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02-04-2013, 05:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: west Texas | | | I really dig Abba. Granted i "came out" after lemmy said he dug abba. |
02-04-2013, 05:13 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Fender Basses, Ampeg, Curt Mangan Strings | | Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: South Shore, Massachusetts | | | I started a similar thread several months ago. The bands and artists that I usually don't admit that I like are The Monkees, The Supremes, Adele, Elton John, Little River Band (great vocals), Orleans.
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02-04-2013, 05:13 PM
|  | I wanna be...say, what day is it today, Ted? | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Location, Location | | Quote:
Originally Posted by thunderbird66  I really dig Abba. Granted i "came out" after lemmy said he dug abba. | Great basslines in those tunes. Really good songwriting too. Great melodies.
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Originally Posted by hover tell him the cab could double as a pulpit. A gloriously rawkin pulpit. | |
02-04-2013, 05:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Auckland, Aotearoa | | | The worst I'll admit to is Michael Jackson, but I'm still careful who I admit it to, just because his general weirdness is what people tend to focus on. His music was dope though! Best funk/pop out there, and thats what you get with the best session musicians around, and Quincy Jones at the helm.
Otherwise, One directions song "you dont know youre beautiful" or whatever it is, is insanely catchy. I really like Tony Bennett and Dean Martin, which I'd cop a beating for if people my age found out.
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02-04-2013, 05:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Hamburg, Germany | | | Red Hot Chili Peppers. I like the californication record a bit, but just a tiny bit. But I go elsewhere for fonkin and you won't see me ruining my street cred with them!
Runner up would be Daft Punk. The discovery record, and especially the accompanying movie, were outstanding. Sadly my band doesn't want to cover Digital Love, they're such buzzkills... people give me weird looks for liking them so I guess that qualifies.
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02-04-2013, 05:46 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Hollywood, CA | | Weezer, Presidents of the United States of America, The Offspring, Soft Cell, Sonic Youth, Fountains of Wayne, Dishwalla, The Dream Academy, Enya, Jimmy Eat World, Stereo MC's, Bloodhound Gang, blur, Counting Crows, Cold War Kids, Eisley, Electric Six, The Killers, The Darkness, Happy Mondays, Incubus, Limahl, Starbuck, My Morning Jacket, N*E*R*D, Pet Shop Boys, The Partridge Family, Sugar Ray, The Toadies, Wham!, William Shatner   |
02-04-2013, 05:51 PM
| | | | I have all the cd's from Nelly Furtado. Love every single bit of her career. Folklore is my favorite, by far. (hey, have banjo, and some cool bass lines) |
02-04-2013, 06:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Greenville, NC USA | | | I'm constantly surrounded by country, blues, and soul players. I don't get into the fact that one of my favorite live concert videos ever is Incubus at Red Rock. Of course, I have no trouble admitting that Ben Kenny is amazing, and we even have matching rigs (although his are 12s and mine are 15s). But that whole concert is great to me.
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02-04-2013, 06:08 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: W. Newbury, MA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by faelcks I have all the cd's from Nelly Furtado. Love every single bit of her career. Folklore is my favorite, by far. (hey, have banjo, and some cool bass lines) | I own every Taylor Swift album she's ever put out. My friends mock me relentlessly but I don't care. She can write a pop hook like nobody's business. 
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02-04-2013, 06:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Central CA Coast | | | As I get older I've become a lot more shameless about my musical tastes, so I have no problems with playing out loud Carpenters, Brasil 66, America, Streisand, Jack Jones, Judy Garland, whatever feels right at the time as long as it's of high quality.
I think once you take the music out of the cultural context of its time and just listen to it on it's own merits a lot of the "guilt" goes away. Great music and great musicianship always speaks for itself.
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02-04-2013, 06:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Northern MI | | | Bee Gees for me. Although it's not really a secret anymore. After my wife kept using my secret as leverage against me, to get her way, I finally fessed up to my band mates and friends. They called me names (sniff) but I don't (sniff) care. I still like me some Bee Gees. |
02-04-2013, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by jchrisk1 Bee Gees for me. Although it's not really a secret anymore. After my wife kept using my secret as leverage against me, to get her way, I finally fessed up to my band mates and friends. They called me names (sniff) but I don't (sniff) care. I still like me some Bee Gees. | Hey, my dad is an awesome guy, and have bee gees as one of his favorite bands! is very cool , and gibb is a musical genious! |
02-04-2013, 06:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Texas | |
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Originally Posted by CrewsControl Weezer, Presidents of the United States of America, The Offspring, Soft Cell, Sonic Youth, Fountains of Wayne, Dishwalla, The Dream Academy, Enya, Jimmy Eat World, Stereo MC's, Bloodhound Gang, blur, Counting Crows, Cold War Kids, Eisley, Electric Six, The Killers, The Darkness, Happy Mondays, Incubus, Limahl, Starbuck, My Morning Jacket, N*E*R*D, Pet Shop Boys, The Partridge Family, Sugar Ray, The Toadies, Wham!, William Shatner | I have highlighted the critically acclaimed bands you need feel no shame about.
P.S. Danny Partridge is my first bass idol! |
02-04-2013, 06:47 PM
| | | | I have started really digging some country artists lately and it took me a while to even admit it to myself....Brad Paisley, Lady Antebellum, Zach Brown Band etc... A nice balance between musicianship and good song writing/story telling. |
02-04-2013, 06:52 PM
| | I wanna be...say, what day is it today, Ted? | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Location, Location | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jchrisk1 Bee Gees for me. Although it's not really a secret anymore. After my wife kept using my secret as leverage against me, to get her way, I finally fessed up to my band mates and friends. They called me names (sniff) but I don't (sniff) care. I still like me some Bee Gees. | Bee Gees were great! Particularly if you take into account their whole body of work and not just the disco stuff that made them mega-famous.
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Originally Posted by hover tell him the cab could double as a pulpit. A gloriously rawkin pulpit. | |
02-04-2013, 06:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Auckland, Aotearoa | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassinplace Bee Gees were great! Particularly if you take into account their whole body of work and not just the disco stuff that made them mega-famous. | I've always thought more than a woman was a great song. Don't tell anyone that though.
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02-04-2013, 07:28 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Albuquerque, NM | | Quote:
Originally Posted by foq1978 James Blunt. | I totally high-fived that dude in Albuquerque!
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02-04-2013, 07:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: ca | | | Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga, and Rihanna....I seriously cannot get enough!! |
02-04-2013, 07:40 PM
| | | - Some hair metal
-Goo Goo Dolls-Iris
-Keep Holding On-Avril Lavigne
I'll stop here. This is all I can confess to for today. 
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02-04-2013, 08:06 PM
| | | Bye Bye Bye - Backstreet Boys (this is a judgment free zone, right?)
Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen (most of her stuff)
Welcome to Paradise - Green Day (I don't usually like them)
Most Hip-Hop I listen to b/c I'm generally too white to be listening to Hip-Hop
Edit: Let's add Ke$ha to this lineup, considering I'm listening to her album Warrior for the second time today and enjoying every moment
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