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84. This album just recently became the first and only album to ever be certified Quadruple Diamond by the RIAA, marking more than 40 million albums sold , and cementing its status as the best selling album in US history. Next Tuesday, Feb. 17, will mark a half century since the album's release. The compilation album features five top 10 singles, including two that topped the charts. The album spent five weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart and has spent an incredible total of more than 514 non-consecutive weeks on the album chart overall. Can you name the album?


85. The band who has the biggest selling album in American history, the recently certified Quadruple Diamond album mentioned above , also has the third biggest selling album in American history, freshly certified 28X platinum by the RIAA. Can you also name this third biggest selling album ?

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84. This album just recently became the first and only album to ever be certified Quadruple Diamond by the RIAA, marking more than 40 million albums sold , and cementing its status as the best selling album in US history. Next Tuesday, Feb. 17, will mark a half century since the album's release. The compilation album features five top 10 singles, including two that topped the charts. The album spent five weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart and has spent an incredible total of more than 514 non-consecutive weeks on the album chart overall. Can you name the album?


85. The band who has the biggest selling album in American history, the recently certified Quadruple Diamond album mentioned above , also has the third biggest selling album in American history, freshly certified 28X platinum by the RIAA. Can you also name this third biggest selling album ?

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Those are Eagles albums. My guess is the first is their greatest hits (which one I don’t know) and the second is Hotel California.

My fave of theirs is Desperado.

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Those are Eagles albums. My guess is the first is their greatest hits (which one I don’t know) and the second is Hotel California.

My fave of theirs is Desperado.

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Nice job, Roy.



#1 :


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#3 :

https://www.rhino.com/sites/g/files/...?itok=Isf2SksM

86. This song is often referred to as the singer's "suicide" song. The song is an autobiographical account, with the lyrics detailing a very dark time in the singer's life, when he felt trapped in an engagement to a woman named Linda, and contemplated suicide. He did, in fact, make a suicide attempt, lying with his head in a gas oven. It might have been a somewhat half-hearted attempt, as he left a window open. Linda walked in during the head in the oven incident. Two of the singer's friends intervened on his behalf and helped him gather the courage to call off the wedding to Linda and end the relationship and embrace his true self. He credits them for saving him from a life he felt was suffocating. The song peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975.

Linda and the singer had not really kept in touch over the years, until just a few years ago when she contacted him(she still refers to him by his birth name). She was having some medical issues and the singer paid for her knee surgery. While Linda holds no animus toward the singer, she has expressed some disappointment over the years with some of the hurtful lyrics in this song that reference her. I'm guessing that she's talking about the words like, " Prima donna Lord you really should have been there, sittin' like a princess perched in her electric chair." Or the line, "I'm strangled by your haunted social scene , just a pawn outplayed by a dominating queen." Good thing he got away from that dominating queen, I guess. Or maybe he became the dominating queen???

Fantastic, fantastic song. You know the one, don't you???

87. What was the very first album in history to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200. If it is not part of your record collection, it damn well should be. The album artwork, alone, makes it worth its weight in gold, literally. It was certified gold, even before its official release more than 50 years ago, based on massive pre-orders.

Do you have this album? If not, do you know the name of the album?

86 is "Someone saved my life tonight" very impressionable younger dfs remembers this song well.

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If 87 isn't Sgt. Pepper than I have no clue what else it could be.

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If 87 isn't Sgt Pepper than I have no clue what else it could be.

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86. This song is often referred to as the singer's "suicide" song. The song is an autobiographical account, with the lyrics detailing a very dark time in the singer's life, when he felt trapped in an engagement to a woman named Linda, and contemplated suicide. He did, in fact, make a suicide attempt, lying with his head in a gas oven. It might have been a somewhat half-hearted attempt, as he left a window open. Linda walked in during the head in the oven incident. Two of the singer's friends intervened on his behalf and helped him gather the courage to call off the wedding to Linda and end the relationship and embrace his true self. He credits them for saving him from a life he felt was suffocating. The song peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975.

Linda and the singer had not really kept in touch over the years, until just a few years ago when she contacted him(she still refers to him by his birth name). She was having some medical issues and the singer paid for her knee surgery. While Linda holds no animus toward the singer, she has expressed some disappointment over the years with some of the hurtful lyrics in this song that reference her. I'm guessing that she's talking about the words like, " Prima donna Lord you really should have been there, sittin' like a princess perched in her electric chair." Or the line, "I'm strangled by your haunted social scene , just a pawn outplayed by a dominating queen." Good thing he got away from that dominating queen, I guess. Or maybe he became the dominating queen???

Fantastic, fantastic song. You know the one, don't you???

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https://youtu.be/FsivkL30JMQ?list=RDFsivkL30JMQ

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87. What was the very first album in history to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200. If it is not part of your record collection, it damn well should be. The album artwork, alone, makes it worth its weight in gold, literally. It was certified gold, even before its official release more than 50 years ago, based on massive pre-orders.

Do you have this album? If not, do you know the name of the album?

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It wasn’t till I read this link did I realize the title was in the past tense. I’ve probably heard this song 1000 times and never realized that. Duh.

Saw him at OSU in 1973 that I’m sure I’ve written about in here before. A top 5 Roy show.

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It wasn’t till I read this link did I realize the title was in the past tense. I’ve probably heard this song 1000 times and never realized that. Duh.

Saw him at OSU in 1973 that I’m sure I’ve written about in here before. A top 5 Roy show.

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Elton puts on a great show. First time I saw him was in Lexington on Sept. 26, 1980. I can only imagine how good he was in '73. That was Crocodile Rock and that terrific Goodbye Yellow Brick Road LP album. Great stuff. He ruled the first half of the seventies.

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88. Ask most any hardcore fan of the band and they will list this song as one of the band's top 3 songs of all time. That's some pretty healthy respect for a song that never charted on Billboard's Hot 100. In fact, the song was never even released as a single. It was considered a "deep cut" or album track, though the song is the title track of the album it first appeared on. It was the very first song written by the band's main songwriting tandem. When the words to the song was FIRST penned back in 1968, the it was about a friend named Leo, and the original opening line was , "Leo, my God, why don't you come to your senses."

The song has a reprise version on the original album called "Doolin- Dalton." Written in the style of old Stephen Foster songs, the song was never a hit, according to its author, until Linda Ronstadt recorded her version of the song. While the song never charted on Billboard's Hot 100, it did peak at #20 on the Rock Digital Songs chart, but not until 2016 , and after the death of one of the band's founding member's and a co-writer of the song. It is a beloved classic of fans of the band and is a staple on 70's rock radio. Not bad for a song that was a charting failure.

Desperado by the Eagles.

Easy money and faithless women
Red-eye whiskey for the pain

was my life for a few years.

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88. Ask most any hardcore fan of the band and they will list this song as one of the band's top 3 songs of all time. That's some pretty healthy respect for a song that never charted on Billboard's Hot 100. In fact, the song was never even released as a single. It was considered a "deep cut" or album track, though the song is the title track of the album it first appeared on. It was the very first song written by the band's main songwriting tandem. When the words to the song was FIRST penned back in 1968, the it was about a friend named Leo, and the original opening line was , "Leo, my God, why don't you come to your senses."



The song has a reprise version on the original album called "Doolin- Dalton." Written in the style of old Stephen Foster songs, the song was never a hit, according to its author, until Linda Ronstadt recorded her version of the song. While the song never charted on Billboard's Hot 100, it did peak at #20 on the Rock Digital Songs chart, but not until 2016 , and after the death of one of the band's founding member's and a co-writer of the song. It is a beloved classic of fans of the band and is a staple on 70's rock radio. Not bad for a song that was a charting failure.

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I read where Henley was 17 when he first wrote "Desperado.". In 1968, when supposedly first penned the words, he would have been 21, not 17. Whether 17 or 21, "Desperado" is a mighty fine song for someone that young to write. Glenn Frye once wrote about Henley: “I think I brought him ideas and a lot of opinions. He brought me poetry. We were a good team.”




God, that ending...

https://youtu.be/MeQyoTIQOOM?list=RDMeQyoTIQOOM

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God, that ending...

https://youtu.be/MeQyoTIQOOM?list=RDMeQyoTIQOOM

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A tangent here… but Linda’s album “Heart Like a Wheel” is an all-timer. I about wore that record out.

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A tangent here… but Linda’s album “Heart Like a Wheel” is an all-timer. I about wore that record out.

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I love her version of Warren Zevon's "Carmelita." God, she was gorgeous. An all-timer for the voice and on the hottie meter. What do you think , Roy :


https://youtu.be/Dj5_Ks3J6aY?list=RDDj5_Ks3J6aY

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I love her version of Warren Zevon's "Carmelita." God, she was gorgeous. An all-timer for the voice and on the hottie meter. What do you think , Roy :


https://youtu.be/Dj5_Ks3J6aY?list=RDDj5_Ks3J6aY

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She’s just a babe with that gorgeous throbbing voice. I saw her twice live. The first one she was the undercard to Neil Young at the Cinci Gardens. It was right on the cusp of her being a star and was a great show (Neil was great too despite the usual horrible acoustics). The second time was when her popularity was just exploding and she played at the Riverfront Coliseum. A great great show. I looked this up https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/linda...h-3f55903.html

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She’s just a babe with that gorgeous throbbing voice. I saw her twice live. The first one she was the undercard to Neil Young at the Cinci Gardens. It was right on the cusp of her being a star and was a great show (Neil was great too despite the usual horrible acoustics). The second time was when her popularity was just exploding and she played at the Riverfront Coliseum. A great great show. I looked this up https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/linda...h-3f55903.html

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Wow! That's an amazing setlist. You got your money's worth , and more. Orbison. Presley, JD Souther, Neil Young, Zevon, Karla Bonoff, Eagles, Martha Reeves...

89. This song is one of my personal favorites by the artist who took an obscure Jimmy Cliff song to # 1 on the Top Rocks Tracks chart. The original was written and performed by reggae musician, Jimmy Cliff, and produced by Cat Stevens, in 1972. The track bombed on the charts. Cliff had recorded Stevens' "Wild World" a couple years earlier.

While on tour in Europe in 1981, the singer discovered the song on a cassette tape of Jimmy Cliff's music in an Amsterdam airport. He changed the arrangement from reggae-oriented to straight rock and first performed it live at Wembley Stadium in May 0f '81. He has currently performed the song live a total of 268 times over the years, turning an obscure reggae track into a bonified rock anthem.

A live version of the song was recorded in 1984 and released on the "We are the World" charity album for hunger relief in Ethiopia. It received more radio airplay than any other song on that album, besides the title track. To my knowledge, the singer has never released a studio version of the song and he never released it as a commercial single.

What's the song and the artist who rescued in from obscurity and made it a rock anthem?

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89. This song is one of my personal favorites by the artist who took an obscure Jimmy Cliff song to # 1 on the Top Rocks Tracks chart. The original was written and performed by reggae musician, Jimmy Cliff, and produced by Cat Stevens, in 1972. The track bombed on the charts. Cliff had recorded Stevens' "Wild World" a couple years earlier.

While on tour in Europe in 1981, the singer discovered a cassette tape of Jimmy Cliff's music in an Amsterdam airport. He changed the arrangement from reggae-oriented to straight rock and first performed it live at Wembley Stadium in May 0f '81. He has currently performed the song live a total of 268 times over the years, turning an obscure reggae track into a bonified rock anthem.

A live version of the song was recorded in 1984 and released on the "We are the World" charity album for hunger relief in Ethiopia. It received more radio airplay than any other song on that album, besides the title track. To my knowledge, the singer has never released a studio version of the song.

What's the song and the artist who rescued in from obscurity and made it a rock anthem?

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One of my favorite Bruce Springsteen tracks: Trapped.


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One of my favorite Bruce Springsteen tracks: Trapped.


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https://youtu.be/gxcHkOEU-9Y?list=RDgxcHkOEU-9Y






Jimmy Cliff:


https://youtu.be/fRge7lXu56E?list=RDfRge7lXu56E

Im reading through there going- Ive heard this story somewhere- then Trapped came into my brain.

Great so g.

90. Two of my favorite artists of all time, one solo and one band , were beaten out for the Best New Artist Grammy, in decisions that, 50+ years later, haven't aged very well. In 1971 , my guy, Elton John, failed to win BNA and , much to my utter dismay, BOSTON had the BNA Grammy snatched from them in 1977 by a one-hit wonder band. Who knocked off Elton for BNA artist in '71 and who stole the BNA from BOSTON in '77 , in what might have been the worst decision in history?

I didn't know and had to look it up. I love me some Elton, but I understand the 71 decision and won't say it's wrong.

1977......I guess you had to be there. It's hard to explain the 70's. Just Wow.

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I didn't know and had to look it up. I love me some Elton, but I understand the 71 decision and won't say it's wrong.

1977......I guess you had to be there. It's hard to explain the 70's. Just Wow.

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As much as I love Elton, I can live with the '71 award. But '77... I will never understand that one. BOSTON's debut album was the best debut ever, imo.

How about 1979 when Elvis Costello and the Cars lost the Grammy for Best New Artist to A Taste of Honey? Their big hit was Boogie-Oogie-Oogie.

Rock was the bastard child at the Grammies throughout the 60’s and 70’s. And the Grammies are well-known for their odd choices at times.

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How about 1979 when Elvis Costello and the Cars lost the Grammy for Best New Artist to A Taste of Honey? Their big hit was Boogie-Oogie-Oogie.

Rock was the bastard child at the Grammies throughout the 60’s and 70’s. And the Grammies are well-known for their odd choices at times.

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Yep. I was gonna mention the Taste of Honey one at a later date. Seems like the performer who had one huge record got the grammy nod back in the day over the much better artist.

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90. Two of my favorite artists of all time, one solo and one band , were beaten out for the Best New Artist Grammy, in decisions that, 50+ years later, haven't aged very well. In 1971 , my guy, Elton John, failed to win BNA and , much to my utter dismay, BOSTON had the BNA Grammy snatched from them in 1977 by a one-hit wonder band. Who knocked off Elton for BNA artist in '71 and who stole the BNA from BOSTON in '77 , in what might have been the worst decision in history?

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1971 Best New Artist(I can't argue this one. They were fantastic. I'm a huge fan) : Recorded exactly 55 years ago, February, 1971---ONTHE FIRST TAKE!

https://youtu.be/SJmmaIGiGBg?list=RDSJmmaIGiGBg

Carpenters receiving the Grammy:

https://youtu.be/BnOapMlK-_U



1977 Best New Artist(I'm still pissed at this one, 50 years later): Where in the hell are they singing from? Half of those people seem as confused as I am.


https://youtu.be/K6eE3ydPdDc?list=RDK6eE3ydPdDc


The Day the Music Cried. A dark moment in the history of the Grammys. . Beach Boys sharing the awful truth with the world:


https://youtu.be/cT0DScltAmA

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Yep. I was gonna mention the Taste of Honey one at a later date. Seems like the performer who had one huge record got the grammy nod back in the day over the much better artist.

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Sorry to mess up a future post :(

At the time, there was a controversy if Boston was a real band. Tom Scholz was a studio wizard and created the whole Boston sound. I saw them at the UD arena. It was a good show but I remember saying “they sound just like their record”.

91. More than 45 musicians performed on "We Are the World," the charity single recorded immediately after the AMA awards show in January of 1985. The super group , named USA for Africa , dedicated their time and talents on this record for famine relief in Ethiopia. Of all of the people who sang on the record, only two of them were not American. One of the two , a Canadian, got the invite to participate when he happened to walk into the wrong office at the right time. Despite knowing he wasn't exactly the right fit, he was glad to participate. The other guy was from Ireland. Can you name these two non-American contributors to "We Are the World" ?


92. Who was the artist that walked out of the recording session after Stevie Wonder suggested that a line be added and sung in Swahili? Hell, you'd think being asked to give up your seat on a plane would be worst than that request. Who was this grumpy singer?


93. There was one musical artist who very much wanted tp participate in the recording but was snubbed because it was felt his "image" was too square and squeaky clean for what was meant to be a cool song with a "rock" feel. This artist had a long and well-documented history of philanthropy. He later wrote of the snub, "It broke my heart not to be included." Who was this musician?

94. This rising star was invited by Michael Jackson to participate in the song but the singer's management nudged her away from canceling tour dates to join the "We Are the World" project. Management executives encouraged her to stay on course, make her tour dates, and focus on growing her success. It was a good decision. She stayed on tour and eventually had the #1 hit single that replaced "We Are the World" at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Who is she?


95. Lionel Ritchie apparently spent a long time time on the phone with this artist, who was supposed to be a prominent voice on the record(trading vocals with Michael Jackson- NO LESS!). He remained a no-show , even after the urging of Ritchie. He apparently thought the song was "horrible" and said he had no desire to be around all those "mothaf*****s." Who was the artist?

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Sorry to mess up a future post :(

At the time, there was a controversy if Boston was a real band. Tom Scholz was a studio wizard and created the whole Boston sound. I saw them at the UD arena. It was a good show but I remember saying “they sound just like their record”.

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It's amazing. Delp's live vocals are right on par with the studio recordings. He was incredible. Scholz was a MIT grad. An engineering genius. Every song on that debut album is lightning!!! Tom worked on those songs that ended up on that debut album for over five years in his basement, turned studio.

Roy mentioned the controversy back in the day about whether BOSTON was a real band or just a studio creation. They were SO good and on point in their shows that some felt like it couldn't be the real thing. Delp and Scholz were that damn good.

96. Did you know(of course, you know it's true) that there actually was a Best New Artist Grammy award winner that WASN'T a real band. Name the act.

92. Waylon Jennings

96. Milli Vanilli

91… I think the Irish guy is Bob Geldolf

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91… I think the Irish guy is Bob Geldolf

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The Canadian might be Neil Young?

91. The two non-Americans:

Bob Geldof(Ireland)

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Dan Akroyd (Canada)

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Roy mentioned the controversy back in the day about whether BOSTON was a real band or just a studio creation. They were SO good and on point in their shows that some felt like it couldn't be the real thing. Delp and Scholz were that damn good.

96. Did you know(of course, you know it's true) that there actually was a Best New Artist Grammy award winner that WASN'T a real band. Name the act.

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Reminds me of Steely Dan… it’s basically a mathematical impossibility to perform their music live.

We all have our dirty little secrets that we're not proud of. I listened to, and enjoyed, some Milli Vanilli and Air Supply. There, I said it. I hope it's cathartic.

Fab Morvan from 2018, actually singing:

https://youtu.be/3UDpQ0eS-vE

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91. More than 45 musicians performed on "We Are the World," the charity single recorded immediately after the AMA awards show in January of 1985. The super group , named USA for Africa , dedicated their time and talents on this record for famine relief in Ethiopia. Of all of the people who sang on the record, only two of them were not American. One of the two , a Canadian, got the invite to participate when he happened to walk into the wrong office at the right time. Despite knowing he wasn't exactly the right fit, he was glad to participate. The other guy was from Ireland. Can you name these two non-American contributors to "We Are the World" ?


92. Who was the artist that walked out of the recording session after Stevie Wonder suggested that a line be added and sung in Swahili? Hell, you'd think being asked to give up your seat on a plane would be worst than that request. Who was this grumpy singer?


93. There was one musical artist who very much wanted tp participate in the recording but was snubbed because it was felt his "image" was too square and squeaky clean for what was meant to be a cool song with a "rock" feel. This artist had a long and well-documented history of philanthropy. He later wrote of the snub, "It broke my heart not to be included." Who was this musician?

94. This rising star was invited by Michael Jackson to participate in the song but the singer's management nudged her away from canceling tour dates to join the "We Are the World" project. Management executives encouraged her to stay on course, make her tour dates, and focus on growing her success. It was a good decision. She stayed on tour and eventually had the #1 hit single that replaced "We Are the World" at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Who is she?


95. Lionel Ritchie apparently spent a long time time on the phone with this artist, who was supposed to be a prominent voice on the record(trading vocals with Michael Jackson- NO LESS!). He remained a no-show , even after the urging of Ritchie. He apparently thought the song was "horrible" and said he had no desire to be around all those "mothaf*****s." Who was the artist?

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94. Her hit, "Crazy For You" replaced "We Are The World" at the top of the charts.


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We all have our dirty little secrets that we're not proud of. I listened to, and enjoyed, some Milli Vanilli and Air Supply. There, I said it. I hope it's cathartic.

Fab Morvan from 2018, actually singing:

https://youtu.be/3UDpQ0eS-vE

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My guilty pleasure back in the day was The Carpenters. I was a card-carrying hippie rock guy but the Carpenters were great. Just pure shimmering glowing gorgeous pop tunes. I never told any of my friends but I had their greatest hits album in my collection.

And I still listen to ABBA Gold. Another just gorgeous pop vocals group.