# really crappy songs you like (guilty pleasures?) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 14, 2000, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888 "2000-10-14T12:01:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2000, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/41 "2000-10-16T07:13:03Z")
I really like one nobody’s probably ever heard of. The song is “I’ve Got a Lot to Learn About Love.” It’s from an album by a band called the Storm, comprised of former members of Journey. 80’s cheeseball rock at its Roland synthesizer worst. ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2000, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/42 "2000-10-16T10:49:42Z")
yeah, lay off 99 luftballoons. jeez. it may sound a little dated, but it’s hardly crap. The Journey refs remind of of steve perry’s “oh sheri” (from an ill-advised post-journey solo album). I’m downloading that one as we speak 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2000, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/43 "2000-10-16T11:37:04Z")
Speaking of Steve Perry, has he dropped off the face of the planet? I used to have teenage fantasies about him (Something about that aquiline nose…). Somehow I kinda doubt that he and “Sherri” got married and had a passel of kids. ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2000, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/44 "2000-10-16T17:44:38Z")
Why, yesterday at about this time I was standing in my kitchen doing the dishes screeching along as well as I could to Matchbox 20’s first album. It’s a little sucky, but fun to sing. ---
**Author:** ![Turpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2000, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/45 "2000-10-16T18:19:04Z")
I would love to see Halbermensch post in this thread. Me, I must admit I like everything Bjork has ever done. Don’t laugh at me 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Thrashbarg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Thrashbarg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thrashbarg)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/46 "2000-10-17T04:24:33Z")
I get alternately teased/threatened whenever I crank up **The Trial** by Pink Floyd on the jukebox at the local redneck bar. Man, I’m a weirdo… ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/47 "2000-10-17T04:44:53Z")
Oh gosh just well I just well I ::blushes:: I like _The Morning After_. Gad while I’m at it might as well admit to enjoying _Seasons in the Sun_ Also find myself singing along to Whitney Houston’s _The Greatest Love of All_ ::deb2world slinks off to sit in a corner and contemplate musical tastes:: ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/48 "2000-10-17T23:39:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ReservoirDog \* > \*\*Why, yesterday at about this time I was standing in my kitchen doing the dishes screeching along as well as I could to Matchbox 20’s first album. > > It’s a little sucky, but fun to sing. \*\* Oh I have that one! Yourself or someone like you, right? Yeah I listene to it all the time when i first got it, back when I was a little Zoggie. It was one of the first 2 cds i ever bought- definitely a guilty pleasure now that I have a couple of years to look back on it. Sometimes I look at all the CDs i bought the first few months and just shake my head in wonder. Also speaking of musicals, I have the soundtrack to Aida which I listen to. That’s a guilty pleasure…\ some of the most corny cliched songs/lyrics, but they have a good sound… ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/49 "2000-10-18T04:46:53Z")
Pink Floyd, Queen, and REM are guilty pleasures? Those are three of the best bands ever to walk the face of the Earth (though REM isn’t that great lately. Hadn’t they once said they’d break up at the end of 1999? What happened to that?) A few songs I’d rather not admit that I like : _Bette Davis Eyes_ (You can’t imagine how hard it is not to backspace over that title and pretend I never typed it) _Big Country_ by Big Country (There’s something really wrong when the band name and the song name are the same) _Tin Machine_ by Tin Machine (ditto) _Time after Time_ by Cyndi Lauper (I’d hate it if I could, but I just can’t. It’s too pretty) _King of the Road_ by Tennesse Ernie Ford (? - not sure on the artist. I think that’s his name.) _The Gambler_ by Kenny Rogers. _La poupee qui dit non_ by M. Polnareff. (A French song you’ve probably never heard of. Download it and you’ll see why it’s my guiltiest pleasure on this list!) Hmm, you know I just remembered that the name of that Big Country song is actually _In a Big Country._ Eh, close enough. And no, in case you were wondering, _Killer Queen_ by Queen is NOT close enough to the band name to be considered one of these lame songs. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/50 "2000-10-18T18:49:52Z")
I used to carry around my ticket stub from when I saw Leon Redbone in a tiny nightclub. He does **not** belong in a guilty-pleasure thread, IMHO. But these do: “Footloose,” by Kenny Loggins. Bubble-gum pabulum. But dammit if it doesn’t come on the radio and I’m seized by St. Vitus’s Dance. Get thee behind me, Satan! “Everybody cut, everybody cut-- everybody cut, everybody cut-- everybody cut, everybody cut, everybody cut foot LOOSE!” “Once Bitten, Twice Shy,” by Great White, “Pour Some Sugar On Me,” by Def Leppard, “Cherry Pie,” by Warrant, and any other brainless hair-band anthem with a steady beat and a catchy riff. “Sister Christian” by Night Ranger. 'Nuff said. And some of the newer pop songs are irresistably catchy; they grab your brain like a fistful of fishhooks. Many’s the time I’ve found myself humming “What a Girl Wants,” “Oops I Did It Again,” “Bye Bye Bye,” or even “Wanna Be.” Yes, the Spice Girls. Sigh… ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/51 "2000-10-18T21:02:32Z")
**Rosebud, Cervaise:** I never meant to imply that **I** thought Leon Redbone was crappy. I **like** Leon Redbone. I just thought he fit in here because whenever I mention his name I get that fish-eyed “where **you** from fella?” stare. BTW, **neutron star,** _King of the Road_ was Roger Miller. Tennessee Ernie Ford’s most famous song was _16 Tons_. (He’s gone now, unfortunantly.) Both well worth listening to. Sorry for the interruption. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/52 "2000-10-19T00:53:10Z")
Thanks for the correction. I got the two artists confused because we had to dance to both of those songs way back in high school when they forced us to square dance. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/53 "2000-10-19T01:11:22Z")
I knew what you meant, **Bumbazine** , honest I did 😉 I have gotten the same strange looks about Leon Redbone. Rest assured that we Leon fans are many, and we are strong, and we will pack into tiny nightclubs at every opportunity. In my case it’s the Town Crier Cafe in Pauling, NY. Another guilty pleasure of mine: “Cuban Pete,” from the soundtrack of _The Mask_. To be specific, the version in the movie itself, with Jim Carey dressed like some psycho flamenco dancer. Chik Chikky Boom! ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2000, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/54 "2000-10-21T11:11:07Z")
“dance hall days”, by wang chung is definitely a guilty pleasure. and i always sing along to “tainted love” by soft cell. does anybody remember the motels? i love those two songs, “only the lonely” and “suddenly last summer”. is billy joel a guilty pleasure? i really like 80’s music too much… ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2000, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/55 "2000-10-21T11:31:37Z")
I have every Jefferson Starship album ever made, including all the solo albums by all the group’s members, as well as most of the albums made by projects started by members of the band—Hot Tuna, the KBC Band, etc. I have still to find something by Moby Grape, though I confess i haven’t looked for a while. I gotta say that when the Jefferson Starship makes a crappy song, it’s _really_ crappy, but by and large I like this band a lot. Though many people tell me it’s crap, I’m not bothered. I like 'em fine. I even saw them in concert last year for the third or fourth time. They played Carnegie Hall. It wasn’t exactly a packed house, but I don’t care. A good show’s a good show. It’s too bad that Grace Slick has retired; I still love her voice. The band Starship (without the Jefferson,) well, Christ, they just suck. So to keep in step with the spirit of this thread, they’ve got a couple of songs that I actually like, though I can’t remember what they’re called at the moment. On the first Starship album, Grace sang one of her trademark introspective songs, and it came off rather well despite the pings and glam of Just Plain Starship. By the way: lay off _99 Luftballons_, folks. That’s a quality tune if there ever was one. Hast du etwas Zeit für mich? Singe ich ein Lied für dich Von neunundneunzig Luftballons, Ihrem Weg von Horizont… (…und dann, meine bevorzugt Stimme…) Neunundneunzig Kriegsminister, Streichholz und Benzinkanister! Nena, o Nena, where art thou? ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2000, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/56 "2000-10-21T17:38:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SwimmingRiddles \* > **And I will personally beat the stuffin’ out of anyone who says it is. Liars! Take on me, Video Killed the Radio Star, and FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, 99 Luftballoons? Those are fine, fine, songs that I am proud to know all the words to.** I speak now as the only self-confessed a-ha fan on the SDMB: “Take On Me” kinda sucks. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/57 "2000-10-21T21:01:51Z")
I used to have to listen to country music when I worked a shift that started at midnight, because my co-worker would get there first to turn the radio to HIS favorite station, and I was too lazy and/or weak to complain. But there were two really sentimental songs I heard that I wouldn’t admit I liked. Not sure of the artists. One was titled something like “A Daisy a Day”, about an old man’s memories of his wife. The other was “If You Get There Before I Do” about a grandfather tellin his grandson about how he and his wife(Grandma, now deceased) had to run away to be married. I would actually get tears with these, which I made sure to hide. Softheaded I guess. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2000, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/58 "2000-10-22T03:38:57Z")
I can’t believe no one has mentioned: “My Ding-A-Ling” It brings back fond memories of the Hillside Roller Skating Ring in West Enosburg VT back in the early 70’s. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2000, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/59 "2000-10-22T04:10:25Z")
80’s New Wave Disco Top 40. I love them all. I’m so easy to please, a good beat and lyrics I can sing really, really loudly. I know all the words to: MacAuther’s Park Come On Eileen It’s Gonna Be Me And, God help me, Celin Dion’s That’s The Way It Is. Do you still respect me? ---
**Author:** ![Scribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Scribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribe)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2000, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888/60 "2000-10-22T05:44:30Z")
Unlike nobody else I know, I like to find the foreign language hit versions of songs and buy them cheaply. I own the French hit cover versions of “Itsy, Bitsy, Teenie…Bikini” and “Rhythym of the Rain”, and the German hit version of “Lipstick on Your Collar”. I also have a Finnish (?) teen pop/folk album from circa 1965 that I picked up for 50 cents. There is one song on it with a good riff probably modeled on some American dance hit, but it ends with one of the woman singers crowing like a rooster! Anyone else have any Heino records? I bought one for a couple of bucks after reading the write up on him in the very cool and funny book Incredibly Strange Music. His version of “The Bird Dance”, with German lyrics and chanting female backup singers is kind of goofy. Songs in English that as a kid I thought were cool: Mickey, Come on Eileen, Whip It, Disco Duck. I had a huge crush on the Go-Gos. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-crappy-songs-you-like-guilty-pleasures/36888.md?page=4)