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  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,719
    Whippin' Piccadilly.........by Gomez  (no, not our Joe....)
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    DaveMehmet said:
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:
    Don Estelle, Whispering Grass -

    https://youtu.be/10dmK7O-KSY
    Don Estelle was in Bexleyheath Broadway about 25 years ago, dressed as Lofty, selling/promoting his latest album and chatting to people.

    There was hardly anyone at his stall and I’ve always regretted not stopping to talk to him.
    I heard a few people had seen him up there in the past
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,956
    Macronate said:
    Pet Shop Boys are a guilty pleasure.
    They shouldnt be. One of the best British pop bands in the last 30 years
  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    edited October 2019
    I was, and still am, into heavier rock music but there was loads of stuff in the 70s and 80s that no self respecting metal head would admit to liking. So, 40 years on, here's some of mine.

    Southern freeze, (Freeez) great British soul/dance track
    Mary's  prayer, (Danny Wilson) great, well crafted pop song.
    Love and pride (King) ditto
    Goodbye to love, (The Carpenters) Slick production, full of pathos and two really nice guitar solos
    Ain't nobody (Rufus and Chaka khan) always loved this. Tried to get a metal band I knew well to do a version of this but they refused.
    Remember me (Blue Boy) The first sampled track I really liked.
    And..... ABC.  For some reason I liked Look of Love and ended up buying their album.

    Nowadays I listen without prejudice.  Hmmmm what a good title for an album. 😁
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,957
    Blinded by the Sun - Seahorses
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,079
    golfaddick said:
    Whippin' Piccadilly.........by Gomez  (no, not our Joe....)
    Wow, Gomez as a guilty pleasure: You should hear some of my unabashed pleasures.
  • daveaddick
    daveaddick Posts: 1,926
    You’re the voice by John Farnham don’t know why as it isn’t really mynth
  • daveaddick
    daveaddick Posts: 1,926
    Should have said my thing
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,172
    25May98 said:
    Total Eclipse of the Heart 
    Bonnie Tyler

    Heaven is a Place on Earth 
    Belinda Carlisle



    Both very shaggable in their day.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,172
    edited October 2019
    PopIcon said:

    Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song (Aserejé)

    Whenever I hear this song it takes me back to Perth in 2002 whilst in Australia for the Ashes series.

    I was in this boozer and this was played on the video screen,  people were dancing on the bar!  I went out and bought various versions of this on CD the next few days.

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  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,172
    Lincsaddick said:
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:
    Streisand anyone?
    like a bit of Babs .. have you heard the 'Stoney End' album .. she does great versions of a couple of the late great Laura Nyro classics .. whatever she sings, a great voice

    https://youtu.be/hzJZztwQ0C0

    https://youtu.be/YQcBLgo34cw
    Bigger hooter than concorde.
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,905
    DamoNorthStand said:
    Blinded by the Sun - Seahorses
    In my top ten ever.
  • 25May98
    25May98 Posts: 712
    McBobbin said:
    Let it go - Disney song from frozen. Got it on my phone from when the girls were obsessed by it, still give it a sneaky listen
    I think there should be a bravery award for admitting this. 
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,482
    edited October 2019
    Carpenters
    All Saints
    Sugababes - some great pop songs
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,053
    25May98 said:
    McBobbin said:
    Let it go - Disney song from frozen. Got it on my phone from when the girls were obsessed by it, still give it a sneaky listen
    I think there should be a bravery award for admitting this. 
    You don't know the worst of it. A car journey with my wife and girls takes in "girl on fire - Alicia keys", "roar - Katy Perry", "fight song - Rachel Platten" and "the greatest - Sia" I always emerge from the car as a strong and independent woman, who don't need no man. 

    Luckily, my kids also insist on freefalling by Tom Petty and War Pigs by Black Sabbath. God  knows how that happened.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,053
    kentaddick said:
    favershamaddick said:
    Dont generally like Manic Street Preachers stuff as I dont particularly like his voice, that said 'If You Tolerate This' is the bollox.
    agreed, a lot of their stuff just sounds like your average pop-rock songs made by a group of boring blokes. But it's a great song.
    Agree, but the duet with the singer from the Cardigans "your love alone is not enough" is a monster tune
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,649
    Lincsaddick said:
    Reminds me of a delicious ex .. very sweet dreams

    https://youtu.be/h9nE2spOw_o
    That was Number 1 one the day I was born!
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,649
    MrOneLung said:
    Labour of Love - Hue and Cry
    I loved Hue and Cry.
    Their version of Squeeze Tempted is brilliant!
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,037
    Guilty pleasure...you might have heard it once or twice...

    Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
    Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
    Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
    Baby shark!

    Mommy shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
    Mommy shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
    Mommy shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
    Mommy shark!

    Daddy shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
    Daddy shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
    Daddy shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
    Daddy shark!

    Grandma shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
    Grandma shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
    Grandma shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
    Grandma shark!

    Grandpa shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
    Grandpa shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
    Grandpa shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
    Grandpa shark!

    etc.
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,880
    Wet sand - RHCP

    Hitchhiker - Neil young 

    Team - Lorde

    Lorde is f*cking brilliant. Ultimate guilty pleasure. I make sure no one I hang around with knows a secretly a big fan.

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  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,174
    daveaddick said:
    You’re the voice by John Farnham don’t know why as it isn’t really mynth
    Great call.  I actually had the album on tape at the time too. I think it captured the spirit of the times. 

    @Stuart the Red No one should feel guilty liking Midnight Oil, even when the convict bastards are singing about "the Union Jack in flames" 
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,173
    Never let her slip away - Andrew Gold
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,174
    I've got to confess to having had the Roxette album on tape. I like the ice cold fjord sound she can create in her voice. My favourite track on there is Cry.

    Similar, for similar reasons, Berlin, of "Take my breath away" infamy. 
  • boggzy
    boggzy Posts: 3,596
    Eternal Flame. Fantastic tune.
  • Chef_addick
    Chef_addick Posts: 2,196
    Two Princes - Spin Doctors.
    Cuddly Toy - Roachford.
    Poison - Bell Biv Devoe.
    Sunshine on a Rainy Day - Zoe.
    Free Your Mind - En Vouge.
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,649
    Anything by the Corr’s
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,172
    KBslittlesis said:
    Anything by the Corr’s
    Breathless leaves me breathless watching them.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Alicia Keys' version on Sinatra's New York where she changed the words and the tune 
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    ...and living in the sticks, the video makes me wanna have a good day / night out in London, even though it's New York -

    https://youtu.be/BT4RlDl7z3w
  • favershamaddick
    favershamaddick Posts: 231
    Guilty pleasure: Peter Sarsted, Where Do You Go To My Lovely........Ok, its bloody out there now.

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