# Musical Guilty Pleasures: Cheesy or Uncool But You Love Them Anyway **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 21, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049 "2003-03-21T06:46:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ECJones29](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@ECJones29](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ECJones29)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/1 "2003-03-21T06:46:55Z")
Self-explanatory title, I hope. I always love to hear these even though a lot of people think I am a complete nerd. Who cares? If it makes you happy, listen to it. That’s what a lot of music is for. **Moonlight Feels Right** —Starbuck **Flamethrower** —J. Geils Band **Everything She Wants** —Wham! Robert Palmer (almost anything) What songs/artists make your list? ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/2 "2003-03-21T08:26:26Z")
I was going to restart this thread the other day, when I found myself listening to: The theme from **Mortal Kombat** - Utah Saints **Always Something There to Remind Me** - Naked Eyes **Situation** - Yaz **I’m Coming Up** - Pink **Popcorn** - Hot Butter ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/3 "2003-03-21T08:32:21Z")
The entire concept album of '80s pop synthesized sci-fi vagueness that is **Planet P Project**. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/4 "2003-03-21T09:13:10Z")
I like ABBA, even though I usually listen to AC/DC, Motorhead, Black Sabbath etc… ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/5 "2003-03-21T09:15:30Z")
That silly **Fish heads** song. 🙂 I also like music by **Telex** ---
**Author:** ![big\_alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@big\_alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_alex)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/6 "2003-03-21T12:19:52Z")
S Club 7, and S Club Juniors :o ---
**Author:** ![catnoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@catnoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catnoe)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/7 "2003-03-21T12:25:45Z")
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell Queen - any of the older albums The soundtrack of Phantom of the Opera And one I want, my sister order a compilation album of early seventies ballad type music…Seasons in the Sun, The Night Chicago Died, Billy Don’t Be a Hero… ---
**Author:** ![LifeIllustrator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/958977/32.png) [@LifeIllustrator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeIllustrator)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/8 "2003-03-21T13:05:02Z")
Digital Underground (Humpty Dance, Same Old Song) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/9 "2003-03-21T13:17:02Z")
Another \*\* ABBA \*\* person. And pre-ABBA ABBA and post-ABBA ABBA. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/10 "2003-03-21T13:35:04Z")
My guiltiest musical pleasure is a Garth Brooks fetish. No really. ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/11 "2003-03-21T13:38:56Z")
Really cheesy remixes Davinci’s Notebook (great acappella group but some really cheesy lyrics) Moxy Fruvous Wait wait, hold the boat. People here are listing Abba, Meat Loaf and Queen. Those can’t possibly be uncool! can they? ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/12 "2003-03-21T13:40:17Z")
I love James Taylor. OK? Enough said! Well, not really. I also love Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks. _Je ne regrette rien._ ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Righteous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Dr.Righteous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Righteous)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/13 "2003-03-21T14:02:01Z")
My musical tastes were never in synch with what my peer group was listening to. I learned a long time ago there’s no such thing as music (or movies or books or anything else) to be ashamed of. I still listen to albums I did when I was in high school and I still love them, as opposed to some of my friends who look back and cringe over what they listened to (and wore - never ever be a slave to the fashions of the day!) I think the stuff that sticks out as odd is Yazoo - I’m a hard rock/metal kinda gal, yet I dig this cd. Its all about the beat… ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/14 "2003-03-21T14:52:36Z")
Oasis - Wonderwall Cranberries - Linger LuLu - To Sir With Love Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 ---
**Author:** ![Labor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Labor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labor)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/15 "2003-03-21T15:09:11Z")
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Please don’t hurt me. ---
**Author:** ![da\_pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ba0ec/32.png) [@da\_pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/da_pope)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/16 "2003-03-21T15:19:48Z")
disco. i hated it when it was popular, but somehow i managed to have all the lyrics embedded in my memory. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/17 "2003-03-21T15:51:14Z")
There is no reason for _Queen_ to be in this thread. They ROCK! nothing cheesy or uncool about them. I, however, like **Gordon Lightfoot**. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/18 "2003-03-21T16:02:05Z")
I have been known to sing along with “Living on a Prayer” by Bon Jovi when it comes on the radio. Oh, the shame. ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/19 "2003-03-21T16:35:25Z")
Oh, I do believe I’ve won this one. The song I cannot turn off, no matter how uncool I know it is: “How Long Has This Been Going On” by Ace. ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049/20 "2003-03-21T16:41:44Z")
I have an unabashed love for 80’s hairbands. Poison, Warrant, White Lion, the Scorpions, Mr. Big, Winger… I still love 'em all. Listen to 'em at every opportunity. Even found an all-80’s hairband channel on [shoutcast.com](http://shoutcast.com) to listen to when I’ve exhausted my CD collection. I just have to make sure I listen to them when nobody else is around, that’s all. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-guilty-pleasures-cheesy-or-uncool-but-you-love-them-anyway/163049.md?page=2)