American Idol. I know it’s TV, but it’s still my guilty musical pleasure.
I’m much too slim dunlap to be watching this show, but I can’t resist it.
I think my CD collection is pretty much “wuss free”, though.
The version off of 20 Jahre das Jubiläums Album kicks some major ass. They really made it fresh and fun (for such abyssmal lyrics).
My guilty pleasures:
**Nightmares on Wax ** (Total stoner music, but I don’t smoke. Go figure).
**Tom Green’s ** song “I Like Hooters”. Yes, I’m a gay male who rocks out to that song.
Aztec Camera’s album “Love”. In comparison, it makes even the Swiss look ignorant of what cheesy means.
Hootie and the Blowfish. Darius Rucker has an awesome voice. Sorry. I’ve made peace with it.
Matchbox 20. Sigh, they made great music that reminded me of the local band Limited Warranty that I listened to in Junior High.
In my sheet music collection, I have two Debbie Gibson books, two Spice Girls books, a whole lotta Abba.
All of the Hayseed Dixie bluegrass versions of rock songs. Especially Ace of Spades by Motorhead.
I just ordered the remastered/expanded CDs of Barabajagal, Hurdy Gurdy Man, Sunshine Superman, and Mellow Yellow. Donovan fest at my place!
I’m with RealityChuck in that I never feel “guilty” about any of the music that I love. Some people might look askance at my Lemon Pipers addiction, but I insist that they’re groovy.
Halelujah! Yes! That’s what I’m talking about! Abba and the Backstreet Boys! You know you love Fernanado!
If Gwen Stefani had good singing to go with her backing music, and if Avril Lavigne had good music to go behind her singing, they’d be guilty pleasures of mine. Thankfully they don’t or I’d have to listen to their really really sucky lyrics.
I like the acoustic stuff Matchbox did a couple years ago. Same goes for Incubus’ acoustic stuff, but neither of those are guilty pleasures of mine.
My guilty pleasure is a song by Juliana Theory. I don’t mind songs that are hardcore punk (despite perhaps being melodic), or songs that are totally – but unabashedly – wimpy, despite having punk influences, but I really really hate music that tries to be both at the same time and fails miserably – like most stuff by Juliana Theory :smack:
I enjoy Bread and also Peter Frampton’s, “Oh won’t you…show me the way.”
Don’t tell anyone. 
And, of course, they are. Thank you for those who caught on the the shame with tonge planted firmly in cheek. Thank you and Thank you.
This was fun – and I hope more people play! Expano, I’m no spring chicken having come into this world nearly 50 years ago. I know that there is no true cool, but I love to celebrate the offbeat, the “oh, that’s not cool” world of Mohammed Rafi’s 60’s pop insanity. The whole point is to celebrate what you love, regardless of what people think.
I think what we’ve proven is that there is a definition of uncool, that we solidly ignore.
Keep it up! All God’s children got rhythm!
Ah, but Hurdy Gurdy Man *is * cool. It’s basically a Led Zeppelin song without Robert Plant. The others…not so much (but they’re on my playlist, too).
Dave Morey of San Francisco’s KFOG says: “…I don’t think there’s any reason for anyone to feel truly guilty about music. As long as we have headphones, we can all get along in this world, can’t we?”
But really, would you want to be caught singing along to Baltimora’s Tarzan Boy? Or Disco Duck?
Hey, joke 'em if they can’t take a F—.
There’s really no good way for me to answer the question beyond mentioning albums (yes, the vinyl kind in most cases) that I actually bought for one (in a very few cases more than one) track, simply because that song or piece caught my attention even if the artist/group didn’t do much for me.
Bread’s album containing If
Gilbert O’Sullivan’s album containing Alone Again, Naturally
Michael Jackson’s Thriller for Billie Jean
George Michael’s Faith for Kissing a Fool
A Doobie Brothers “Best of” album for Long Train Running
A Perez Prado album for Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
Other instances are albums my mother bought more for the songs than the performers that included Billy Vaughn, Roger Williams and even Lawrence Welk.
When I was working in a record shop I “borrowed” some albums overnight and taped the tracks I liked off some I never would have bought including:
Barbra Streisand
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
The Beatles
Jack Jones
The Kingston Trio
Peter, Paul and Mary
Joan Baez
I had the very good fortune to have been working at a radio station when they “dumped” maybe 200 old and out-of-date albums. I picked out maybe 50 of them that I never would have paid money for but liked for one reason or another. Wound up listening to them quite a bit.
A general statement I can make today is that I don’t buy music I don’t like. Why bother?
I also like Spice Girls.
My favorite that people roll their eyes at is Rainbow Connection. I like almost any
version, but my favorites are Sarah McLachlan and Kermit the Frog.
Alanis Morissette
The Wiggles.
Bif Naked… her lyrics are downright bad in some places, her music and voice aren’t really anything special, but for some reason I love it.
Idina Menzel’s solo albums- I don’t think they’d sell if Idina Menzel weren’t in Rent and Wicked. They’re good enough for me to listen to repeatedly on headphones, but not good enough that I’d put it on speakers when everyone else is around.
Chess (the musical). gotta love the 80s cheese. and I do. Oh, do I.
I’ll second various showtunes, in and out of context.
Also various hymns and christian songs. I was in choirs for years and I still like such goofy songs as “Emmanuel” “Lord I Lift your Name on High” and “Step by Step”
Christmas carols. I don’t mind department stores during December. I love Christmas carols.
Me too! I’m tired of Christmas bashers and their “I’m so sick of xmas carols…” blather.
OK, some are better than others. I wouldn’t weep if I never heard “Frosty the Snowman” again.
I look forward to many and consider them good music to boot.
These four I have on my PC at work:
I Believe In Father Christmas - Emerson Lake & Palmer
So this is Christmas- Lennon
Christmas Wrapping - Christmas Wrapping
Snoopy’s Christmas - Royal Guardsman
Jim
I just played **One Night in Bangkok ** 8 times in a row 
Deep breath (you did ask:
Guy Mitchell, Sparrow in the Treetop and Christopher Columbus make me smile.
Cinderella – all of it, but especially Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone
Dan Baird – with or without the Georgia Satellites – sing along with me – “I love you period, do you love me question mark”
Rodney Crowell – I know, sometimes he really strains to get lines to rhyme, but his voice is lovely, and who doesn’t sing along with Shame on the Moon and Above and Beyond? Huh? Who?
was that a typo, or did you not know this is by The Waitresses?
A Cut and Pasto I guess.
Jim
Hmmm. I’d put Leon in the cool category. How many 73 year old grandfathers (or great-grandfathers) still play bars in Texas?