Isnât it cool when you hear an unexpected take on a song you love?
Multiple years back, my wife & I saw Don Henley in ABQ. It was an outdoor concert in early October & so cold & drizzly that even though we had âcheap seatsâ, a bunch of people didnât show so when Don came on stage he asked everyone to Come on Down & we ended up with seats in the 3rd or 4th row! Anyway, the band performed Hotel California & instead of the guitar solo on guitar it was done with trombones & saxophones!!! The âcrowdâ (there were only a couple of hundred of us) went berserk it was so cool!!!
Just a couple of weeks ago, this homeless guy in a parking lot at the local grocery store was busking with a beat up old violin & rocking stuff from The Police, AC/DC, The Cars & more⌠you could tell that he was in need but really having a good time too!
It took me almost an hour to pick up bread, milk & some meat for our dinner - I called my wife & had her listen on speakerphone!
Definitely a âWOWâ moment & I really appreciated the entertainment rather that just a cardboard sign telling us all of his woes. Sad that so many are in such a state of want these days⌠but music really helps to make oneâs day & this guy looked HOMEless but not HOPEless!!!
I think my guilty pleasures would probably some of the cheesy rock/metal that bands such as Poison put out in the 1980âs - I wouldnât say it was cool back then and it hasnât aged well!
Thereâs a lot of pop from 1970s/1980s that I grew up listening to that Iâm sure I could sing a long to if they were played but I never listen to them of my own choosing so I donât think they count.
I started listening to metal in the late 1980s and by the mid-1990s that (plus some classic rock) was all that I listened to. Since then nothing has changed and I havenât listened to any chart music in more than 20 years so itâs impossible to have any guilty pleasures from this era. I suppose at a push, some of my more ânormalâ friends might be slightly horrified by some of the heavier bands that I listen to so maybe that makes those bands a guilty pleasure?
Matt,
I started this thread kinda âtongue in cheekâ but some insightful opinions have unexpectedly come out of it from others⌠the original thought the sort of songs that were really pretty embarrassing to admit you liked when they were Top 40 hits. Now, many years later, theyâre even more so. I hear âManic Mondayâ on the Oldies station & find myself singing along⌠and I never even liked that song.
Which could be another subject entirely - why does the brain retain junk like lyrics to songs that you never liked but doesnât retain things like âWhere the Hell did I park the car???ââŚ
But, again, the theme here is more of a âIf my buddies/significant other knew I liked this, Iâd be embarrassed!â thing. So, if itâs that sort of a thing for you, itâs a âGuilty Pleasureâ!
I have a hard time finding the car in my garage for Peteâs sakeâŚ
it sure stinks getting olderâŚ
thanks to Justin for helping us âold guysâ⌠& Iâm only 60!!!
This is so true. And itâs true of songs since I last heard in 1986⌠play me some 80s Madonna and Iâll know the words! And to @tony âs point, yes, itâs down to repetition but youâd think after almost 40 years even the endless repetition would have started to fade!
And so you might think that something like âMaterial Girlâ might be my guilty pleasure, well maybe except Iâve not listened to it in 30+ years and itâs what 13-year-old me was listening to because everyone else was then. Itâs a lot easier to explain that than why I enjoy listening to some very angry man shouting into a mic for 5 minutes against a background of drums and guitars being played as loud and fast as possible! I think a lot of my friends know that I listen to metal (I wear the t-shirts so theyâre not paying attention if they donât) but most would be truly shocked if they heard some post-2000 metal because they think Enter Sandman is as metal as it gets!
Thatâs a great story about Don Henley. One of my favorites is Boys of Summer, which Iâm still try to master playing. I posted a cover of â The Heart of the Matterâ here and that one came out pretty decent. I would love to have seen him in an intimate show. Water dries so glad you stuck it out.
The homeless guyâs performance sounded unique too. When I first started playing I knew some of the homeless people who hung out at the beach who were really talented. Maybe they could not get their lives figured out but sure figured out music.
So, a bit off topic here but I canât seem to get anything to properly link. I try to upload to the site but end up with a broken link - any ideas for me?
Iâm not really a technology expert but for videos I just copy and paste the YouTube links and for photos I click on the photo icon on the bottom and it works.
Well James, I have mentioned a whole bunch of those up-thread⌠only because itâs extremely unlikely that weâll ever actually meet in person!!! I am Not telling friends, family or coworkers!!!
My only experience of that was during the old Classic Beginners course. I had to look it up and thought mmm not my java but played it anyway - it was a great rhythm for improving technique. Jeepers I even played that Brit Knee thing about hitting someone. Guilty of listening but certainly no pleasure.
