I really like those two songs, especially the first one.

There are a host of other songs/artist I didnt mention before, other include.

Creed - What If, Higher, My Sacrifice
Yellowcard- Way Away (love that song)
Staind- Its Been Awhile
Limp Bizkit- Rollin, My Way
3 Doors down- Loser, Superman, When Im Gone

Christopher Cross

I guess people would consider the Knack to be a guilty pleasure.

But they were much more than just a few hits. The guitarist and drummer were amazing and that's not to take anything away from the lead singer and bass player.

I've seen them live three times and they are amazing.

So there.

Good Girls Don't and Oh Tara are still a couple of my favorites. Just well-made rock/pop songs all the way around. No guilt whatsover....


here's a few I classify as guilty pleasures (songs I like my artists that I don't as a rule like):

Ace of Base - The Sign
Hanson - Mmm Bop
Chris DeBurgh - Don't Pay The Ferryman
Toto - Africa
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire

my whole music collection is a Guilty Pleasure. I have over 800 CD's and 1000 records and it's all 80's hair metal (Scorpions, Ratt, Roxx Gang), 70's funk and disco (Bee Gees, Lakeside, Gap Band), some country (David Allen Coe, John Michael Montgomery, Tracy Byrd) and cheesy pop (Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Nsync). I hate any type of rock that in any way can be described as "alternative". All my friends make fun of me because my favorite bands are Warrant and KISS, yet they listen to complete crap like Audioslave, the Perfect Bore... I mean Circle, Shinedown, Staind and other bands where the guy stands in one place and mumbles really really really really really really really slow at his foot about how depressed he is in that annoying stuck in 1993 Seattle "eeerrrrr eeerrrr" type vocals. The Worst.

I know the words to, and subsequently sing along with, several of Barry Manilow's older hits that I like.

I don't own any Neil Diamond or Herb Alpert, but my Pop used to play the hell out of both and there's certainly a warm spot in my heart for them. No guilt in that.

The artist in my collection that most makes people scratch their heads would be Sunn 0))), who play sludgy drone.

Crusing the 'net earlier in the day, I came across a Ricky Martin song that I love. It was a duet with a singer that didn't go anywhere. Her name was Meja and the song is called "Private Emotion".

I really don't know why either. I mean, I don't have any problem with these two spanish albums & , but I can't figure out why I like this song so much.

Ha! My MOM got me into them years ago, she used to listen to them back in 1966, how uncool is that! I love it though, "Mas que Nada" rocks!

The ultimate guilty pleasure album just came out recently - Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway". I'm not kidding - try it out - it's really good

Here is the most recent album I've bought:


wait, it gets worse. I already own this:

so I bought the second album with like 50% overlap.

I've also seen Kenny in concert at least seven times over the years. What the hell is wrong with me?

Add one more to the list of people that love the Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack. I like the movie alot too.

that song from Kay Hanley (formally of Letters to Cleo) 3 Small Word is a great tune..

my guilty pleasure is 4 Non Blondes..their Bigger, Better, Faster, More album still gets heavy playtime in my cd player.. such a great album

Hey now, nothing wrong with a little Sergio Mendes! The Herb Alpert Presents album was one of the few I managed to save out of my Dad's collection when he retired (still pissed at him for trashing all his Beatles and Stones albums). I've never heard jazz, latin and pop fused together so perfectly (though Harper's Bizarre's Come To The Sunshine definitely comes close).

I like a lot of the stuff that people have posted here. I love disco (though not the commersh stuff, more of the funky/soulful stuff, I love the Beach Boys, I love Toxic and I don't care who knows it! My only listening that I truly consider a guilty pleasure is:



Lately I've been listening to a lot of power/sunshine pop: Beach Boys, Eternity's Children, Millenium, June & the Exit Wounds, HAL, Jellyfish, Mark Eric, Todd Rundgren... people who know me as the crate-digging soul junkie might not be able to get into it or understand, but it's their loss.
I also got turned on to Scott Walker's first four albums recently, and I know that people who I share 95% of taste in music would hate it, but I don't really give a shit... what a boring place this would be if we all thought the same and liked the same stuff.

all good stuff.

Do you have the Sagittarius CD?

No, but I'm definitely interested in hearing it. I've loved all the Curt Boettcher stuff that I've heard so far. Are you familiar with the June & the Exit Wounds album? It's like a modern Pet Sounds, I think you'd love it. The fact that he never recorded a full-length followup makes me want to cry.

BTW Buford, your smilie isn't working.

Yes I have that cd. A friend of mine is good friends with the guy.

I just noticed that the "powers that be" have deleted my smiley from the options. Harrrummpphh.

Guess it was too much effort to leave it.

That's awesome. I just heard it a couple of months ago, it's brilliant! Do you know if he ever plans to do a follow-up? I heard that he was working on one, but couldn't find the right feel. And that makes me a sad panda.

Another artist I think you might dig based on what little I know about your musical tastes is Lewis Taylor. He's another one of these one man band musical geniuses, but much harder to classify (prog-influenced psychedelic soul comes close).

Guilty pleasure? I don't consider my taste in music (or anyone else's for that matter) important enough to be guilty about. It's entertainment. I know there are a lot of dramatic personalities out there who consider particular music vital to their existence, but they mostly care that others think they're cool, and usually grow out of it. I don't mean musicians, of course, for many of them it's a true calling.

Back OT, I dig just about everything. I listen to classical in the car on commute and short drives. On longer drives I'll listen to Depeche Mode, BEASTIE Boys, Yes, Tears for Fears (yes, I am the 80s' bitch). I like pop, disco, techno in various flavors, old school country, new country, classic/prog/hard/50s rock, and even show tunes. If it's got a catchy tune, a good beat, and makes me smile, I'll listen to it. I have a hard time with annoying, grating stuff like industrial and angst-rock. It just sounds like I felt when I was 13, and that wasn't pretty.

I've always liked female singers and have a streak of pop running through my tastes- I blame Madonna and Debbie Gibson during my formative years in the 80s. From roughly most embarrassing to me to least, here's a few people I currently have one or more CDs of in my collection.

Spice Girls
Debbie Gibson
Christina Agulara
Samantha Fox
Martika
Nelly Furtado
Vitamin C
SHeDaisy
Shania Twain
Joss Stone
Madonna
Avril Lavinge
Lisa Loeb
Natalie Imbruglia
Belinda Carlisle
The Go-Go's
The Bangles
The Motels

N*Sync (while they were popular)
Vengaboys

Guilty pleasure?

Nelly Furtado's great. I don't think anyone who works with Bela Fleck and the Kronos Quartet needs to be a guilty pleasure...

Oh...

a-Ha