Guilty Pleasures

[frankie teardrop]

i don't really believe in guilty pleasures... i feel like you shouldn't be ashamed of what you enjoy. that said, there are quite a few things that i love that are pretty unhip to enjoy considering my general taste in obscure post-punk/shoegaze/etc.

lana del rey
tori amos (mostly up to and including choirgirl, though the new record is surprisingly great)
mechanical animals
the outfield- your love
the carpenters (yesterday once more KILLS me)
tom petty & the heartbreakers
the first two oasis records
the cranberries (especially the first record, which is perfect)
asia- the heat of the moment
sponge- plowed/cracker- low/local h- bound to the floor
alan parson's project- eye in the sky
toto- africa/it's a feeling
italo disco (not unhip in my circle really, but it's really, really cheesy a lot of the time)
u2 (up to and including pop, but especially the 80s run. they get a lot of unnecessary shit for being such a solid band for a while there)
hole- live through this and related tracks only
freestyle (debbie deb, noel, the cover girls, shannon, pretty poison and all that other miami-tinged synthpop)
PUMP UP THE JAM (technotronic)

...and apparently it's not cool to like bruce springsteen either, but darkness on the edge of town & nebraska rank pretty highly.

[GulDukat]

...and apparently it's not cool to like bruce springsteen either, but darkness on the edge of town & nebraska rank pretty highly.

Not cool? The Boss rules. He's shouldn't be considered a guilty pleasure IMO.

On my guilty pleasure list:
Poison
Warrant
RATT
LA Guns
other cock-rock bands

I don't listen to that type of music too much anymore, usually when I go jogging. Gets ya pumped.

[nobies]

i feel like you shouldn't be ashamed of what you enjoy.

False. Having shame is a good thing. It's what keeps society from turning into a scene from Idiocracy.

[frankie teardrop]

False. Having shame is a good thing. It's what keeps society from turning into a scene from Idiocracy.

errr, what? it's not a true or false scenario here. 'it's just like, my opinion, man,' that maybe it's not really worth getting too uptight about liking a song that's little more than surface level. most music is a work of art. some is pure, shameless entertainment. speaking of entertainment, comparing one's taste in music pop to a film about breeding out intelligence is a pretty flimsy metaphor.

back on track, i kinda like ratt and l.a. guns too (at least on a casual level), but that's the wife's taste in road trip music rubbing off on me...

[onthewall2983]

False. Having shame is a good thing. It's what keeps society from turning into a scene from Idiocracy.

I think it depends on what it applies to. I don't think art is one of them.

I liked Evanescence for awhile when they were hot. It was definitely the closest thing to a guilty pleasure I had, but now it's all a bit dated to me. There are moments on the last Anathema record where I thought, "this is like Evanescence, but literally 1 million times better".