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Guilty Pleasures



garfish’s recent thread on c/w music brought to mind the “guilty pleasures” admissions recently submitted by TAS writers and reviewers. a “guilty pleasure,” roughly speaking, is a musical selection one adores but plays only in secret, fearing its publication as an audiophile’s favorite might elicit ridicule or, at least, laughter. so, fellow a-goners, are you willing to confess to a couple of your guilty pleasures? I’ll start with two and add others if this thread gets going: (1) “not for kids only,” j. garcia & d. grisman; (2) ‘the little mermaid,” OST.
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cornfedboy OP
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gbeard: believe it or not, there's an mfsl lp of "abandoned luncheonette" (mfsl-069). this was not a big seller, so you should be able to find a sealed cutout on eBay. (i still have a sealed copy i bought many years ago). i don't think mfsl did a cd of this one.
cornfedboy OP
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i just found that there was a similar thread started in 5/00. hope this one doesn't degenerate as that one did.
cornfedboy OP
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dekay: yeah, i remember the henry mancini stuff. i even bought some in the late-50's, early 60's. my family was pretty much from blue collar roots, of which i am quite proud. my dad was big on harmonica bands. i still think of him when i play some old albums by the harmonicats.
cornfedboy OP
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dekay: i have the very same 45 rpm of rock lobster. found it at a used record store in ft. collins, colo in about 1985. i also have a 12" 45 of the record done for radio broadcast. my older son, who's 31, went to numerous b-52 concerts at the late great rainbow music hall in denver. wish i'd been wise enough to have accompanied him.
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sugarbrie: sorry about mixing my posts re the b-52's. the last was obviously meant for you.
cornfedboy OP
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dekay: man, you must be a really big henry mancini fan to have posted twice. ;~)
cornfedboy OP
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garfish: here's one that's true, but hard to believe. the night before buddy holly, richie valens and the big bopper died (after performing at the surfer ballroom in northwest iowa), i saw them all in concert at the orpheum theatre in davenport, iowa. ".....the day the music died," indeed. and another: one of my wife's goood friends was a cheerleader at the highschool in lubbuck, texas when buddy and peggy sue were there; she was a friend of peggy sue's, but barely knew buddy holly.
cornfedboy OP
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tireguy: man, there's some wierd stuff goin' on here. one of the lp's i use as a "test" when auditioning new equipment is "aliens ate my buick" ; best track, of course, is "it don't mean a thing, if you ain't got...." here's another example of a "rock" record that's well recorded, despite what one might expect from the "musical profiling" of the genre.
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