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Not Feeling Guilty Mix Vol. 2

Posted in In the middle of the road, Mix CD-Rs, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 19, 2009 | 13 Comments »

The first Not Feeling Guilty mix went down well, and if comments to the post, by e-mail and Facebook (click here to become my friend) are an indication, my rant against the false notion of “guilty pleasures” expressed what many felt.
So here is the second mix. I can’t see much to feel guilty about here. [...]

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Not Feeling Guilty Mix Vol. 1

Posted in In the middle of the road, Mix CD-Rs, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on January 12, 2009 | 11 Comments »

I’m on a mission to expose the notion of “guilty pleasures” in music for the putrid fraud it is. Few things about music exasperates me as much as the idea that we should qualify our enjoyment of a song, and compromise or emotional reaction to it. Of course, there is a caveat: our full freedom [...]

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In the middle of the road: Part 5

Posted in In the middle of the road, tagged , , , , on November 8, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Big middle of the road update to nearly conclude the series. I still have a handful of suitable tracks in my back pocket, but I think five installments should do for now. I’ll post the others when I can think of something nice to say about Jackson Browne.
Stevie Nicks – Edge Of Seventeen.mp3
Cocaine Rock at [...]

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In the middle of the road: Part 4

Posted in In the middle of the road, tagged , , , , on November 1, 2007 | 4 Comments »

And more songs from the middle of the road, West Coast, yacht club and so on. Hold on before cutting your AOR Mix CD-R — the final installment of the series (for the time being) will run next week.
Average White Band – Atlantic Avenue.mp3
It has always tickled me that the Average White Band is known [...]

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In the middle of the road: Part 3

Posted in In the middle of the road, tagged , , , , on October 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »

And more music from the middle of the road, the yacht club, the West Coast, the adult-orientated radio. More music to play while driving with the warm win in your hair.
Blue Öyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper.mp3
Ah, that guitar riff. And the great drums in the outro! I imagine that this song would be [...]

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In the middle of the road: Part 2

Posted in In the middle of the road, tagged , , , on October 19, 2007 | 7 Comments »

More music for long drives and such things.
Ace – How Long.mp3
I love the way this song begins. A bassline, then a discreet percussive beat, enter the guitar and launch straight into the chorus with its West Coast rock harmonies. Like Rupert Holmes in “Him”, the good woman at home has been cheating, and like Holmes, [...]

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In the middle of the road: Part 1

Posted in In the middle of the road, tagged , , , on October 12, 2007 | 3 Comments »

I suppose one might label the songs that will populate this series as “Guilty Pleasures”. I have used the term myself, but actually object to the notion that one should feel embarrassed about enjoying music, even if our friends from the Taste Police might not approve of it. Far better than conceding a “delicious embarrassment” [...]

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