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what is your biggest guilty music pleasure???
mine is probably Coldplay.

― mick pack (mick pack), Monday, 1 March 2004 00:05 (twenty years ago) link

Wanking to "She Woolf Daydreaming" by Kid Loco when I was an undergrad.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 1 March 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago) link

current wanktrack sick?

― omg, Monday, 1 March 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago) link

It would have to be Vanilla Ice for me - how can any song with that bass line be that bad?

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:24 (twenty years ago) link

Your name is not Sick and you do not wank to that track.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago) link

But anyway, omg = I own a DVD player now, and copies of Y Tu Mama Tambien, Sex & Lucia, Kids, The Work Of Director Chris Cunningham and also The Blue Planet.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago) link

no jenna loves kobe tai?

― omg, Monday, 1 March 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago) link

We've done these before, no?

In any event, proabably the Fixx (or up through Phantoms, at least), some Fish-era Marillion and the odd Kula Shaker single (specifically "Hey Dude" and the Dave Gimour-pilfering solo in "Tattva"). I'm not proud of it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago) link

Barenaked Ladies. That's right, I said it.

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago) link

as discovered last night, possibly 'Sussudio'

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:02 (twenty years ago) link

80's music along the lines of Don henley, Whitesnake & Van Halen

― Russell Dixon (Skinny), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago) link

I'm it's pleasurable, I ain't feelin' guilty. I'll just as soon blast Don Henley in my car as Mastodon or Dizzee Rascal.

That said, as I've discussed before, I'm WAY more into the first few Danzig solo albums than any rock critic oughta be, MODEST MOUSE, a few Blues Traveler songs, Into Another, and Hank Williams Jr

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago) link

I kinda believe that you should just listen to what you like and like what you listen to or however that saying goes, but yeah.. a lot of wussier sounding things like John Denver or, uh, The Peppermint Rainbow often make that voice in the back of head say "this is not right at all."

― maypang (maypang), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago) link

Err.. in the back of MY head.

― maypang (maypang), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago) link

I try to make it a point not to feel actually guilty about some of the "critically uncool" things I like, but Loverboy makes that really difficult.

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago) link

I liked this better when there was a administrator lock.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago) link

Evanescence and Coldplay

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago) link

also 911 and peter andre before our very own english willy man chris moyles tried to make the whole country like him again.

― mick pack (mick pack), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

No individuals to feel guilty about, but there's a whole lotta soft-rockin' 1970s songs I love that regularly appear on "Worst of the '70s" lists. (What can I say, I'm a sucker for lush melodies and Univibe pedals?) Most notorious trio: "You Light Up My Life", "Afternoon Delight" and "Seasons In The Sun".

Someday I'll compile a CDR-worth of Styx toons, but I refuse to shed any guilt over 'em.

― Myonga Von Bontee, Monday, 1 March 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

Return to Forever. Especially their last two studio LP's. "Musicmagic" is brilliant!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

Lots of hardcore--Reversal of Man, Palatka, Assfactor 4, Indian Summer, Current, etc.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago) link

been dipping into the funky end of the jazz-rock fusion pool: roy ayres, instrumental kool & the gang, especially donald byrd. Despite some easy-listening trappings, Black Byrd from 73 is BAD. I saw Return to Forever around 76 on acid, however, so Im too afraid of flashbacks to listen again. the oft-sampled in the 80s stuff from CTI like Grover Wash Jr and Bob James is dope, but you all knew that.

― lovebug starski, Monday, 1 March 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

The Outfield -- Your Love

― Chris 'The Big Ragu' V (Chris V), Monday, 1 March 2004 19:03 (twenty years ago) link

weeeelll... Limp Bizkit... :$

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Monday, 1 March 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago) link

GUILT IS FOR CATHOLICS

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 1 March 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago) link

Unlocking this thread was the worst idea in ILM history.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 1 March 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago) link

loads of bourgeois dinner party music and broken beat (Jazzanova, Hotel Costes compilations, etc). I've only developed a little complex about it because it's never ever discussed on ILM and so I'm thinking it's not Important Music.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 1 March 2004 22:19 (twenty years ago) link

west coast emo like struggle and swing kids.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 1 March 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago) link

Tell me more of this 'guilt.'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 March 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago) link

Guilt is also for Jews, duh

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:15 (twenty years ago) link

Ute Lemper.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:22 (twenty years ago) link

At the moment it's Laura Branigan, or at least "Self Control."

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:23 (twenty years ago) link

"guilty" only as in "i know it hurts my friends' ears when i play it" but these are 2 of my favourite songs :
barry mcguire - eve of destruction
canned heat - going up the country

i have also been told i should feel guilty about pat benatar "we belong" and OMC "how bizarre"
but it doesn't touch me at all.

― chomi2004, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:30 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Geez Adam....no guilt will be had about Ute. Find me a more sultry cabaret type for this era.

― cRaiG (craig!), Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:39 (twenty years ago) link

Can we change this to guilty music READING. I'm still enthralled with Ned's fucked up Michael Sembello thread. That was so masochistic! I go back and read it again.

― cRaiG (craig!), Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:44 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.arconet.es/users/rosado/old3.jpg

― (Jon L), Thursday, 18 March 2004 07:08 (twenty years ago) link

coldplay ... though i suspect that they're the british dave matthews band, i still like 'em.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 18 March 2004 07:23 (twenty years ago) link

i really thought that dave matthews had started playing brit pop when i heard coldplay for the first time.

Maroon 5.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

The things that I like that are most anathema here are all the Radiohead-lite stuff and Blur (outside of MLIR).

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago) link

If there's one thing I get ILM hivemind elitist about, it's the phrase 'guilty pleasures' and the billion threads about it. It should be banned, or something.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:03 (twenty years ago) link

I'm still enthralled with Ned's fucked up Michael Sembello thread

Credit JBR with the find.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago) link

sixteen years pass...

I don't know if this counts... if you like (very) 90s alternative check it out and let me know. I'm addicted to "Life Lesson"

https://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2012/01/mrs-svenson-flood-sessions-1995.html

― Evan, Monday, 18 January 2021 21:27 (three years ago) link

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