Embarrasing music you like
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Topic: Embarrasing music you like
Posted By: John McIntyre
Subject: Embarrasing music you like
Date Posted: February 23 2009 at 15:36
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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!
OK, I've covered myself in Ess Aitch Eye Tee - your turn! ------------- I am one of only about 1,800 people in the world with an original M400 Mellotron! |
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 23 2009 at 15:50
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You might find the following threads of interest: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50002&KW=guilty+pleasure - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50002&KW=guilty+pleasure http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=49889&KW=guilty+pleasure - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=49889&KW=guilty+pleasure
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=49513&KW=guilty+pleasure - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=49513&KW=guilty+pleasure
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41116&KW=guilty+pleasure - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41116&KW=guilty+pleasure
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28835&KW=guilty+pleasure - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28835&KW=guilty+pleasure ------------- 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 04:32
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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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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 04:50
B-52s. My metal friends would never talk to me again if they knew my passion for this band .
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 06:27
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... ...honest  ------------- 
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 06:32
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if you say so.
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 06:37
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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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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 06:44
And you have excellent taste, sir  ! 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 one  )! |
UMUR wrote:Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 06:49
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I like Swing Out Sister, is that OK?
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 21:48
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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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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 21:58
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 ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 21:59
jaja that band's music make me really happy...their style is pretty cool ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 22:10
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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. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 22:16
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I don't know if i like anything I personally would consider embarassing. Giorgio Moroder's From Here to Eternity might come close, though. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 04:48
No!
Said the man, with albums by Alexander O'Neil, Abba and Shakatack!
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 09:43
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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 this |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 09:51
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OK, this is really embarrassing, but I kinda like this weird hippie band called Yes.
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Posted By: TealFoxes
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 09:57
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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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Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 10:22
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i do not have to emabarrase of the music that i hear... -------------  |
Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 10:23
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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. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 10:38
"You're My Heart, You're My Soul" is a classic. Céline Dion has some amazing stuff as well. Her vocals are sometimes a bit annoying, but she really sounds great when she's not over doing it. I've always loved "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" and "My Heart Will Go On", for example. |
Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 10:41
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^ Three cheers for Vompatti's courage to confess his gulity pleasures... twice
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 21:58
 i think im going to be sick
"My Heart Will Go On" is the worst song in the history of music, this is something I will always stand by -------------  Time always wins. |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 22:03
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Why Styx's "Babe" comes on the radio, I do not turn the channel. Abba basically, lots of 70s cheez I grew up with... |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 22:12
After a girl I tried to impress last year knew "My heart will go on" on the piano, I started learning how to play it. Now she's gone, every pianist in the school can play it, and I refuse to play it by request.
But sometimes I take out a viking helmet in my band teacher's room and sing it viking style (harshly, sort of like cookie monster but more, for lack of a better word, melodic).
Anyways, I have a soft spot for a pop punk band called The Matches that I loved several years ago. I also enjoy Green Day from time to time.
Also, after a talk with my metalhead friends we decided that Blink 182 was a band that as much as we know that they suck, and as horrible as they are, and as much as we hate to admit it, we love them. NO SHAME FOR ME!!! ------------- 
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 22:16
I'd say mine would be Death Cab for Cutie and this gentleman here... as I'm sure you know -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 22:34
^It's all good, I personally love this album: Not to mention Tupac and even a bit of Biggie... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 22:38
I don't know Tupac but Biggie is great. NWA have never been a favorite, they're good but I'll stick to Public Enemy, who have similar but better production. Regarding the thread title, if I like it, then I have to reason to be embarassed about it! |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 22:48
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^Agreed on Public Enemy... From what I know Tupac is generally more chill than biggie... I like him a little more. My favorite rap album would be Black Sunday though.  Check it out, it\s awesome ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 22:51
I didn't even grow up with it. My younger brother had Waterloo, and man I knew better than to like that, but so it was. Damn that Mouth & MacNeal and their How Do You Do. That was the nefarious starting point.
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Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 22:51
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Haven't heard that one yet, but I'll check it out. My favorite is Wu-Tang Clan's immortal debut, followed by Madvillain's Madvillainy and A Tribe Called Quest's The Low End Theory. Seriously, though, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and the first round of solo albums (Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Uncontrolled Substance, Liquid Swords, Tical, and more that I'm forgetting, I'm sure, as well as some of the later ones like Fishscale) are the pinnacle of what hip-hop has to offer IMO. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 22:58
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I've been meaning to get that wu tang album for a while.... BTW about Madvillain... he did a little EP with Clutchy Hopkins,a folky funk genius... here it is: http://rapidshare.com/files/136846570/mf_doom_meets_clutchy_hopkins-the_life_of_clutchy_hopkins-_crate_digler_-promo-2006-soup.rar - http://rapidshare.com/files/136846570/mf_doom_meets_clutchy_hopkins-the_life_of_clutchy_hopkins-_crate_digler_-promo-2006-soup.rar (free promo EP) It comes free when you order Clutchy's first album... they all work as instrumentals, with lyrics by Madvillain/MF Doom mixed in later. Genius imo. Btw Year of the rat pwns. I like it more when punk bands have a flatter production tho... it;s all spacy and echoey. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 23:10
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I'll check it out. Also, Madvillain is duo. I read the allmusicguide description of Cypress Hill, it sounds awesome. Definitely high on my wishlist. Get that Wu-Tang album ASAP. Took me a few listens to really get into it, but it has yet to stop growing on me. |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 23:10
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80s-90s synth pop :Naked Eyes' first 2 albums, I also like ABC, Babble, Yello, Thomas Dolby, Ultravox, Icehouse, The Fixx, Simple Minds, even early AHA. Sorry but I was and still am a fan. ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 23:22
ahh I see. I thought that was just a name of an MF Doom project First four CH albums are classics, especially Black Sunday and IV. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 23:26
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Nope, it's MF Doom and Madlib. |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 23:45
My Heart Will Go on  I'm a proud listener of the Russian fake lesbian pop duo t.A.T.u. Every single person to whom I showed my top 100 favourite songs list last autumn commented on their song All About Us being included. Love it  It's probably the most surprising of my favourite bands but why be embarrassed.------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 23:48
You might like Junior Boys from this decade. Their album Last Exit is a deliciously dark take on synth pop. |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 23:53
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Oh yes, how could I forget. 80s synth pop and ballads. Duran Duran, Laura Branigan's Self Control, Glenn Medeiros' Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You, Richard Marx's Right Here Waiting and an endless flow of other classics.
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Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 23:59
| Also, the artist currently under my recently played tracks on my last.fm sig is probably the closest I'll come to a guilty pleasure (though I don't feel guilty about it at all). |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 01:01
Dangerous and Moving is nearly a masterpiece. |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 01:09
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^I prefer 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane as an album but that one definitely has some killer songs as well And the silliest lyrics ever in Cosmos (Outer Space).
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Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 10:37
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When did NWA, Tupac, Biggie, Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan and its subsequent members become embarrassing to listen to? In regards to Tupac, he was very good, but his view towards production doesn't really meet my tastes. He preferred to just lay down a bunch of vocals, then let it get a beat later, he didn't really care too much about that department. Which I believe is why a lot of his stuff doesn't stick with me.
I think the only thing I was ever embarrassed purchasing and listening to was the "Music" album by Madonna. Which is funny because I also bought her first album and True Blue. True Blue is pretty good. In any case, those latter two were not embarrassing purchases. |
Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 10:40
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Well Wu-Tang Clan were never brought up as embarrassing to listen to, and neither were Public Enemy. Their discussion just arose from my response to The Miracle's post. As for why he thinks NWA, Tupac, and Biggie are guilty pleasures, I don't know. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 10:44
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Ah ok, I'll admit it! I do enjoy Avril Lavigne's first album, Let Go, don't have it anymore because a friend stoled it from me, I want it back! At least to hear it once again! Also Gorillaz first album, was enjoyable to an extent.... Oh, and also The Corrs! |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 10:54
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I love The Corrs!
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 10:58
| ^nice! I only have their first 2 albums, obviously I prefer their less popish debut, while the second has some "killer" tunes, it's sounds too commercial or femenine, no offense. |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 11:18
This is actually a very good album, not a collection of old Beatles songs reworked....well.. almost not
  A very good album, not just another collection of boogie woogie pop songs, this really rocks!
and my vinyl copy is signed by the band!
  ...ONLY JOKING!!
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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 11:26
How about this? Paramore.  At least the singles I've heard have all been good. I should probably get the Riot! album. I'm not at all embarassed about it though. As far as I'm concerned, people who don't admit to having any 'guilty pleasures' aren't being honest with themselves.------------- 
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 15:29
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Barry Manilow and The Bee Gees, even though I'm still not too embarrassed by it. They're all skilled musicians making some of the best pop music ever. Basically, I like almost anything that requires some talent to play or sing. That's why I don't have respect towards most pop singers, because they can't play or sing crap!! Bee Gees and Manilow are a few exceptions, however. My friends like metal, so I can't let most of them know, but otherwise I'm somewhat proud. ------------- 
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 15:30
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I also kind of like Lenny Kravitz. Which, again, is mostly because he's skilled.
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 15:31
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I also like Earth, Wind, and Fire. -------------
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 20:14
I don't. I'm not embarassed by anything I listen to. In fact where I live Yes and Genesis would be closer to guilty pleasures as it's a very relative concept. But in context of this forum if anything's embarassing it would be rap... remember the vast majority of prog fans hate that stuff ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 20:15
| Silly prog fans. |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 20:29
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Well, since I'm not embarrassed of anything I like listening to, I'm not even sure if this will apply, but here goes . . . Linkin Park
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 20:29
| . . . okay, the Lifehouse mention was only a joke, I admit. |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 20:32
I was talking to a friend of mine, she's really into Paramore and those poppy punk bands, about how I thought their singer Hayley Williams was really cute and then she asked "Have you actually even heard any of their music?"I had not, so youtube'd one of their songs. I told myself before I played the video "I will absolutely not enjoy this song and will most likely turn it off before it gets to 30 seconds." I put on the song Decode, still telling myself I would hate it. And well, I ended up listening to the whole song ------------- 
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Posted By: Eraserhead
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 20:39
I have an old copy of Rick Astley's Whenever You Need Somebody, and I like it quite a lot!
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 20:40
As much as I hate everything and including Meteroa onwards.........I love Hybrid Theory It's dynamic, very very creative, and very unique album, and Linkin Park have since not been able to top it. I may cop some flack saying this as a Progressive Metal Team member  but hell, I love the album anyway.-------------
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 20:49
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I've got more. I like the Deftones, another nu metal band. I love their album Around the Fur so much. I love Rage Against The Machine, A LOT. Their music makes me want to set cop cars on fire (I don't mean it that literally, just more the emotion), I love that feeling of being energized like that. Does The Cure count as a guilty pleasure too? I goddamn love that band. -------------
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 20:53
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RATM and Cure are definitely not embarassing. I think Rage is one of the greatest bands, ever...
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 20:54
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^Well there you go, I'm in the clear for those 2 bands then
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Posted By: Eraserhead
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 20:55
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Yeah the Cure are amazing, especially the Pornography album
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Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 21:14
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Rage are like a louder, less good Gang of Four. [/blatant oversimplification] Nothing to be "guilty" about, though. The Cure are simply a great band. Disintegration <3. |
Posted By: Fede
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 21:32
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I have to say I absolutely love Eminem, Marshall Mathers and The Eminem Show are both masterpieces in every sense of the word. Actually if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be listening to music Looking forward for the next album, I think it's gonna be released sometime this year ------------- 
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Posted By: Abrawang
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 23:24
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Showing my generational bias here, but I like a lot of the 60s boy band pop songs. Gary Lewis & the Playboys is definitely embarassing, especially the mega echo chamber they had to use to disguise his thin voice. Herman's Hermits & Billy J. Kramer are a couple of others. And a couple of Cliff Richards songs, Bachelor Boy & Summer Holiday. Check out the really cheesy clips on YouTube. Yikes, I'm sure grateful this forum allows pseudonyms. ------------- Casting doubt on all I have to say... |
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 02:59
Yup, Know Your Enemy is easily one of my favorite songs of all time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4smim2MNvF8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4smim2MNvF8 -------------
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Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 03:07
Is that
 for the music or because the Corrs is the only band you can watch for 20-odd minutes before you realise there's a man in it?My guilty pleasure: The Beautiful South. ------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough. |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 03:15
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I like some Beautiful South songs. |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 03:42
| I love Roxette. In fact I like most of the 80's pop - mostly synthpop: Eurythmics are one of my all-times favourite band. |
Posted By: Statutory-Mike
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 07:37
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luda, dre, geto boys, dj splash (bass is kickin) hell yehhhhhhhhh ------------- 
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 07:48
I love you too. -------------
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Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 07:57
I NEVER feel embarrassed while listening to The Cure. ------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough. |
Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 15:01
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DANGER DANGER. Think that Limozeen from Homestar Runner are fictional? Well, if that's the case you haven't heard Danger Danger. ------------- "The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook |
Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 18:49
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Ekhymosis Mana Juanes Kiss AC%DC Anastacia Andrea Boccelli pop songs Sarah Brightman pop songs Abba and many others ------------- Hi progmaniacs of all the world |
Posted By: Captain Capricorn
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 18:54
The 5th Dimension & The Manhattan Transfer 
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Posted By: Captain Capricorn
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 18:56
...this sounds so hilarious coming from James Earl Jones
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Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 19:00
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I like manhattan transfer ,and take six etc ,.for me are not embarrasing bands
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Posted By: Captain Capricorn
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 19:03
Rock on brother!
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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: February 28 2009 at 02:57
R.E.M. is fantastic Lifes Rich Pageant, Out of Time, Automatic for the People, Up, Reveal, brilliant albums all of them. The best gig I saw last year was R.E.M. at the Finnair Stadium in Helsinki in pouring rain and freezing wind, it was such a warm event. I think Diminished was number 5 on my Ultimate Song List thingy and there was another four or five of their songs in the top 100.Somebody mentioned AC/DC too, love it also. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA!
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Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: February 28 2009 at 08:10
yep, I love to recite ''dressed for success'' in deep, narrative voice
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 28 2009 at 08:13
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The Eurythmics were a hell of a great band, and Annie Lennox's voice one of the very best on the whole music scene. I'd kill to have a voice like hers!
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Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: February 28 2009 at 08:21
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I enjoy a good, long drumsolo. But PA is one of the few places you might not get laughed at or worse, for it. Like most here, I'm not embarrassed for any music I like. ------------- 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: Bj-1
Date Posted: February 28 2009 at 08:38
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I grew up with everything from Pink Floyd to James Last Orchestra, you can say I have become pretty open minded over the years.
Im not embarrased for any music I like either, and genre doesn't matter as long as I enjoy the music. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 28 2009 at 08:54
| I usually don't like Madonna, but Live to Tell and Frozen are two exceptions. |
Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: February 28 2009 at 10:18
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I also like a lot of eighties pop because of the science-fiction-y atmosphere it has.
------------- "The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: February 28 2009 at 12:09
I think songs like "Try Not To Breathe", "Sweetness Follows", "Nightswimming", "
The Great Beyond", "Bad Day", "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tongight", etc. are genious pop-rock. |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: February 28 2009 at 12:30
Somewhat like the Island of misfit toys. |
Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: February 28 2009 at 13:04
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I suppose embarrassing music I like would be pretty much any top pop radio hit. They're short, repetitive and extremely catchy.
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Posted By: mr_johnny_lee
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 00:00
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I love my Prog but on the other hand, I also love my Asian Pop (particularly J-Pop).
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 02:49
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There's nothing embarrassing about R.E.M. But did I mention I used to love Take That? |
Posted By: Trial and Error
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 03:25
And that is something I will never understand. I love drum solos and prefer them even over most guitar solos (especially shredding). Actually, I'm impartial to what instrument a solo is on as long as it's good. Be that a good bass solo, a good drum solo or a good anything else solo. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Trial_And_Error/?chartstyle=SidebarRed1"> 
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Posted By: ndiego
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 10:37
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Has anybody mention Michael jackson, thats my guilty pleasure, every now and then I listen to thriller, the best pop album ever i guess, and many other hits from other albums ( Bad, black or white, Dont stop till you get enough... ------------- "What lies north of the North Pole?" Stephen Hawking "Poverty is the worst form of violence." -Mohandas Gandhi |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 13:37
Hope not, the man was a genius in his prime. Off the Wall  Thriller Bad Dangerous HIStory Invincible ½------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA!
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 14:30
| I like second-rate thrash-metal bands such as Lawnmower Deth. |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 14:30
| I like second-rate thrash-metal bands such as Lawnmower Deth. |
Posted By: Alex Q.
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 15:14
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Well... Curiously, The Smiths and also Joy Division are great bands, although very distinct, that i genuine like. My friends use to laugh about it because they know what i like and use to play.
However and by the way I strongly recommend Meat is Murder and The Queen is Dead for who thinks that Smiths are just how soon is now?, but is just my simple opinion...
Marr is a great composer/player and Rourke is one of the best bass players in 80's
Joy Division's Closer is a kind of masterpiece in your own genre like In the Court of The Crimson King, Atom Heart Mother, Close to the Edge or Thick as a Brick are for Prog fans...
Cheers!
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 15:27
It's funny to see what some of you are embarrassed to like when you should feel far more embarrassed about what you're not embarrassed to like. 
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Posted By: superprog
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 23:37
| cheesy Eurodisco, 80s FM rock........hmmm nuthin to get embarrased abt!!!! |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: March 11 2009 at 13:56
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...I like Rihana´s Umbrella and Katie Perry´s Hot n cold...
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