# guilty pleasures (music) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2003, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689 "2003-04-01T11:55:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![minega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@minega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minega)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/1 "2003-04-01T11:55:10Z")
Well guilty pleasure is relative obviously but in my case i haev two\> Justin Timberlake: His two singles have been awesome but this is for your eyes only. If i told this to anyone else in my school, i could easily become a pariah. ‘like i love you’ is a song that compels you to dance no matter what. Eminem; I hate rap and i resent Eminem’s i hate you all attitude, but his recent songs-especially the delightfully dumb ‘superman’ have really been enjoyable. Im so ashamed!:o ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/2 "2003-04-01T12:55:10Z")
In general? Seventies and 80s love songs. In particular? **Air Supply** , **Barry Manilow** , **Loggins and Messina** and **Huey Lewis and the News**. 😛 Okay… not so much _guilty_ as songs and groups about which my _SO_ constantly insists that I should feel guilty. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![I\_Know\_Lots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@I\_Know\_Lots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Know_Lots)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/3 "2003-04-01T12:57:50Z")
Slip Way- Andrew Gold. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/4 "2003-04-01T13:08:07Z")
I enjoy “Bittersweet Symphony” by the Verve and “Lovefool” by the Cardigans. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/5 "2003-04-01T14:10:39Z")
I’m a huge sucker for 70s pop and “grab the Kleenex” country, which means pretty much half the music I listen to falls into the guilty pleasures category. The other half of my musical taste covers the spectrum from classical to blues to jazz to rock to folk. People have listened to some of my music and said “Wow, you have excellent taste” then spied the rest of my music collection and said, “Er…no you don’t.” ---
**Author:** ![Payton\_s\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@Payton\_s\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payton_s_Servant)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/6 "2003-04-01T20:53:24Z")
I don’t feel guilty about anything in my vast collection of CD’s. That being said, I know a number of posters would turn up their noses at the following: Backstreet Boys: The Hits (Chapter One) Avril Lavigne: Let Go Poison: Greatest Hits America: The Complete Greatest Hits I could go on for quite a while. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/7 "2003-04-01T21:35:05Z")
Eat 'em and Smile, by David Lee Roth They Only Come Out at Night, by the Edgar Winter Group (especially _Frankenstein_). ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/8 "2003-04-02T00:01:05Z")
I like Eminem too. I even saw 8 Mile. ---
**Author:** ![one\_energy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f6c823/32.png) [@one\_energy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/one_energy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/9 "2003-04-03T04:12:40Z")
Rod Stewart. What can I say? My mom raised me on him, and, IMHO, raised me right. And I’m not talking about his early career in the '60’s as a musical innovator. No, no; I’m talking about his pop opuses of the late 70’s and of the '80’s: Downtown Train (yeah, I know he didn’t right it), You’re In My Heart (Final Acclaim) (the best love song ever written), Forever Young, etc., etc… I’m recently starting to get into his early stuff (i.e., Every Picture Tells a Story), and it’s pretty good; but that which I grew up on will always be… IN MY HEART…IN MY SOUL…WILL BE MY BREATH SHOULD I GROW OLD… _cough_ Apologies. _bows and walks off stage_ –end scene– ---
**Author:** ![typhoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@typhoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typhoon)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/10 "2003-04-03T04:19:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Already in Use \* > **I enjoy “Bittersweet Symphony” by the Verve…** What’s there to be ashamed of? They were one of the best British bands of the last decade. ---
**Author:** ![one\_energy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f6c823/32.png) [@one\_energy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/one_energy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/11 "2003-04-03T04:21:13Z")
Correction: …I know he didn’t WRITE it… As an English major, that hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/12 "2003-04-03T07:27:58Z")
Brittany Spears: Slave 4 You (learn to spell, dammit!) Backstreet Boys: Everybody (Rock Your Body) Cardigans: Lovefool Garth Brooks: The River Various “Artists”–Lady Marmalade (Christina Aguliera still looks like a hooker clown in that video) Yea, I have supped in the house of mine enemy, and it was good. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/13 "2003-04-03T07:34:18Z")
It’s Britney, **KCSuze**. 😉 I own the Monkee’s Greatest Hits album and I’m starting to like Christina Aguilera against my better judgement. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/14 "2003-04-03T07:52:45Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s Britney, KCSuze. Crappity crap. I should’ve known the more correct-looking spelling would be wrong. :smack: > [@](#): > > I own the Monkee’s Greatest Hits album and I’m starting to like Christina Aguilera against my better judgement. Fight the lure of the painted devil! ---
**Author:** ![Razzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@Razzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Razzy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/15 "2003-04-03T08:18:52Z")
Anything 80’s, especially the whole Depeche Mode/Duran Duran/Erasure area. I LOVE Erasure and they can take my mix cd from my cold, dead hands! I also second Huey Lewis! ::hides head and ducks:…Bon Jovi…and I can recite “Ice, Ice Baby” on command… re: Christina Aguilera…she’s not much to look at, but man, she’s got a voice. Her first album was actually pretty good. Its a shame she got all sluttified… Britney’s stuff is pretty catchy, and I still listen to my Backstreet Boys and N’Sync cd’s when no one is looking. ---
**Author:** ![a\_night\_in\_the\_box](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@a\_night\_in\_the\_box](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a_night_in_the_box)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/16 "2003-04-03T13:58:25Z")
Mine has to be Billy Squire - Emotions in motion. Every weekend I have it cranked throughout the house. Everytime I hear it I get transported back to my high school days. ---
**Author:** ![Fingolfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@Fingolfin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fingolfin)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/17 "2003-04-03T14:13:38Z")
**Journey, Peter Cetera, Michael Jackson, Eminem, ELP, Gary Numan, Motley Crue** …There, I said it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![heater2000ca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@heater2000ca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heater2000ca)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/18 "2003-04-03T17:34:44Z")
Hmm, I guess my guilty pleasures would be the ones in my CD collection that I never play for anyone else. That would be: Backstreet Boys (just one cd) Pink (OK, both of her cd’s) Destiny’s Child (just one cd) Alanis Morrissette (both cd’s) Shania Twain (just one!) Soundtrack of Mama Mia, broadway musical Best of Neil Diamond (it was a gift!) But I am proud of the fact that I have no Celine Dion, no Eminem, no Anne Murray, and no Rita MacNeill - now _that_ would be really guilty! 😉 I have a lot of Frank Sinatra, but I’m proud of that fact, and play it for others, so I don’t include it in this list! I’m usually more electronic/alternative than this, really! And I listen to CBC! Really, I’m smart! 🙂 Heather ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/19 "2003-04-03T20:46:57Z")
Just one: [Hayseed Dixie](http://towermusic.endeca.com/towermusic?n=0&att=Performer+hayseed%20dixie&cs=hayseed%20dixie&csn=5&csr=1&csm=38257769&cc=USD), though I have yet to buy their latest. ---
**Author:** ![Labor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Labor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labor)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689/20 "2003-04-03T21:50:51Z")
I am a guilty owner of Herb Alpert’s “Greatest Hits.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-music/165689.md?page=2)