VARIOUS – Sean Rowley Presents : Guilty Pleasures (20th Anniversary Edition) – 2LP – Vinyl

2LP- Limited 20th Anniversary Edition with Extensive track by track Sleeve Notes.

20th Anniversary Issue
29 Track Collection on 2LP for the first time on Vinyl
Extensive track-by-track sleeve notes from Sean Rowley
Embrace the guilt and be set free
Includes tracks for Electric Light Orchestra, 10cc, Alessi Brothers, Captain and Tennille and many more!

To mark the twentieth anniversary of its original release, Demon Music are proud to present ‘Sean Rowley Presents Guilty Pleasures, available as a 29 track 2LP highlights collection (‘The Blue Album’). This will be the first time that this hugely popular compilation has been available on vinyl, “the format that these songs were intended to be heard on”, according to Sean.

At the start of the new millennium Sean Rowley was a DJ on BBC Radio London (then called GLR), when he introduced a new slot featuring the records he loved in his youth. Records he had to hide when friends visited his home after school. While those same friends were into Bowie, Slade, Bolan and Roxy, Sean spent his hard-earned pocket money on David Cassidy’s ‘Could It Be Forever’. He wasnt into the alternative universe of John Peel or the NME. He thrived on upbeat and sunny Pop songs. ELO trumped The Sex Pistols in his world (uncanny given Paul Cooke from the Pistols later blagged a copy of the original ‘Guilty Pleasures‘ compilation, saying, We always secretly loved these songs”).

This new slot began with the playing of Alessi‘s ‘Oh, Lori‘. The response was extraordinary – listeners were so keen to share their own guilty pleasures that playing them all required a show of its own. Demand dictated that Sean should compile a ‘Guilty Pleasures‘ album – the first of two titles followed in 2004 (all 22 of the tracks on that original release are included on both of our new formats).

The phrase ‘guilty pleasures’ moved into the public domain. National newspapers devoted columns to it, music magazines gave over numerous pages to discuss the best songs in this new sub-genre. The Guardian declared a ‘Guilty Pleasures‘ night “the future of clubbing”. ITV came calling with a demand to make a one-off Saturday TV show.

Fast forward twenty years and Sean has partnered with Demon to make ‘Guilty Pleasures‘ available on vinyl for the very first time, and expanded the guilt over four themed CDs adding deep cuts, one-hit wonders and exotic recordings that perfectly sound-tracked a sun-kissed ’70s U.S. west coast life style, less so in ’70s Britain.

Welcome to a ’70s Pop odyssey. Welcome to a collection of records that were swept under the carpet of cool. Welcome back, Guilty Pleasures.

Tracklist:

Side A
A1. Alessi Brothers – Oh Lori
A2. Captain and Tennille – Love Will Keep Us Together
A3. Pilot – January
A4. Electric Light Orchestra – Sweet Talkin Woman
A5. Climax Blues Band – Couldnt Get It Right
A6. Ace – How Long
A7. Billy Swan – I Can Help

Side B
B1. The Fortunes – Storm In A Teacup
B2. David Essex – Gonna Make You a Star
B3. Sherbet – Howzat
B4. Andrew Gold – Never Let Her Slip Away
B5. 10cc – The Things We Do For Love
B6. Marshall Hain – Dancing In The City
B7. Carole Bayer Sager – Moving Out Today

Side C
C1. Peter Skellern – Hold On To Love
C2. Gallagher & Lyle – I Wanna Stay With You
C3. Andy Kim – Rock Me Gently
C4. Jim Gilstrap – Swing Your Daddy
C5. Brian Protheroe – Pinball
C6. Helen Reddy – Angie Baby
C7. Andrew Fairweather-Low – Wide Eyed & Legless
C8. Colin Blunstone – Say You Dont Mind

Side D
D1. Charlie Dore – Pilot Of The Airwaves
D2. Starland Vocal Band – Afternoon Delight
D3. Liverpool Express – You Are My Love
D4. Lynsey De Paul – Sugar Me
D5. Clout – Let It Grow
D6. Rupert Holmes – Him
D7. Eric Carmen – She Did It