I admit it, I like… oh god I like the Insane Clown Posse. I like them! Can’t stop, and I just know I’m gonna go see them when they come to town in a few weeks, but I know they suck so bad!!
I also like a few Crazy Town songs, and even some Papa Roach.
Making the Crazy Town thing worse is that probably my favorite song by them is “Lollipop Porn”.
Lyrical excerpt:
I’ve got a lollipop porn bitch (ready to ride it)
I’ve got a lollipop porn bitch
A hardcore sex bitch turned (suicidal)
Now you see why this is such a guilty pleasure.
I also like the movie Varsity Blues, not to mention countless other bad ones, but they are at least obscure enough that it’s ok to like them. The same goes with music really. I liked Crazy Town 2 years ago when they were strictly an LA thing. I had their CD for a long time, and I got other people hooked on them. I went to a Methods of Mayhem show just to see Crazy Town open for them.
Now suddenly “Butterfly” is all over pop radio, and you see Crazy Town CD’s on the front rack at target for $11.99. When I bought mine I paid $17.99 for it dammit! And you know why? They were knew, and it was original of me to like them, I never heard them on the radio before I got it, ok? Dammit, my rationalizations always blow.
Anyway, does anyone else here have any really guilty pleasure bands/movies/songs?
MarxBoy
P.S. I have the full standard set as well (Culture Club, Ministry, John Denver and a ton more.
Jet Li is a bodygard, protecting Christy Chung. Near the end, only Li, Chung, Chung’s boyfriend, and the main bad guy remain. This leads to the stupidest climax in the history of action movies.
From about twenty feet, the bad guy shoots at Chung. After the bullet has been fired, Li and the boyfriend run from several feet behind Chung to try to intercept the bullet, and the boyfriend chickens out at the last instant. Li jumps in front of the bullet, saving Chung. Chung catches Li, and the bad guy fires again. After the bullet has been fired, Chung spins around to take the bullet, but Li realizes what she is doing, and spins them back around so that he takes the bullet.
Three people faster than a bullet. And I love it. And of course it has the most profound statement of personal moral philosophy, which I have adopted and live by daily.
Ooh, your mentioning that Sleepaway Camp movie reminds me of my affinity for The Howling Series. After the first one they suck severely, and they stop making sense completely, but I still love them.
I like Journey. There. I said it. I like those schmaltzy, corporate-arena rock, mullet-havin’, ballad-singin’ guys. I don’t own any of their albums / cds (yet – may I continue to be strong), but if I’m alone in the car and hear them on the radio I’ve been known to sing along.
Please don’t tell anyone.
[sub] don’t stop believin’ hold on to that feele-e-e-en’[/sub]
Hair Bands! I love the hair bands from the 80’s. Poison, Warrant, Cinderella, Ratt, Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot… I could list hundreds of them. I even went to see Poison in concert last year. [sub]oh the shame[/sub]
As for movies, I like a lot of the 80’s movies such as Sixteen Candles, St. Elmo’s Fire, and Less than Zero. I also like the comedy Rustler’s Rhapsody which nobody else seems to remember let alone enjoy.
Oh no! Here I was, not even ashamed of my Bee Gees and Abba CDs. (Or my Culture Club and Ministry…)
How about Ace of Base? I couldn’t help buying a couple of their CDs in the early 90s. And I also love Dolly Parton. Can’t help it.
As for movies, I like those really stylized 60’s flicks starring any combination of the following: Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randal, or James Garner. Like Pillow Talk, Move Over, Darling, or The Thrill of it All. Predictable? Dated? Dumb? Yes! Yes! Yes! I blame my mother for making me watch them as a child.
You should consider going to live in a closet about the NSYNC thing, but never be ashamed of liking Daft Punk.
Their first CD rules, and for the most part so does the new one. I’ll let you in on a little secret- “One More Time” is a joke. It’s a catchy-ass parody of the people who come in and try to use that progressive house sound to make mainstream pop. (Did you think that Romanthony was just singing like that? Tonight-tah!) The really hilarious thing is that they are doing well on the pop charts. I guarantee they’re laughing their asses off at that. The same goes for “Digital Love”. It’s catchy as hell and just as silly.
Then we get “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” (the 3:43 album version, not the extended boring mix). This is what Daft Punk is really about. It’s “Around The World” but better…
I love The Holy Modal Rounders, the mid-sixties folkie duo you REALLY need a spoonful of sugar to swallow. Really raspy, backcountry-style git-tar and fiddle, and yowly voices, and lyrics (both traditional folk and souped-up acid-tinged originals) that make the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band look like Normal People.
“Momma’s downstairs a-workin’ in the kitchen
And Dad’s in the livin’ room a-grousin’ and a bitchin’
And I’m upstairs, kicking the gong for…
EUUUUUU–PHORRRRR–IA!”
– “Euphoria”
“Got my psychedelic feet
In my psychedelic shoes
Oh Lord I got dem
Psychedelic blues…
Tell me how long
Do I have to wait?
Can I get you now
Or must I hesitate?”
– “Hesitation Blues” (first use of the word “psychedelic” on an album of music)
Hahahaha!! I remember that one! It was soooo bad it was hysterical. Maybe not the reason you like it, but I’d watch it again.
Alright, I confess. I like Rick Springfield, Barry Manilow (especially the blues albums he did), and, yes, ABBA and the Bee Gees are not strangers to my stereo. Neither are KC and the Sunshine Band and Cher’s early stuff like Half-Breed and Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.[sub]I grew up in the Seventies. Sue me.[/sub]
As for movies, I love Xanadu, Victor/Victoria, Hudson Hawke, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Zorro, the Gay Blade and Love at First Bite.
::sigh:: I’ve forever blown my shot at being cool.
Okay…everyone knows Friday was a pretty good movie. But god help me, I really liked Next Friday. And it was all stereotypes and slapstick, but I can’t help laughing at it. And as Rachelle mentioned, the John Hughes and brat-pack movies from the '80s continue to enthrall. “No more yanky me wanky! The Donger needs food!” Ohhhhh, man, it’s so wrong, but I don’t wanna be right.
And music? I don’t care what anyone says, Def Leppard’s Hysteria was the consummate album of the '80s. So there.
Ooh! Ooh! Forgot about Porky’s and Revenge of the Nerds. Classics.
And for more embarrassing music (though not bands)…that “How Long Has This Been Going On” song. I love it so much it hurts. And I know in my head it’s bad, bad, bad.
