Guilty pleasures

[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.

[Subedai]

Quite possibly, but then again my taste in music takes eclectic to another level. I enjoy English Folk, Mongolian throat whistling, classical of most types although opera stretches my interest a bit, heavy rock, Glamrock (my formative years style), electronic a la OMD, Human League and Kraftwerk and most other types except for C&W (hokput!), jazz and most types of Eastern European accordion music.

Symphonies 1, 2 and 4 are not that well known and he was still finding his symphonic feet by trying out different melodies as it were, 3, 5, 6 are good but are too well known, 9 exudes power and is strong in all four movements but for me it's a coin toss on 7 or 8. I like both but the 8th just clinches it. In saying that I do like the electronic version of the 9th used in the Clockwork Orange.

[fsn]

Agree on the 7th, but you can't beat the choral 9th.

I'm like earlier stuff - Vivaldi, Bach and Purcell - preferably with original tuning.

Having said that my iPod has just about everything on it (including C&W!) except punk and shouty metal. 

[getagrip]

I like Vaughan Williams, how much of a fogey does that make me...

Answers on a post card

[Sandinista]

Saor Patrol are fantastic, pipes and drums as it should be 

Cheers
Ian

[Vamboozle]

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.)

Only ever found one cheese I didn't like - Geitost.  Norwegian brown cheese. Looks a bit like Caramac bars and tastes a bit like a cheesy version of Caramac which isn't a tenth as nice as it sounds.

When I tried it, Mrs V said I had a look on my face like I'd been betrayed by an old friend.