Guilty Pleasure Bands

Spike Jones and PDQ Bach.  Should I really feel guilty about this?

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. On the contrary, my passion for ABBA is not a mystery at all!

Edited by paolo.beenees - April 23 2007 at 15:42

I actually like some songs by Tavares (It only takes a minute girl,Heaven must be missing an angel) nice vocal harmonies, very greasy though, and some other disco tunes (Disco Inferno) not to mention the scissor sisters. do i feel guilty? absolutely not!

My respect for you all has dropped. 

Megadeth (with Marty Friedman)

Atomic_Rooster wrote: 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.

Just because you're a professional poet doesn't mean his lyrics are any better or worse based on your opinion.  If you were a doctor giving advice on a prescription I would take that into account more, but art is subjective and being a pro doesn't mean your say is the all mighty.   Maybe thats not how you meant it, but thats what I took what you were saying as.  Dylan wrote some great lyrics, great music and he is a fantastic singer.  Anyone that covers dylan makes his songs watered down. 


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.


Edited by BroSpence - April 23 2007 at 10:40

Deathrabbit wrote: Evans wrote: 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! Oh man, I'm glad someone else listens to these. I had pretty much every MI and DeusEx song there was. I don't listen to it anymore, but there's a part of me that still wants to. I rationalize it by saying that I don't like the music itself, but I like being reminded of the game its from.

Sure, whatever makes you sleep at night, haha!

Rocktopus wrote: I'm too young to remember Vicky Leandros, but I've actually got one album and the wonderful L'amour Est Bleu on '45. Came in second to Sandie Shaw's Puppet on a String in '67, both great songs but Vicky (and composer Andre Popp, another hero) deserved to win. (She won with Apres Toi in '72, is nice but I prefer the former)

One or two years before Vicky, there was another lovely Eurovision girl (Swiss?) who sang the unforgettable (and truly heart-wrenching) "On a tous un banc, un arbre, une rue". Remember?

jason mraz & ryan cabrera
but, you know mraz has a very amazing voice
o yea, i don't feel guilty at all too.

Edited by mcxwell - April 23 2007 at 06:22

I don't really care about what people think about what I like since it's usually ridiculed anyway.