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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*
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.
Is there any music you guys like that you would consider a "guilty pleasure?"
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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. Posts: 6246 | Registered: Aug 2004
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I feel slightly guilty about liking "Rhythm of My Heart," by Rod Stewart. That's about it, though.
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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.
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Ok here it goes...That Greenday song that was really popular not too long ago? Boulevard of Broken Dreams? Yeah, I liked that one. Posts: 2054 | Registered: Nov 2005
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Why be embarrassed? It's not the best song on the album, but that album was one of the best of the year.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Doobie Brothers: Drift Away
That song is actually by Dobie Gray. /music nerd.
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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.
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I think... I might actually be starting to kinda, in some small way, like.... smooth jazz. *cringe*
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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 Posts: 14316 | Registered: Jul 2005
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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*
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.
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