Your guiltiest musical pleasure

Fat Freddy wrote:

I know every single solitary lyric on the ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW soundtrack album.

Let's do the Time wrap again

manny wrote:

I found a guilty pleasure that I am actually ashamed that I like, I have to take a deep breathe.... I don't mind Rick Springfield, yes that is right pop act, soap opera acting, cheeseball Rick Springfield, I enjoy his cheesy 80's hits.

There I said it, they say confession is good for the soul. Now excuse me while I cue up " Jessie's Girl"

I like Rick quite a bit. I would say the song "Love Somebody" is one of those quitessential 80's songs. Now the movie it was from "Hard To Hold" is a whole other issue. That movie is about as bad as you can get.

I like Rick quite a bit. I would say the song "Love Somebody" is one of those quitessential 80's songs. Now the movie it was from "Hard To Hold" is a whole other issue. That movie is about as bad as you can get.[/quote]

The reason that movie sucks so bad its that it was made for audience of 13 year old girls who want to crush on Rick Springfield for 90 minutes.

manny wrote:

I like Rick quite a bit. I would say the song "Love Somebody" is one of those quitessential 80's songs. Now the movie it was from "Hard To Hold" is a whole other issue. That movie is about as bad as you can get.

The reason that movie sucks so bad its that it was made for audience of 13 year old girls who want to crush on Rick Springfield for 90 minutes.[/quote]

I agree. I think the formula was that it basically wouldn't matter what kind of story/script there was, as long as Rick Springfield was in the movie. I'm sure there's someone out there in this country who still holds this movie near and dear to their heart (as scary as that may be).

INXS - Shabooh Shoobah
The Fixx - Walkabout
Glass Tiger - The Thin Red Line
Big Country - The Seer

I have no guilt...I stand proud and tall...right!

A few for sure:

Frank Sinatra
Matchbox Twenty
Brian Setzer (all phases of his career)
Bryan Adams
Beach Boys
Newsboys
O.C. Supertones
Chris LeDoux
Johnny Cash
Cracker
Dire Straits
Mad Caddies
Reel Big Fish
Lost Dogs
Selah
Bluegrass Hymns
MC Lars
Mad at the World

Etc....

jettafiend wrote:

A few for sure:

Frank Sinatra
Brian Setzer (all phases of his career)
Beach Boys
Johnny Cash
Dire Straits

Why on earth are Dire Straits, Johnny Cash, Beach Boys, Brian Setzer and Frank Sinatra guilty pleasures? All fine, talented artists that nobody should be ashamed to admit enjoying.

I dig that Spandau Ballet (sp?) tune "True" and Kajagoogoo's "Too Shy"

I also see no guilt with any INXS or Fixx.

S.D. wrote:

jettafiend wrote:

A few for sure:

Frank Sinatra
Brian Setzer (all phases of his career)
Beach Boys
Johnny Cash
Dire Straits

Why on earth are Dire Straits, Johnny Cash, Beach Boys, Brian Setzer and Frank Sinatra guilty pleasures? All fine, talented artists that nobody should be ashamed to admit enjoying.

MMMM... I completely agree I crank those ones up fairly regularly. I would personally consider myself more a music fan than a metal head specifically. But that's just my opinion. I am not ashamed of any of my music, because I like it and at the end of the day that is all that matters.

I have not seen anything in this thread that would be considered a "guilty pleasure" more like music people listen to that is not metal. I take guilty to mean stuff like ICP, Ciara, Kanye West, Eminem, NKOTB, N'Sync... Etc.

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Some of the anime soundtracks (esp. Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura)

jstate wrote:

I also see no guilt with any INXS or Fixx.

Agreed...but most people in the metal community would not agree.

seconds2silence wrote:

jstate wrote:

I also see no guilt with any INXS or Fixx.

Agreed...but most people in the metal community would not agree.

I agree as well. The INXS album "Elegantly Wasted" is fantastic!

I saw INXS in 1991 at the Capital Centre at the height of their popularity. Sold out 19,000 fans. They were such a popular concert act that they would fly in and out private jet for each show while being based in one city. It was supposed to be the ultimate perk for a group. Then everything changed.

A little over two years after that show I saw them close a radio station festival and despite putting on a great set probably over 60% of the fans left before that.

Less than a year after that I saw them in front of maybe 500 fans at the Naval Academy. Sucked too because their albums were still great right up till the end. Music is a tough business. They've never gotten their proper due IMO.

jstate wrote:

I saw INXS in 1991 at the Capital Centre at the height of their popularity. Sold out 19,000 fans. They were such a popular concert act that they would fly in and out private jet for each show while being based in one city. It was supposed to be the ultimate perk for a group. Then everything changed.

A little over two years after that show I saw them close a radio station festival and despite putting on a great set probably over 60% of the fans left before that.

Less than a year after that I saw them in front of maybe 500 fans at the Naval Academy. Sucked too because their albums were still great right up till the end. Music is a tough business. They've never gotten their proper due IMO.

...and then Michael Hutchence (sp?) passed on. I have never seen them live but the clips that I have seen, Michael Hutchence was an amazing front man.

One of the few frontmen I've ever seen be able to get a crowd into new material that they weren't familiar with just by his passion alone. And all three times I saw them he pulled that off.

Roxette - definitely a guilty pleasure.

I'm sure somewhere earlier in this thread I must have mentioned my complete love of Roxette. I actually own Roxette imports. Been a fan since that first album. And man was it ever a pain hiding that fandom back then.

I'm too old to care anymore these days, but there was a time when Fiona Apple would have topped my list of guilty pleasures.

One time a friend of my wife's was over the house and she saw a Fiona Apple disc nestled in amongst the Anthrax and Armored Saint discs and laughed out loud. It seemed pretty out-of-character for me at the time.

jstate wrote:

I'm sure somewhere earlier in this thread I must have mentioned my complete love of Roxette. I actually own Roxette imports. Been a fan since that first album. And man was it ever a pain hiding that fandom back then.

I get that for sure.

I stopped caring about what others thought about my music about the time my love of rap became "cool" and my love of metal became "uncool". About that same time I had a college girlfriend who was such a music snob (and I never heard the end of her insults) that I just decided to then wear what I love like a badge of honor. Even Roxette.

The thing I get the most when people first look at my CDs and records is "I've never heard of any of this. How do you know about all these groups?".

There's some country and even disco I like.