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    Posted: April 22 2007 at 12:39
I would like to know which non progressive bands do you enjoy but wouldn't necessarily tell everyone, and especially would be wary of admitting it to the members of this site.

Please don't just list bands, that makes for boring reading, list why and when you got into these bands.

For me - Metallica...sorry I don't know why but they have a powerful sound. (not their thrash stuff but songs like "no leaf clover" really are quite catchy.)
Also - Limp Bizkit....ok I am serious, I am ready to shoot myself for admitting this...but back when they came out I thought they were great and still catch myself humming along when I hear them.

From these 2 bands you would think I am a metalhead...Im not. I like symph prog.

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When I was just starting to get into music (around 7th grade), I liked Andrea Bocelli a lot.  He has a beautiful voice and I always liked the music.  
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Napalm Death, Alien Ant Farm, Yello, Prodigy, Infected Mushroom, Green Day (Dookie) and some other stuff.. Embarrassed
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Andres calamaro

Guns n' roses
 
Metallica
 
Sepultura
 
Faith no more
 
Los Rodriguez
 
Enigma
 
Kylie Embarrassed
 
U2 every now and then...
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Points: 7606 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2007 at 12:48
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Originally posted by endlessepic endlessepic wrote:

Please don't just list bands, that makes for boring reading, list why and when you got into these bands.


I listen to a lot of potentially embarassing music. Shibuya-kei is fun, sometimes jazzy and impossibly cute which appeals to my japan dork sensibilities - Hi-Posi and Takako Minekawa are among my favourites.

I like a few goth rock bands, mostly Type O Negative and The Sisters of Mercy (and also Peccatum's final album if this counts) because I'm a gloomy person.

I also have a fair collection of computer game soundtracks which I've listened to so often that I can hum along.

I know people will come in and say "oh everything I listen to is brilliant and none of it embarasses me or can be called a guilty pleasure" but you should ignore them because they're just deliberately denying context ;P
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Mine is DT. I hate listening to them 'cos there music is so conventional and uninspiring but then again I enjoy it. Going to see them anyway in Newcastle soon.

Don't really listen to any guilty pleasure non-Progressive bands really except the odd Rammstein or Slipknot track. Then again they aren't really pleasurable are they? Wink
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I've been and am still a fan of Journey's music--a huge part of my childhood. I also listen to a little Jimmy Buffett from time to time, Hall & Oates, and newer non-prog bands like Train, Matchbox Twenty, Sister Hazel.

I don't consider this a guilty pleasure, but I'm also a huge Jackson Browne fan.

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No guilt just pleasure for me .. except that time a found an empty flower pot and I put on my head and started sing "whip it"   but thats another story
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Tv game music. I just love it. Deus Ex type electronica, Monkey island reggae, but most of all, the tunes from the Final Fantasy series. I also like the song "where is the love" by the black eyed peas. Band-wise, it's not so easy dto find, really.. i don't like the killers enough to call them a guilty pleasure, and Babyshambles is not guilty enough, but i do like the lates album by the Fray, "how to save a life", and that is both shameful and pleasurable, so maybe that one.

Oh, and the swedish band "sl*gsmålsklubben"! Better than Genesis!

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In large parts of this forum, saying you enjoy Pink Floyd or Genesis is guilty... Unhappy
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Mine is Phil Collins because my mother liked his stuff a lot and I listened to it in the car with her when I Was on car rides, when I was younger and more impressionable of course.
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Originally posted by andu andu wrote:

In large parts of this forum, saying you enjoy Pink Floyd or Genesis is guilty... Unhappy
 
No.... Let me actually put myself in death-row and commit the final crime of guilty pleasure acknowledgment..... Are you ready?
 
I LOVE DREAM THEATER (it's my favorite band).... And I LIKE PHIL COLLINS VERY MUCH.
 
That's it. Now please I'm accepting applications for apostles of my resurrection.
 
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Music is something I never feel guilty about listening. I even don't mind admitting I have three Shakira albums, although I must say that it's mainly her older (pre-US) material that is listenable.
Even the worst material may be worth listening to, just because of that occasional good bass player or guitarist. It's just something to hear once or twice, but never something to feel guilty about.
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Gary Numan and the Tubeway Army (Replicas and Telekon)
Bauhaus Clown (I can feel the scorn already -- loved "Bela Lugosi's Dead" -- which is an anthemic Goth song -- in the movie "The Hunger")
Toto (primarily for the Dune soundtrack -- "Take my Hand" is a blissfully enjoyable track for me)

(not bands, but Kitaro and Giorgio Moroder -- Moroder particularly for Midnight Express and Cat People)

When I played a Bauhaus CD for a friend (which I only bought for "Bela Lugosi's Dead"), he offered me twenty bucks if I'd burn it then and there.  I refused.
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Vintage Eurovision Song Contest songs: Boom Bang a Bang, Ding a Dong, La La La, Maman Maman, Primaballerina etc...


Edited by Rocktopus - April 22 2007 at 14:25
Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
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I'm a big fan of The Buggles. Well, that's not too far removed from prog.
 
Oh, yeah, and I like Neil Diamond.
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Music's music... whatever - even Robert Wyatt did a Neil Diamond/The Monkees cover (I'm a Believer)

My guilty pleasure is probably Bob Dylan for several reasons:
I like prog and Bob is sort of the antithesis.  He writes many poppy short/repetitive songs; he's a horrible singer; he's a bad instrumentalist; he became overly topical in many of his themes; and his lyrics - for all the hype - are not actually that great (I'm a professional poet, and my opinion of them is not very high; Hammill and Wyatt are much better lyricists)

But I still like Bob's music for some inexplicable reason; I think one of my older friends whom I looked up to in high school was a huge Dylanologist, so that might be it.
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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Andres calamaro

Guns n' roses
 
Metallica
 
Sepultura
 
Faith no more
 
Los Rodriguez
 
Enigma
 
Kylie Embarrassed
 
U2 every now and then...
 
What's there to be guilty about Faith No More?
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