Band/artist you are most ashamed for liking?

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Don't give me the usual "ugh like what you like, why would you be ashamed!?" spiel, you know what I mean.

For me it has to be No Doubt, I feel like such a pussy for liking them... (Although it helps that Gwen Stefani's a babe )

Sorry, but I love it:

Anyway AH, what's yours?

cactuspaw

oh god, last year it used to be heaven to spend my Sundays watching the Big Reunion, just for this...

I do love a bit of 5ive, even though there was 4 of them!

The Backwards Man

I'm not ashamed of any of the music I like.

orangesoda

wee daniel o'donnell, jimmy buckley, randy travis and Boyz II Men

maybe Paramore as well, even saw them live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_KmYHaf58Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECypzXWOqzM

Adamantium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQzYytaR34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baSfRC_rS4o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQzn4a5qHT4

Love them. Throw rotten vegetables at me.
.......
I'm hungry :P

calanus

Coldplay

Banjo String

Cornershop.

Brimful of Asha is some tune though.

hairyprincess

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'm not ashamed of any of the music I like.

me neither. I'm at the 'couldn't give a **** age' about everything. But my guilty pleasure would be Wee Daniel

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Adamantium wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQzYytaR34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baSfRC_rS4o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQzn4a5qHT4

Love them. Throw rotten vegetables at me.
.......
I'm hungry :P

Get out.

ScummyMan

I don't understand why you would be embarrassed to like any music? It's your own personal taste.


Unless it's One Direction, then be embarrassed.

Vito Corleone

Kendrick Lamar.

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The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'm not ashamed of any of the music I like.

Would you publicly admit to like Eiffel 65? :P (I would.)

EoghanIRL

One direction are actually amazing

Lando Griffin

EoghanIRL wrote: »

One direction are actually amazing

and 1D have millions and zillions of fans!

Adamantium

Hotale.com wrote: »

Get out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkJehlr1tEw

The Backwards Man

Hotale.com wrote: »

Would you publicly admit to like Eiffel 65? :P (I would.)

That's not music, it's an affront to humanity.

Czarcasm

These threads hurt my phone, creaking under the weight of all the embedded YouTube videos... and then someone else goes and quotes a whole string of them!

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Czarcasm wrote: »

These threads hurt my phone, creaking under the weight of all the embedded YouTube videos... and then someone else goes and quotes a whole string of them!

Sorry

AlwaysAnyTime

I'm really into heavy metal, grindcore, death, etc. So obviously I could never admit loving a bit of "saturday night"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DNQRtmIMxk

orangesoda

hairyprincess wrote: »

me neither. I'm at the 'couldn't give a **** age' about everything. But my guilty pleasure would be Wee Daniel

hard to beat a bit of wee daniel, i wanted to go to a concert recently but i would be surrounded by auld biddies

The Domonator

Forgive me.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A

the groutch

Also guilty of being a closet Aqua fan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_LPJllaogU

Lucifer MorningStar

The Priests

AnonoBoy

I only listen to one type of music - good music.

.....and The Bangles.

Tasden

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

I don't understand why you would be embarrassed to like any music? It's your own personal taste.


Unless it's One Direction, then be embarrassed.

Basshunter, scooter, basically any music you hear playing at the dogems at the fun fair

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Tasden wrote: »

Basshunter, scooter, basically any music you hear playing at the dogems at the fun fair

I forgot Basshunter existed...

Super-Rush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIGGVIkcyWU

Troy Lumberjack

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'm not ashamed of any of the music I like.

You should be. Shameless fecker.

fleet_admiral

the groutch wrote: »

Also guilty of being a closet Aqua fan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_LPJllaogU

Turn back time is a great song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls0WfopgR9k

Legwinski

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

I don't understand why you would be embarrassed to like any music? It's your own personal taste.


Unless it's One Direction, then be embarrassed.

'Story of my life' is pretty catchy

Adamantium

I'm sure at one point, ABBA was a thing men would not admit to liking.
Don't know about now....amazing popular music.

Love this video and the intro, plus the blonde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEjLoHdbVeE

obezyana

Not ashamed at all at liking Sam Smiths song Stay with me it's really really good.

I'm posting from my phone so I can't link it.

Right Turn Clyde

I went to Witnness in 2001 at 16 years of age. Felix Da Housecat really impressed me in the dance tent (he used to be a quality DJ). The next day I bought his album, Kittenz and Thee Glitz, at the Tower Records stall. But when I heard it for the first time it sounded GAY. It didn't sound like dance music. It was slow, and GAY. The trouble is I really liked it! But I couldn't let my friends hear it, and especially not my brother. Just in case they thought I was GAY. But it was a key turning point in my adolescence. It turns out that the album did sound 'gay', in that it was the culmination of multiple styles of dance music that grew out of the underground disco scene in New York. Listening to that album and that type of music, and reading up on the successes and tragedies behind it, really put an education on me. It dragged me out of the little narrow-minded world I was settling into. Good music is good music.

thebostoncrab

I'm not ashamed about it at all but it usually gets the "huh" reaction. I spend a lot of my time listening to acts like Sigur Rós, My Bloody Valentine, Faith No More, Tool.....


....and Sash! I ****ing love Sash, Jesus he has produced so many quality dance track it boggles my mind that more people don't get behind the power of Sash!

DEFTLEFTHAND

Teddy Thompson. Real cringepop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRQoWrtf6t8

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

i listen to 'hard house nation' compilations that were big around the turn of the century when i'm in a certain mood. usually when i'm hungover. i'm thinking of adding them to my last.fm hidden list. come to think of it, i think hard house nation 3 was the last CD I bought back in 2000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQygXejIefk

BetterThanThou

Nickelback, I don't understand the hate these guys get, I've heard criticisms that they get, but I can apply most of those criticisms to lots of well loved bands from all eras. I mean, they're not one of my favorite bands ever, but they've got some good songs.

Charlie19

One hit wonders shouldn't count.

Going to stick my neck out and say Takethat.

Herb Powell

Fucck it like, it's a choon, I can't help it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86fK4jNT8-k

Joe Doe

1. Boney M - they're some funksters, right? I cans be hipster too? They're still on the go. Taught me how to sphell 'd-i-s-c-o' properlies.

2. Van Halen - All that's best of the 80's in one bag of turbo overdrive, lyrcra & lady loving glam rocking mtv videos.

3. Saxon - '747' is a great song ta be sure, that screaming delay driven intro is supafly! Album covers spectacular e.g. 'Crusader', that album wouldn't be allowed of the press these days in case the theme upset the fellows looking for the halal at subway etc.

4. Prince - he's not a woman, not a man, something we'll never understand but genius all the same, read once he put a handful of wasps in his mouth, just to feel their empathy, also reckons he's sent here from Jupiter, me too. S'MF best 2 mins song ever?

5. Beastie Boys - everyone remembers 'fight for yo right to party' but everything else since that was waaay much better.

sparksfly

Tatu

Not because they are Russian lesbians but because of their immense talent.

brinty

hahahaha some funny responses ont his thread and some good memories (Tatu and Whigfield)

I'll throw a few funny ones in here

Vengaboys - i got their first album (my wife abuses me about it non stop until i hit her with her New Radicals album )

The Wanted - For a boy band they have some decent music

Ellie Goulding - ssome of her stuff is kinda good!!

Heart - They'd some great tunes (Alone, These dreams, all i wanna do)

And you gotta love the cheesy 90's dances and routine type tunes (Saturday night - Whigfield, Oh a just a little bit - Gina G, Marcarena - Los del rios, Skatman - Skatman John, Blue - Eiffel 65 etc etc etc..)

Coopaloop

Britney b*tch

Oh and savage garden!!!!!

Balmed Out

Joe Doe wrote: »

5. Beastie Boys - everyone remembers 'fight for yo right to party' but everything else since that was waaay much better.

Beastie Boys are one of the most respected artists of the last 30 years why would you be ashamed of that..... Songs like intergalactic and my fave sabotage are as well known.

Anyhow.

Take that.

Im not actually ashamed of anything I like but then I wouldnt like aqua at all.

Kolido

I stick this tune on ever now and again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8UKf65NOzM

when there is no one else around of course.

jacksie66

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Irish Halo

Joe Doe wrote: »

1. Boney M
2. Van Halen
3. Saxon
4. Prince
5. Beastie Boys

Only MAYBE Boney M is something to be embarrassed about in that list. I don't mean "Don't be embarrassed I like them too" (I don't own a single track by any of them and have no urge to, except Van Halen) but they are all pretty much considered legends in their genre and well respected outside their fan base.

I'd like to say I am not embarrassed by some artists I listen to, as someone who listens mostly to metal and punk I'll still admit to liking The Frames, David Gray, Bon Jovi and a few others but I have trouble admitting I have a fondness for at least one album by Linkin Park, Semisonic or Toploader ...

J Cheever Loophole

I'd guess I'm a good bit older than the average age here and I love recounting the golden era of music of my teenage years - punk and post punk - the list of bands roll of the tongue - Damned, Siouxsie and the Banshees, XTC, Pistols, Madness, Stranglers, Specials, Beat, Associates, Teardrop Explodes, etc etc.

I tend not to mention as much my own guilty pleasure from that era - ELO! A list of brilliant singles and albums - Discovery, Out of the Blue, A New World Record.....

......great music, just not in keeping as much with the 'cool' punk and post punk bands!!

Aglomerado

I like Stock Aitken and Waterman stuff from the late 80s. Cheesy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGuNsiSZ9RI

BadCompany

Vito Corleone wrote: »

Kendrick Lamar.

Eh, Kendrick is probably the most critically acclaimed rapper of the last 5 years, why would you be ashamed of liking him Is he the only rapper you like or something? Hip-hop is an oft-overlooked genre I think, some absolute gems to be found if you only scratch the surface - it's not all gunz n bitchiz!

My own would be the likes of "pop metal" bands like Avenged Sevenfold - not necessarily a favourite band of mine but I do think they're excellent at what they do! Going to a metal festival next month which they're playing at and I can only imagine the ribbing I'm going to get for wanting to see them!

...I also think *Nsync's "Bye Bye Bye" is a belter! *runs away*

ShagNastii

Probably Gary Glitter for obvious reasons.

The man made some seriously catchy music.