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Guilty Pleasure

nickburrows14nickburrows14 Posts: 858
edited June 2013 in Other Music
Anyone got a song or band that you like but wouldn't readily admit it? Anything in your CD collection that sticks out like a sore thumb?

I'll go first. I like some of Beyonces stuff and have bought my daughter the cds so I can hear some of the songs...........
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  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,079
    I kinda agree with what Dave Grohl said on the WTF podcast. Why does it have to be "guilty"? If its a please, let it please you. It's 2013. No one should give a shit who listens to what. Beyonce is fucking great. Great jams. Amazing voice. Halo is killer as shit.

    I know pop is pretty despised around here, but I think we are in a golden age of pop music. It's not as disposable as it was in the nSync, Backstreet years of the late 90s. The are some great songwriters writing some great pop songs that are performed by some really talented people.

    Katy Perry is fantastic. Kelly Clarkson is always satisfying. So is TSwift. Rihanna is also great. JT and Lady Gaga are innovators in the pop world.


    No reason to feel guilty by listening to this stuff, it's great.
  • pearljam133pearljam133 Posts: 202
    Tim Simmons wrote:
    I kinda agree with what Dave Grohl said on the WTF podcast. Why does it have to be "guilty"? If its a please, let it please you. It's 2013. No one should give a shit who listens to what. Beyonce is fucking great. Great jams. Amazing voice. Halo is killer as shit.

    I know pop is pretty despised around here, but I think we are in a golden age of pop music. It's not as disposable as it was in the nSync, Backstreet years of the late 90s. The are some great songwriters writing some great pop songs that are performed by some really talented people.

    Katy Perry is fantastic. Kelly Clarkson is always satisfying. So is TSwift. Rihanna is also great. JT and Lady Gaga are innovators in the pop world.


    No reason to feel guilty by listening to this stuff, it's great.
    Wait, am I on the forums on pearljam.com? Because I feel like I'm on some MTV-related site with this nonsense.
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  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,079
    Just bringing some real talk to a place that's stuck in 1995.
  • pearljam133pearljam133 Posts: 202
    Tim Simmons wrote:
    Just bringing some real talk to a place that's stuck in 1995.
    Taylor Swift? I'd rather be stuck in 1995 than in a 14 year old girls body.
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  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,079
    She's got some jams. I don't know what else I can say.
  • nickburrows14nickburrows14 Posts: 858
    I'm glad this thread has been taken in the lighthearted manner I intended...............
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  • pearljam133pearljam133 Posts: 202
    To each their own, you can listen to whatever you want I guess.
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  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    I'm a sucker for great singers so I have loads of guilty pleasures! It's not that I'm particularly embarrassed, it's that I'm more into the singer than the songs they sing, if that makes sense? For example, I think Kelly Clarkson has an AMAZING voice, I genuinely think she's probably the greatest female singer of the last ten years or so. However, I'm not crazy about her music, it's inoffensive, but her voice could be put to much better use.

    I really liked her version of Up To The Mountain:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6464zXWX5rc

    vocals towards the end :shock:
  • nickburrows14nickburrows14 Posts: 858
    As a teenager I was a real music Nazi. Would look down my nose at people who liked certain bands and would think "you can't like that band if you like this one" but I've mellowed with age and happily mix genres. My collection speaks for itself on that but as I would describe to people 90% of my cds are "long haired blokes playing guitars" and one or two buck the trend. I don't however, have an Taylor Swift (that's a joke btw)
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  • LloydXmasLloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    Mid to late 80s music

    Listen to the big 40 countdown almost every week. Brings me back to when I was a kid.

    Pink has some good songs
  • luke.harvey3luke.harvey3 Posts: 283
    Nothing wrong with katy perry! I met her on her last tour and she's ace! She would be about the only person that stands out on my ipad really...
  • green_girlgreen_girl Posts: 931
    I looove Ukelele Songs.

    There. I said it.

    ;)
  • he.who.forgetshe.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    Kenny Chesney :?
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,070
    This is an interesting question because for me to answer it would really depend on who is asking. Now here on the PJ forum I would- of course- never answer, "Pearl Jam". But I have at least one friend who thinks my love of PJ music is dumb. He says the same of my liking U2. On the other hand, he's a big Neil Young fan as am I.

    As far as "guilty pleasures" go I used to be a huge Jethro Tull fan, saw then twice, and still listen to their records now and then but a number of people I know find that odd- especially people I know who prefer punk and post punk and that sort of thing.

    In the 80's I was a big fan of David Sylvian and Japan and I think some of my friends thought that was a bit weird.

    I still like the Monkees. No shame there!

    And I like some of Neil Diamonds records. "12 Songs" produced by Rick Rubins was great.
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    I have a super soft spot for 80's metal. I don't know what it is, but I enjoy quite a bit of it. Not really ashamed of it all. I have a peel and rub Dio sticker on my Honda Civic. Let the flag fly.
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