Guilty Pleasure Bands
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Topic: Guilty Pleasure Bands
Posted By: endlessepic
Subject: Guilty Pleasure Bands
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 12:39
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I would like to know which non progressive bands do you enjoy but wouldn't necessarily tell everyone, and especially would be wary of admitting it to the members of this site. Please don't just list bands, that makes for boring reading, list why and when you got into these bands. For me - Metallica...sorry I don't know why but they have a powerful sound. (not their thrash stuff but songs like "no leaf clover" really are quite catchy.) Also - Limp Bizkit....ok I am serious, I am ready to shoot myself for admitting this...but back when they came out I thought they were great and still catch myself humming along when I hear them. From these 2 bands you would think I am a metalhead...Im not. I like symph prog. Thanks! |
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 12:42
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Sugarbabes. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: darkmatter
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 12:43
| When I was just starting to get into music (around 7th grade), I liked Andrea Bocelli a lot. He has a beautiful voice and I always liked the music. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 12:44
Napalm Death, Alien Ant Farm, Yello, Prodigy, Infected Mushroom, Green Day (Dookie) and some other stuff..  ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 12:44
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Andres calamaro Guns n' roses
Metallica
Sepultura
Faith no more
Los Rodriguez
Enigma
Kylie
U2 every now and then... ------------- 
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 12:48
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I listen to a lot of potentially embarassing music. Shibuya-kei is fun, sometimes jazzy and impossibly cute which appeals to my japan dork sensibilities - Hi-Posi and Takako Minekawa are among my favourites. 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. I also have a fair collection of computer game soundtracks which I've listened to so often that I can hum along. I know people will come in and say "oh everything I listen to is brilliant and none of it embarasses me or can be called a guilty pleasure" but you should ignore them because they're just deliberately denying context ;P ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
endlessepic wrote:Posted By: Hatters
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 12:56
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Mine is DT. I hate listening to them 'cos there music is so conventional and uninspiring but then again I enjoy it. Going to see them anyway in Newcastle soon. Don't really listen to any guilty pleasure non-Progressive bands really except the odd Rammstein or Slipknot track. Then again they aren't really pleasurable are they?  -------------  http://www.last.fm/user/SHatters/?chartstyle=basic10"> 
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 13:08
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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 ------------- 
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Posted By: lighthouse
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 13:12
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No guilt just pleasure for me .. except that time a found an empty flower pot and I put on my head and started sing "whip it" but thats another story |
Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 13:58
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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! ------------- 
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Posted By: andu
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 14:01
In large parts of this forum, saying you enjoy Pink Floyd or Genesis is guilty... 
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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 14:02
| Mine is Phil Collins because my mother liked his stuff a lot and I listened to it in the car with her when I Was on car rides, when I was younger and more impressionable of course. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 14:03
No.... Let me actually put myself in death-row and commit the final crime of guilty pleasure acknowledgment..... Are you ready?
I LOVE DREAM THEATER (it's my favorite band).... And I LIKE PHIL COLLINS VERY MUCH.
That's it. Now please I'm accepting applications for apostles of my resurrection.
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Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 14:05
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Music is something I never feel guilty about listening. I even don't mind admitting I have three Shakira albums, although I must say that it's mainly her older (pre-US) material that is listenable. Even the worst material may be worth listening to, just because of that occasional good bass player or guitarist. It's just something to hear once or twice, but never something to feel guilty about. ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: Asyte2c00
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 14:06
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The Cure
Stars
World Inferno Friendship Society
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 14:17
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Gary Numan and the Tubeway Army (Replicas and Telekon) Bauhaus  (I can feel the scorn already -- loved "Bela Lugosi's Dead" -- which is an anthemic Goth song -- in the movie "The Hunger")Toto (primarily for the Dune soundtrack -- "Take my Hand" is a blissfully enjoyable track for me) (not bands, but Kitaro and Giorgio Moroder -- Moroder particularly for Midnight Express and Cat People) When I played a Bauhaus CD for a friend (which I only bought for "Bela Lugosi's Dead"), he offered me twenty bucks if I'd burn it then and there. I refused. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 14:18
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Vintage Eurovision Song Contest songs: Boom Bang a Bang, Ding a Dong, La La La, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abPXMW0awXA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fprofile%2Emyspace%2Ecom%2Findex%2Ecfm%3Ffuseaction%3Duser%2Eviewprofile%26friendID%3D138957450 - Maman Maman , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWv_dQnjXaI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fprofile%2Emyspace%2Ecom%2Findex%2Ecfm%3Ffuseaction%3Duser%2Eviewprofile%26friendid%3D171944333 - Primaballerina etc... ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 14:19
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I'm a big fan of The Buggles. Well, that's not too far removed from prog.
Oh, yeah, and I like Neil Diamond.
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Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 14:36
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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. ------------- I am but a servant of the mighty Fripp, the sound of whose loins shall forever be upon the tongues of his followers. |
Posted By: Fight Club
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 14:40
What's there to be guilty about Faith No More? ------------- 
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Posted By: Aspiring hope
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 15:09
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*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. -------------  |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 15:13
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Second formation PFM. I don't know why, but I enjoy Jet Lag very much. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 15:23
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! |
Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 15:26
Do you remember Vicky Leandros? Now THOSE were the days! 
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Posted By: endlessepic
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 15:48
Geuss what, I might be joining a band with Trains ex-guitarists kid. |
Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 16:02
Not embarassed at all to say I really like George Michael, even "Last Christmas" 
To further revolt the British members here - I used to really like Oasis, and I still don't think their music is that terrible. To disgust the French members here - I quite like that first hit song by the French pop starette Alizee (don't remember the title now). To horrify the Polish members here - that hip-hop song "To my, Polacy" is badass. Kasia Cerekwicka isn't that bad, either. In fact, I would probably enjoy at least some blatantly commercial and simplistic pop music from all the countries represented on PA. To top it off, I enjoy (to a varying degree, but still) a fair bit of strictly commercial pop I overhear on the radio, both '80s and '90s (probably the '80s more). |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 16:07
| 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. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 16:19
Nothing really....
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 16:21
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I love that futuristic lounge/techno-geek music often found in sci-fi movies and games.
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Posted By: Progshrike
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 16:37
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I really like Dimmu Borgir, I know most people will cringe. I also really like Immolation, Absu and Enthroned. I don't have a good reason why, I just do. And one from way out in left-field. Steven Curtis Chapman. Seriously. ------------- Did you ever think for yourself? Just once,did you ever think? That's all I want to know> |
Posted By: Zweck
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 17:24
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). |
Posted By: madgo2
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 17:30
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Aerosmith
Cheap Trick
UFO
Iggy Pop
Sex Pistols
Clash...
Lots of them actually. Nothing really embarassing like errr...George Michael or Culture Club, or crazy Brittney Spears... At least not embarassing to me...well maybe the Monkees ------------- He whom life can no longer surprise |
Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 17:45
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Weird Al Yankovic...   |
Posted By: jikai55
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 18:04
| Aerosmith, Boston, Foreigner, Billy Joel, Elton John. Stone Temple Pilots, and T. Rex :D |
Posted By: Jay440
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 18:09
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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!!! 
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Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 18:26
I enjoy music of my childhood: 80's synthpop, stuff like Eurythmics , Yello, Jimmy Sommerville, Human Leugue, Duran Duran, A-ha, Yazoo. And Roxette was big love of mine, too. Hell, I even liked MC Hammer and Technotronic when they were in!
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Posted By: Fight Club
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 19:06
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Does anyone else end up hating whatever music they play all day at work? I can't enjoy Bohemian Rhapsody anymore -------------
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Posted By: asimplemistake
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 20:08
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Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard such a bad song but its just so....good. It's a good type of bad. |
Posted By: puma
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 20:16
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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 |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 20:27
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For me, it's Death Cab For Cutie. For some reason they have a huge emo following that came out of nowhere, so it's not good to be associated with that. Although I hardly listen to them lately. -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 21:08
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I love Manowar... but I don't feel guilty about it.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 21:10
Well, whenever I hear AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long played live by a cover band, or watching one AC/DC's DVDs, I'm one of those people who loses it & start making all sorts of funny "rocker" gestures. If it's played on the radio I switch stations. My horrendous theory - "Classic" rock radio might just kill it off by overplay of the same 100 songs. Even the so-called deep tracks' shows play songs everyone knows. Heck, if you've got a bunch of people who love 80s Genesis, is it that hard to figure that you could slip in a few older tunes like "I Know What I Like" or "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway", you'll differentiate your station from others & introduce people to music from some of their "favourites" that they might not have heard ? But then, I remember these business are run by accountants, not music fans or other so called creative types ...  |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 21:11
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love NWOBM
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Posted By: kazansky
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 21:11
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i don't think i have a guilty feeling for what i listen to... ------------- The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 21:16
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Oops , forgot to add - I love 60s & 70s top 40 radio. I've been able to compile about 10 eighty minute CDs worth of choice select singles. I have no shame or pride, inferiority/superiority complex when it comes to what I like. Prog, Pop, Punk, even a few Polka tunes that I enjoy. Though the only Polka music I own is Weird Al Hooked on Polka medleys. I guess you could say in brief that I just enjoy music  P.S. Good thread, nice to see prog fans aren't necessarily snobs... |
Posted By: william314159
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 21:20
| tears for fears |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 21:20
Britannia Rules, then begat the American wave, that unfortunately brought out the hair metal trend, that began too much inbreeding that eventually set the stage for Grunge, which I also like. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 21:24
AAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Such humble beginnings, but they went to become popmeisters. Not prog by any measure, but their compositions & arrangements do show a certain genius in weaving a complex wall of sound into simple songs. |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 21:28
I ... I think I also kind of like Alan Parson's project. That must be the lowest level one can reach (because I specially -kind of- love Alan Parson's ballads)...  ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 21:33
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ABBA for me..... just damn catchy songs that I sing for days after hearing them!
I'm also a huge deadhead... but I don't feel guilty about that
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Posted By: MadcapLaughs84
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 22:31
I don't wanna fall on any kind of agressive discussion, but you can't find a band uninspiring and enjoy their music, that's non-sense.
And maybe I don't consider any band for me a guilty pleasure, all of them have some positive aspects. So, I have no guilty pleasures.So ------------- 
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 22:40
Evidently it isn't non-sense. Besides, that's kinda the point of this topic.. I like some Van Halen and there's nothing 'inspiring' about them. |
Posted By: MadcapLaughs84
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 22:45
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Maybe I didn't explain myself clearly in what I meant to say.
If you like them, something inspires you in their music, maybe you feel cheerful, agressive, depressing, anything, but they actually cause a reaction on you, and that's what makes you enjoy it. BTW, Van Halen rocks!!! -------------
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Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 22:45
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Not precisely guilty but I really enjoy ther music of many non-prog bands that made a kind of "soundtrack" when I was 13-20 y.o. and Their music still makes me remember those days:
U2: Their albums til Achtung baby! are really good IMO.
Simple Minds: It's impossible for me to forget songs like Alive and Kicking and the classic Don't You Forget About Me.
The Cure: One of the most non-prog amazing bands that I've been heard! Disintegration is a masterpiece!
Johnny Cash: Master!
Tom Waits: MASTER!
Tori Amos: Beautiful songs, beautiful lyrics, beautiful woman.
Diamanda Galas: Amazing singer with some of the most impressive and weird albums that I've been heard.
AC-DC: If I tell you the crazy things we made when we were young with AC-DC music breaking our ears... you would'n believe it! ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: Soul Dreamer
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 23:04
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Oh gosh...I have at least as much non-prog music as prog. Should I feel guilty about that??? Don't think so!!!! Bands/Artists like Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Neil Young, Simple Minds, Coldplay etc etc I feel no guilt at all. A good new one is Arcade Fire, I like it.
On-topic: The most "guilty" pleasure I have & like is some trance like Alice Deejay. ------------- To be the one who seeks so I may find .. (Metallica) |
Posted By: puma
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 23:12
| Yellowcard. My 15 year old brother showed me some of their songs and I like them |
Posted By: Kim Ankara
Date Posted: April 22 2007 at 23:51
I don't think I have any music that makes me feel guilty when I listen to it, but in certain situations certain bands can be embarrassing to mention. I wouldn't play early Genesis or ELP to my heavy metal orientated friends, or mention that I like Kate Bush and Duran Duran, I wouldn't dare say that NWA or Public Enemy is good in my prog circle (although to be fair my prog circle consists of 3 people), and liking Foreigner and Asia brings a negative reaction. Whenever I play Magma my family thinks I'm weird.  The "you listen to that type of music, your knowledge is of less worth" type reaction I've noticed always comes from people who always stick to popular or highly-respected music you can't possibly attack. |
Posted By: White Shadow
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 00:31
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 00:38
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I have no guilt at all in what I like.
In like from Pop to Prog (With soe limits of course)
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Posted By: FruMp
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 01:31
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These days I just don't have any guilty pleasures, I mean I'm into such a wide range of music that I really don't care if I'm judged for certain facets of my taste, I really don't care about being judged on my taste at all to be honest, I enjoy hearing what everyday people think of thrash and death metal.
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Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 02:15
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.   |
Posted By: Faaip_De_Oiad
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 02:44
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t..A.T.u <3 ------------- 
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Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 03:26
Absolutely!!! What a lovely little ditty! "Careless Whisper" is irresistible as well! I guess guilt just doesn't come into the picture... Same with Abba's "Waterloo", and maybe a handful of other Abba tunes, and even the Bee Gees' hits (universally beloved!  ) from SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER - although you wouldn't have caught me admitting this back in the seventies!
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 03:59
| I have a Def Leppard song on my computer that I really like but wouldn't tell people about. Burnout it's called. |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 04:00
I'm too young to remember Vicky Leandros, but I've actually got one album and the wonderful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD4ib9-laGY - L'amour Est Bleu on '45. Came in second to Sandie Shaw's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRgAZL2Oz44 - Puppet on a String in '67, both great songs but Vicky (and composer Andre Popp, another hero) deserved to win. (She won with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Ar-YiiPFs&mode=related&search= - Apres Toi in '72, is nice but I prefer the former) ABBA's last album Visitors is kind of prog-related. here's (a not so good example on that, the hit) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8jqAEoogHw&mode=related&search= - Head over Heels ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 04:04
Their first two-three singles were all great (+ the new one with that violent video isn't too bad either)! And they should have won the Eurovision a couple of years ago. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: White Shadow
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 05:00
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I don't really care about what people think about what I like since it's usually ridiculed anyway. ------------- [signature] |
Posted By: FruMp
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 05:54
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Well at least on one has mentioned the insane clown posse yet, I don't think liking them is excusable =P
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Posted By: mcxwell
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 06:20
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jason mraz & ryan cabrera
but, you know mraz has a very amazing voice 
o yea, i don't feel guilty at all too. ------------- There is no Best, just DIfferent.. |
Posted By: heavyhery
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 06:50
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ABBA
CARPENTERS
SSSH dont tell anybody ------------- heavyhery |
Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 08:06
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? 
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Posted By: nimrodel
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 09:49
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well.... ummmm... i do kinda like Kid Rock....
well....mmmmm... maybe i like it a lot....
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Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 10:13
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'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..' |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 10:31
Yes, me too, how could I forget. Well, not MC Hammer and Technotronic, but the early eigthies. Bands like that, yeah, I still like that.
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Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 10:38
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. |
Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 11:35
the answer to yout last question is: the same reason you played spin-the-bottle in high school. Bob dylan is a great lyricist. He may not always have been that consistently good ("i would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned", for instance) but whoever claims that songs like "Mr. Tambourine man", "Love mius zero", "it's all over now baby blue" and "Hurricane" are weak in the lyrical department must have real confidence in his own poetry indeed :) -------------
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Posted By: Yito
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 11:49
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Megadeth (with Marty Friedman) X Japan
Helloween
The Who
and many, many more bands. ------------- Psalm 96 1 Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth. |
Posted By: Lex C
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 11:56
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Man I have a couple Blink 182 (Travis is one of the Few good Punk Drummers) AFI, I have really no excuse they are rather catchy Linkin Park I dunno Hybrid Theory gets ne Metallica but I dont see that as guilty at all Oh yeah and Between The Buried and Me, They are halfway decent for a metalcore band. ------------- You think we've developed fast that we're civilized and intelligent I'll let you in on a secret...We've developed things the rest is just knowledge passed on. |
Posted By: Hatters
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 12:20
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My respect for you all has dropped.
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Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 14:06
Monaco '71: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0SMZ9U66wk&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fprofile%2Emyspace%2Ecom%2Findex%2Ecfm%3Ffuseaction%3Duser%2Eviewprofile%26friendID%3D138957450 - Severine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoeYtlxedhg&mode=related&search= - On a tous un banc, un arbre, une rue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoeYtlxedhg&mode=related&search= - I wasn't actually born yet, so I can't really remember. Got the track on vinyl, though. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: unclemeat69
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 14:08
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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!
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Posted By: The Acolyte
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 14:52
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I am the kind of person that think that every type of music deserves to be listened, it also depends on the listener's tastes and that's what makes us all different. When you are growing up, your musical taste goes through a "journey" that ends with the choice of staying with prog as your first listening option...however, there are some bands/singers that still you like, no matter what...
I am not guilty at all for the bands i'm going to list because, as i said before, the music experience relies heavily on the listener and his perpspectives...
* The Cure (does anybody hate their "goth" era, 80-83?)
* Bauhaus (Masters of Goth)
* The Smiths/Morrissey (Finest brit pop at its best!)
* Nick Cave & the bad seeds
* Metallica (81-90 era)
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Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 15:41
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!
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Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 15:45
Everyone likes all these. Got nothing slightly embarrassing? ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: forte88
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 15:50
| Spike Jones and PDQ Bach. Should I really feel guilty about this? |
Posted By: moodyxadi
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 20:07
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Triumvirate: so cheesy and EL&Pish but so beautiful (Illusions... and Spartacus, of course).
EL&P itself: bombastic and overrrrrrr. But it was my introduction to the prog world. But I can't hear to Works anymore; only Palmer's side and the last side. Emerson's Concerto is one of the greatest pioece of cr%p from the sevenies.
Uriah Heep: in some circles I never mention the great love I have for this band (Byron & Lawton era, specially the first one). Wonderworld was my first Heep experience and still is so emotional for me.
ABBA: God, these guys make me remember my childhood! And I love their melodies and the gorgeous voices of Fritha and Agnetha. And they were so beautiful...
Wakeman: so hyperbolic. In my defense, I really apreciate only his first album, The Wives.
The Monkees: I don't care if they were just funny guys without a drop of talent; their music was good pop-rock in the sixties way.
Helloween: The second Keeper is the only power/melodic metal someone really need to have. But it's wonderful!
Mercyful Fate: I know that King Diamond is creepy - in a way he certainly wouldn't like to know. But I really love their first couple of albums.
There is more, but I can't remember now. Shame on me!
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 20:16
Guess where will you find the largest Uriah Heep fan club?  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 20:37
I never played it in high school actually. Anyways, it just seems really dumb that people will admit to liking something they obviously do not feel guilty about. Especially when the artists aren't even considered guilty pleasures. I mean people are just listing whatever they hell they want. Its more like "name the band you like to listen to but don't listen to that much". Come on, since when are Metallica, Faith No More, the Who, Bob Dylan, etc guilty pleasures? Since when is listening to good music considered a guilty pleasure? Oh my gosh I listen to f**king Beethoven, I'm so guilty. Please arrest me, because no one should know I like the 5th symphony. BLASPhEMY. Seems a little ridiculous, almost like my sarcasm. |
Posted By: Progger
Date Posted: April 23 2007 at 20:46
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Being a teenager in the 80's meant I was exposed to Duran Duran, Tears For Fears, Teardrop Explodes and my favourite band from that era was Simple Minds.
Also have a soft spot for many 70's glam rock bands, The Sweet, Slade & David Bowie.
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Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: April 25 2007 at 16:06
Thanks for the link! Horrible singer, but I still think it's a great song. By the way, were you actually born on 1/1/2000? You seem to know an awful lot of prog albums!
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Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: April 25 2007 at 16:12
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I'm very special, because I'm the millenium baby.
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Posted By: Losendos
Date Posted: April 25 2007 at 21:12
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My guilty pleasure bands : Alice Cooper , Black Sabbath and America ( I've got a soft spot for well done harmonies I also like CSNY but I don't feel guilty about that ). ------------- How wonderful to be so profound |
Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: April 25 2007 at 21:29
at the moment mine is Genesis, I don't like them a lot, but I'm ashamed that I like their Nursery Cryme as much as I do... (that about summarizes my range of emotion at the moment)------------- I am but a servant of the mighty Fripp, the sound of whose loins shall forever be upon the tongues of his followers. |
Posted By: billbuckner
Date Posted: April 25 2007 at 22:17
| Nursery Cryme is their best, IMO. No shame in loving that. |
Posted By: oracus
Date Posted: April 26 2007 at 05:15
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I often listen to Tracy Chapman, i love her voice.
But, i have to listen some hardcore complex prog after that to get my brain back! ------------- 
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Posted By: man@arms
Date Posted: April 26 2007 at 09:50
| I sometimes listen to Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson |
Posted By: man@arms
Date Posted: April 26 2007 at 13:15
| After a couple of beers I may put on some of the waltzes and polkas of Johann Strauss II. I love classical music and opera, but Strauss is considered "classical light" by some and therefore not appreciated the same way as say Johannes Brahms or Richard Wagner; which is rather sad. |
Posted By: Yontar
Date Posted: April 26 2007 at 13:26
| um, i would say my guilty pleasure in music would be either euro dance music or 80s pop. After playing hours of ddr i really grew to love the music, and bands like tears for fears i still think are cool. They made high quality pop music, and some of those bands could actually play. Um, also i would say level 42. Mark King is a great bassist even though he is in an uber cheesy group (who can all play fairly well). I also really like some bluegrass every once in a while. |
Posted By: El Morula
Date Posted: April 27 2007 at 05:51
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I don't think liking anything outside prog is a reason to feel guilt. The way I see it, geting to know and enjoy different genres makes you a better listener. I congratulate myself for having such a big disposition to know about any kind of music. Regardless I find out I like it or not. I've heard from Classical to Jazz (old and fusion), Oldies (50's, 60's), classic rock, 80's pop (love it to death), 80's heavy metal (blond long hair guys type), dark, thrash metal, speed metal, death metal, pop and rock in my language, very old music from my country (stuff very few people under 60 listen to, I'm 32). I enjoy all kinds of prog, from the very light to the most complex and inaccesible.
When I was around 18 I really thought anything that wasn't prog, was crap. I started listening to 80's pop actually, and never stoped liking it. But I would take advantage of any situation to bash "inferior" genres to prog. After a few years I learned that there is more than complexity to music to make it good. Like diversity, passion, inspiration, feeling. And that was when I found out there are tons of crap in prog. I used to like Le Orme, but from a few years to date, I can't help finding it cheesier every day. Has anyone ever listened to "I heard it through the grape vine", by Marvin Gaye?, a 60's oldie?. I contains more passion and conviction than all Relayer together.
Feel guilty of disregarding thousands of great songs out there, just to be able to say Prog is the ultimate genre. ...It is not. Don't get me wrong, I love it. But not taking a chance to enjoy the rest of the music in the world is a huge mistake.
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Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: April 27 2007 at 08:45
Is this the same band that used to be called (with much more subtlety) "I Pooh"? 
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