Okay, by now we know that Velvetclown has a thing for Mariah Carey, Vibrationbaby is a newly-out-of-the-closet "King" fanatic, and my first-ever single was "Sugar Sugar," by the Archies.

What other decidedly non-prog music do these arrogant, cerebral and smug PROGRESSIVE ROCK fans listen to?

 I confess, that, besides the predictable prog in the last couple of days, I have listened to my Best of Johnny Cash cd ("The Man in Black," in particular, is a thoughtful song), and my Best of Roger Miller disc: "Trailers for sale or rent, rooms to let fifteen cents. No phone, no pool, no pets -- I ain't got no cigarettes...."

How about the rest of you? Jim, have you been bopping to Abba? Do you secretly prefer "Super Trooper" to "Starship Trooper?"

What about you, Danbo, oh man who has heard every prog album, ever? Any Wham! in your CD rack, or under your mattress?

What do you guys have in your collections that would surprise (even shock and dismay) the rest of us?

 I wouldnt really call them "guilty pleasures" but I listen to alot of non-prog that some art-rock types might laugh at.................

I am a big Merle Haggard fan

George Strait is another one

I also listen to alot of cheesy 80's synth pop like Psychedlic Furs, the Smiths, the Cure etc.etc.

No WHAM Peter, Sorry. But I do enjoy some Yankee Alternative Rockers;

Better then Ezra

Big Head Todd and The Monsters

and

Sister Hazel

Good stuff and I'm not embarrassed.

Now, ask me about my ex-wife and I'll cry.....

Mattjam65 wrote:  I wouldnt really call them "guilty pleasures" but I listen to alot of non-prog that some art-rock types might laugh at................. I am a big Merle Haggard fan George Strait is another one I also listen to alot of cheesy 80's synth pop like Psychedlic Furs, the Smiths, the Cure etc.etc.

Thanks Rich, Matt!

Cliff Richard, hey? I have two home-made 30-track 50s compilations myself.

Country? Careful! A lot of the guys here -- but not me -- think that country is all pathetic, red-necked, trailer-trash, alcoholic hurtin' songs. That is only the more obvious, cliched aspect of the genre. Country is much bigger than that, and is much more diverse than the people who don't listen to it (or only know it from radio) seem to think it is!

Re the 80s music, Matt, I enjoy all of the groups you named, and many others. Many people (including some here) will sweepingly condemn all of 80s music ("80s music sucked!"), as if all of the music recorded in that decade were the same, or as if we had all become shallow, money-hungry, coke-sniffing yuppies during those years. As I recall, even if you weren't into bands and artists as diverse as Dire Straits, the Smiths, the Cure, Ultravox, The Jam, Stranglers, XTC, Echo and the Bunnymen, The The, The Specials, Talking Heads, Japan, Madness, etc., etc. (for me, "80s" music ran from about '78 to '87), excellent examples of other, more established forms of music continued to be made. There was blues, metal, reggae, jazz fusion, jazz, some very nice "new age," and even some prog acts (Tangerine Dream, Peter Gabriel, etc.) that didn't "sell out." Thus, when I hear people, especially the teens to twenty-five set, say "80s music sucked," I can only conclude that they really don't know what they are talking about. It wasn't all synth-bink! I was there!

Now, let's here from others! The more non-prog, the better, guys! C'mon, 'fess up! (I don't mean jazz or classical, either -- I know that prog fans listen to those. I want commercial, radio-friendly stuff!) This is interesting!

Well Peter apart from my Mariah fetish  I´ve never really bought any music of this kind. I do remember one time when I sang " Tie A Yellow Gibbon Round The Old Oak Tree " in the shower  the shock prevented me from taking showers for 10 years and I guess that´s why some unkind people used to call me a Dirty Old Man. ...........and some women still gives me this compliment, from time to time.

In first place hello to everyone, this is my first post in this forum.

Yes, we all have some guilty pleasures, even the old progheads like me:

1.- OMD....Enola Gay: Don't know why but I like the cheesy Farfisa (or similar, not sure) keyboards in this song.

2.- Meat Loaf....Objects in the Rear view Mirror may Appear Closer than they Are: Holy God!!! even the name of the song is cheesy but Meat's powerfull voice and Jim Steinman's keyboards are my weakness.

3.- BTO....Not Fragile: Yes I like some easy rock.

4.- ELP....Canario: Believe it or not, I lijke one song from the worst prog' (???) album ever released Love Beach.

5.- Jackson Browne....For America: Not rock, not country, nothing special, but I love this song.

Iván

SOME SONGS I DO LIKE ARE

GLEN CAMPBELL

GALVESTON

BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX

WHERES THE PLAGROUND SUZEI

TOM JONES

GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME

WHATS NEW PUSSYCAT

I ALSO LIKE CLASSICAL GAS

ROY ORBISON

CRYING

RIGHTOUS BROTHERS

UNCHAINED MELODY

THE BEACH BOYS

SAIL ON SAILOR

IN FACT THE BAECH BOYS STARTED TO STEAR AWAT A BUT FROM THE "SURF" SONGS IN THE SEVENTIES

D B GRAEVES

TAKE A LETTER MARAI

I've always liked the seventies glam rock band The Sweet and more recently The Darkness.Would these count as 'guilty pleasures'? 

Hi:

Well, I have most Erasure albums, and really enjoy them. Also, the whole Thomas Dolby discography. I wish he had continued recording. By the way, he is cited as a main influence by Ian Anderson when he turned to synth music and released this pair of crappish records (Walk into light and Under Wraps)

In fact, I like in small doses many 80's groups: A-HA's Hunting High and Low is a great record. And count on me on the defense of Enola Gay.

Aha! Meatloaf, Glen Campbell, Tom Jones, Soft Cell: now we're getting the goods, and finding out about people's "Tainted Love!"

BTW, I have Big Head Todd and John Lee Hooker doing "Boom Boom Boom," and two different versions of Enola Gay! Papa Prog is "proud of Little Boy(s) today!"

I think that Dude is in the lead re "shock factor" so far, with "Take a Letter Mariah" and Tom Jones....

Electric blues, like Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Barefoot Servants, Gary Moore's blues solo stuff and early ZZ Top.

Though I can't say that I feel particularly "guilty" about it.  

First off here is my Elvis collection:

'68 Comback Special

Elvis' Gold records Vol.II 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong

Elvis Country

Loving You (original pressing worth $$$$$$$$$$$)

Live From Madison Square Gardens

Aloha From Hawaii (Quadra-disc)

Live From Memphis

Change Of Habit ( RCA Camden label )

Almost In Love (Also RCA Camden, Rubberneckin' is one of my Elvis Faves)

Separate Ways ( Also RCA Camden)

Elvis In Concert ( His final show in 1977)

Blue Hawaii (Original Pressing worth $$$$$$$$$$$$$$)

I might even have some more hiding away in my album collection.

Fortunately I don't have any Donny Osmond albums or anything by the Partridge Family. I have Arrival by ABBA and actually think this band has certain qualities. As for the eighties Peter, I don't think it completely sucked. I've got Sons & Fascination by The Simple Minds as Well as the Tower Of Strength EP by The Mission. I've also got Stop Making Sense by The Talking heads which  I love. I have two Sex Pistols albums, Never Mind The Bullocks and Who Killed Bambi? I have Ministry The Land Of Milk & Honey as well as Roger Whitacker's Greatest hits. Grand Funk Railroad Live Album, Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies, Cheap Trick Live At Budokan (who doesn't have this one), Frampton Comes Alive, Fantastic (A K-tel compilation album which featured Hocus Pocus by Focus) Well, I could go on and on but you get the jist. I listen to just about everything under the sun not only Prog-rock. Peter must know a band from Newfoundland called Figgy Duff I've got three of theirs, Pam is one frigged up chick! It would be interesting to catologue my music collection.

Quote: Cliff Richard, hey? I have two home-made 30-track 50s compilations myself.

 At his best there isn't much wrong with Cliff (officially as sold more singles in the UK than anybody else) - but watch out for the grannies who now go to his gig! Trouble is Richard  can release a lot of rubbish in between the good ones. Interesting again to see the Canadian awareness of the man, which never really travelled south across your border with the USA. Clearly Neil Young listened to and is a self-confessed fan of Cliff's original guitarist Hank Marvin - the Hank referred to in the Young song "Hank to Hendrix", is Marvin rather than Hank Williams most preople think, at least according to Young in interview - more proof, check out the Hank Marvin tribute album "Twang" with Young and Randy(?) Bachman doing a cover, and Peter Green doing another. Another Hank to Hendrix fan is the Norwegian jazz rock guitarist Terje Rypdal -listen to his guitar solos for the melding of two quite different rock styles.

Nothing wrong with Soft Cell - or Duran Duran. I even like some early Numan stuff AND Nik Kershaw.

Tom Jones is an awesome singer!! Nothing wrong there!!

The two Bs of ABBA were awesome at writing clean, crafted pop songs with incredible arrangements, and the two As were gorgeous!

However, my "Guilty" secret is that I like Barbra Streisand. Not just a little - she was my childhood fantasy - a woman with a sense of humour and a voice that made my spine tingle every time. So what if she had a nose that looked like it was the model for the front of Concorde? I was into personality, even aged 8. I've got most of her albums, but Guilty (with the BeeGees) is one of the best - it's superb for winding down to - especially the awesome track "Make it Like a Memory". I can also recommend "Wet", if only for the 8-minute "No More Tears" duet with Donna Summer - who is also superb, IMNSHO.

Except for (c)RAP, I've have just about every genre out there. Blues, Country, 80's synth rock, new age (love George Winston and Michael Hedges (RIP)).

My wife and I do the KARAOKE thing. We even have our own machine. .

I've been told I've got the Bowie vocals down pretty well. Egad, too much info, eh?

Last night I was arranging my "NEW" den (Marty (wife) calls it my CAVE) and, much to my chagrin and dismay, I found my wife's collection of Mariah Carey/Celine Dion CD's, ugh!!!. Really guys, they are not mine, really they're not. Please believe me. Don't banish me from this forum, please...

Tough call... I don't want to be stirring things, as a relative newcomer, but to actually admit having such disgusting artifacts in one's abode constitutes a breach of several Progarchives regulations, if I'm not very much mistaken...

Perhaps you should take a penance - I know the very thing!

You must sit and listen to "Looking For - The Very Best of David Hasselhoff [IMPORT]" for an entire week.

Hmm. Maybe a bit harsh - OK, 5 minutes then - but not a second less!!!

Tip: Hot Shot City is particularly good...

Motorhead: Theeeeeee Aaaaaaaaaaace of Spaaaaayyyyeeeeddssss! , Damage Case, Bomber, Eat The Rich

I also dig House music (or more specifically Jazz and Deep House) to dance to occasionally with a good partner.

Quote:

Tom Jones is an awesome singer!! Nothing wrong there!!

Check out Mike Figgis's movie about the British blues scene: "Red White & Blues" , there Tom Jones is singing with Jeff Beckas his guitarist  on a number of tunes. I didn't realise what a mighty fine rock and blues star the guy is, until I heard him singing the Stone's "Gimme Shelter" with the New Model Army backing him about 10 years ago. If you like electric blues, seek this out!

What about Prince? He's a squirrley bugger, but boy can he jam. Peach!!! OW

OK, I'll confess now, but this post may be deleted soon!

I like good male singers (only to listen to you understand!)

I have many Andy Williams and John Denver albums, and really do enjoy them. Also ABBA, they were great for several years, "The day before you came" is a classic song by any standards.

Better stop now, before all credibility is gone!

What about Karen Carpenter? Loved the voice. Gordon Lightfoot's one of my favs (thanks RobJ).

Sad ending, indeed.

The Owl wrote: Motorhead: Theeeeeee Aaaaaaaaaaace of Spaaaaayyyyeeeeddssss! , Damage Case, Bomber, Eat The Rich I also dig House music (or more specifically Jazz and Deep House) to dance to occasionally with a good partner.

I saw Motorhead three times and I think my permanent loss of hearing can be attributed to these shows! Ian rocks!

I used to listen to Joan Manuel Serrat (from Spain) and Silvio Rodriguez (from Cuba) beside my old prog LPs , specially during '90s when I ignored most of the progressive bands (Microsoft, thanks a lot for the net!). Actually I like... ejem ejem... Coldplay   

Marcelo wrote:

I used to listen to Joan Manuel Serrat (from Spain) and Silvio Rodriguez (from Cuba)

I see no problem with Silvio Rodriguez, even though I don't like to mix politics and music as he does, always found his music incredible. On the other hand I don't like Serrat's music but I believe he has a great voice.

Iván

Easy Livin wrote: Also ABBA, they were great for several years, "The day before you came" is a classic song by any standards.

I've always said that ABBA is maybe (next to The Beatles) the group most people from diverse tastes like. Just play Abba in a party and everybody would join in (that happended last weekend, when most of the people in a party had gone somewhere else in the house when I started playing some AOR and some prog - ehem... I'm trying to educate my friends! - and they all joined in again when Abba started on the cd player!)

ALTHOUGH I WAS NEVER A CARPENTERS FAN I ALWAYS LIKED KAREN CARPENTERS VOICE, SHE WAS VERY PLEASENT TO LISTEN TO!

I ALSO LOVE "WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD" BY GORDEN LIGHTFOOT AN EXCELLENT SONG AND BASED,AS IM SURE YOU ALL KNOW,AN A SAD EVENT IN 1974.THE SONG HAS A FEEL AND ATMOSPHERE THAT IS HAUNTING AND WHEN I LISTEN TO IT I CAN IMAGINE MYSELF ON THAT STRICKEN SHIP, ALONE AND AT THE MERCY OF AN UNCARING STORM.

dude wrote: BRITISH 70s BAND SLADE IS ANOTHER VERY NON PROG BAND I LIKE,NODDY HOLDER AND THE BOYS BELTED OUT SOME GOOD TUNES KNOW WHO YOU ARE IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITES

Aye dude!  G'bye to Jane as she run runs away.

 That's better than having a Slade fan who was a huge girlfriend!!!

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STORM,VIBE I HEAR YA BROS!!! FAR FAR AWAY WAS ANOTHER GREAT TRACK

THEY ALSO DID A WICKED VERSOIN OF BORN TO BE WILD

ivan_2068 wrote: Marcelo wrote: I used to listen to Joan Manuel Serrat (from Spain) and Silvio Rodriguez (from Cuba) I see no problem with Silvio Rodriguez, even though I don't like to mix politics and music as he does, always found his music incredible. On the other hand I don't like Serrat's music but I believe he has a great voice. Iván

Yes, Silvio's music is incredibly, and I loved his lyrics in my student times... Curiously, in a well-known web, where you can buy prog music sorted by country (Syn-Pphonic. 8m), behind the Cuban flag you can find Silvio Rodriguez categorized like a prog music

HI, CÉSAR INCA.

My most notable guilty pleasure was and still is... The Spice Girls. Honest!! Maybe it's a libido thing, or something like it, but I fconsider their second CD 'Spice World' as the best pop record since the beginning of the 90s.

(I'm sorry). Regards.

^ Ha! Cesar wins, hands down!

  I like the blonde and buxom "Baby" Spice myself, Cesar...

 especially when she's not singing!

   Yes, it must be your Latin libido.... We all have our weaknesses, friend. There are some here who consider ABBA to have been quintessential proto-proggers, or some such....  "Can you feel the drugs, Fernado?" "Like a pooper scooper, coming up behind you...." "Diarrhea, there it goes again, drip drip, oozing from my backdoor...." Ha!

My particular weakness is being too forgiving of grown men who are Spice Girls fans! 

Are there any closet Bay City Rollers or Menudo fans out there? Fess up -- it'll do you good!

HI, THIS IS CÉSAR INCA, AGAIN.

I've got my prog guilty pleasures, as well. For example, UK's 'Nothing to Lose' - nice violin solo... but those choruses (verey ABBA-esque, indeed) and over-choruses in the fade-out... yet I can't get them out of my head. Which reminds me of another prog guilty pleasure, ELO's 'Rock'n' Roll is King' (again, a nice violin solo, again, pity too short).

Other remarkable guilty pleasures of mine:

ASIA: 'Go' (Astra)    

MARILLION: 'No One Can' (Holidays in Eden) (Rothery and Mosley dislike it, as a matter of fact) 

MARILLION: 'These Chains' (Radiation)

YES. 'Rhythm of Love' (Big Generator)

KING CRIMSON: 'Heartbeat' (Beat)

GENESIS: 'That's All' (Genesis)

Cesar Inca wrote: HI, THIS IS CÉ“AR INCA, AGAIN. Other remarkable guilty pleasures of mine: YES. 'Rhythm of Love' (Big Generator) KING CRIMSON: 'Heartbeat' (Beat) GENESIS: 'That's All' (Genesis)

I'm with you on those, C.I!

Many will crap all over Big Generator here, but "The Rhythm of Love" really rocks (doesn't it?  -- turn it UP!), and "Holy Lamb" is lovely!

I also thing that "Beat" is often under-rated here: "Neal and Jack and Me," "Neurotica," etc-- a FINE album!

HI, CÉSAR INCA AGAIN...

Another prog guilty pleasure of mine: IQ's 'Promises' (from their first menel-era album Nomzamo). It's mostly a somewhat ellaboarte disco-tune: the ting I can't resist is the heavy metal like guitar solo at the end... ¿heavy metal meets disco? Even the rhythm section creates a rockier cadence, leaving out the light-hearted disco tempo that the yhad been laying during the first 4 minutes. I can't believe that a non-pop act ca nactually do great pop!!!

Regards.

Cesar Inca wrote:   HI, CÉSAR INCA. My most notable guilty pleasure was and still is... The Spice Girls. Honest!! Maybe it's a libido thing, or something like it, but I fconsider their second CD 'Spice World' as the best pop record since the beginning of the 90s. (I'm sorry). Regards.

You just reminded me...

I went to see the Spice Girls at Wembley Stadium on their farewell tour...

Went into work the next day wearing the T-Shirt under my suit (with no shirt!) in a kind of Don Johnson style.

Mind you, I was FORCED to go by my girlfriend of the time - she pleaded and begged me to go with her, her mother and her sister....

I think danbo beats us all.... Karaoke is the most AWFUL thing ever invented! I even think going to a Spice Girls show is 'better' than doing KARAOKE! I once, accidentally, was in a KARAOKE show (I had to play in the same pub with my band, before the karaoke). It was absolutely horrificastendingly. I got so agressive I almost smashed my saxophone...

ok, danbo, no hard feelings    I guess I'm just allergic

My guilty pleasures are not very nice either: before I started listening to prog, I was a serious metalhead. I've got CD's from all of the WRONG bands (Manowar, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, Running Wild, but not many. I even have two albums by Limp Bizkit.... never play them ). The band that made me love music... my first real LOVE was AC/DC (and then came Iron Maiden, Metallica, Motorhead, Judas Priest). Of course I don't listen to them very often, but I still enjoy Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy ...(UFO?) 

I actually still enjoy some hard ROCK 'n' ROLL!

I saw Danko Jones live, he RAWKS!!!!!! And the dutch Peter Pan Speedrock!!!

And I just discovered Electric Eel Shock (on a festival)... it's GREAT funny Japanese rock 'n' roll!

Joren wrote: I think danbo beats us all.... Karaoke is the most AWFUL thing ever invented! I even think going to a Spice Girls show is 'better' than doing KARAOKE! I once, accidentally, was in a KARAOKE show (I had to play in the same pub with my band, before the karaoke). It was absolutely horrificastendingly. I got so agressive I almost smashed my saxophone... ok, danbo, no hard feelings    I guess I'm just allergic My guilty pleasures are not very nice either: before I started listening to prog, I was a serious metalhead. I've got CD's from all of the WRONG bands (Manowar, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, Running Wild, but not many. I even have two albums by Limp Bizkit.... never play them ). The band that made me love music... my first real LOVE was AC/DC (and then came Iron Maiden, Metallica, Motorhead, Judas Priest). Of course I don't listen to them very often, but I still enjoy Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy ...(UFO?)  I actually still enjoy some hard ROCK 'n' ROLL! I saw Danko Jones live, he RAWKS!!!!!! And the dutch Peter Pan Speedrock!!! And I just discovered Electric Eel Shock (on a festival)... it's GREAT funny Japanese rock 'n' roll!

I like Karaoke... if I'M doing it!!!

MY first music love was AC/DC - great band! Motorhead? Superb!! Give yourself a treat and listen to "On Parole", and remind yourself that Motorhead could have been even more awesome had it not been for record companies being so scared they wouldn't release it until Punk had established itself...

Metallica were another great band, until they lost direction after the Black album.

I saw all those bands umpteen times each at least...

and I don't feel guilty!

However, Manowar???? Twisted Sister???

Two decidedly non-prog bands that many may be surprised to hear I enjoy are: (David Lee Roth era) Van Halen (Have you seen Junior's grades?) -- love the guitar -- and Reel Big Fish.

I think that the latter are really fun!

Any other RBF fans out there in prog land?

Guilty pleasures? Well, I'd call it diversity

I love Donna Summer. Especially her Bad Girls, Wanderer, She Works Hard for the Money and I'm Rainbow albums. Awesome voice.

Diana Krall. All records except poppish The Look of Love.

Elton John. However he had a quite progish Madman Across the Water.

  Hey, Foxy, EJ's "Funeral for a Friend" is a very proggish, excellent track.

I really like MATW's "Levon" and "Tiny Dancer," too, though I'm not a huge EJ fan....

Welcome to the Forums, by the way!

I find myself liking Crime of the Century, an often scorned album. Should I see a psychiatrist?

HI, THIS IS CÉSAR INCA.

I have a very good opinion of 'Crime of the Century', both in prog terms and as a rock album per se. The beauty of the compositions, the exquisite string arrangemntes, Helliwell's superb sax/clarinet playing, that special somber ambience that flows around the listener's heart throughout the album (with 'Dreamer' being an oasis of good humour)... in my opinion, a classic of '74 prog.

Regards.

Certif1ed wrote: Joren wrote: I think danbo beats us all.... Karaoke is the most AWFUL thing ever invented! I even think going to a Spice Girls show is 'better' than doing KARAOKE! I once, accidentally, was in a KARAOKE show (I had to play in the same pub with my band, before the karaoke). It was absolutely horrificastendingly. I got so agressive I almost smashed my saxophone... ok, danbo, no hard feelings    I guess I'm just allergic I like Karaoke... if I'M doing it!!!

Exactly.... Some people should be taken out and beat about the head and shoulders for their vocal flagellations. Meagor!!!!

Oh yeah, Joren..... I'll take the mic over the Spice Girls.... everytime!!!!

I'm not going to tell anyone this, but I once saw Twisted Sister and thought they were great fun...

dn!!!

Bon Jovi was my first concert. I was 13 and my dad took me.

I made up for it as my next 2 concerts were Rush and Rush.

My guilty pleasure:

Britney. My wife is always listening to that station that wive's listen to. I think there are subliminal messages or hypnotic something or another because now when it comes on I find myself tapping my foot.

Or it could be the libido.

Yeah probably the libido.

Jim Garten wrote: Certif1ed wrote: Joren wrote: I've got CD's from all of the WRONG bands (Manowar) However, Manowar???? Twisted Sister??? Errrrr, ahem.... I went to see Manowar once, voluntarily, and I enjoyed it....... sorry *hangs head in utter shame* I was only 19........

Well, I still think their music is funny...

CrimsonKing wrote: Death Metal

With or without the AAAAAAAAARGGGH GGHRRRLLLBBBBB (grunts)?

Dave Matthews band used to be really, really good, so I wouldn't call the older stuff a guilty pleasure, but alot of songs on their past few albums, along with Dave's solo album sometimes make me feel a little guilty. There's something about it that screams "sellout," "over-marketed," and "shiny," to me, but what do you expect from a guy who packs concerts with 2 - 72 year olds? But I think he lost a great deal of his audience during the past few years. It seems like alot of good music from the 90s is evidently turning into a strange, 80s-like movement now in the 2000s. Funny that...

Classic rock makes me feel guilty sometimes. Styx, Fleetwood Mac, Boston - these bands are just so-so, I would say. Therefore, guilt ensues.

I guess I would have to say that I like 90s alt-rock too. Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam and such were very big when I was a teen in the 90s so perhaps it's just maudlin feelings. 

Joren wrote: CrimsonKing wrote: Death Metal With or without the AAAAAAAAARGGGH GGHRRRLLLBBBBB (grunts)?

Why do people feel guilty about these great music styles? I'm proud to own several Death albums, and a few others - selectively picked, as there is a lot of nonsense going on in that genre, it's true.

I'll bet there's at least one forum out there now, where someone is writing in a very similar thread...

(wibbly screen effects...)

"...my guilty secret is that I like prog. Not much - I once bought "Kayleigh" by Marillion, but never threw it away, because I suddenly discovered I liked it. I almost bought their new album, but fortunately my best mates took me clubbing and made sure I listened to loads of real cool house music, then bought me a copy of "Now That's What I Call Music 57". I've booked in to have my lobotomy next week - then maybe I'll be able to get rid of that embarrasing record "

(/wibbly screen effects...)

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass anyone?

i love death metal and doom metal, they have greaaaaattttt melodies and their music is veeeery touching when in anger mood if you know what i mean 

i feel kinda guity when listening to 80's pop like PeeGees and air supply and bonnie tyler, but i swear they make some good music

Confession time!

Recent non- prog of any kind puchases I have made include;

The Changelings - Astronomica (ever heard of them?)

Erben der Schopfung - Elis (how about them?)

Tesla - Into the Now (I know you've heard of them)

Bearing Strait - S/T

Santa Esmerelda - The Best

Hero / A Rock Opera - Various

Now wasn't that interesting?  

More than guilty pleasures, I rather refer to them as that particular dark side we all must have! And they’re:

SADE – Lovers Live (just happen to have a fetish upon Sade Adu btw… )

STING – Sacred Love (the worst album ever by Mr. Gordon Mathew Summer)

ANDREAS VOLLENWEIDER – White Winds (I know what you thinking! But just can’t help it now…)

ENYA – Watermark (there’s something about her…)

DIRE STRAITS – Alchemy (couldn’t have left Mr. Knoppfler out since Sting is here!)

richardh wrote: landberkdoten wrote: ENYA – Watermark (there’s something about her…)

Isn't there just!!!

I think that Clannad and Enya deserve to be in the archives. I just love that music when I need a serious dose of "chill". Shepherd Moons is astounding too.

Glass-Prison wrote: I also used to be a huge fan of Dave matthews. I cannot, however, describe what I got out of it, if there was anything at all..

Funny thing is, I actually liked the first couple DMB discs ("Under The Table and Dreaming", "Crash"), after that something definitely got lost, and what a shame. "Before These Crowded Streets" had its moments but by the time "Everyday" eolled around, it's like they threw away everything that made them stand out in the first place (having Glen Ballard producing didn't help any) and totally dumbed down. The drummer, Carter Beauford is actrually a monster, Il oved those first 2 albums just for his drumming alone.

HI, THIS IS CÉSAR INCA.

How I love Sade's music!!!... and how I love to watch Sade Adu singing on DVDs!! This is not a guilty pleasure, this is good taste for exquisite jazz-pop oriented emotional music for non-prog romantic moments. Long live Sade Adu!!! The older she grows, the prettier she gets!! Never stop whispering and humming your desolate words of love lost to my ears... NEVER, MY SMOOTH OPERATOR!!!

Enya is also a brilliant performer, both on vocals and keyboards. her sense of vocal chorale is unique. mixing the Middle Ages and the Celtic folk. She's also very beautiful, not in an exotic way, but as a fairy. out of earthly reach, but always by my side in an alternate universe of enchanted forests and mystical rivers. Though her later recordings find her reiterating her own cliches, I regard her first 3 albums as some of the New Age recordings ever. No guilt in enjoying them, either. 

Without any sexual drive implied on the following ones, I also enjoy Vollenweider's and Mannheim Steamroller's works (the ones I know). But let me tell you about this guilty pleasure of mine, since I'm standing among friends - ASIA's poppish love song 'Never in a Million Years', from 'Alpha'. Now, THAT'S A REAL GUILTY PLEASURE!!! I can't help it, specially those synth arpeggios under the final vocals choruses during the fade-out. That and the SPICE GIRLS!! I can't imagine any guiltier pleasures, actually.

Regards

Certif1ed wrote: richardh wrote: landberkdoten wrote: ENYA – Watermark (there’s something about her…)         Isn't there just!!! I think that Clannad and Enya deserve to be in the archives. I just love that music when I need a serious dose of "chill". Shepherd Moons is astounding too.

Enya, Clannad. Not prog, but great music to relax to! The meloooooodies!

Cesar Inca wrote: How I love Sade's music!!!... and how I love to watch Sade Adu singing on DVDs!! This is not a guilty pleasure, this is good taste for exquisite jazz-pop oriented emotional music for non-prog romantic moments. Long live Sade Adu!!! The older she grows, the prettier she gets!! Never stop whispering and humming your desolate words of love lost to my ears... NEVER, MY SMOOTH OPERATOR!!!

I totally hear you César! No matter what genre you like over another or what kind of music you’re used to listen to, Sade is a must in any type of music collection. Her DVD’s collection is completely enticing, especially “Lover Live” (where you can get the complete track list missing from the CD with the same name) and the most important thing, you get to see her dance, move, sing… and every single detail creates the perfect ambience to get quite moody…

(Saludos desde México al pueblo hermano de Perú!)

Joe Lynn Tuner at his gayest! (once went to see him alonside Glen Hughes and, since my brother-in-law could not travel to see Joe, I got him to speak with Joe via my cell phone. Fan-Fatale stuff, I know)

I prefer Phil Collins solo albums than Peter Gabriel's...

I am a heavy metal and AOR fanatic.

I think Yes' "Talk" is a masterpiece. Like anything Trevor Rabin does (includin his Bruckheimer's soundtracks).

I bought the David Hasselhoff album and the Traci Lords one (althogh the latter was a present)

The list could go on and on but it is already too creepy.

peringo2 wrote: I bought the David Hasselhoff album and the Traci Lords one (althogh the latter was a present)

The Tracy Lords (that remarkable actress) was a present for ME. And I even listened to it THREE TIMES. And I got AROUSED.

oh.. I have a lot of these too:

I love new age.. and I have every Enya  and Clannad album.. I don't consider that a guilty pleasure tho...  Same with Andreas Vollenweider, I have 2 or 3 of his albums (including White Winds) and thats not really a guilty pleasure either. I also love David Lanz..

Now to me guilty pleasures are:

AC/DC.. I have all with Bon Scott, and just a couple with Brian Johnson.. but I love "Fire Your Guns"... Yeah

David Gray

Dido - I like both her albums

Robbie Williams - Millenium

Bubblegum I love - The Monkees, The Grass Roots, Three Dog Night, Hermans Hermits, David Cassidy (then),  Neil Diamond

and I also love Greg singing "Taste of my Love"... altho because that generally makes me ROTFLMAO.... oh and his "Fire" off the boxset does the same thing for me...."I am the God of Hellfire... and I've come to....".... Gets me everytime

I have the 7 inch of 'Criticize' by Alexander O'Neill

I also have a copy of 'I know him so well' by Elaine Paige & Barbara Dixon. Now I swear I have no idea where it came from. It must have been my mums, honest

The first single I ever bought with my pocket money, aged about 7, was 'Dont go breaking my heart' By Elton John & Kiki Dee. I still have it!

threefates, nothing to feel guilty about in your lot, well not much anyway. AC/DC, David Gray, Hermans Hermits all sounds ok to me..

ooooh too many of these - latterly been sticking together the ultimate guilty pleasures compilation cd of crap 70s pop

ace - how long

nilsson - without you

eric carmen - all by myself

pilot - january

hall and oates - she's gone

sad cafe - every day hurts

minnie ripperton - lovin you

and wait for it.....

bobby goldsboro - summer the first time (killer piano riff!)

there are tons more - Abba, ELO, Carpenters, Dionne Warwick singing Burt Bacharach, early Neil Diamond, cheesy Christmas tunes, the Doors, Echo and the Bunnymen, Joy Division, Sting - hey my girlfirend thinks they're all awful (especially the prog) so i guess I should be ashamed of about 90 per cent of the record collection. But from A-ha to the Allman Brother, Goldfrapp to Gabriel, Prince to Pink Floyd, Stevie Wonder to Stevie Nicks, Zero 7 to ZZ Top I just like it all...

I also dig some Easy/Lounge Music too, stuff like Martin Denney, Arthur Lyman, Burt Bachrach, Esquivel, Dean Elliot, The Living Guitars, Tom Jones, Herb Alpert/Tijuana Brass and such.

However, I wouldn't be caught DEAD with the following:

The Ray Conniff Singers

Ferrante and Teischer

ANY Broadway/Showtunes     

I don't know Dick.. even I can't handle Eric Carmen....  or Bobby Goldsboro.. altho 'Honey' and 'Autumn of my Life'.. can make me cry!

I have Pilot's "Magic" on my playlist.. but then it has a specific memory in my past.  Same with Ace's 'How Long'.. which when I met them all back at Max's in 1974.. they claimed it was written about their bass player...(funny how I can remember that)....

Other guilty pleasures:

Prince's - http://www.bremerbilder.de/discography/albums/_symbol.html" target=Albums>  (the symbol album) with my favorite on that being "7"

Marshall Tucker's "The Marshall Tucker Band"

James Taylor/Carole King - I've got everything she's ever done.. and all of his thru Gorilla.  He got a little to cheesy for me after that - I also have some Jackson Browne, Dan Fogelberg, Dan Hill, Eric Anderson, I loved that folk rock period.... which means I'm really good at Karaoke....

Your right these are not really crap, i suppose I meant chart music i remember from my childhood - it's the kind of stuff 'serious' music critics (always a hideous breed) sniff at and then yuk it up about when a record company releases an 'ironic' compilation called 'guilty pleasures' (in stores now) which will actually probably do really well cause the tracks on it are music people actually enjoy instead of the 'challenging' artists the reviewers would have us believe will achieve longevity and acclaim. The irony is ace will probably be featuring on playlists and downloads long after the current darlings of the music press are working in B&Q or attending their nth rehab clinic.

I love this crap music. it's the soundtrack of my life (good scandinavian band by the way) and I shouldn't be apologising for it.

More guilty pleasures: steely dan (loathed by critics), fleetwood mac, deep purple, rainbow, even some whitesnake, ac/dc, the commodores slow songs, supertramp (totally and utterly reviled by critics and almost everybody else), queen and many many more.....

if people hated me before then they ain't seen nothin' yet!

hell is for heroes

the darkness

the foo fighters

rage against the machine

audioslave

nightwish

jet

blink 182

blur

america

black label society

stereophonics

system of a down

snow patrol

jamie cullum

daft punk

box car racer

queen

manic street preachers

bowling for soup

lighthouse family

van halen

keane

AC/DC

slipknot

thin lizzy

jamiroquai

It's quite good isn't it!

Just listening to some music I have downloaded that I'm sure fits in with guilty pleasures...

• Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle
• Bread - If
• Bread - I Want to Make it With You
• The Hollies - He Ain't Heavy...
• The Animals - Sky Pilot
• Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl