"Guilty" Pleasures

Megii

Barbra Streisand - I thinks she's just terrific. Also I like The Carpenters a whole lot. I can enjoy a bit of Whitney Houston. And for some reason I seem to have collected just about everything ever released by Everything But The Girl....

strumjoughlamps

Megii;47216" said:

I seem to have collected just about everything ever released by Everything But The Girl....

Baby the Stars Shine Bright is a corking album.

INXS
Simple Minds, the early stuff up til and including New Gold Dream
Hanson - A Minute Without You, great pop song loved it since its release.

Bellycaster

I don't think most of the bands/Artists I've read on here are that "Guilty" really.

I'll chuck some in for chuckles, OK.

Alessi Oh Lorri

Andrea True Connection.......More x 3

Baccara  Yes, Sir.............

Baltimora........Tarzan Boy

Boy Meets Girl.......Waiting For a Star

Chesney Hawkes........I am...........(Only for the Guitar Solo, Honest, Really)

Curiosity Killed the Cat...........Misfit, Straight Back Down.

 

I've only got to "C" and I've skipped quite a few so far. Aside from Rock, Funk and Soul, I also love 70's Disco and a lot of 80's so you can imagine what I have lurking in my mp3's.

 

 

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Bucket

Lots of stuff I don't particularly consider guilty but probably is, like all the metal etc etc... there's some stuff that even I will concede is uncool though - mostly stuff my dad listens to which I've liked and picked up myself (passing the buck, yes indeed) - eg:

Rick Springfield

Night Ranger

Richard Marx

Journey

Nelson

Go West

The Feeling

Bits of Don Henley's cheesy 80s solo stuff

Say what you will about that lot (and I am looking through it and wondering if I really am heterosexual...) it all has brilliant guitar work.

Also, I like Autograph, an unbelievably cheesy and derivative 80s hair rock band (who had an awesome lead guitarist, Steve Lynch - the only real reason for listening to them IMO because the rest of it, I freely admit, is shite).

Also, @Bellycaster - good call on "Waiting For A Star to Fall"... not really my usual thing but I used to hear it in the car when I was small and have always liked it, it does have a belter of a chorus.

stickyfiddle

Bucket said:

Lots of stuff I don't particularly consider guilty but probably is, like all the metal etc etc... there's some stuff that even I will concede is uncool though - mostly stuff my dad listens to which I've liked and picked up myself (passing the buck, yes indeed) - eg:

Rick Springfield

Night Ranger

Richard Marx

Journey

Nelson

Go West

The Feeling

Bits of Don Henley's cheesy 80s solo stuff

Say what you will about that lot (and I am looking through it and wondering if I really am heterosexual...) it all has brilliant guitar work.

Also, I like Autograph, an unbelievably cheesy and derivative 80s hair rock band (who had an awesome lead guitarist, Steve Lynch - the only real reason for listening to them IMO because the rest of it, I freely admit, is shite).

Also, @Bellycaster - good call on "Waiting For A Star to Fall"... not really my usual thing but I used to hear it in the car when I was small and have always liked it, it does have a belter of a chorus.

Nothing guilty about Rick Springfield. Awesome song..

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

ICBM

strumjoughlamps said:

Simple Minds, the early stuff up til and including New Gold Dream

Nothing to be ashamed of there. It's only "guilty" if you like the stuff after Don't You Forget About Me .

(I do, too!)

octatonic

I sometimes work out to Good Charlotte when my ears need a rest from all the metal I otherwise listen to. GRRRRR!

nickp

ICBM said:

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

agreed and it doesn't translate well for Coverdale trying to re-live the 80's when his voice isn't up to it and he's an old man singing the same old porno lyrics.

contrast with robert plant's approach!

nickp

ICBM said:

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

agreed and it doesn't translate well for Coverdale trying to re-live the 80's when his voice isn't up to it and he's an old man singing the same old porno lyrics.

contrast with robert plant's approach!

BluesboyMitch

I was born in 1990 so please don't judge but O-town all or nothing is my ultimate guilty pleasure

monquixote

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.

I found that very weird. 

Most teen pop acts seem to go towards maturity and grown up music. She seemed to go in the other direction.

ICBM

monquixote said:

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.

I found that very weird. 

Most teen pop acts seem to go towards maturity and grown up music. She seemed to go in the other direction.

Totally - but if like me you lost interest with The Best Damn Thing (most wrong album title ever?) and didn't listen to Goodbye Lullaby, give it a go. I got it a couple of days ago after not_the_dj reminded me I maybe should find out what it was like - there's one duff track on it, the lead single... the rest is much more like what you'd expect for her third album if you'd never heard TBDT. It's maybe not as good as Under My Skin but it's not at all bad.

monquixote

ICBM said:

I found that very weird. 

Most teen pop acts seem to go towards maturity and grown up music. She seemed to go in the other direction.

Totally - but if like me you lost interest with The Best Damn Thing (most wrong album title ever?) and didn't listen to Goodbye Lullaby, give it a go. I got it a couple of days ago after not_the_dj reminded me I maybe should find out what it was like - there's one duff track on it, the lead single... the rest is much more like what you'd expect for her third album if you'd never heard TBDT. It's maybe not as good as Under My Skin but it's not at all bad.

Cheers I'll give it a listen. 

I'm an unashamed pop fan. We quite often have Katy Perry, Abba, Duran Duran, Kylie, etc on in the car. 

not_the_dj

@ICBM I downloaded the 'deluxe' edition of Goodbye Lullaby (a few acoustic tracks and other bits on there as well) . Quite enjoying it, but needs a few more listens.

TPReggie

Haha, ok I had better fess up then - I spend my saturday morning breakfast/coffee time surfing youtube looking for odd and interesting music. 

I found an album called "Swedish Hits Go Metal" which I secretly love, taken Swedish Pop hits from Abba/Ace of Base/Roxette and turned them into hair metal - for those of you who have mentioned Abba - here is an example from the album of what they have done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixa1kXjMhAU&list=PL1B4A4A3D160F9AE3 

ICBM

monquixote said:

I'm an unashamed pop fan. We quite often have Katy Perry, Abba, Duran Duran, Kylie, etc on in the car. 

Same here - all that and more, including a lot of the current chart "crap". OK, a lot of it is a bit - and some of it is truly dire - but surprisingly enough my kids are able to tell the difference. And much of it is actually well-written, recorded and produced - OK perhaps not great music and not really memorable - a lot of it's going to be forgotten in ten years, just going back through Now That's What I Call Music albums from that long ago is quite funny! - but I don't see anything wrong with liking it. It's interesting to watch my kids develop a real sense of what's good and what isn't in music - and understanding that it's not always the same as what you like and what you don't...

I certainly don't feel any guilt or shame for liking mainstream music like a lot of 'serious' musicians seem to. I'm even happy to like stuff that I know full well isn't meant to be anything other than throwaway pop. There is some that's truly good, too - if you close your mind to anything that's commercially successful you're going to miss out on some great music just the same as if you never listen to anything else.

stickyfiddle

Now I can't be facepalmed I guess I should also add that I bloody love Coldplay. I've seen them live loads of times and they're always brilliant. Jonny Buckland is a cracking guitar player with loads of really nice Teles too.

Also The Kooks. The frontman's a knobhead but again the guitarist is excellent. Naive and Always Where I Need To Be are both brilliant songs.

viz

Wow it's nice to see so many people with such eclectic taste, and proud of it too! Just goes to show there's no "right answer" when it comes to art. For my part, I have around 800 records, and 300 of them are taken up with just 5 artists - Steve Vai, the Deep Purple Rainbow Whitesnake love triangle, The Damned, Rachmaninov and ... Duran Duran.

breakstuff

Hopelessly devoted by Olivia Newton John.Soppy but brilliant.

Superstar by Jamelia.Great pop song.

Also most of Robbie Williams early stuff.Really dropped a bollock when he let Guy Chambers go.

stickyfiddle

breakstuff said:

Hopelessly devoted by Olivia Newton John.Soppy but brilliant.

Superstar by Jamelia.Great pop song.

Also most of Robbie Williams early stuff.Really dropped a bollock when he let Guy Chambers go.

Good call. Have some Wisdom. Angels might be overplayed (or at least it was around 2000), but it's brilliant song.