Pfunksfoolosophy

Hey there gang.

I have been listening to some ‘mix’ CDs that I made last year. They make me so happy. Why do they make me so happy? Well, because I have compiled songs from my childhood. Yep, that’s right. I am a child of the late sixties and seventies. So, one minute I might want to listen to Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell and the next I might just need to hear Helen Reddy singing ‘That Ain’t No Way to Treat a Lady’ (okay, so I won’t NEED to, but you get the point).
Some of the tunes on these CDs are pure unadulterated crap–’Alone Again, Naturally’ comes to mind in the crap category, but it was on the radio during my formative years, so I had to have it on my Sad Songs and Seconal compilation CD. Have you ever listened to the lyrics of that one? Yikes, man. He’s gonna commit suicide. Parents didn’t complain about music back then like they do now. Dude, they SHOULD have.

Another one is ‘At Seventeen’ by Janis Ian. Wow, if you were one of those girls with ‘ravaged faces’ you might have been saving up the St. Joseph’s children’s aspirin… There was a LOT of depressing, angst ridden stuff out there, but there were also some cool Jim Croce songs like ‘Workin’ at the carwash blues’, ‘Roller Derby Queen’ and of course, ‘Operator’, my particular favorite for after break up blues.

Hey, what’s your guilty pleasure song? Is it something by a group you just can’t name in public (like the Go-Go’s?)? Is it by Barry Manilow? At the Copa is a groovy number. Dramatic and has that catchy chorus… I can’t decide on my favorite guilty pleasure tune, which is why I have them all on my mix CDs. I label them according to their particular ‘kink’ so to speak…you know, ’suicide songs’, ‘what the heck were they thinking?’, ‘no more tears’ (donna summer and barbra streisand numbers), ‘funky and cool’ (james brown, fred wesley, parliament/funkadelic), ‘gay but okay’ (now when I say ‘gay’ I mean in the seventh grade sense, not the homosexual sense. big difference)…you get the idea.

So, I’d like to know what you consider guilty pleasure music. Comment and let me know.

You might just get a nicely burned CD from yours truly if the play list is particulary enjoyable. Or funny. Or just plain strange. Stranger things have happened.