tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post115599341438344160..comments2024-03-28T22:32:50.562+00:00Comments on Liberal England: More guilty pleasuresJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1156102448435252112006-08-20T20:34:00.000+01:002006-08-20T20:34:00.000+01:00Only problem with Downtown is that it was wrtten b...Only problem with Downtown is that it was wrtten by Tony Hatch and Stewpot played (really). It is a great song.Peter Pigeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10741462448758919750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1156018220712086152006-08-19T21:10:00.000+01:002006-08-19T21:10:00.000+01:00I wasn't intending to condemn anyone and I can kin...I wasn't intending to condemn anyone and I can kind of understand the idea of what a 'guilty pleasure' might be.<BR/><BR/>But when I read Q I was struck by the fact that I owned about half the albums in their list and it had never occured to me to feel in anyway guilty about it.<BR/><BR/>The only reason I can see anyone would feel that they shouldn't like any particular record is if they are worried about what other people might think.<BR/><BR/>I certainly discriminate between what I think is good and bad, but i don't expect anyone else to necessarily agree with me.<BR/><BR/>So I could come up with a list of albums in my collection that I think other people might find a bit naff - Supertramp, Elton John, Bing Crosby, Meatloaf, ELO, Norah Jones - but guilt? No.Liberal Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00550999774301073111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1156006648803728382006-08-19T17:57:00.000+01:002006-08-19T17:57:00.000+01:00Huge DivCom fan as I am, not quite sure I can agre...Huge DivCom fan as I am, not quite sure I can agree they don't fall into pretention - in fact, they often dive-in head first. (And when they do, I say yay.)<BR/><BR/>Quite agree about Scott Walker, though. The Plague is one of my all-time favourite songs - and not at all a 'guilty' pleasure.Stephen Tallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11720133001571029678noreply@blogger.com