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Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
 
I was listening to music on my phone the other day and somebody asked me, "What are you listening to?"
"Ozzy Osbourne"
"Oh... cool man"
*insert derisive laughter here* [Mad]

It made me wonder, the music used to be really popular, and I love it, but my likes are obviously not shared. It's hard not to start liking some of the classics, especially since I work with a lot of 40+ year old mechanics. I'm the youngest in the shop. [Dont Know]

Is there any music you guys like that you would consider a "guilty pleasure?"
 
Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :
 
That new Paul McCartney song they play on that commercial. It's so...happy.
 
Posted by calaban (Member # 2516) on :
 
Doors - Just about everything
with special emphasis on: Run with me, When the musics over, spanish caravan and Rider on the Storm

Doobie Brothers - Black Waters

Simon & Garfunkle - esp. Boxer, Sounds of Silence, The Rock

Schubert Death and the Maiden
 
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
 
Guilty pleasures?

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama
[Dobie Gray]: Drift Away
Styx: Come Sail Away and Babe
Looking Glass: Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)
Dennis DeYoung: Desert Moon
Queen: Fat Bottomed Girls and Bohemian Rhapsody

Those are the ones I always feel like I might be caught with. There are probably more that I'm blocking -- at least one thing by Captain & Tenille and something by Barry Manilow, for sure. But I always sing along in the car, anyway. [Smile]

[ August 21, 2007, 08:06 PM: Message edited by: ClaudiaTherese ]
 
Posted by Launchywiggin (Member # 9116) on :
 
I don't feel guilty about any of the music I like. If it weren't awesome, I wouldn't like it.

Though...I know that a lot of people THINK I should feel guilty about:

Nsync, Backstreet Boys, both JT's albums
Weird Al's entire discography (and videography)
Korn, Linkin Park, Chevelle
Eminem, Black Eyed Peas, ICP
I have a ridiculous amount of folk rock.

I don't see how you could consider the classics to be "guilty" pleasures. I could never feel guilty about Simon and Garfunkel, Queen, or Schubert.
 
Posted by Dan_Frank (Member # 8488) on :
 
I'm with Launchy. I sometimes feel guilty if someone knows I like listening to X Random Current Pop or Alternative rock band. But the classics? Never!
 
Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :
 
"Queen: Fat Bottomed Girls"

Hehe. Queen's too awesome for anyone to feel guilty listening to them.
 
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
I used to feel Nirvana was a guilty pleasure, but now I like them unashamedly.

Otherwise, no. I'm pretty good about not feeling ashamed about the things I like, but just continually redefining cool to fit. [Smile]
 
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
 
Not really sure why the Doors would be a guilty pleasure. Their music has aged less than just about any other 60s/early 70s music I can think of. Morrison Hotel is still one of my favorite albums ever.

My guilty pleasure, musically speaking, is sitting and watching those half-hour Time-Life CD-collection infomercials. I don't watch infomercials otherwise, ever, but I just love watching these for all the old performance clips. There's also a really cool one that sells DVD collections made up from old Midnight Special episodes.
 
Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
 
I listen to Fergie quite a bit, and Crush by Jennifer Paige plays on my iPod quite a bit while I'm at the gym...but there's no such thing as guilty music at the gym. Whatever keeps you going in perfectly acceptable.
 
Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
 
Senorita by Justin Timberlake. I know I shouldn't like it, but I do anyway. And Toxic by Brittany Spears. So awful, but in a fun way.
 
Posted by LargeTuna (Member # 10512) on :
 
if you wanna hear some NEW good stuff, mostly brittish, here it is:

ill Scarlet
The Kooks
Keane
Doves
LCD Soundsystem
Bomb Funk MC

Thats what i like anyway, its aweaome!!
 
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
 
I see no reason to be guilty about music. If it's good to you, it's good, even if it's stuff I don't like

But then again, I like almost anything, I have no shame.
 
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
I feel slightly guilty about liking "Rhythm of My Heart," by Rod Stewart. That's about it, though.
 
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
 
See, this is what I'm talking about. Some of you think there is nothing you should feel guilty listening to. I guess I meant music that you are a closet fan of.

Some people think you have bad taste in music if you listen to certain music. That's what I'm talking about. I don't feel guilty, and I won't change what I listen to, but I won't exactly tell everybody I'm a fan of... Foreigner for example.
 
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
 
Most things by Mika. (In particular, Big Girls.)
 
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
 
Bollywood soundtracks.
 
Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
 
Ok here it goes...That Greenday song that was really popular not too long ago? Boulevard of Broken Dreams? Yeah, I liked that one. [Blushing]
 
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
Why be embarrassed? It's not the best song on the album, but that album was one of the best of the year.
 
Posted by Launchywiggin (Member # 9116) on :
 
I would be embarrassed if I liked that new Green Day album :-)
 
Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Launchywiggin:
I would be embarrassed if I liked that new Green Day album :-)

I'm embarrassed I bought it.
 
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
 
Dude, I like cheesy 70s songs that are mushy and cheesy.

But I am not ashamed of it. "How Deep is your Love" and Miracles unedited are great songs.
 
Posted by Snail (Member # 9958) on :
 
Green Day sort of counts as a guilty pleasure for me as my friends always mock me when they find out I have a couple of their CD's. (In my defence though, while Green Day is certainly not the best band on Earth I still feel that for a lot of my friends they just dislike it because it's too popular.)

Hmm. No other guilty pleasures that I can think of though.
 
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
 
Milkshake. There, I said it. However, I also have a "Push it, Smurfette" remix of that song that's absolutely hysterical and catchy at the same time.
 
Posted by calaban (Member # 2516) on :
 
Gogol Bordello, Start Wearing Purple (you tube it)
 
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by AvidReader:
Senorita by Justin Timberlake. I know I shouldn't like it, but I do anyway. And Toxic by Brittany Spears. So awful, but in a fun way.

Why shouldn't you like them? Those are two perfectly good pop songs.
quote:
Originally posted by ClaudiaTherese:
Guilty pleasures?

Doobie Brothers: Drift Away

That song is actually by Dobie Gray.
/music nerd.
 
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
The song that opened the Star Trek: Enterprise episodes, Faith of the Heart. I don't think it should have begun the show- hence the guilt-, but I love it nonetheless.
 
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
The Moffats, "Doo Wah Diddy" and the Jackson Five, "Rockin' Robin"
 
Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
 
I'll tell you, when life gives you Ozzy, you shut up and you take your Ozzy!
 
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by El JT de Spang:

quote:
Originally posted by ClaudiaTherese:
Guilty pleasures?

Doobie Brothers: Drift Away

That song is actually by Dobie Gray.
/music nerd.

No way!

I was relying on LyricsFreak. I stand corrected (as should LF).
 
Posted by MattP (Member # 10495) on :
 
Pretty much everything by Weird Al
Some Bon Jovi stuff
Some rap
 
Posted by Elmer's Glue (Member # 9313) on :
 
Gwen Stefani
 
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
 
Anything by The Parliament, or P Funk Allstars.

But so help me I just can't help but tear the roof off the sucker.
 
Posted by baduffer (Member # 10469) on :
 
Disco
 
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by baduffer:
Disco

You sir are a bad person.
 
Posted by baduffer (Member # 10469) on :
 
Exactly why I am a closet case. Even I think that.
 
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
 
I think... I might actually be starting to kinda, in some small way, like.... smooth jazz. *cringe*
 
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by baduffer:
Exactly why I am a closet case. Even I think that.

lol

People just need to realize that Disco somehow got in the way of what was supposed to be the natural awesomness of the funk movement. The Red Hot Chili Peppers offered glimpses of just how awesome funk could have become but nobody really picked up the torch [Frown]
 
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
 
I loved the music in GTA:Vice City and I sorta feel guilty about it...
 
Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
 
Ha! I have a degree in music. I can, by virtue of said degree, listen to any darn thing I want.

On the other hand, my tastes are both eclectic and specific. I am driving "Pandora" nuts trying to figure out what I want.
 
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
 
One word:

Journey
 
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by vonk:
I think... I might actually be starting to kinda, in some small way, like.... smooth jazz. *cringe*

Ha, I grew up liking Smooth Jazz, but the good stuff like Acoustic Alchemy who never considered themselves jazz and the Rippintons.
Nowadays everyone seems to be doing boring covers of pop songs I hate.
 
Posted by Nethy (Member # 6462) on :
 
John Denver, all the way.
 
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
 
Kraft macaroni and cheese.

Oh, you mean music. Y'know, I suspect that just about anything I like is probably considered laughable these days. Should I consider the Fleetwood Mac Rumours album a guilty pleasure?
 
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
 
No declarative statement lacking in negatives can have 'Fleetwood Mac' and 'pleasure' in it. [Wink]
 
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
 
*sings "You can go your own way. . ." at vonk really loudly*
 
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
 
*turns up the smooth jazz*

Play it Kenny G!
 
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
 
Well, if everyone is gonna start singing...

"Dooon't stop, belieeevin'!"
 
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
 
"Hold on to that feee-ee-ee-lin!"
 
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Nick:
I was listening to music on my phone the other day and somebody asked me, "What are you listening to?"
"Ozzy Osbourne"
"Oh... cool man"
*insert derisive laughter here* [Mad]

To be fair, were you listening to Ozzy Osbourne's post-Sabbath solo act or were you listening to Black Sabbath? Because if you were actually listening to Black Sabbath and said "Ozzy Osbourne" I'd probably have laughed at you too. [Wink]

[Hail] [Evil Laugh]

--Enigmatic
 
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
 
*sings* Some people say my love cannot be real! */sings*
 
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
 
Dude
Ozzy Osbourne is kind of cool
except for the drugs, but he's fascinating, and he has a cool voice.
 
Posted by Artemisia Tridentata (Member # 8746) on :
 
I'm a classically trained bassoonist. My usual evening listening usually runs to chamber music or "art" songs. (anything by Cathleen Battle) So, why am I enjoying this band that I found camping out in the little Nevada ghost town of Poinsettia. (really) You might sample "Old Salt Wells". (the song, the ranch burned down last month.)
 
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
 
DJ Shadow
Amy Winehouse [Embarrassed]
 
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
 
I would never confuse Ozzy with Black Sabbath, HOW DARE YOU!!!
[Wink]
On an alternate note, is there any music that you would laugh at people for listening to?
 
Posted by Mike (Member # 55) on :
 
Mine are not so guilty, but I get a lot of flack for liking them:

Dave Matthews Band

R.E.M.: "Shiny Happy People" and "It's the End of the World as we Know It"

Enya
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by baduffer:
quote:
Originally posted by BlackBlade:
quote:
Originally posted by baduffer:
Disco

You sir are a bad person.
Exactly why I am a closet case. Even I think that.
I, OTOH, love disco and feel neither shame nor guilt. [Razz]

quote:
Originally posted by vonk:
No declarative statement lacking in negatives can have 'Fleetwood Mac' and 'pleasure' in it. [Wink]

You are incorrect. And again, neither guilt nor shame.
 
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
 
I thought of another one. Laurie Anderson. Very strange and almost completely non-sensical, but I've found myself very entertained.
 
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by rivka:
quote:
Originally posted by vonk:
No declarative statement lacking in negatives can have 'Fleetwood Mac' and 'pleasure' in it. [Wink]

You are incorrect. And again, neither guilt nor shame.
I can totally picture you, as a teenager, twirling around your room, a scarf in each hand, listening to Fleetwood Mac.
 
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
 
quote:
is there any music that you would laugh at people for listening to?
I am completely boggled by people who like Joanna Newsom. I don't know that I would laugh at them, so much as shy away in uncomprehending fear.
 
Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Artemisia Tridentata:
I'm a classically trained bassoonist. My usual evening listening usually runs to chamber music or "art" songs. (anything by Cathleen Battle)

But...but...Kathleen Battle is eeevil.
 
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by rivka:
quote:
Originally posted by baduffer:
quote:
Originally posted by BlackBlade:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by baduffer:
[qb] Disco

You sir are a bad person.
Exactly why I am a closet case. Even I think that.
quote:
I, OTOH, love disco and feel neither shame nor guilt. [Razz]
How far thou hast fallen Rivka. [Wink]

[ August 23, 2007, 12:35 PM: Message edited by: BlackBlade ]
 
Posted by Artemisia Tridentata (Member # 8746) on :
 
Kmbboots, how can something that beautiful be eeevil? Unless you are using the "street" version of "BAD" and ratchiting it up several notchs. Her voice on my machine melts the butter in the neighbor's fridge.
 
Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
 
For me, her "not-niceness" as a person is too clearly audible in her voice.
 
Posted by Artemisia Tridentata (Member # 8746) on :
 
Well, if you need nice, last night I was listening to JoAnne Ottley. No skeletons in her closet. Her voice is also gorgeous. But, you might not have heard of her. Gossip makes Divas.
 
Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
 
I'll have to check her out. Thanks!

I find it inconvenient to "hear" certain personalities in voices. Pavaratti, for example, is almost ruined for me in operatic roles. All I hear is his ego. It is fine in concert or even in excerpts, but too much of him comes through. It seems to be about the voice rather than about the music.
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Primal Curve:
I can totally picture you, as a teenager, twirling around your room, a scarf in each hand, listening to Fleetwood Mac.

I don't think it was scarves, actually. But yeah. [Big Grin]
quote:
Originally posted by BlackBlade:
quote:
I, OTOH, love disco and feel neither shame nor guilt. [Razz]
How far thou has fallen Rivka. [Wink]
People who didn't live through the disco era don't get to have an opinion. [Razz]
*turns up Night Fever*
 
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by rivka:
quote:
Originally posted by Primal Curve:
I can totally picture you, as a teenager, twirling around your room, a scarf in each hand, listening to Fleetwood Mac.

I don't think it was scarves, actually. But yeah. [Big Grin]
quote:
Originally posted by BlackBlade:
quote:
I, OTOH, love disco and feel neither shame nor guilt. [Razz]
How far thou has fallen Rivka. [Wink]
People who didn't live through the disco era don't get to have an opinion. [Razz]
*turns up Night Fever*

What year was disco officially over?
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Disco will never be over!




*cough* Um, late 70s.
 
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by rivka:
Disco will never be over!




*cough* Um, late 70s.

Hmmm, just in time to kill the funk movement. How interesting. [Wink]
 
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
 
Cheap beef jerky
Mac & Cheese (yellow death)
Cap'n Crunch
Processed cheese

um...

A few songs by ABBA
Queen: "Killer Queen"
Maroon 5
Bread
 
Posted by Launchywiggin (Member # 9116) on :
 
quote:
I am completely boggled by people who like Joanna Newsom.
It's funny--because my first reaction was similar. How could anyone enjoy that voice, right?

But it grew on me. I saw her live and absolutely loved it. There was a complete absence of that "indie" snobbery in her performance. Her voice isn't affected at all--it's very real and her performance was so honest and heartfelt.

Aside from that, her music and poetry are incredible. Creative, different, and beautiful.

I guess it's not for everybody, and I'm not trying to convince you that you'll like it. She's in my top 10, though.
 
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Nick:
I would never confuse Ozzy with Black Sabbath, HOW DARE YOU!!!
[Wink]
On an alternate note, is there any music that you would laugh at people for listening to?

Well, that's alright then.

Let's see... There's plenty of music that I don't personally like, but I don't laugh at someone just for having different taste. I used to laugh at people who would buy an album and then only listen to the one song that they'd heard on the radio, but mp3s and itunes have made the single-song purchase much more common. I may laugh if somebody takes their music way, way too seriously, and I tend to laugh when people accuse a band of "selling out." (Especially if it's a couple of albums after many other people have accused said band of selling out.)

Oh! Remember "Hit Clips"? It was an early flash-memory thing that wouldn't even hold an entire song so they would have just the catchy line or two and advertised it as "only the hot groove you love!" I laughed, do laugh, and will laugh at anyone who ever owned one of those.

--Enigmatic
 
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
 
There's a few Eminem songs I like.
 
Posted by DaisyMae (Member # 9722) on :
 
CT mentioned early on liking Dennis DeYoung's Desert Moon. I thought I was the only person on earth who knew that album. Definitely guilty. Can we say, "Boys Will Be Boys?"

"Dirty Pop" by NSync

"Dancing Queen" and "I will Survive"

"Wind it up" by Gwen Stefani is one of my favorite songs on my IPOD.

And if any of you have even HEARD of the New Christy Minstrels I will buy you a CD of your choosing.

Ha, and I still listen to "Ice, Ice, Baby" now and then, just for the nostalgia.
 
Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
 
DaisyMae, of course I have heard of the New Christy Minstrels.

edit to add: and now I have "Green, Green" sstuck in my head.
 
Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by kmbboots:

On the other hand, my tastes are both eclectic and specific. I am driving "Pandora" nuts trying to figure out what I want.

Pandora just gave me a message saying it was taking "longer than usual" to figure out what I want and to please be patient. I will feel really bad if I have to ding the next song. It is trying so hard.
 
Posted by DaisyMae (Member # 9722) on :
 
Wow, kmbboots, I'm impressed.
I guess I should ask if you want that in amazon gift card?
 
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
 
Things I listen to as guilty pleasures:
Avril Lavigne
Hanson

They're both fun, I enjoy them in the right mood, would never, ever claim they were good [Wink]

Things I would give people a hard time for:
Backstreet Boys
N'Sync
Brittany Spears

Course, if they didn't claim they were good and admitted them as guilty pleasures then I'd leave them be. Cause, you know, we all have em and mine are whoppers [Big Grin]

Things no one should ever have to consider guilty pleasures:
Queen
Simon and Garfunkel
Green Day

[Razz]
 
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
 
Agreed on the Simon and Garfunkel. Cecelia may be the best song ever written. Queen, it depends on the album, for me. And as for Green Day, I forgive them nothing after Dookie.
 
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
 
I just realized I do in fact have a band that is a guilty pleasure,

The Who.

The only person who can stand listening to their music with me is my brother, and he is the LAST person I would go to for approval on my music.
 
Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
 
DaisyMae honey, I think you get a pass. I am a folksinger (of sorts).*

Won't it be when nice songs like "Eve of Destruction" are no longer relevant?

*also, I am pretty old.

[ August 17, 2007, 10:35 AM: Message edited by: kmbboots ]
 
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
 
Music I get flack for liking:

Bloc Party
Better than Ezra
John Mayer
Jason Mraz
Muse
Interpol
LCD Soundsystem
Modest Mouse
Backstreet Boys
N*SYNC
98 Degrees
Westlife
New Kids on the Block
Panic! at the Disco
Motion City Soundtrack
Damien Rice
The Arcade Fire

Oh, and most of all: ANY and ALL electronic artists. It takes a true music heathen to hate on electronica.
 
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
 
Because I'm an actor I have several musical soundtracks in my iPod...so I'm sure I would get made fun of for that.
 
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
 
It takes a true music heathen to use the word "electronica". [Razz]
 
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by vonk:
It takes a true music heathen to use the word "electronica". [Razz]

If there's been a terminology update in the four years since I've been a DJ, I apologize, but last I checked, "electronica" was still the most accurate descriptor of "music that is performed on or influenced by electronic instruments."
 
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
 
This is how I've always heard of electronica, and it's always been with disdain (from urbandictionary.com):
quote:
Electronica:

A word the media came up with to refer to all forms of Electronic Music. Electronica is not a music genre. For more information, see Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. Google it.

or

quote:
contrary to the ignorant public that only likes the godawful top 40 and rap-pop stuff, electronica is not synonamous with electronic music. there are multiple genres of electronic music (like there are genres of rock) such as trance, house, techno, jungle, hardcore etc. electronica is a genre of electronic music that encompasses "listenable" subgenres like downtempo and IDM.
But, ya know, it may be a regional or cultural thing. All the DJs I know get really annoyed when someone refers to electronic music as electronica.

I assumed when you said "ANY and ALL electronic artists", you didn't mean a particular subgenre of electronic music.

But to each his own. I claim no empirical knowledge, only knowledge gleened from those with more than I.

Edit: also, that second quote is a lot harsher than I would have said it. Please don't take it as an attack or insult.
 
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
 
See, all DJs I know, when referring to all of electronic music, refer to it as electronica. They get annoyed if you refer to, say, electro house as "electronica." When speaking broadly, though, it's the only accurate term. People who get annoyed with it are just ignorant; it makes as much sense to get annoyed at someone saying "Nirvana is a band" instead of "Nirvana is a grunge rock band."

People who insist "electronica" is a subgenre may be right, within whatever region they happen to be occupying, but are silly to insist that their nomenclature is absolute. "Electronica" has been a catch-all since the days of Aphex Twin. It's a useful, accurate descriptor.

And it's way, way better than me asking someone "Hey, did you hear the newest set of Cassius remixes?" and them responding "Nah, I don't listen to techno."
 
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
 
Agreed on the last comment. Not so much on the others, but that's cool.

quote:
When speaking broadly, though, it's the only accurate term.
How about "electronic music", which both you and I seem to use regularly enough, in this conversation anyway?

quote:
it makes as much sense to get annoyed at someone saying "Nirvana is a band" instead of "Nirvana is a grunge rock band."
I think it would be more like saying "Nirvana is an alternative band." I get a little peeved when people say that. "Alternative" is a media generated term to catch all distortion using music that came out at the time. Not the name of the genre, which would be better describe as "grunge", as you have done.

Because the term has been used for a long time, does not make it accurate.

I blame MTV.
 
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
 
quote:

Bloc Party
Better than Ezra
John Mayer
Jason Mraz
Muse
Interpol
LCD Soundsystem
Modest Mouse
Backstreet Boys
N*SYNC
98 Degrees
Westlife
New Kids on the Block
Panic! at the Disco
Motion City Soundtrack
Damien Rice
The Arcade Fire

Bold - Really? Wow... I like these bands, and so do many of my friends. Never gotten any flak for liking them.

Italics - Flak totally deserved [Razz]

The rest I don't know well enough to comment on.
 
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
 
I blame indie culture. Muse and Modest Mouse especially are too mainstream for the people who pride themselves on being fans of the obscure. They're "hella played out," y'know what I mean? Personally, I liked them way back when and I still like 'em. Although neither of their latest releases really did it for me, I'm not ready to call it quits and say they suck now - and even if I was, it wouldn't stop me from listening to the old stuff.

My love for BSB and N*SYNC, etc. probably stems from my time spent in choirs and a cappella groups, since regardless of what you have to say about their music, both BSB & N*SYNC have talented vocalists.
 
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
 
[quote]My love for BSB and N*SYNC, etc. probably stems from my time spent in choirs and a cappella groups, since regardless of what you have to say about their music, both BSB & N*SYNC have talented vocalists.[quote]

Fair enough. And to be honest, 3/4 housemates I had last semester were also fans of them. And they delighted in playing their music loudly and singing along, I think partly just to elicit the groans and growls that would then emanate from my room.
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by rivka:
*turns up Night Fever*

Guess what came? The copy of the SNF soundtrack I ordered from Amazon last week.

*grooves*

[Big Grin]
 
Posted by scholar (Member # 9232) on :
 
Well, I wasn't around yet for disco, yet I own an ABBA album...Dancing Queen!!
 
Posted by baduffer (Member # 10469) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by BlackBlade:
I just realized I do in fact have a band that is a guilty pleasure,

The Who.

The only person who can stand listening to their music with me is my brother, and he is the LAST person I would go to for approval on my music.

I don't understand; I love the Who and never thought to feel guilty about it. My first laser light show was a Who concert when Keith Moon was still alive. (I guess that ages me [Smile] )
 
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
 
Yeah, I wouldn't place The Who as guilty music either. The Who are awesome, and timeless. I thought everyone loved them in the same way everyone loves the Beatles [Dont Know]
 
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
 
Maybe it's the songs. I personally prefer,

5.15
Baba O'Riley
Join Together
Magic Bus
Pinball Wizard on OCCASION.

They are guilty pleasure because nobody I roll with likes em, and I be rolling with many. Obviously if I was in a car with baduffer and Alcon we could blast it. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by rivka:
quote:
Originally posted by rivka:
*turns up Night Fever*

Guess what came? The copy of the SNF soundtrack I ordered from Amazon last week.

*grooves*

[Big Grin]

And the Grease soundtrack came yesterday. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by rivka:
quote:
Originally posted by rivka:
quote:
Originally posted by rivka:
*turns up Night Fever*

Guess what came? The copy of the SNF soundtrack I ordered from Amazon last week.

*grooves*

[Big Grin]

And the Grease soundtrack came yesterday. [Big Grin]
Might I ask why, if these things are so great, has it taken you around 30 years to obtain these soundtracks? [Razz]
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Oh, I probably have cassettes of them somewhere. I wanted CDs.
 
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by rivka:
Oh, I probably have cassettes of them somewhere. I wanted CDs.

I'm sure the CD's have been out at least within the last 15-20 years.
 


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