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― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 28 August 2006 08:40 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Friday, January 12, 2007Trope
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:
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—
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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
― Emily Bjurnhjam (Emily Bjurnhjam), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link
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― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Guiltier still: Be Here Now (Oasis' best IMO), The Fiery Furnaces and The Aforementioned Mars Volta.
I am not in the slightest bit guilty for Gomez or Mansun.
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
That's the spirit!!!
― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― max (maxreax), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Luke Slater (Alan Bean), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Music I can recognise as a bit crap and still like, i.e. my REAL guilty pleasures...well, Be Here Now can stay, obviously, but I'd add to them Primal Scream (XTRMNTR, Come Together and Burning Wheel mostly), the occasional Belle And Sebastian track, Black Ghost (a song by G*Y D*D), a (very) small percentage of Sigur Ros, and Talk Talk.
There, now you have my REAL, heartfelt answer to the question, not the bullshitty tastemaker fascist-state one.
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (just joking about Talk Talk) (Haberdager), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― bullshitty hoosmaker fascist-statesteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Abba: Gooey pap but good for a few laughs.Steely Dan: Ugh I can't help it I like a couple of their songs.Kraftwerk: Obviously embarassing but I can't help it.
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― max (maxreax), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link
who gets pleasure out of merzbow?
― dave f (dave f), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link
anyway, my no. 1 album for 2006 was wolf eyes' human animal yet i love 'chasing cars' by snow patrol
oh!
― rizzx (Rizz), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link
haha cause HOOSTEEN is the ILM rep of the indie gestapo.
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 13 January 2007 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link