What are your musical guilty pleasures?

Driver 8 · 10-09-2007 7:18pm #1

Not sure how "guilty" these are, but:

Counting Crows
Nelly Furtado's second album
Dixie Chicks
The fact that I prefer McCartney, and indeed, Harrison, to Lennon

Vanessa Carlton's second album

Right

Yours?

Kevster · 11-09-2007 12:21am

Well, I DID buy the Spice Girls' first album but gave it away to my Finnish friend. Oh, and there's nothing guilty about Paul McCartney! His songs are much better than the solo work of any of the other Beatles.

gucci · 11-09-2007 8:22am

didnt realise McCartney was something to be ashamed about...*hides in corner*
i also own a "euphoria" something or other cd.....shudder!safely say it was played twice about 5years ago!

mike65 · 11-09-2007 4:25pm

The wise man prefers Macca to Lennon.

My own "ahem" moments are to be found marked New Romantic!

Not the rubbish stuff naturally but the best by ABC, Visage, Human League etc.

Mike.

Ruu_Old · 11-09-2007 4:32pm

I'm partial to some Wang Chung.

Kevster · 11-09-2007 4:45pm

Interesting band, are Human League. After the band originally split-up, Phillip Oakey took-on two female vocalists that he plucked from the crowd at a gig in a Sheffield night-club. That's as far as I know.

Actually, Oakey went on to record the great 'Together In Electric Dreams' with Giorgio Morodor.

Kevin.

Karl Hungus · 11-09-2007 4:47pm

I have no guilty pleasures, only pleasures.

Seriously, there's nothing I feel guilty about listening to, even Japanese pop music.

mike65 · 11-09-2007 8:47pm

Kevster wrote:

Interesting band, are Human League. After the band originally split-up, Phillip Oakey took-on two female vocalists that he plucked from the crowd at a gig in a Sheffield night-club. That's as far as I know.

Actually, Oakey went on to record the great 'Together In Electric Dreams' with Giorgio Morodor.

Kevin.

Ooooh nasty song, proberly the worst thing Oakey put his name to!

The Leagues early history is of course tied up the the chaps who became Heaven 17/BEF, who also did some good stuff.

Esp this track

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRLnD37uZjc

/dances round the handbag.

Mike.

Kevster · 11-09-2007 9:11pm

Oh lord... ..what a find! Temptation!

mike65 · 11-09-2007 9:30pm

I just OD'd on 6 League numbers!

Mike.

Howard the Duck · 11-09-2007 9:57pm

hmmm

Erasure

The rocky horror picture show soundtrack

purplegeko · 12-09-2007 11:02am

I'm afraid i have a soft spot for James Blunt!!!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 12-09-2007 11:11am

prima J - Rockstar

Mr Alan · 13-09-2007 4:55pm

Driver 8 wrote:

Not sure how "guilty" these are, but:

Counting Crows
Nelly Furtado's second album
Dixie Chicks
The fact that I prefer McCartney, and indeed, Harrison, to Lennon
Vanessa Carlton's second album

Right Yours?

wat the **** is wrong with Counting Crows?! their first two albums are two of the best of the 90's!

guilty pleasures:

have a bit of a soft spot for Savage Garden.
cant believe i just admitted that

Driver 8 · 13-09-2007 5:27pm

Nothing's wrong with Counting Crows, I just realise they're not a very well liked band in terms of critical consensus or whatever.

I like 'em

JC 2K3 · 13-09-2007 5:38pm

millersangel wrote:

wat the **** is wrong with Counting Crows?! their first two albums are two of the best of the 90's!

Comments like this show how pointless a thread like this is.

No musical pleasure is "guilty". Perhaps misguided in the eyes of others, but there's no reason that should make you feel guilty - unless they killed a dog in the making of the album or something....

Blackhorse Slim · 13-09-2007 5:42pm

ZZTop's Eliminator album... too much 80's cheesy synths and soulless beats, but underneath there's still a **** hot blues band.

tech77 · 17-09-2007 5:18am

In the air tonight.
Phil Collins.
Or is this song officially cool..

nyarlothothep · 18-09-2007 7:58pm

Sussodio, Phil Collins
Peter Gabriel songs e.g. that song about making it big time plus Sledgehammer
Most of Queen Greatest Hits 2 and and most of 3- Invisible Man, I Want It All, Friends Will be Friends, songs like these ones, great songs though!

mike65 · 19-09-2007 9:50am

Why would Peter Gabriel be a guilty pleasure? Brilliant at times, always good.

Mike.

ntlbell · 19-09-2007 11:32am

mike65 wrote:

Why would Peter Gabriel be a guilty pleasure? Brilliant at times, always good.

Mike.

JC 2K3 wrote:

Comments like this show how pointless a thread like this is.

.................

stovelid · 19-09-2007 12:43pm

mike65 wrote:

I just OD'd on 6 League numbers!

Mike.

Aye, they had some great stuff:

Being boiled
Fascination
Open your heart
Mirror man
Don't you want me
Love and dancing

I agree with JC 2K3. I'm not guilty about any pop that I like.

That said, there is very little that hasn't reappropriated by the ironists /student brigade anyway.

aidan24326 · 24-09-2007 11:23pm

purplegeko wrote:

I'm afraid i have a soft spot for James Blunt!!!

Ooh. Off to music jail for that crime!!

Creamy Goodness · 24-09-2007 11:34pm

i've been known to bop my head to some tracks of funeral for a friend and taking back sunday.

/hides

watna · 25-09-2007 10:50am

Ok, I'm really ashamed of this: The Backstreet Boys. I still like to listen to ehir older albums now and then. It brings me bck to being 14 all over again. it's like time travel!!

can.music.rocks · 27-09-2007 8:30pm

Sometimes I'm asked what's the most embarassing album on my iPod - I think this is a funny thread!
I'll have to say Kelly Clarkson and 'Women In Song 6' (the later might be a Canadian compilation that you guys aren't familiar with - yep its bad).

TheNumpty · 30-09-2007 9:45pm

My guilty pleasure is this song right here, its so unashamedly cheesy and happy but i love it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8DQTs155nsA

Bubs101 · 30-09-2007 10:02pm

The greatest hits of S-Club

Great doesn't come close

Nailz · 30-09-2007 10:34pm

tech77 wrote:

In the air tonight.
Phil Collins.
Or is this song officially cool..

nyarlothothep wrote:

Sussodio, Phil Collins

Whats so guilty about Phil Collins, he's a legend

!

mike65 · 08-10-2007 10:11pm

Duran Duran - White Lines

(Its great!)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Seq9ygNZPp8

The original for comparison

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dIWIv5xhfp0

Mike.

Kold · 08-10-2007 11:11pm

I've a pretty impressive iPod but people always have a go about the amount of Keane I have... I just like em, alright?

klaus flouride · 09-10-2007 8:11am

I know all the words to the 'Fresh Prince of Bel Air' Theme tune. When I'm p1ssed I bust out the rhymes with great passion.

klaus flouride · 09-10-2007 8:14am

mike65 wrote:

Duran Duran - White Lines (Its great!)

Their music is not brilliant, but they had a great bass player; just listen to the rhythym section next time you hear a Duran x 2 song- you'll see what I mean.

Nichololas · 09-10-2007 8:21am

Little Respect by Wheatus.

Andrewf20 · 14-10-2007 12:17am

mike65 wrote: »

Why would Peter Gabriel be a guilty pleasure? Brilliant at times, always good.

Mike.

Yes, Peter Gabriel is fab. The SO album is one of the best albums my pile.

Heres my guilty pleasure - WHAM! - Greatest hits. Some great tunes in there. Great to have roaring out of the car window on O Connell street at 3pm.

Not as scary as above, but Im a big fan of Kate Bush as well.

keefg · 14-10-2007 8:48am

Me thinks I shall have to hang myself in a dark cupboard after admitting to these..........but I suppose thats the price you pay for growing up in the 80's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4R97AeM6IE

and......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZcBbltcUw4

Edit: Oh, and Dudess.....Yeah Yeah, I know:o:o:o:o, just leave me alone while I look for some rope.

S.I.R · 14-10-2007 1:22pm

my guilty pleases , gotta be kool & the gang or grand master flash and the furious five... not many people know em but there some of the bigger bands around

not my normal choice in music but sure is great music so i gotta listen from time to time

keefg · 16-10-2007 7:21am

S.I.R wrote: »

gotta be kool & the gang

There is room in my dark cupboard..............bring your own rope, I only have enough for me.

Xavi6 · 16-10-2007 11:16am

Backstreet Boys, Take That, N Sync, Spice Girls, Tiffany, Bonnie Tyler, Belinda Carlisle.

Oh and Roxette, especially 'Listen To Your Heart'. Top tune

red_ice · 16-10-2007 11:30am

Ruu wrote: »

I'm partial to some Wang

aww knacker. I bet you are!

Blackhorse Slim wrote: »

ZZTop's Eliminator album... too much 80's cheesy synths and soulless beats, but underneath there's still a **** hot blues band.

never.. EVER... EVVVERRR rag on the top. How dare you, wtf do you think you are? They can play what ever they want, and it will rock harder than something really hard. The fking cheek of some people.

/me takes out his car keys and twiddles his ZZTOP keychain... THATS RIGHT, I HAVE A REAL ONE!

Blisterman · 18-10-2007 3:40pm

S.I.R wrote: »

my guilty pleases , gotta be kool & the gang or grand master flash and the furious five... not many people know em but there some of the bigger bands around

Nothing wrong with either of them.

In my opinion anyway. But, then again, I do get a lot of slaggng over my musical taste.

Dudess · 18-10-2007 4:02pm

What was it, Keefg - YouTube has lifted it. Clouds Across The Moon - great track. I refuse to apologise for liking that naff white eighties jazz-funk - Shakatak kicked ass:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upkpZjnckAc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k0EytNHQ7E

stovelid · 18-10-2007 4:22pm

Dudess wrote: »

I refuse to apologise for liking that naff white eighties jazz-funk - Shakatak kicked ass:

Made my afternoon, that. Who'd have thought Peely had mates in Shakatak?

I'll have to raise you five...

Dudess · 18-10-2007 4:46pm

Quality. Ah, there was a real love for that kind of stuff in Cork 10 or 12 years ago, which lasted til about 2001. Mór Disco was a weekly event that featured nothing but jazz-funk "joints", the back bar in Sir Henry's for chilled-out "cats", Soulsides in the Half-Moon Club, Telefunken, Jam in The Savoy.
Happy days.... *sniff*

ecoli · 19-10-2007 8:58am

anyone heard the german version of aqua s barbie girl now that was a classic lol
on the topic of guilty pleasures aqua s candyman was an amazin song

tech77 · 20-10-2007 12:45am

Off the top of my head i can think of:
True. Spandau Ballet
Since you've been gone. Kelly Clarkson.
Also have a soft spot for one or two Roxette tracks. Must have been love etc.

Dudess · 20-10-2007 12:55am

Imagination - tacky British "soul" (I use the term loosely - don't want to insult Marvin et al) group from the early 80s. Top notch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9nXEXWlQ5Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RCZM2kRQ1c

Makaveli · 20-10-2007 1:20pm

S.I.R wrote: »

my guilty pleases grand master flash and the furious five

wtf? Since when is Grandmaster Flash considered a guilty pleasure?

Jay P · 20-10-2007 1:27pm

The feeling. Some cheesy shizzle right thurr

Dudess · 20-10-2007 2:30pm

Makaveli wrote: »

wtf? Since when is Grandmaster Flash considered a guilty pleasure?

The person who posted that is 15 - clearly doesn't realise how important and innovative The Message was/is considered.

Kold · 20-10-2007 4:00pm

ecoli wrote: »

anyone heard the german version of aqua s barbie girl now that was a classic lol
on the topic of guilty pleasures aqua s candyman was an amazin song

This guy wins the thread by proving the 'shouldn't feel guilty for any music' posters wrong.