I cannot abide the leftist hippy philosophy but it produced some music I really can't help enjoying, like the American Beauty album by the Grateful Dead.
Also the Velvet Underground - songs like Venus in Furs, I'm Waiting for the Man, Sweet Jane, White Light White Heat and Heroin
There is a lot of other 'hippy' music I like ( psychedelic blues, acid rock ), but they were mostly musicians who didn't get involved too much with politics, or the politics was projected onto them. Jimi Hendrix was a paratrooper before he was a guitarist, he got invalided out with a back injury after a jump.
What are your guilty pleasures ? ( musical ones )
All my life I been in the dog house
I guess that just where I belong
That just the way the dice roll
Do my dog house song
“I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform.” - Norman Thomas, a six time candidate for president for the Socialist Party, 1944
I have, erm, somewhat eclectic musical tastes. Hard core thrash, Zydeco, Polka music, old school Country music(IE before it became Top 40 with horses), Hell, I even like Bag pipe music.
Lately, I've been listening to the Hawaii Five-0 theme music alot. It just seems to strike a chord..
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You guys are really failing with 'guilty' music, except Joe with Rage Against the Machine
I liked Steve Earle, but he's turned out to be a moonbat hasn't he ? I saw him live in the UK in about 1992 and he introduced 'Devils Right Hand' saying it wasn't an argument for gun control ( cheers from audience ) - then a couple of years ago he was on the Al-Beeb Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation saying he now thought gun control was a good thing. Prick.
All my life I been in the dog house
I guess that just where I belong
That just the way the dice roll
Do my dog house song
Come on now...a musicians political leanings don't really qualify their music as "guilty pleasures" does it? I like lots of music from leftists. Lets be honest, if the only music that conservatives listened to was from conservative artists we would be stuck with some pretty lame stuff from a very narrow selection.
Now, I will admit to a REAL guilty pleasure - The Carpenters...how's that for a guilty pleasure?!? I know, it puts my "man cred" at risk and I swear that I don't own any of their albums, but when they come on the radio I always turn it up a couple notches. I like a lot of ABBA's music too which I would consider a guilty pleasure.
The Quiet Man wrote:Come on now...a musicians political leanings don't really qualify their music as "guilty pleasures" does it? I like lots of music from leftists.
My intention was to suggest the topic as fun, nothing serious
Karen Carpenter had a really good voice. Not my kind of music though.
All my life I been in the dog house
I guess that just where I belong
That just the way the dice roll
Do my dog house song
The Quiet Man wrote:Come on now...a musicians political leanings don't really qualify their music as "guilty pleasures" does it? I like lots of music from leftists. Lets be honest, if the only music that conservatives listened to was from conservative artists we would be stuck with some pretty lame stuff from a very narrow selection.
Now, I will admit to a REAL guilty pleasure - The Carpenters...how's that for a guilty pleasure?!? I know, it puts my "man cred" at risk and I swear that I don't own any of their albums, but when they come on the radio I always turn it up a couple notches. I like a lot of ABBA's music too which I would consider a guilty pleasure.
I can do one better, I'm a fan of the vocaloid Miku Hastune. The Supercell stuff is the best.
(Vocaloid is a singing synthesizer application software developed by the Yamaha Corporation that enables users to synthesize singing by just typing in lyrics and melody. -Wiki)
I agree with The Quiet Man, though I still don't like those "political songs" like the multitude that came out during the '04 season, but thats not to say the rest of the music put out by those bands is bad. I like alternative and ska, but I would be hard pressed to find many that would be called conservative.
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