Guilty Pleasure Bands

*takes a deep breath* Post-1987 Whitesnake.....don't judge me! @.@
Ok, so this pretty much qualifies as guilty pleasure, I'm sure, but I grew up listening to it and grew very fond of Dave's music, that feel-good flashy, but somewhat tasteful (considering others), tunes and its vaguely mellow and sober counterparts...even the simply "softies" like Deeper The Love.

I know, I'm a bad, bad person.

Edited by Aspiring hope - April 22 2007 at 15:16

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.

Sorry, Rooster, I disagree. Technically speaking, something may be wrong with Dylan's singing (especially nowadays), but just think of his performances on albums such as BLOOD ON THE TRACKS. No-one else could have sung those songs better, or with greater sensitivity. (It doesn't come as a surprise that Ian Bostridge, Andreas Scholl and other singers of classical "Lieder" admire our Bob.)

My own guilty pleasure would be the Black Crowes, a band I have included among my favourites in my Prog Archives Profile. When they're good, I just ADORE them. Especially AMORICA!

At the same time, I'm fully aware that, in the eyes of the world, albums like A TRICK OF THE TAIL must be guilty pleasures as well. (Phil Collins singing his heart out about some half-baked fairy tale characters? Get lost!) Not to mention TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS, parts of which always move me deeply!

E-Dub wrote: 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. E

Geuss what, I might be joining a band with Trains ex-guitarists kid.

I guess some AOR- Journey, Boston, Foreigner, Toto- could be deemed as my 'guilty pleasure' but I'm not even guilty about that, really. I had some 'hair metal' for a time but soon went off the boil on that where I couldn't listen to it anymore. Maybe Phil Collins' debut 'Face Value' is another, but I do genuinely think that's a great album though I don't like none of his others.

I love that futuristic lounge/techno-geek music often found in sci-fi movies and games.

laplace wrote: 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.

Which is ironic as there's precious little gloom in The Sisters, they're actually quite droll.

I myself own a Petshop Boys album for the sole reason that they have silly glasses and are quite funny, and the record cost 30 NOK(Somewhere around 3.5 USD).

Weird Al Yankovic...

Edited by Chameleon - April 22 2007 at 17:45

I was just thinking that this would be a good topic for a thread...and I was going to start it with this band.

They were my first concert.

Friday, October 26th, 1996. Jerry Springer was there taping for an episode that aired in March of 1997.

GWAR!!!



Edited by Jay440 - April 22 2007 at 18:11

Does anyone else end up hating whatever music they play all day at work? I can't enjoy Bohemian Rhapsody anymore

I love hair metal, it's so much fun, especially Europe and Bon Jovi

Aerosmith, being from Boston I grew up with them

Coheed and Cambria have a few songs that I really like, too