none of those acts. Bwahahahahaha. :-[

Bob-Dubery

Stratisfear wrote: Agreed, Bob, and I'm not too fussed about it. The world is a far, far funnier place the way it is.

On a similar note, it's a depressing tendency for some 'artists' to cling to the reverse notion that if they don't sell much of their work, or they aren't ludicrously popular, it means they're quality. Or something similar.

Anyhoo, I own works by none of those acts. Bwahahahahaha. :-[

Who are you agreeing with, pale face?

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X-rated Bob wrote: There's no accounting for taste and what the public decide to embrace. The best songwriters don't get all the hits, the best musicians don't necessarily make it onto TV. The best authors do not necessarily sell truck loads. There is little correlation between quantity and quality.

You.

Bob-Dubery

Stratisfear wrote: On a similar note, it's a depressing tendency for some 'artists' to cling to the reverse notion that if they don't sell much of their work, or they aren't ludicrously popular, it means they're quality. Or something similar.

There's all kinds of cats and all kinds of ways to skin them.

Every now and then somebody will suggest to me that my tastes in music are influenced by how many other people have heard of whoever it is whose discs I am buying IE that the greater the mass acclaim the less interesting it is to me.

I don't THINK it's the case, but I do wonder about genetic predisipositions and all that. Though it must be a recessive gene if you look at what most of my family and certainly my parents listen to.

Tonedef

Stratisfear wrote: Agreed, Bob, and I'm not too fussed about it. The world is a far, far funnier place the way it is.

On a similar note, it's a depressing tendency for some 'artists' to cling to the reverse notion that if they don't sell much of their work, or they aren't ludicrously popular, it means they're quality. Or something similar.

Anyhoo, I own works by none of those acts. Bwahahahahaha. :-[

Heh. I must be the best guitarist in the world, then! And of course you don't own any of my works, they're too good for anybody but me! ?

21Fretter

Squonk, you're ashamed to admit you like Dream Theater?! You should be ashamed that you're ashamed to admit you like Dream Theater ?

I'm not going to lie, I'm a fan of that new K$sha song ? ("We are who we are" or something like that) and I'm known to dabble in a few Kelly Clarkson songs. I think I'm just a sucker for catchy choruses :\

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Well, I think all the music I like is cool, obviously, but I am embarrassed to say that my brother brought back really cheap "mood music" cd's from Taiwan, and I really like the flute one. It is really relaxing.

BMU

Riaan C wrote:
BMU wrote: I'm totally NOT ashamed of *loving* Duran Duran (1st 3 albums). Root of my love of synths. .
I loved the first one. Everything up to and including Arena was cool. Planet Earth and Girls on Film were garage party hits in my town!

I believe, sir, we are on the same page (and probably roughly same age HAHAHA).

Except Seven and the Ragged Tiger was the peak for me. Production on the first one is a bit iffy. That turned me off even before I knew "production" was a word.

Someone mentioned Kesha (with a dollar sign!). Hey, that stuff can be cool. The production is amazing (yes yes, "the loudness war is killing music", boohoohoo ? ).

I'd probably go for a Nelly Furtado CD though, in fact I have one of them, Folklore. She's cool.