Posts Tagged ‘guilty pleasures’

Dessert Bar Disc #3

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

picture-4Another in a series of guilty pleasures.

This one is way out there on the taste scale.  Can’t help it.  When I hear this in the car, like I did today, I absolutely crank it.  Can’t get it loud enough, really.

This is a great sounding recording, great arrangement, super songwriting with a really memorable melody and the pre-chorus that builds up and up, blah, blah, blah.  It’s just one of those songs that jumps out of the radio and grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go for three minutes fifty-six seconds.

Pop perfection.


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Dessert Bar Disc #1

Monday, May 25th, 2009

picture-41We’re all familiar with the “Desert Island Discs” phenomenon:  What 3 or 5 or 8 or 10 records couldn’t you live without?

I was thinking tonight about doing my desert island discs but it just seemed too obvious.

What about songs you can live without…maybe even are slightly embarrassed to like…but that nevertheless satisfy you like a sickly sweet piece of chocolate cream pie?  Like dessert.

I present the first in my series of Dessert Bar Discs, Garth Brooks’ “Rodeo.”  Don’t ask.  Something about when he rhymes “latigo” and “rodeo” in the chorus.

I like the studio version better, but this live take showcases Mr. Garth in all of his fist-pumping greatness.  It looks easy to pull that crap off — the winking and finger pointing and such — but it’s a lot harder than it looks and I tip my hat to the man.

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