I can top that. I think Paramore are great. I love norah Jones first album. The first album I ever bought was Vanilla Ice's To the extreme, just try keeping me off the dance floor when ice ice baby comes on.
I also can't sit still when summer of 69 comes on.
So you're not alone. I wouldn't worry about it.
Anyways, music snobs and "serious" music fans are boring c*nts. That's a fact. Give me the monkees over the beatles any day.
If you bought Jeff Buckley's Halleluiah at Christmas time because you wanted to strike one in the face of manufactured pop, you're officially a boring c*nt.
If you think you're interesting because you likes any style of music with the word minimal in it's title, you're a joyless boring c*nt.
Serious music fans are sh*t

That's my 2 cents

I was 6 years old when I saw this on TOTP. I was hooked on it then and I still like it today:

 

Posted By whiterob81 on 18 Aug 2009 05:31 AM
I can top that. I think Paramore are great. I love norah Jones first album. The first album I ever bought was Vanilla Ice's To the extreme, just try keeping me off the dance floor when ice ice baby comes on.
I also can't sit still when summer of 69 comes on.
So you're not alone. I wouldn't worry about it.
Anyways, music snobs and "serious" music fans are boring c*nts. That's a fact. Give me the monkees over the beatles any day.
If you bought Jeff Buckley's Halleluiah at Christmas time because you wanted to strike one in the face of manufactured pop, you're officially a boring c*nt.
If you think you're interesting because you likes any style of music with the word minimal in it's title, you're a joyless boring c*nt.
Serious music fans are sh*t

That's my 2 cents

Haha, that's like an awesome manifesto right there.
I like some minimal techno, but am aware that this makes me an anorak. :D Shoes off, boots on by Dutch girl band LUV (you will hate me for this, try get the tune out of your head after)

I really like the Monkees, and Elvis. But most embarrassingly it wouldn't be that unusual to find me listening to (recent) Take That albums. When I was a fair bit younger I use to like B*Witched and Ace of Base, and I went to see Boyzone live at the RDS last year (it was weird, not being crushed and having breathing space). Basically, I've just lost all musical credibility :)

Posted By whiterob81 on 18 Aug 2009 05:31 AM
I also can't sit still when summer of 69 comes on.

I don't care what anyone says there's simply not a duff track on Bryan Adams "Reckless" album. Not one. And I'll stand by that statement through thick and thin. Although everything else he did after that album was tosh.

The Monkees are awesome, how anyone wouldn't see them as a great pop band at this stage is beyond me. Maybe they did/didn't write or play their own stuff, but some of the best pop moments of the 20th century were released under the Monkees banner and what's embarrasing about liking Elvis?

I actually reckon B*Witched might have had some potential as a more grown up MOR pop band if Louis walsh hadn't made the mistake of aiming them at the pre-school market initially then trying to make them more appealing to to adults and the whole thing coming apart at the seams in the process. I actually reckoned their single "Blame it on the Weatherman" wasn't bad, it's not genius either, just not bad. The video appears to be set in some sort of post apocalyptic global warming catastrophe. Don't say popstars don't tackle serious issues. :D



Boyzone on the other hand prove what a charlatan Louis Walsh was. I mean how did he ever get those chancers off the ground? First there was that comical Late Late show appearance, which I'm not even going to bother dig up the youtube clip of as everybody and their mum has seen it at this stage, then their was their first album, which my sister owned at the time and I once took a listen to out of sheer sick morbid curiosity. Now we're used to boy bands being a bit pants, but this was so utterly awful, it would make your ears bleed. Pop normally has slick production, but this sounded like it was recorded in someones kitchen using only a cheap casio mini-keyboard for accompaniament. So bad that they if they'd been half as good as this, they'd have been considerably stepping up their game:



...I mean seriously, I have no idea how Louis Walsh pulled this off other than perhaps that urban legend about rigging the charts and filling a car boot with boyzone singles. I just can't imagine him getting away with it now amongst todays youth in the post-Timbaland pop era. Kids may still listen to rubbish, but at least the production is competent.

Ace of Bass always remind me of feeling slightly nauseous one summer for some reason, they were part of that weird early/mid 90s pop reggae thing that also gave us that awful single by Snow (remember that? oh dear...). Those swedish girls were hot though, arousal and nausea was a pretty weird and potent combination to my then teenage mind, so you'll excuse me if I can't remember them with any clarity

Brian Adams summer of 69, liked it a little back then, but it's been killed by hearing it at one too many awful wedding receptions.

Also, while we are on an early 90s roll, 2Unlimited were awesome, I make no apologies

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@Binokular I agree, B*Witched did have some good songs, there was alot more to them than " C'est La Vie." I actually really liked "To You I Belong." I have their "Awake and Breath" album, which I think is mostly great. Favourite song:

Ah come on, give credit where its due,  Snow sure could spit out incomprehensible words like lightening. Every tried singing that downstairs in Ukiyo when you're plastered?

wouldnt really be one for being embarrassed by any band / tunes I like. If its good, its good. But if I had to draw a line, then it would be 'cock' rock...I dig, must be an upbringing surrounded my fields and beast of the milking variety