The Truant Tales

Everybody's a closet listener. The scheme of things go like this; First you catch a snippet of the song then you detest the song, then you hum along when it plays on the radio or VH1, then the song gets stuck in you head, playing on and on, finally in a moment of weakness you are forced to buy the CD.

All my friends know that I'm a huge fan of rock, hard rock and all its different variations (except metal). From Kiss to Metallica to Deep Purple , from Queen to Meatloaf. The only two genres that aren't covered is pop (an occasional Michael Jackson) and rap (--) (Dance and tech-no isn't music).

Yet, being a very complex man, there are a few bands that exists out of the rock genre that I listen to, but will never ever admit in public. Unless its a party with a lot of drinks.

5 Bands I listen to, but will never admit publicly

5) George Michael / Wham :
The singing along started with 'careless whispers' and then to my shock I even enjoyed corny classics like 'Wake Me Up Before You Go Go', 'faith', 'freedom', 'Everything She Wants', 'Father Figure', 'Monkey'(is that racist? Gotta ask Andrew Symonds). Tacky tunes, corny lyrics, yet somewhat addictive.

4) Savage Garden / Boyzone/ Ronan Keating :
'Run through the jungle with the wind in my hair and the sand in my fee-eee-eet'. I love singing those lines in a very high pitch voice. The animal song is such a wonderfully addictive song. Both their albums 'savage garden' and 'affirmation' are pretty good. Even the Darren Hayes' solo 'Insatiable' is good.

Why Boyzone? I can't stand N'sync, Backstreet boys, or other pre-adolescent jackasses, but I've heard Boyzone quite a few times. Maybe its because they rip classic Beegees and Billy Joel. Even a few Ronan Keating songs are good.

3) Village people/ Gloria Gaynor/ Diana Ross :
Disco is very annoying. It eats you up until you're compelled to make random alphabets with your body - 'Y', then 'M', then 'C' then 'A', or even point to the sky and then to the ground. Both 'Y.M.C.A' and 'In the navy' are irritating songs, yet I can't get up and shake a leg (more like an epileptic fit). 'I will survive' is another song that makes me sing along with it.



Also included in this genre are Diana Ross, Beegees (I really like Beegees), Boney M (Another Catchy band).

2) Roxette/ Ace of Base :
Glam Pop at its best. Catchy tunes, and very corny lyrics. "The Look", "Joyride", "The Sign", "Don't Turn Around", "Cruel Summer", "Listen to Your Heart", "It Must Have Been Love" have all been stuck in my head at one time or the other.

1) ABBA :
Whats wrong with Sweden. They are the champions in producing stuff that oare irritating, but can't do without - ikea, Roxette, Ace of Base and ABBA. Corny lyrics, annoying tunes, yet so very catchy. I blame my mother, She started playing 'Abba gold', and every time 'waterloo', 'Fernando', 'dancing queen','gimme gimme gimme' etc keeps ringing in my head.