Maybe if your idea of "guilty pleasure" requires what most people would consider masochistic behavior...
This is a great piece of pop songwriting, regardless of what you think of the band. I tend to think of them as the Bee Gees with (only slightly) higher voices. I do have to say I don't know why these Swedes occasionally sang in Latin-tinged accents about people with Spanish names (see also Chiquitita, which is a sappy but good song). Boy, music was different back then. See above- same with Bread. If, say, Eddie Rabbitt or Kenny Rogers had recorded Baby, I'm-a Want You, no one would be saying a word. It Don't Matter To Me is a great song- just has shitty "please kick me" lyrics is all. Everything I Own, Make It With You and The Guitar Man are great. If sucks, as do Aubrey and Diary. There's a lot of amateurmusiciangeek in my blood that won't allow me to rate a song on anything but its musicality. I don't have to try not to dismiss them because of popularity (all these songs were hits, just wouldn't be today)- it doesn't happen. If Sting is twee to you, I can completely understand why you don't think much of Bread.
Here's one of my favorite songs from a bygone era. Posted this a while back in the Youtube thread. My point is that there was a lot of this music out back then. Who should be embarrassed to like it?
That's a great song, who would be embarrassed over that? Lighthouse Family on the other hand I know every word
Not about to go out and download the song but Lighthouse Family wasn't nearly as bad or cheesy as I was expecting. Talk about cheesy embarrassing songs that I know all the lyrics to........I blame MDMA in the 80's for this. This one I simply have no excuses for though it is catchy It's gotta be the Andrea True Connection sample.
So far I've been able to switch the station after 40 or so seconds when this song is on. But... it's just a matter of time. It's just a matter of time.
Ouch... that IS bad. But it wouldn't have been seen quite that way if it'd been released when Reflections was. When the contemporaries are It's So Nice To Be With You, One Tin Soldier, and Me And You And A Dog Named Boo, it fits better. From a rhythm standpoint that's actually one of the cooler pop songs from that period, IMO. The lyrics... well, 'nother story. Absolutely. Nothing else here to get excited about, IMO. I was in a song draft a couple years ago where a poster submitted this like it was something special. It isn't. I don't think he even knew about the original. Literally all this does is sample Andrea and add some vocals. At 00:35 the posturing gets stupid. You're not a gang or a crew, guys- you're Lenny and Squiggy.
I like this song. I particularly like the cover of it by Ivy (one of the ubiquitous Adam Schlesinger's bands). Dominique Durand's voice goes well with it -- she has a great Astrud Gilberto thing going.
I actually loved his first two solo CD's Dream of blue turtles and Nothing like the Sun. Lost interested after that
Going through channels as I got to my neighborhood yesterday, I didn't notice one of my neighbors was outside as I was singing along to that blasting from my car system as I moved my trash from in front of my driveway.
Never knew a cover existed. Not bad at all to be honest though I still prefer the original. I will check out some more of Ivy for sure.
I'm not embarassed about liking "Me And You And a Dog Named Boo" mainly because it's a song from my childhood -- I first heard it then and first liked it then, and so it produces a reaction in me that has nothing whatsoever to do with whether it's "good music" by any attempt at an objective standard. Sure, it's crap: but it's *my* crap.
The original has waaay better playing behind the singer. It's also produced with more bottom end. Yes, it was. Like I said, musical tastes have changed as we've gotten jaded and ugly as a culture. This, this, this , and this.