I don't feel the least bit guilty about loving other bands/artists, the sky is the limit with me, I like middle of the road/candlelight & wine music (Engelbert Humperdinck/Tony Bennett/Sinatra, Carpenters, etc) any songs from the 60's/70's in rock/pop, the only bands I can think of I never cared for are Freddy & The Dreamers & KISS, I like classical (Mozart/Bach/Haydon/Vivaldi/Dvorak/Beethoven)
Classical Guitar (Christopher Parkening/ John Williams/ Julian Bream) Motown, Blues, you name it, I like.
I have 1300 or so songs on my computer from 50's/60's/70's & 80's, I'm more prone to play a collection of different bands/artists then just one all the time unless it's The Stones or I really like one particular album.

Christopher Parkening is amazing! My husband is a classical guitarist {but also plays folk, covers, originals, etc}. and we spent quite a bit of time with Parkening before a concert we had at our church years ago. Truly talented, and a great guy..

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cindy Lauper!

"Peekaboo" Siouxie and the Banshees

i agree with those who are guilt-free....
anything goes if i like it.
and i like the Eagles - The Long Run was the first album i looked forward to before it came out.
If you grew up on am radio - the sky really is the limit and i have particular soft spot for am 70s pop...i just heard Chicago's "Wishing you Were Here" on an independent oldies station just outside Houston and wanted to hear it again and i sing along to American Pie, that Dan Fogleberg song about meeting his old lover in the grocery store.... everytime i hear them, word-for-word.
I think "guilty pleasures" are the best kind of pleasures because they come from something unpretentious and honest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IRjl3SWC2U

AngieBlue wrote on Jan 5^th, 2010 at 9:45am:


I used to loathe that song when it was originally out. Now, to my ears, it's tolerable. I really liked their version of Dear Prudence.

Isaiah 38:20 (New International Version)

20 The LORD will save me,
      and we will sing with stringed instruments
      all the days of our lives
      in the temple of the LORD.

Heart Of Stone wrote on Jan 4^th, 2010 at 7:18pm:




HOS, that is wonderful! I notice you recorded it on my birthday, way back in '93. Yeah, my husband has played Jesu in a lot of weddings.

Another GREAT guitarist, and musican/writer/singer who we know is also a Christian artist, but he was also in Glass Harp. Phil Keaggy. Wonderful guy and I just love to hear him play/sing. My husband was pretty nervous when he had to open for him! He's opened for a lot of people, including Dave Mason, and I think that one was a bit nerve-wracking too. He was SUPPOSED to open for Steve Howe {Yes}, but Steve is pretty insecure and he was afraid he'd be upstaged. And, he probably would have been.  He's a good enough guitarist, but not exceptional. So, we just nicely sat and listened, met him afterwards {and I had him sign a few albums}, and I didn't mention that my husband was supposed to be his opening act...

Sioux wrote on Jan 6^th, 2010 at 11:36am:


Thanks Sioux, back around that date I made a video of my playing for a Xmas gift for my Sisters (they all older then me) it included Easy listening, Hymns, familiar Classical Guitar pieces, etc,   in those days it was VHS tapes, for years I wouldn't put it on Youtube, but a few suggested I should so I got the nerve up & did it.
I'll have to look up Phil Keaggy on Youtube, I never heard of him before, another C. guitarist is Rick Foster who is Christian, he transcribed "Jesu, Joy" for C. Parkening, but I feel he isn't as good player as a lot of others, especially Parkening.

The Monkees (but wait, I was a boy back then) 

Forgive me Lord!

" I like "Face Dances" and "It's Hard".

Now THERE is a man with Taste !!!!!!!!!!

Joeykins

texile wrote on Jan 6^th, 2010 at 2:14pm:



It's got an awesome build, don't it?  Almost TAYLORESQUE..