Guilty musical pleasures, what's yours?

Just rediscovered Toto Cuelo – I Eat Cannibals

Jeez, half of these are on my cycling playlist – Alphabeat, Orson, Katy Perry.

I own a (the?) Gary Barlow album. But I don’t listen to it.

So today it has been the beach boys

Been reading too many STW music threads or something TeeJ? One should never ever feel guilty about enjoying the Beach Boys.

Girls Aloud

Love Machine is a shitting good pop song

I remember liking the song Victoria Beckham did with Dane Bowers years ago. Never admitted to liking it before and am a touch embarrased, especially as it went head to head in the charts with Groovejet/Sophie Ellis Bexter which everyone seemed to love except me.

Also I think the Pet Shop Boys are alright. Glad I got that off my chest. Phew!!

Ahhh the joy of the iPod era. Liberated musical tastes. The iPod has allowed
me to pull together much of the old shite I used to listen to – as well as new(er) stuff.

Transvision Vamp. (music as well as Wendy James!)

and The Pet Shop Boys.

Feels good to come out doesn’t it!?!

Properly cheesey country music.

The more references to tractors, ice tea, pick-ups, guns, waitresses, fried chicken and Uncle Sam the better.

I have no idea why.

edit: oh and beer and/or whisky usually needs a mention as well…

Loads of great bands and singers mentioned, nothing to be guilty about.
I’m not in the slightest guilty about being an Iris Dement fan.
Doubles up as a great way of clearing the house of teenagers when its ” me time “.

Jessie J
Good voice, great talents.

Always been partial to Britney’s Stronger and Girls Aloud’s Not Tonight Santa. I know, shoot me.

Dire Straights.
Monkees.
Folk Rock.

Oh, the shame…

There are some truly shameful confessions here

There are some truly shameful confessions here

Like what TeeJ?

I see nothing bad up there.

I have an epic 7 hour spotify playlist of girl pop, without doubt the best song on it is She Wolf by Shakira. I’ll happily sing holler that song all day long.

I’ve come out on here before, but my guilty pleasure is T’Pau.

I have everything, everything they’ve ever done. B-side completist and all. The majority of my CD collection is signed by Carol. For a while, I ran a website.

There’s rumblings of a 25th anniversary Special Edition of Bridge of Spies, and I’m having kittens about it.

Close the thread?

cougar wins fo sure 🙂

huws / DD

Girls aloud? Bonnie Tyler? Britney Spears?

People have been quite surprised when my mp3 player shuffles itself from Refused or Sepultura or similiar onto Lady Gaga. Paparazzi is a tune and a half…

Though tbh, it’s music, what’s to be guilty about? Like what you like, as hard as you want.

Err, is Olly Murs that bad?

Double Post 😕

Not even met Cougar ever, but I’m still wetting myself sat here at the thought of him getting all steamy over Carol Decker! Thats awesome! And you used to run a website for them…

If only T’Pau were really terrible, that would be a truly shameful admission. As 80’s power ballad acts go though, they were definitely among the more acceptable acts out there.

Oooh, just remembered a couple of shameful ones of my own considering I’m a DJ, and music is kinda my life! I absolutely bloody love Britney’s “Toxic”, it is one of the best pop tunes of all time. It works on so many levels, it just rocks! Think it helps that my fave producer of all time, Armand Van Helden did a kick ass remix of it too, but still the original is awesome.

Oh, and I’ll properly sing along and get down to any early Take That. Pre split in 95, they rocked!

There are other shameful ones I grew out of though (as a kid was really into Bon Jovi for some reason! Ended when I was about 14 thankfully). Spent my evening listening to 3 of the most influential albums of all time tonight though, mainly cos I’m writing about the Minimoog for an assignment at the moment and it featured on all three heavily. “Off the wall” and “thriller” by MJ, and “the pleasure principle” by Gary Numan… 😀

Morris music / folk rock the prime example being Morris On by The Albion Band from the early 70s.

ABBA

Belle and Sebastian

Don’t be ashamed, you are pretty cool… 😀

+1 Erasure, went to see them, in Brighton of all places. Fantastic show, kind of like a male strip show really, but a bit gayer…

+1 Erasure, went to see them, in Brighton of all places. Fantastic show, kind of like a male strip show really, but a bit gayer…

Fantastic group. Refuse to feel guilty about being a fan since their early days. I also went to see them a few years ago in Bristol – someone couldn’t go and gave me two tickets at the last minute. I texted a good friend and said, “Right, you’re coming to a gig this evening, but I’m not telling you which one”. To be fiar, he turned up. It was, without doubt, the campest, gayest gig either of us had been to. It was bloody brilliant.

Britney’s “Toxic”

Probably the best song she did…you’re bang on about it working on different levels. It is a fantastic dance tune.

huws / DD

Girls aloud? Bonnie Tyler? Britney Spears?

A fifty-something contrarian…

…comedy gold.

Ivan Dobski – I have a great country CD I bought in a gas station “Country Hits of Trucking” it’s exactly like you think it would be. Must dig it out. The only song I remember is about a woman who was a “lean mean mother-trucking machine” and a couple about Diesel.

Country music is ace…though I don’t go in for the type written by yanks who’ve never seen the sea…given enough time, I could though.

Whispering Bob’s country show is still one of the best on the radio (but again, it’s not the suicidal end of country). 🙂

Thankyou tazzymtb for reminding me of Fuzzbox!

Probably too many to mention for me: Abba, Bon Jovi, virtually any 80s pop, lots of prog rock etc etc But by my age you don’t care about the “cool” factor anymore!

I think that if you get all squirmy about C & W then you can’t count yourself as a real music fan. I have to admit, I judge people on this. Listen to whatever you want and enjoy, I have an open mind, but claim to hate Country ? You just aren’t really trying properly and all your views on music will be roundly dismissed in my house.

Yeah, Cougar wins for just being weird! 🙂

Don’t feel so bad about Girls Aloud now Jamie has confessed to bloody Bonnie Tyler. Jim Steinman music is the work of Satan. Er, but not in a good way.
Here, look, you’re listening to stuff made by this:

Adele is also on my iPod (1 or 2 tracks)
😛

I don’t feel guilty about music I enjoy, but if I did:

Gary Glitter
Demis Roussos
Mud

So many…

Even caught myself singing along to this the other day:

Oh dear. Today things seem to have gone very odd.