What are your guilty pleasures in music?

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What are your guilty pleasures in music?

The Sex Pistols.

"The Eagles of Death Metal"

i spelled them backwards

erd.rd
yad neerg
krap niknil

Pop/melodic Punk = Blink 182, Lagwagon, NOFX, Bad Astronaut, RX Bandits
Craig's Brother <- Christian Pop Punk
Coheed & Cambria
I don't really feel guilty however, this music only makes the music I play seem even MORE BADASS, which I'm sure most people would have thought impossible.

Also, The Decemberists, and I kind of also like Coldplay too, I mean that dude's good at songwriting. Foo Fighters, some of their songs too. Some of that dancey radio stuff, ie Franz ferdinand.

I secretly love music with lots production(the kind that most musicians find in bad taste) like the new modest mouse, and flaming lips, POp music.

catchy rock you can dance to, basically

either that or incubus

Madonna

In order of most to least guilty:

Maroon 5
Kelly Clarkson
Michelle Branch
Jason Mraz

all "pop" though Mraz is arguable because he's so musically weird. And he opened for Alanis Morisette.

Grunge is my guilty pleasure. Personally I believe there is too much hype on bands like Alice In Chains and Nirvana.
It just seems that (middle class) teenagers who take their selves too seriousley (despite wearing the most gimicky crap that they believe to be controversal*). If your going to be miserable, be ironic not sarcastic and ocassionally become a bit of joke.
I consider these people to be a farce, they shouldn't have to masquerade as this miserable horde of clones.
Whilst many could say the same about The Smiths and Joydivision I would personally argue that behind Morrisseys and Ian Curtises misery there is this undenable beauty in both the music they produce and also this genuine sense of disaffection (this can be reflected in the suicide of Ian Curtise and the fact Morrissey spent most of his teens obssesing over James Dean and Oscar Wilde). These people are genuine outsiders, it's not just some pretense that they have fabricated to fit with their idols like so many kids do (just visit your local youth club, I'm certain it'll be saturated with children who have this facade that they are alternative and accepting despite they are just like rich chavs in the clothes of Kurt Cobain and that twat from My Chemical Romance).
I will atest to being in a genuine sense different, for one I don't really have a little niche that listens to Smokey Robinson, Aphex Twin, and The Coceatu Twins. Instead I have to assume this nomadic like life stlye in which I shift from subculture to subcluture just to discus with others the pleasure of these musicians.
Anyway I just wanted an excuse to say that really.
But in a way I loathe myself for having a penchant for Grunge as I have a pretty poor Grunge schema.

*I believe these kids only dress like that so they can complain about the working classes, thriving on homogeneity- despite most of these 'goth'/emo/grunge children look the same, have the same transalantic accent (which is false) and thrive upon this simplistic speech constructed of americanisms.

sneaky, viking! you changed the theme of the thread!

in that case, my guilty pleasures in music are the rasmus and tatu.

I personally think The Sex Pistols are as they are the manufactured brain child of Malcom Mclaren. Anything that involves that man involves crime (though I must say The New York Dolls are criminally wonderful).
I will state that progressive rock is a guilty pleasure. But then again I have a penchant for The Shang Gri Las and Sandie Shaw.

well, i find anything that malcolm mclaren does fascinating- i'm not saying that he is a good person, but he has always intrigued me.

You live in Norwich? I live in Sheringham.
Well yeah he is interesting, but I really loathe this idea that if you complain about manufactured groups yet you are enamoured of The Pistols then that really is a false.

norwich is where the party's at! my parents used to take me to sheringham for days out when i was a kid.

i don't mind if a band is manufactured- as long as the music's good.