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    Posted: February 23 2009 at 15:36

Most people bang on about what they've got in their music collection, what they like and what they intend to buy, but tucked behind that stash of King Crimson and Genesis CDs will be something that you don't want your mates to see. I'm not talking about that Westlife album your Granny gave you, when she thought SHE was 'with it'. I'm talking about something that you genuinely liked and bought, but if your friends found out, you'd be cast out as a Judas, never to drink with them again. I'll start.

There's a couple of things by Madonna I like - "Dear Jessie" (which sounds a little Christmassy) and "Beautiful Stranger".

There's a single by Robbie Williams that makes my hair stand on end, and I can't remember what it's called. It has a simple (but effective) repeating piano riff and a bit of slide guitar. I think it had a single word title. It did - it's "Feel".

"Patience" by Take That

"How Soon is Now" - The Smiths (the ONLY decent thing they've ever done)

I was given "The Eternal Fire of Jimi Hendrix" by my mother. She thought she was the bees-knees as it only cost 59p (about 40c) in 1972. It was utter rubbish - a blatant cash-in on Hendrix's good name. I turned it into a frisbee, which shattered when it hit a lamppost!
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Points: 66253 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 23 2009 at 15:50

You might find the following threads of interest:

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50002&KW=guilty+pleasure

 
 
 
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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2009 at 04:32
Indeed, there are many discussion about guilty pleasures around here, and I seldom particpate. The few guilty pleasures I've acquired over the years, make 'Feel' by Robbie Williams (indeed a good song imo) look like the coolest Canterbury jazz exploration ever performed..

Dont even go there...
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B-52s. My metal friends would never talk to me again if they knew my passion for this bandLOL.
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I'M ASHAMED OF NOTHING IN MY MUSIC COLLECTION!!!

Every album / single I own is a snapshot of where my musical tastes were at the time of purchase, so there - I have no skeletons in my closet and can hold my head high as any friend of mine rifles through the CD racks   



Just try to overlook the AIIZ album...





...and the complete collection of George Michael solo albums is my wife's not mine...

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LOL if you say so.
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Yes they are!

She bought them at the same time she bought the 3 CD set of Soft Cell's 12" remixes...

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Originally posted by UMUR UMUR wrote:

B-52s. My metal friends would never talk to me again if they knew my passion for this bandLOL.


And you have excellent taste, sirClap! B-52's were a great, very entertaining band, and living proof that pop music can be intelligent.

As for myself, I am not ashamed of anything I like, nor should anyone else. A couple of weeks ago I bought a compilation of one of my favourite Eighties bands, Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Some of those tracks are dynamite (and Steve Howe even guests on oneWink)!


Edited by Raff - February 24 2009 at 06:46
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I like Swing Out Sister, is that OK?Wink

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Madonna's Ray of Light
 
Some Shania Twain and Shannon Noll
 
John Farnham and some Beach Boys
 
the soundtrack to Hairspray and .....yeeesh i will stop right there.
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Originally posted by John McIntyre John McIntyre wrote:

"How Soon is Now" - The Smiths (the ONLY decent thing they've ever done)

 
 
wow...i know me and other members here love The Smiths, you really think that song was the onlydecent thing they did? why? After all is a matter of taste, but i feel it's strange someone expresses  like this about The Smiths

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Points: 13032 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2009 at 21:59
Originally posted by UMUR UMUR wrote:

B-52s. My metal friends would never talk to me again if they knew my passion for this bandLOL.
 
jaja that band's music make me really happy...their style is pretty coolLOL

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Points: 3449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2009 at 22:10

This will come as no surprise to those who read the Guilty Pleasure posts, but that new box of Abba The Albums is very tempting to me.  We're talking 9 CD's of pure Europop here.  Resistance may be futile.
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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2009 at 22:16
I don't know if i like anything I personally would consider embarassing.

Giorgio Moroder's From Here to Eternity might come close, though.
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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2009 at 04:48
Originally posted by JayDee JayDee wrote:

I like Swing Out Sister, is that OK?Wink


No!

Said the man, with albums by Alexander O'Neil, Abba and Shakatack!
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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2009 at 09:43
I like Love Beach the single! As well as Turn it on Again, Mama, I Can't Dance, Jesus He Knows Me, all the catchy singles, obviously not Illegal Alien nor Who Dunnit?

I do like Simply Red, a pop band with funk/soul/R&B influences, which I find very entertaining every now and then. Also the New Wave/Pop band, INXS.

Though I don't think my friends would be ashamed if I liked this, I mean I don't think they listen to any better than thisWink
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Points: 67407 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2009 at 09:51
OK, this is really embarrassing, but I kinda like this weird hippie band called Yes. Embarrassed
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Points: 152 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2009 at 09:57
Judging on the responses of my last poll, my guilty pleasure is An Island in the Darkness by Tony Banks.

I can't stop listening to it & i'll never in this lifetime understand why it's exiled from the light.
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Points: 3577 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2009 at 10:22
i do not have to emabarrase of the music that i hear...




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Points: 4702 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2009 at 10:23
Not familiar with some of the above, but I fail to see any truly guilty pleasures here.

No one here with the balls to admit their love for Celine Dion or Modern Talking? Now that would be something...

My guiltiest pleasure would probably be Shaggy. His songs are so wonderfully silly.
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