# 30 Day Song Challenge, number 28: a song that makes you feel guilty **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 9, 2016, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-28-a-song-that-makes-you-feel-guilty/762225 "2016-08-09T08:04:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-28-a-song-that-makes-you-feel-guilty/762225/1 "2016-08-09T08:04:39Z")
This topic is sort of open to interpretation… it is NOT about guilty pleasure songs, because we [already covered those in a previous one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=793515). I guess it just means a song that triggers a feeling of guilt in you for whatever reason you may have. For me it’s songs about much younger women, which have a long and skeevy tradition in popular music. They don’t hit close to home in any kind of personal experience for me, but they still trigger a guilty feeling, because even if it’s a catchy song can you really sing along to it safely? In that vein here’s [The Records - Teenarama](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4R7ZoFG7Ak). They were a short-lived new wave/power pop band that should be better known, although I don’t know if this is a good song through which to be introduced to them. Love the snarling guitar sound and the way all the rhythm breaks make the song so dynamic, but those lyrics… :eek: ---
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[Scorpions - Still Loving You ( lyrics )](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYyarcp5LtU) I don’t think think I’ll elaborate. **Eddie the Horrible** should feel guilty about introducing the Dope to [these songs.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQqK1CjE9bA) ---
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-28-a-song-that-makes-you-feel-guilty/762225/3 "2016-08-09T14:30:13Z")
**[“Jealous Guy” by John Lennon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhyreUU7D5M)** ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-28-a-song-that-makes-you-feel-guilty/762225/4 "2016-08-09T14:42:01Z")
Liking a revenge song always makes me feel bad and skerry, but they’re usually so damn catchy. Case in point? Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats.” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/WaSy8yy-mr8/maxresdefault.jpg "Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaSy8yy-mr8) That woman wields a mean bat. ---
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> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > **Eddie the Horrible** should feel guilty about introducing the Dope to [these songs.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQqK1CjE9bA) :p:p:p Gosh - considering my innate awesomeness, this is going to be a really really super difficult one to answer. _Mother_ - John Lennon ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-28-a-song-that-makes-you-feel-guilty/762225/6 "2016-08-09T16:36:11Z")
There isn’t much in life that makes me feel guilty, least of all a song. I don’t even know how a song could do that. I’ll have to think about this one. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-28-a-song-that-makes-you-feel-guilty/762225/7 "2016-08-09T17:59:38Z")
I have to pick something, so I’ll go with _Arrested for Driving While Blind_ - **ZZ Top** _Itchin’ for that wonderful feel…_ ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-28-a-song-that-makes-you-feel-guilty/762225/8 "2016-08-09T18:40:38Z")
So many songs that objectify women. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of it in probably my favorite genre, classic rock, although I think rap is much worse. You Shook Me All Night Long, ACDC: > [@](#): > > She was a fast machine. She kept her motor clean. She was the best damn woman that I ever seen. She had the sightless eyes, telling me no lies. Knocking me out with those American thighs. Ugh. But I love the song. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-28-a-song-that-makes-you-feel-guilty/762225/9 "2016-08-09T19:09:07Z")
I felt a little guilty for liking _Cell Phones Ringing_ so much, after I found out what it is about. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB38yqy1osc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB38yqy1osc) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-28-a-song-that-makes-you-feel-guilty/762225/10 "2016-08-09T20:34:25Z")
Some songs by **Peter Gabriel** make me think about trying to be more active in helping people. **Wallflower** is about being a prisoner of conscience in a prison cell and how they try to break you, but hold on. And of course **Biko** is about the beating death of anti-Apartheid activist Stephen Biko and how important it is to pay attention and call out what you are seeing. [QUOTE=Peter Gabriel] You can blow out a candle But you can never blow out a fire Once the flames begin to catch The wind will blow it higher [/QUOTE] ---
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> [@Helena330](#): > > So many songs that objectify women. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of it in probably my favorite genre, classic rock, although I think rap is much worse. > > You Shook Me All Night Long, ACDC: > > Ugh. But I love the song. Isn’t that more of a guilty pleasure thing? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-28-a-song-that-makes-you-feel-guilty/762225/12 "2016-08-09T22:46:16Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Isn’t that more of a guilty pleasure thing? No. A guilty pleasure is something like a cloying pop tune that you like anyway, like Cake By the Ocean by DNCE. AC/DC songs can be misogynistic. It’s like listening to Buckcherry’s song Lit Up - I love it’s Big Dumb Rockness, but it’s a reprehensible high-five endorsing drug use. Guilty, not guilty pleasure. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-28-a-song-that-makes-you-feel-guilty/762225/13 "2016-08-11T07:51:29Z")
Well, I guess I’ll have to say the Beatles’ “Run for Your Life,” though it makes me feel more repulsed than guilty. ---
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[Prodigal Son](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaZGljc5Xp0) - The Rolling Stones’ version. It’s one of the songs I can sing and play at the same time, but I don’t play it very often these days. I know that forgiving others is the only way to get along in this world, but there have been times where I’m just not able to. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-28-a-song-that-makes-you-feel-guilty/762225/15 "2016-08-11T17:43:53Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Well, I guess I’ll have to say the Beatles’ “Run for Your Life,” though it makes me feel more repulsed than guilty. Agreed. But with that song, it is far from one of their best, so I almost never waste my “Beatles Listening Units” on that song. I listen to the Buckcherry song and damn if I don’t rock out every time. But it really is a piece of shit song. They have another song called Crazy Bitch which is much more like Run for Your Life - just not good enough to overcome its own repulsiveness. ---
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> [@Helena330](#): > > So many songs that objectify women. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of it in probably my favorite genre, classic rock, although I think rap is much worse. > > You Shook Me All Night Long, ACDC: > > Ugh. But I love the song. I’ve always looked at it the same way I look at violence in kid’s cartoons. It’s make believe, a fantasy. Just like a kid isn’t going to watch Jerry smash Tom in the face with a trash can lid and go out and bash one of their friends, a man can listen to classic/hard rock or rap and not treat women like hoes. I’d rather hear this then sappy crap like ::shudder:: \* Mandy\*.