Mission Statement

Guilty Pleasures: The Music Edition is intended as a forum to review songs that were once considered out-of-favor. Readers are asked to rate the songs using a 10 point voting system (10=strong like, 1=strong dislike) and provide their comments.

The objective is to review the songs offered here with a fresh listen for things like intent (objective), structure, influences (to or from), production value, and performances, all within the context of its musical time frame and while trying to forget past reactions. Hopefully we can hear something different in a song we once thought was less-than-pleasing.

So remember, valid reactions include:

1) None of my friends ever liked this song, but I always did.

2) I never liked this song, but listening to it again after all this time now it makes me want to: (a) tap my foot, or (b) shove a pencil in my ear.

All legit.

-Ken

Voting Results: Master Song List

  1. “Baby I’m-A Want You”, Bread: 77.5 
  2. “Sukiyaki”, Kyu Sakamoto: 66.5
  3. “Age of Aquarius”, 5th Dimension: 62.5 
  4. “Yeah Yeah”, Georgie Fame: 51.0
  5. “Sunday Will Never Be The Same”, Spanky and Our Gang: 45.5
  6. “How Deep Is Your Love”, The BeeGees: 36.5
  7. “Superstar”, The Carpenters: 31.5
  8. “It Hurts To Be In Love”, Gene Pitney: 31.0
  9. “True”, Spandau Ballet: 29.5
  10. “Killing Me Softly”, Roberta Flack: 28.0
  11. “On and On”, Stephen Bishop: 27.0
  12. "What's My Age Again?", Blink-182: 26.0
  13. "Pleasant Valley Sunday", The Monkees: 24.0
  14. “Sincere”, The Buffalo Bills: 23.0
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