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

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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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