What are your musical guilty pleasures?

Driver 8 · 10-09-2007 8:18pm #1

Not sure how "guilty" these are, but:

Counting Crows
Nelly Furtado's second album
Dixie Chicks
The fact that I prefer McCartney, and indeed, Harrison, to Lennon

Vanessa Carlton's second album

Right

Yours?

Kevster · 11-09-2007 1:21am

Well, I DID buy the Spice Girls' first album but gave it away to my Finnish friend. Oh, and there's nothing guilty about Paul McCartney! His songs are much better than the solo work of any of the other Beatles.

gucci · 11-09-2007 9:22am

didnt realise McCartney was something to be ashamed about...*hides in corner*
i also own a "euphoria" something or other cd.....shudder!safely say it was played twice about 5years ago!

mike65 · 11-09-2007 5:25pm

The wise man prefers Macca to Lennon.

My own "ahem" moments are to be found marked New Romantic!

Not the rubbish stuff naturally but the best by ABC, Visage, Human League etc.

Mike.

Ruu_Old · 11-09-2007 5:32pm

I'm partial to some Wang Chung.

Kevster · 11-09-2007 5:45pm

Interesting band, are Human League. After the band originally split-up, Phillip Oakey took-on two female vocalists that he plucked from the crowd at a gig in a Sheffield night-club. That's as far as I know.

Actually, Oakey went on to record the great 'Together In Electric Dreams' with Giorgio Morodor.

Kevin.

Karl Hungus · 11-09-2007 5:47pm

I have no guilty pleasures, only pleasures.

Seriously, there's nothing I feel guilty about listening to, even Japanese pop music.

mike65 · 11-09-2007 9:47pm

Kevster wrote:

Interesting band, are Human League. After the band originally split-up, Phillip Oakey took-on two female vocalists that he plucked from the crowd at a gig in a Sheffield night-club. That's as far as I know.

Actually, Oakey went on to record the great 'Together In Electric Dreams' with Giorgio Morodor.

Kevin.

Ooooh nasty song, proberly the worst thing Oakey put his name to!

The Leagues early history is of course tied up the the chaps who became Heaven 17/BEF, who also did some good stuff.

Esp this track

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRLnD37uZjc

/dances round the handbag.

Mike.

Kevster · 11-09-2007 10:11pm

Oh lord... ..what a find! Temptation!

mike65 · 11-09-2007 10:30pm

I just OD'd on 6 League numbers!

Mike.

Howard the Duck · 11-09-2007 10:57pm

hmmm

Erasure

The rocky horror picture show soundtrack

purplegeko · 12-09-2007 12:02pm

I'm afraid i have a soft spot for James Blunt!!!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 12-09-2007 12:11pm

prima J - Rockstar

Mr Alan · 13-09-2007 5:55pm

Driver 8 wrote:

Not sure how "guilty" these are, but:

Counting Crows
Nelly Furtado's second album
Dixie Chicks
The fact that I prefer McCartney, and indeed, Harrison, to Lennon
Vanessa Carlton's second album

Right Yours?

wat the **** is wrong with Counting Crows?! their first two albums are two of the best of the 90's!

guilty pleasures:

have a bit of a soft spot for Savage Garden.
cant believe i just admitted that

Driver 8 · 13-09-2007 6:27pm

Nothing's wrong with Counting Crows, I just realise they're not a very well liked band in terms of critical consensus or whatever.

I like 'em

JC 2K3 · 13-09-2007 6:38pm

millersangel wrote:

wat the **** is wrong with Counting Crows?! their first two albums are two of the best of the 90's!

Comments like this show how pointless a thread like this is.

No musical pleasure is "guilty". Perhaps misguided in the eyes of others, but there's no reason that should make you feel guilty - unless they killed a dog in the making of the album or something....

Blackhorse Slim · 13-09-2007 6:42pm

ZZTop's Eliminator album... too much 80's cheesy synths and soulless beats, but underneath there's still a **** hot blues band.

tech77 · 17-09-2007 6:18am

In the air tonight.
Phil Collins.
Or is this song officially cool..

nyarlothothep · 18-09-2007 8:58pm

Sussodio, Phil Collins
Peter Gabriel songs e.g. that song about making it big time plus Sledgehammer
Most of Queen Greatest Hits 2 and and most of 3- Invisible Man, I Want It All, Friends Will be Friends, songs like these ones, great songs though!

mike65 · 19-09-2007 10:50am

Why would Peter Gabriel be a guilty pleasure? Brilliant at times, always good.

Mike.

ntlbell · 19-09-2007 12:32pm

mike65 wrote:

Why would Peter Gabriel be a guilty pleasure? Brilliant at times, always good.

Mike.

JC 2K3 wrote:

Comments like this show how pointless a thread like this is.

.................

stovelid · 19-09-2007 1:43pm

mike65 wrote:

I just OD'd on 6 League numbers!

Mike.

Aye, they had some great stuff:

Being boiled
Fascination
Open your heart
Mirror man
Don't you want me
Love and dancing

I agree with JC 2K3. I'm not guilty about any pop that I like.

That said, there is very little that hasn't reappropriated by the ironists /student brigade anyway.

aidan24326 · 25-09-2007 12:23am

purplegeko wrote:

I'm afraid i have a soft spot for James Blunt!!!

Ooh. Off to music jail for that crime!!

Creamy Goodness · 25-09-2007 12:34am

i've been known to bop my head to some tracks of funeral for a friend and taking back sunday.

/hides

watna · 25-09-2007 11:50am

Ok, I'm really ashamed of this: The Backstreet Boys. I still like to listen to ehir older albums now and then. It brings me bck to being 14 all over again. it's like time travel!!

can.music.rocks · 27-09-2007 9:30pm

Sometimes I'm asked what's the most embarassing album on my iPod - I think this is a funny thread!
I'll have to say Kelly Clarkson and 'Women In Song 6' (the later might be a Canadian compilation that you guys aren't familiar with - yep its bad).