OK music snobs: admit your guilty pleasure listening here.

[Beware the Beast Man]

I love Queen. In my book, Freddie Mercury was the perfect rock star. He had the right mix of tongue-in-cheeck machismo and high camp.

Iron Maiden- a holdback from my teenage headbanger days.

Bee Gees- they had a gift for harmony.

OK, I fel clean now. Who's next?

[Shell Beau]

1. I love Queen.

I guess I could say Kelly Clarkson. I actually like her songs. Plus I think she is a very talented singer.

[kick-ass-bob]

2. I am not a music snob, but...

I still really, really hate country music.

:P

And actually, that new Nickelback song (animals - or something like that) isn't half bad.

[Beware the Beast Man]

4. I don't like the contemporary crap.

"Country" is too large a genre to write off completely.

Wait a minute- you liked that Ray Stevens song, didn't you? :D

[kick-ass-bob]

There are very very few country songs (even the throwback stuff)

that I like.

I like the Devil went down to Georgia song (dueling banjos)

[hfojvt]

52. that's dueling fiddles

dueling banjos was Deliverance, the movie.

[kick-ass-bob]

92. thanks. I knew something didn't seem right about that.

:D

[hfojvt]

97. actually I got it wrong too

because Drew was playing a guitar and the silent kid was copying him on banjo. They didn't really duel. Not like the Karate kid did in Crossroads.

[Left Is Write]

120. Yeah, but the song is called Dueling Banjos.

So you're not wrong. :D

[hfojvt]

136. Tanj!! I am wrong again.

I thought I was wrong about the dueling banjos, but I was right. Which makes me wrong when I thought I was wrong. But if I am wrong when I thought I was wrong, doesn't that make me right? Or is left right?

[Burma Jones]

3. Neil Diamond - Jonathan L. Seagull soundtrack

Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Center of the Earth

I forsee many offended people that pay too much attention to other peoples' opinions....:popcorn:

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. Indeed.

:evilgrin:

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. All I'm going to say about this is that I've seen several people on

BOTH sides of this goofy argument get offended over things. As a whole, the Lounge has a very thin skin...with very few exceptions. No popcorn needed here. :hi:

edited: because...well because sometimes I am a grammatical idiot. :)

[Burma Jones]

19. Well, I've always liked you

:toast:

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. Likewise!

:toast: Even though I am a closet "Honey" weeper. ;)

[Burma Jones]

24. Psssstt....I weep at

the End of Star Wars, A New Hope, when Luke blows the Death Star apart.....

[johnnie]

42. Thin skin?

In the Lounge? Surely, you jest.

[hfojvt]

54. I think she's sirius

and her name is not Shirley.

[Lochloosa]

32. Journey to the Center of the Earth....

that brings back memories. Great story album.

I put it up there with Billy Thorpe's Children of the Sun.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. The Sweet

Back in highschool, i was the only one who thought those guys were great. I played Desolation Boulevard until the grooves were gone. I own it now on CD. I just HAD to have it.

They were so glammy, and their association with Chapman & Chin had people looking down their noses. I thought they were great!

I also dug Slade! Gloriously sloppy!
The Professor

[Beware the Beast Man]

9. I should have included them.

Great band. :thumbsup:

[XNASA]

17. Really great band.

You don't have to feel guilty about that, G.

[ProfessorGAC]

44. Well, You Weren't My Friend In The 70's!

Where were you when i needed you???? The guys i ran with thought they were a "fag" band. Heck with them. The Sweet was terrific. Saw them live twice. They could actually do that stuff live. They were on a par with Queen. I kid you not.
The Professor

[mac56]

35. I'm with you, Prof.

"Fox On The Run" is a power pop classic.

Slade too: "Mama Weer All Crazee Now"!

[johnnie]

38. They were a great band

I had a few of their albums and now I only have D.B and Greatest hits on CD.

[AntiCoup2K4]

116. When the Hell are they going to release a decent Sweet box set??

Yeah, I've still got my vinyl copy of Desolation Boulevard (US version) and even the orignal 45 of Little Willy, but their stuff is hard to find these days, and there's no sense at all in the domestic releases they DO have which are usually poorly mastered "greatest hits" album. Of course then you see the import CD's (both rare AND expensive) and you find out that Desolation Boulevard as you know it doesn't even exist over there, and you have to track down at least two of these goddamned imports to get all the songs that are on that 30 year old scratchy piece of vinyl.

They need a comprehensive box set. If not the full catalog, then something along the lines of The Faces "Five Guys Walk Into A Bar" (if you don't have that one yet, why the Hell not???)

Half the band is dead now, so we'll never see the likes of Sweet again. Obviously I was too young to have seen them in the 70's. So maybe there's footage for a live DVD somewhere out there as well?

[Left Is Write]

121. I have two copies of Desolation Boulevard on tape.

One started wearing out.

[last_texas_dem]

133. Sweet are cool

I mostly know them from their hits, and they did several really cool singles. I've heard them called "bubblegum hard-rock", but whatever their sound is, it's worth checking out IMHO.

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. John Denver, Bobby Goldsboro, Bobby Bare, all types of country

music, Pearl Jam, NICKELBACK, and a whole slew of other "not good enough" for the likes of apparently a lot of people here musicians and acts.

[Midlodemocrat]

10. This will probably get me kicked off DU, but

I like virtually every type of music except jazz. and rap. I don't like that either.



:hide:

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. I'll overlook it.

:hi:

[kick-ass-bob]

12. Interesting.

I always knew you were a freeper!

FREEPER MOD!! FREEPER MOD!!!!
:o

Actually, I like everything except country, and some techno (although some is kinda good)

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. !

:rofl: :spray: Not fair! I wasn't ready for that...but that is the best thing I have seen all day.

[sundog]

20. midlofreepocrat

:D

[Midlodemocrat]

22. LOL. I think I am probably the only person on this website

who doesn't like jazz. I have tried, believe me. I have listened to progmom and I still can't 'get' it. Give me the Stones any day.

[AntiCoup2K4]

117. I couldn't agree more

I've honestly tried to get into jazz, and for whatever reasons it just doesn't work. I also agree on the Stones. What's ironic is that Charlie Watts would probably disagree with both of us.

[hfojvt]

60. so far I have not been kicked off, for liking

Ted Nugent or Petra

but I probably just made the short list :scared:

[AlCzervik]

13. The Carpenters and Ozzy Osbourne.

[XNASA]

15. 70's Power Pop Bubblegum Bands

Stuff like...

'Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)' by Edison Lighthouse and 'Magic' by Pilot.

Even stuff like 'Fooled Around And Fell In Love' by Elvin Bishop or 'Run Run Run' by Jo Jo Gunne gets me goin'.

[tigereye]

26. actually Elvin Bishop

has more interesting stuff than his top 40 hits. I always liked that song too.

[Mutley]

16. Dave Matthews Band.

One of my all-time favorites. I have every CD they ever made (including the live ones), and have seen them in concert 6 times. :blush:

According to some posts I've seen on DU, apparently he's a no-no -- for some reason. Me? I just can't get enough.

[tigereye]

27. there are a lot of good musicians in his band

I really like the sax player.

[Mutley]

39. I like the fiddle player.

He rocks!

[xmas74]

37. Over 12 times in concert here!

:hi:
And I take what the others say w/ a grain of salt. I like their music and most of their political and social views tend to be progressive. Being a fan, IMO, is a win-win situation.

(and I've got a few bootlegs along w/ every one of their recordings, plus solo projects. And I've met Dave and Stefan before-both were very polite and very friendly).

[Mutley]

43. Oh, yay!

:hi:

DMB fans tend to be quite devoted, eh?

That's awesome that you've met them. I think I've had little mini-crushes on everyone in that band at one point or another. :D

[xmas74]

46. If you ever see any of them

at their concerts or even at the airport and they seem to be ok(you know, not in a hurry,not rushed, not stressed looking) approach them. They are all very personable(one of my friends has met them all plus Tim Reynolds on a few occasions) and are usually very happy to meet w/ a fan.
They know that it is because of the fans that they are a success. And I've been a fan since Remember Two Things. And we listen to Christmas Song every year at Christmas time while decorating our tree.

Yep, the old fans tend to be rabid.

[Mutley]

51. I don't think I'd have the nerve to approach them.

:blush: I'd be terrified of acting loony ("OMG! It's DAVE MATTHEWS BAND!!! SCREEEECH!!!!" :rofl: ).

A friend of mine saw them in VA one day before they really hit mainstream. I didn't really like them at first; I was more into 'grunge' at the time. Then one day, after UTTAD came out, she begged me to go with her to a concert and I just fell in love. The rest is history. :)

[xmas74]

56. UTTAD was their breakthrough.

I was a dj in college for a couple of semesters at the college station and I first heard of them w/ RTT. I liked them then but I also was into a lot of other sounds.
Most of my old music I don't listen to much anymore but DMB is constantly in play in my house to this day.

[LynneSin]

74. I get the same way for my indulgence in Green Day

God forbid a group makes an anti-war/anti-Bush CD that sells over 10 million copies. Damn sell outs! :eyes:

I'm a child of the 70's who loves anything & everything classic/glam/progressive rock. My MP3 is filled with Led Zeppelin (every CD issued including the live ones), Queen(all CDs up to Jazz), Bowie, Floyd, Crimson, Yes, Tull etc.

But I just adore Green Day. I love their sound, I think their last album is probably one of the best of the decade so far and their live show is an absolute amazing experience. If Charlie Chaplin & Freddie Mercury had a love child it would be Billie Joe Armstrong. Armstrong sucks at guitar, has an ok voice and knows how to bring the entire audience into the concert experience. As for the Chaplin reference - Armstrong uses practically the same mannerisms out of a Chaplin movie!

But they sold 10million albums so therefore DU has to be a bunch of music snobs and say they "Sold Out"

:eyes:

BTW, I have every Green Day album on my MP3 player including all their pre-Dookie works, their recent Live CD (Bullet in a Bible is awesome) and a download I found of their version of "We Are the Champions". Only group I have more songs on my MP3 player is Zeppelin and that's by 2 songs (137 Lz vs. 135 GD)

Edit note: I absolutely adore Dave Matthew's first CD but the only time I saw them in concert was in Philly at Live8. But I love their music.

[Mutley]

82. I love Green Day, too.

Not as much as Dave Matthews, though. :P

The whole "I liked them before they were cool, and now that they're mainstream I hate them" attitude gets on my nerves. The quality of a musician's music goes down just because they have more fans than before? I don't think so. At least not in every situation. But to each his own, I suppose.

I was born in '79, but I love classic rock. Got it from my Dad. He used to call it my 'rock and roll education'. Lol, it got on my nerves at the time, but I guess it sunk in once I grew out of the whole teenage rebellion stage.

[LynneSin]

104. I got my education from my brother

He didn't want his lil sister listening to teeny-bop music (I was a Shaun Cassidy fan).

To be honest, I couldn't stand Green Day for the longest time because I figured they were a flash in the pants with one really good record (Dookie). American Idiot just really solidified their standing in music and probably will land them in the Hall-of-Fame when their 25 years comes around and because of AI, I went out and bought their other stuff which I find that I actually enjoy better then much of their current music. I swear "Jesus of Suburbia" is going to be this generations "Stairway to Heaven" - a song that everyone will request and the true fans of the group will eventually learn to hate!

And hell, if making a highly popular, mass-selling album helps get out the message that "War is Bad" then damnit, this only can be good. At the concert, when Armstrong did the band introduction he introduced himself as "George W. Bush". The whole place errupted in boos & hisses (btw, I saw the concert at a location just outside of Washington DC over on the Maryland side)

[wildhorses]

18. I love bubble gum music and

COUNTRY IS IN MY BLOOD....ALL KINDS OF COUNTRY



i just like music...depending on my mood

[swag]

21. I like Nickelback's cover of John Cage's 4'33".

[tigereye]

28. snort

I didn't get than one the first time I saw it. Hedges laughed at me.

:hide:

[swag]

48. I honestly think it's their best number.

[rbnyc]

66. Bwahahahahaha!

THAT'S good.

:hi:

[swag]

68. Hey, Brooklyn's in the house.

Wave back atcha.

[KamaAina]

84. Gah! They even managed to screw that up

they played it too fast, so it was too short. Waaaaaaay too short.

[swag]

87. Well, I for one could listen to them play that all night.

Stretch it out and really jam on it.

So I share your disappointment in that sense.

[asthmaticeog]

25. "Windy" by the Association.

The vocal arrangements are fucking amazing. LOVE that tune.

[swag]

72. That's a good number.

I like the Turtles' "So Happy Together" from the same era.

When I was around 12, I began experiencing the strangest thing: decent copies of The Association's Greatest Hits started finding me. I remember getting off the school bus one day and seeing a square object on my lawn in Havre, MT. It was The Association's Greatest Hits just laying there on the lawn. I still have it.

I don't have the other copies that I accumulated on sidewalks and in hallways over the few years that followed, but I do have the first one that appeared on my lawn.

[Strawman]

29. I like to think that I have a sophisticated appreciation of "bad" music

At least that's what I tell myself when I'm listening to it.

[LaraMN]

30. I like Maroon Five.

and the lead singer is painfully sexy.

[Mutley]

83. I like them, too.

:blush:

And he is delicious looking, isn't he?

[Lochloosa]

31. Meatloaf....what pipes

and his choice in women on the videos isn't bad.

[maveric]

85. "Bat out of Hell" is one of the best albums ever!

IMHO! Love it now as I did 30 years ago.

[mac56]

33. Cheesy power pop.

As opposed to edgy power pop. I like them both, but the cheesy stuff is my "pop secret".

The Grass Roots, Paul Revere and the Raiders, the Raspberries, and of course the Monkees.

[last_texas_dem]

125. I love the Grass Roots

It's cool to see somebody else is a fan; actually, it's pretty cool just to see someone else who knows who they are! I like both kinds of power pop as well, including all the other bands you listed.

As for my own "guilty pleasures", though I'm pretty sure I don't qualify as a music snob, I like some stuff in plenty of genres and types that get mocked. I like a lot of Top 40 music from most decades, but particularly the sixties and seventies. I like Kasenatz-Katz bubblegum stuff, "soft rock" like Bread, dramatic pop like the Shangri-La's, and those seventies story-songs like "Billy, Don't be a Hero." I like relentlessly mocked prog bands like Uriah Heep and horn bands like Chicago. I like some non-traditional country from the "Urban Cowboy" era to the Garth Brooks-influenced stuff that came out during the '90's. Some of my other favorite bands/artists include Stone Temple Pilots, Hall and Oates, the Goo Goo Dolls, and the Doors (since everyone seems to hate them now.) So yeah, I definitely like a lot of "uncool" music, but hey, I just try to listen to what I like, really.

[mac56]

141. Dude, you rock.

I've always liked music that the kids at the cool lunchroom table don't like.

Let me refer you to a great CD called "Right To Chews: Bubblegum Classics Unleashed". It's bubble gum songs of the era we're describing, as covered by alt bands. Way kewl.

[musette_sf]

144. I bought all my old fave Raider albums

on CD, on the Sundazed label. Love 'em!!!

[Hissyspit]

34. ABBA

[stanwyck]

110. I play ABBA on my iPod at the gym

where my family can't make fun of me.

[fudge stripe cookays]

36. ABBA

Even before they became "cool" again because of the musical.

I had every album, and could sing along to every bit of bubblegummy goodness.

fsc

Oh the SHAME! :blush:

[ccjlld]

67. ABBA here too

Loved em. Fernando makes me cry. Saw Mama Mia in Vegas and it was so much fun. Really well done.

Also love those hokey, tragic tale, someone's dying 70's songs like Billy Don't be a Hero, Rocky, Run Billy Run, etc...

[fudge stripe cookays]

96. Don't forget "Shannon !"

Any song about a dead dog makes me bawl like a baby!

fsc

[bif]

40. Techno

Drives my kids and wife crazy.

[bif]

89. Also David Gray and Vangelis.

[taterguy]

41. Black Betty n/t

[imperialismispasse]

45. I like Nickelback.

Theyre not the best band in the world but they are enjoyable to listen to. And I cant believe people were so proud of being closed minded on the locked thread about Nickelback. What is there to be proud of? You dont like a band? Whoop de doo! People are such snobs sometimes.

[gpandas]

47. meatloaf n/t

[seemunkee]

49. Enya

Its so bland but I find it calming at times when my nerves are bad and my hands shake.

[StaggerLee]

50. Matthew Sweet

:hide:

[Beware the Beast Man]

53. "Girlfriend" is an old guilty pleasure favorite.

Beautiful song, that one.

[asthmaticeog]

76. Best thing he ever did, and not just by default.

It's a magnificent song, and Richard Lloyd's guitar playing sends it over the top.

[taterguy]

65. But, but . . .

Sweet has some snob credibility by virtue of the fact that he was in the Golden Palominos, a seminal group in the rock snob world

[XNASA]

70. How's that guilty?

Matthew Sweet is a very gifted artist, with a lot of credibility.

I love his stuff too, but I wouldn't think that anyone would have to mask their admiration of him.

:shrug:

[StaggerLee]

86. You're right

I'm just a li'l shy in posting my likes on DU...waiting for the avalanche of criticism. Unwarranted? I dunno.

Besides...anyone who puts a picture of Tuesday Weld on the cover of a CD is ok by me!

[tigereye]

77. when we recorded once

the sound guy compared us to them...I think it was the lo-fi thing, also he has a very geeky kinda sound....

[jane_pippin]

55. Scandal, "Goodbye to You" featuring Patti Smyth

(not to be confused with rock poet goddess Patti Smith.)

I've loved that song since I was 3 and I'm not gonna stop. You can't make me. :D

Others include, but are not limited to:

They Might Be Giants

Neil Diamond

and (if this doesn't take away my cred--assuming of course I have any--nothing will)

I kinda like some George Micheal songs too. (Eeep. :hide: )


Now bash me and beat me for it. Make it hurt. I deserve it. :D

[DelawareValleyDem]

57. The Monkees, Madonna, and some John Denver

I think John was a pretty good songwriter but I don't like most of his vocals.

[rbnyc]

58. Radio AOL 80s Alternative.

I still love The Smiths.

[redqueen]

59. I'm not guilty about it!

I love Duran Duran, Iron Maiden, Rush, the Bee Gees... I could go on but why? I'm not ashamed, so... I shouldn't have even posted I suppose.

[eyepaddle]

63. Redqueen, I wanna second that

I thought about it, and was having a tough time figuring out what might be a "guilty" pleasure--I like what I like, and am comfortable with that. Admitting that it is wildly unpopular and not being concerned sure helps.

I just picked the stuff most people would probably get the biggest chuckle out of.

Except maybe Bow Wow Wow's "I want Candy" I have to admit it--if it uses the Bo Diddly beat I HAVE to like it--no matter WHAT! :blush:

[redqueen]

71. heh cool... I like "I Want Candy" too

:D

[eyepaddle]

61. every now and then I like a steaming bowl of "notemeal"

At one point or another I owned five of these ten albums! :wow: And accidentally over the years (long after I'd given up on the possibility) I in fact have developed the chops to pull this stuff off! How the hell did that happen? :shrug:

[pdx_prog]

64. Are you a Shawn Lane fan?

He was truly an incredible guitarist. He was a fixture of the Memphis music scene for many years until his passing.

[eyepaddle]

80. Sadly I'd never heard of him until I saw this piece

From the sound of it I really missed out.

[pdx_prog]

100. There are several sites on the net

where you get still get his CD's. shawn-lane.com or shawnlane.com is one place. I used to run sound around Memphis quite a bit and it was common place for him to show up to see different bands. Everyone would always ask him to come up and play and it was always a treat to see him play.

[PittPoliSci]

94. hahaha, I'm in the same boat as you!

[bikebloke]

62. ABBA

Twenty years ago, I used to listen to them all the time. Then I went off them for about fifteen years. I think because I used them on my morning commute (when I still drove), and they became associated with a shite job. Now they're back in favour.

Another Swedish song - Ooa Hela Natten by Attack. When I was working on a kibbutz, some Swedish flickor used to play that all the time. Recently I heard a new remix (circa 1992). It sounded really bad...the first time. Better the second and third. Thank goodness for ear phones.

[cedahlia]

69. Phil Collins, Neil Diamond

and lots of "cheesy" 80's music (like REO Speedwagon, Starship, etc.)

And I don't give a damn who thinks I'm a dork! :silly:

[CanuckAmok]

73. This is very bad......... Ted Nugent.

Well, not exactly Ted Nugent in his present incarnation, but when the Amboy Dukes were recording.

Oh, and, politics and lyrical content aside, you can't deny the man's guitar talent.

"Stranglehold" is a fucking Marshall-stack epic.

And it was always fun watching him freak-out on stage, like at the "California Jam" concert, when he "just couldn't go on anymore".


Now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta go put the Maserati away. I gotta look for a garage. Wait I think I see a garage. Hold on, the damn thing's open! C'mon get in it!

[LynneSin]

75. My guilty pleasure - Kid Rock

God, I can't stand that pompus repuke idiot but I especially love "Cowboy". I have a 30 minute song set I use for when I do the ellipitical and "Cowboy" is one of them.

ANd as pissed as I am with Alice Cooper becoming a Bushbot I still love his "Welcome to my Nightmare" and refuse to part with my CD (I'm listening to "Only Women Bleed" right now)

[KamaAina]

88. Is that what they're calling it these days? "Doing the elliptical"?

How poetic. But why only 30 minutes? :evilgrin:

[LynneSin]

106. It's an excercize machine silly

silly boy!

[tigereye]

78. um

Sheryl Crow

and in my less strong moments, Guns and Roses. So sue me! ;)

[SKKY]

79. Third Eye Blind...

...I sing them in my car. Alone. I feel so dirty.

[last_texas_dem]

132. Don't feel bad

Their debut album is a truly great album that I think everyone should give at least one play. Even if they already know they hate 3EB's singles; I, for one, don't care much for "Semi-Charmed Life" and never have, but that album is packed with much better songs, especially the mostly darker stuff on the album's second half. I'm being totally serious when I say that that album helped me survive my freshman year of high school. Their other albums aren't on the same level IMHO; Blue is better-than-average with a few awesome songs, while their third album just had a couple songs I liked much, but they will always be great in my book based on that debut.

[Dinger]

81. Patrick Hernandez - Born To Be Alive

Awesome disco song. I still have the LP.

[William Bloode]

90. I like a bit of all music.

In almost every genre i have found some stuff i like and can dig. I guess my guilty pleasure is Disco. Yes call me Disco Stew! I am a Donna Summer, and K.C. and the Sunshine band freak :D

Another would be i have a collection of old very racist songs. I enjoy them but only because i find them incredibly funny. It just makes me laugh that some folks could actually have such sentiments of people based on race.:shrug:

[Initech]

91. XM channel 44

While I absolutely hate the FM version of this channel (JACK FM), I love the satellite version (FRED). They play a much better mix of music.

[PittPoliSci]

93. Power metal

Iced Earth, Iron Maiden, Rhapsody, Blind Guardian.

Embarassing, but I don't care.

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

95. I'd don't like the music snobs on here who

look down towards anyone on here who doesn't like "Their music" who think their music is some kind of intelligent enlightenment. I hate those list on amazon.com and other sites that are titled "Essential Music you must own to be a music fan" go F yourself asshole. I can't stand how when someone dies their suddenly made a saint of everything and win every award possible with their last album, all I heard was how great and wonderfull "Ray" was about the story of Ray Charles, after I saw it I didn't view him in a positive light, and couldn't understand all the worshipping of him. I also don't like when people think if your a liberal or democrat you can only listen to liberal or democrat artist, and you must support them no matter what because of this, If I think they suck I'm not going to listen or support them no matter what good they've done, cough cough *Bono* *U2 Fanatics*.

Here's a couple of my guilty pleasures:

Journey, so they are corporate rock, which band with a major label record contract isn't now?

Toby Keith, *FREEPER ALERT* I like his stuff from the late 90's up until like 2001 when he became the big bad american, if you've seen any of his music videos from this time it's some sarcastic funny stuff. Nowdays he just seems to be going thru the motions repeating the same formula over and over again.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

98. Steve Perry

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

99. They look really dated now

I just liked their music. I'm child of the 80's so I heard alot Journey growning up on the radio and with parents playing it. I don't understand why they get slammed so hard for being corporate rock when they didn't do anything different then any other rock band did. I once got the weirdest look when I purchase their greatest hits cd used at a warehouse music store from the cashier. But everytime I'm just talking 80's music with someone, people are kind of hesitate at first then are like I really liked journey. Is it because they where the first band to have a video game. Anyone one else remember their game on the Atari 2600 system?

[SlavesandBulldozers]

111. i don't think they get slammed for being corporate rock

i think they get slammed because Steve Perry is kinda weird. He does have some pipes though.

[StaggerLee]

105. Man I love that guy

Brings back great memories.

:thumbsup:

[anarch]

101. Gordon Lightfoot

Don't tell my music-snob friends!

[RandomKoolzip]

102. Eddie Money, Grateful Dead, Bee Gees (hell yeah!), Elton John....

Lotsa disco, some eighties Metal (Mercyful Fate, Armored Saint, etc.).....all sortsa stuff.

[RubyDuby in GA]

103. Ace of Base

Please don't judge me. :cry:

[LynneSin]

108. One of my breakup songs was "The Sign"

because it was so true of our relationship

[Tikki]

107. Lou Christie....

"Lightning Strikes (me again)"

Tikki

[Initech]

109. Another one: Manowar

They may be the single gayest band on the planet (trust me, they make Freddie Mercury and Elton John look straight!), but damn, I heard them on XM the other day and they've got some songs that just flat-out rock!

[HuskerDU]

119. Weren't some of the guys from Manowar in the NYC dawn of

punk rock band the Dictators? If so, what a weird direction to go in!

[bumblebee1]

112. I'll add a few

Barry Manilow, Billy Joel, Elton John, Phil Collins, Lionel Richie, Huey Lewis and the News, Blackeyed Peas, Gwen Stefani, Mo Doubt, Reba McIntyre, Jodee Messina, Kenny Loggins. I can listen to almost anything.

[bumblebee1]

113. I'll add a few

Barry Manilow, Billy Joel, Elton John, Phil Collins, Lionel Richie, Huey Lewis and the News, Blackeyed Peas, Gwen Stefani, Mo Doubt, Reba McIntyre, Jodee Messina, Kenny Loggins. I can listen to almost anything.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

114. Tracy Chapman!

Amazing lyrics.

[Ptah]

115. 76 trombones.

And Kansas City from Oklahoma.

[mvd]

118. I'm not a music snob, but..

I'll give my list. I like stuff in the mainstream (country included), but I don't take everything it puts out. I don't like Nickelback, Hilary Duff, rap (a few exceptions - Kayne West, Eminem, Nelly, Missy Elliott,) Rascal Flatts, or the Pussycat Dolls. And I have quite a few lesser known artists and a growing indie collection.

My guilty pleasures:

Phil Collins (sappy but sincere)
Brie Larson, Aly & AJ (because their lyrics are often (appropriately) teen-oriented)
Stella Soleil (fun)
some Britney Spears songs ("Baby One More Time, "Lucky," "Toxic," "Everytime," "Brave New Girl" - but I don't care for many Britney songs)
The Click Five (not a boy band fan, but they have appealing, sugary hooks. And there's not as much of that annoying vocal preening aimed at drawing in the young female audience)
a couple Lindsay Lohan songs

I don't feel guilty about most of my likes and loves.

[HuskerDU]

122. Hanoi Rocks.

One of the only hair metal bands to earn the seal of approval from Johnny Thunders.

[Inspired]

123. WHAM....

I love the song Careless Whisper.

[AVulgarianHue]

124. Falco

He was a Superstar
He was popular
He was so exalted
Because he had flair
He was a virtuoso
Was a rock idol
And everyone shouted:
Come and rock me Amadeus

[Pale Blue Dot]

126. James Blunt. Although I don't feel particularly guilty about it.

He's quite an intelligent little sap.

:evilgrin:

[HughBeaumont]

127. I have all 25 volumes of Super Hits of the 70s: Have a Nice Day!

I also have Have a Nice Decade. Seven discs, two of which got stolen by fucking crackheads last November. Man, it's always a BITCH when box set CDs get stolen; then you have to burn a ton of songs online and elsewhere, use THAT as your copy, label it, etc. One of my Dead Can Dance box set CDs got stolen by those same fucking crackheads last November. Fucking FUCKING shithead cracksmoking . . .

ahem.

Anything from the 70s, the cheesier the better. It reminds me of better times when I used to play Legos and Lincoln Logs.

[last_texas_dem]

131. That is awesome

Well, not about them getting stolen but that you have that box set and those other volumes, too.

I have the Have a Nice Decade box, too. I just love seventies Top 40 in general. And I can't even blame it on my mind being clouded by nostalgia as I wasn't even born until the eighties, but there's just something very enjoyably cool to me about honest-sounding, catchy, and often cheesy pop.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

128. Several I've played a thousand times or two

Head East- ever listen to "Jefftown Creek"?
Uriah Heep- "Stealin'". Oh, yeah.
Molly Hatchet- "Dreams I'll Never See" and "Flirtin' With Disaster"
Harry Nilsson- "Jump Into The Fire"- best frickin' bass track EVER.
Neil Diamond- Everything he's ever done. He's a God.
Focus (a real biggie for me) Will get the blood pumping big time.
Little Feat- classic guitar rock and much more.
The Moody Blues- far more complex than people will admit.

and on...
and on...
and on...

[DanCa]

129. Manilow Diamond Hammer

At least I wont listen to the wiggles though.

[mitchum]

130. Bad Company, ELO, Fleetwood Mac

[Hardrada]

134. Polkas, schottisches and waltzes.

Aren't a whole lot of Central European descendants on this board are there?

[njdemocrat106]

135. Most of my music collection is made up of "guilty pleasures"

Stuff I'll admit to liking:

Air Supply, REO Speedwagon, Styx, Journey, Boston, Billy Joel, Phil Collins/Genesis, Linda Ronstadt, Michael Jackson/Jackson 5, Huey Lewis, Bee Gees, Elton John, Eric Clapton (his solo stuff gets dissed here often), Heart, and Paul McCartney with and without Wings (easily the most disparaged Beatle, and BTW, the Beatles, including all their solo works, rock). I even like a fair amount of country music, too. And recently, when I went into a 7-Eleven, and the guy behind the counter had Warren G and Nate Dogg's "Regulate" playing on his radio behind the counter, I walked out of the store thinking to myself that "Regulate" was never that bad of a song, so I guess I can say I like a little rap, too (though like most of my tastes, I lean old-school).

Just remember, if you like a certain song or artist, it's "good music", no matter what anyone says. :)

[TheGunslinger]

137. NSYNC

There....I said it.



Whew!

[michreject]

138. I'm afraid i'm stuck in the 60's

Ten Years After

Doors (which I saw)

Spirit

Procol Harem

Jethro Tull

Late 60's head music for the most part

And some more Ten Years After.

[bridgit]

139. enigma, scritti politti, shakira & sheila chandra are a few...

B-)

[TheBaldyMan]

140. The Louvin Brothers

My grass is blue.

[DBoon]

142. Suzi Quatro

nt

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

143. MICHAEL FUCKING MCDONALD!!!!!!!

[Maestro]

145. I'm listening to Yello.

Very unique band.