What's your weirdest guilty pleasure in music?

axisus

Just to add, I don't think people need to get hung up on the 'guilty pleasure' phrase, it's just one of those throwaway comments. We all like the stuff we are mentioning, we don't actually feel 'guilty' about liking them!

axisus

Philly_Q said:

I don't think I have any guilty pleasures, but I still love almost everything from the Top 40 between 1976 and the early '80s, those were my "chart years".  

Same for me (well, I started probably 1977). I just love all that music. 

Trude

I was raised on Steeleye Span, and I still prefer them to Fairport Convention. Also one of my favourite albums is Sails of Silver, which makes me an outsider even among Steeleye fans!

Winny_Pooh

breakstuff said:

Robbie Williams first two albums for me.

This is why anonymity on the internet is a good thing.

stimpsonslostson

Winny_Pooh said:

breakstuff said:

Robbie Williams first two albums for me.

This is why anonymity on the internet is a good thing.

I agree. It's common knowledge that Escapology is his best album!

EricTheWeary

stimpsonslostson said:

Winny_Pooh said:

breakstuff said:

Robbie Williams first two albums for me.

This is why anonymity on the internet is a good thing.

I agree. It's common knowledge that Escapology is his best album!

The Robbie big budget biopic Better Man out end of September this year. Exciting.

Not music I’d seek out but that Guy Chambers period stuff was certainly well put together. 

Reverend

Sporky said:

We're not here to judge each other.

yes we are.

breakstuff

Winny_Pooh said:

breakstuff said:

Robbie Williams first two albums for me.

This is why anonymity on the internet is a good thing.

 
 

Philly_Q

Trude said:

I was raised on Steeleye Span

I've always had my doubts about home schooling, and this just confirms them.

bobblehat

Glad to know I'm not the only Swifty fan on here ! Never paid much attention to her or her music until I watched the Folklore Documentary on Disney+ a couple of years ago. Has some great tunes and really is a great talent, even some of the early country stuff is quite addictive.  
My current guilty pleasure is Maisie Peters new album "The Good Witch" . Not sure if I'm having some kind of Mid Life crises or maybe just at that stage where you just take stuff at face value and like what you like. 

LPManic

I really like early 00s pop. Really miss T4 and being younger and better looking ha!

gumbothewiddler

Nick Copes podcast songs. My kids love them and they are annoyingly catchy….

equalsql

I loved The Corrs first album and am still a fan of The Carpenters and Matt Monroe.

Philly_Q

equalsql said:

I loved The Corrs first album and am still a fan of The Carpenters and Matt Monroe.

Matt Monro did the best James Bond song ever, IMO.

The Corrs though.... I hope you're ashamed.

scrumhalf

Matt Monro's "We're Gonna Change The World is possibly the most subversive piece of MOR pop ever.

I remembered a good tune as a young kid but when I heard it again almost 50 years on the lyrics astonished me.

It's worth a few minutes of anyone's listening time. 

ALR

I really REALLY love Belinda Carlisle. I will fairly often stuck her on to lift my mood a bit, I went to see her live in Manchester back in Feb and it was a fantastic gig; she’s still got the voice and her love band were amazing (drummer incorporated the breakbeat before the second chorus of ‘Do you feel like I feel’ which I was particularly impressed with. I’m 43 now and she was big when I was a kid but I don’t think it’s nostalgia as such. Just love hearing a great voice singing well written songs.

It’s led me to discovering the Go-gos who were one seriously impressive band - watch some of their live performances on YouTube, especially the 2001 New York gig (outdoors, possibly Central Park). I’ve got a very big appreciation for Jane Wiedlin, I have three of her four solo albums. Her and Charlotte Caffey were a formidable songwriting force!

mudslide73

Carl Douglas, Joboxers, Chas and Dave and the Worzels. Goombay Dance Band, FR David and Rene and Renato can do one though.  

Vintage65

It's interesting to see so many Swifties on here! I totally ignored her music career, but I have started collecting the Taylor's Version re-recorded albums. She is a better singer now, and there are some top-notch musicians and producers on these new albums. The ones released so far are Fearless, Red & Speak Now.

Vintage65

ALR said:

It’s led me to discovering the Go-gos who were one seriously impressive band - watch some of their live performances on YouTube, especially the 2001 New York gig (outdoors, possibly Central Park). I’ve got a very big appreciation for Jane Wiedlin, I have three of her four solo albums. Her and Charlotte Caffey were a formidable songwriting force!

I've aways thought Vacation is a top tune!

Offset

mudslide73 said:

Carl Douglas, Joboxers, Chas and Dave and the Worzels. Goombay Dance Band, FR David and Rene and Renato can do one though.  

I saw Chas & Dave playing a pub local to me a few years back - it can't have been that long before Chas passed away.  They were great - consummate professionals.  I've always liked them - no guilt attached!