My 10 Favourite 'GUILTY PLEASURE' Albums

[@christophercheney1006]

I've always maintained that there is no such thing as a "guilty pleasure". If you dig it, you dig it. Who cares what anyone else thinks.

[@treff9226]

🎯🎯🎯🎯! "GUILT is for criminals - not music!

[@gregorykrug8034]

@@treff9226 I agree! I think that there are two types of music: good music and bad music. You like what you like, and I like some stuff that is "bad" to most people. Oh well.

[@treff9226]

Hello Gregory - yeah, I think what some people consider "bad" music is actually music that doesn't fit their taste, music genres that they don't gravitate towards! I am over sixty yrs old now, and my music likes have expanded greatly - liking a lot more psychedelic stuff, old school country, folk and more smooth jazz type material. Metal and hard rock are still my go to, but I have always loved ABBA, James Taylor, Neil Diamond, Joni Mitchell and all kinds of soul and funk. Alternative music is big in my collection as well! My different moods dictate what I listen to you, one day it's Iron Maiden, Slayer and Meshuggah, the next it's John Legend, Sade and Norah Jones. It all serves a purpose! Keep music in your world, live a better life, Gregory! Peace. ​@@gregorykrug8034

[@Sharkwhisperer]

I disagree. The guilty pleasure experience is listening to a song and seeing it in its visual context and you go like; no, this is bad, you cant do this. You hear it again and you think its catchy but still bad. Slowly you come to realize that you secretly like it and go like; oh this is bad but why doni like it so much? That spirals out of control because of the duality of it. Watvh the video life is life by opus that shows this process.

[@gregorykrug8034]

@@Sharkwhisperer I had a roommate 30+ years ago who was into a lot of good music (by my standards). The one exception was that he was majorly in love with Paula Abdul, and insisted that her music was brilliant. I swear that it was a "guilty pleasure," but he convinced himself that her music was actually good, just because he wanted it to not suck.

[@JimBagby74]

I'm from Nashville and that might suggest a few things about my tastes. However it might come as a surprise that I have a deep love and appreciation for Chaz and Dave. Legends. National Treasures. Chaz Hodges RIP. He's gone to that Margate in the Sky...

[@PhilBaird1]

Lovely post that, Jim.

[@matm4331]

When I read the titlle, my first tthought was Manhattan Transfer Birdland! They were everywhere in the 80s!

[@stevemumford6983]

Pastiche The Manhattan Transfer has been one of favourite albums forever. Thanks for bringing it to the attention of all your subscribers

[@sheldonwhite1886]

Singers Unlimited also made one of the most harmonically advanced Christmas albums in the history of Christmas music, one of the few Christmas albums I'd listen any time of the year.

[@paulv22]

I totally agree on the Power Station. Tony Thompson is one of my favorite drummers.

[@moose6509]

I´m sure my partial deafness is due to Tony Thompson´s seismic drumming with Power Station. Ear-bleedingly brilliant.

[@DavidEndersby]

Pleased to see Manhattan Transfer get a mention

[@jefftobin4034]

Manhattan Transfer Four Guys - I was blown away when I heard this. The fact that they put that sour part bebop piece to lyrics and pulled it off note for note is incredible. Thanks for taking me back to that.

[@GrantTregellas]

John Taylor is an very under-rated bassist. A total "for the song" type player. He never gets mentioned with the big names, but you could do one of those "guess the song" things and just play a few bars of any of his bass-lines and you would know the track.

[@davidwylde8426]

100% He’s obviously not a Jazz schooled improviser or doesn’t even have the advantage of an early aged theory background like many players do, but I’d say he goes beyond some of the brilliance of many ‘for the song’ type players, and actively stamps his personality on bass lines that are completely central to the song,( like his hero, Bernard Edwards). ‘Rio’ being a case in point. Absolutely iconic bass line.

[@NickBabishoff]

Love his bass playing. The bass line on lonely in your nightmare is incredible.

[@Captain_Rhodes]

Jamiroquai were a great band, especially in the early days before it became a solo project. I bought return of the space cowboy when I was 14 and it made me appreciate that great musicianship could exist in mainstream music. They went pop after that album but virtual insanity is a classic song and yes, Deeper Underground was a total banger! Special shout out to Runaway which was not a big hit but had a fantastic bassline and funk groove.

[@davidcooper8621]

A fun video and yes we all have music we love but don't often mention. Appropriately, 'Guilty' by Barbara Streisand is one of mine, along with the Bee Gees. Also one of my all time favourite singles is 'Everlasting Love' by Love Affair. I agree with your comments about Jamiroquai and would say the same has happened to Bob Seger. He is rarely mentioned but some of his albums and compositions are ace.

[@treff9226]

Guilty is pure sonic bliss, Babs incredible voice with Barry Gibbs distinctive vocals and his catchy song craft, Guilty is an album my mom and I crank up loud and we both sing along to every damn tune! Bob Seger - an absolutely incredible voice, so soulful, gritty and distinctive, and his abilities as a lyricist are unquestioned, I came late to the Seger party but now own pretty much every album he made. Great choices!

[@davidcooper8621]

Not something to be guilty about then. Perfect description of Bob Seger and my wife also 'came late to the Seger party', but is now a true fan. @@treff9226

[@TheProgCorner]

I love the mad professor look.

[@keithg9594]

One of my guilty pleasures - Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66.

[@roodlebang]

Thank you so much for this video as after watching it I listened to 'Extensions' by Manhattan Transfer, a band I had always dismiss as a bit of a joke. I'm now madly in love with them and have done nothing for the last 24 hours besides listening to them constantly. 'Extensions' is glorious and 'Pastiche' is pretty great too.

[@sheldonwhite1886]

The "Four Brothers" saxophone section for Woody Herman: Zoot Sims, Serge Chaloff, Herbie Steward, and Stan Getz.

[@alternativepreacher4516]

Doggystyle from Snoop Dogg would have to be one of those for me. Offensive, ridiculous but hilarious lyrics, and incredibly catchy tunes. On the pop side, I also admit really liking a lot of songs from a K-Pop group called TWICE.

[@BrennanYoung]

I unashamedly love Manhattan Transfer! Check out their version of XTC's "The Main who Sailed Around his Soul" on their (at time of writing most recent) album "The Junction"

[@edwardyazinski3858]

Love for you to do a dive into Al Stewart! Great song writer, always surrounded by top notch musicians, and superbly produced. Most unique and most under appreciated.

[@treff9226]

Yes! Al Stewart, who I used to think was a two hit wonder, is so much more! I have currently picked up three or four of his early albums, which were expertly crafted and written with smart lyrics and melodic arrangements. Dig his voice, and On The Border is superb, what a haunting and beautiful song!

[@edwardyazinski3858]

@@treff9226 check out Between The Wars with Laurence Juber playing guitar.

[@incamera1457]

Modern times!

[@patbarr1351]

When I was in my teens, I had a couple of LPs by Peter Nero, who mostly covered hit pop songs with piano versions. His records were mostly confined to the Easy Listening bins in music stores. I recently saw a BBC documentary crediting him with being a pioneer of the Moog synthesizer, which he certainly was in the early 1970's.

[@andymoody8363]

Man Tran, I didn't see that coming!

[@onsenkuma1979]

Andy, Bonnie Herman sang on Eberhard Weber's 'Fluid Rustle' which I'm sure you know (the title track is one of the most extraordinary things ever released on ECM). Maybe that's where her name rings a bell? Some guilty pleasures for me: The Free Design, Carpenters, Bobbie Gentry, Barbara Streisand's 'Stoney End' album, Norma Winstone, and pretty much everything Saint Etienne has ever released (ok, so I had a thing for Sarah Cracknell). I'm sure there's more...

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Fluid Rustle is one of my favourite albums of all time. I had an inkling she might be on that

[@onsenkuma1979]

@@AndyEdwardsDrummer I screwed up there: the track I had in mind is 'Quiet Departures' - absolutely amazing...

[@timjohnson8902]

Jamiroquai are a great band great music. You are listening to music for yourself who cares what people think. I love guilty pleasures I have loads of them and yes Doris day. Take care all. Tim

[@treff9226]

Hot - Cold Summer - Winter Nice - Mean Bald - Andy Edwards

[@johncrocker-nh7ey]

What I love about this video is exactly why I say I like what I like and I refuse to apologize for it whether it's highbrow or lowbrow whether it's jazz blues country metal Rock bluegrass reggae Roots rap easy listening pop Opera classical instrumental I'm a w**** when it comes down to music

[@mnpv7812]

Dixie Chicks are mine- Home & Taking The Long Way are fantastic albums. Chad Smith drums on a few tracks, backed by some of Nashville's finest. Expert songwriting as well!

[@erikheddergott5514]

They are a Pleasure, but I cannot hear any Guilt attached to them. You should feel guilty for feeling guilty, though!

[@elbib2446]

got loads of guilty pleasure albums,like and own quite a few jamiroquai albums,some cool intelligent pop stuff from the 80s ,first 2 blue nile albums,thomas dolby,prefab sprout steve mcqueen,pop now sounds like it was made in 10 mins,though it was written/produced by 10 different guys.hip hop,well lots of great instro stuff,damu the fudgemunk,japanese stuff like the lush soundscapes of nujabes,dj krush.post punk stuff,love the coctaeu twins,dead can dance etc powerstation wasnt bad,i also liked bowies tin machine album.level 42 i really dig,go west lol they included some serious players in their time ,pino paladino and guitarist alan murphy ripping fusion solos over the top of funky pop riddims.elvis the sun sessions,raw,rockabilly slap back reverb goodness

[@elbib2446]

other guilty pleasures,latin pop band blue rondo ala turk,proper band,horns etc klacto vee sedstein is a classic,pigbag great stuff

[@elbib2446]

kid creole and the coconuts,ive just realized how much latin influence there was in 80s pop

[@davidwylde8426]

With you on all that apart from Tin Machine. Thought it was fuckin awful.

[@elbib2446]

@@davidwylde8426 i dug reeves gabrels guitar playing

[@davidwylde8426]

@@elbib2446 as happens to all of us, I was probably in the wrong place at the wrong time, musically speaking, when that album came out, although I did try with it. Once that happens it’s often too late to go back, and I accept it on those terms.

[@lamecasuelas2]

I love the Early Jamiroquai albums, they aré jazzy, funky and discoey! Synchronized Is not as good but still has the absolute banger that Is Canned heat, put that song in a cementery and even the dead would be dancing. But also, the bass player was very good, after he parted It was never the same

[@PhilBaird1]

With George Formby we're back to that English aesthetic again Andy. Look forward to that one. Frank Skinner did a great documentary about him. No guilt or shame in liking Doris Day. There are some real gems in her catalogue. I've got an original mint condition vinyl of the Close Your Eyes album with Andre Previn. There was always something very alluring underneath that wholesome appearance too ! Manhattan Transfer were real musicians and I seem to recall that they split because they weren't comfortable with commercial success.

[@simonhodgetts6530]

Nothing wrong or guilty about Chas and Dave - they were/are great musicians and very engaging characters. Ain’t No Pleasing You is a fantastic record - quite beautiful in its way. I met Dave once - he used to drink at my local in Hertfordshire - a nice chap. My own guilty pleasure album? Anything by Level 42 - I think they’re simply great musicians. Nothing guilty about Jamiroquai either - saw them at the NEC many moons ago, and me and my friend danced to them all night. Canned Heat is flippin amazing - such a good synth bass part! The other one is Alan Price - an often overlooked British singer songwriter in the 70s - a great self-taught pianist, and someone who never gets the recognition he should have. Underrated singers? Cilla Black - listen to Alfie - her vocal is sensational! Similarly, listen to any Carpenters record - they’re quite beautiful, amazing production - equally as good as anything by George Martin, and Karen was also a very accomplished drummer.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Cilla singing Alfie...sublime

[@PhilBaird1]

The great Alan Price, now largely forgotten. His Jarrow Song was a wonderful tribute to the Jarrow March.

[@simonhodgetts6530]

@@PhilBaird1ah, I’m glad you know about him - he’s still going, I saw him perform at Bewdley festival a few years back - and he was excellent. Think he’s 80 odd now!

[@tony.worswick]

Chaz and Dave 👍👍

[@oolongoolong789]

Yes, guilty pleasures are fun to have. I share your guilty pleasure for Power Station. IMO Robert Palmer's vocals are the best thing about them - the highpoint for me is 'Go To Zero'. 1980s synth pop is a big area of guilty pleasure for me. Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw, Thompson Twins and Belouis Some wrote very catchy songs that I love to hear from time to time.

[@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories]

You are right about Tony Thompson!! I made a video by the name of Not Phil Collins Fault on Live Aid 1985. Thanks for addressing this. Your picks are not guilty but excellent! Not sure you wanna see mine haha!

[@Pcrimson1]

We all have 'em. I too have gone on KZbin and fessed up on my guilty pleasures. I used to do reactions with "Into the Music". The four of us went over our 5 top guilty pleasures. At least you were able to explain "Why". I can't say the same, its just comes down to taste, or lack there of. It's all in good fun, thanks for sharing (or maybe not).

[@rembeadgc]

Bonnie Herman. Someone mentioned that she's on an Eberhard Weber recording. She's also worked with keyboardist Lyle Mays (Pat Metheny) and reeds player Paul McCandless (Oregon, Paul Winter Consort).

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

That is where I know the name, maybe she sang on one of my favourite albums of all time...'Fluid Rustle' by EW

[@careyvinzant]

I love The Power Station, and I regret nothing. "Some Like It Hot" is an absolute banger. For the deep cuts, "Lonely Tonight" and "Go To Zero" are my two favorites.

[@richardgale4827]

Totally with you on that Jimmy Requai bloke. Good stuff.

[@h.m.7218]

Billy Idol-Rebel Yell

[@WalterSobchak1000]

Andy, if you love vocal harmony groups, check out the two Perri Sisters albums (The Flight & Celebrate, both on youtube). They were backing singers for Anita Baker & George Michael and also went on tour with Pat Metheny. They cover a couple of Pat's tracks on those albums, and one by Steely Dan. I think you'll love them

[@timwood8974]

Very funny video. Enjoyed it. I'm old enough to remember when George Formby films were shown on the tele. I also love the Chaka Khan album. I'm going to fire up some Manhattan Transfer now.

[@jessem470]

My Guilty Pleasure : Kid Creole and the Coconuts Been listening to them for 40 years ( love them )

[@erikheddergott5514]

That is not a Guilty Pleasure! They were one of the greatest Live Bands I ever saw, releasing great Recordings in the 80ties and the Kid‘s Wife was Suisse, so there was never ever Reason to feel guilty. I will go so far, to claim that they were more important and entertaining than 90 % of the Musicians hailed on this Channel.

[@jessem470]

@@erikheddergott5514 totally agree with everything you say One of my first and favorite concerts This band gets no respect ! Guilty because i listened alone while my pals were “ serious “ rock fans

[@francoispitre6292]

That Tone-Loc album is surprisingly good !

[@CBell-dt3pv]

Anything written by Jay Graydon or Rod Temperton is gold in my book!

[@neilcreamer8207]

I just had to pause the video and go and listen to Some Like It Hot by The Power Station. That Tony Thompson drum sound was something else.

[@tookmyjob]

I've been staring at the (fretless) Jazz bass in the background.

[@satchice9102]

I don't think any album you like is a 'Guilty Pleasure'. I prefer to consider them albums I like, which are outside my usual tastes. One of mine is Neil Diamond's double live album - 'Hot August Night' (1972). It was my Dad's album, and the rockiest thing in his record collection when I was a kid. The 'Prologue' intro is absolutely killer how it builds with the orchestra string section, without drums, and then the full band with drums comes in for 'Crunchy Granola Suite' - a really dynamic change. Another of my faves of my Dad's records was Elkie Brooks - Pearls. Love her husky voice, great song choices, great production by Gus Dudgeon, and it features the terrific John Giblin on Bass.

[@originalhgc]

For Doris Day fans, see "Love me or Leave Me," biopic of 20's singer Ruth Etting. She has a swing in her voice that is very pleasing.

[@MattCarter67]

Yay, I have that Chas & Dave compilation. They were brill.

[@trickygoose2]

Chas (RIP) used to live fairly local to me and I remember once seeing him walking towards Stevenage railway station as I was heading the other way.

[@paulkenyon3372]

Funky Cold Medina is one of the only singles i ever bought... along with T'pau. Im sure you could have gone guiltier. How long since you did the Timewarp?

[@peppercub]

Great list. Diamond Dave is channeling Louis Prima on gigolo/nobody

[@dirtharris]

RE: the hair. Dunner worry abite eet! Channeling your inner Wayne Coyne..... and he's the coolest cat in rock.

[@MegaFrancescop]

Andy talk about your early metal stuff you used to listen

[@chrisray9015]

Wow, my favourite Jamiroquai song is Deeper Underground also! I think cause it's got a somewhat darker sound for them and a cool riff, though I do like a lot of their other hit songs also. In terms of guilty pleasures, not whole albums but I do like quite a few songs by: Michael Jackson, Kylie Minogue, Madonna, Dua Lipa, Katy Perry, Abba (although I don't think they're that guilty of a pleasure these days) and a lot of hits from the disco era are really good.

[@thestevec]

I love the 2nd album from Tone Loc. Very underrated. Good thing about getting older is you care less about what is cool and what isn't

[@treff9226]

As a sixty year mold music fan, I firmly believe that "cool" music is ANYTHING I happen to like! ANYTHING and EVERYTHING! Great post - you do you!

[@lupcokotevski2907]

My current GP is the Hindley Street Country Club (HSCC). Reputably the best cover band on the planet. Out of Adelaide, Australia. I've got Doris Day and Debbie Reynolds album. They are great. Doris spent the last decades of her life as a champion of animal welfare. Like Brigitte Bardot. I also have a fab 1950's Marlene Dietrich album - I think Burt Bacharach is the musical director.

[@brianjames5685]

I really love the Manhattan Transfer self-titled LP, particularly the cover-version of Lee Dorsey - "Occapella"( B-Side to Lee Dorsey- "yes we can" which is a great song). I used to finish sets with it sometimes at my funk/rare groove nights, I refused to tell my mate what it was and I knew he'd never guess, it drove him mad when I told him because he had the Manhattan Transfer album but wrote it off as crap and never listened to it. The dude who wrote for Manhattan Transfer used to play Cybill Shepherds ex-husband in the show "Cybil". I may be wrong but I think he's called Ira Newborn. Wait a minute why do I know all this? lol

[@davidwylde8426]

😂

[@grahamnunn8998]

Manhattan Transfer so not a guilty pleasure, Extensions is some of Jay Graydon's greatest work. My Mum was a fan so I also heard "Birdland" first by them so cannot hear the original without those words. Incidentally, Jack White sampled two Manhattan Transfer songs on "Fear of The Dark" including Twilght Zone. I think we are in good company!

[@adamodimattia]

Mad scientist hair are cool!

[@Wayner71]

They're all great choices. Chaz and Dave are like the musical equivalent of Jim Davidson. As Australians, we would call it "ultra-Pommy". We love this extreme Englishness, especially when its in a humorous context. Robert Palmer left us way too soon. He is one of those great artists whose legacy was stolen by death. I too appreciate the David Lee Roth material especially his WTF videos that usually featured him disparaging some nerdy kid. You should do a Part Two as it tickles the funny bone.

[@John-l5k3f]

I'm sorry, but you can't equate Chas and Dave with Jim Davidson. That is just wrong.

[@Wayner71]

@@John-l5k3f Well, it seems okay to me. I am Australian after all so maybe the finer points are lost. To me, Chaz and Dave were yobby and Jim Davidson was yobby.

[@christianevans4449]

If you want blood, you got it!

[@dimsylsodium1]

I think that Manhattan Transfer had a UK hit single with "Chanson d'Amore".

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

of course!!!!

[@martinspencer1618]

Rat-da-dat-da-dat.

[@Ed-Topo-108]

I love that Extensions album. Don’t know if you’ve heard the Airplay original of Nothing You Can Do About It? Has Jeff Porcaro on drums

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Yes, perhaps a teeny bit better than the Manhatten Transfer version.

[@benjaminsavage4204]

YOU MUST BE COOL!!! With Deeper Underground, Godzilla!! >.< Awesome love that one. What a video, too. What happened to him since...? He's done enough Lol

[@sabe11a39]

The debut Third Eye Blind record is mine.

[@davidwylde8426]

I’m not surprised given that you were into the NWOBHM but I think there’s possibly a little gap in your musical appreciation around 81-82 given the comment on Duran. Their first two albums were really interesting and are easy to dismiss because they went on to be huge pop stars and gain teenage bedroom wall poster status. Andy Taylor was always an interesting guitar player with regard how he found his space in their sound and John Taylor was a legit great bass player. They were all good to be honest and in that period there were other artists such as Thomas Dolby, The Associates, Fashion, Heaven 17,( John Wilson version),Simple Minds and of course a big fave of yours Japan, that were releasing really unique stuff for the time. I was very immersed in this scene and I arrived at it post exposure to Jazz-Fusion and Prog. Definitely worth an exploration, I think you’d be pleasantly surprised.

[@roystonsbailey]

I love George formby and it's fun to rewrite his lyrics into your own parodies

[@gorgeousninja7213]

love Tone Loc and Power Station. nice selections. Whats the difference between guilty pleasures and underrated classics?

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Coolness

[@clivecockcroft3620]

Also have a soft spot for Doris Day. You didn't mention 'How much is that doggie in the window'. 🙂

[@dave_manley]

The Layla piano coda was apparently written by Rita Coolidge who was Jim Gordon's ex-girlfriend.

[@stevejensen5112]

I confess. I love the late great drummer Karen Carpenter. Came to them in a serious way thru covers of their music. I saw Metheny last week and he included Rainy Days in a medley. I'm in good company and don't feel so bad now.

[@PhilBaird1]

Karen Carpenter can reduce a lot of serious music guys to mush, me included. I'm often a blubbering wreck afterwards.

[@adamodimattia]

Uff, the first place is one of my most listened to albums but by any means I consider it a guilty pleasure! Xd

[@davidwylde8426]

Enjoyed that. I totally get the concept of guilty pleasure as for a fair period of my life it made sense, but these days I would find it hard to feel ‘guilty’,( I think that the phrase has become more understandable through the lens of the social animal and become more of a euphemism for ‘embarrassing’, than an internal invocation of guilt), regarding what music I liked or did not. That said, I’m currently not indifferent enough to the judgement of social reality that I wouldn’t feel embarrassed if forced to blast some of the stuff I like from a car stereo whilst pulling up to a huge social gathering. Even then it’s on a continuum, as I’d probably feel mildly uncomfortable being forced to blast ‘anything’ out in a public forum,( cringe factor kicks in relatively quickly, as you start to feel like one of these dickheads who inflict their music of choice on everyone else around them as they pull up to traffic lights with their windows down etc etc).

[@percyrd1]

The one that really cracked me up? Tone Loc !!😂

[@docbobster]

LOL, the a capella album turns out to have an incredibly hip pedigree, and is, arguably, disqualified. Here's my list; I'm not embarrassed by them but they might raise an eyebrow nestled among all my oh-so-hip John Zorn, Fred Frith, Bill Laswell, and Junior Kimbrough stuff: 1. The Association, Greatest Hits 2. Bread, Baby I’m a Want You 3. The Carpenters, Close to You 4. Cat Stevens, Tea for the Tillerman 5. Harry Chapin, Greatest Stories Live 6. Mannheim Steamroller, Fresh Aire Interludes 7. Johnny Mathis, Christmas with Johnny Mathis 8. The Monkees, The Monkees 9. Neil Diamond, Hot August Night 10. Three Dog Night, Golden Biscuits

[@erikheddergott5514]

I love Guilty Pleasures!

[@antonnee]

Very good choices. That Power Station album is very good. Also, I thought I Got The was a Labi Siffre original.

[@steevenfrost]

Love Doris Day's singing Move over Darling great, Whipcrackaway, Chas n Dave pioneers of "Rockney".I think they also are influenced by Cockney knees up Music hall tradition(as were The Small Faces). Hit single Manhattan Transfer was Chanson D'Amour. I thought they were kind of influenced by French 30's music maybe?

[@SD9xcp311x]

Your hair is ALWAYS kool bro! In 199--- I got into "Acid Jazz" Never really thought much about Jamiroquai... Mother Earth was my Go-To... Since the death of my wife I've become "Addicted" to the only decent rock station in Chicago, WXRT.. This morning, in fact, they played some Jamiroquai... The one about technology! Loved It! The older I get (58 tomorrow in fact!) the more IO groove and dig music different the Bill Laswell axis of Artistick genius!~

[@fossilmatic]

Love Mother Earth and Matt Deighton’s guitar work. His solo stuff is very different but also cool. You may also like Cordruoy from that Acid Jazz scene.

[@jeffreyromain7336]

"Acid skiffle" ? 😉

[@SD9xcp311x]

@@jeffreyromain7336 Skiffin' away on seas of Joy

[@geoffccrow2333]

To hear the best A capella check out IDEA OF NORTH

[@kiwidave3847]

Try Voltaren for your back. It's a pain killer, but even more importantly, reduces the inflamation.

[@elbib2446]

heads,hands and feet with albert lee,rolling stones,most are unaware of chas hodges before chas and dave

[@jeroenwarner4834]

Love Singers Unlimted. Is this their lp with 'Since you asked' on it? The original has no appeal to me wharsoever but this arrangement and execution is a marvel

[@davidwylde8426]

(Third comment … Jesus Christ !!! ) Manhattan Transfer :- 1. Same as you I heard their vocal version of Birdland before the Weather Report original. 2. ‘Walk In Love’ was definitely a single release. I remember hearing and seeing promotional stuff at the time. 3. However their biggest U.K. hit was the No.1 single ‘Chanson D’Amour’ from 1977 which was a hit before I’d even dreamed of picking up an instrument and my favourite things were probably Marvel/DC comics, Skateboarding, and Starsky and Hutch lol

[@trickygoose2]

I heard their version of Birdland first too. I did hear, presumably from a DJ's introduction that it was a cover of an instrumental.

[@Liisa3139]

I'm not into hip hop much, but I like Kanye. I have been thinking if Kanye only knew that he has made music that appeals to a 50++ lady in a Nordic country to be listened to as she walks to the office in the morning come rain or shine. Very safe streets, nothing like the scene in American cities. Does that undermine his credibility? I like Snoop Dogg too, and Public Enemy. But Kanye came first to my ears. Kanye has delicious harmonies backing his own performance. Surely one of the things that caught my ear for his music.

[@cbolt4492]

10:11 Tone Loc - really good

[@sheldonwhite1886]

Trust me: having a full head of hair is quite cool.

[@gregorykrug8034]

I used to have "guilty pleasures," but I think I have embraced who I like well enough to feel no guilt. For example, I think that Culture Club (a band that wrote and played their own music) was good. (They would not be in my top fifty bands, but probably in my top 100.) When I share that with my rock-liking friends, they almost always shoot me a look like I am either joking or insane. I reply with something like, "Well, you like KISS, and they suck!"

[@damienfoyer]

Good for you, nice to find music you enjoy outside of your regular styles. And, you just listed 9 albums I hate😂

[@dimsylsodium1]

Robert Palmer from.....Vinegar Joe (with Elkie Brooks).

[@andrewfraser4376]

You can't be cool. You are perceived as cool.

[@geoffccrow2333]

Good talk dad

[@smallscalefutures]

Ironic you should mention Robert Plant in the Chas & Dave segment given that the only time I ever saw them live was opening for Led Zeppelin at Knebworth in 79

[@John-l5k3f]

Me too! Being a life-long Spurs fan helps a lot!!

[@richard8417]

I'm surprised you never mention The Roots as one of your favourite hip hop groups...

[@ChristianKoester-g8k]

Andrew! Bring your jacket to the dry cleaner‘s. I’ll put something in the tip jar. Cheers, Chris

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

It's paint splats!!! I wore it when I was painting my bathroom

[@pandstar]

I can't relate. I do not have any guilty pleasure albums or bands. Life is way too short, and music is way too important to me. I don't get to listen to music quite as much as I used to, although I still listen often. But when I do listen, I want to spend that time listening to music I take seriously, with great musicianship, and emotional and/or intellectual depth.

[@trippknotic]

You have great hair. You’d give Beethoven a run for his money!

[@seriousoldman8997]

This is the difference between music journalists and musicians.

[@ronaldmorgan7632]

I'm trying to think of what I own that I would feel the slightest bit guilty about. So, the only two that might fit that category would be "Thriller" by MJ. Despite his weirdness, he was just really good. The other is "The Open Door" by Evanescence. It's their second album, and is just more grown up from their first, which some people only contains "My Immortal" and "Bring Me to Life"--two songs so overplayed that they're hard for me to listen to. I like their third and fourth albums as well, but the second one has so much more creativity than the overused bar chords of the first. This is coming from a guy raised on LZ/Yes/Pink Floyd.

[@erikheddergott5514]

He was really good? Sure he was, what else?

[@bennylevine387]

It is pretty alt to be into Tone Loc's second album. I don't think I ever heard anyone play it. But I hear a lot of people's hip hop journeys start strangely and in this arbitrary way, like they just happened upon something that drew them in. For me it was Just Ice in like 86. It's not like Rock where everyone's voyage begins with the same 10 bands.

[@dirtharris]

Far too many friends obsessed with the cool bands. What's cooler than liking EXACTLY what you like and not giving one rat's nugget what anybody thinks. If I want to play Styx in the car at high volume, then I will!!!! (windows not down...of course 😀)

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

What about REO Speedwagon?

[@dirtharris]

@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Jesus, no. I have my standards 😆