Guilty pleasures

[FierceKitty]

New Orleans Jazz, especially if played at 78 rpm.

Jazz isn't a guilty pleasure. Never trust anyone who claims to love classical but doesn't like jazz. Or vice versa.

[fsn]

Sort of agree M. Kitty. Jazz is a very broad church, under which shelter Jamie Cullum, Winton Marsalis, Ella Fitzgerald and Chris Barber.

I like jazz and classical - but I don't like all jazz, nor do I like all classical.

 

[Sean67]

My guilty pleasure is Caro Emerald
Lovely voice.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N-HBn14xKeI

[fsn]

Nice one, young 67!

[FierceKitty]

Sort of agree M. Kitty. Jazz is a very broad church, under which shelter Jamie Cullum, Winton Marsalis, Ella Fitzgerald and Chris Barber.

I like jazz and classical - but I don't like all jazz, nor do I like all classical.

 

We may be in agreement on this.

[Ithoriel]

Agreed that jazz isn't a guilty pleasure ... it's a war crime 

[getagrip]

Agreed that jazz isn't a guilty pleasure ... it's a war crime 

It's like listening to a headache, or a trumpeter with Tourette's!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Agreed that jazz isn't a guilty pleasure ... it's a war crime 

No - that's the Scottish pipes - bared under a Geneva convention.

IanS

[fsn]

There's pipers, and there's pipers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5DVhoel7AA

[getagrip]

There's pipers, and there's pipers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5DVhoel7AA

They're pretty cool, shame it still sounds like tortured cats.

[Vamboozle]

Has this thread just turned into Forum Soapbox mark 2?

[howayman]

Don't they all. . 

Matildas are my guilty pleasure, all scales.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

It's a good book, the film was okay, the Tim MInchen musical is outstanding...

Oh, not THAT Matilda then?

[fsn]

Matildas are my guilty pleasure, all scales.

I's or II's?

I'm a secret fan of the I.

[FierceKitty]

Keeping the waltz alive?

[FierceKitty]

No - that's the Scottish pipes - bared under a Geneva convention.

IanS

Under the kilt, you mean?

[sunjester]

It's like listening to a headache, or a trumpeter with Tourette's!

That's because you are missing the point and listening to MODERN jazz!

[getagrip]

That's because you are missing the point and listening to MODERN jazz!

All sounds the same; I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous answer.

[Subedai]

#FK. Trad Jazz is music to slit your wrists to, Big Band style jazz is okay but a la Spike Jones is even better. Not a great lover of jazz full stop.

#fsn & ianrs54, agreed, sometimes laments on pipes sound like cats being strangled but this is the sort of occasion that pipes were invented for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JVxb2dXCXTY
 
On a more modern theme this is decent pipe music.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5OuUoTDs_Q

My pleasures.

Cheese, all types. Spent the last 55+ years trying to find one I don't like and so far only come across one -haloumi- and that's because it makes my teeth squeak. (Involuntary shudder.)

Beethoven. 8th Symphony and 5th Piano Concerto in particular. I also like other classical music but mainly Beethoven.

A decent cup of tea with a large slice of fruit cake.

A sunny day, sitting in the garden with a wedge of brie or camambert, a glass (or two) of red wine and a good book. Heaven.

A good Indian meal.

Wargaming: Mongols all scales up to 25mm. (actually I don't really think  that is a guilty pleasure, after all , everyone knows about it.)

Waking up every morning and thinking, yep, I'm still here. 

[FierceKitty]

You realise most music-lovers would recommend you be committed for psychiatric observation if they heard you select Beethoven's 8th symphony as your first choice? I'm not saying you're wrong, just noting the unusual selection.