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.
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 
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.
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.
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 
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…
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::
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…<G> some of the most corny cliched songs/lyrics, but they have a good sound…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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!
“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…
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?
I speak now as the only self-confessed a-ha fan on the SDMB:
“Take On Me” kinda sucks.
That is all.
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.
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.
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?
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.