Guilty Pleasures

Okay, so lately I've been cycling through the library of nearly 500 MP3s on my comp. Most of them I still listen to, but some of them are dusty from ages of playlessness (yes...I did just make that up, AND?!). So, now I'm listening to those old songs, and damn it, I love them still!! *Skips over a Sevendust song* okay some of them I still love...So now, I bring you the Guilty Pleasures thread. Post the bands, songs, albums, or anything musical that you like that isn't really your thing but you still love it. I'm talking things that you'd usually be ashamed to admit.

I'll embarass the hell out of myself first...

I like Story of the Year and Lost Prophets. I wouldn't spend money on their music, but I do turn the music up when they come on the radio...*Sigh* Stone me to death now...

Slipknot, Mudvayne, Deadsy, Boys Night Out (if they had the typical lyrics for the type of music they play, I'd hate them for sure), the first Static X record(when they were "prong for kids" . . or at least that's what I used to refer to them as), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - comin' out of our shells, japanese glam rock (Dir en grey and that sorta shit)

For some reason "Genie in a Bottle" always plays when I set my MP3's on random, but I rarely skip over it.

black rob - whoa
britney spears - toxic
coldplay - scientist
uh
lionel ritchie - endless love (what, friends listen to endless love in the dark)

i've always been a fan of Michelle Branch and Mandy Moore... and not just becasue they're hot...

[Edited on Jun 09, 2004 by mrdevon]

No such thing as a guilty pleasure. If you feel bad about liking it, you don't really like it.

Andrew WK told me that, and I gotta agree.

I get embarrassed when I play Prince when Im driving alone. When Im driving Im a complete 80's dork. I sing along to Pat Benetar and Styx...it doesnt matter what. I swear I have good taste in music and a great collection. I worked at a hole in the wall record store in AK for christ's sake. But... Hi. My name is J-cup and Im and 80's radio station addict.

I've got a copy of Bat Out of Hell hidden in my car.

i'll second that michelle branch

the Scientist may be overplayed... but it is nothing to feel guilty about.

as for myself, it's going to have to be everything by tatu.

Eminem - even though I can't stand him a s a person and don't like a lot of his lyrics.

Madonna's Ray of Light album

Chumbawumba.

about 50% of my mp3's...

don henley - boys of summer
richard marx - hazard, right here waiting
toto - africa
john parr - st elmos fire
john farnham - you're the voice
sophie b hawkins - damn i wish i was your lover
4 non blondes - whats going on
babylon zoo - spaceman
bee gees - you win again
cyndi lauper - time after time
divinyls - touch myself
voice of the beehive - monsters and angels
dire straits - romeo and juliet
van halen - jump, why can;t this be love

thats just for starters...

I could listen to that "Whoomp! There It Is" song all day...

I am not ashamed to claim liking any kind of music..except Chumbawamba..and Ace of fucking Bass...if you play either of those damn bands and I am near you..get ready to lose some eyeballs!! *grabs fork*

...as for Lost Prophets, Mudvayne, Deadsy, Slipknot, Static-X and Story of the Year??? those are some of my favorite bands..ostracize me if you will, but I have no shame I liked them all long before they became 'popular' and I don't bail on a band just because they 'make it big', or others like them...if I liked a band's music at one time in my life..it's a pretty good bet I still like it now

Neil Diamond, Tom Jones, and the Bee-Gee's.
There, finally out in the open.
AND OF COURSE I'M STRAIGHT!

Britney Spears - Toxic
Petey Pablo - Freekaleek
Tom Jones - She's a Lady

Christina Aquavelva does it for me too!
I heard she sings, is that true?

what seems to be a common one: britney spears - toxic
& a bunch of kylie minogue songs

I dunno... I don't really feel "guilty" per se about anything in my collection, but I think maybe I'm supposed to about the Bay City Rollers. I've loved 'em since I was a little kid and I still do... and I'll be the first to admit that a lot of their recorded works is sugary bubblegum tripe, but when they chose to rock they did it really well ("Yesterday's Hero", "Wouldn't You Like It", "Let's Go", "Saturday Night").




[Edited on Jun 10, 2004 by JumpinJackShit]

My entire music collection is a guilty pleasure.

Phil Collins. I have three 12-inchers, eight 7'-inchers and a cd for good measure. Love the shit. Not in an ironic way.
In My Pocket by Mandy Moore.
Toxic, Boys, Slave 4 U, etc. by Britney.
Africa by Toto.
Heaps of 80s tracks.
Duran Duran especially.

Oh I could go on and on.

Good lord they were UGLY

Enigma is my guilty pleasure.

(Waiting for the *WTF*'s to reverberate throughout the thread)

Yeah, no guilt, but I might get a bit embarassed if someone walked in while these were playing:

Whitesnake
Ratt
Cinderella
Skid Row
Def Leppard
Poison
Sir Mix A Lot
Early Ice-T
Early Ice Cube
...Vanilla Ice
All Cyndi Lauper
Mid-80's Ozzy
Suicide Commando
Hocico

and Yanni