# Songs you love that are completely out of character for you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 21, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700 "2006-04-21T22:33:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/1 "2006-04-21T22:33:43Z")
I’m a rocker. I like jazz, I appreciate most types of music, but my heart belongs to rock and roll. Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck, CS&N, Annie Lennox, The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and the rest are all ramblin’ around in my brain most of the time. And yet…Glenn Campbell’s version of \*Wichita Lineman \* is running through my head and I love it. You got songs like that? ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/2 "2006-04-21T22:38:45Z")
Normally I don’t care for country music, but I make an exception for the following songs: _This Kiss_ by Faith Hill _Redneck Women_ by Gretchen Wilson _There’s Your Trouble_ by The Dixie Chicks _Chattahoochie_ by Alan Jackson ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/3 "2006-04-21T23:15:40Z")
Not a song per se, but Ace of Base’s greatest hits collections is one of my favorite albums. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/4 "2006-04-21T23:54:30Z")
One of [mine](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7322526#post=2) . ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/5 "2006-04-22T00:22:57Z")
_Nth Degree_ by Morningwood. I believe the term is “guilty pleasure.” ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/6 "2006-04-22T00:43:38Z")
I’m a musical theatre/standards snob - that’s pretty much all I listen to in the car and at home. However, I flippin’ LOVE “My Humps” and “Hey-Ya”. We actually had Hey-Ya played at our wedding, although everything else was Sinatra/Nat King Cole/Dean Martin kind of stuff. I can’t get enough of either of these songs. E. ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/7 "2006-04-22T00:54:40Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] And yet…Glenn Campbell’s version of \*Wichita Lineman \* is running through my head and I love it. You got songs like that? [/QUOTE] I hadn’t even opened this thread and I thought of this song, along with other Jimmy Webb songs. Yes, including _MacArthur Park_ (but only the Maynard Ferguson version.) I have a degree in music. I played big band jazz for 15 years. I love punk, new wave and classic rock. I have good taste, dammit!! Stupid Jimmy Webb. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/8 "2006-04-22T00:57:16Z")
I usually listen to music with edge, power, and energy. It is usually things like heavy metal, rap. some country, and some classic rock. I don’t like things like soft rock and smooth jazz. However, I love the Carpenters and Karen Carpenters voice in general. When I was pretty good, a TV ad came on advertising a greatest hits collection and I immediately ran into the room and stared at the TV. She has a haunting and unusual voice. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/9 "2006-04-22T01:06:35Z")
[QUOTE=dinahmoe] I hadn’t even opened this thread and I thought of this song, along with other Jimmy Webb songs. Yes, including _MacArthur Park_ (but only the Maynard Ferguson version.) I have a degree in music. I played big band jazz for 15 years. I love punk, new wave and classic rock. I have good taste, dammit!! Stupid Jimmy Webb. [/QUOTE] I hear ya! And don’t even get me started with Dionne Warwick/Burt Bacharach. Every last one of 'em. \*If you see me walkin’ down the street and I start to cry each time we meet Walk on byyyyyyyyy (do-do-do-do-do) Walk on by… Foolish pride…that’s all that I have left so Let me hide The tears and the sadness you gave me When you said good bye-eye-eye-eye-eye - Aaaaahhhh…that’s bettah. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/10 "2006-04-22T01:10:10Z")
Classically trained lyric baritone. Multiple performances at the area’s top opera venue and had a reserved slot at Carnegie Hall with a group I was part of in college but couldn’t make work out. “Grillz” by Nelly. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/11 "2006-04-22T01:24:29Z")
I like classic rock, classic country, some current country and some current pop. I don’t listen to classical music, but I like Beethoven’s 5th. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/12 "2006-04-22T01:39:17Z")
I like “It’s One Of Those Nights” by The Partridge Family. It reminds me of a girl. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/13 "2006-04-22T02:37:45Z")
My usual playlist includes the likes of Staind, Tool, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Shadows Fall, as well as plenty of 80’s metal (Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, Metallica, et al). That said, there are some real oddballs mixed in, including: [ul] [li]“I’m Not in Love” - 10CC.[/li][li]“Somewhere” - Barbara Streisand[/li][li]“Memories” - Barbara Streisand[/li][li]“Horse With No Name” - America[/li][li]“Madman Across the Water” - Elton John[/li][li]“Wildfire” - Michael Martin Murphy[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/14 "2006-04-22T02:44:16Z")
[QUOTE=dinahmoe] I hadn’t even opened this thread and I thought of this song, along with other Jimmy Webb songs. Yes, including _MacArthur Park_ (but only the Maynard Ferguson version.) I have a degree in music. I played big band jazz for 15 years. I love punk, new wave and classic rock. I have good taste, dammit!! Stupid Jimmy Webb. [/QUOTE] Yor user name: Frrank Zappa? Dinahmoe Hum, perhaps? Have you ever heard Jimmy Webbs’ On 7th Avenue? Great tune. My guilty pleasure is funk, “Tear the roof off the Sucker” (Give up the funk), (George Clinton &) Parliment. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/15 "2006-04-22T03:00:18Z")
I also like a fairly obscure instrumental, by pianist Roger Williams, from the late '50s. My father had one of his albums with “Holiday For Strings” on it, so hearing it is one of my first memories. I’ve since found my own copy of the album, just to have it. I’ve also got the original version by David Rose & His Orchestra, but it isn’t as good as the Williams version. But I like King Crimson, and Dave Edmunds and soul / R&B music and all kinds of other stuff. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/16 "2006-04-22T03:11:51Z")
Donna Lewis’ “I Love You Always Forever”. Her voice is somehow soothing in that song. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/17 "2006-04-22T03:15:26Z")
I have horrible taste in music to begin with. As a teen of the 80s, I’ve never really gotten past that. And I’m not just talking _good_ 80s, I mean the bubblegum stuff too. I also listen to show tunes and Neil Diamond. (Neil … _swoon_) I also _love_ the first Westside Connection album, Bow Down. Can’t get enough. I’m a middle-aged white lady! I have been known to wear holiday socks! I think I scared some junior high kids on my street once when I parked my car and they heard the stereo and then saw me get out. Someone asked me recently if I was planning to get the new(ish) Westside album. Nope, I’m good to go with Bow Down. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_O\_Malley\_s\_Cow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Mrs\_O\_Malley\_s\_Cow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_O_Malley_s_Cow)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/18 "2006-04-22T03:56:31Z")
Not a specific song but most are suprised that I listen to Death Cab for Cutie and The Killers. I have no clue why. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/19 "2006-04-22T04:03:54Z")
I’m close to being middle age, a white middle class, fairly intelligent/educated, mom of 2 teenagers and a younger one. And I love Limp Bizkit. There, I said it. ---
**Author:** ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700/20 "2006-04-22T04:26:36Z")
I have a fairly wide taste in music, and I try to stretch myself (well, within the broad rock and roll style, I spose), but I have to say that sometimes a pure pop song just stays with me. So… ahem I LOVE Kelly Clarkson’s “Since You Been Gone” and “Because of You”. Which honeslty isn’t that big a stretch, but still. And **garygnu** , my wife and I listened to _Nth Degree_ daily for a month or two back around the new year. I actually heard that on the radio 'round these parts and found the video on Yahoo Music (did I mention how much I like Yahoo Music?) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-that-are-completely-out-of-character-for-you/353700.md?page=2)