Guilty Pleasure Songs

[HarleyQuinn]

My all-time guilty pleasure song is "Dream Baby" by Roy Orbison. I actually stumbled onto the song in the mid 90's where there was a hotel commercial with two 7-9 year old girls bouncing on a bed in slow motion while this song played in the background. I had the commercial on tape and it took me until 2001 to find out who sang it and what the song was called.

Roy Orbison - Dream Baby

Just the song. I've never seen the commercial again since I threw my tapes out either. I want to say it was for the Marriott or Sheraton hotel but no idea.

 

[Mik]

Guilty Pleasure - Cobra Starship

 

[mellow]

Roy Orbison? A guilty pleasure? Shame on you.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Amy Winehouse.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

The Fray

 

[Gary]

Lady Gaga, though liking her at times makes me question my sexuality.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

While the first post was more background wise, I'll admit to being a fan of the early work of the following: Backstreet Boys, Christina Aguilera, and Jennifer Lopez. Same goes for Ricky Martin.

 

[Mattdotcom]

Sugar Ray. 14:59 is grandiose.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

The Fray

Also this

Miley Cyrus - The Climb - Official Music Video (HQ)

I usually don't feel guilty about liking overblown girl country (I'm not at all ashamed to rep for Shania Twain or Taylor Swift or Jessica Andrews), but this is different. I feel like Bob Barron. Blugh.

 

[wnyxmcneal]

Blugh?

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Like "blegh," but slightly more dispirited. Cf. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blugh

 

[Czech]

We need to verify our various textual grunts of discontent now? That's ridiculous. Pflurmph.

I don't like these threads. I'm not guilty about anything lame that I like anymore.

 

[bps21]

I too like The Climb. I'm about to turn 30 though...and I'm at that point where I don't care what people think about the shitty things I enjoy.

I like to drive around listening to bad pop music, singing along in my most girly voice.

 

[BUTT]

Most of the posts in this thread are naming artists, not songs.

 

[Captain of Outer Space]

Long John Baldry Let The Heartache Begin

and

Econoline Crush - Sparkle & Shine

 

[mellow]

Econoline Crush - Sparkle & Shine

I used to be an enormous fan of Econoline Crush back in the day... until they released their third album. What was that all aboot?

 

[Byron The Bulb]

I'm not guilty about anything lame that I like anymore.

Neither am I usually, but enjoying a Miley Cyrus song is like crossing the border into a totally unfamiliar, kinda unseemly country. Perhaps one day I'll be comfortable and confident enough to stop cowering behind the "guilty pleasure" tag, but that day is not today.

 

[Smartly Pretty]

Do you like "See You Again"? I really dig that one.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Ew, no. I only like "The Climb" because it's overblown girl country (aka the best genre). Her dance pop stuff is total shit.

edite: I just found this on the 'Tube. It's kewl.

Miley Cyrus - The Climb (Acoustic Radio Tour '09)

I think I'm actually done feeling guilty about liking this song, guys. This is a real breakthrough for me!

 

[Smartly Pretty]

your FACE is total shit

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Wow, that was really mean. Consider yourself reported for flaming, asshole.

 

[Smartly Pretty]

let's stay friends

 

[HaVoC]

Seether - Careless Whisper

First time I heard it I couldn't believe it. One of the last songs I ever imagined would be covered. Now I find myself turning it up in the car.

 

[samoarowe]

"Just Dance" by Lady Gaga is turning into a big time guilty pleasure of mine. Former guilty pleasures include "Music is My Hot Hot Sex" by CSS and "The Way I Are" by Timbaland.

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

You guys have really weird standards of what you choose to be guilty about.

 

[KOAB]

Lil Wyte-Its On

Lil wyte-I got dat candy

...

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

David Bowie - Blue Jean - mini-movie

Does sell out new wave '80s Bowie count? There was a (fortunately) short period where this was my favorite era of Bowie. Still fucking love this song and video.

You know it probably doesn't count as a guilty pleasure...I'm drunk though...what's the motherfucker who qualified Roy Orbinson (one of the greatest voices in rock) as a guilty pleasure's excuse.

FIREHOUSE - Don't Treat Me Bad

This is more appropriate. Chuck Klosterman said this was one of the greatest songs recorded in the past fifty years or some bullshit. I don't think I'd got that far but I think it's a highlight of the hair metal era.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

You can sign me up for pretty much anything from these groups:

Lifehouse - They have several songs that I find quite catchy.
Nickelback - This is apparently the ultimate in uncool, cheesy music. Never really understood why.
Seether - Likewise.
Rick Astley - I've been a fan since "Never Gonna Give You Up" first hit the radio in the 80's. The guy really has a great singing voice.

 

[Positively Kanyon]

Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop us Now

 

[BUTT]

FIREHOUSE - Don't Treat Me Bad

This is more appropriate. Chuck Klosterman said this was one of the greatest songs recorded in the past fifty years or some bullshit.

Oh Jesus. I liked this song when I was in 10th grade (of course it came out when I was in kindergarten but I was always behind the trends). I think I put it on a mix CD with, among others, "Crying Like a Church on Monday" by the New Radicals (which briefly inspired a short-lived username of mine last year) and Jake the Snake's heel theme. (These mixes were made for my ears only.) But for any man to claim such a thing...he's a gimmick. Dude thought he could lead the way into making ironic hair metal appreciation an accepted hipster conceit, and failed, and now he's stuck trying to pretend that he's into Ratt and Warrant the way Real Music Fans are into Radiohead. Sure, he's made a lot of money, but to live a lie? Weak, man.

EDIT: Now if it was "Love of a Lifetime" or "When I Look Into Your Eyes" I'd be a little more lenient. Two of the best songs of the '80s, and they didn't even come out in the '80s! But you know what I mean.

Anyone ever heard "All She Wrote" by them? It IS "Round and Round" by Ratt. Whatta ripoff.