guilty feet ain't got no rhythm

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As the nasty little man says in Hellraiser, "What is your pleasure, sir?"

Guilty pleasures are my topic today, musical ones specifically. My confession is America's "Sister Goldenhair", which should fit under the category 70'S SOFT ROCK DRECK for me. I love that song. Listen to it a lot.

What's your guilty musical pleasure? Tell us, tell us.

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[tinymammoth.livejournal.com]

Pat Benatar. And I feel no shame!

[feedle.livejournal.com]

I sometimes dance like a fool around my apartment to that stupid "Peanut Butter Jelly" song.

And I am ashamed to admit that.

[jtemperance.livejournal.com]

I love the song "Without You" by Nilsson.

Also "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin.

[brieweeherman.livejournal.com]

-The time Dolly Parton went super-poppy and did that song "Here you come again"

-anything by Michael McDonald

-uh, i'm a diehard Slim Whitman fan

-Night Ranger's "Sister Christian"

-disco

[ex-aphonia179.livejournal.com]

I'll probably have my black license revoked, but...

Sister Christian, oh the time has come
And you know
That you're the only one to say
Okay
Where you going
What you looking for
You know those boys
Don't want to play no more
With you
It's true

You're motoring
What's your price for flight
In finding mister right
You'll be all right tonight

*lighter aloft*

This is inspiring me to make a guilty-pleasure mix-cd.

A.

ain t no such thing in pop music

[metalhedwig.livejournal.com]

i ain't guilty about any of it, but I do love Wham (You also appear to?).--mza.

Tons of 'em, including yours.

[marm0t.livejournal.com]

See here (http://www.livejournal.com/talkpost.bml?journal=marm0t&itemid=122761) and here (http://www.livejournal.com/talkpost.bml?journal=marm0t&itemid=124200) and especially here (http://www.place.org/~absinthe/music/70s/).

You know me...

[nosrialleon.livejournal.com]

I like what I like and I don't like what I don't like. Guilt generally doesn't enter into it.

Having said that, there are 2 things I like a LOT that I really shouldn't:
1) Aerosmith
2) Leonard Skynard

Rock Owwwwwn!

[i-get-stabby.livejournal.com]

Old Janet Jackson and *cough cough* Britney.

Oh man, I love that song so much.

[citizenx.livejournal.com]

Will you meet me in the middle?
Will you meet me in the air?


Anyway, I agree with genericus that I generally like or don't like something and don't feel much guilt about any of it. Still, one song in particular stands out as "I like this, but I really probably shouldn't". It's by a band called Weston and the name of the song is "New Shirt", though I usually refer to it as "the most emo song in the world, and it could only be more emo if it were longer than 53 seconds". It goes like this:

I got a new shirt
For school yesterday,
And my mom said
I looked real handsome in it.

I got a new shirt.
I got a new shirt
'Cause I thought
You might like me in it.

I got a new shirt.
I got a new shirt
'Cause I thought
You might like me in it.

I got a new shirt.
I got a new shirt
'Cause I thought
That maybe you might wear my ring
If I wore that striped, short-sleeve shirt.

[do-not-lick.livejournal.com]

Aqua. Both albums.

[halfjack.livejournal.com]

Yes. But I'm not allowed to play it in the house. I have to go out on the balcony with the walkman. In the rain.

Don't forget...

[stimps.livejournal.com]

...you have to wear the funny hat while you do it, too, so the neighbours have a good laugh. ;)

[stimps.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's so much guilty as surprising, but my favourite songs are really simple minded, not always complex love songs, like:

Yacht Dance - XTC
Tonight at Noon - the Jam
Street Parade - the Clash
Love Song - the Cure
My Funny Valentine - Chet Baker does a wonderful version

Probably my favourite is I'll Never Leave You by Nilsson.

I mean, I love my loud weird music, but I have to have my sweet moments, don't I? =)

[tuliphead.livejournal.com]

you know, when i think about it, i think i almost seem proud to admit (since i do it fairly often) that my guilty pleasure music is The Monkees - pretty much everything excluing that awful last pseudo-Monkees album (just Davy and Micky) called "Changes". unnnnng now i wanna hear "Circle Sky".

oh, and i ADORE the 80's new wave station in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City! Nina Hagen, Blondie, Thomas Dolby, Flock of Seagulls .. sigh, i'm a nostalgic sucker for that stuff. :)

[flipzagging.livejournal.com]

I guess the approvable guilty pleasure is to have a simple, sensitive-sweet side? Let's see how this goes...

I have a weakness for very aggressive music. I never bought any albums, but things like Marilyn Manson or even Metallica back in the day work for me. Which is odd, because I'm squeamish about people spitting.

I even thought Eminem had something going for him. I really wanted to like what he was doing but I concluded there's nothing behind it all.