# Songs/bands that are your "guilty pleasure" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 15, 2007, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502 "2007-11-15T06:03:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/41 "2007-11-15T23:12:38Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] ABBA. My rock & roll soul cringes at the thought of bouncy Euro-pop, but I listen to it semi-regularly. “Dancing Queen” still gets me singing along. [/QUOTE] I _knew_ there was something I liked about you! 😃 “Waterloo” and “S.O.S.” are my favorites. You want guilty? I’ll give you _guilty_ : “Eres Tu” by Mocedades–That scene in _Tommy Boy_ when David Spade and Chris Farley are crying over that song just cracked me up because I’ve always loved it! “Friends in Low Places” by Garth Brooks–Don’t ask me why, 'cause I don’t really even _like_ country music, but I really like this song. Ditto “I Like It, I Love It” by Tim McGraw. “Leaving It All Up To You” and “Deep Purple” by Donny and Marie–Great harmony, terrific arrangement, two really good covers. “Macarena” :eek: (Bayside Boys mix) – Oh, bite me, it’s FUN! ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/42 "2007-11-15T23:15:45Z")
The first Matchbox Twenty album was very good. I bought an Avril Lavigne CD “for my daughters”. My love for Betty Boo and Prozzak might be embarrassing if they weren’t so obscure (at least, in the US). ---
**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:** [November 16, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/43 "2007-11-16T00:27:06Z")
[QUOTE=olivesmarch4th] I’m Alive! I’m ALIIIIIIVE!!! 😃 I had no idea that was in MP3 Form. My favorite song from that movie is the ‘‘Now that I’m a Woman’’ one. [/QUOTE] > [@NailBunny](#): > > Where on earth did you get that? I must have it!!! > > “When the last eagle flies over the last crumbling mountain…” 😃 It’s true! You can find the whole “Last Unicorn” soundtrack in mp3 format. However, you may have to stoop to less than licit means. _cough_ > [@bouv](#): > > Of course, to balance it out, I also have the greatest song ever, Boston’s “More Than a Feeling.” Ah ha! I left that off my list because there’s nothing guilty about that pleasure. 🙂 Who among us could resist singing along to that? ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/44 "2007-11-16T01:00:28Z")
Hell, here goes what little cred I might have had. Believe by Cher Hips don’t lie by Shakira ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/45 "2007-11-16T01:04:29Z")
[QUOTE=yellowval] I came in here to mention Justin Timberlake. [/QUOTE] This is so goddamned embarrassing. I am a grown man with a daughter, and I admit that when I was driving yesterday and spinning the dial I had to stop on “What Goes Around Comes Around.” I love that song. I briefly considered downloading it from I-Tunes, but I’m too ashamed. Forget porn buddies. We need cheesy music buddies, who will come ‘sanitize’ our computers and i-pods should we meet an unexpected sticky end. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/46 "2007-11-16T01:54:30Z")
Most of my actual ‘guilty pleasures’ (for the most part, I like what I like, and am not bothered about what people think) have already been named. But here’s one that hasn’t: There’s A Kind of Hush" by Herman’s Hermits. It’s my favorite Herman song, even though it’s from their later, more over-orchestrated, less British Invasion stuff. It’s a song that could have been performed in Las Vegas by someone (probably a minor someone) of the Sinatra-Dean Martin generation if the Beatles had never existed. But it’s a very well-crafted song, and it’s been one of my favorites for practically forever. [QUOTE=want2know] You want guilty? I’ll give you _guilty_ : “Eres Tu” by Mocedades–That scene in _Tommy Boy_ when David Spade and Chris Farley are crying over that song just cracked me up because I’ve always loved it! [/quote] I don’t have many guilty pleasures, but kinda like ABBA’s best songs, this one’s cheesy as all hell, but I love it. > [@](#): > > “Macarena” :eek: (Bayside Boys mix) – Oh, bite me, it’s FUN! Damn straight! I opened this thread just to mention this song. For years, I’ve been claiming to be The Last Person in America Who Still Likes The Macarena. Nice to know I’ve got company. 🙂 [QUOTE=Tool of the Conspiracy] The first Matchbox Twenty album was very good. [/QUOTE] Yeah, there was that brief moment there where I thought Rob Thomas was going to be the next [Burton Cummings](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Cummings), rather than the next sorry-ass whiner. He really coulda been a contender. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/47 "2007-11-16T02:01:36Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] ABBA. My rock & roll soul cringes at the thought of bouncy Euro-pop, but I listen to it semi-regularly. “Dancing Queen” still gets me singing along. [/QUOTE] Me too!!! Fernando. And I use to hate ABBA until I bought the Best Of for my husband’s birthday because he is very comfortable in his sexuality and will freely admit to ‘always liking ABBA’. That’s what I’d call Ironic. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/48 "2007-11-16T02:07:21Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] ABBA. My rock & roll soul cringes at the thought of bouncy Euro-pop, but I listen to it semi-regularly. “Dancing Queen” still gets me singing along. [/QUOTE] ::: raises hand ::: Me, too. I’ve even watched some of their videos on YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![nameless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/779978/32.png) [@nameless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nameless)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/49 "2007-11-16T02:21:12Z")
[QUOTE=Aesiron] KoRn? Okay. I’m gobsmacked. To each their own, though. 🙂 [/QUOTE] No, I’m with you. Billy Howerdel + Maynard James Keenan = awesome. APC is something to be proud of. Seriously, KoRn? I am ashamed that I like Paramore. I should not like them. They are cheesy. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/50 "2007-11-16T02:35:13Z")
[QUOTE=nameless] No, I’m with you. Billy Howerdel + Maynard James Keenan = awesome. APC is something to be proud of. Seriously, KoRn? [/QUOTE] Alrighty - I fully admit to cluelessness. I apologize for besmirching the honor of A Perfect Circle. In penance, I shall listen to their cover of “When the Levee Breaks” in it entirey 5 times, no matter how much it makes me cringe. [sub]Seriously, “Counting Bodies Like Sheep” reminds me of KoRn … I guess I’m insane …[/sub] Also - I have both Duran Duran and Journey’s greatest hits and I REFUSE TO BE ASHAMED. ---
**Author:** ![DJ\_Motorbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@DJ\_Motorbike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DJ_Motorbike)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/51 "2007-11-16T02:44:36Z")
I like the Titanic theme song by Celine Dion. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/52 "2007-11-16T02:45:58Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad] ::: raises hand ::: Me, too. I’ve even watched some of their videos on YouTube. [/QUOTE] Bastard! 😃 Guess what is running on the second window right now? \ ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/53 "2007-11-16T03:27:54Z")
Here are a few of my guilty musical pleasures: “Wild Dances” by Ruslana - I think this song won the Eurovision song contest a few years ago, with Ruslana and her back-up dancers dressed like refugees from an episode of _Xena_. “Boom Boom Boom Boom” by the Vengaboys. Erasure’s cover of Abba’s “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” and “Lay All Your Love on Me.” “The Bad Touch” by the Bloodhound Gang. I was rather surprised to hear it on the radio during KROQ’s 90s flashback show. I’m also rather fond of 80’s disco, including such gems as “Danger” by the Flirts and “Time after Time” by Timmy T. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/54 "2007-11-16T03:28:51Z")
[QUOTE=Bearflag70] I love a huge chunk of 80s New Wave / New Romantic goodness, especially Duran Duran. I think this genre and that band is unfairly maligned by many. [/QUOTE] I must have missed the memo that we were supposed to be embarrassed about that stuff. As far as I’m concerned, it’s straight up GREAT MUSIC. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/55 "2007-11-16T03:43:14Z")
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog] I must have missed the memo that we were supposed to be embarrassed about that stuff. As far as I’m concerned, it’s straight up GREAT MUSIC. [/QUOTE] Some people think it’s cheesy, shallow, illegitimate, computer generated, emotionless, sterile, somewhat feminine music … and I can’t remember all the bad stuff people have said about it. This is particularly true of Duran, which we are not “supposed” to like unless we are screaming pre-teen girls. However, I must admit, I sometimes feel a bit awkward blaring something like Kajagoogoo’s _Too Shy_ with the windows down at a red light. Something like Blondie or The Fixx may be more acceptable to the critics though. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/56 "2007-11-16T03:47:28Z")
I have a lot of 80s hair metal and new wave as well as a lot of 90s dance music. That’s not out of the ordianary for a 30-something white dude. If anyone asks, my girlfriend put Sarah McLachlan on my iPod. Although in truth, there’s side a wide variety of music running the spectrum from Tori Amos to Foo Fighters to Nine Inch Nails to Wu-Tang Clan that it’s hard to define what exactly “my music” is. Reminds me…anyone see [this](http://youtube.com/watch?v=-4HalGc6Ypk) commercial for the voice activated Ford Focus? ---
**Author:** ![MizTina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MizTina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizTina)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/57 "2007-11-16T03:56:09Z")
Nickelback. Rod Stewart. The soundtrack from Waking Ned Devine (listening to The Parting Glass as I type:D). Fallout Boy. 38 Special. Kiss. AC/DC. Leon Russel. Joe Cocker. Louis Armstrong. Twisted Sister Most of the above mixed together and burned to one or the other CD, and I play 'em loud and proud. And I have other great mixed CD’s. Great workout and leg thumping music. And I am unashamed. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/58 "2007-11-16T04:52:39Z")
[QUOTE=Bearflag70] I love a huge chunk of 80s New Wave / New Romantic goodness, especially Duran Duran. I think this genre and that band is unfairly maligned by many. [/QUOTE] Here, here! ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/59 "2007-11-16T06:55:34Z")
I’m guilty of loving the heck out of Japanese idol group Morning Musume. [Can’t … look … away …](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xlFb9kMzsE) ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502/60 "2007-11-16T09:54:24Z")
[QUOTE=Bearflag70] This is particularly true of Duran, which we are not “supposed” to like unless we are screaming pre-teen girls. [/QUOTE] Am I meant to be more or less embarrassed by my Duran love if I was actually a screaming pre-teen girl when they first came up? Eh, doesn’t matter, I’m unashamed. I actually own the first \*three \* Matchbox Twenty cds, and find something to love on each of them. If nothing else, it’s great music to clean the house to. I’ll also chime in on the My Chemical Romance love. Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge is my favorite workout music (well, I skip Ghost of You), and I’d like to thank Gerard and the boys for the 50 pounds I lost last year. I like Fall Out Boy. There, I said it! From Under the Cork Tree is pure, unabashed pop brilliance. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-are-your-guilty-pleasure/426502.md?page=4)