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Please step in.
Here is how this works: Surely there are skeletons in your closet of musical fandom that you are aware of.
This thread is where you let the healing begin.
Let it all out.
Admitting to the shame is the first step to making it all better.
I'll start.
I am deeply ashamed to admit that I am more familiar with Bob Geldof's Deep In The Heart Of Nowhere than I am with Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks. I understand that this is scandalous and unacceptable and should have been rectified a long time ago. In my defense, I can say that I am not fond of Geldof's effort in the least. I just happened to purchase it in high school and spent a summer mowing lawns while listening to it and trying to figure out if it was any good. It really isn't, but I have a certain soft nostalgic spot for those lawn mowing days.
Further in my defense, I may say that "Idiot Wind" is one of my favorite Dylan tracks and that I believe that it leads off Blood On The Tracks, but I am not entirely certain (and further to my credit, I am not turning around and pulling it off the shelf to cheat). [EDIT: I checked - boy, was I wrong. Side A: Track #4 - will begin further penance.]
While I understand that I had a musically misspent youth which rapidly moved into a busy adult life full of responsibilities, I realize that this particular situation should have been rectified long ago.
The first step is acknowledging the problem.
I am on the road to recovery.
OK - Who's next?
Here is how this works: Surely there are skeletons in your closet of musical fandom that you are aware of.
This thread is where you let the healing begin.
Let it all out.
Admitting to the shame is the first step to making it all better.
I'll start.
I am deeply ashamed to admit that I am more familiar with Bob Geldof's Deep In The Heart Of Nowhere than I am with Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks. I understand that this is scandalous and unacceptable and should have been rectified a long time ago. In my defense, I can say that I am not fond of Geldof's effort in the least. I just happened to purchase it in high school and spent a summer mowing lawns while listening to it and trying to figure out if it was any good. It really isn't, but I have a certain soft nostalgic spot for those lawn mowing days.
Further in my defense, I may say that "Idiot Wind" is one of my favorite Dylan tracks and that I believe that it leads off Blood On The Tracks, but I am not entirely certain (and further to my credit, I am not turning around and pulling it off the shelf to cheat). [EDIT: I checked - boy, was I wrong. Side A: Track #4 - will begin further penance.]
While I understand that I had a musically misspent youth which rapidly moved into a busy adult life full of responsibilities, I realize that this particular situation should have been rectified long ago.
The first step is acknowledging the problem.
I am on the road to recovery.
OK - Who's next?
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Permalink Reply by Larry Here on -
Guilty.
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Permalink Reply by AmyJeaux on -
Alright... I'm a huge fan of The Marvelous 3. Over the top, obnoxious, brain-dead power pop. Yes!
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Permalink Reply by skydigger on -
uh, o.k.
I like to listen to Sade. She's got a great band and she actually writes her own songs.
Her Lovers Live CD\DVD is a favorite of mine.
I've accepted this will likely take this guilty pleasure to the grave with me.
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Permalink Reply by Ron Frankl on -
Yeah, okay, gotta admit I like Sade, too. She's kind of a one-trick pony, but it's one helluva trick when I'm in the mood for it.
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Permalink Reply by skydigger on
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...and that is one REAL sexy woman...
all of those Hollywood and MTV tarts have no idea that being sexy and looking like a slut are two different things.
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Permalink Reply by Ron Frankl on
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The Sweetest Taboo indeed.
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Permalink Reply by declan culliton on -
I think that both Bon Ivor and The Fleet Foxes are totally overrated and that the albums that made every 'best of ' last year were both very average. Nothwithstanding the fact that Fleet Foxes can sing harmony, so what, so can the Nolan Sisters!! The album just drives me loopy the more I try to listen to it! As for Bon Ivor..... don't get me going! Maybe I should not feel guilty eventhough every other person on the universe seems to worship them both. Roll on Jayhawks and Todd Snider.
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Permalink Reply by Easy Ed on -
So listen here...I happen to like both of them but I'll tell you what I hate. Every damn time I'm on Amazon...which is usually several times a day...looking for new stuff or checking out things I haven't heard of...I look down at that thing that says "people who bought this also bought..." and there they BOTH are listed. Try it....hit something like Frank Zappa,Bill Monroe, Nine Inch Nails or the Romanian National Choir and damn if you won't see them both listed as recommendations. How can that be?
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Permalink Reply by declan culliton on
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Agreed !!!!!!!! I also thought I was the only one on Amazon several times a day...... at least I don't now feel guilty about that. Havent listened to the Romanian National Choir yet but LOVE Frank Zappa!!!
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Permalink Reply by Grant Langston on -
Regrets I have a few, but then again...
I can play the guitar part verbatim on Rush's The Spirit of Radio
I performed Def Leppard's Photograph in the 10th grade talent show.
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Permalink Reply by Edd Hurt on -
I liked Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass when I was about 10. But I don't know if that counts any more than Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, who are hip again. (And I would point out that, for better or worse, those A&M groups foreshadowed one of the things that I have come to understand as an adult--the seething undercurrent of South American and Latin music that, for this listener, has been a corrective to the dullness of Anglo-American pop and rock. I mean, didn't Herb Alpert do Jorge Ben's "Mas Que Nada" back in the day?)
I now find prog-rock, which I loved when I was about 13, embarrassing in the extreme. Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Flash (altho each of these bands has a couple of pretty good pieces, like Yes' "Siberian Khatru" and Flash's "Small Beginnings" and Crimson's Red album and Genesis' halfway-brilliant album Selling England by the Pound). Jethro Tull's music makes me guffaw now, at the time I thought it was profound. As for '80s music like Phil Collins and Madonna and Naked Eye and Yaz and Duran Duran and the Violent Femmes and that stuff--I thought it was horrible then and I can't stand it now.
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Permalink Reply by mojobone on -
Hah. Prefer the Brasil 66 version of Mas Que Nada, was thrilled when Austin Powers revived Quincy Jones' Soul Bossa Nova. Mainly, I'm a little sad that I'm jes' too damn old to care what anybody else thinks about my musical tastes anymore; I love what I love and refuse to be embarrassed. Check out Tony Mottola's version of Tijuana Taxi, or Baja Marimba Band, or anything by Bill Justis.
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