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PART ONE OF THREE Perplexio, the owner of a blog I read regularly named The Review Revue , recently challenged me to post an article listing my favorite musical guilty pleasures after he recently posted his personal Top Twenty . Wikipedia accurately defines the term "guilty pleasure" as follows: "A guilty pleasure is known as something one considers pleasurable despite it being mainly received negatively or looked down on by a majority of society. References to guilty pleasures are often used in terms of the arts and entertainment, such as music, film, and television and other aspects of popular culture." My number one all time guilty pleasure will be covered in a separate article as Bloggerhythms first post in February. So keeping Wikipedia's definition in mind, here, in the approximate chronological order I discovered them, are nine of my top ten guilty pleasures. Herman's Hermits Lead singer Peter Noone (Herman) and his band were part of the &q

Sea Wolf's first full length CD, Leaves In The River , is one of 2007's best and therefore it's not surprising that two of it's songs, "Winter Windows" and "You're A Wolf," are in heavy rotation on adult alternative radio. The band, named after a Jack London novel, follows in the steps of artists such as Five for Fighting, Iron & Wine, and World Party, meaning they are essentially the work of one singer-songwriter who organizes a band to record and play music as needed to satisfy his current muse. Before you consume even one line of the lyrics on this CD you'll be immediately taken in by the melodies, vocals, and instrumental arrangements of Sea Wolf's mastermind Alex Brown Church. Intentionally or not he and producer Phil Ek crafted this CD to sound like Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues singing lead for another band that Ek produces, The Shins. Rock n' roll is not supposed to be pretty but it seldom sounds prettier than Leav