Guilty Pleasures - Your friends would die laughing

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Ok, here's a topic made famous by Canada's own David Wisdom on his late lamented weekend show, Nightlines. What wouldn't you be caught dead listening to that you actually really love? Your friends (if you have any *grin*) burst through the door, listen, and then burst out laughing.

True Confessions: I've seen the Butthole Surfers three times... and right now I'm listening to Elton John's "Candle in the Wind". There, I said it.

Atomicat

-Anything made by Lovage, because their music is sexually explicit and might be seen by others as tacky.

-Vanessa Daou for the same reason (for example, she sings about her vagina in one song and about her 'black' forest' in another).

-Missy Higgins, because I'm a guy and apparently Missy Higgins is not the sort of music 'real men' admit to liking.

-Enya (see above)

-Video game music because it's nerdy.

One of my clients was listening to the rapper who wars a bandaid on his face...uhmm"its getting hot in here"I thought some of the lyrics were funny...and it made me want to danceDoes that amke me a bad person?

Atomicat....my boyfriend has a guitar obsession and owns the guiter of someone who played with the Butthole Surfers....later played in a band called "Honky"...and thats what the guitar says..I guess he is retired and doing tattos for a living now but I feel we own a small piece of musical history....

Also, do the B-52s count for pure cheesiness?

Picture this, if you can ...... Thousands of dollars worth of audiophile quality gear ....... top rated professional speakers designed for studio playback ....... fairly respectable acoustics in my listening room ....... pensive, but neutral atmosphere ....... quiet solitude ....... relaxing, motionless in my comfortable listening chair ....... Barbara Streisand is in the room.

(That wasn't so hard.) She sings beautifully, but I'm her only fan I think. Guilty pleasure? Definitely.

I like to sing along with mariachi and old mexican folk songs, but only when alone. Also old, old ballads that Joan Baez once recorded. A lot of people would not care for it and think it sounded lame.
So only in private.

Also, I must be the only person for miles who loves Steely Dan. I bet no one remembers them. A big guilty pleasure.

I love Steely Dan. I'm more of an 'individual' artist fan, though. For instance, I may like a certain football team, but I follow the careers of many athletes no matter who the play for.

I have followed Donald Fagen for years (and still do), along with Walter Becker. Steely Dan was just the newest incarnaton at the time. Others who popped in and out of the band like Larry Carlton and Lee Ritenour, I still follow. Steely Dan had some magic moments, though ... that's for sure.

Hell no! They count as ripping good taste from first to last. I was overjoyed to hear Love Shack. Back with a blast! They hit on all cylinders for me, particularly the sleazy beehive & convertible cylinder.

Atomicat

Sweet! Anything um, interesting about it? Becha get high if you lick it.

Atomicat

You think I am going to lick something,anything played in a band called "Butthole Surfers"...uhhmmm
I'll stick with the "Frogs"<<<<<-(local band back in 84...they were very funny)


and just so I dont get accused of high jacking this thread...I will list another guilty pleasure(not mine)

I worked in a "brainwashing Program" for CD teens about 4 years ago and was friends with a resident who loved Marylin Manson,cut every night,looked like a hardcore gettopunk but listened to Captain and Taneal to fall asleep...my assumption...dreaming about" muscrat love" is better then anything Marylin Manson was selling

Yah, I guess that would be kinda well... reminds me of a saying of a friend of mine.. "You can always wash your hands." Sure.. but your tongue?

Marylin Manson. Not a fan. I find his stuff fairly mainstream and contrived. Mainstream? *grin* Yah, try Throbbing Gristle or Scraping Foetus off the Wheel if you want really out there. I do like him though because he's a very intelligent and well thought out person. I'm sure he knows exactly what he's doing and exactly what buttons he's pushing. Listen to what he says in "Bowling for Columbine" to see what I mean. He's also involved in a lot of very worthy endevours. So, you never can tell can you? After all, Alice Cooper was the son of a preacher and likes to play golf.

Atomicat

Now that's a name I haven't heard in years. I don't really think of them as a guilty pleasure, though. I hear Zappa, Airplane, Cheer, (I'm talking about live music, not their records) and maybe a few other classics from my early years when I listen to these guys. Trippy stuff. I saw Zappa several times but he quit performing live not too long after that. He always did at least one song that was just too 'experimental' for the unwashed masses.

I love this quote from the Industrial Records site: "We wanted to re-invest Rock music with content, motivation and risk. Our records were documents of attitudes and experiences and observations by us and other determinedly individual outsiders. Fashion was an enemy, style irrelevant." Risk ... NO 5HIT!

Heavy, trippy, or metallic, is My music, though ... always has been. My friends would definitely laugh at my obsession with the smooth female voice, though. I can't help it ... Streisand gives me a form of cerebro-wood that I can't explain.

"you've got feotus on your breath"....now what mouth wash do use for that....I liked this guy so much I named one of my cats after him...well,it was also a play on my cat and his sybs constant cfy for food as kittens.....meowmeowmeow=feedusfeedusfeedus....How about ...."the residents"...I thought their music sucked but I liked the giant eye videos...very Eraserhead

I feel kinda guilty for liking so many cliche goth bands, and for practically all of my favorite music falling into that category...but who cares. Taste is taste. I like what I like, and I'm not the sort to "pretend" to like something I don't. (I.e. I think Lacuna Coil is the most overrated band in existance, a crappy "Nightwish" rip off with HORRIBLE singing, even though everyone else likes 'em so much. Heh.)

Classical music – particulary canal music. Altough I really like it – I wouldn’t let any of my friends know. I know, at heart, they’d accept it but due to well, expriences of immature neurologically typical teens, it would be hard to let them know. ((I am still a teenager and as such, don’t let others know – ‘conformists’ or what?))


Another thing, I would make all possible endevaours to hide from them is ‘white noise’. They’d probably wonder what the point of having a musical device on is, if you’re not going to pick a station.

"White Noise" as in the Lou Reed album? That's meant to be REALLY hard work! Oh no - that was "Metal Machine Music" or something, wasn't it?

I have a few things which are embarrassing. Generally I love guitar riffs, but back in the 1980s that meant listening to the juvenile sexism of AC/DC and Motley Crue or the dungeons'n'dragons whining of Ozzy Osbourne. While there are songs which I adore (e.g. "Down Payment Blues", "Dr. Feelgood" or "The Wizard"), in general they sang about complete rubbish.

I also have a secret admiration for catchy dance tunes. I adore Shanks & Bigfoot "Sweet Like Chocolate" and The Wiseguys "Ooh La La". But the best of all has to be "Them Girls" by Zig & Zag, which just RULES