Interactive Poll # 666 - GUILTY!

mathman0806 wrote: Keeping this short. After reading Logan's post, the first artist I thought of before seeing any replies was Ted Nugent.

My 1st choice for submission is Squirrel Nut Zippers - "Hell".

Edited by TCat - July 03 2020 at 11:25

Keeping this short. After reading Logan's post, the first artist I thought of before seeing any replies was Ted Nugent.

lmao at my better half

 back at you from the both of us.

micky wrote: Snicolette wrote:   Now again, blushing....That's really kind of you, thank you.  I'm just a person with too much time on her hands and a smart mouth (or keyboard) at times.  These have been very diverting for me and a lot of fun getting to know everyone here better and how their tastes run, musically, all over the map. almost missed this..   very much like me I suspect .. perhaps why I have felt a real connection (many shared musical taste aside) with you.  Prog only brought me to the forum.. and quite frankly is only something I like.. but not my real musical love. However it has the people I have met here.. virtually and more importantly.. in real life.. that keep me coming back.  It really is a great place for just shooting the sh*t and enjoying everyone's company and their perspectives on everything.. from music to the real life. Most here do not open themselves up at all.. some do to some degree.. others have no problem opening themselves up. Warts and all. Another reason why I love these polls.. it is as much the feedbacks.. the little glimmers of what you all let out about yourselves that I really enjoy ... as I do the actual music itself.

  For me, it is one of many musical loves.  I'm terribly loyal as a human partner, but promiscuous when it comes to music and books.    I like the personal glimpses, was hesitant to make many before, afraid of being like some kind of Forrest Gump (being kind of an accidental(?) insider to a lot of things).  So yes, it's been really a heckuva a lot of fun.  You and Raff were some of the first to welcome me to the forums, so I've always appreciated that and the getting to "know" the two of you.

micky wrote: Easy Money wrote: If we are supposed to pick just one song, I will go with "Take On Me". surprised you didn't go with Skynerd   If one really thinks of it.. they sort of are the very definition of a guilty pleasure.. a band you are ashamed to like.. but are too damn good NOT to like.

I was thinking about related things yesterday, wrote quite a lot, but opted not to post my thoughts. Now I will.

I was wondering if some people's guilty pleasures would be songs or artists that represent values antithetical to their own, real or espoused. So, for instance, someone who is part of the Black Lives Matter protests but also likes southern confederate state supporting rock, or a Westboro Baptist Church member who loves Samwell's "What What (In the Butt)"; an Ultra Conservative Senator who espouses family values that loves "depraved" (according to what they espouse) porncore music, or an evangelical who secretly loves and sing along to Black Widow's "Come to the Sabbat" (Satan's there) -- I love that song but wouldn't have played it around my Born Again wife. Or someone who despises/is very ashamed about something about themselves, say a secret philia, but still listens to songs and watches videos that appeal to that philia. I for one am not ashamed of what I like -- well, I could be depending upon the person who would hear me listening to, reqading it, or watching it. I was fascinated by True Crime, and felt some revulsion in the fascination. That doesn;t mean I support or like the crime, it's more the psychological and forensics angle. I don't like hearing about the gory details, and have cried when hearing certian things.   I do get embarrassed more than I would like. I consider myself to be a liberal, secular humanist, but enjoy music by artists that espouse a very different worldview. I abhor murder and murderers, but I still enjoy murder mysteries, am, as said, interested in true crime, and have albums by convicted murderers -- Bobby Beausoleil, a convicted murderer linked to the Manson family made one of my favourite albums, a soundtrack for Kenneth Anger's Lucifer Rising, Jimmy Page also made one, but he had a falling out with Anger. I enjoy various nasheeds even though certain Jihadists play them for inspiration. I thought about listing a nasheed.

I tried hard to think of something I was genuinely ashamed to like in music, but had problems thinking of those. I'm hardly shameless and do have secrets even if they aren't really very dark, and I would be willing to share those with various people. If I dug deeper in myself, I expect that I could list something that is a true guilty pleasure, but I don't know how deep into my psyche I'd want to go, or maybe I'm ultimately a very shallow person, which in itself would be a disheartening prospect -- like I looked deep into myself and found nothing there.

Actually, there is music I could post that while I don't feel guilty about liking it, I would feel uncomfortable posting it. Nothing that bad for me, but others may be offended, and I don;t like causing offence even if I often do. Well, more correctly, sometimes I have enjoyed shocking and being offensive, but then I feel guilty about it afterwards, and sometimes I don't mean offense and try to be tactful but it offends others.

Edited by Meltdowner - July 03 2020 at 10:04

Think about Madonna whatever you want, when she is good she creates some serious heat. (Unfortunately for attracting my vote, the one on the previous page would have been so much better than the one you nominated. Wow!)

it says a lot that on one here has managed to even consider either of the other 2 Fatals for Mick.. songs I absolutely DETEST.. that aren't guilty pleasures.. for though there is pleasure to be found in being chained up and whipped by a 6 foot German blond with killer managed English.. there is not pleasure in being chained up and whiipped by some dude with a southern accent repeating over and over