Cheesy music that you like

[swTB]

Maximum Cheesyness, still like it, f you!

[ghettosynth]

That second video, the bloke looks like a cross between Trent Reznor and Noel Fielding

That’s Todd Rundgren, who’s responsible for some really big hits (Hello, It’s Me), and has produced a ton of super successful records. He seems to completely lack self awareness, though. What you get out of him is just as likely to be the corniest crap imaginable, but some of his stuff is really sold pop song writing. I got into him because I had a girlfriend who loved him, and I do appreciate some of this music, but I recently saw he was still releasing albums and I tried to listen to them and they were trash.

In keeping with this thread and your post, here's Daryl Hall and Todd Rungren doing "Every Time You Go Away" live from Daryl's house.



To be clear, I don't think this song is all that cheesy, but, Daryl Hall and John Oates definitely released some pop cheese in their heyday. I like the sparse mix of the original recording as well, FWIW.



Also, I was thinking that I recently did a thread about Guilty Pl,easures. So, I looked it up, yeah, I suppose 2013 is recent. There's a lot of dead video in there, as well as a reference to an earlier guilty pleasure thread.

viewtopic.php?t=384435&hilit=Guilty+Pleasures&start=15

Since it's gone, I'm pretty sure that the top video was in reference to this song, performed here by the revivalists. I still can't sing it for shit.



Here's a song that I can sing, and enjoy doing so, also cheesy. I first heard it when Tom Petty did it live in concert for his dad.

[osiris]

If you ever wondered if you could use the words Polyvinyl Chloride in a song lyric. I Like Plastic.

[harryupbabble]

lotsa songs that i heard from my female relatives's music collection

(well, it's true)
by

abba
olivia newton-john
engelbert humperdink
beatles (mccartney's songs, especially)
john denver
nat king cole
david cassidy
johnny mathis
perry como
frankie avalon
elvis
cranberries
celine dion
etc.

most of titles of the songs i don't remember right now
oh wait...
i remember one
"silly love songs" by wings

[rp314]

Some of the more interesting composers of the last half century who have been sometimes described as being "eclectic" occasionally did stuff that to me would qualify as being cheesy. Frank Zappa, Carla Bley and John Zorn come to mind as examples.

But in that category, Ennio Morricone is the first one I think of, especially during the Giallo period of the early 70s.

For example, the soundtrack for The Dark Belly of the Tarantula (1971) starts out with what is to me a fairly cheesy theme:


But the rest of the soundtrack is full of music that shows how much Morricone was into the more experimental genres of that era:

[harryupbabble]

the good, the bad, and the granny

she's more cheesy than ugly
but the wind behind her
that's real ugly
aroma-wise

[vurt]

primus?

[osiris]