"Guilty" Pleasures

stickyfiddle

Stuff you have on your CD shelf / ipod / wax cylinder collection that you wouldn't necessarily admit to on a first date..

A few of mine. I have no guilt over these, but I'm sure some of my friends would look twice if they spotted them.

ABBA - Super Trouper. Brilliant album, and Waterloo- surely the best pure pop song ever?

John Denver -  Various songs from my Mum's collection. Most of my early musical memories are here from car journeys as a little'un. Definitely the first thing that made me want to play guitar and probably the reason I latch onto harmony just as much as melody

Wheatus - Their cover of A Little Respect is just brilliant.

Anyone else?

dogload

One that I really like but wouldn't have listened to had it not been for t'other half- 'The Fear' by Lily Allen.

I think the lyrics are really quite clever, it's cynical, knowing, blah blah and the tune isn't half bad either. In fact, it's the sort of thing I'd be quite proud of, if I'd written it!

Oh, and a literally guilty pleasure- 'Everyone's Gone To The Moon' by Jonathan King which I liked for many years before his incarceration, but it's had to go 'underground' in recent years. Guilty by association.

birdo

Michael buble. There I said it . I m out and I m proud. Ok actually I m not very proud and I want to get back in again.

Col_Decker

from the kiddies car playlist:

 

Take That - The flood. Bloody great song imo

One Direction - One way or another.

stickyfiddle

Just remembered a couple more:

Take That - Back For Good

Alien Ant Farm - Movies

Katy Perry - Firework

No guilt. Get in

Jalapeno

Some of my er .. "secrets"

Anastacia - the girl can sure belt out a tune

Gloria Estafan - especially her "roots" CD 90 Millas

VimFuego

yup, ABBA here.

David Gray.

this one is a bit difficult to admit to, but Beautiful by James Blunt. I'm gonna go ahead and blame a previously suppressed childhood trauma for that one.

stickyfiddle

I can't wait until the 90s are cool again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yBnIUX0QAE

ICBM

A couple of early Whitesnake albums. The music's great, but some of the lyrics are worthy of a vintage porn mag.

Everything else I have no guilt about whatsoever. I'm proud to like a wide variety of music - good, bad, quirky, cheesy and the rest...

ABBA and John Denver are both great. OK, I draw the line at Grandma's Feather Bed and a couple of others, but I just deleted those! I have every song ABBA ever released, as far as I know.

Take That, Katy Perry, Anastacia and David Gray here too.

not_the_dj

Avril Lavigne

stickyfiddle

ICBM said:

ABBA and John Denver are both great. OK, I draw the line at Grandma's Feather Bed and a couple of others, but I just deleted those! I have every song ABBA ever released, as far as I know.

Naff as it may be, there's some great guitar lines on that one..!

ICBM

not_the_dj said:

Avril Lavigne

What I don't get about her is that her first two albums are very good - the second one especially, she was starting to mature quite well - but then the third one was a total pile of shit that sounded as if it was written by a 12-year-old. I haven't even bothered to find out what she's done since.

not_the_dj

ICBM said:

not_the_dj said:

Avril Lavigne

What I don't get about her is that her first two albums are very good - the second one especially, she was starting to mature quite well - but then the third one was a total pile of shit that sounded as if it was written by a 12-year-old. I haven't even bothered to find out what she's done since.

Same here. It's the first two I've got, and I much prefer the second one. 

fatherjack

Not at all guilty, but Highly Illogical by Leonard Nimoy - guaranteed to cheer me up, as is his rendition of If I Had a Hammer.

ICBM

not_the_dj said:

Same here. It's the first two I've got, and I much prefer the second one. 

In the interests of research I downloaded the album after the shit one - Goodbye Lullaby - and I'm listening to it now. I think you'll like it, it's very good so far (lead single What The Hell excepted). I'm less keen that she described the one due out soon as "the next one will be pop and more fun again"... which sounds like it might be a return to 12-year-old music. Definitely listen before buy, I think.

In other similar news, I also like Kelly Clarkson a lot - Breakaway and My December especially. Not a 'guilty pleasure' either, but I know a lot of people who turn their noses up at the mainstream won't like her.

not_the_dj

Thanks @icbm I'll investigate

dogload

Doh! Wrong thread!

IanSavage

I've always found a place in my collection for the first All Saints album, under the auspices of it being for checking sound systems due to its phenomenal production (actually true, at least once upon a time)...

mike_l

Anastacia, Pink, Dire Straits.

johnnyurq

Most of everything posted so far due to a very eclectic taste.

Jennifer Rush The Power of Love, way better than horse face Celine Dion's version which is OK.

Babybird Your Gorgeous good silly fun,

Far to many cheesy pop, hip hop, rap and old skool rave/acid house stuff to mention. You know big fish, wee fish, cardboard box.

Several crooners and show type tunes both old and new, I was never confused though (copyright Al Murray/Pub Landlord).

[Deleted User]

The Bee Gees. 'You Win Again' is irresistible pop music.