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

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Mine? Crappy emo bands.

Callum (Callum), Monday, 2 December 2002 12:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

i was listening to the granddaddys of emo this morning - rites of spring - so much to answer for

leigh (leigh), Monday, 2 December 2002 12:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Don't diss Grandaddy. But yes, you're right.

Callum (Callum), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

er, I don't have any!

jel -- (jel), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

What none? Not even 'Last Night' by the Strokes?

Callum (Callum), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

the modern age is a much better song.

(though vastly improved by being sung in the shower in the swedish chef voice.)

i'm trying to think what my guilty pleasures are, but i will admit to listening to just about anything. will have a think (and a look through my cd collection) and let you know if there's anything i'm TRULY ashamed of.

oh dear lord don't make me admit to this, Monday, 2 December 2002 13:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

it's a crime to like certain bands/genres? well SUE my ass and you'll still find me innocent. (huh? yeah, sleep deprivation + cold = crap posts)

nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

bat out of hell

ac/dc

Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

I guess you're looking for things like:

Stone Temple Pilots
Shaggy

*Scrubs self rigorously with wire brush*

Jason J, Monday, 2 December 2002 13:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Merzbow

Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh yeah, i almost forgot ... ANAL CUNT!

Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Rancid and obscure 90s prog metal. And Dream Theater 'Awake'.

I don't feel any better yet.

Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like that new Madonna song in the James Bond flick, despite what that old queen Elton John says.

hstencil, Monday, 2 December 2002 14:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Iam not proud of my soft spot for broody passive-agressive alcoholic/junkie/asshole singersongwriter stuff. elliot smith, louden wainwright III, john prine, randy newman, van the man, alex chilton, tom waits, townes van zandt, the freshly divorced dylan, george jones, lefty frizzell, giant sand... i even like chris isaak & chet baker. it's very uncool.

they promote ill will & self-pity and all kinds of tired Bukowski-ism.

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Phil Collins

Aaron W, Monday, 2 December 2002 14:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

I sometimes HAVE to dance to Santana's 'Smooth' ehen i'm drunk.

Jay K (Jay K), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

See: my sneaker pimps thread that no one responded to

I guess kula shaker too..sigh?

V or maybe Vee, Monday, 2 December 2002 14:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

the best i can do is:

post-1980 Queen
'BloodSugarSexMajik'
Rage Against The Machine
Pearl Jam
Gorillaz
Muse
Moby
the original mix of Britney Spears' 'Boys'
most late 1980s pop music in fact e.g. Bros, Lisa Stansfield
Zero 7

'oh the shame' etc.

stevem (blueski), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

"yEAR OF THE CAT" - AL STEWART
"CRAZY LOVE" - POCO

Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

OH, YES, THERE WE GO. the first kula shaker album. (i even actually own the second one somewhere, as well, good god...) yes, i even last listened to it a few months ago. it's good cheesey psychedelic garagebubblegum with silly indian bits thrown in for added cheese. hey, dude, you treat me like a woman when i feel like a man... what is THAT supposed to mean? really!

kate, Monday, 2 December 2002 15:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

An amusingly-embarassing-or-perhaps-embarassingly-amusing-anecdote: during one of my first great Sellathons, where I scowered my entire collection and decided to get rid of all the rubbish I owned for once and for all and make moolah out of it (nott hat it worked, since I went to da wrong place), I compiled 49 cds that I deemed worthy of tossing.

49. But I could not include the K Shaker album in the pile, I could not part with it even as I was callously dishing away da masterwerk dat wuzSheryl Crowe - I still kept it MWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!! (I did include Definitely Maybe in there though, heh). At least they got the Krishna cover artwork right (but they got the Indian spelling wrong; the name of the "emperor" they referenced would be written Shekhar, and the final "a" is silent after Kul, as in most Indian names). Like someone else on here recently said (was it masonicboom?)- Crispian Mills - he's what's for breakfast!!

V or maybe Vee, Monday, 2 December 2002 15:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

I really dont consider anything a "guilty pleasure" when it comes to music Perhaps thats because I like to sing along to good ole 80s AM stuff :)

insectifly (insectifly), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pretty much the entire canon of '70s soft rock. And stoopid rap and rap-rock - the kind where the respective rapper gets obvious facts wrong, misuses words, rhymes a word with the same word, etc.

mike a (mike a), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pretty much the entire canon of '70s soft rock

hey, it isn't that big of a step from Bread to Young Marble Giants ya know!

Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Masturbating to the Sears Catalogue.

Oh wait, you meant MUSICAL guilty pleasures.
Oh, uh, masturbating to the Sears Catalogue while listening to Missy Elliott.

E-to-the-Izzo, Monday, 2 December 2002 16:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

David Gates: sappy vows to love interests. Stuart Moxham circa YMG: matter-of-fact statements about love interests and nuclear war.

mike a (mike a), Monday, 2 December 2002 17:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

"love at first sight" by kylie.
also, see "goth canon" thread.

dyson (dyson), Monday, 2 December 2002 17:29 (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. I guess the closest thing would be some of the more familiar classical music in my collection, like Bach's Brandenburg Concerti. In the car however you'll probably catch me rocking out to all manner of songs I wouldn't dare put on the turntable at home--all that top 40 L.A. studio rock that it is never fashionable to enjoy, but which is hardly offensive. It is usually nicely engineered if nothing else.

Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 2 December 2002 17:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

I listen to lots of stuff other people might be ashamed of totally whole-heartedly: white boy rappers like Mike Skinner, so-called "novelty" bands like They Might Be Giants, even a couple hippy jam bands like Phish...

But the only song I would honestly call a "guilty pleasure" is that new Justin Timberlake song. Even though I know fully well that it is total shite, I simply canNOT keep my body from moving whenever it's on.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 December 2002 18:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

It seems to me that if a song excites you in some small way then it has made its contribution; no reason to feel guilty. If you enjoy something, why call it shit(e)? The only reason I might be made to feel guilty about something is if it is horribly cliche or passe or simply what someone might expect someone of my demographic to be listening to, which is my own hangup.

However, I often find myself listening to songs that I cannot stand. It's not because I secretly find them attractive; it's the same instinct that causes most people to slow down as they drive past car wrecks. Morbid curiosity. And, it's actually sort of nice when something really rubs me the wrong way (lately it's that John Mayer fellow); I'm reminded that I have taste, and am not just a sponge.

I can't imagine why Missy Elliott would induce feelings of guilt. It's all very wonderfully wry and self-conscious. Something like Nelly and Kelly would seem more likely to induce blushing.

Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 2 December 2002 18:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nelly & Kelly? I had to guiltily ask my workmates to id that one for me(cue rapid netsearch for clips after my atrocious karaoke of the hook) because I'd been woken when hungover by my ****hole neighbours at 7am on a sunday when they played it at Vol.11. I lay there cursing them as my head throbbed...then, weirdly, i started hoping they'd play it again. And again. And again...They did.

gaz, Monday, 2 December 2002 21:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

I do not understand your human emotion of guilt. But people tell me I should feel guilty about liking Alanis, Matchbox 20, Green Day, Hootie, Live, the Beatles and anything else who's sold more than ten records.

B.Rad (Brad), Monday, 2 December 2002 22:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

haha, Ian Pooley, i've been liking some of his stuff, but theres this horrible thing in my mind saying "this is horrible bar culture music"!!!

gareth (gareth), Monday, 2 December 2002 23:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

i think that my problem is that the guilt i'm supposed to feel in enjoying say van halen, just isn't in evidence at all.

the flying luttenbachers, c minus, and yes of course the fucking champs have done away with any shibboleth of appreciating the black arts for most indie kids.

mike (ro)bott, Monday, 2 December 2002 23:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

of course there is the "i dream of genie theme"...

mike (ro)bott, Monday, 2 December 2002 23:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

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

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

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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