Confession

Oh yeah, George Michael. Even at his worst (yes, I'm talking about "Last Christmas" ) he is miles ahead of the vast majority of today's mainstream pop. At his best he is plain awesome.

Other 'gulity' pleasures? Hmm, Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite. Not sure how guilty that is though, I think it's a really good song!

Ah, here's one - Shaggy's immortal Mr Boombastic!

And Ms Minogue's latest (I guess) "How does it feel in my arms" - hampered by the lame chorus, the rest of the song just feels very good!

Haven't listened to any Spock's Beard for quite a while now, so I'm not sure how they'd hold up, but I used to love them

Dean wrote: Epignosis wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: Umm, I think there are already threads on this (but they might be locked due to being ancient). With 310 pages of threads in the General music section, I'm certain this has probably been done before.    Plus, even though I'm expert searcher on Google, I have a tough time located threads I posted in using the search feature here.  The search is not great, but it works. The trick is knowiing what to look for... in this case the magic word is "guilty"   You just needed to wind the Find Posts: [Last Six Months] back to Find Posts: [Any Date] and enter "Guilty" in the search box

I get that, but I once searched for "Geddy Lee" just as an experiment and did not get a topic that was about Geddy Lee (and included his name).  Perhaps it was a bug, I don't know.  Anyway, I think I do a fairly decent job of coming up with original ideas for topics and polls.  I hope a "rerun" from time to time is looked over- besides, I haven't created a "Yes vs. Genesis" poll, now have I? 


Edited by Epignosis - October 19 2008 at 13:49

I once listened to What Is Love 17 times in a row. That was recently, too.

Edited by Henry Plainview - October 19 2008 at 14:04

Dean wrote: Epignosis wrote: Dean wrote: Epignosis wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: Umm, I think there are already threads on this (but they might be locked due to being ancient). With 310 pages of threads in the General music section, I'm certain this has probably been done before.    Plus, even though I'm expert searcher on Google, I have a tough time located threads I posted in using the search feature here.  The search is not great, but it works. The trick is knowiing what to look for... in this case the magic word is "guilty"   You just needed to wind the Find Posts: [Last Six Months] back to Find Posts: [Any Date] and enter "Guilty" in the search box   I get that, but I once searched for "Geddy Lee" just as an experiment and did not get a topic that was about Geddy Lee (and included his name).  Perhaps it was a bug, I don't know.  Anyway, I think I do a fairly decent job of coming up with original ideas for topics and polls.  I hope a "rerun" from time to time is looked over- besides, I haven't created a "Yes vs. Genesis" poll, now have I?  No one is critisising this thread - I actually enjoy these Guilty Pleasure / Confessional threads.   But now you've confused me - searching Geddy Lee finds several threads with his name in the thread title, but I don't know what you mean by "about" - just having Mr Lee in the title is no guarantee that the thread will be about him and I don't think any search engine can determine that.   There are three distictly different Search methods on the forum,   first is main forum  Search, which is restricted to searching for words in thread Titles; Entering "Geddy Lee" in there will result in several pages where Geddy's name is used in the Title of a thread     the second is the    Topic Search which searches the Posts in the selected Thread ; For example putting Geddy Lee into that search field will show your previous post, and this one in this thread     and finally there is the Google search on the main PA section (eg: grey box on the PA front page) which will search the whole site (including the forum)...   If you wish to search the Forum using Google then try "site:www.progarchives.com/forum" in the google search field along with the subject you are looking for, for example: like >this<

I think this may help.  Thank you.  All I meant about the Geddy Lee thing was that fairly recently, I searched for a topic I knew already existed.  Knowing the name of it (and that this name was a part of the title), I searched, and got no results.  It may have been a technical issue.  Thanks for the information, though.

glass house wrote: Well, I actually enjoy sometimes listening to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no05vJFqh7A . Heintje was a child star who was immensly popular in Holland during the sixties and seventies. I know......

Nice try.  You're not going to Rickroll me.

Just making a little joke, friend.  

(Google "Rickroll" if you're not familiar with the silly phenomenon of bygone times)

Not so sure I should be ashamed, but I have an anomaly in my tastes.

I despise the radio, not just the recycled uninteresting music that comes out, but the commercials and the personalities.  I have never really liked, even amongst prog bands, a bands radio hits and especially radio edits.  That being said, I really like Soundgarden's radio songs.  My favorite is Rusty Cage,  but I also really like Black Hole Sun, Burden in My Hand, Outshined, and Blow Up the Outside World.  Some of there stuff has prog elements, especially Black Hole Sun and Burden in My Hand.  But all of the rest of the albums just sounds like filler to me.  So Soundgarden has one of the only 3 out over 700 albums that is a "Greatest Hits" (Yesterdays and Argent Anthology are the others).

I suppose the one that should give me the greatest shame is my enjoyment of Cypress Hill's Spanish language album.

Scorpions' big hit songs - yeah, yeah, Hurricane and Wind of Change and all that - are the closest to what this thread is about for me.  And with my obsession with their 70s prowess showing no signs of waning, I like the aforementioned hits less and less anyway.  For whatever reason, I never listened to much pop in a big way at any time. The only modern pop artist I dug into recently is Tori Amos, maybe I should feel guilty about that, don't know.  And yeah, I still like Santana's Supernatural album - I first listened to it nearly 10 years back - , again I love the guitarwork on the album, so it's not much of a guilty pleasure for me. 

rogerthat wrote: Scorpions' big hit songs - yeah, yeah, Hurricane and Wind of Change and all that - are the closest to what this thread is about for me.  And with my obsession with their 70s prowess showing no signs of waning, I like the aforementioned hits less and less anyway.  For whatever reason, I never listened to much pop in a big way at any time. The only modern pop artist I dug into recently is Tori Amos, maybe I should feel guilty about that, don't know.  And yeah, I still like Santana's Supernatural album - I first listened to it nearly 10 years back - , again I love the guitarwork on the album, so it's not much of a guilty pleasure for me.

I could make love to The Doobie Brothers.