Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about songs we hate to love. Listen to the episode below (download directly or right click and "save as").
Show notes:
- Surprised at how good the Who were in concert despite their advanced age
- Songs we hate to love, not necessarily guilty pleasures
- Things we were embarrassed to say we liked when we were in school
- Most of our picks were from when we were kids
- Jay: I liked hard rock and metal and would never admit I liked poppier stuff like Duran Duran
- Jay: In doing research, I discovered there was a "rock" version of the Lord's Prayer that was a minor hit in 1973
- Phil: ABBA wrote some pop classics
- When REO Speedwagon had that one huge album
- AOR was huge in the early '80s
- Jay: I loved KISS's disco song, but never got into the band
- Phil: Listened to a lot of Manilow as a kid
- Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" captured that swinging '60s vibe
- The pop goodness of the Association
- Phil: The band Boston has been played to death in these parts, but they had their moment
- Controversial choice: Phil likes the worst Genesis song
- Dumb song, dumb video
- When Eddie Murphy became a pop star
- Phil also likes Crazytown's hit
- Released at the height of nu metal/rap rock
- Jay: Begrudgingly liked Animotion's big hit
- First album Jay had as a kid was by Glen Campbell
- Campbell wasn't a typical country singer
- Jay: Got into some of Paul Simon's mid-70s solo work
- Getting into early Loverboy deep cuts
- Billy Joel wrote a lot of bad songs, but a few good ones
- Jay: Always a big fan of "Rump Shaker"
- ABC was good at the foppish synth pop
- Jay: I hate everything about Smash Mouth except their first single
- Totally dig one George Michael song above all others
- Late '70s pop blast from M
- Foreigner struck gold with catchy rock jams
- To be continued
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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.
