So do i, and a lot of their EPs, their early stuff still sounds great :)

Decemberunderground makes a great frisbee though...

I love Diva by Beyonce.

I really don't have musical secrets unless it's horrible. But I don't mind telling people what I like really.

I like Bon Jovi. Like, not even guilty pleasure like. I genuinely enjoy their music.

I hate myself.

Manilow was a genius songwriter out of Williasmburg Brooklyn-- paid all his
dues 1st as a jingle writer for commercials that we still hear today...collecting royalties like crazy his entire life:
some of his more "popular" songs are 30 second hits you've been
singing since a kid...some examples would be>>
1) "I am stuck on band-aids 'cause band-aids stuck on me...."
2) "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there..."
3) "My baloney has a first name ..it's O S C A R ...."

I wouldn't consider that a 'secret' - he's a living blueprint for so many artists

Yes- I like James Taylor, as well. He's also a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. I know some may say he's a little too mellow, whatbnot, but he's endeared his music to me.

Olivia Newton-John and Kylie Minogue are two of my musical guilty pleasures.

LOL, Kyle- do you think BJ will get in the Hall of Fame? Overall, I'd lump the music more with Foreigner and Journey than, say, U2 and R.E.M. No doubt BJ remains a powerful touring attraction, though.

they are awesome -- "Girl's Not Grey" is great song/ video

HolidayG1, I could NEVER place Bon Jovi in the same league as U2 and REM - commercially they may have exceeded REM, and I am perfectly OK with that, but creatively they aren't even in the same league... REM, in nearing 30 year career, have produced very few stinkers... some might malign Around the Sun (but i still like it, actually) but Bon Jovi's whole career sounds like a series of Around the Suns, time and time again...

Should I mention the device with which one cuts cookies?

...wouldn't exactly call him a genius if commercial jingles are the best things he's produced.

Hear ya...maybe a better term would be "financial genius" in terms
of business art...as if not successful one would quickly be 'out of business' --

What I am getting at is that from a music publishing POV it is a wise
move to do jingles as the publishing licenses are scalable especially when
we're taking about jingles that have survived from the 70s and are stile viable today in this frenetic and capricious music market where commercials and sound bytes are the big money winners since they rely on licensing deals and not CD sales.

Manilow though ( my god I am embarassed to say this ) is a great performer I saw him in Las Vegas many times. His piano skills are up there with Elton John.

scottsy, that would be a pretty accurate term. hehe Slippery When Wet by far is the band's highlight (and even that is no masterpiece). It's not that I couldn't see the Hall of Fame nominating BJ, but I find it humorous that anyone thought the band was a shoo-in when it became eligible this past year.

Barry Manilow has a talent for jingles, sure, and for those cheesy love songs. He's another one that I can't believe anyone would think would be a no-brainer for the HOF. he's been eligible for some time, and if he hasn't been considered as of yet, likely not to happen.

:rofl:
ahahaha

I'm glad I'm not the only one who somewhat appreciates them.

I have Black Sails in the Sunset and onward, but I still haven't got around to that particular album.
I hope its as good as Art of Drowning

And yes, DU makes a very aerodynamic disc.

I'd have to go with the notion that Barry Manilow is more of a commercial genius than a musical one, though I guess he must know his way around a catchy tune or two...

:bringit:My deepest musical secret as follows, and it was a tough choice to isolate and pick my deepest one, 3rd grade, trying successfully i may add to impress michele fitz (name changed to protect the innocent) by forging a letter from shaun cassidy to me, the supposed president of the saun cassidy fan club, i wrote that my work was indespensible and if i should ever return to San Francisco my position would still be awaiting me, i was allowed to hold her hand on the way to school and back then i'll tell ya', that meant something, when everyone said we were gonna get married i believed them and felt as tho i'd be with her forever, she laughed and my heart sank, she knew it was silly, but not me. when our romance went cold i forged another saun cassidy letter, she had moved to kiss, she had older brothers, i did the columbia record deal, the one where you taped the penny right to the postcard, i got kiss destroyer, lovegun, kiss alive 1 & 2,and E.L.O. greatest hits because they just sent the first 6 then you had to buy 3 at regular club price, i found out 9 yr olds arent allowed to make important decisions and was promptly punished, i got 'em on 8 track, and coincedently i don't believe the terms of that contract with columbia house has ever been honored and that is my deepest darkest musical secret, i feel so relieved to finally get that off my chest, truly.

I am the King of run on sentances!:bringit:

Another musical secret revealed... I used to love cheesy adult / contemporary performer from Australia: John Farnham... for a while I was proud to have every album he'd made to, and I even thought it was all pretty good music... my mind has *ahem* definitely changed since then.... :-)

i pee in a cup then drink it before a show.... lol jk jk

Where are the cliff notes? ;p. Let me get some oxygen tanks and try this again. I think I get it I just need to insert a period or two -- I think your secret is safe for now

Decemberunderground is Afi's third best album IMO. There's ya secret.

eh?
not.

Sorry I meant 4th, still gets an unfair amount of sh*t though.

1.Sing The Sorrow
2.Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes
3.The At of Drowning
4.decemberunderground

When I was young I liked "Who Let the Dogs Out" and purchased Aaron Carter's Aaron's Party (Come Get It).

Yeah when I was young I bought the Backstreet Boys album and two NSync albums.
My parents were worried...

And to think I thought you were street.

:rofl:

I couldn't find those cd's again if I tried.
I'm still streeter than street.

Are you road? That's as raw as it gets.

not quite.
I'm working on becoming back alley first.

You mean Backstreet?

...treated...

Run that by me again sir.

you treated me?

I'll treat you real nice boy.

Anyway I used to know how to crank dat superman. I've forgotten it now I think.

=/

and I thought YOU were street.

I done told you I'm road. And I didn't do it for the pleasure of the dance; I did it for the satire.

ah... I see.
crowd pleaser are yah?

YUUUAAA know it.

I also bought the under the cork fall out boy album because everyone said it was so good. Then I also bought the britney spears and junk like that. Sad thing is, I still have them all.

I like the Fray.

Sorry :(

Don't know if it's a terribly unpopular opinion, but I'm quite the fan of Prince.