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"Close to You", weedjie?

I'm ashamed to admit it, but that song ALWAYS makes me cry.

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"Close to You", weedjie?

I'm ashamed to admit it, but that song ALWAYS makes me cry.

That song started as background music for a TV bank advertisement.

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Close to you was originally gonna be a Neil Diamond recording but got given to these two geeky kids who were hanging around the recording studio at the time!

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I've recently become obsessed with Rihanna's Umbrella. Once youve played this song once you can't stop.

Mine doesn't sound anything like this http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=5paQ9BwFAgI&NR=1

Is anything really made up of zeros and ones??

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30 Reply by Oldnewbie (edited by Oldnewbie 2008-02-07 17:14:41)

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I already let the cat out of the bag on another thread, but...

The Carpenters.

can't get enough of "close to you" [ETA] - and "don't you remember you told me you love me, baby"

And, unfortunately, The Heebie Geebies (Bee-Gees)

How can you not move your booty when you hear the lead-in to "Staying Alive"?

"Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man, no time to talk..."

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Oldnewbie wrote:

I already let the cat out of the bag on another thread, but...

The Carpenters.

[/i]

The Carpenters? I mean how how can a list include Zepp, Kiss, Aerosmith and then.... The Carpenters!?

We have to convene a meeting of the Man Council and seek immediate revocation of your Man Card. I mean .... the Carpenters? Don't know if I would have admitted that in public big_smile


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32 Reply by 25Frankster (edited by 25Frankster 2008-02-07 20:50:58)

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If anyone says they play Air Supply when they're alone and feeling lonely I'm going to perscribe watching Fight Club 3 times straight, take a shot of whisky and call me in the morning!

By the way, does anyone have the chords for "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies?  Love that song!

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The Carpenters? I mean how how can a list include Zepp, Kiss, Aerosmith and then.... The Carpenters!?

We have to convene a meeting of the Man Council and seek immediate revocation of your Man Card. I mean .... the Carpenters? Don't know if I would have admitted that in public big_smile


Just Kidding - pssst don't tell anybody but I used to kinda like Hall & Oates

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beneath the hard and crunchy shell is soft and sweet inside! smile

I did put the Carpenters last...

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topdown wrote:
Oldnewbie wrote:

I already let the cat out of the bag on another thread, but...

The Carpenters.

[/i]

The Carpenters? I mean how how can a list include Zepp, Kiss, Aerosmith and then.... The Carpenters!?

We have to convene a meeting of the Man Council and seek immediate revocation of your Man Card. I mean .... the Carpenters? Don't know if I would have admitted that in public big_smile


Just Kidding - [whispers]pssst don't tell anybody but I used to kinda like Hall & Oates [/i whispers]

I'm not with you on the Carpenters (though part of it is my wife's a big fan and from November to January I have to sit through countless hours of their Xmas album) BUT Hall and Oates? I must ask older or newer. I think Sarah Smile is a fantastic song and I feel no guilt saying so. However, "Your Kiss is on My List" will bring on pretty severe nausea

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ok,but don't tell anyone,it is monty pythons,lumberjack song.shhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!.

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I'm not with you on the Carpenters (though part of it is my wife's a big fan and from November to January I have to sit through countless hours of their Xmas album) BUT Hall and Oates? I must ask older or newer. I think Sarah Smile is a fantastic song and I feel no guilt saying so. However, "Your Kiss is on My List" will bring on pretty severe nausea

How did you hear that, I whispered smile.
My only comment is that there is no "newer" Hall and Oats - You must be as old as I am big_smile

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Well I have a few guilty pleasures in the form of individual songs rather than certain bands/artists.

For example, I love playing the A-Team theme tune and other songs such as (the list will follow):-

Tainted Love - Marilyn Manson/Soft Cell
Sweet Dreams - Again Marilyn Manson/Annie Lennox
Duke Nukem: Time to Kill Theme Tune - Megadeath surprisingly enough
Mission Impossible Theme Tune - various
Knights of Cydonia - Muse
Dude looks like a lady - Aerosmith
and...
Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayer....i know, shoot me now

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ok,
have you got any ammo? I just ran out after hearing someone playing girls aloud

lol

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending
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It's not so much the song, but how I was reminded of the song.  The song is Earth, Wind, and Fire's Shining Star.  Many of us 'of a certain age' remember grooving to that song on AM radio wondering what the bass line was like.  Then FM came along and WHAT A COOL BASS LINE. 

Anyway, the song isn't so much a guilty pleasure as how I was reminded of it and started grooving.  The song appears on my daughter's Hannah Montana CD that we were jamming this morning while cleaning the house.  Mom is out of the house, and when she's out we jamm!  So, yeah, big old salt & pepper bearded bald fat desk jockey dude was dancing and grooving to a Hannah Montana recording.

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40 Reply by Oldnewbie (edited by Oldnewbie 2008-02-09 16:09:53)

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Zurf!

We must be kin.

My aging rotund behind has been known to cut a mean rug listening to my daughter's "Aaron Carter" and "New Kids In The Sink" CDs. (curtains drawn, doors locked, of course).

Crap,  how comfortable have I become in such a short time to share this? I guess the anonymity of text is liberating!

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New Kids in the Sink - another fan of VeggieTales I see.  VeggieTales are great.  My favorite of them is Lyle the Kindly Viking.  That whole sendup of Rogers and Hammerstein is hilarious.  My wife and I have watched it when the kids were in bed.  If you get the chance and have it on DVD, you should watch Jonah with the running commentary.  Larry and Mr. Lunt provide the commentary.  The porcupines were out of work Swedes Mr. Lunt 'discovered.'  Hilarious. 

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topdown wrote:
geoaguiar wrote:

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I'm not with you on the Carpenters (though part of it is my wife's a big fan and from November to January I have to sit through countless hours of their Xmas album) BUT Hall and Oates? I must ask older or newer. I think Sarah Smile is a fantastic song and I feel no guilt saying so. However, "Your Kiss is on My List" will bring on pretty severe nausea

How did you hear that, I whispered smile.
My only comment is that there is no "newer" Hall and Oats - You must be as old as I am big_smile

Correct you are...I'm older than dirt

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Zurf wrote:

New Kids in the Sink - another fan of VeggieTales I see.  VeggieTales are great.  My favorite of them is Lyle the Kindly Viking.  That whole sendup of Rogers and Hammerstein is hilarious.  My wife and I have watched it when the kids were in bed.  If you get the chance and have it on DVD, you should watch Jonah with the running commentary.  Larry and Mr. Lunt provide the commentary.  The porcupines were out of work Swedes Mr. Lunt 'discovered.'  Hilarious. 

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um...

is that the one with the cucumber? I think he's named after me (Larry?).

My daughter had one of their movies, I think, but I'm not as intimately familiar with them as you seem to be, there, Zurfie...

Maybe someone ate too much paste as a kid?  smile

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Unfortunately... 867-5309


Not screaming it from any mountain, but damn it's catchy

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Unfortunately... 867-5309


Not screaming it from any mountain, but damn it's catchy

Tommy Tutone...very catchy ditty and extremely fun to play. Also a great song for practicing bar chord switches.

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My daughter had one of their movies, I think, but I'm not as intimately familiar with them as you seem to be, there, Zurfie...

Maybe someone ate too much paste as a kid?  smile

No paste.  One of their Silly Songs With Larry is done by a group called New Kidz In the Sink.  And you betcha, I am intimately familiar with them all.  It is very funny stuff.  My kids are the right age to watch it and they love it.  It's one of the few things that I can put on and both the kids like it, and I like it too.  Larry the Cucumber and Bob the Tomato are the main characters.  The carrots are pikers.  Has-beens.  The real up and comers are the squashes.  Bob and Larry had better be careful about the squashes.  And those asparagus seem just a little bit too nice to be real.

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gitaardocphil wrote:

VILLAGE PEOPLE, in a CULTURE CLUB with a PET BOYS

HA!!! Great bands...that is by far the guiltiest yet!!!! Can anyone top that????

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I adore the "UNDERESTIMATED" Beach Boys song TEARS IN THE MORNING.
Also some BEE GEES songs. I am speaking about 2001 when Napster was a must have and audiogalaxy.
100% free downloads at that time, before the trials, I had plenty of time, being at home (lived by mum, with my ex-girlfriend) where my office used to be. I have 22 CD'S, only BEE GEES. It took me months, finding song, on a never released album.
In stead of the best (I had some of their albums) I made a second best.
These guys wrote great songs, but it was "not done" to confess that you loved them.
So "don't forget to remember" "Israel" and "walking back to Waterloo" (both from TRAFALGAR)

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alvee33 wrote:

I've recently become obsessed with Rihanna's Umbrella. Once youve played this song once you can't stop.

Mine doesn't sound anything like this http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=5paQ9BwFAgI&NR=1

You got a tab or chords for this? Its far better acoustic than the shite she did in the charts