What's your musical guilty pleasure?

[louielouie2000]

Ok, so I have musical guilty pleasures that I keep private, and have never shared with anyone. What are yours? Here are a couple of mine...

Firstly, I *LOVE* Al Stewart's Year Of The Cat album! The whole thing is everything that is corny and wrong about the '70s, but I can't help it! I LOVE it! I bet the fact the album was produced by the incomparable Alan Parsons has a big deal to do with it... he can sew silk out of a sow's ear! The album is the closest thing to getting in a time machine and hitting 1976 that I'll ever get, probably another reason I like it so much. The whole mystical folk tale quality was the original selling point for me. I just hate knowing music like this is extinct, and almost nobody knows about it anymore.

Another one is Ambrosia... they're total 1970s porn music, but I love 'em as well! Also produced by the great Alan Parsons. I think David Pack has one of the prettiest male voices I've ever heard. He has such a fat, juicy tone. I've read where they also toured extensively with the Mac, interesting factoid I never knew! I've often fantasized about doing karaoke to "You're The Only Woman"... the irony of it alone would be freaking hilarious! :laugh:

Alright, now that I fessed up, it's y'all's turn! :o:woohoo:

[Musicman408]

AFROMAN!!!

I love Afroman!!

[holidayroad]

Nothing!! Because you shouldn't feel guilty about enjoying what makes you happy!!:)

[mylittledemon]

Louie,

"Time pass-a-jez" Al Stewart always makes me laugh. :D

I like 70s-era Rod Stewart (Do You Think I'm Sexy, etc). I also don't mind listening to that first Wilson Philips album (the one Glen ballard wrote all the songs on). I don't know if it's because it was so popular during my 'growing up' years or not. I also, on occasion, like me some Notorious B.I.G. :rolleyes:

[Sahara]

Chris deBurgh.
Don't tell anyone, though ;)

[Black_Moon]

Early nineties rap-music. The likes of old-school Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Public Enemy etc.

You think I'm joking. :lol:

[trackaghost]

Fleetwood Mac

[mylittledemon]

Fleetwood Mac

:laugh:

Yeah, the moment you mention it as one of your favorite bands you can almost anticipate the reaction.

[Villavic]

Nothing!! Because you shouldn't feel guilty about enjoying what makes you happy!!:)

Yes. I don't get the "guilty" concept. Do you mean something you are ashamed to admit you like? Any band that most critics damn? In that case I always loved the Bee Gees, a megaband that was so rejected during the post Saturday Night Fever years, but later it came back as a true legendary band.

[Remy]

Shameless glitzy r'n'b and Pitbull and Daddy Yankee. :D

[nailatixela]

Yes Fleetwood Mac, along with Lady Gagagag

[PutTheBlameOnMe]

:laugh:

Yeah, the moment you mention it as one of your favorite bands you can almost anticipate the reaction.


:laugh: I've had that look many times.

I also like Spandau Ballet. I saw them live a few weeks back and they were absolutely brilliant!

[AgeOldDesire]

Stevie Nicks.

Pause. :confused:

Who's he?

[Dodfather]

Chris deBurgh.
Don't tell anyone, though ;)

Not at all keen on Chris DeBurgh but different strokes and all that...

I have to agree that I don't really have musical guilt as such but I know what others would consider a guily pleasure...

Belinda Carlisle and Roxette! I love them!

[PutTheBlameOnMe]

Stevie Nicks.

Pause. :confused:

Who's he?


I had a conversation like that with a friend a few weeks ago. It took awhile for said friend to actually understand that YES Stevie is "the girl" and YES Lindsey is "the bloke".

[mylittledemon]

Belinda Carlisle and Roxette! I love them!

Me too! ;)

[Erin]

Belinda Carlisle and Roxette! I love them!

Is the lead female singer of Roxette still alive? I remember hearing years ago she had a brain tumor or something. I suppose I could look it up, but I'm feeling lazy. I also like Belinda, saw her a couple of times recently with the Go-Go's. I was happy when they did Mad About You.

[chiliD]

Stevie Nicks.

It would probably shock the sh*t outta a whole lotta people, especially even on THIS board, that I STILL listen to a helluva lot more Stevie Nicks than ANYONE would even believe.


ALSO:

Vixen
Linda Ronstadt (from Stone Poneys up to her first "Canciones" album)
Alan Parsons Project
And, what the hell is wrong with Al Stewart?? He was GREAT! Year Of The Cat was by far his WORST album, yet it sold the most...hmmmm...says volumes about 70s music buying public, I think.

The entire 70's "progressive rock" genre:

Yes
Flash (w/ex-Yes guitarist Peter Banks)
Focus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
early Genesis
Gentle Giant
King Crimson
Triumvirat
Starcastle
PFM
The Nice
Procol Harum
Curved Air
Daryl Way's Wolf
Camel
Nektar
among others

[Black_Moon]

It would probably shock the sh*t outta a whole lotta people, especially even on THIS board, that I STILL listen to a helluva lot more Stevie Nicks than ANYONE would even believe.


ALSO:

Vixen
Linda Ronstadt (from Stone Poneys up to her first "Canciones" album)
Alan Parsons Project
And, what the hell is wrong with Al Stewart?? He was GREAT! Year Of The Cat was by far his WORST album, yet it sold the most...hmmmm...says volumes about 70s music buying public, I think.

The entire 70's "progressive rock" genre:

Yes
Flash (w/ex-Yes guitarist Peter Banks)
Focus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
early Genesis
Gentle Giant
King Crimson
Triumvirat
Starcastle
PFM
The Nice
Procol Harum
Curved Air
Daryl Way's Wolf
Camel
Nektar
among others

Anything with Peter Gabriel's name attached to it should never be considered a guilty pleasure!

[gretchen]

Gino Vannelli's album 'Brother To Brother", I love it!

[vivfox]

Shameless glitzy r'n'b and Pitbull and Daddy Yankee. :D

Delicious!

[golddustdrummer]

40s big band. 80s hair metal. 90s rap/r&b. and I still know all the words to every single Spice Girls song.

[Ghost_Tracker]

Scorpions. Greatest Heavy Metal band ever.

:]

[vivfox]

Twenty years ago I was embarrassed by some of the music I liked but now that I'm older IDGAF what anyone thinks. I love the music of Andy Williams!

[vivfox]

Another one is Ambrosia... they're total 1970s porn music, but I love 'em as well! Also produced by the great Alan Parsons. I think David Pack has one of the prettiest male voices I've ever heard. He has such a fat, juicy tone. I've read where they also toured extensively with the Mac, interesting factoid I never knew! I've often fantasized about doing karaoke to "You're The Only Woman"... the irony of it alone would be freaking hilarious!

I own an Ambrosia album. I've had it for 20 years or more. Have you heard "Holding On To Yesterday" and "Time Waits For No One?"

[daniellaaarisen]

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h277/jake_davi/LadyGaGa-TheFameFront.jpg

So, so guilty.

And Snow Patrol, Lil Wayne (when the mood strikes me), Goo Goo Dolls, Cher (I was OBSESSED for about a year... I was 8).... I have a bunch of guilty pleasures.

[louielouie2000]

I own an Ambrosia album. I've had it for 20 years or more. Have you heard "Holding On To Yesterday" and "Time Waits For No One?"

Yes! Two of my favs... Holding On To Yesterday was what baited me into Ambrosia! :thumbsup:

[mylittledemon]

Didnt they sing "How Much I Feel" ?

[louielouie2000]

It would probably shock the sh*t outta a whole lotta people, especially even on THIS board, that I STILL listen to a helluva lot more Stevie Nicks than ANYONE would even believe.


ALSO:

Vixen
Linda Ronstadt (from Stone Poneys up to her first "Canciones" album)
Alan Parsons Project
And, what the hell is wrong with Al Stewart?? He was GREAT! Year Of The Cat was by far his WORST album, yet it sold the most...hmmmm...says volumes about 70s music buying public, I think.

The entire 70's "progressive rock" genre:

Yes
Flash (w/ex-Yes guitarist Peter Banks)
Focus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
early Genesis
Gentle Giant
King Crimson
Triumvirat
Starcastle
PFM
The Nice
Procol Harum
Curved Air
Daryl Way's Wolf
Camel
Nektar
among others

I'm really surprised you'd list Alan Parsons as a guilty pleasure! The man's a genius! His production style from the 1970s was way ahead of it's time in my opinion.

[Ghost_Tracker]

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h277/jake_davi/LadyGaGa-TheFameFront.jpg

So, so guilty.



The L, A, D, Y, and G keys on my keyboard have been ground into oblivion from overuse. :nod: I LOVE her, I SERIOUSLY LOVE her! :lol:

No really though, I think she's the most interesting, unique and original entertainer to come around in a long time! :D

[louielouie2000]

Didnt they sing "How Much I Feel" ?

Yes! Another cheesy classic! :D

[mylittledemon]

haha... yep! Someone mentioned Belinda Carlisle... I too liked her voice, and The Go-Gos. I saw them in orlando in 2003? 2004? They sounded great but the drummer was angry at the crowd. Very much a drag.

[louielouie2000]

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h277/jake_davi/LadyGaGa-TheFameFront.jpg

So, so guilty.

And Snow Patrol, Lil Wayne (when the mood strikes me), Goo Goo Dolls, Cher (I was OBSESSED for about a year... I was 8).... I have a bunch of guilty pleasures.

You've lost SO much of my respect by liking Lady GagMe! :laugh:

I love the Snow Patrol song Counting Cars... apparently Stevie does too! She mentioned it in a recent interview.

[daniellaaarisen]

You've lost SO much of my respect by liking Lady GagMe! :laugh:

I love the Snow Patrol song Counting Cars... apparently Stevie does too! She mentioned it in a recent interview.

I HATED Gaga for a long time... and then like a month ago, I got randomly inspired. I mean, you have to admit it-- her stuff is catchy. I think I just heard her music so often (as in 24/7) in the world of high school girls that I learned to appreciate it hahahahaha. She is one craaaaaaaazy bitch though.

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Twitchy, anyone?

[Amlyn]

I have, on occassion, been known to not be too forthcoming about my secret love of Air Supply. I know, beyond cheesy, but i just love driving in the car and singing along to them.

Count me in the Ambrosia pool, although I really only know their popular stuff. Also love America and find myself listening to The Beatles and The Beach Boys lately. Ooh and the Association too.

Ah, what the hell, I'll throw in The Cure too.

Ok, that takes care of the ABCs for now.

[Amlyn]

I HATED Gaga for a long time... and then like a month ago, I got randomly inspired. I mean, you have to admit it-- her stuff is catchy. I think I just heard her music so often (as in 24/7) in the world of high school girls that I learned to appreciate it hahahahaha. She is one craaaaaaaazy bitch though.



Yeah, i found myself in a store one day not so long ago tapping my foot along to Poker Face. I must admit I went surfing on You Tube in order to listen to it for the next few days.

I do think she's here for now. Not sure how long she'll stay around. But I probably said the same thing about Britney 10 years ago.

[Ghost_Tracker]

She is one craaaaaaaazy bitch though.



"Crazy like a fox." . . . . :nod:

[vivfox]

I have liked every single Lady GaGa has released so far. But not enough to buy the CD. It's good music in the moment. I heard the new Madonna single today called Celebrate. I liked it. I kissed a girl and I liked it.:lol:

[holidayroad]

Is the lead female singer of Roxette still alive? I remember hearing years ago she had a brain tumor or something. I suppose I could look it up, but I'm feeling lazy. I also like Belinda, saw her a couple of times recently with the Go-Go's. I was happy when they did Mad About You.

Yes, Marie Fredriksson of Roxette is still alive.

[holidayroad]

I guess if I have one thing that may border on being a guilty music pleasure it's that I like to listen to The Partridge Family!

[estranged4life]

Fish-era Marillion (1982-1988) has been in a near constant rotation either at home or in my ve-HICK-le.

[chiliD]

I'm really surprised you'd list Alan Parsons as a guilty pleasure! The man's a genius! His production style from the 1970s was way ahead of it's time in my opinion.

Alan Parsons learned everything he knew from George Martin when he was an engineer at Abbey Road studios. It was his Beatle connection that got me interested in his stuff in the first place (well, that and his Pink Floyd engineering/production after he left the Beatles' camp)

[kak125]

I have liked every single Lady GaGa has released so far. But not enough to buy the CD. It's good music in the moment. I heard the new Madonna single today called Celebrate. I liked it. I kissed a girl and I liked it.:lol:

If you have liked all the Lady Gaga singles then you will really like the cd. The entire thing is great dancing type music and I often listen to it when working out as well. I think the song Fame should have been a single but anything off that cd would have done well. Have you heard Bad Romance from her from the Fame Monster cd? Its pretty good once you can get past the awfulness in the beginning of the song. I heard they are releasing it also as an EP now.

[seekerj]

John Denver.

(He was born in the summer of his twenty-seventh year...)

[FMlex]

When I'm in the mood for some emo tunes (ha), I listen to this...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/TwistInMyStory.jpg

[WildHeart69]

With all of the Lady GaGa posts, I had to post this!
It's Christopher Walken reciting "Poker Face":

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[brysondt]

I love this so much. Shoot me. But it's lovely and romantic and fabulous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfg97-5uhFQ

[GypsyBlueEyes]

^ahaha...that actually made me smile. Its not that bad :p

My musical guilty pleasure...

Tone Loc...especially Wild Thing. I can't help it. That came out when I was really young. My sister was a lot older than me and I used to spend a lot of time with her and thats the kind of music she listened to. For some reason, that was always my favorite song. I love it to this very day.

[GypsySorcerer]

Enya. Christina Aguilera. Celtic Woman. Barbra Streisand. :o

[David]

Partridge Family!!!

[holidayroad]

Partridge Family!!!

Me too!! I love to listen to David Cassidy!

[Dodfather]

It would probably shock the sh*t outta a whole lotta people, especially even on THIS board, that I STILL listen to a helluva lot more Stevie Nicks than ANYONE would even believe.


ALSO:

Vixen
Linda Ronstadt (from Stone Poneys up to her first "Canciones" album)


No guilt about Linda!! She is amazing. She's in my top 5 female vocalists of all time.

Vixen - yeah, guily pleasure but so much cheesy fun!

[Dodfather]

Me too! ;)

Right, that's it...Demon, when I eventually get off my ass, save some cash from working and make my long desired trip to New Zealand we must meet up! We agree on so much on this board, haha! Alternatively you have a place to crash if you ever make it to Scotland!

Belinda is great, I even like the Real (1993) album that nobody else bothered to buy! It has Big Scary Animal and Lay Down Your Arms on it, brilliant!

One of my favourite latter Belinda songs is Always Breaking My Heart from A Woman and A Man (1996). I'd loved the song since it came out, along with In Too Deep, and when I finally bought that album a couple of years ago imagine my surprise that 2 of my guily pleasures combined... it was written by Per Gessle from Roxette! Wonderful, no wonder I like it so much!

She's recording a new album at the moment which is due out in February next year (so it's probably finished if on schedule), her autobiography is due out then too.

Fave Belinda song is probably Summer Rain and then Always Breaking My Heart.
Roxette: Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave).

[luckydimecaper]

I love all the cheesey 80's stuff. Hair metal. 90's pop. But I think the one that really amuses people when I tell them is Hanson. I've loved them forever, they're great :D

[mylittledemon]

Right, that's it...Demon, when I eventually get off my ass, save some cash from working and make my long desired trip to New Zealand we must meet up! We agree on so much on this board, haha! Alternatively you have a place to crash if you ever make it to Scotland!

Yup, yer always welcome here. In fact, any Ledgies coming to NZ, I'm totally keen to meet up for a pint. ;)

[Cornflake Girl]

Early nineties rap-music. The likes of old-school Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Public Enemy etc.

You think I'm joking. :lol:

Ice Cube has a song called 'Smoke Some Weed', it's all good with me. :laugh:

Guilty pleasures are relative, I've heard people class Fleetwood Mac as a guilty pleasure. :eek: I do tend to hide my Barbra Streisand, The Bangles and Reba McEntire collections though...

[WarmSir3]

Bros and Whitesnake!!

[chriskisn]

Hmm...well I used to own albums by both Michael Bolton and Celine Dion. While I do like them both, it just became too embarrassing to have them in my record collection and I gave the albums away (although funnily enough I gave my Celine Dion to my mother who recently gave them back to me after about 10 years :lol:)

My most "guilty" musical pleasure at the moment is probably Lily Allen :shrug: