Rock Revival, via Layla’s classic Rock Faves, seeks out 20 Guilty Pleasures. Herein lies my confession:

  1. Carpenters - We’ve Only Just Begun
  2. Barry Manilow - Tryin’ To Get The Feelin’
  3. Charlene - Never Been To Me
  4. The Association - Windy
  5. Bobby Darin - Splish Splash
  6. 98 Degrees - Because Of You
  7. ABBA - Waterloo
  8. Helen Reddy - Angie Baby
  9. Yvonne Elliman - I Don’t Know How To Love Him
  10. Fifth Dimension - Wedding Bell Blues
  11. Missing Persons - Destination Unknown
  12. The Commodores - Still
  13. FYC - She Drives Me Crazy
  14. Fame - I Sing The Body Electric
  15. A Chorus Line - What I Did For Love
  16. Mocedades - Eres Tu
  17. Charlie Daniels - Uneasy Rider
  18. The Bells - Stay Awhile
  19. The Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love
  20. The Osmonds - Down By The Lazy River

The key to this list: don’t listen to them all at once, lest you slip into a diabetic coma, and, always have a 20-song antidote list in your pocket (kind of like a snake bite kit)

The Antidote List

  1. Joan Armatrading - Merchant of Love
  2. John Hiatt - Is Anybody There
  3. Lyle Lovett - Step Inside This House
  4. Billy Pilgrim - Halfway Home
  5. Barenaked Ladies - Lovers In A Dangerous Time
  6. The Band - The Weight (the version with the Staples Singers)
  7. Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Darcy Farrow
  8. Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth
  9. Nils Lofgren - Wonderland
  10. Tower of Power - Don’t Change Horses
  11. Earth, Wind and Fire - In The Stone
  12. Rory Block - The Last Leviathan
  13. Warren Zevon - Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
  14. Al Stewart - Year of The Cat (there’s some debate which list gets this one)
  15. Chuck Berry - You Never Can Tell
  16. Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
  17. Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
  18. U2 - One Tree Hill
  19. Stephen Stills - Singin’ Call
  20. Steve Earle -Copperhead Road

Phew…I feel better now…

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