Would ABBA be a guilty pleasure? Because I don’t care what anyone says, I love me some ABBA!
I love “Drunken Sailor”, check your Email.
Jim
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 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.
Sorry, I draw the line on the Archies. I don’t enjoy them at all.
How about the Scooby Doo theme instead.
Jim
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.
Dude, we’re they even before Curt Cobain?
Another guilty pleasure just popped up on my playlist: Total Eclipse of the Heart
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.
Just got ABBA - The Movie on DVD. Woo-hoo!
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
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.
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
That’s a good one, but I’m more partial to “Jingle, Jangle”.
It occurs to me that youse guys may be able to help me with this since some of you (yes I’m looking at you, What Exit?) are from close to my era, if not actually from it
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.
… Did we date? :eek:
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.
Second Karen Carpenter. Her voice can still reduce me to tears sometimes.
Nat King Cole.
Rupert Holmes - he’s so much more than “The Pina Colada Song.” Listen to “Terminal” sometime.
And my favorite, Dean Friedman - only had one hit (“Ariel”) in 1977, but is still recording for his loyal fans and selling his CDs on his website.