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Or should you?...

 

YES - Sometimes Jon Anderson's vocals make me feel weird, and the lyrics are occasionally embarrassing when playing to muso friends. But I simply cannot deny the music.

 

WEEN - Isn't that like admitting you have a serious mental anomaly?

 

QUEEN - Scaramouche, scaramouche will you do the fandango!

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Originally posted by Benjamin

Or should you?...


YES - Sometimes Jon Anderson's vocals make me feel weird, and the lyrics are occasionally embarrassing when playing to muso friends. But I simply cannot deny the music.


WEEN - Isn't that like admitting you have a serious mental anomaly?


QUEEN - Scaramouche, scaramouche will you do the fandango!

 

 

 

These are 3 bands you should have no shame admitting to liking.

I raise my friends eyebrows when i throw on Culture Club, Duran Duran, ABC, and other 80's stuff that is damn good.

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Originally posted by Hacker

I raise my friends eyebrows when i throw on Duran Duran that is damn good.

 

 

I found this out a couple years ago. I had joined a new band that played "Hungry Like the Wolf", and I kinda wrote it off...until I listened to it again... That's when I realized it had a damn cool bassline, and the music was actually pretty good.

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Originally posted by bassplayer7770



I found this out a couple years ago. I had joined a new band that played "Hungry Like the Wolf", and I kinda wrote it off...until I listened to it again... That's when I realized it had a damn cool bassline, and the music was actually pretty good.

 

 

 

John Taylor is one of my favorite bass players. If you like Hungry Like the Wolf check out

the whole Rio album.

 

His bass playing on the album Notorious stands out as well. His playing on the first Power Station album is killer too. I love the bassline for the track "Some Like it Hot"...heavy, groovy, in your face.

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Originally posted by bassplayer7770



I found this out a couple years ago. I had joined a new band that played "Hungry Like the Wolf", and I kinda wrote it off...until I listened to it again... That's when I realized it had a damn cool bassline, and the music was actually pretty good.

 

 

Duran Duran is top-notch. Agreed about the bass stuff.

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Originally posted by Fran da Man

I don't recall ever being enbaressed by liking any band, soloist, or genre...hell i like CC, Wham, Bay City Rollers, The Archies, REO Speedwagon...Christ!!! this list could go on forever
:(:D

 

If you have that pop sensibility, you got to give it up for

Rick Springfiled:

 

 

Jessie's Girl

I've Done Everything For You

Don't Talk To Strangers

Affair Of The Heart

Human Touch

Love Somebody

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The Carpenters. No kidding. They could really, really sing.

 

When I was a kid, I dismissed all disco/funk music from the 70s. Now that I work regularly in a wedding band - and I have to play a lot of that stuff - I realize how fun so much of that stuff is to play. It's really underrated. Many of the lyrics are dumb as sh*t, but the grooves can be terrifyingly good, and the bass parts are really cool.

 

[slinks off awaiting his beatings for his guilty pleasures...]

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Lol... I was just thinking about starting a thread about this. Everytime I turn on New Found Glory, I can't help but grab a bass and start jamming. I love every song I've ever heard from both their most recent cd's. I've seen some live clips and their singer couldn't sing a note on pitch and some of their gear is pretty crappy. Their a total fabricated mainstream pop band made for MTV, but their studio guy is amazing and produces albums I can't help listening to.

 

So there it is

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Originally posted by Mofopotomus

hehe, yeah those guys are like ear candy to me. I've also been digging on the Yellowcard lately. As far as pop-punk goes they're at the top of my list.

 

Yeah... they are sucky musicians, I would never go see them live, I would never wear a NFG shirt, but their cd's are great and I won't stop spinning them

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I don't know if I shouldn't like it but when I'm around my usual set of friends, they are pretty confused by the sheer volume of gangsta rap I own. They flip through my CDs...

 

King Crimson

Yes

Led Zeppelin

Cream

Can

The Mars Volta

Mr. Bungle

Soundgarden

err.... Del the Funky Homosapien

uhm....well... Dr Dre, Snoop dog..

...and uh... Disciples..... *flips back over to other section*

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Originally posted by SpaceGhost


Uhmm, are you aroused by Jon Anderson?!

 

Ah... no. I kinda sometimes find myself wanting to, or singing the songs because they are good, but that kind of singing feels really unmanly :D

 

Every guy I know who is into heavier music dug Queen, as I am sure most of you here do. I find it strange (kinda in a good way) that such an effeminate band should be enjoyed by the masculine masses.

 

Driving down the street with Queen blasting from the speakers in my town would surely ellicit some strange looks and rumours. Mind you, generic poofy techno is the trend for street hoons lately...

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