Yeah, it's ANOTHER music thread - but feth it, why not?
I was just wondering what some of your musical 'guilty pleasures' were - those artists/songs you can't help loving, even though they bring you nothing but shame and persecution from your peers, and leave you an outcast from civilised society?
Mine is mid-period Mariah Carey. There, I said it. That feels better.
Well, for all my love of shoegazing, industrial and goth and my loathing of most chart music and stuff like house music, I do love me a bit of drum n bass.
Admitting you like JT takes more balls than I could ever muster (or care to admit).
My guilty pleasure. I like some of Britney Spears' songs. Only SOME. Her last album was the best I think, even if that's not saying much when speaking about bubblegum pop, overnight sensation.
Deff Dread red Edition wrote:I'm starting to realize I might have terrible taste in music. I also quite like Locnville:
Their music isn't overly bad, however I am ashamed about actually liking a hip-hop group.
THAT....is not hip-hop....Hip Hop, or what Hip Hop is MEANT to be...died in the early 90s...
THIS... is hip hop...
fuckin' raw.
MeanGreenStompa wrote:Hip-Hop is nothing to be ashamed of son...
...word
as far as guilty pleasure?
feth, I'm not even guilty...I love this girl...all goes along with my obsession with Japan....(NO I don't like Anime....just have a dying passion for "akira" and "spirited away"...ahaha...and the whole effing country)
she released her first song in 1998 called..."pokerface"....yes...sorry Man Gaga is a cheap rip off POS. Not only is Ayu infinitely more talented...her music is about more than just being so high and drunk and partying etc.....
Automatically Appended Next Post: and @ albatross....man...I love ALL RnB stuff from the 80s and 90s....Tina Turner, Mariah, En Vogue, all of it....
@MeanGreen, it is something to be ashamed of considering how many times I've slammed the genre as a whole.
@IG_urban, perhaps. I've heard that Hip-hop really had its 'golden age' during the late 1980's and early 90's, so you could very well be right. Nice song by the way.
+1 to Owl cities' 'Fireflies' even though local radio stations have been rather overplaying it.
Guilty pleasures.... Pet shop boys, go west, fine young cannibals, wham. Spandau ballet.. Sorry.. Did someone say they liked that owl city song? Stupid language !
I guess every bloke starts off with a 'blank slate', if you will. You can then collect or lose them, depending on the circumstances.
An example:
Have sex with a woman +1 Man Point
Have sex with a woman old enough to be your mother +2 Man Points
Have sex with a woman, then cry afterwards -2 Man Points
Have sex with a woman, then crap yourself afterwards +3 Man Points
Albatross wrote:
Have sex with a woman old enough to be your mother +2 Man Points
How many points does 'At 19 have sex with a woman old enough to be your mother whilst she's on holiday in your town year one, then with her emo pierced and tattooed eldest daughter the second year, then with her bouncy modelling 18 year old younger daughter the final year' get me?
Albatross wrote:
Have sex with a woman old enough to be your mother +2 Man Points
How many points does 'At 19 have sex with a woman old enough to be your mother whilst she's on holiday in your town year one, then with her emo pierced and tattooed eldest daughter the second year, then with her bouncy modelling 18 year old younger daughter the final year' get me?
I like the old country but I'm still fond of Garth Brooks and Alan Jackson, Alabama, Zac Brown band...I listened to country a lot more in the 90's than I did the old stuff (though I am only 34 so most of those artists had already passed their prime when I was born).
At one point I had every Garth and Alan and Brooks and Dunn album ever put out. I'm horribad with cd's though. If I don't burn copies I'd have to buy the originals about 3 times a year.
Why could he have made the same pack with the devil like Dick Clark for immortality. I could see him walking on the stage of a concert today of one of those douche bag with a lit cigarette, bottle of Jack and a bar stool.
"OMG it's Johnny Cash. Your the insperation for all my music."
He tugs back a swig from the bottle, "Really?"
In his slow casual manner Johnny Cash smashes the bar stool across the singers head, takes a long draw from the cigarrette which he then puts it out on the chest of the downed douche bag and exits stage right.
I guess every bloke starts off with a 'blank slate', if you will. You can then collect or lose them, depending on the circumstances.
An example:
Have sex with a woman +1 Man Point
Have sex with a woman old enough to be your mother +2 Man Points
Have sex with a woman, then cry afterwards -2 Man Points
Have sex with a woman, then crap yourself afterwards +3 Man Points
As you can see, it's a bit of a mine-field.
I literally spat coffee half way across the room. You owe me 5 pounds for my dry cleaning.
Anyway, another guilty pleasure...
I like how some of you guys are acting just too cool for school. He said guilty pleasures, not pretty cool bands. How are Kiss or Prince guilty pleasures? Are ya scared or something?
Im man enough to admit it. I like this song!
Now, the bands dress sense? No, i dont like that.. or myself very much either.
But lets have no more of this... "Oh yeah well.. The Rolling Stones/U2/Johnny Cash/Insert clearly cool and popular band here are like my guilty pleasure..."
mattyrm wrote:I like how some of you guys are acting just too cool for school. He said guilty pleasures, not pretty cool bands. How are Kiss or Prince guilty pleasures? Are ya scared or something?
Im man enough to admit it. I like this song!
Now, the bands dress sense? No, i dont like that.. or myself very much either.
But lets have no more of this... "Oh yeah well.. The Rolling Stones/U2/Johnny Cash/Insert clearly cool and popular band here are like my guilty pleasure..."
Yerp, I like that one as well, I was having a sing along to it whilst cooking up a curry the other day.
Jason Becker - Altitudes from Perpetual Burn album,most of the people around me listen to the mainstream music like pop,turbofolk etc..
Skip to the 1:50 then it gets good.
Whoa whoa whoa, whats wrong with Techno?! I friggin love the stuff. Pretty much anything in the electronica/techno/trance genre Ill probably dig. But Im a metal/industrial fan so really industrial isnt too far a leap I guess
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mattyrm wrote:I like how some of you guys are acting just too cool for school. He said guilty pleasures, not pretty cool bands. How are Kiss or Prince guilty pleasures? Are ya scared or something?
Im man enough to admit it. I like this song!
Now, the bands dress sense? No, i dont like that.. or myself very much either.
But lets have no more of this... "Oh yeah well.. The Rolling Stones/U2/Johnny Cash/Insert clearly cool and popular band here are like my guilty pleasure..."
I agree with you there man. I mean cmon...... I admitted to liking that damn owl city song. That takes guts, specially after asking people what are some really good Iron Maiden cds. I almost have to shower off just listening to that song lol
To me? Nothing. To the "Fans of whatever vapid pop star is on the charts this week" that surround me? Everything. Had a coworker ride with me to get lunch one day - when he heard techno come out of my stereo, he looked at me like I ate his puppy or something.
mattyrm wrote:I like how some of you guys are acting just too cool for school. He said guilty pleasures, not pretty cool bands. How are Kiss or Prince guilty pleasures? Are ya scared or something?
But lets have no more of this... "Oh yeah well.. The Rolling Stones/U2/Johnny Cash/Insert clearly cool and popular band here are like my guilty pleasure..."
Ok Prince may have been a bit of a safe bet, however fething Alphabeat? Thats not a guilty pleasure thats like standing up on your wedding day and telling your bride you caught aids from her ex!
But you asked for trully embarassing so here goes...
When I'm all alone with a computer around and no-one that it bothers I usually cue up some seriously ridiculous buttrock lead guitar on youtube... for instance
Racer-x: King of the monsters (Paul Gilbert's first release as a 'LOOK AT ME!' guitarist)
Dokken: Mr. Scary (George Lynch on guitar)... probably the only good thing to come out of that travesty of cheese-metal was George Lynch's 12 minute long solo on the live album... that man can mash his fingers
anything by Yngwie Malmstein, a legend among legends with songs titled like 'I am a Viking!' (hee hee hee). Maybe if he would learn a little more English his lyrics wouldn't be so stupid seeming, but again, man that man can mash his fingers.
Jason Becker/Marty Friedman's 'cacophony' series of guitar masturbating with a buddy
anything by Leatherwolf (seriously, 3 lead guitarists in the band, I think the drummer could also play lead guitar, and I know the singer took turns at a solo too now and then... In fact I think the only one in the band who DIDNT play lead guitar was the bassist... but maybe he had a side project I dunno)
Michael Angelo (the shred demon prince with the double guitar he plays two necks at once one in each ambidextrous hand!?)
damn this list could go on and on, but it all revolves around LUDICROUSLY drawn out lead-guitar stuff with minimal 'meaning' or 'content' but LOADS and LOADS of notes played extremely fast by some dude with a perm... I'm just a sucker for it, hence my screen name. I never had a perm though but I love me some butt-rock when nobody's looking.
Guitarists nowadays are wimps. Anyone who learned how to play in the 80s should raise their fists and salute the fact that they actually had to KNOW HOW TO PLAY to be recognized, not just have a cool haircut and 2 power chords. ech... I could go on and on but I wont...
I've honestly never got the whole 'guitar virtuoso' thing despite having been playing guitar for about 15 years. I'd much rather listen to Nick Cave being miserable/murderous over a minimal soundtrack than hear Joe Satriani bang out a million notes every second.
Having said that, i have been to see Kaki King play twice now xD
I like me some Jack White, Mark Knopfler, Hendrix, and Jeff Buckley personally... but I'm a rock dude... the 'shredder' dudes are 'guilty' pleasures though just because I think its so ridiculous. I laugh my butt off and play air guitar and jump on the couch and stuff... but only when home alone.
I dont have guilty pleasures. however i do take a lot of **** for some of my musical choices. some of which are simply because country and rap are so popular and i hate both. others because.... well here are those
I like the soundtrack to the 'Karate Kid'... seriously... I think it's hillarious. "sweep the leg!".
The lyrics go something like "you're the best... around... no-one's ever gonna bring you down... you'll fight.. you won't drop... and never stop ... until you reach the top! cuz your the best! around! no-one's ever going to bring you down...." and it has the most 80s-tastic cheese music behind it... its power packed... makes me want to go put on a headband I tell ya.
Guitardian wrote:I like the soundtrack to the 'Karate Kid'... seriously... I think it's hillarious. "sweep the leg!".
The lyrics go something like "you're the best... around... no-one's ever gonna bring you down... you'll fight.. you won't drop... and never stop ... until you reach the top! cuz your the best! around! no-one's ever going to bring you down...." and it has the most 80s-tastic cheese music behind it... its power packed... makes me want to go put on a headband I tell ya.
Sometimes those songs that just scream 80s are great to listen to. The cheese is just OMFGtastic. Like that song from the REAL Transformer movie
"YOUVE GOT THE TOUCH! (keyboards) YOVE GOT THE POWERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR YEA! (rest of band)" I mean cmon thats just AWESOMER! *jumps and screams like a girl at a boyband concert*
Guitardian wrote:I like the soundtrack to the 'Karate Kid'... seriously... I think it's hillarious. "sweep the leg!".
The lyrics go something like "you're the best... around... no-one's ever gonna bring you down... you'll fight.. you won't drop... and never stop ... until you reach the top! cuz your the best! around! no-one's ever going to bring you down...." and it has the most 80s-tastic cheese music behind it... its power packed... makes me want to go put on a headband I tell ya.
Sometimes those songs that just scream 80s are great to listen to. The cheese is just OMFGtastic. Like that song from the REAL Transformer movie
"YOUVE GOT THE TOUCH! (keyboards) YOVE GOT THE POWERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR YEA! (rest of band)" I mean cmon thats just AWESOMER! *jumps and screams like a girl at a boyband concert*
I believe Dare To Be Stupid by Mr. Weird Al Yankovic can be found on that soundtrack as well.
yeah dare to be stupid was on the transformers cartoon... it was the part where the junkabots (or whatever they were called, the insane motorcycle junkyard guys) were cruising around real fast and speaking gibberish. subtle choice of song, huh?
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