Guilty Pleasures!!!!!

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by Yesspaz

The Who, Journey, Tom Petty, Boston, The Eagles - none of these should be considered guilty pleasures! But Bee Gees, Michael Jackson, Aimee Man, Bangles, Bondie, Huey Lewis... WOW.

PS. I'm an ordained Baptist minister and I can't stomach Stryper. Moses, you really are suffering for the Lord

Except for the occasional joke, I'm recusing myself from any more "guilty pleasures" threads. your post exemplifies why.

How you can put Aimee Mann in with that crowd is beyond me. It's obvious you think of her as some bubble gum artist. Nothing could be further from the truth. You remind me of the guy in concert who was yelling for her to play "Time Stand Still". Like she's going to play a Rush song she spent a few lines singing on instead of her many songs (at an acoustic show with a piano and bassist no less). Go find any of her last six solo records and tell me with a straight face she is anywhere near those other groups. All you're doing is putting something you don't like as a guilty pleasure and something you do as not. WOW is right

Stryper is just a hair band that happens to have a lyrical content about religion. Just because you're religious doesn't mean that you will like Stryper. If you're not, you don't automatically hate them. "I'm an ordained Baptist minister and I can't stomach Stryper" sounds like...well I think you know what I'm implying.

It's wonderful that you have this jones for Journey. I was a teen when they turned from rock band to commercial pop machine. It wasn't pretty. Guilty I say!

Respond if you like, you may have the last word here.

[progdirjim(Admin)]

Originally Posted by Yesspaz

The Who, Journey, Tom Petty, Boston, The Eagles - none of these should be considered guilty pleasures! But Bee Gees, Michael Jackson, Aimee Man, Bangles, Bondie, Huey Lewis... WOW.

I think I figured why this post elicited a reaction Spaz. I thought about it awhile, becuase I've posted a "WOW" thought (American Idol) and some support (Cult et. al.), but no one took offense at my posts. I hope it's not because I'm the "program director" - if I say something stupid or inappropriate, I want people to call me on it! I think the difference is that you've made no secret in the past of your love of those bands, especially Journey and Petty, but the others as well. So even if you didn't mean it as such, your post READS as if you're saying "If I like it it's not a guilty pleasure, but if I don't it is." I'm not complaining about your post, but putting a thought out there as to why it wasn't taken so well. For the record, I have 4 Aimee Mann albums, and I like them better than anything Journey did with Steve Perry. So there!

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by progdirjim

if I say something stupid or inappropriate, I want people to call me on it!

So even if you didn't mean it as such, your post READS as if you're saying "If I like it it's not a guilty pleasure, but if I don't it is."

For the record, I have 4 Aimee Mann albums, and I like them better than anything Journey did with Steve Perry. So there!

It's just that there's so much to choose from Jim, to call you on it would be time consuming!

That's how I read it too. Methem had it right in his post. And I really think Guilty Pleasure is a misnomer...

I'm still peeved about the Aimee Mann thing. Not comparable to the Bangles or Huey, sorry.

[roger]

damn, Spaz, for being so religious you sure are judgmental...

[Yesspaz]

Rick, chill out man. Relax.

Roger, I'm not being judgemental here. This is a thread about musical guilty pleasures - which is all relative to taste - not about world events. I'm expressing my WOW reaction to someone liking those artists. That's all.

[Yesspaz]

And I have mp3s of the Michael Jackson songs "Thriller" and "Beat It" (but can't take him as a whole).

It's always hard to get tone and inflection from the written word unless one is purposefully constructing it that way. In a message board form, there's no edit time, etc. If people knew me they'd know I'm a mellow guy. I've got strong opinions, yeah, but so do most folks here. Nothing wrong with that. And I understand your thought about "your post READS as if you're saying "If I like it it's not a guilty pleasure, but if I don't it is."" But hey, I've listed things I like and fully admit they're a guilty pleasure! Roxette! Hello?!? And there are things I don't like that I don't consider guilty pleasures. I'm not an AC/DC or Van Halen fan, but if someone said here it's a guilty pleasure, I'd be puzzled why they say that. Above I was expressing WOW about prog people liking Huey Lewis and Bangles, not in a "WOW, that's sad" sense but a "WOW, that's surprising sense." And I was saying that I'm surprised anyone would consider claiming Boston or The Who as guilty pleasures. Hoping that clears things up.

If not...

[podakayne]

not so much guilty as "i ain't ashamed"

Outcast – they are such a fresh breath of musical musings to have come along in the R&B, hip/hop, rap whatever genre you wanna call it...loved them from the start. if i were my kid i'd be shakin it always to their beat. cant wait to see their movie Idlewild too.

and hey Yspaz i think Mike J jams...but back in the day before he (Eminem) lost himself, and i liked eminem too (okay that's guilt)

and i cant do lawrence welk (did everyone's folks watch that show?) but will say i like louie/louie armstrong

[Naganon]

OK...I'm desperate...can't think of anything. I LOVE Alan Parsons Project. Would that be a guilty pleasure? Well, if they are wrong...I don't want to be right!

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by Naganon

OK...I'm desperate...can't think of anything. I LOVE Alan Parsons Project. Would that be a guilty pleasure? Well, if they are wrong...I don't want to be right!

There's plenty of APP here. And they were mentioned in Austin Powers! Anyway, the more I look at this thread the more I can't figure out what is and what should never be a guilty pleasure (free Zep reference).

Even if you say it's a guilty pleasure, I still like Lawrence Welk and 50's music.

Latest ones: Pat Benatar, Pretenders, Bread.

By the way, I can't believe you don't have ANY.

[JRV]

The author should have linked to this thread from this article--

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[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by JRV

The author should have linked to this thread from this article--

http://online.wsj.com/public/article...ml?mod=blog s

Some of his "regular" bands are guilty pleasures to me... nothing like referencing an obscure group to try to proclaim you're cool

[Bmithra]

Well, I think I will have a go at this.


Hank Williams(senior not junior)
Willie Nelson
Dolly Parton(distant relative according to my mom)
Toby Kieth
Oingo Boingo
The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy
XTC
Cheap Trick
The Tubes
Patsy Cline

I am sure there are more, I will add them as I remember them.

Originally Posted by Bmithra

Well, I think I will have a go at this.

Dolly Parton(distant relative according to my mom)

Interesting Bm............there's a couple of Dolly Parton's that I'm rather fond of too.

OK, OK......you all knew I'd say something like that.

[ricb]

funny thread~

erm...oh oh...um gonna feel like um nekkid now!

melanie?
billie holiday or
dinah washington (i LOVE her voice ever since i was 4 or 5)
howard roberts?? (lounge jazz master)
mavericks (oops, did i say that?)
mama's and the papa's
james taylor
stylistics
delfonics
three dog night

shit...that's only a snippett .... ok ... put me in jail, i'm all sortsa guilty

[Yesspaz]

Originally Posted by ricb

delfonics
three dog night

I love Three Dog Night! Great band and great vocals. And the Delfonics! Man, every time I see that band's name I think of that Tarantino movie "Jackie Brown."

[PeterG]

Originally Posted by Yesspaz

I love Three Dog Night! Great band and great vocals. And the Delfonics! Man, every time I see that band's name I think of that Tarantino movie "Jackie Brown."

Nothing to feel guilty about there. TDN rocked (in their day) except for the cheesy songs. (there were a couple)

I still have "Around the world wiith Three Dog Night" live album on vinyl.

[kirk]

Originally Posted by PeterG

Nothing to feel guilty about there. TDN rocked (in their day) except for the cheesy songs. (there were a couple)

I still have "Around the world wiith Three Dog Night" live album on vinyl.

Wash away my troubles...
wash away my pain...
Wii-ith the rain in Shambala...

I swear, i'm going to cover that someday.


Kirk/Zenpool

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by kirk

Wash away my troubles...
wash away my pain...
Wii-ith the rain in Shambala...

I swear, i'm going to cover that someday.


Kirk/Zenpool

love that song!

[PeterG]

Originally Posted by kirk

Wash away my troubles...
wash away my pain...
Wii-ith the rain in Shambala...

I swear, i'm going to cover that someday.


Kirk/Zenpool

I think there are a BUNCH of TDN songs that could be stylistically covered, and be popular again.... grreat writing... song structure.

Here you go..........I'd be interested to hear what else you newer members of the family like.

Be honest!!!!