Your five biggest musical guilty pleasures

[mvd]

Mine:

Shania Twain (those hooks go beyond genres, and that peppy voice is irresistible to me)

Rachel Farris (Her voice is just too little girl-ish - but I find myself enjoying her album Soak, which I give a B-. She does have writing talent, and she wrote the lyrics and music.)

Tim McGraw (hard to explain this one)

Stella Soleil (really fun!)

Phil Collins (A bit sappy, but earnest at least. And his arrangements enhance the music, unlike with Celine Dion. Although Dance Into The Light had pretty cheesy world-beat stuff.)

I didn't list artists like ABBA and Avril Lavigne because I find them pleasures, not guilty pleasures. Sometimes Britney Spears is, but not enough to make my list.

[NightTrain]

1. In alphabetical order....

G.G. Allin & The Scumfucks
The Bee Gees
Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon
The Legandary Stardust Cowboy
Stupid novelty records like "Witch Doctor" and "Purple People Eater"

[BigMcLargehuge]

19. gotta agree with the GG Allin listing

all of his bands; The Jabbers, the Murder Junkies, and the Scumfucs are a definite guilty pleasure.

[jpgray]

2. Hm

NIN--some of it I grew up with, and I still say their live shows are extremely good. It is very goofy stuff, though. :D

Pink Floyd--I constantly have to defend this one to my musical-freak friends.

Bauhaus--not a Goth in any shape or form, but some of their songs are neat.

ELO--not too guilty a pleasure, but they really tarnished their memory in the late seventies and early eighties.

[Sticky]

3. I'm a closet lounge lizard

Dean Martin
Bobby Darin
Frank Sinatra

oh yes....even

Englebert Humperdink

[NightTrain]

14. Dean Martin, Boddy Darin, and Frank Sinatra should NOT be...

..."guilty" pleasures for anyone! They were very talented singers who made a lot of good records.

Engelbert Humperdinck, however, is another story. :evilgrin:

[mvd]

15. Agreed

I think they're great.

I call some artists guilty pleasures, but I am really proud of liking them, too.

[Catshrink]

24. What about Tom Jones?

What's up, Pussycat?

Mom always loved Englebert Humperdink.

[terrya]

4. Mine:

The "Xanadu" soundtrack. I'm embarrassed to admit how much I love it.

"Whenever You Need Somebody" Rick Astley. Enough said.

Lesley Gore. Everything. God, I loved her...even "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows"

Village People

"The Last Days of Disco" soundtrack. I loved disco.

[mvd]

5. I love Lesley, too

More we have in common musically. :hi:

[terrya]

6. That's cool! :-)

I have a "Best of Lesley Gore" cd set put out by Rhino Records...it's absolutely wonderful!

:hi:

[mvd]

7. I'll have to get that

I just have a 60s compilation CD with "It's My Party" on it. That's a wonderful song!

[Feanorcurufinwe]

8. I couldn't really come up with anything

I guess there is a big difference between feeling guilty and being guilty, but when it comes to music, if I like it, I like it, I'm not gonna feel guilty about it.

[TheMightyFavog]

9. Mine...

Polka. (Hey, I'm from Wisconsin and I'm of 3/4 Germanic descent. Polka music activates a genetic resopnse that give people like me an extermely large urge to drink beer in large quantities, and dance like a fool.)
Frankie
Deano
ELO
Herbie Hancock (Especailly if its from Headhunters)

[BigMcLargehuge]

20. I like polka too!

:hi:

My dad used to crank it on Sunday mornings to make us deliver papers faster. Secretly I always kinda liked it.

I also like Mariachi.

[Dying Eagle]

10. wow, I'm glad no one knows who i am

I'm 23 year old guy btw

Britney, Cristina, Shaina, Faith...I have a thing for woman who sing

Bee Gees....Grew up hearing them

Marilyn Mason....NOw i know your confused

Old Rap, Dre, snoop, 2pac........yep I'm a complex person

Old Rock....Beatles, Golden Oldies......not very bad but, i am 23 so it looks weird

[Norbert]

11. Eydie Gorme

no April Fools here. Eydie is a superb singer.

others

Cilla Black (the biggest singing star no one in the USA ever heard of)
Hermans Hermits
James Carr
Jo Stafford, Kitty Kallen and several of their pre-rock counterparts

[mvd]

12. One kick for the night crowd

:kick:

[mac56]

13. Guilty pleasures:

Gordon Lightfoot
The Grass Roots
The Mills Brothers (see my poll)
Paul Revere and the Raiders
"Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. Alphaville...Forever Young

Yes I want to be forever young, do you really want to live forever..

Oops, got carried away.

2. It's a rap song ( I hate rap, but this one has a good beat) that talks about "Gettin low" No idea who sings it.

3.Roger Whitaker...I love "The Last Farewell"

4. John Denver...but I'm not really feeling all that guilty about it. ;)

5. The Pet Shop Boys.

:hi: I am sure I have many more where those came from.

[aquaman]

17. I dig John Denver too.....

[DAGDA56]

18. Stuff I never grew out of...

Cat Stevens (bought the box set)
Moody Blues (bought the box set)
Jethro Tull (bought the box set)
Horslips (a 70's Irish Band without a box set)
Chicago (bought the box set)...
there seems to be a pattern here...

[SarahB]

21. I like certain pop artists of the past few years that are less than cool

like Matchbox20, Natalie Umbruglia, and gasp....I liked Green Day when they first became popular about 9 years ago (not totally into them and I know they're poser punk, but I still don't think they're that terrible.

I absolutely adore all the female singer songwriter Lillith Fair-ish stuff too.

[mvd]

22. Don't worry, I loved Green Day

And still do. :hi:

Also like some stuff from the other two.

[AmandaRuth]

23. ok here goes

in random order

The monkeys
70's schlock, the entire Rino Have a Nice Day Box set
Madonna (and her modern counterpart Pink)
Neil Diamond
Jerry Reed (Amos Moses was a mean old man)
The Partridge Family (David Cassidy rules)
Tommy James and the Shondells
First generation punk like the Seeds or the Sonics

thats more than 5, I'll stop now, I guess it is obvious i grew up in the 70's!

[Catshrink]

25. The Seeds. That rings a bell....

what did they do? I'm old enough to have forgotten.

[AmandaRuth]

26. i think their big hit was

Pushing too hard, but i used to love a song called Good Guys Don't Wear White off of one of their albums that i played and played and played and played when i was a MUCH younger kid. I think i am remembering this right, I will have to dig out my albums one of these days!!!

[Interrobang]

27. Guilty pleasures?

Right now? At this moment? Oh, probably:

Roni (the Israeli equivalent of Britney Spears) because she sings reasonably slowly and uses simple words, so I can actually understand whole *phrases* of her songs!

And speaking of which,

Britney Spears, "Toxic," which would be a *great* song if anyone else were singing it (but even a stopped clock is right twice a day);

the folk-rock guy whose name I don't know whom I keep hearing on Galgalatz, sings "Shurukh Blues" -- he's *way* too folkie for me normally, but his guitar work is to *die for*!

CCR

Rachel Stevens, specifically "Sweet Dreams (My LA Ex)" -- it's *really* short on substance, but it's *all* style!