Guilty Pleasure Bands

I am the kind of person that think that every type of music deserves to be listened, it also depends on the listener's tastes and that's what makes us all different. When you are growing up, your musical taste goes through a "journey" that ends with the choice of staying with prog as your first listening option...however, there are some bands/singers that still you like, no matter what...

The Acolyte wrote: * The Cure (does anybody hate their "goth" era, 80-83?) * Bauhaus (Masters of Goth) * The Smiths/Morrissey (Finest brit pop at its best!) * Nick Cave & the bad seeds * Metallica (81-90 era)

Everyone likes all these. Got nothing slightly embarrassing?

Triumvirate: so cheesy and EL&Pish but so beautiful (Illusions... and Spartacus, of course).

Evans wrote: BroSpence wrote: [QUOTE=Atomic_Rooster] I never understood guilty pleasures because if people feel so guilty for listening to bands X, Y, Z  then why do these people freely admit to listening to band X, Y, Z? I listen to what I want, who cares what you listen to as long as you genuinely enjoy it. the answer to yout last question is: the same reason you played spin-the-bottle in high school.

I never played it in high school actually. 

Anyways, it just seems really dumb that people will admit to liking something they obviously do not feel guilty about.  Especially when the artists aren't even considered guilty pleasures.  I mean people are just listing whatever they hell they want.  Its more like "name the band you like to listen to but don't listen to that much".

Come on, since when are Metallica, Faith No More, the Who, Bob Dylan, etc guilty pleasures?  Since when is listening to good music considered a guilty pleasure?  Oh my gosh I listen to f**king Beethoven, I'm so guilty.  Please arrest me, because no one should know I like the 5th symphony.  BLASPhEMY. 


Seems a little ridiculous, almost like my sarcasm.

Rocktopus wrote: I wasn't actually born yet, so I can't really remember. Got the track on vinyl, though.

Thanks for the link!
Horrible singer, but I still think it's a great song.
By the way, were you actually born on 1/1/2000?
You seem to know an awful lot of prog albums!

  My guilty pleasure bands : Alice Cooper , Black Sabbath and America ( I've got a soft spot for well done harmonies I also like CSNY but I don't feel guilty about that ).

Nursery Cryme is their best, IMO. No shame in loving that.

I sometimes listen to Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson

um, i would say my guilty pleasure in music would be either euro dance music or 80s pop. After playing hours of ddr i really grew to love the music, and bands like tears for fears i still think are cool. They made high quality pop music, and some of those bands could actually play. Um, also i would say level 42. Mark King is a great bassist even though he is in an uber cheesy group (who can all play fairly well). I also really like some bluegrass every once in a while.

Edited by Yontar - April 26 2007 at 13:26

paolo.beenees wrote: Well, after some reactions to a modest proposal to introduce some of their albums in PA, I'd say the Italian melodic pop band Pooh.

Is this the same band that used to be called (with much more subtlety) "I Pooh"?