1. ELO - Livin' Thing
2. Boston - More Than A Feeling
3. S Club 7 - Don't Stop Movin'
4. 10cc - I'm Not In Love
5. Gary Glitter - Rock'n'Roll Part 2
6. Foreigner - Cold As Ice
7. Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
8. Status Quo - Whatever You Want
9. Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
10. Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
This puts me in mind of Ady's confession on Boxing Day last year, after a heavy Christmas Day's indulgence: 'we got up on Boxing Day with no memory of getting home, and there was an ELO record on the turntable'.
To be honest, I'm not much of a fan of any of these records, apart from Boston's 'More Than A Feeling', which is a pub jukebox classic, and always made Ady feel as though he could play pool like Paul Newman - I'm not sure why.
here's a few of my personal guilty pleasures:
Teardrops - Womack and Womack
Stop the Cavalry - Jona Lewie
Saturday Night - Whigfield
Hotel California - The Eagles (I love the Eagles, never been brave enough to buy any of their LPs)
Betty Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Mickey - Toni Basil - one of the greatest pop singles EVER
and doubtless many more which I have supressed from my active memory.
This puts me in mind of Ady's confession on Boxing Day last year, after a heavy Christmas Day's indulgence: 'we got up on Boxing Day with no memory of getting home, and there was an ELO record on the turntable'.
To be honest, I'm not much of a fan of any of these records, apart from Boston's 'More Than A Feeling', which is a pub jukebox classic, and always made Ady feel as though he could play pool like Paul Newman - I'm not sure why.
here's a few of my personal guilty pleasures:
Teardrops - Womack and Womack
Stop the Cavalry - Jona Lewie
Saturday Night - Whigfield
Hotel California - The Eagles (I love the Eagles, never been brave enough to buy any of their LPs)
Betty Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Mickey - Toni Basil - one of the greatest pop singles EVER
and doubtless many more which I have supressed from my active memory.
5 comments:
Hmmm I do have a problem with this whole "uncool is cool" concept. And I do think that there are some tracks beyond redemption - S Club 7, Gary Glitter - (and others further down the list which are just out and out pleasures - I feel no shame at having loved Letter from America since the day it was released). Actually, I would put a couple of your picks - Jona Lewie and Hotel California - in that category. Whigfield is a great call though. Not sure about Toni Basil (which I do actually have on vinyl somewhere).
I do like a bit of ELO - Mr Blue Sky is better than Livin' Thing - and even 10CC, though again, I would probably have picked Dreadlock Holiday, despite the wonderful "Big Boys Don't Cry" line in I'm Not In Love.
Some of my own personal favourites:
Rainbow: Since You've Been Gone
Supertramp: Breakfast in America
Manfred Mann: Blinded by the Light
Bonnie Tyler: Holding out for a Hero
...erm I may have to confess some early Kylie here. Probably I Should Be So Lucky.
Am happy to include all your picks as bona fide classics! Except 10cc, who I always hated.
With Bonnie Tyler, I think it's the Jim Steinman connection, all that bombastic stuff he did with Meatloaf was tremendous too - especially Paradise By The Dashboard Light, there's a terrific clip of that on the first Whistle Test DVD.
The Toni Basil video is worth watching for her scary expression throughout.
I'd admit a fondness for Chaz and Dave's "Margate" and Nena's "99 Red Balloons", also the Village People and "Macho Man" ("Call him Mr Eagle / Dig his chains").
All good stuff - though maybe if I was choosing a Chas and Dave tune I would go for Ain't No Pleasing You or Rabbit...
the Nena track sits well with Whigfield as a Europop classic, and I'm sure there must be more...
Right, I'm going to raise the bar here - or rather lower it - because I think my guilty pleasures are more recent and thus have no protective sheen of kitsch. Truly guilty pleasures should cause an inward wince of embarrassment when you admit them, and a wriggle of wrong delight when they come on the radio and no-one's there to see you turn it up. So here are some of my worst disgraces:
*Shakira - Underneath Your Clothes. Not defensible on any level but actually a lovely and unusual take on the joys of fidelity for a pop song.
*Muse - Hysteria. There's something about their ridiculous histrionics and Jean Michel Jarre lightshows which must be enjoyed at a festival, after dark, when the wine's reached your feet and you think it might all be about something very important.
*Enrique and Kelis - Not In Love.
I've never met anyone who hasn't almost vomited with laughter at this confession, but there's just something horribly danceable about it. Kelis is not enough to take the Enrique taste away, I know.
*Dido - White Flag. For the middle eight when she says when she sees him again, she'll never tell him how she feels and he'll assume she's over him but she's not and never will be...well, it helped David Boreanaz was in the video.
Now, as a great man once said: "You've said quite enough, madam."
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