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27 April 2010

Guilty pleasures What songs do you listen to as guilty pleasures?
I'm a bit smitten by the French Canadian singer Natasha St Pier.

post by: jouke at: 11:59 | 34 comments

The entire Vitamin C catalog. I was such a fan of Eve's Plum and loved Colleen Fitzpatrick in Hairspray. Vitamin C is not really my taste and it often strikes me as stupid, but I keep playing it cause it's fun.

posted by crush-onastick 27 April | 12:10

Jim Nabors.

posted by JanetLand 27 April | 12:44

Lyle Lovett

posted by Senyar 27 April | 13:03

I've been listening to Dolly Parton this morning, but I don't feel an ounce of guilt over it. Wouldn't feel guilty about Lyle, either. Jim Nabors, maybe just a bit guilty, yeah.

posted by mudpuppie 27 April | 13:50

Britney Spears. Only a little bit guilty. (There are some days when I just need to listen to shitty pop music and rock out in my car.)

posted by sperose 27 April | 13:54

Ow, man, how am I supposed to know how much derision to heap on you if you don't include the song name and a youtube link? Those names don't tell me nothing.

Which song by Dolly Parton were you listening to?

posted by jouke 27 April | 13:55

And which song by Britney Spears pray?

posted by jouke 27 April | 13:55

I don't think I feel guilty about anything I listen to. I'm just THAT arrogant, perhaps? At least, when it comes to the music I choose anyway.

posted by richat 27 April | 14:07

I love Flightless Bird, American Mouth. It's one of my favorite songs. Not especially a guilty pleasure in itself, but I discovered it while watching Twilight.

posted by iconomy 27 April | 14:16

jouke, I was listening to the Dolly songs here.

posted by mudpuppie 27 April | 14:19

Lately, "Break the Ice" and "Phonography".

posted by sperose 27 April | 14:28

Tx mudpuppie. I'm hearing new Dolly Parton songs.

iconomy & sperose tx too.

posted by jouke 27 April | 14:30

Ow, man, how am I supposed to know how much derision to heap on you if you don't include the song name and a youtube link? Those names don't tell me nothing.

Okay. Jim Nabors.

posted by JanetLand 27 April | 14:41

Vitamin C: Me Myself & I; Smile (seriously low quality video, by the way).

Eve's Plum: Jesus Loves You (Not as Much as I do)

posted by crush-onastick 27 April | 14:43

Ha, Jim Nabors could be a German schlager singer. Awesome.

Tx crush.

Here's a cheesy German pop song by Matthias Reim that I like to sing when I'm drunk.

posted by jouke 27 April | 14:48

Hé crush, it seems that vitamin c went unnoticed outside of the US. Seems like some Spice Girls grrl power thing.

To reciprocate: here's a breezy swedish song that our au pair (who was from the US btw) used to like.

posted by jouke 27 April | 14:56

One of the Tommys.

posted by danf 27 April | 15:32

Here's a cheesy German pop song by Matthias Reim that I like to sing when I'm drunk.

Remind me to get you drunk if ever we meet at a meetup :)

This song is a guilty pleasure of mine.
but hey, its got Dweezil Zappa in it!

posted by charles kaapjes 27 April | 16:16

Lately, it's this Ted Leo cover of a Tears for Fears song.

posted by mullacc 27 April | 17:12

OOoh, this thread is fun - and that's a neat site you shared there mullac, thanks.

posted by dabitch 27 April | 17:57

Mullac, that cover was amazing. What a great fit for Ted too. It really could have been a Ted Leo song! I was really excited when that one kicked off the project, but have been largely underwhelmed since.

posted by richat 27 April | 18:56

I don't think I feel guilty about anything I listen to. I'm just THAT arrogant, perhaps? At least, when it comes to the music I choose anyway.

That's pretty much where I'm at too, but, in the spirit of the discussion, I'd say PINK by Aerosmith. The video is big fun, too.

posted by flapjax at midnite 27 April | 19:18

Here's stuff I listen to that most would find cringeworthy, but I staunchly defend:

- Dean Martin
- Jo Stafford
- The 3 O'Clock
- The Innocence Mission
- Glen Campbell

I love all of my music and proudly defend it.

p.s. Eve's Plum is a fantastic band. Never heard of them before this thread -thanks for the heads-up.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 27 April | 19:38

I think (with the exception of "Friends Forever (The Graduation Song)", Vitamin C went unnoticed in the US, too.

posted by crush-onastick 27 April | 19:53

Abba, Shirley Temple movies.

posted by Melismata 27 April | 21:52

75% of my personal music collection would be considered "guilty pleasures" by most. My college radio station gave me a Sunday Night timeslot to do a "Dr. Demento Clone" show (all the college stations in L.A. did it) because of the weird vinyl I had. And that was BEFORE Weird Al, who has become my musical idol.

Some of my favorite writing assignments were contributions to an regular "Guilty Pleasures" feature. Scroll down to see me defending Ray Stevens, Men at Work and the Pre-Pina Colada work of Rupert Holmes.

But for total I-like-it-and-don't-care-what-you-think listening, I like to haul out the Early '70s Progressive Rock of Yes, Procol Harum, Jethro Tull, Focus, Ambrosia (before they went commercial) and that Power Trio of Pretentious Rock, Emerson, Lake and Palmer. I'm so happy I can now listen to the full 29-minute "Karn Evil 9" without having to flip over a record...

posted by oneswellfoop 27 April | 21:56

I think everybody here has wonderful taste.

posted by JanetLand 28 April | 07:56

Helmut Fritz, Ça m'énerve

posted by initapplette 28 April | 10:55

If I like music, I like it. There are a few songs that I like by artists that I can't stand and that is as close as I can get to calling anything a guilty pleasure. And I still don't feel guilty about listening to those songs, I just find myself thinking in the back of my mind that I hate this person/band while I listen.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 28 April | 14:42

Good god people, don't overthink the 'guilty' phrase. I meant; let's talk catchy enjoyable pop without regard for whether it's 'authentic' etc.

posted by jouke 28 April | 15:22

Here's some more, things I like because they take me back to my childhood:

The Partridge Family
Ed Ames
The Carpenters
Olivia Newton-John

And, my very very very favorite, Andy Williams.

posted by JanetLand 28 April | 16:25

I can mount some kind of defense, however flimsy, for almost everything I like - thus making them less than truly guilty.

Michael Bolton's "When I'm Back On My Feet Again" is the exception. It's a truly indefensible piece of music. But it gets to me.

posted by Joe Beese 28 April | 21:27

I love the Carrie Underwood song "All-American Girl." Not to be confused with the Tom Petty "American Girl," particularly if it involves the Buffalo Bill interlude in the middle from Silence of the Lambs, like our friend loves to reenact at karaoke :P

Sound of Music, though I am PROUD of my LOVE of JULIE ANDREWS.

Cheesy gay-bar disco.

The Ethel Merman Disco album.

(I sense a trend...)

posted by Madamina 29 April | 11:54

Links -- sorry!

Carrie Underwood

Gay disco

Ethel Merman

posted by Madamina 29 April | 12:11

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