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

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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

no way, type o is awesome. way ahead of it's time, long before HIM and whatever.

― Emily Bjurnhjam (Emily Bjurnhjam), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

OK fine, I'll step up for The Grey Album for when I'm on the sticky icky.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

i kind of like the mars volta. fuck the haters.

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

MICKEY OTM

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

we're in this together

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

'we're in this together' is coincidentally my favourite NIN song, and therefore one of the guiltier pleasures in my collection. the others are generally wankish Brit indie, of the sort absolutely and routinely crucified by the majority of American critics, for instance The Electric Soft Parade, The Cooper Temple Clause (although I have to say, I've heard their new album and it's terrible), and Muse (2nd and 3rd albums ONLY). I'm also quite a fan of a few Dandy Warhols songs, who might as well be British given their clear influences.

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

Scourage ...

That's the spirit!!!

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

the beatles

― max (maxreax), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Muse, Louis? I can understand the others, but not Muse.

― Luke Slater (Alan Bean), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I say that, but generally they're only guilty pleasures insofar as conventional tastes (and most critics) have spoken out vocally and derisively against those bands. Left to my own devices, I wouldn't feel guilty about ESP, TCTC, Muse's 2nd and 3rd, The Fiery Furnaces, and TMV IN THE SLIGHTEST, because I personally and subjectively view their music as excellent and worthy of praise (you can add Dodgy's excellent 'Free Peace Sweet' to the above list btw).

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

Origin Of Symmetry and Absolution are, to these ears, superb albums. What else can I say?

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks for that, Louis.

― bullshitty hoosmaker fascist-statesteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

dude doesn't fall in lockstep with the indie gestapo, dude. DEAL WITH IT.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

My guilty pleasures:

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

MY GUILTY PLEASURE IS CRAP (WHICH IS WAHT I CALL RAP GET IT) EVERY SONG IS LIKE BLING BLING BUT SOMETIMES TEH BEAT IS PRETTY GOOD

― max (maxreax), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

[i]merzbow[/i]

who gets pleasure out of merzbow?

― dave f (dave f), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

not naturally no, but in some perverted way i might, for real

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

xpost: Me, when extremely drunk (on about 4 cocktails, 2 beers and a shot of absinthe), being driven home at 1 in the morning by my Dad. Stuck on Pulse Demon (quite quietly) and fuck me was it relaxing.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

dude doesn't fall in lockstep with the indie gestapo, dude. DEAL WITH IT.
-- tremendoid (kemeti...), January 13th, 2007

haha cause HOOSTEEN is the ILM rep of the indie gestapo.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

OTM

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

otm

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 13 January 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

its like a hall of mirrors in this shit.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 13 January 2007 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I've seen Merzbow live at Instal, he was great. People were dancing.

― Soukesian (Soukesian), Saturday, 13 January 2007 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm done with the concept of "guilty pleasures" in general. I'm proud and open about my love of Johnny Hates Jazz, Howard Jones, Hambi and the Dance, and Visage, just to name a few artists. Hell, I'm this board's resident Duran Duran maniac. How embarrassing do you think that has the potential to be? Not that I am, obv. If I didn't shrink away from that in 1997, when it was about as cool to be a Duran fan as it is to be a white supremacist in the heart of Detroit, I'm not going to shrink away from it now.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 14 January 2007 04:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Girls Aloud - Wake Me Up & Rachel Stevens - I Said Never Again (But Here We Are).

Guilty.

― Griff Sheridan (Griff Sheridan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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