Billy Joel is that dude that represents the cheesiest of my guilty pleasures (or maybe my favorite artist who truly represents the best of what "the cheese" has to offer).


Well I haven't been able to keep up with your posts BM31 but am slowly catching up haha.In any case, interesting thread and I've enjoyed reading everyone's responses. I'll tack mine on below:

My mother is from Honduras and my father is from this country. My brother was born in Mexico and he and Ma Duke's quickly crossed the border thereafter (mom's family is still in Honduras for the most part). In any case, I grew up with my mom and brother in the household (and a step dad later on) and my Dad apart.... Since there weren't many consolidated Central American communities in the area of Massachusetts that I grew up in a different Latino culture was largely surrogate for me and my brother (and even Mom at times). The huge Puerto Rican community that we grew up in and around translated into more explicit PR food and culture than Honduran/Central American.

For a long time I never even thought about the fact that a lot of the "latin" food we grew up on wasn't native to Honduras but classic PR food...years later the distinction is/was much clearer (fresh tortillas/mantequilla/refried beans vs. arroz con gondulez y habichuelas for example). Thankfully we travelled to Honduras and relatives came to visit often so we got our share of good eats.

Musically I came up with Spanish-speaking music from my mom, classic rock from my dad and hip-hop from my older brother and friends for the most part. A little jazz/soul here and there but not integral. In college I studied African-American Studies (and Philosophy) and was particularly interested in African cultural continuity in this country due to specific professors and the general program's thrust (and really what I still find the most interesting and intriguing are African rhythms in American music).
Ultimately over the years hip-hop brought me to soul, funk and jazz which is really primarily what I dig and dig for nowadays. My record collection also has general sections for Latin, Brazilian (separate), International and rock though hip-hop definitely still holds the majority. Like others said, its about the bitterface/head nod/funk across the board for me.

Props for the thread, definitely cool to hear about how folks settle into their groove.

Yes, If you make that bitter face the beat is definitiely knockin!
That was a very interesting post,were all world here.

I have many cheesy musical pleasures,but no shame.
It's who I am and what I love haha..I still get down with records like
True by Spandeu Ballet, These Dreams by Heart, Bakerstreet by Gerry Rafferty,
I'm known to play Autumn Leaves by Nat King Cole and even
Couldn't sleep a wink last night by Frank Sinatra.
I can dig on stuff like Rock the casbah by The Clash all the way to Dusty Springfield's The Look of love.
Love that record.My alltime cheese would probably be anything from the Men at Work,
I dig them cats.haha

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BM31
My alltime cheese would probably be anything from the Men at Work,
I dig them cats.haha

Men At Work...cheese?! i woudn't consider them cheese...i fux with them. R.I.P to the sax player (from Men At Work) who passed earlier this year - i forgot his name...









peace,

Wasn't there a really horrible Men At Work movie?



Sorry, I digress LOL, I vaguely remember seeing that in 8th grade or something.

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I think there might have been,
but can't remember at the moment RC.
Yes, his name was Greg Ham.He rocked the sax for them and he also played that iconic flute in Down Under.
he got sued in 09, and took it hard apparently he bit the riff off of a old australian children's song.
Overkill was probably my favorite song from them.