# Top Ten Guilty Musical Pleasures **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932 "2006-02-24T16:29:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/61 "2006-02-25T17:57:23Z")
Would ABBA be a guilty pleasure? Because I don’t care what anyone says, I love me some ABBA! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/62 "2006-02-25T18:31:12Z")
> [@Hugh Jass](#): > > No mention yet of Neil Sedaka? I likes me some Neil (Sedaka). I also really like sea shantys. Somehow, I had never heard “Drunken Sailor” until this past year. It led me to look into a bunch of other sailor songs. I love that stuff. > > Related to sea shantys, I like the Irish Rovers. Yes, that means I like the Unicorn Song. I love “Drunken Sailor”, check your Email. Jim ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/63 "2006-02-25T19:22:53Z")
How about “Sugar, Sugar”? btw - I just downloaded a slew of one hit wonders and other cool 60’s memories - Thank you everyone for jogging them loose!! ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/64 "2006-02-25T21:01:35Z")
I have a soft spot for ‘Outlaw’ country, such as: **Willie Nelson** **Waylon Jennings** **Charlie Daniels** **The Outlaws** And the rock versions: **Lynyrd Skynyrd** **Molly Hatchet** etc… And I don’t know who would think **Frank Sinatra** was uncool. He’s about as cool as it gets. It’s just that the younger generations haven’t figured it out yet. Hell, they’ve only recently discovered that about **Johnny Cash**. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/65 "2006-02-25T21:12:14Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > How about “Sugar, Sugar”? > btw - I just downloaded a slew of one hit wonders and other cool 60’s memories - Thank you everyone for jogging them loose!! Sorry, I draw the line on the Archies. I don’t enjoy them at all. How about the Scooby Doo theme instead. Jim ---
**Author:** ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/66 "2006-02-25T21:26:34Z")
> [@ddgryphon](#): > > Yes, that period! I don’t see what’s to be “guilty” about in that pleasure. 90% of all Hindi film song lyrics are crap!, so the 60s doesn’t stand out for me. ---
**Author:** ![Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnac_the_Magnificent)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/67 "2006-02-25T21:54:27Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Though people may be surprised at my liking for 30s composors like Harry Warren, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Cole Porter, but if anyone thinks they’re bad music, they’re fools. Dude, we’re they even before Curt Cobain? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/68 "2006-02-25T22:34:07Z")
Another guilty pleasure just popped up on my playlist: **Total Eclipse of the Heart** ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/69 "2006-02-25T22:40:48Z")
The soundtrack to **Xanadu**. There, I said it. It’s not so much the music as it is the fact that I saw this as a kid in one of the last years life was simple. Thank God someone else mentioned **Milli Vanilli** , or I would have taken home the prize in this thread. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/70 "2006-02-25T23:05:45Z")
> [@Eyebrows 0f Doom](#): > > Would ABBA be a guilty pleasure? Because I don’t care what anyone says, I love me some ABBA! Just got _ABBA - The Movie_ on DVD. Woo-hoo! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/71 "2006-02-25T23:11:59Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#): > > …snip… > And I don’t know who would think **Frank Sinatra** was uncool. He’s about as cool as it gets. It’s just that the younger generations haven’t figured it out yet. Hell, they’ve only recently discovered that about **Johnny Cash**. Hey, if you grew up listening to Classic rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal and Thrash Metal, you might consider Sinatra uncool. Many of my friends when I was 16-22 thought so. They even thought the 60’s Psychedelic & Folk rock was lame. I had to introduce some of them to such dinosaurs as Zeppelin & Yes and they didn’t know who Syd Barret was. This was in the 80’s for Ogs Sake. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/72 "2006-02-26T00:09:45Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > How about “Sugar, Sugar”? > btw - I just downloaded a slew of one hit wonders and other cool 60’s memories - Thank you everyone for jogging them loose!! I like that song. Definitely my number one guilty pleasure. It does make me kind of sad that someone would consider The Bangles a guilty pleasure. I like their music a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/73 "2006-02-26T01:11:33Z")
> [@Talon Karrde](#): > > > [@anyrose](#): > > > > How about “Sugar, Sugar”? > > I like that song. Definitely my number one guilty pleasure. Any red-blooded male has got to melt when Toni Wine (or as I will always think of her, Veronica) delivers that line “I’m gonna make your life so sweet,” first as a purr, then as an erotic cry. Oh mama. Okay, is my credibility shot _yet_? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/74 "2006-02-26T01:14:26Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > Any red-blooded male has got to melt when Toni Wine (or as I will always think of her, Veronica) delivers that line “I’m gonna make your life so sweet,” first as a purr, then as an erotic cry. Oh mama. > > Okay, is my credibility shot _yet_? Yes 😃 Jim ---
**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:** [February 26, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/75 "2006-02-26T01:15:52Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > How about “Sugar, Sugar”? That’s a good one, but I’m more partial to “Jingle, Jangle”. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/76 "2006-02-26T01:16:09Z")
It occurs to me that youse guys may be able to [help me with this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7141531#post7141531) since some of you (yes I’m looking at you, **What Exit?** ) are from close to my era, if not actually from it ---
**Author:** ![Tabula\_Rasa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@Tabula\_Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabula_Rasa)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/77 "2006-02-26T01:29:49Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Another guilty pleasure just popped up on my playlist: **Total Eclipse of the Heart** Yes. Me, too. Bonnie Tyler. and, Meatloaf. ABBA, especially “Fernando”, with “Waterloo” as a runner up. Cher “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves” Don McLean “Winterwood” and “Sister Fatima” Electric Light Orchestra, especially, “Can’t Get it Out of My Head” moonlight on the water, I saw…the ocean’s daughter… Judy Collins “Farwell to Tarwathie” (yeah, with the whalesong) and “Cook with Honey” just about everything on Marianne Faithfull’s album North Country Maid and not much of anything else she’s done except a fairly recent collaboration with The Chieftains. A sad, sad hagging of a voice. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/78 "2006-02-28T04:03:13Z")
> [@Tevildo](#): > > o/“Rave on, rave on and tell me…” 🙂 > > A-hem. That being said. I must confess to owning the “Schanppi” album. I think that counts as 10 spots in anybody’s money. … Did we date? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/79 "2006-02-28T05:31:26Z")
Glen Campble: Wichita Lineman, Galveston - Corny, yes, but simple, heartfelt songs Al Stewart: Year of the Cat, and others - Lyrics obscure and romantic And that many have misused her songs is no fault of Karen Carpenter. She had one of the most beautiful singing voices. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932/80 "2006-02-28T06:34:12Z")
Second Karen Carpenter. Her voice can still reduce me to tears sometimes. Nat King Cole. [Rupert Holmes](http://www.rupertholmes.com/) - he’s so much more than “The Pina Colada Song.” Listen to “Terminal” sometime. And my favorite, [Dean Friedman](http://www.deanfriedman.com/) - only had one hit (“Ariel”) in 1977, but is still recording for his loyal fans and selling his CDs on his website. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-ten-guilty-musical-pleasures/345932.md?page=3)