Hi,
...I am not particularly embarrassed about anything I listen to, but, in the spirit of things...(and by the way, my latest music purchases were a 78 from 1937 featuring Blind Boy Fuller and the 180-gram vinyl version of Bright Eyes' " I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning".):
"I dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls", by Enya. It is an old operetta song to begin with, just to add more 'arrgh' to it
I can handle a maximum of 2 Enya tunes in a row; you might say it 'cleanses my musical palate' (!), but beyond 2, I am looking for tools for suicide.
"Time after Time", Cindy Lauper...wish I had come up with that hooky melody.
ABBA is still one of the slickest, best-sounding pop outfits ever. Nothing wrong with the occational "Fernando" or one that is little-known, "Like an Angel Walking Through my Room", which, beneath its varnished surface is actually quite a moving song.
Someone said 'musical': "Music of the Night" with Michael Crawford. Of all the over-written songs Webber has done, this is the best. If Jim Steinman had gone classical-lite instead of rock, this is what Meat Loaf might have sounded like