Props And Missives No. 18 – 20 Guilty Pleasures

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…