"Guilty Pleasure" Music?

[Calb56]

Guilty pleasure for today. I have no idea why but I really dig this band!

 

[afx]

^^^

 

Edited October 12, 2022 by afx

[Mike C.]

How can you not love 70s AM radio classics like Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds.

 

[jaymcminn]

On 10/12/2022 at 10:50 AM, Calb56 said:

Guilty pleasure for today. I have no idea why but I really dig this band!

 

When this song blew up on Sirius XMU I figured them for a one-hit novelty act. The rest of this album is 100% bangers, not a bad track on it. They're the real deal!

[Snake45]

On 10/12/2022 at 8:36 PM, Mike C. said:

How can you not love 70s AM radio classics like Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds.

 

Until this very minute, I thought this band's name was talking about four people, not three! 

[Slotto]

I listen to Paul Desmond, Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis almost exclusively while working on builds.

 

[afx]

A silly song but I like it.

 

[afx]

Jimmy Dale Gilmore

 

Edited October 25, 2022 by afx

[ChrisBcritter]

One I got when I was a kid; it was one of those records you cut out from the back of a Post cereal box. It's kid stuff to be sure but I've always liked the piano-driven arrangement; coupled with the brass and strings it has sort of a late '40s-early '50s feel:

 

[afx]

Billie Eilish  - I love You

 

[Brian Austin]

I grew up in a household that loved pipe organs.  My father belongs to the local chapter of a theater organ society.  Movie theaters used to accompany the old silent films with large pipe organs that are a bit different from church organs.  In my younger days I went with my parents to various concerts and recitals.  They often showed classic film, especially for Halloween, with a live organ performance.  This was all very fun for me and the family, but I sure felt old-fashioned being involved.  No one I knew was into it, and few young folks attended these events.  It doesn't help the music itself can be more often than not rather old-fashioned itself. 

 

Here is a brief example of the local organ in action.  Note the console is the visible part of the organ, the pipes and mechanical audio effects apparatus are kept in chambers on either side of the hall, out of view.

 

[Calb56]

8 hours ago, Brian Austin said:

I grew up in a household that loved pipe organs.  My father belongs to the local chapter of a theater organ society.  Movie theaters used to accompany the old silent films with large pipe organs that are a bit different from church organs.  In my younger days I went with my parents to various concerts and recitals.  They often showed classic film, especially for Halloween, with a live organ performance.  This was all very fun for me and the family, but I sure felt old-fashioned being involved.  No one I knew was into it, and few young folks attended these events.  It doesn't help the music itself can be more often than not rather old-fashioned itself. 

 

Here is a brief example of the local organ in action.  Note the console is the visible part of the organ, the pipes and mechanical audio effects apparatus are kept in chambers on either side of the hall, out of view.

 

This is just way cool!!!

We used to have a pizza parlor called The Organ Grinder when I was a kid growing up and it had a huge pipe organ!

 

[Brian Austin]

3 hours ago, Calb56 said:

 

We used to have a pizza parlor called The Organ Grinder when I was a kid growing up and it had a huge pipe organ!

 

I've heard of such establishments over the years.  ?

 

For fun, here's an example of a theater organ accompanying a silent film.  I guess the kids don't like it because there's no electronic beat...

 

[Brian Austin]

On 8/11/2022 at 6:14 PM, Snake45 said:

My clock radio is set to a "Christian rock" or "Contemporary Christian" station. Not sure why--just a coincidence, I guess. This morning when it woke me up, they were playing several really nice tunes in a row. I have NO idea what these songs were or who performs them. Overall, from what I've heard, the music in this genre is surprisingly good. I might have to actually give them a conscious listen sometime. 

My first rock concert was the Christian band Petra at the Orpheum Theater in Boston, in the mid 1980s.  While I still have a soft spot in my heart for the band, I haven't been following them since the '90s or so.  My atheist high school friend certainly didn't want to hear about them.  I guess Petra had already been around for a couple of decades when I saw them. 

Pretty much the one "Christian" artist I still like from the era is Steve Taylor.  Sadly I never saw him live, but some friends had his albums and we had fun listening to him.  Very '80s production.  ?  Funnily enough, I appreciate his writing today more for story telling than for any theology.  Much of his material is on YT.

As I said, my first rock concert was Petra, and I generally enjoyed it.  The second, a couple of years later, was Jethro Tull.  Now, that pretty much changed my life.  ?

[afx]

Billie Eilish - NDA

 

[afx]

Billie Eilish - Therefore I Am

 

[Mike C.]

Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind. I woke up with this song stuck in my head this morning. This song seemed to be on the radio every time you turned it on when I was growing up.

 

[Calb56]

I really love later Santana, just a cool vibe.

[TonyK]

On 10/27/2022 at 5:51 PM, Calb56 said:

We used to have a pizza parlor called The Organ Grinder when I was a kid growing up and it had a huge pipe organ!

A popular hangout during my high school years. Old Keystone Cops and Laurel and Hardy films would be shown while the organ played.

Rick Wakeman plays a church organ on "Going for the One" Yes album. A type of instrument I probably wouldn't bother listening to but hey, it's Rick Wakeman so I think it sounds great!

[Calb56]

In high school we hung out at Farrell's a lot. Rick Wakeman is always great...

[TonyK]

LOL Now there's some guilty pleasure music playing at Farrell's. I used to work there and you better like those old style piano tunes.

[Calb56]

26 minutes ago, TonyK said:

LOL Now there's some guilty pleasure music playing at Farrell's. I used to work there and you better like those old style piano tunes.

The one that used to be near where Lloyd Center was?

[TonyK]

That's the one. Sometime in the early 70's.

Edited November 4, 2022 by TonyK

[afx]

6 hours ago, TonyK said:

A popular hangout during my high school years. Old Keystone Cops and Laurel and Hardy films would be shown while the organ played.

Rick Wakeman plays a church organ on "Going for the One" Yes album. A type of instrument I probably wouldn't bother listening to but hey, it's Rick Wakeman so I think it sounds great!

 

[Brian Austin]

One of my old mix tapes has "If You Could Read My Mind" recorded off the radio.

I also have one or two Gordon Lightfoot 45s.

 

There are numerous videos on YouTube of younger people listening and reacting to Gordon Lightfoot songs including the one above, so people are discovering and appreciating his music these days.  "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" is one that usually gets a strong reaction, particularly once they read about the story behind it.