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Actually, that's a GREAT idea for a topic/thread...GUILTY PLEASURES! Music =
that no self-respecting card-carrying self-professed TRUE ambient believer =
would EVER admit to liking. So, it can't be something unambient but GOOD, =
it has to be something that yields a lot of "WTFs?" I know we ALL have =
Guilty Pleasures when it comes to films (come on, admit it, you like =
"Earth vs Flying Saucers") but how about music?

I'll gladly admit to a few:

I LOVE the Snoopy "trilogy" (the 1960s) from The Royal Guardsmen ("Snoopy =
vs The Red Baron," "The Return of the Red Baron" and "Snoopy's Christmas").=
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I think the Carpenters' version of "Superstar" (penned by Leon Russell) is =
one of the best songs recorded and it always make sigh thinking about all =
the lost loves of my teenage years. I even get misty at times.

And, yeah, I LOVE long drum solos...even "In a Gadda da Vida" (although I =
prefer Ginger Baker's live version of "Toad" from "Wheels of Fire"). In =
fact, at my senior prom (1972) me and a friend embarrassed our dates to =
death when we danced to a drum solo (played by a live band) in center =
court of the gym when prom was held! SPAZZ CITY!!!

Ahhhh. good times....good times indeed! :-)

OTOH, I'm probably the only person interested in something this lame. ;-)


>>> "MarkGE"  5/6/2008 4:05 PM >>>
Clearly we all listen to lots of different kinds of music. Bill touches =
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something interesting... the pop contemporary stuff you liked that maybe =
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dont like to admit or just sort of baffles you...
I have to admit to liking that Pink song "Get the party started" and =
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Missy Elliot.  some of that music just has an undeniable beat!  But I'm =
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going to buy it, or play it for a friend... you've got to draw the line=20
somewhere!
-M

----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Bill Binkelman" 
To: "AMBIENT" 
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: (amb) What other music do you listen to?


..., contemporary top 40 (I think I have liked one "popular" song in =
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last five years, that being Justin Timberlake's "Sexy Back" and I have =
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idea why I loved it)

Bill