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Post by whitefang on Feb 16, 2020 10:32:37 GMT -5
Most of us have a set "standard" as to the music we prefer( genre and such) or what we're either perceived as preferring or expected by peers to prefer. But, we do on occasion stray from these precepts, and for some dumb reason sheepishly declare those songs as "guilty pleasures". Mostly, they're just songs or musical works that are far out of our usual choices, or what we're expected to like.
For an example, I'm posting two such songs that in my case, surprised the people i knew that I liked them( and still do).
The first is a song from '63 when I had just turned 12. The second is 11 years later when I was 23, and in both cases everyoneI knew thought I had gone nuts because of my liking these songs.
Got any of your own examples of this sort of thing?
Whitefang
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2020 16:19:25 GMT -5
The above were good musicians Fangster, I liked most of what the two detailed above did. My favorite was blues based rock and late 60's hippy music, But I also liked Motown's bunch, as well as a lot of what the country music folks music did.
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Post by whitefang on Feb 17, 2020 9:35:59 GMT -5
So, no "guilty pleasures" for you, eh?
Like, no buddies giving you grief over some song you liked or something? I mean, even B.B. King and Ray Charles had to put up with guff from their buddies and fellow bandmates over some of their personal choices in music from time to time. Whitefang
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2020 14:59:59 GMT -5
I got all kinds of grief from my hippy guitar playing buddies because I watched the Grand Ol' Opry, and the Porter Wagoner Show back in the day. Until I pointed out the skill of the sidemen and instrumentalists who played on there. From then on I never heard another word about liking country from those guys.....
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Post by earleg on Feb 17, 2020 18:16:44 GMT -5
Very early on when I was 6 was the first notice of music that impressed me was a Frank Sinatra tune on the radio. Later heard of course various things but first Rock N' Roll introduction was seeing Jailhouse Rock at the movie theatre. The ones a bit later that got me wanting a guitar were >
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Post by whitefang on Feb 18, 2020 10:39:01 GMT -5
Well, EAR---- Not exactly what I'm looking for. But lemme give you a more recent example( as "recent" one might consider 1977-8 ) 'Bout that time I was getting into learning more about classical music, composers, their works, different conductors and the whole schlemiel, and one afternoon when home alone I was listening to Beethoven's 5th piano concerto when a buddy I haven't seen in a while dropped by. When I let him into the house, he just stood there with a confused look on his face. He then asked, "What's THIS you're listening to?" So I told him, and added that I've always had a liking of sorts for classical music, but just now getting to learn more about it. So, he sat there for a while, and said he thought it wasn't half bad. I then asked him why he dropped over after such a long time. He looked kind of disappointed, then said, "Well, forget it now. You're probably not interested...." After pressing him more he admitted, "Well, I came here to see if you wanted to try out this weed I picked up." So I said, "Well, FIRE IT UP!" And surprised, he said he didn't think I'd be interested in that anymore, seeing as I'm listening to classical music and all.... Silly what some people perceive, ain't it? Not only do guys who like classical music don't like getting high, but they're probably gay too(a common misconception). Well, by ten years later I'd quit with dope altogether, but liking classical music had nothing to do with that. Oddly enough, I went through the same sort of thing when my interest turned toward instrumental jazz fusion(or, "Jazz-Rock" as we called it then)·ure And even earlier than that with my groovin' on "Folk-Rock". Maybe this might help clarify..... (from WIKI) guilt·y pleasure noun 1. something, such as a movie, television program, or piece of music, that one enjoys despite feeling that it is not generally held in high regard: "everybody has a guilty pleasure—for me, it has to be mid 70s disco" Whitefang
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Post by whitefang on Feb 21, 2020 10:31:23 GMT -5
Oddly enough, some former friends of mine(due to their revealing their latent bigotry) felt I wasn't supposed to like this tune, which I however never considered a "guilty" pleasure. Years later I found out those guys were doing time for some mischievous behavior as "skinheads" out west somewhere.
Whitefang
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