We do this every so often and I find the threads to be very cathartic. It’s like a great weight lifted off my shoulders when I finally come clean.
Here’s my list:
Until the Day I Die by Story of the Year.
I hate sappy love songs. I hate that I like this sappy love song even more. I turn it WAY up when it comes on and I sing it VERY loud. Have I mentioned I don’t sing very well and I usually have the windows rolled down while I’m driving?
The Reason by Hoobastank.
Good lord. What am I, thirteen?
Numb by Linkin Park.
Actually, any song by Linkin Park. Especially the one that seems to be playing now. Great bass and I like the part about the worst part of you is me. Or something along those lines. I hate to admit it but I think I may like Linkin Park. Save me, Jeebus.
I’m sure there are more. There’s one by Jay-Z but I can’t think of any part of the lyrics, let alone the name of the song. It’s very ghetto and very phat. I love it!
There’s a 70s disco band called Santa Esmarelda who played this almost interesting blend of rock, flemenco and disco cheese who did an awesome disco version of “House Of The Rising Sun” and Van Morrison’s “Gloria”. The cover of “Gloria” isn’t even disco at all…and it’s got cowbell!
Of course, now that I’ve let it slip that I like a disco song, I’m going to have to kill you all. :smack:
'cept for the Amaretto, I’m there, baby! Many’s the winter night Mrs. Mercotan and I sat in our hot tub on the deck, watching the ice crash on our personal Great Lake, and watch an ore freighter’s lights go past. Old Michigan steams likes a young man’s dreams.
I gotta say I still like “Crazy in Love” by Beyonce.
And I have to admit I bought “Toxic” by Britney Spears (my first and only Britney Spears purchase), because I had the hook stuck in my head for days. I don’t know if I’d say I “like” it though.
You know that they’ve got a track on the Kill Bill Volume 1 soundtrack, right? It’s called “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” and it’s used in the fight between O-ren Ishii and The Bride.
As SolGrundy already said, Santa Esmarelda’s “Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” (an Animals cover) was featured during the climactic swordfight in Kill Bill Volume 1, so the band has probably gained all kinds of hipster credibility in the last year. It’s a fantastic arrangement of the '60s rock song–long and bombastic and full of great flamenco trumpet–and I was very impressed. Most of all, I was surprised I had never heard of the band previously. Did they only do covers in this style, and did they have any big hits in the '70s?
Britney Spears’ “Toxic” (I love the twangy spy-soundtrack guitar and overall sexy minor key feeling)
Shakira’s “Objection (Tango)” (a very similar-sounding song to “Toxic,” with more twangy minor-key guitar work and ACCORDION!)
Quad City DJs’ “Come On Ride the Train” (forgettable hip-hop dance song from 1996, but it brings me right back to the final days of senior year of high school)
Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” (usually able to cheer up any group of people in their mid-20s, and get them laughing and dancing and singing along, despite the inherent silliness)
Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out Of Hell” album (bombastic, melodramatic, cliche-ridden, but altogether beautiful and RAWKIN’; a fun, tongue-in-cheek thrill ride through the very essence of rock ‘n’ roll music and teenage horniness)
I actually love a lot of rap, but I don’t consider it “guilty pleasure” music.
I am a short, 44-year-old guitar picker who can’t dance, and whose favorite music is Delta blues. In other words the diametric opposite of Ricky Martin. But I absolutely love * La Vida Loca*. (I’m straight too!)
Seconds on ‘My Heart Will Go On’.
Regarding the Eddy Fitz – when I perform that song, audiences divide like the Red Sea – the guys (who’ve been drinking) are all misty-eyed. (The women are bored and rolling their eyes – I usually follow it up with Dr. Demento’s ‘The Scotsman’ (or any slow Elvis Presley number) to get them back).
I didn’t know they were on Kill Bill because I never saw the movie. I do remember DLMBM was a hit in the mid 70s though, but not that big of one. The main reason I knew about them is because my dad bought a used car in '78 or so and that tape was in the cassette deck.
) “She Bangs”. Makes me wanna dance. Must say I was puzzled when it showed up on Blender’s worst songs list.