Interactive Poll # 666 - GUILTY!

I don't quite get how from all the things somebody has posted it is decided what eventually is in the poll.

Lewian wrote: I don't quite get how from all the things somebody has posted it is decided what eventually is in the poll.

Edited by mathman0806 - July 02 2020 at 06:38

My nominations:

CCCP and Amanda Lear: Tomorrow

Edited by jamesbaldwin - July 02 2020 at 07:38

mathman0806 wrote: I have one more alternative.  Post-make up Kiss, repetitive lyrics, cheesy band surrounded by fire video. I know.

Edited by jamesbaldwin - July 02 2020 at 07:44

Raff wrote: I don't really believe in the whole "guilty pleasure" thing. However, this particular song (which I have always loved) might sound rather out of character to some people:

micky wrote: no surprise to most..  I love this band.. few here do  then again.. what do they know about 'fun' man.. 2nd..  few know of my love of her... but one of the best and most treasured of PA's friendships that became a real life friendship started over our mutual admiration of her..   and perhaps my guiltiest of pleasures..  southern gospel music..  I don't believe in that Christian mumbo jumbo myself... but what it is for me is very spiritual.. and put together Gram, Emmylou and ... ohhh.. LINDA.. and it is pleasurably pure musical guilt

Lewian wrote: I was hoping for the odd comment on my potential nomination of Subway to Sally's "Das Messer" and particularly what I wrote about it on p.3 (you don't need to listen to the song to have an opinion about this). Is it of any interest to go into this kind of thing, or should I just nominate something that is baaad but I like it, like everybody else does? (Which would point to the other two things I posted; I haven't yet decided which one, but of course it can be done if required.) My gut feeling is that in this jungle of things people will probably not bother to read the English lyrics of "Das Messer" and think about them, so that it'd be just a nominated piece of good music that makes me feel guilty for some reason that isn't of interest, which wouldn't probably sit well in this poll. However, if anyone would like that one in the poll, I may just do it.

I definitely won't be discounting things I know well this round.

jamesbaldwin wrote: I WOULD NEVER HAVE IMAGINED TO POST THREE GOLIARDIC CHOIRS HERE ON PA, ONE TAKEN FROM A COMIC FILM WITH BUD SPENCER AND TERENCE HILL AND THE OTHER TWO SONGS IN MILANESE DIALECT, BEING TRADITIONAL SONGS OF MILAN, OFTEN SUNG IN CABARETS. I'M SORRY THAT YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE HUMORISM OF THE TEXTS BUT I HOPE THAT YOU WILL HAVE ALL THE FUN AND I EXPECT YOUR OPINIONS.

Just don;t expect an interesting or insightful opinion from me. I did check those out, but I can't yet think of what to say or how to say it.   

jamesbaldwin wrote: Logan wrote: I've got four for now: The Shaggs are often ridiculed, but I genuinely love the whole Philosophy of the World album: "My Pal Foot Foot" -------------------------------------------- Bob Crewe and Charles Fox - Barbarella -------------------------------------------- A friend on mine offered me good money to destroy my Bauhaus CD that has this on it. I refused out of principle. Bauhaus - In the Flat Field "Yin and yang lumber punch Go taste a tart, then eat my lunch" (I love to quote those lyrics) ---------------------------------------------- Also, I love many "Shreds", but others have not appreciated such things. This is a favourite of mine (that bassoon!) -- could almost be RIO/Avant: The Cure - If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (Shred version) ------------------------------------------------ Ultimately I'm not really embarrassed to like such stuff(well, it depends on who I'm sharing such things with). I do have guilty pleasures. ---- 1) The Shaggs: very demential song 2) Barbarella: I love Jane Fonda, one of my sexual dream! Pimp (is it the right word?) music. 3) Bauhaus: terrible 4) Cure? Too elegant.

I expect quite a few will know that The Shaggs song here. Zappa called it better than the Beatles, even if he was joking. I think it's a good album for those young girls who were still learning to play and I genuinely enjoy that notoriously bad album. I do often like so bad it; good kind of things, but I never found it that bad in its way I find it charming.

As for the Bauhaus, methinks oud get along well with my friend. He offered me, I think, a hundred bucks if he could personally destroy the album (we were roommates at the time, when I was 20, so he had an added incentive). I got so tired of listening to him playing Rush all the time. I find myself strangely amused by some of the lyrics of that song. Terrible, perhaps, but I strangely enjoy it, but then I like offbeat things often.

I bought that compilation album because of Bela Lugosi's Dead, which became a sort of anthemic Goth song. Unlike, say, Dean (a past illustrious member who I sorely miss), I was never into Goth culture, but I lovd a failm called The Hunger with David Bowie,Catherine Deneuve and Suan Sarandon, and it starts with Bela Lugosi's Dead.

This remains my favourite Bauhaus song:



As for that The Cure shred (based on an MTV unplugged concert), it is strangely elegant in a way for a shred. The bassoon in particular makes me laugh.

Some others I like:







This is the first shred I heard:



I can't say that I am as into shreds as I once was, and when I was it was a guilty pleasure.


As for Barbarella, I love that Jane Fonda film. The film is more of a guilty pleasure than that song. I shouldn't feel guilty at all, but it comes down to when I watched it with a religious girlfriend who later became my wife. She was a little shocked, but then she not much later loved Betty Blue. I corrupted her some might say.

Edited by Logan - July 02 2020 at 10:01