Musical Guilty Pleasures..

[trwi7]

Two Words:

 

Elton John

I'm not afraid to admit it. I like 95% of all Elton John songs. The only one that really gets on my nerves is Bennie and the Jets. Other than that song I can't think of one that I don't like from him.

[bigredrobbo]

Some guilty pleasures

 

 

Glen Campbell

Abba

ELO

Kylie

Laura Branigan (particularly "Gloria" and "Self Control")

Flashdance Soundtrack

Mika

The Monkees

The Sweet

Neil Diamond

Pet Shop Boys

 

Nuggets, one and all...

[JoeHova]

"mongoloids" by devo is a great song that I think can stand on its merits and doesn't have to be a guilty pleasure.

 

as for guilty pleasures, I guess the difficulty of admitting that I like certain bands depends on who the audience is. for some of my more strident friends, admitting to liking anything other than hardcore hip-hop is sacrilege.

 

I really like Cat Stevens, which I don't think is that embarrassing except that he's a little more soft rock-y than I normally like. I also really like Oasis, who I used to strongly dislike, so I guess they count. Blue Oyster Cult, Silkk The Shocker, Eric Clapton, Queen, Pat Benatar, Weezer, R.E.M., John Hiatt, Marc Cohn, Mariah Carey, Cher, The Animals, Neil Diamond, Fabolous, Shakira, Jonny Lang, B-Rock & The Bizz, Eminem, Big Tymers/Hot Boys, Everlast, Groove Armada, Royksopp, The Bucketheads, Fatboy Slim, Moby, Pet Shop Boys, Prodigy (the band, not the MC), The Streets, Gloria Gaynor, Kansas, Jewel, Ben Lee, Bee Gees, Bowling For Soup, Fountains Of Wayne, Marilyn Manson, The Darkness, Men At Work, Jay & The Americans, Bobby Darin, Johnny Mathis, Scorpions, The Heights, The Proclaimers, Simon & Garfunkel, Wham!, Soft Cell, Scandal, The Bangles, & Stan Bush are also all artists that I have some qualms with liking. I could go on, but I was getting bored.

[NastyTwig]

Nelly Furtado's first CD is amazing. Impossible not to sing along to.

 

Fiona Apple (sp?) is another one.

[Glennron]

JoeHova, I hope you only have Weezer as a guilty pleasure because of "Beverly Hills", and not because of The Blue Album, Pinkerton, Green Album, Maladroit, etc. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

In 7th/8th/9th grade I loved Good Charlotte and New Found Glory, but no longer like them. Does that still count?

[sheetswannabe]

I like one of Spears new songs.....haha

[jordanmuehl]

Justin Timberlake, Elton John, The Fray... that's about all I can think of right now that I don't really let people know I listen to. Haha.

[brewerfan82]

Newsies.

 

Oh wait... that kind of 'musical' guilty pleasure...

 

It's gotta be New Kids on the Block for me... yeah, I'm pretty messed.

 

http://apennycloser.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/newkidsontheblock.jpg

[JoeHova]

I like all of Weezer's albums, it's just that I'm not generally a fan of emo (unless you count Husker Du), so I'm somewhat ashamed of liking them.

[bigredrobbo]

In which universe does Weezer count as emo?

 

And Groove Armada, The Prodigy and Royksopp could never under any circumstances be construed as embarrassing to admit to, which is what I take guilty pleasures to mean!

[JoeHova]

That's what I take it to mean as well.

 

anyway, I've seen Weezer described as emo in numerous places, and Pinkerton is considered by many to be the epitome of the 90's emo scene.

[TooLiveBrew]

I just want to say that it hurts me deep down in my musical soul that people count Prince, Elton, & Roy Orbison as 'guilty pleasures'.

 

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[pogokat]

Anything that's called emo pre 1997 or so isn't really connected to what is called emo today...the "emo" scene was originally bands like rites of spring, embrace, and dag nasty...thats the first place i think the term is taken seriously...

 

now those bands have little in common with weezer, the get up kids, asnd sunny day real estate---the bands that get the emo tag in the 90's...not really punk rock anymore...certainly no real connection to the early hardcore scene...

 

the late 90's early 00's emo bands --- taking back sunday, new found glory, jimmy eat world... were certainly influenced by those early 90's bands, but they had a clearly different sound...they were more or lesss influenced by blink182 and greeen day more than anything else...

 

what we have now as emo is certainly connected to the punk rock scene...but not to bad brains, black flag, and minor threat like the early dischord bands were...or even to husker du...the bands we have now are more an offshoot of early 90's pop punk...and late 90's hardcorebe that the christian kind or not...

 

weezer, sunny day, etc...get the emo tag because of the lyrics and the aesthetic, but they do not fall under the generic emo tag that gets attached to everything that sounds sorta punkish today...

[Raw Biz]

Yeah, I can't believe Elton John, Prince, Kenny Rogers, Roy Orbison, etc. are considered guilty pleasures. These are considered all-time great musicians so why would they be a guilty pleasure? To me a guilty pleasure is something that is considered to be "bad", have no substance or is cheesy, such as boy bands, britney/christina types, kenny g, etc. My guilty pleasures using this definition would have to be JoJo (the female singer, not K-Ci &), New Found Glory (on the no substance issue), Miley Cyrus (yeah I know it's awful). A few songs I'd include are Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, Never Surrender by Stan Bush (from Kickboxer), and Hold On by Wilson Phillips.

 

Edited to respond to previous post: I still consider Sunny Day to be emo, just a different type of emo. There was the first type in the mid 80s and then Sunny Day and Texas is the Reason in the early to late 90s. By the 2000s, I think real emo just about died out, yet the term continued to be used. It's a shame because a lot of the original emo bands would get a bad rap being referred to as emo nowadays. New "emo" is basically pop-punk crap (though I still like some of it like NFG and Sum 41) or pseudo teenage angst "i'm 16 i hate my parents my life sucks i wanna die but instead i'm just going to wear all black and get an awful haircut."

[TooLiveBrew]

brewerfan82, the best part about that NKOTB picture imo is that it looks for all the world like it's something someone photoshopped the crap out of... but it's real.

 

To me a guilty pleasure is something that is considered to be "bad", have no substance or is cheesy, such as boy bands, britney/christina types, kenny g, etc.

 

That's the way I take it, for whatever that's worth.

[danzig6767]

Anything that's called emo pre 1997 or so isn't really connected to what is called emo today...the "emo" scene was originally bands like rites of spring, embrace, and dag nasty...thats the first place i think the term is taken seriously...

 

now those bands have little in common with weezer, the get up kids, asnd sunny day real estate---the bands that get the emo tag in the 90's...not really punk rock anymore...certainly no real connection to the early hardcore scene...

 

the late 90's early 00's emo bands --- taking back sunday, new found glory, jimmy eat world... were certainly influenced by those early 90's bands, but they had a clearly different sound...they were more or lesss influenced by blink182 and greeen day more than anything else...

 

what we have now as emo is certainly connected to the punk rock scene...but not to bad brains, black flag, and minor threat like the early dischord bands were...or even to husker du...the bands we have now are more an offshoot of early 90's pop punk...and late 90's hardcorebe that the christian kind or not...

 

weezer, sunny day, etc...get the emo tag because of the lyrics and the aesthetic, but they do not fall under the generic emo tag that gets attached to everything that sounds sorta punkish today...

I agree that to me it seemed a lot of the emo scene was greatly influenced by bands like Green Day and Blink. I never was a fan of either band and when that huge emo barrage took over the airwaves, my then 13 years old daughter liked nearly every emo band that came out. It was pure torture on my eardrums as she played one emo tune after another for about a year straight. I think i'd rather listen to 80's metal before having to be subjected again to the horror of emo.

 

[Hammer]

I would have to add to the Justin Timberlake "guilty pleasures" column. Every time his "live" concert airs on HBO I stop, watch and say "damn, I wish I could do that" a few times. Dream Theater lands in my cd player once in a while as well. The last one is a true "guilty" event. I like to listen to the Drumline soundtrack as well as my college marching band discs periodically. I'm a drum bum at heart (see avatar) I guess...

[bork]

I guess I would add Wilson Phillips and the Spice Girls. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/embarassed.gif

 

 

[mothershipconnection]

Lately, I've been rocking out to some serious Dio and a whole lot of Kiss and Motley Crue. Who hasn't gone through a 70's/80's hard rock and hair metal phase?

[Raw Biz]

Dude Dio rules, as does Kiss and Motley Crue. I would not consider them guilty pleasures. Maybe Kiss. But Dio and the Crue definitely rock.

[jazzytrav]

Missy Elliot.

[BrewCrewForever]

Elton John.

[don1481]

It's gotta be New Kids on the Block for me... yeah, I'm pretty messed.

Brewerfan82, I had to do a double-take at that picture - I was thinking "I don't remember NKOTB having a girl in the group...!"

[7rebmun]

I'm inexplicably linked to the Cranberries forever, I love everything they ever did plus her new solo album. I have to second (or third?) the Ace of Bass sentiment. Let's see, what else, surely Justin Timberlake isn't a "guilty" pleasure, is he? Sigh, okay, fine, he is, put him on the list. How about Air Supply, god knows I feel guilt about that.

 

I stand by the fact there is nothing wrong with listening to Elton John, that's just classic stuff. Unless you are listening to the Lion King stuff or Crocodile Rock, then you are guilty as charged!

[burniebrewer]

Lately, I've been rocking out to some serious Dio and a whole lot of Kiss and Motley Crue. Who hasn't gone through a 70's/80's hard rock and hair metal phase?

I've been going thru that phase for 25 years now!http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif