Band/artist you are most ashamed for liking?

GLaDOS · 02-05-2014 8:33am

Some strange selections to be embarrassed about in this thread. I have no problem standing over any artist in my collection anyway.

02-05-2014 8:36am

SUM 41

I lied, I have no same. All killer no Filler is class

jacksie66 · 02-05-2014 8:47am

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Ray Palmer · 02-05-2014 10:27am

ShagNastii wrote: »

Probably Gary Glitter for obvious reasons.

The man made some seriously catchy music.

He really did. You can't play any of them in public anymore except in the US and Canada where "Rock and Roll" is played and sporting events.

Some of his songs really have the worst titles for this too " Do You Want to Touch Me" and "Want to be in my Gang"

It has also effect others the Glitter Band where a separate band and they aren't played anymore so they lost a fair amount of revenue.

Adamantium · 02-05-2014 6:56pm

S Club 7 had me reciting lyrics in my heads to this day.
For some odd reason I couldn't stick pop music as kid, but I loved this.
Helped that they some of them could sing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2q3FJTFgtk

Lia_lia · 02-05-2014 7:03pm

I liked Savage Garden for a while. Still kinda do. Total guilty pleasure!

Mysteriouschic · 02-05-2014 7:14pm

Steps

and
Gareth Gates

Seaneh · 02-05-2014 7:20pm

Bad 90's pop punk and pop punk covers of pop songs.

Czarcasm · 02-05-2014 7:31pm

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

Gareth Gates

<YouTube clip snip>

Well, this is awkward....

*slips man-card under the door on the way out*

Fcuk it, cracker of a song tbh!

Zed Bank · 02-05-2014 7:33pm

calanus wrote: »

Coldplay

Ah c'mon, Coldplay are sublime. Absolutely no shame in liking them.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 02-05-2014 7:36pm

I like Lady Gaga the big illuminati slapper.

(and I saw her flaps on the big screen at Oxygen 6/7 years ago)..seriously.

maguic24 · 02-05-2014 7:53pm

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

I like Lady Gaga the big illuminati slapper.

(and I saw her flaps on the big screen at Oxygen 6/7 years ago)..seriously.

Seen her live twice ...love her!!! No shame in that!!! Also love 5ive, boyzone, backstreet boys, justin timberlake...all the boy bands of the 90's....AND PROUD!

maguic24 · 02-05-2014 7:55pm

Currently love this song.....

maguic24 · 02-05-2014 7:58pm

cactuspaw wrote: »

oh god, last year it used to be heaven to spend my Sundays watching the Big Reunion, just for this...

I do love a bit of 5ive, even though there was 4 of them!

There was 5 originally!

Lady Spangles · 02-05-2014 7:59pm

Def Leppard. I'm. Not. Sorry.

Crumpets · 02-05-2014 8:01pm

Vengaboys

kumate_champ07 · 02-05-2014 8:04pm

Banjo String wrote: »

Cornershop.

Brimful of Asha is some tune though.

that was the fatboy slim remix that got all the airplay

Dr. Bre · 02-05-2014 8:04pm

passion pit

kumate_champ07 · 02-05-2014 8:07pm

that intro!

Da Shins Kelly · 02-05-2014 8:29pm

Vito Corleone wrote: »

Kendrick Lamar.

Kendrick Lamar is widely considered to be one of the most exciting artists to come out of hip-hop in recent years. He has injected much needed competitiveness back into hip-hop with his Good Kid, M.A.A.D City album.

Wacker The Attacker · 02-05-2014 8:37pm

Joe Doe wrote: »

1. Boney M - they're some funksters, right? I cans be hipster too? They're still on the go. Taught me how to sphell 'd-i-s-c-o' properlies.

2. Van Halen - All that's best of the 80's in one bag of turbo overdrive, lyrcra & lady loving glam rocking mtv videos.

3. Saxon - '747' is a great song ta be sure, that screaming delay driven intro is supafly! Album covers spectacular e.g. 'Crusader', that album wouldn't be allowed of the press these days in case the theme upset the fellows looking for the halal at subway etc.

4. Prince - he's not a woman, not a man, something we'll never understand but genius all the same, read once he put a handful of wasps in his mouth, just to feel their empathy, also reckons he's sent here from Jupiter, me too. S'MF best 2 mins song ever?

5. Beastie Boys - everyone remembers 'fight for yo right to party' but everything else since that was waaay much better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrVnHjeQgiQ

Particularly this song.

I love this song.

bnt · 02-05-2014 8:41pm

I can't think of a band I'd be "ashamed" to like. For example, I have an appreciation for a lot of what ABBA did, but I can explain why. Their attitude, professionalism, the production of their recordings, and more. Figuring out why I like the music I like - or vice versa - has always been part of the fun.

Diabhal Beag · 02-05-2014 8:42pm

I was a big Eminem fan. Find that far more embarrassing to admit than somebody who loved a Boyzone, especially considering how awful he is now.

LizzieJones · 02-05-2014 8:52pm

Michael Bolton. Don't care for him anymore but when I did like him I sure got teased for it.

Muise... · 02-05-2014 8:53pm

t.A.T.u

porsche959 · 02-05-2014 8:55pm

ShagNastii wrote: »

Probably Gary Glitter for obvious reasons.

The man made some seriously catchy music.

I think we have a thread winner

porsche959 · 02-05-2014 8:57pm

I quite liked Robert Palmer's stuff. He had a faintly sleazy image due to certain videos but great musicianship.

Also I once bought an Ace of Bass album.

ivytwine · 02-05-2014 8:58pm

Taylor Swift

bnt · 02-05-2014 11:49pm

Zed Bank wrote: »

Ah c'mon, Coldplay are sublime. Absolutely no shame in liking them.

Hadn't heard or even thought about Coldplay for years, but they were on Later with Jools Holland this evening, and their opening song Magic was rather good. I'd say it has a lot of what people like about Coldplay, and little of what they don't like. The lyrics were nicely understated considering that Chris is going through a divorce at the moment.

PS: I just noticed they're doing one of the coolest promotional stunts I've ever heard of: hiding handwritten lyrics in library books in different countries. One was found in my local library in Dundrum, just down the road from me.

dark crystal · 03-05-2014 12:09am

Bryan Adams. There, I said it.

Hotale.com · 03-05-2014 12:20am

Anyone else notice pop songs sound way better when they're older?

I just heard I Kissed a Girl a second ago and I actually thought it was really good :pac:

Adamantium · 03-05-2014 12:24am

dark crystal wrote: »

Bryan Adams. There, I said it.

No shame, he's great. Reminds me of Vice City and that era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCBASt507WA

Adamantium · 03-05-2014 12:28am

Hotale.com wrote: »

Anyone else notice pop songs sound way better when they're older?

I just heard I Kissed a Girl a second ago and I actually thought it was really good :pac:

I actively disliked a lot of music when I was young, until I heard that song in 2008, and I thought wow this is good and it's top of the charts.

THAT SONG was a turning point in music for that decade(where it became more electronic like what we have now) it sounded different to almost everything came before which was more hip-hop/indie band/rock.

Now every song is like it and I can't wait for it to change again.

Tokarev · 03-05-2014 12:28am

Muise... wrote: »

t.A.T.u

It's ok, most of us do like pussy cats.

Hotale.com · 03-05-2014 12:30am

Adamantium wrote: »

I actively disliked a lot of music when I was young, until I heard that song in 2008, and I thought wow this is good and it's top of the charts.

THAT SONG was a turning point in music for that decade(where it became more electronic like what we have now) it sounded different to almost everything came before which was more hip-hop/indie band/rock.

Now every song is like it and I can't wait for it to change again.

I dunno, the quality of radio music's improved drastically in the past 2-3 years, it was brutal in general from 2006-2010ish

guitarzero · 03-05-2014 12:37am

I've been playing this song on repeat all night.

Slipknot are one of my favourite bands. Wow, that felt good..

Adamantium · 03-05-2014 12:46am

More a song than an artist. I loved the intro song watching Star Trek Enterprise on Channel 4 every Sunday, until I was introduced to the "internet", where everybody hated the intro.

I thought it was perfect for the theme of setting out to the stars for the first timein a big way, that sense of discovery and hope, the naivety in a way. It brought Star Trek home. Genuinely inspiring. The show made me want to become an engineer. Love that montage of exploration of seas, aviation, space exploration, would have preferred if the show was more about that, the pioneering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLs4MGTTXRU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yijcWsLda8

LizzieJones · 03-05-2014 1:29am

guitarzero wrote: »

I've been playing this song on repeat all night.

I had that cassette. Loved it. Wore it out playing it too.

Vito Corleone · 03-05-2014 1:35am

BadCompany wrote: »

Eh, Kendrick is probably the most critically acclaimed rapper of the last 5 years, why would you be ashamed of liking him

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

Kendrick Lamar is widely considered to be one of the most exciting artists to come out of hip-hop in recent years. He has injected much needed competitiveness back into hip-hop with his Good Kid, M.A.A.D City album.

Not a big fan of that genre in general.

ivytwine · 03-05-2014 9:26am

guitarzero wrote: »

I've been playing this song on repeat all night.

Great song. No shame in liking a bit of Madge!

Band/artist you are most ashamed for liking?

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