Let's all admit to our guilty pleasures. It'll make us feel better.

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KMDFM. Bad Religion. That Girls Against Boys album that everybody hates, Freak*on*ica.. it's funny, I swear.

― daria g, Monday, 2 December 2002 23:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

hmm... somehow this remids me of this concurrent masturbation thread?

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 00:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's increasingly hard to find guilty pleasures since hipsterism is such that any and all genres will be reclaimed at some point, with varying amounts of accompanying irony.

My guilty pleasure is liking things ironically.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 00:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Guilty mainly because of ILM: some U2.

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 3 December 2002 02:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

songs that are genuinely offensive, yet fascinating. Like Guns'n'Roses "One In A Million" or Eminem's "Kim."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 02:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't really have any guilty pleasures, but I guess Slide by the Goo Goo Dolls would be the most ridiculed choice of mine.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 02:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

agh. Interpol.

― Wyndham Earl, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 05:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Alex Chilton is something I'd show off about listening to! And Bob Dylan. But I know what you mean, though. I am embarrassed that I still like to listen to my Blu Cantrell cassingle. I pretend to be sick of it sometimes.

― maryann (maryann), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 06:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

hold on, i quite liked indie rock for about .... oh the length of bakesale.

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 08:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

don't feel guilty listening to anything but i do feel guilty for having the hots for shakira.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 08:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Fixx

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 23:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

i feel guilty for delivering incoherent vaguely elitist rants and expecting people to take me seriously

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 00:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

three months pass...

Oh man lately I've got some pretty good ones.

Finch - What it is to burn
The Used - Buried Myself Alive

Kill me now.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

to add to my meatloaf/acdc/anal cunt trilogy -- for lack of a better term, what i'd call "pop-death metal." i.e., stuff like Cannibal Corpse and Cradle of Filth. stuff that real death/black-metal heads (like Siegbran) would roll their eyes and/or laugh their asses off. but i love it anyway!

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 06:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

i love how stevie nixed comes off so anti-indie when she was the biggest caesar/orange-black fan in the days of way back...

w/e mmmhmmm
http://www.superlaugh.com/fun/talkhand.jpg

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 07:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

i would define guilty pleasures like this - my good friends know i like this stuff, but i would be ashamed to be blasting this stuff out of my car on a summer day. i actually listen to old danzig, old wasp, old cult, a lot of really random hair metal (britny fox, kix, white lion), i love a band called the forgotten rebels who is this really reactionary old canadian punk band, i like white zombie, poison idea, mid-80s alice cooper. i also like monkees ( i own all their albums up to the head soundtrack), old bee gees. probably my absolute worst is i actually feel emotional to good journey songs. i used to try and fight it but i'm too old nowadays to care.

― Boss Pooper, Monday, 24 March 2003 07:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Grass Roots/ Strokes/ The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald!

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Monday, 24 March 2003 07:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

OH! and Brandy (shes a fine girl)

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Monday, 24 March 2003 07:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have wayyy too many to even list. So many, in fact, that I'm starting to think I have bad taste. Who thinks that they themselves have bad taste?
I'm talking like Ja Rule duets, here. I know it's bad, but...I can't help it...

― praying mantis (praying mantis), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Beautiful South

Esp. the first album.

And Blue is the Colour.

I'll get me coat.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 10:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Coal Chamber - seriously
and errrrm Whiskeytown.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 10:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

Guilt is for suckers!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 11:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

three years pass...

REVIVE!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 27 August 2006 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link

You could revive seventy of these threads and I'd still not mention my deep, carnal and abiding love of Kula Shaker. Oh, whoops!

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 27 August 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Surely not the second album?

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Sunday, 27 August 2006 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a sick love for 'Hero' by Chad Kroeger, especially the really cheesy quiet bit after the solo. Come to think of it, I like 'How You Remind Me' a lot more than I should as well.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Sunday, 27 August 2006 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost: I haven't heard the second album, but the first has a two or three tracks (Into The Deep, Temple Of Everlasting Light, Hollow Man) which I can honestly say are superb. My statement of carnal lust was an exaggeration, however, and, moreover, Passantino bait.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 27 August 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link

HANDS UP ONE SINGLE PERSON SURPRISED BY LOUIS JAGGER'S LOVING NAZI SHAKER?

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 28 August 2006 08:40 (seventeen years ago) link

What is a guilty pleasure anyway?

I quite like some of the hits by Spice Girls and some of hits Max Martin wrote for Britney Spears. I also like a lot of Stock/Aitken/Waterman works from the late 80s.

In my world, these are all obviously very guilty pleasures, as people with a proper taste in music aren't expected to like the kind of stuff that is put together by professional songwriters/producers aimed exclusively at the teenybopper market regardless of whether the writer likes that kind of music himself or no.

But for a lot of people on ILM, it seems that is the kind of music they are supposed to like while a "canonical" rock album by a very serious 70s rock group may be considered a guilty pleasure.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG I called Justin Timb a "guilty pleasure" in 2002, oh ILM, how you've grown

― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...

http://www.ftrain.com/trope-guilty-pleasure.html

Friday, January 12, 2007
Trope

By Paul Ford

I occasionally read a web essay or a newspaper article where a man—so far, always a man—owns up to the “guilty pleasures”
on his iPod. You've seen this too? Kelly Clarkson, let's say. Or a song by Maroon 5.

The structure of the argument:

I, the author, am an extraordinarily intelligent and cool person;

But I do listen to music that is considered to be shit;

However, this music (pick one):

is actually good, and you, dear reader, are too much of a snob too enjoy it; or

is not actually good, but despite my impeccable taste I deign to listen to it for amusement.

In either case I am awesome.

Deerhoof.

Over and over editors commission this story. Over and over I read myself into a froth, sketching a mental picture of the essayist
as a scruffy fucksimper who suffers from chronic index-finger-swelling brought on by speed-dialing through all the music he
shat onto his 500G jizz-hued iPod. After he gmails his guilty-pleasure opus to his editbot, who will rewrite it into a charticle,
he heads to the bar to meet a friend and pulls the pod from his pocket. “Bro,” he says to the friend, “you'll never believe
how much Devendra Banhart I have on this thing. All of the Devendra in the world.” He touches the cool white control disc,
swirling his finger teasingly, and his friend nods wide-eyed at the flashing list of songs—until finally they reach the end
of the Devendra listing and wander into Devo, and then, consumed, they run to the bathroom and passionately tug each other's
beards—“rejoicing in the hands,” it's called—until they both reach mutual, musical ecstasy and cry out from the sweetness.

But Justin Timberlake is not a guilty pleasure. Putting oven cleaner in your daughter's Similac is a guilty pleasure, or smearing birdseed on your
balls and visiting an aviary. Having a thing for Sting's lutework—

― caek (caek), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

athletes with rap singles!

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Probably Coldplay.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Nelly Furtado's Maneater...that hi-hat...

― Alan Bean (Alan Bean), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Hm, quite obviously there was a time when this certain LP was a kinda quilty pleasure of mine (tho I hardly thought in such terms 20 years ago), for the simple reason that a couple of my bestest friends truly hated it with vengange, but now I really just like it a lot: Ian Anderson's Walk Into Light. Haa!

― tiit (tiit), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

fuck a guilty pleasure.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Heheh, yeh!

― tiit (tiit), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

probably most 'real' goth that i'm into. that's mostly just the sisters of mercy and a couple of bands on the projekt label. or, actually, i don't really feel guilty about any of it, because i believe in all artists i actually take the time to listen to, but i do recognise that these artists are uncool or unacceptable or whatever.

― blood bitch (blood bitch), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

ELO's "Living Thing"
50 Cent
Carter USM
Goldie's "Mother"
The Beatles

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Fat Boy Slim

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3b/Vengaboys-The_Platinum_Album-Frontal.jpg/220px-Vengaboys-The_Platinum_Album-Frontal.jpg

― Confounded (Confounded), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

California blondes

― factcheckr (factcheckr), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:52 (seventeen years ago) link

confounded otm.

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i love classic rock radio. foreigner. tesla. golden earring. bad company. skynyrd. etc.

― Emily Bjurnhjam (Emily Bjurnhjam), Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Is there already a thread for "what song has the highest play count on your iTunes?" I couldn't find one, but I can't find anything anymore.
I figure that anything you play that much much be a guilty pleasure. Mine is "Tommy Blues" by Trees Lounge.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess "Trees Lounge" is a movie, and the song is from a soundtrack. It's a burn of a burn of a burn, I never knew its provenance. Just researched.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Evan Lurie. Hmmm. Relative of John Lurie?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Brother!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

My function on I Love Music is to proudly represent for those who don't know shit!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

dude, it seems like a bunch of these guilty pleasures aren't so guilty. i mean, no offense to anyone, but ... pretty sure Merzbow and Madonna aren't all THAT guilty.

shit like Orange 9mm, Stabbing Westward, or whatever is guilty. but i'm not claiming those. i actually think they are terrible.

guilty?

um ... bad Ibiza trance & Type O Negative's October Rust (when partaking in a lil' northern California green)

see, that's bad, but i'll rep it.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

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xpost

Was Jack White not around in 1997 then?

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Sunday, 14 January 2007 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

xxpost

I, too, love Medazzaland. : )

― Max Blazevic (kitaj), Sunday, 14 January 2007 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link

multi xpost

See Louis? I told you Merzbow wasn't all shock and awe.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Sunday, 14 January 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I know, but this experience happened about 2 years ago, well before I even knew ILX existed!

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Sunday, 14 January 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Incidentally, you should hear Merzdub, his collab with Jamie Saft from last year. It's got music and stuff on it. It's beautiful.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Sunday, 14 January 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Was Jack White not around in 1997 then?

He was but was very probably listening to '60s/blues records back then, same as it ever was.

I, too, love Medazzaland. : )

Aw. You and me, two of ten in the world I'd think.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 14 January 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Musicmagic by Return to Forever. Probably the most indulgent, wanky, baroque fusion LP ever made, and I love it exactly beause of that.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 14 January 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i truly enjoy merzbow, but only in small doses.

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Sunday, 14 January 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Keane's Under the Iron Sea?
Great album.

― DavidM* (unreal), Sunday, 14 January 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

hmmmm

the thing is, if something pleases me, i don't really feel guilty about it. that being said, beyonce's new album

― Surmounter (rra123), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate the too-frequent suggestion that I'm "pretending" to like the handful of prog records in my collection or that my appreciation for Kelly Clarkson is ironic.

Cause it taint.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

haha

yeah

but there is SOME truth to that, at least when it comes to me. i mean the thing is, the juxtaposition of prog and uber pop is inherently kind of ironic

i tend to kitschify pop songs that i like. i mean i think with "since u been gone", kelly clarkson proved that even mainstream pop can hold its own w/ the too cool for schoolers, because mainstream can be viewed as its own brand of indie. it's like, cheesy indie.

― Surmounter (rra123), Sunday, 14 January 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i only listen to music "ironically"

― max (maxreax), Sunday, 14 January 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Although I don't believe in "guilty pleasures," there are certainly pleasures that make me think, "I'm gonna have a hard time explaining this one to my friends," like the time I got obsessed with "Sugar We're Going Down Swingin'"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 14 January 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

hehe that's a good way to put it

― Surmounter (rra123), Sunday, 14 January 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

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