# Name your "guilty pleasure" song. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 1, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973 "2004-10-01T02:30:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/41 "2004-10-01T14:44:47Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > Hmm, some guilty pleasures might be; > Almost Heaven, West Virginia - John Denver > > … D’oh! :smack: The Song is “Country Roads”. It’s one of those songs I always have to sing to myself through to the chorus before I remember the correct title. Oh and while I’m here I’ll add “Sugar, Sugar” by The Archies. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/42 "2004-10-01T14:47:03Z")
Anything by Tony Orlando & Dawn _before_ Tie a Yellow Ribbon. Brandy (you’re a fine girl) I am sixteen, you are seventeen from The Sound of Music. ---
**Author:** ![Nekosoft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c2a13f/32.png) [@Nekosoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nekosoft)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/43 "2004-10-01T15:16:52Z")
Juice Newton - Playing with the Queen of Hearts ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/44 "2004-10-01T15:18:31Z")
“Yeah” by Usher. Now that might not seem too embarrassing, seeing as how it’s a popular current tune, but seeing as how my musical tastes ordinarily run to classic rock and cheezy old seventies and eighties stuff… :o The kids know my secret because they noticed that I stop for it when I run across it on the car radio. I reminded them that Mother knows embarrassing stuff about them too! ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/45 "2004-10-01T15:21:00Z")
“Heart & Soul” by T’Pau. All my guilty pleasure songs are pretty much 80’s one hit wonders. Speaking of which, I feel a thread coming on… ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/46 "2004-10-01T15:23:50Z")
Okay - let’s get one thing straight: Baby Got Back is _not_ a guilty pleasure!!! It is (arguably) politically incorrect - but the song flat-out rocks. Listen to it with pride - although not around your 4-year-old daughter… That is all. Oh, and my guilty pleasure is “Brandy” by Looking Glass - Brandy, you’re a fine girl, what a good wife you would be - but my life, my love and my lady is the sea… ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/47 "2004-10-01T15:56:11Z")
As a fan of hard rock, there are several songs in my MP3 list that are incongruent with my usual tastes: 10CC - I’m Not in Love Blessid Union Of Souls - I Believe Bread- If Bread- Make It With You Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town Al Green - Aint No Sunshine When She’s Gone Benny Mardonis- Into The Night Michael Martin Murphy - Wildfire Seals and Crofts - Summer Breeze Spanky & Our Gang - I’d Like To Get To Know You Sting - Fragile Barbara Streisand - The Way We Were Barbra Streisand - Somewhere ---
**Author:** ![Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linus_Van_Pelt)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/48 "2004-10-01T16:13:36Z")
> [@Flutterby](#): > > Hooked on a Feeling - Neil Diamond?? > [@duffer](#): > > It was Blue Swede. > [@Flutterby](#): > > Thank you, I felt that Neil was wrong but couldn’t figure out who had done it. Depends. If it’s the version with the awful "Ooga Chuacka"s (made famous by the dancing baby), then it’s Blue Suede. The original, much less obnoxious version, was done by B.J. Thomas. Just out of curiosity, is there any kind of consensus on what defines a guilty pleasure song? Does it actually have to be a song that’s really bad but that you like anyway, or just one that the arbiters of musical trendiness (whoever the heck _they_ are) have decided is uncool? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/49 "2004-10-01T16:39:19Z")
Celine Dion. _It’s All Coming Back to Me Now_. I think she has a beautiful voice. So there. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/50 "2004-10-01T16:47:14Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > **APC = TOOL** That would need about 3 bus transfers and a cab to be even in the neighborhood of right, but that’s another thread. As to the OP, Chuck Mangione’s “Feels So Good”. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/51 "2004-10-01T17:01:37Z")
> [@rostfrei](#): > > One song that I truly love that I’m embarassed to admit to my friends is “sailing” by Christopher Cross. I think it’s brilliant. I sing at the top of my lungs whenever I hear it on the radio, which sadly, is rare. I do have the track on CD and get it out every now and then to listen and sing. > > Yours? Heheeh. When I read the title to your post I was thinking “Oh god, that would definitely be “Sailing” by Christopher Cross” funny that it’s yours too. I’ve told no one by the way. So, shhhhhh! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/52 "2004-10-01T17:44:11Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > **APC = TOOL** APC is to Tool what a butterknife is to a chainsaw ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/53 "2004-10-01T18:03:22Z")
“Downtown” and “Don’t Sleep In The Subway” - both by Petula Clark. and also, “Take On Me” - A-ha. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/54 "2004-10-01T18:03:29Z")
> [@Linus Van Pelt](#): > > Depends. If it’s the version with the awful "Ooga Chuacka"s (made famous by the dancing baby), then it’s Blue Suede. The original, much less obnoxious version, was done by B.J. Thomas. Yeah, it’s got the Ooga Chucka’s but once you get past them it’s a good song. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/55 "2004-10-01T18:13:49Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > Rainbow Connection - Kermit the Frog You mean the song that makes me bawl like a little girl? This may require some background: when I was in fourth grade in California, we had the absolute coolest teacher ever. Her name was Patti Sauers, and her classes were positively the most fun I ever had when I was in school. Possibly because she bribed us with candy, of course, but we EARNED that candy with good grades. She died over Easter weekend while we were in her class. She was a big Muppet fan and dressed as Miss Piggy for Halloween. Her funeral was…uplifting, really, and very beautiful. The whole class went, and in lieu of, say, a hymn or something, we all sang Rainbow Connection and released balloons into the sky. To this day that song makes me tear up. Just _thinking_ about it makes me tear up now. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/56 "2004-10-01T21:18:10Z")
> [@Linus Van Pelt](#): > > Depends. If it’s the version with the awful "Ooga Chuacka"s (made famous by the dancing baby), then it’s **Blue Suede**. The original, much less obnoxious version, was done by B.J. Thomas. Yup, Thomas did the original, the cover though was by **Blue Swede** (pronounced “sweed”) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/57 "2004-10-01T21:24:24Z")
Did I mentioned I have all of Patty Duke’s albums? What she lacks in talent, she makes up for with enthusiasm. ---
**Author:** ![Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linus_Van_Pelt)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/58 "2004-10-01T21:24:34Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Yup, Thomas did the original, the cover though was by **Blue Swede** (pronounced “sweed”) Oops. :smack: Thanks for the correction. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/59 "2004-10-01T23:17:36Z")
Styx’s “Come Sail Away” ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973/60 "2004-10-02T00:00:30Z")
Oh yeah! Several that have already been mentioned, and my submissions: The Beach Boys- _Kokomo_ Rick Astley- _Never Gonna Give You Up_ Lots of Barry Manilow but especially _Copacabana_ I know there are more. . . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-guilty-pleasure-song/266973.md?page=4)