Guilty Pleasures

oh.. I have a lot of these too:

I love new age.. and I have every Enya  and Clannad album.. I don't consider that a guilty pleasure tho...  Same with Andreas Vollenweider, I have 2 or 3 of his albums (including White Winds) and thats not really a guilty pleasure either. I also love David Lanz..

Now to me guilty pleasures are:

AC/DC.. I have all with Bon Scott, and just a couple with Brian Johnson.. but I love "Fire Your Guns"... Yeah

David Gray

Dido - I like both her albums

Robbie Williams - Millenium

Bubblegum I love - The Monkees, The Grass Roots, Three Dog Night, Hermans Hermits, David Cassidy (then),  Neil Diamond

and I also love Greg singing "Taste of my Love"... altho because that generally makes me ROTFLMAO.... oh and his "Fire" off the boxset does the same thing for me...."I am the God of Hellfire... and I've come to....".... Gets me everytime

ooooh too many of these - latterly been sticking together the ultimate guilty pleasures compilation cd of crap 70s pop

ace - how long

nilsson - without you

eric carmen - all by myself

pilot - january

hall and oates - she's gone

sad cafe - every day hurts

minnie ripperton - lovin you

and wait for it.....

bobby goldsboro - summer the first time (killer piano riff!)

there are tons more - Abba, ELO, Carpenters, Dionne Warwick singing Burt Bacharach, early Neil Diamond, cheesy Christmas tunes, the Doors, Echo and the Bunnymen, Joy Division, Sting - hey my girlfirend thinks they're all awful (especially the prog) so i guess I should be ashamed of about 90 per cent of the record collection. But from A-ha to the Allman Brother, Goldfrapp to Gabriel, Prince to Pink Floyd, Stevie Wonder to Stevie Nicks, Zero 7 to ZZ Top I just like it all...

Your right these are not really crap, i suppose I meant chart music i remember from my childhood - it's the kind of stuff 'serious' music critics (always a hideous breed) sniff at and then yuk it up about when a record company releases an 'ironic' compilation called 'guilty pleasures' (in stores now) which will actually probably do really well cause the tracks on it are music people actually enjoy instead of the 'challenging' artists the reviewers would have us believe will achieve longevity and acclaim. The irony is ace will probably be featuring on playlists and downloads long after the current darlings of the music press are working in B&Q or attending their nth rehab clinic.

I love this crap music. it's the soundtrack of my life (good scandinavian band by the way) and I shouldn't be apologising for it.

More guilty pleasures: steely dan (loathed by critics), fleetwood mac, deep purple, rainbow, even some whitesnake, ac/dc, the commodores slow songs, supertramp (totally and utterly reviled by critics and almost everybody else), queen and many many more.....