Musical guilty pleasures

[Mike_C]

For me I really like the Squirel Nut Zippers and I know it's cliche but I like the neo swing bands like Royal Crown Revue or Big Bad Voodoo Daddy or Goth swing Lee Press-on and the Nails (I know I know but its a real band.)

For old school guilty pleasures it's the Ohio Players ( hey if just for the cover art alone) and Donna Summer. ( did I really just admit to liking Love to love you baby?)

[Formula73.1]

The BeeGees and Tom Jones.

[El Kabong]

I still spin Saturday Night Fever and I believe the best white soul album of all time is Tom Jones 'Live in Las Vegas.' recorded at the Flamingo in '69.

I love disco and house music. I also love old school Rap-Fat Boys, Kurtis Blow, etc.

[Brooks]

+1 on the bee gees and disco, at least for dancing

(i dj our company partys; drunk girls + disco = party!).

i also like some rap that was popular when i was in college,

like public enemy, ice cube, ez e.

for some reason i really love sublime, even though they are outside of my typical hard rawk or neo-jazz tastes.

[Guest hectorp2]

Oh Mickey you're so fine

You're so fine you blow my mind

Hey Mickey!

Hey Mickey!

Paul Revere and the Raiders

I have a crush on Wendy Melvoin from her cameo in the Prince video "Kiss"

I had a crush on Alanis Morrisette...

How about guilty displeasures....things that you are supposed to like, but hate?

I loved Zappa's "Freak Out" but dislike most of the pimply quotable stuff that followed

[doody]

I like Ani Difranco... Untouchable face(fuck you) kills

I own 2 men at work albums.

I like the Cult's version of Born to be wild better than the original.

I like a couple John Mayer songs.

[Travis]

I'm in a big power metal phase right now, a lot of the bands from Europe. I don't know if I should feel guilty about that or not.

[Eric Weston]

Ummm...my wife's Enya cd, INXS, Lord Tracy.

[wyldbil]

Sammy Davis, Jr. 'Nuff said.

[jwhitcomb3]

I got the soundtrack to "West Side Story" for my birthday. Great music.

Most any early-to-mid 70's singer/songwriter/soft rock stuff. Stuff that was tame enough to play with my parents around. I've got the America boxed set. I went to see Janis Ian last month (excellent show).

-Jonathan

[mudshark]

Tommy James and the Shondells

Paul Revere and the Raiders

Herman's Hermits

The Four Freshmen

..............still love'em!

[Brooks]

Ummm...my wife's Enya cd, INXS, Lord Tracy.

i remeber lord tracy! i thought they'd be big when they came out.

terry was the original singer for pantera back in their spandex/cover tune days.

barney was an amazing shredding bassist (ala billy sheenan), he used to play for lightning (big 70's/early 80's texas band), went on tour w/ the cult after lord tracy split.

[md2020]

Christina Aguilera's track "The Voice Within" from "Stripped" -- great vocal with gobs of transparent compression.

I think Christina has more than her fair share of issues, and she's a total fashion train wreck, but after my gal dragged me to a concert, it's clear Xtina can really sing, and without a guide track! What a concept!

Not much jumps out at me from the rest of her catalog, but I do like that track.

[tafkathundernotes]

The Vapors

Sam Cooke

Ray Charles (the old blues stuff)

80's metal

and I have a Europe CD I listen to once in a while. So sue me...

[Nuclear Wessel]

80's synth pop/new wave. I hated it at the time, but I confess I like listening to the local 80's retro station every now and then.

And though I don't feel guilty about this at all, being a rock guitarist, maybe I should: my favorite music for putting in the CD player while just kicking back around the house is Steve Roach or some other electronic ambient/new age synth stuff.

Oh, and I also like to listen to hard core techno.

[GusS]

Aiyyo!! dog, I meet bitches, discrete bitches

Street bitches, slash, cocoa puff sweet bitches (what? )

Make you wanna eat bitches, but not me

Y’all niggaz eat off the plate all you want but not d (uhh)

I fuck with these hoes from a distance

The instant they start to catch feelings

I start to stealin they shit

Then I’m out just like a thief in the night

I sink my teeth in to bite

You thinkin life, I’m thinkin more like - whassup tonight?

Come on ma, you know I got a wife

And even though that pussy tight I’m not gon’ jeapordize my life (aight? )

So what is it you want from a nigga? (what? )

I gave you, you gave me - bitch, I blazed you, you blazed me (c’mon)

Nothin more, nothin less, but you at my door

Willin to confess that it’s the best you ever tested

Better than all the rest, I’m like, ’aight girlfriend, hold up

I gave you, what you gave me boo, a nut (f’real)’

There was brenda, latisha, linda, felicia (okay)

Dawn, leshaun, ines, and alicia (ooh)

Teresa, monica, sharron, nicki (uh-huh)

Lisa, veronica, karen, vicky (damn)

Cookies, well I met her in a ice cream parlor (aight? )

Tonya, diane, lori and carla (okay)

Marina (uhh) selena (uhh) katrina (uhh) sabrina (uhh)

About three kim’s (what? ) latoya, and tina (whoo!)

Shelley, bridget, cavi, rasheeda (uh-huh)

Kelly, nicole, angel, juanita (damn!)

Stacy, tracie, rohna, and ronda (what? )

Donna, ulanda (what? ) tawana, and wanda (what? )

Were all treated fairly but yet and still

Bitches is on some other shit now that I’m fuckin wit dru hill

But i’ma keep it real (what? )

What the fuck you want from a nigga? (c’mon)

What the fuck you want from a nigga? (c’mon)

[Lockbody]

I got the soundtrack to "West Side Story" for my birthday. Great music. -Jonathan

+1 for West Side Story.

[Nuclear Wessel]

How about guilty displeasures....things that you are supposed to like, but hate?

Good question.

I never got into Eric Clapton. I absolutely can't stand his big radio hits (Lay Down Sally, I Shot the Sheriff...) and a lot of the rest of his material, I've just never latched onto.

I never liked the Rolling Stones. I sorta liked a few songs (You Can't Always Get What You Want, Hot Stuff, You're a Fool To Cry), but most of their bigger hits (Jumpin' Jack Flash, Brown Sugar...), I'd switch stations the instant they came on.

When I was a kid and into my teens, I didn't really like Led Zeppelin. I can appreciate them now, but as a kid, their music never connected with me.

[Eric Weston]

Ummm...my wife's Enya cd, INXS, Lord Tracy.

i remeber lord tracy! i thought they'd be big when they came out.

terry was the original singer for pantera back in their spandex/cover tune days.

barney was an amazing shredding bassist (ala billy sheenan), he used to play for lightning (big 70's/early 80's texas band), went on tour w/ the cult after lord tracy split.

Actually, the guy who got me into Lord Tracy was from Chi-town and he talked me into trying ( and buying) my first Hamer! WOO HOOOO!!

[Jeff R]

I've got a compilation CD called "Pure Funk" that I love to spin when I'm working in the kitchen. Another kitchen spinner - James Brown's "Live At The Apollo" from the 60s.

I guess you could call my 80s metal a guilty pleasure. Listened to Exodus on the way to work today - I just got turned on to them recently by my drummer and I can't believe I missed them back in the day. They sound a lot like Testament (another Bay Area thrash band) with Udo from Accept on vocals.

Oh yeah, and I've was spinning some Duran Duran recently. Love that band, they were so underrated in my opinion.

[Stike]

Cmon guys, what's to be guilty about some the stuff ya'll listed. Aint nothing wrong Squirel Nut Zippers( a fine NC export I might add ) and there aint a damn thing wrong with liking Sam Cooke. You want guilt(aka crap), if Rick Asltey's Never Gonna Give You Up comes on the radio lets just say I dont race to change the station. Now start fessin' up.

[tafkathundernotes]

OK dammit! Bon Jovi, Rick Springfield and the Bay City Rollers. There - I said it. And I'm not ashamed!

[Armitage]

Musical guilty pleasures

Shiny guitars, dirty amps and even even dirtier girls!

[Michael_]

Bon Jovi, some John Mayer tunes...

Aslee Simpson?

I WIN!

[formula73]

How could I forget Ashlee Simpson? When I told my friend she sounded good, I thought he was gonna die.

And I'd beat her guts.

Edited for a bit of clarity. Hey-I'm leaving tomorrow. Why shouldn't I be drunk?