Unlikeliest Personal Hits

[BurtWorm]

These are songs that you're surprised to find yourself almost needing to hear. Surprised because you don't usually listen to this type of music or this band. It's almost like a guilty pleasure, but it's not, exactly, because the song is so great you don't feel guilty listening to it.

Mine is "Wateralls" by TLC.

[newsguyatl]

1. Miss Independant

by kelly clarkston

*runs and hides*

[roughsatori]

2. I am too ashamed to say!

and I am being serious.

[BurtWorm]

4. Wait a minute! Those are guilty pleasures you're talking about!

I'm just talking about finding yourself falling in love with a song that you don't think of yourself as being the type to fall in love with it.

[roughsatori]

8. Oh then I can say

I grew up on rock and classical. Now I wonder how I ever lived with out most of the soul music from the 60s and 70s. So much stunning music. I have started buying CDs of that period.

[BurtWorm]

7. Okay, roughsatori, what is it?

Please tell me? Please? I won't tell anyone!

:bounce:

[roughsatori]

9. No it is vile I will not be able to sleep if I share it NT

[BurtWorm]

11. Can we guess? Want to play 200 questions?

Is it by Bobby Goldsboro?

PS: I meant 20 questions, but if you'll allow 200, I might be able to nail it by 100.

[roughsatori]

13. No "Honey" is a classic that I unashamedly adore

LOL This is disgusting and current. I can not tell you. I am thinking of a lie, one that would look bad, but not as bad as this horrible phony record company concoction that I am thinking about.

[BurtWorm]

16. Oh my god!

Is it urban country?

[roughsatori]

23. No, but doesn't this line from Honey sound like Lou Reed

"She was kinda dumb and kind smart." I almost think the next line will be, "she has a rock-n-roll heart."

[BurtWorm]

24. Wouldn't you love to hear Lou Reed, or better yet David Bowie

do a cover of "Honey?"

[bearded_cat]

3. Anything by 10cc

I admit it - I think they had something!

[BurtWorm]

5. That's more like it!

[DS1]

6. There's this one song by Depeche Mode that just strikes a chord in me

Never let me down again.

[Fenris]

10. "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zepplin

Ho, hum. I consider this somewhat of a guilty pleasure, because I hate everything else Led Zepplin ever did. But that song...it just rocks too much for me not to like it. Even if I don't like blatantly sexual songs. Even if I don't like Led Zepplin. I think that song is great.

[bearded_cat]

12. I just talked to my partner and she said

she has a big remembrance of that song. Her daughter was a young teenager, and was crazy about this guy. He lived (they lived) in a very dangerous, drug-infested area. The young boyfriend was shot in the face, and my partners daughter ran out to the street - he got shot only half a block away - and was the last one to hold him - apparently he was already dead. She is still recovering from that, but

the song was playing in a neighbors yard-party at the time, and she will never forget that. It apparently has some good lyrics - I still haven't heard it, but might now. I knew about the shooting, but didn't hear about the song until I shared your post. Thanks.

BTW - no one was ever even arrested for the crime.

sorry: edit: put this response on ignore. It's not right to put it here. I apologize.

[BurtWorm]

15. That's hard. I hope she's okay.

I have a visual memory to go with that song that's quite a bit sweeter. I was walking with my wife--we weren't married at the time--in a light rain in Little Italy one summer evening, looking for a place to have a cappacino and a canoli. She was about five or six months pregnant with our daughter. We came upon a little bakery off of Mulberry Street, and outside was a gawky reed of a pre-teen girl wearing a light top with spaghetti straps and short-shorts on roller skates. She wore glasses and a determined, totally absorbed look on her face, and she was just moving her legs back and forth, back and forth, as fast as she could, rolling and rolling in place. It was like a vignette in a Scorcese movie. And "Waterfalls" was blasting out of a speaker somewhere. (But I don't think Scorcese would use "Waterfalls" on a soundtrack, though he could if he had a scene like that.)

[bearded_cat]

20. Well, honestly

she tries to act okay, and is a physically and mentally beautiful young woman, but she is still screwed. She doesn't trust anyone and has begun using herself to get things in life - monetarily. She is probably one of the top 5 beautiful people I have ever seen, and it breaks my heart. I know it is killing her mom.

that's why I mentioned in an earlier thread that even suspicion of abuse calls for a phone call. The children spend the rest of their life recovering. This one had to deal with step dad, also known as Mr. drug abuse child abusing bastard. Sorry, but I live with it.

[BurtWorm]

21. I hear you.

And I can only wish you all (except for the bastard) the best.

[bearded_cat]

22. Thanks

and to get back on track

there was no one worth listening to more than ELO.

[darkstar]

14. OK...

How 'bout songs you crank on the radio but wouldn't buy on disc as guidepost? Is that close?

Then:

"You Get What You Give" New Radicals
"Thunderstruck" AC/DC
"Get the Party Started" Pink
"Dancin Queen" A-Teens, not ABBA (track sounds very similar but the kick and high-hats are much more current and pumping and eq'ed just right)

I think that last one should be enough until I see some equivalent soul-baring....

[BurtWorm]

17. That's exactly right!

I feel that way about AC/DC and Pink, too. (Love the video of Get the Party Started.)

[darkstar]

18. Who new our respective brows

could arch so high and low?

PS: Start Depair yet?

[BurtWorm]

19. Not yet.

Not the book, anyway.