THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)
Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Narr on 01 Mar 2006, 15:03
-
Everyone's got a band or two they like that most other people go "OMFG EWW" at.
So name yours!
So I'll go first. I happen to like some Creed songs. The majority of what's played on the radio by them totally sucks, and I loathe Scott Stapp with a passion, but some of their songs were pretty good. I also think Avenged Sevenfold is alright, but that topic has been beaten to death in another topic directly about the band. The only other thing on my playlist that's not exactly the kind of stuff I usually listen to but happen to like a lot is some Lenny Kravitz. The guy has some great songs.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
I would like to say, to everyone that has said something along the lines of "there are no guilty musical pleasures", that you best never, ever, ever make fun of something that another person likes. You cannot ever think a band is too popular for their own good / too popular for the talent they actually have, that there is no such thing as degenerate music, and that there are no social stigmas attatched to listening to a certain form of music or band.
There is too such a thing as a guilty musical pleasure, because people will try and make you feel bad for something that you like. I really hope what you're trying to say (and everyone else who has said something along those lines) is that you shouldn't let other people's notions of what is worthy to like and what is supposed to be hated should not bother you. That's a valid point. Saying that there is no such thing as a guilty musical pleasure, whether a person actually feels guilty or not, is fallacy.
-
Well I think that the last Cam'Ron album was really good, but I'm totally not ashamed of it.
-
I really dig Ace of Base. Like I'll never get tired of them.
Also: Tom Jones is my hero.
-
Easy.
RICHARD CHEESE. (http://www.iloverichardcheese.com/)
Think Lounge versions of popular rock songs.
-
Well I think that the last Cam'Ron album was really good, but I'm totally not ashamed of it.
Yeah, that'd be my one as well, I suppose. Oh, the the Barenaked Ladies. Their older stuff is ful of all sorts of awsome.
-
boring early-to-mid 90's pop songs (Blues Traveler, Deep Blue Something, Gin Blossoms, etc.)
The Get Up Kids
new Bad Religion
-
Evanescense. Blondie. And a couple Green Day songs.
-
I only have one guilty pleasure but I have a rather unhealthy obsession with 80s pop music which makes others cringe:
Duran Duran, the Human League (how can anyone not like them), Soft Cell, Wang Chung etc.
As an aside I also like (honestly, completely non "ironically") the following songs : "Total Eclipse of the Heart". "More Than a Feeling" "The Final Countdown" "Live is Life" and "BYOB"
I've also defied the indie hipsters of my school when I said I'd rather listen to Ashlee Simpson or Hillary Duff than the Mars Volta, unfortunately for them I listen to way more indie than them.
-
I definitely second Ace of Base. I also enjoy one of Everclear's albums. Lets see, Cyndi Lauper... Obviously "Since You've Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson...
-
I CARRY NO GUILT REGARDING THE MUSIC THAT I LOVE AND LISTEN TO
-
Boston and a couple of Helmet songs are pretty much my only guilty pleasures musically.
MY IPOD IS LIKE AN EXCLUSIVE CLUB.
-
I definitely second Ace of Base. I also enjoy one of Everclear's albums. Lets see, Cyndi Lauper... Obviously "Since You've Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson...
Come on, Cindy Lauper's "Time after Time" is a fucking great song.
-
Uh... Bad Religion? Shit, I dunno. Most of my music I'm pretty gung-ho about.
-
Blondie
Why would you be ashamed of that? Blondie was fantastic.
Edit: Also, I am also pretty ashamed that I know all the words to "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and sing along to it enthusiastically.
-
I actually like all the stuff I like without regrets. It's just the music hipster snobs that make me feel bad about myself for liking something.
Shame on you music hipster snobs.
Also: THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BOSTON. More Than A Feeling is hella fun to play on the guitar.
-
I love Boston, but they're very cheesy, and More than a Feeling, while great, is overplayed nearly as much as Stairway to Heaven.
-
More than a Feeling is far better than Stairway to Heaven (could I be joking?), plus Boston invented grunge's best known riff, plus they are the only good band named after a place.
-
Not listening to the radio is such a great way to not ruin classic rock songs.
Guilty pleasures? Hmn, not too many. A few Godsmack songs (Voodoo, Vampires) older System of a Down now and again (Nostalgia thing, and some good tunes. I refuse to let retroactive snobbery paper over them). I like Cradle of Filth quite a bit past when it is musically defensible to do so. (To an extent, right up to Bitter Suites to Succubi. For an A) 'Born in a Burial Gown' is the anthem of me being 15, for a B) Sisters of Mercy cover! Most ridiculous song about suicide in a graveyard ever (and I've heard a few of those lemme tell you)). I still like a load of 90's Industro-rock from my early teen years that it is now dreadfully uncool to like as well: Chiefly Rammstein (which I do not consider a guilty pleasure, though the latest album was a tad pants) but also the odd bit of Zeromancer, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson etcetera. Others would also probably consider Jack Off Jill and every Wednesday 13 project to be 'guilty' pleasures, but these people are fools. Fools!
-
Bush X (or just Bush for you people from other countrys).
And I think the whole point of this is to say music that your perhaps not ashamed of so much as music that other people would cringe at the mention of.
-
Easy.
RICHARD CHEESE. (http://www.iloverichardcheese.com/)
Think Lounge versions of popular rock songs.
Lounge Against the Machine is hot. My friend went to a death metal concert, and between bands, they played the Richard Cheese version of "Rape Me."
As for me, pretty much all of the rock stuff I listen to is a guilty pleasure. I'm a jazz musician, and when people ask me what I've been listening to, I never want to tell them that it's been, you know, Loudness, or techno. I guess my main guilty pleasure would be that I sometimes listen to techno. Not crazy, insano techno. Just plain old techno. Honestly, I can't figure out a single reason why I like it, but I do!
-
Nothing wrong with liking Kelly Clarkson, "Since U Been Gone" was a great fucking tune.
-
The only thing I think that I'm ashamed of would have to be my love for Tatu. I don't care what anyone says I love them.
-
The Ataris.
..aaaand Our Lady Peace.
-
Nothing wrong with liking Kelly Clarkson, "Since U Been Gone" was a great fucking tune.
Seriously. Whats ridiculous though is that it was written by Max Martin who wrote a good deal of really really shitty songs for Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, and N'ync (is that how you spell it?). Have you heard the Ted Leo cover though?
Also, that one TaTu song was awesome as was that Britney Spears song "Toxic". I find that I like a lot the really really poppy corporate shit than the pseudo-emo corporate shit thats getting a ton of air play right now. I really just can't listen to any of that.
-
I listen to horrific '80s synthpop ("and I raaan, I ran so far awaaay..."), stacks of loud, brass-laden Latin music, Hank Williams, and some other embarassing stuff that I can't remember at the moment. Oh, and I love "Freebird".
-
I happen to like some Creed songs. The majority of what's played on the radio by them totally sucks, and I loathe Scott Stapp with a passion, but some of their songs were pretty good.
I think you might like Alter Bridge than. It's basically Creed with a different, and much, MUCH better singer. They also explore a more metal side. The guitars are less grungy, more rock. They can actually rock a bit now that they aren't Scott Stapp's bitch anymore.
A few Godsmack songs (Voodoo, Vampires)
Vampires is one of my favourite songs ever.
As for guilty pleasures, I don't really have any. I love all the music I listen to with a passion, despite their various upsides and downsides. Godsmack, Orgy, Slipknot's 'The Subliminal Verses', StainD. I listen to a lot of stuff that others consider utter crap. I don't really care.
-
Duran Duran, The Sisters Of Mercy and from time to time I'd watch VH1's So 80's.
I absolutly love The Smashing Pumpkins.
I also like a bit of Aphax Twin and some electronica stuff. Like Faithless, I've been to a concert of thiers last summer and it was perfect.
And The Streets. And other hip-hop bands that dont brand themselfs like mad.
-
I happen to like some Creed songs. The majority of what's played on the radio by them totally sucks, and I loathe Scott Stapp with a passion, but some of their songs were pretty good.
I think you might like Alter Bridge than. It's basically Creed with a different, and much, MUCH better singer. They also explore a more metal side. The guitars are less grungy, more rock. They can actually rock a bit now that they aren't Scott Stapp's bitch anymore.
So that's the name of the band that is Creed - Scott Stapp, then? Looks like I'll have to find out what I can.
Oh, and about Staind:
I honestly do not like them. I've had a ton of friends tell me I should listen to them, that I'd like them a ton, and then I saw them open for Audioslave, and was so uninterested, I wandered around with my brother outside the seeting, in the consessions area. A friend of mine went to the concert and was such a pretentious Staind fan, he left after they performed because "Staind shouldn't open for anyone." Poor guy missed the definite best performance of the night.
Something else I just thought of I could count as a guilty pleasure: I like some video game music. Well, a lot of it, but I leave pretty much the entire Guilty Gear soundtrack (for GGX2, GGX#Reload, and GG Isuka) on my playlist. "The Cat Attatched To The Rust" is a really awesome song, among others.
-
I'll 'fess up to anything that I listen to. I like it and I don't see a reason not to admit it. There are cd's I won't mention that I bought (Prodigy for example) but that's more so that people don't get a wrong idea about what I like now.
-
Oh, and about Staind:
I honestly do not like them. I've had a ton of friends tell me I should listen to them, that I'd like them a ton, and then I saw them open for Audioslave, and was so uninterested, I wandered around with my brother outside the seeting, in the consessions area. A friend of mine went to the concert and was such a pretentious Staind fan, he left after they performed because "Staind shouldn't open for anyone." Poor guy missed the definite best performance of the night.
To be honest, my liking StainD is based on an impressive list of five songs. I mostly like them because the singer is one of my favourite people to sing along with - because I actually manage to sound okay. I bet if I listened to more I'd probably go 'meh'.
And he's pissed because StainD opened for Audioslave? Goddamn, talk about priorities. I'll take every chance I can get to see Tom Morello make beautiful porno with his guitar.
-
Ashlee Simpson. I honestly don't know why everybody hates her so much.
So, maybe not so much a guilty pleasure as I'm afraid to mention it around certain company
-
The occasional Nirvana song, I guess. Oh and Hammer Smashed Face. I really dislike CC, but that song is ace.
-
And he's pissed because StainD opened for Audioslave? Goddamn, talk about priorities. I'll take every chance I can get to see Tom Morello make beautiful porno with his guitar.
That is quite possibly the best description of how he plays the guitar, that I've ever heard. You should check out Audioslave's "Live in Cuba" DVD, if you like watching him play. They performed a couple of Rage and Soundgarden songs, too, so if you like the older bands they are made of, it's worth getting for that. (They did at the concert I went to, as well.) They do this little two minute instrument's only version of Bulls on Parade. The solo in that song is the freakin' win.
-
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
No matter how hard I try, I cannot get rid of that song.
-
The only thing I think that I'm ashamed of would have to be my love for Tatu. I don't care what anyone says I love them.
Sooooo, you're not ashamed really then?
I like Dashboard Confessional songs, and I really am ashamed of it since I know how much they suck....
-
I am not entirely sure what is a guilty pleasure these days, but back in the day(a couple of years ago) I listened to Linkin Park, Aqua and a cd I had called Swedish Mega Hits(yes I know...). As a consequence I pretty much know all of Hybrid Theory's lyrics by heart. I know, I was a poor misguided fool, and might I add, I don't to it anymore. But that doesn't mean that the remix version of Point of Authority isn't damn good.
Like Faithless, I've been to a concert of thiers last summer and it was perfect.
Oh them too then, I own Outrospective which is apparently a very bad album. I love it.
-
And he's pissed because StainD opened for Audioslave? Goddamn, talk about priorities. I'll take every chance I can get to see Tom Morello make beautiful porno with his guitar.
That is quite possibly the best description of how he plays the guitar, that I've ever heard. You should check out Audioslave's "Live in Cuba" DVD, if you like watching him play. They performed a couple of Rage and Soundgarden songs, too, so if you like the older bands they are made of, it's worth getting for that. (They did at the concert I went to, as well.) They do this little two minute instrument's only version of Bulls on Parade. The solo in that song is the freakin' win.
Yeah, I wanted to say 'have sex with his guitar', but then I realized, everyone's watching it... so, that kinda makes it porno, doesn't it?
And I have it, but thanks anyway.
Oh, and Mikhender, that's one of those annoying songs that can get stuck in your head for YEARS on end. I think most people get that one stuck in their heads.
-
I'm not guilty about anything I listen to. If people don't like it they can fuck off.
-
i keep sarah brightmans music in a hidden folder on my computer. that lady has one hella voice.
-
The only thing I think that I'm ashamed of would have to be my love for Tatu. I don't care what anyone says I love them.
THANK YOU! I tell my friends this and they the worst "ew" face ever. Their music/production is kick ass and if you can understand what they're saying in Russian (like yours truely), the lyrics are much more meaningful then North American pop lyrics. My dad loves them too, he's stolen my iPod numerous times to listen to my Tatu cd. It's pretty odd to see a 51 year old man who doesn't really approve of homosexuality enjoying a song who's title translates to "Gay Boy".
-
i keep sarah brightmans music in a hidden folder on my computer. that lady has one hella voice.
I can't comment on her voice, but I just hope none of those songs are by Andrew Lloyd Webber. He's by far one of my least favorite musicians ever. I mean, his musicals consist of two songs, over and over again! Maybe I'm just annoyed after having to play in a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which is godawful, and if any of you like it, you're wrong. Yes, you're wrong about whetheryou like it or not.
-
Oooh I know! I've always had a soft spot in my heart for "1998", that trance track by Binary Finary that PvD remixed. In fact, I have a rather secret love for a fair amount of shitty trance. I hook up the external hard drive and blast it about once every six months or so, much to the chagrin of my roommates.
Oh, that and the Card Captor Sakura beginning ("Catch You Catch Me") and ending ("Groovy") themes.
-
I don't feel guilty about the music I listen to as much as I feel guilty about the music I don't listen to (namely Bob Dylan, The Who, most good jazz, The Melvins, Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Neil Young, nad The Allman Brothers Band). I have a lot of music that I've never pay attention to even though I know I should. I say that I should listen to them not because it's "right" to like these guys but because I know I would genuinely like them if I listened to them and I'm too busy with either my old standbys or the stuff that I just heard about.
-
Oh and Hammer Smashed Face. I really dislike CC, but that song is ace.
High five for not encourging Cannibal Corpse!
-
Again, I'm not guilty over anything I like but I own the O-Zone album (Numa Numa) and I like some songs quite a lot. Despretine is a kickass song.
-
Oh, that and the Card Captor Sakura beginning ("Catch You Catch Me") and ending ("Groovy") themes.
I love Catch You Catch Me. In fact, I have a soft spot for most JPop
-
Oh and Hammer Smashed Face. I really dislike CC, but that song is ace.
High five for not encourging Cannibal Corpse!
Indeed, that song has the best metal intro right after Quo Vadis' "Silence Calls the Storm" (that first scream can slaughter a g-unit kid!).
Guilty pleasures: Frankie Goes to Hollywood, The Darkness, U2, The Tea Party and Lacuna Coil.
-
I don't feel guilty about the music I listen to as much as I feel guilty about the music I don't listen to (namely Bob Dylan, The Who, most good jazz, The Melvins, Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Neil Young, nad The Allman Brothers Band). I have a lot of music that I've never pay attention to even though I know I should. I say that I should listen to them not because it's "right" to like these guys but because I know I would genuinely like them if I listened to them and I'm too busy with either my old standbys or the stuff that I just heard about.
You know, good point. I'm in the same boat, really. I've been trying to remedy that lately (got a few best of albums of various bands) and always enjoy expanding my playlist.
-
Oh, that and the Card Captor Sakura beginning ("Catch You Catch Me") and ending ("Groovy") themes.
I love Catch You Catch Me. In fact, I have a soft spot for most JPop
Oh, I forgot about Jpop. I kinda have an old nostalgia for it (an old friend of mine was nuts for it) and I'm slightly ashamed of it.
-
I don't feel guilty about the music I listen to as much as I feel guilty about the music I don't listen to (namely Bob Dylan, The Who, most good jazz, The Melvins, Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Neil Young, nad The Allman Brothers Band).
I love how so many people think this band is essential just because Cobain liked them. I'm not saying you're one of them, but it's really hilarious. Everything I've heard of the Melvins is dire.
-
High five for not encourging Cannibal Corpse!
My college radio station has some Cannibal Corpse on the computer (it's all computer-based). I played one song, once, and then I got back on the air and laughed at the people listening in for having to sit through that.
-
I happen to like some Creed songs. The majority of what's played on the radio by them totally sucks, and I loathe Scott Stapp with a passion, but some of their songs were pretty good.
I think you might like Alter Bridge than. It's basically Creed with a different, and much, MUCH better singer. They also explore a more metal side. The guitars are less grungy, more rock. They can actually rock a bit now that they aren't Scott Stapp's bitch anymore.
So that's the name of the band that is Creed - Scott Stapp, then? Looks like I'll have to find out what I can.
Oh, and about Staind:
I honestly do not like them. I've had a ton of friends tell me I should listen to them, that I'd like them a ton, and then I saw them open for Audioslave, and was so uninterested, I wandered around with my brother outside the seeting, in the consessions area. A friend of mine went to the concert and was such a pretentious Staind fan, he left after they performed because "Staind shouldn't open for anyone." Poor guy missed the definite best performance of the night.
Something else I just thought of I could count as a guilty pleasure: I like some video game music. Well, a lot of it, but I leave pretty much the entire Guilty Gear soundtrack (for GGX2, GGX#Reload, and GG Isuka) on my playlist. "The Cat Attatched To The Rust" is a really awesome song, among others.
audioslave is total garbage. two great bands that came together (nay, CLASHED together in such a discordant way that baby jesus cries periodically, for every minute this band does NOT decide to break up) that became just this horrrrrrible conglomeration of shit.
and staind is not bad.
-
I don't feel guilty about the music I listen to as much as I feel guilty about the music I don't listen to (namely Bob Dylan, The Who, most good jazz, The Melvins, Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Neil Young, nad The Allman Brothers Band).
I love how so many people think this band is essential just because Cobain liked them. I'm not saying you're one of them, but it's really hilarious. Everything I've heard of the Melvins is dire.
have you heard the (i think 2004?) collaborative effort by the melvins with this guy named Lustmord? it's the most crushing thing ever. holy god. especially the title track to the album, which is called "pigs of the roman empire". it's 22 minutes long, a lot of it is background noises, but when the music DOES kick in, it's like "JESUS FUCKING CHRIST."
seriously, if i smoked weed, i'd probably kill myself from being so horrified by this album as a whole.
and i don't say all this because i'm a nirvana fan, because i'm NOT for the most part. i do, however, find it funny that kurt cobain used to be THE MELVINS' ROADIE hahahah.
-
audioslave is total garbage. two great bands that came together (nay, CLASHED together in such a discordant way that baby jesus cries periodically, for every minute this band does NOT decide to break up) that became just this horrrrrrible conglomeration of shit.
and staind is not bad.
From as far as I can tell, Audioslave has one of the biggest love/hate things going on right now. From what I've seen, seems that people who were die-hard fans of Rage Against The Machine loathe the band, almost like it's a protest that RATM broke up (but last I checked, that was De La Rocha's fault, wasn't it?) Seems those that were really into Soundgarden, don't really mind the band at all. I personally like the sound they have, a lot. Cornell's voice is as strong as ever, Timmy C's bass lines are as rockin' as ever, and just Tom Morello period.
And yes, Staind is bad. I wasn't able to tell where one song ended and another began when they played.
-
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
No matter how hard I try, I cannot get rid of that song.
I love that song. It makes me smile and dance. Also "When Mermaids Cry." I get to pretend it's about me.
I don't believe in feeling guilty about things I love, but there's definitely a list of bands I know I'm not "supposed" to like. Those Eagle Eye Cherry songs, for example. Also, Ace of Base, Billy Joel, The Dixie Chicks, Sheryl Crow and a couple of obscure country acts (you're all classist haters)...I think I'm supposed to sneer at the new Cake album.
The one song I do feel something like guilty about is "Punk Rock Princess" by Something Corporate. Most SC songs sort of make me want to stab something, preferably the lead singer in the throat. I hate the way he sings. I want to hate Punk Rock Princess. And yet, I know that if someone awesome covered it I would have no reservations about liking it.
-
audioslave is total garbage. two great bands that came together (nay, CLASHED together in such a discordant way that baby jesus cries periodically, for every minute this band does NOT decide to break up) that became just this horrrrrrible conglomeration of shit.
Well, the way I see it is it's RATM with a vocalist that I like, because I absolutely hated De La Rocha. I don't say he was bad, I just hated him. Plus, Chris Cornell is God.
-
A have a few guilty pleasures like Sex Pistols, Nirvana, and Bright Eyes....
-
Why are those guilty pleasures for you?
-
From as far as I can tell, Audioslave has one of the biggest love/hate things going on right now. From what I've seen, seems that people who were die-hard fans of Rage Against The Machine loathe the band, almost like it's a protest that RATM broke up (but last I checked, that was De La Rocha's fault, wasn't it?) Seems those that were really into Soundgarden, don't really mind the band at all. I personally like the sound they have, a lot. Cornell's voice is as strong as ever, Timmy C's bass lines are as rockin' as ever, and just Tom Morello period.
I kinda like Audioslave, however I was never a fan of either Soundgarden or RATM. Especially RATM whom I always think of as shitty Beastie Boys. I think one of the main reasons hardcore RATM fans loathe Audioslave is because Chris Cornell's "no politics" lyrics. Personally I'm grateful.
-
I don't feel guilty about the music I listen to as much as I feel guilty about the music I don't listen to (namely Bob Dylan, The Who, most good jazz, The Melvins, Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Neil Young, nad The Allman Brothers Band).
I love how so many people think this band is essential just because Cobain liked them. I'm not saying you're one of them, but it's really hilarious. Everything I've heard of the Melvins is dire.
If anything, the fact that Cobain liked them is a deterrent. Seriously, the Melvins are fuckign ACE.
-
The Melvins were a waaaaay better and more original grunge band than Nirvana ever was.
Plus one of the guys is in the Fantomas.
-
Yeah, well, that's true in that the "grunge" tag was terribly misapplied to Nirvana. They were not ever grunge in the sense that their contemporaries were, save for maybe a heartbeat in their very earliest days. For better or for worse, The Melvins, Tad and Green River were the real flagbearers of grunge.
-
From as far as I can tell, Audioslave has one of the biggest love/hate things going on right now. From what I've seen, seems that people who were die-hard fans of Rage Against The Machine loathe the band, almost like it's a protest that RATM broke up (but last I checked, that was De La Rocha's fault, wasn't it?) Seems those that were really into Soundgarden, don't really mind the band at all. I personally like the sound they have, a lot. Cornell's voice is as strong as ever, Timmy C's bass lines are as rockin' as ever, and just Tom Morello period.
I kinda like Audioslave, however I was never a fan of either Soundgarden or RATM. Especially RATM whom I always think of as shitty Beastie Boys. I think one of the main reasons hardcore RATM fans loathe Audioslave is because Chris Cornell's "no politics" lyrics. Personally I'm grateful.
I'm a fan of both RATM and Soundgarden, and I think Audioslave is a great idea. Althogh their first album sounded kinda strange I like what they do nowdays.
Plus, any band with Tom Morello and Timmy C will kick alot of ass. LOTS.
And yes, Cornell's "non political" lyrics did bother me at first, but then I found out that the band members are still active like they were in RATM.
-
I am highly disturbed that someone listed Helmet as a guilty pleasure. What kind of sick people must they associate with?
-
My guilty pleasures are things like cheesy ass power metal (you know, the kind where the whole song is basically a vestigial appendage to the nevitable solo).
On the unrelated Audioslave tangent, I like what they are doing now, but not as much as either Soundgarden or RATM. The quality I miss most in Audioslave is the more poetic quality of Cornell's lyrics in his earlier work that is largely absent in AS in favor of radio-friendly choruses. Blech.
-
Mint Royale. Inherently cheesy, but I love 'em.
-
Hank Williams (Sr.)
He was a god among country musicians. I love him. I get mocked for it almost daily.
-
I'm not ashamed, but William Shatner, Has Been is my favorite album on the new millenium still, and The Transformed Man is...well just fun.
Ones I am ashamed of..
Mama Said Knock You Out- LL Cool J
There was a Black Eyed Peas song I thought was catchy....I then shot myself.
Again, not ashamed, but I listen to George's Answering Machine every morning, as it's my alarm.
-
Oh, I forgot about Jpop. I kinda have an old nostalgia for it (an old friend of mine was nuts for it) and I'm slightly ashamed of it.
I like fucking 80's J-pop/rock. Most specifically 'Heart of Madness' from Fist of the North Star, and 'Konya wa Harikeen' from Bubblegum Crisis, which is more 80's than Morrisey in tight trousers.
To be honest, liking any music that's been anywhere near an anime is probably going to be a guilty pleasure. I will offer you two exceptions: The Akira OST, which is fucking awesome, and, well, anything by Yoko Kanno or Yasushi Ishii.
In fact, Yasushi Ishii owns you SO HARD that even thinking about calling him a guilty pleasure nearly blew my brains out my skull. Raid and Ruins are the only anime soundtracks I ever actually purchased, and I'm really not sorry. The Hellsing soundtrack is just beyond cool, I am so pissed that they decided to replace it with off the shelf ambience and very spacey techno remixes for the OVA, which is pure sex in all other ways.
-
Oh, man, the theme song to Hellsing is like, 10 lbs. of pure, unsaturated awesome.
-
I don't feel guilty listening to my music, but when someone catches me listening to one of the first two Coldplay albums or the Blue Room EP they get all "OMFGWTFBBQ!!!!11one!1 y r u listening 2 that"
But then I slap them and they cry a little and we're all better because of it.
-
Okay, here's my biggest one. I actually prefer later Metallica (the Loads, St. Anger is the worst thing to happen to man since the dark ages) to the earlier stuff. I don't know, there's just something about it that I like. It's not metal, and I'll never say it is, and I also don't necessarily think it's better music, but I like it more.
-
i am the biggest rammstein fan i know, and i know a fair amount of rammstein fans.
also blind guardian, system of a down, and the soundtrack from my neighbor totoro.
-
A few hours ago I found myself humming along to the Mars Volta. I hate myself.
-
Can you honestly hum to it?
-
Kind of, it doesn't sound any less coherent than the actual music. It was the second track of the first album.
-
hmm.
Is it wrong that I like Sublime?
-
blind guardian
This, sir, is not a guilty pleasure.
-
I got all of you beat for the cheesiest. Playing in iTunes Keith Sweat "Love You Down" followed by Heart's "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You". (Ann's voice is so beautiful, I would love to be her sex slave if only for one night.) There is plenty more cheese where that came from.
Somewhere, in some suburban movie theater, a little kid orders double cheese with his nachos.
Thanks for the heads up on Audioslave's Live in Cuba. Done and ordered.
-
hmm.
Is it wrong that I like Sublime?
Yes.
Excellent!
-
Good thing we got that cleared up.
-
I am ashamed of nothing! The following bands and artists would probably have me scourned,but I gives no fucks!
Coheed and Cambria!
Sarah McLaughlin!
Dido!
Idina Menzel (The goddess!)
Occasional My Chemical Romance!
Occasional Early The Used!
Various Musical Soundtracks! I fucking love 'em!
-
Okay, here's my biggest one. I actually prefer later Metallica (the Loads, St. Anger is the worst thing to happen to man since the dark ages) to the earlier stuff. I don't know, there's just something about it that I like. It's not metal, and I'll never say it is, and I also don't necessarily think it's better music, but I like it more.
I also quite like The Loads and the Black Album. Of course, that's quite right, because I'm a huge grunge fan (although I'm not a big fan of Nirvana outside their unplugged) and the way I see it, those were kindof aimed at the grunge people. So yeah, that's me.
Also, I used to think Incubus was a huge guilty pleasure for me. But then I realized, they're actually GOOD.
-
Okay, here's my biggest one. I actually prefer later Metallica (the Loads, St. Anger is the worst thing to happen to man since the dark ages) to the earlier stuff. I don't know, there's just something about it that I like. It's not metal, and I'll never say it is, and I also don't necessarily think it's better music, but I like it more.
I also quite like The Loads and the Black Album. Of course, that's quite right, because I'm a huge grunge fan (although I'm not a big fan of Nirvana outside their unplugged) and the way I see it, those were kindof aimed at the grunge people. So yeah, that's me.
Also, I used to think Incubus was a huge guilty pleasure for me. But then I realized, they're actually GOOD.
I loathe grunge so the Loads didn't sat well with me. Odd as that, my favorite Metallica tunes come from those albums: "Bleeding Me" and "Outlaw Torn".
-
hmm.
Is it wrong that I like Sublime?
Hell no, Sublime rock.
-
Load and Re-Load were alright. They had some decent tunes on them. St. Anger made me angry, in the sense that METALLICA made it. That was not a Metallica album. I mean, the biggest reason I like the band is Kirk Hammet, and there wasn't a solo on the entire g-d'ed thing. It's the only Metallica album I don't own (well, and Garage inc, but that's because I'm lazy more than any other reason).
I'll admit it. Metallica was the first band I ever liked. I don't care for them near as much anymore, but you know, if it wasn't for Black Album, I don't think I would have got into rock music.
@ The guy who mentioned Rammstein: I didn't know it was faux pas to like them. I think they're the only band with more than 2 albums in which I own every album (including Rosenrot, which to my knowledge hasn't been released outside Europe yet.) Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen Sehen is one of my favorite songs to play on my guitar.
-
@ The guy who mentioned Rammstein: I didn't know it was faux pas to like them. I think they're the only band with more than 2 albums in which I own every album (including Rosenrot, which to my knowledge hasn't been released outside Europe yet.) Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen Sehen is one of my favorite songs to play on my guitar.
I like Rammstein enough, but I wasn't aware that their albums were distinct enough. I thought they were like AC/DC in that, if you own one album, you own them all, pretty much.
-
Coheed and Cambria, Fall Out Boy, and Panic! At The Disco cause people to give me so much shit.
And people are shocked when I tell them I still listen to blink 182 and New Found Glory.
-
Coheed and Cambria, Fall Out Boy, and Panic! At The Disco cause people to give me so much shit.
And people are shocked when I tell them I still listen to blink 182 and New Found Glory.
This is kind of off topic, but from what I've gathered, P!@tD seems to be really popular, and it kind of unnerves me on one level because I know the lead singer. He was a friend back in junior high. I still remember what would have been my sophomore or junior year in high school, beat-boxing (or more appropriately, listening) with him at a Mormon Youth Conference activity one weekend.
And this has to do with your screenname: Fan of the Aquabats? (I hope yes, because they are awesome.)
-
count me as one of the people who don't feel guilty about what I like
-
hmph, nothing compares to my liking of H.I.M. so ashamed, but oh well :p
-
Load and Re-Load were alright. They had some decent tunes on them. St. Anger made me angry, in the sense that METALLICA made it. That was not a Metallica album. I mean, the biggest reason I like the band is Kirk Hammet, and there wasn't a solo on the entire g-d'ed thing. It's the only Metallica album I don't own (well, and Garage inc, but that's because I'm lazy more than any other reason).
I'll admit it. Metallica was the first band I ever liked. I don't care for them near as much anymore, but you know, if it wasn't for Black Album, I don't think I would have got into rock music.
I used to like St. Anger. When it came out, I was a nu-metal kid (I'll take your Black Album and raise it a Disturbed's The Sickness that got me into rock music) but I recently dug it up again and realized how mind-numbingly boring and painful the record is. And those drums! Ugh!
I think some of their earlier tracks actually sounded sort of 'grungy' as well. Particularely "The Thing That Should Not Be", which I always though fit right in in a playlist with Soundgarden's 4th of July and Alice In Chains' Rooster. Maybe it's just my imagination.
-
You mentioning 4th of July got me thinking, I think it's funny songs I never really listened to on my own are now some of my favorite songs. I retroactively found out I liked a lot of Grunge music because my brother was into Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. It was like, once I actually started to LISTEN to music, I'd hear some song and say "Hey, that sounds familiar."
-
Coheed and Cambria, Fall Out Boy, and Panic! At The Disco cause people to give me so much shit.
And people are shocked when I tell them I still listen to blink 182 and New Found Glory.
This is kind of off topic, but from what I've gathered, P!@tD seems to be really popular, and it kind of unnerves me on one level because I know the lead singer. He was a friend back in junior high. I still remember what would have been my sophomore or junior year in high school, beat-boxing (or more appropriately, listening) with him at a Mormon Youth Conference activity one weekend.
And this has to do with your screenname: Fan of the Aquabats? (I hope yes, because they are awesome.)
Panic! at the disco anger me a great deal. I mean I honestly don't get what is appealing about them, I at least somewhat understand the appeal of mindless pop-punk drivel like Fall Out Boy, I mean it's catchy, you can sing along to it I guess but Panic! At The Disco don't appear to have any redeeming qualitys.
-
They're supposed to be eclectic or some stupid fucking bullshit.
-
Good thing we got that cleared up.
Someone yesterday told me they would only respect me if I listed Sublime as a guilty pleasure..but I don't think them to be. They were basically a more talented Nirvana of their genre.
Anyway, I think my guilty pleasure is Thunderbids Are Now!. They're just so damn..fun.
-
Sublime was great,plain and simple! Word.
-
I can sing the lyrics to any Linkin Park song from memory.
I have no idea how I came into this knowledge.
-
Their lyrics are transmitted via subliminal messages embedded in tests of the Emergency Broadcast System. Every few weeks, cultish throngs of hipsters have been known to form after evening re-runs of "Taxi" in the streets of San Francisco, chanting in unison the lyrics to "In the End" over and over, then having no recollection of it afterwards. Backs up traffic for hours.
-
I can sing the lyrics to any Linkin Park song from memory.
I have no idea how I came into this knowledge.
Ditto.
-
You mentioning 4th of July got me thinking, I think it's funny songs I never really listened to on my own are now some of my favorite songs. I retroactively found out I liked a lot of Grunge music because my brother was into Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. It was like, once I actually started to LISTEN to music, I'd hear some song and say "Hey, that sounds familiar."
The same doesn't go for me. Up until three years ago, Nirvan was the only grunge I knew. The others never really broke through in Holland, at least, not in any mainstream manner.
It's interesting because I was basically six when grunge was really popular and didn't like music at all. I'm basically a late blooming grunge kid.
-
I can sing the lyrics to any Linkin Park song from memory.
I have no idea how I came into this knowledge.
That's not as bad as when you don't realize you're singing along to tha tstupid country song that's all "You make me feel like a natural woman"
I hope I'm not the only person that's mind has been attacked by the vicious aliens from Mars that perpetuate this atrocity.
-
VNV Nation are one of my favourite bands but every time I see them mentioned online it's within or followed by a string of comments along the lines of "that band has too many fans", "blah blah overrated shite", "I've heard one too many of their crappy remixes" etc. At a guess it's because they're more well-known in America so they've reached the "cool to hate" area of the popularity-o-meter?
Anyway, if I were to be the type to feel guilty about liking unpopular bands, I guess that'd be the closest thing to an answer to this thread I can come up with...
-
Really? I love VNV Nation and never hear anything about them here in America. Popular in whatever the hell genre of electronic stuff you call them? Yeah. And that's where the stupid fucking elitist kids get annoyed because nobody acknowledged that they were listening to them earlier. I mean, just shut up guys. Their last album was great.
-
At a guess it's because they're more well-known in America so they've reached the "cool to hate" area of the popularity-o-meter?
I suppose they have if you're a new-school rivethead. But then again, if that's the case, no-one but you can probably tell the difference between your favourite bands, so what you like and dislike is pretty void. I mean, I love me some EBM and Futurepop, but apart from a few mavericks like :wumpscut and Mind.in.a.box it's not the most endlessly diverse genre, and it's also one of those ones where it is pretty assured that the more well known you are the better you are (whereas it is often, of course, vice versa).
-
I wouldn't say it's that rare to find a band with an individual sound*. I guess some people are just, like Kai said, the kind of elitist fucks who hate on them purely as a basis of their success... and then there's people who either hear the wrong bands, or don't get into the genre enough to be able to really tell the difference.
And yeah Kai, I did mean popular within the "cyber goth" culture or whatever you call the people who listen to this stuff... not properly mainstream popular. :D
Also, I agree that their last album was outstanding; the last couple before that, while excellent, were a bit... similar. Matter + Form sounds really fresh and takes a new direction altogether. Love it.
*Khar, if you haven't already, have a look into some of the following bands: synth/futurepop bands with a few original ideas... few suggestions off the top of my head
Resurrection Eve
Syrian
Lavantgarde (album to get: "Inside Out")
Les Anges De La Nuit
Pride And Fall (new CD: Elements of Silence)
Wideband Network ("Universe" album)
Cesium:137 ("Intelligent Design")
Nevarakka (more of a trance-y, mainstream sound but still wicked)
O.V.N.I. (sounds like an Aphex Twin/old Apoptygma crossover)
I agree there's a lot of identikit bands in the genre, went through a period of a few months where I got a bit dissatisfied with it and went back to indie (which led to me registering here actually.. heh) but if you dig hard enough there's plenty fun stuff going on :) although very few bands could be described as truly groundbreaking in the same way as MIAB.
-
Thanks for the suggestions. You don't see a lot of unusual EBM/futurepop suggestions bandied about, or if they are they're lost in seas of other suggestions...I guess it might have something to do with the fact that a lot of people who are into the scene are there because of the club culture, and thus the bulk of most peoples musical taste is made up of the popular dance stuff: VNV, Funker Vogt, Neuroticfish et al.
The futurepop/ebm (not even sure if that's what they are tbh) band I love that I see most rarely talked about is E Nomine. I wouldn't say they were anything amazingly innovative, but they do have a very unique, and very rocking, imo, sound.
-
That's the thing really, there's plenty of bands that sound individual, but very few who actually do anything really fresh and exciting like MIAB do. So I guess people who don't absolutely love the general futurepop formula will get bored of it pretty fast. But I'm quite happy with listening to 50+ interesting variations on the same general theme.
edit: check out the Leiahdorus track I put up in the "Forced Listening" thread too. I wasn't sure whether to recommend you the whole album but since I ended up putting that song in there, might as well give it a listen.
-
I love Tom Cochrane's "Life is a Highway." I feel dirty even admitting it.
-
just this morning, yellowcard came up while my mp3 player was on shuffle. i didn't change it...and sang along, as well.
others: weird al, maroon 5, the vines, the white stripes, MOZART, e.l.o., etc.
i know the lyrics of matchbox twenty, eminem, avril, puddle of mudd, and barenaked ladies.
pshaw, i'm not ashamed.
-
Man, Weird Al. That brings back some good memories. I used to be able to sing along to the entirety of the song "Albequerque," which to this day is quite possibly the most humorous song ever produced.
And the plane went into a tailspin, and EVERYBODY DIED! ... Except for me, you know why?
I had my traaaay table up! and my seat back in the full upright position
had my traaaay table up, my seat back in the full upright position!
-
I own music by Lacuna Coil *sobs*
-
Lacuna Coil would be magnificent if not for the astoundingly annoying male vocalist..much like Nightwish would be..and Linkin Park minus Mike Shinoda.
-
Hey guys, I LIKE Lacuna COil.
-
Lacuna Coil would be magnificent if not for the astoundingly annoying male vocalist..much like Nightwish would be..and Linkin Park minus Mike Shinoda.
I dunno. I'm of the opinion that Chester Bennington resides in his own universe of annoyance and pretention.
-
Man, Weird Al. That brings back some good memories. I used to be able to sing along to the entirety of the song "Albequerque," which to this day is quite possibly the most humorous song ever produced.
And the plane went into a tailspin, and EVERYBODY DIED! ... Except for me, you know why?
I had my traaaay table up! and my seat back in the full upright position
had my traaaay table up, my seat back in the full upright position!
and the towels are OH SO fluuuuuffy! and anyone will glady shave your back for a nickel!
ahh yes, hermaphrodites with flock-of-seagulls haircuts and only one nostril trying to steal your glow-in-the-drak snorkel.
-
I will be bashed, beaten and burned and raped but...meh, it's just the Internet.
I have really great memories of Good Charlotte. Some nice things happened to me during a period and their excuse for music was, well, a part of it.
I hate when one of the Madden bros tries to be the personal Bono of 14 year old girls (and Bono tries to be Jesus, so you end up with the Madden as the Messiah for girls who haven't reached the point of their first period yet).
And I hate it even more when they use cheap tricks to get the crowd to react ("you, the fans are part of this band", "you, the fans have made our dreams reality" etc.)
And yes, they have shit lyrics, and shit artwork and a shitimage and...well the whole band is basicly shit, so you might as well plug your earsets into your own turds.
Sometimes, you might get a glimpse of humor but loose focus and think about the fact that you're listening to fuckin' Good Charlotte and it's gone.
But, damn, great memories, so I can't help it but smile everytime I hear one of their songs.
Also; Cher. The woman has got a very deep warm voice. Love 'Gypsys'.
-
I have a minor obsession with Vanessa-Mae.
-
Hmm let me see
- Weird Al this guy f**king rocks
- Pizzicato Five damn I love that Baby Love Child for still unknown reason
- Blink 182 - Damit
- and some 80s pop is kind a cool :D
-
Why is everyone guilty about liking Wierd Al?
I thought hipsters would be totally behind him, at least ironically.
-
First rule of hipster irony: leave your junior high music loves at the doorstep unless they made their primary music in the 70s, or they are Prince or Madonna.
-
What's bad about liking Faithless? I'm not a great fan myself, but they're far from sucky. Are they too mainstream to be cool, or something? If so, hie thee off (http://www.randallmusic.net/) and get Dave Randall's solo album and also his first album as Slovo; that'll assuage your guilt.
(Amusing if possibly apocryphal story: Faithless were a last-minute addition to the Berlin Live 8 gig, as the organisers suddenly realised they had no black artists in the lineup.)
I have a certain amount of the Bangles in my collection. See the sig to see why I really don't care that much.
-
Faithless are really really cool. Fact.
-
First rule of hipster irony: leave your junior high music loves at the doorstep unless they made their primary music in the 70s, or they are Prince or Madonna.
You are quite possibly the most quotable person I know online, just so you know.
-
I have a guilty pleasure I must admit: the Killers.
I'm kicked out of TEH INDIE FAN KLUB now, aren't I?
-
I have a guilty pleasure I must admit: the Killers.
I'm kicked out of TEH INDIE FAN KLUB now, aren't I?
No, you're being kicked out of life. Please report to your nearest Termination Booth for speedy processing.
-
Faithless are really really cool. Fact.
I second that, their live shows are awsome.
-
I have the rocky horror picture show album in a prominent place next to the CD player. Also a Best of Meatloaf and Snoopy's Christmas (& other holiday hits). I grew up with the last two and despite how much i am ashamed, I still love them and will refuse to part with either.
Please don't eat me.
-
Patsy Cline, Barry Manilow, Skinny Puppy, Type O Negative, the Rocky Horror soundtrack and Culture Club are my guilty little pleasures...whenever I need a little lift I generally listen to them and boogie. Thankfully the people I hang out with have pretty varied musical tastes so I don't get too many weird looks
-
Lacuna Coil would be magnificent if not for the astoundingly annoying male vocalist..much like Nightwish would be..and Linkin Park minus Mike Shinoda.
See, I have a similar opinion of Evanescence. When I heard their first single I thought the interplay between the two vocalists worked well...then I find out that the guy isn't a permanent member of the band.
Just an operatic, warbling woman? No thanks.
I'd still praise that album like fuck if it'd get me in bed with her though.
-
Really? He annoyed the fuck out of me.
I like Amy Lee's voice. It's pretty powerful. I've always considered it a crime against humanity that she has such a terrible backing band.
-
Really? He annoyed the fuck out of me.
I like Amy Lee's voice. It's pretty powerful. I've always considered it a crime against humanity that she has such a terrible backing band.
Well I think she does have a nice voice. I saw some live footage and she can handle it quite well, she's a good vocalist.
I don't think it was the guy that I liked, but the interplay between male and female. I don't think it works so well in loads of other bands it was something about them, for some reason.
-
I'd still praise that album like fuck if it'd get me in bed with her though.
Agreed.
@ Dynamite Kid: What song is that? I'm not familiar with what their first single was. The only song I know of that has her in it singing with a guy is when she sang "Broken" with Seether (which is a pretty good song, IMO, and I think Seether is a pretty good band.)
-
I'd still praise that album like fuck if it'd get me in bed with her though.
Agreed.
@ Dynamite Kid: What song is that? I'm not familiar with what their first single was. The only song I know of that has her in it singing with a guy is when she sang "Broken" with Seether (which is a pretty good song, IMO, and I think Seether is a pretty good band.)
Bring Me To Life.
Wake me up (wake me up inside)
Can't wake up (something something)
SAVE ME (save me from the nothing I've become)
ooooooooooooooh
I've been living a lie
There's nothing inside
Ooooooooooooooooh
I've been living a lie
There's nothing INSAAAAAAAAAIDE
etc.
-
Skinny Puppy, Type O Negative, the Rocky Horror soundtrack and Culture Club
Okay, Rocky Horror Show maybe, but the others are great fucking bands.
Also, a general point: never be ashamed of MeatLoaf. MeatLoaf is rule.
-
I like some tracks from Cowboy from Hell. This is so very untr00 of me.
-
Yeah, me too. Of course, it's apparently super cool to hate Pantera so fucking much that's it's ridiculous.
-
Yeah, but the problem is, people have applied that stupid retroactive shit to Pantera, just like everyone else. Cowboys From Hell is actually A DECENT ALBUM. Just like early Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Metallica etc. stuff can be pretty good. Just because a band went on to slap the whole metal world in the face with their collective cock and become the icon of spotty little misgendered backwards-cap wearing ne'er-do-wells, doesn't mean they can never have done something good. 'Queen Of Winter Throned' by CoF will stand up to almost any Limbonic Art song, for example.
-
I actually haven't listened to much CoF, but could you tell me about what time/album they started to go down the shitter so I can promptly forget any of those albums exist?
-
The thing is, a lot of Bay Area thrash is still better than even early Metallica.
(Everybody's totally expecting me to use Testament as an example here.)
-
Yeah, but also, Metallica are by no means some sick nadir of Bay Area Thrash. They're a bit average, they rip off Mercyful Fate, yet they're still, for that, not that bad a band, with a few classic songs. This is just an example of that treatment. You are holding the early works of Metallica to a higher standard than you would hold something by a more obscure artist. They don't have to be the best in the genre to be listenable, for chrissakes.
@ Kai: the decline pretty much started on 'Cruelty And The Beast'. Some people write them off there, but I believe they're still pretty good up to as far as 'Bitter Suites to Succubi'. The chief thing to remember about Cradle of Filth, and the reason that they have always pissed off tr00 black metallers is because, at least since 1994, they have never made any attempt to be serious. They are deliberately over the top to the point of self-parody: fun music, in a word. Dani may sound, like my girlfriend puts it 'Like a chipmunk gone horrible wrong', but that's part of the appeal, not part of the repulsion. The fact that neither Cradles fans nor their detractors realise that they are [i[meant[/i] to be fundamentally silly is an amusing thing for me.
That said, the last two albums are horeshit, for differing reasons.
-
I never said early Metallica wasn't listenable. Disposable Heroes is still a super-awesome-great song.
-
Of course, it's apparently super cool to hate Pantera so fucking much that's it's ridiculous.
Listen up good, I got a lot to do
I know what I want, and I want to get screwed
I call 'em like I see 'em and don't play by the book
200 hair rock albums and I've never been f**ked
Not seen it, not done it, not heard it before
Can't even get action by paying a whore
Tried foreplay, tried washing, I've done all I can
But still like every single other Pantera fan I've
Prayed to be laid
Prayed to be laid
You know I've prayed...
Prayed to be laid
<cough>
-
For some reason unknown to me, I'm starting to like a bunch of shitty screamo[ish] bands.
i.e. i own the new from first to last cd.
.......
-
Listen up good, I got a lot to do
I know what I want, and I want to get screwed
I call 'em like I see 'em and don't play by the book
200 hair rock albums and I've never been f**ked
Not seen it, not done it, not heard it before
Can't even get action by paying a whore
Tried foreplay, tried washing, I've done all I can
But still like every single other Pantera fan I've
Prayed to be laid
Prayed to be laid
You know I've prayed...
Prayed to be laid
<cough>
While not metal, I can totally quote a different song:
Went to a party
I danced all night
I drank 16 beers
And I started up a fight
But now I am jaded
You're out of luck
I'm rolling down the stairs
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk, to fuck
I'm too drunk, too drunk, too drunk
To fuck
I like your stories
I love your gun
Shooting out truck tires
Sounds like loads and loads of fun
But in my room
Wish you were dead
You ball like the baby
In Eraserhead
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk to fuck
Too drunk, to fuck
It's all I need right now
Too drunk to fuck
Doesn't change the fact that it's a bitchin ass song.
-
The chief thing to remember about Cradle of Filth, and the reason that they have always pissed off tr00 black metallers is because, at least since 1994, they have never made any attempt to be serious.
Also, keep in mind that they had the audacity to make money, which pisses off black metal kids even more than punks, for some reason. Well, that and the scene rules for black metal are goddamned stupid.
-
Punk and Black Metal kids are both the most elitist fans ever.
-
Punk and Black Metal kids are both the most elitist fans ever.
I'd give punks a little more credit than black metal, mainly because a) I am one, and b) black metal is musically inaccessible to most people, making the scene's decision to demand that every band sound exactly alike a dubious one. Seriously, my buddy Ken is really into the stuff and I can never tell who's playing because it's next to impossible to distinguish one howling Norseman from another.
At least with punk, the guys screaming "SELLOUT" at everyone who tries to make a living from music are easy to separate from the others; they're inarticulate morons, and usually MRR guest columnists.
-
I love White Town's "Your Woman."
I can't deny. Love that beat.
-
Seriously, my buddy Ken is really into the stuff and I can never tell who's playing because it's next to impossible to distinguish one howling Norseman from another.
Especially as a good whack of them are Japanese, Americans and French putting on Norwegian accents.
-
coheed and cambria.
FIGHT. ME.
-
Seriously, my buddy Ken is really into the stuff and I can never tell who's playing because it's next to impossible to distinguish one howling Norseman from another.
Especially as a good whack of them are Japanese, Americans and French putting on Norwegian accents.
I've heard of J-Pop, but J-Death Metal?
<has mental image of the 5-6-7-8s covering that Burzum track Khar upped>
<shudders>
-
I don't feel guilty about the music I listen to as much as I feel guilty about the music I don't listen to [...] I have a lot of music that I've never pay attention to even though I know I should. I say that I should listen to them not because it's "right" to like these guys but because I know I would genuinely like them if I listened to them and I'm too busy with either my old standbys or the stuff that I just heard about.
seconded
-
The Japanese are actually fucking brilliant at black metal. (See Sigh, the Japanese Sabbat and Abigail). Visual Kei can also be pretty damned metal (see X-Japan). The Japanese rule at such things because they can have pictures of themselves posing in shinto shrines with katanas and corpsepaint, and write tracks with titles like 'Hail Yakuza'.
Speaking on such matters and on guilty music, isn't Malice Mizer normally considered a guilty musical pleasure? I picked up a copy of the 'Beast of Blood' single at an anime convention based solely on their utterly RIDICULOUS appearance, and loved the wierd musical combo I found inside.
-
Japanese music is kind of different. I haven't listened to a lot but a friend of mine is obsessed with Visual Kei stuff.
I think it's a language that can sound utterly evil, but it's rarely used to such an effect in music that I've ever heard. I mean, if there was some band that had a singer that sounded as evil as Iori from the King of Figher games, I'd listen to it.
-
The only guilty musical pleasure I have... is that I... I... I actually like m-m-music.
-
The only guilty musical pleasure I have... is that I... I... I actually like m-m-music.
You disgust me.
As for Japanese bands, Sigh are quite good. So are Robin, Spike, Battle of Ninjamanz, and the Starlite Wranglers. Lots of good rock/psychobilly from that little country.
Now if only anime wasn't so hideous and bad in every way applicable to cartooning.
-
Now if only anime wasn't so hideous and bad in every way applicable to cartooning.
Psh. If you're talking about a lot of what's aired on US television during normal hours, then I suppose so. But Adult Swim has had a lot of excellent shows. Full Metal Alchemist, for one, is great. It's basically a show that poses the question, what really makes us human. Good times. Also, Trigun is an example of the ultimate hero. Someone so bad-assed, he can stop people without having to kill them. I love the show tremendously, it made me cry at one point.
But that's an arguement for another thread.
-
On the topic of japanese metal: Kadenzza. Go look them up and have fun.
-
Battle of Ninjamanz
I have half a mind to scream 'best band name ever' but I'll just type it instead.
-
Evanescence is one of mine.
It's not as bad as my occasional Avril Lavigne binges, though. It's ridiculously hard to resist singing "I'm with you," while waiting at the bus stop late at night in pouring rain.
-
Bah. Complicated sometimes STILL comes back in the middle of the night with it's horribly catchyness. *shivers*
-
Okay, Rocky Horror Show maybe, but the others are great fucking bands.
WOW someone else knows about Skinny Puppy!!! Sorry, it's just that whenever I mention them to anyone they think I'm really weird. I always loved Ogre's hair, or lack of really...
I agree KharBevNor, Malice Mizer are quite awesome, visually and musically. I quite like what I've heard of Moi Dix Mois too but I just keep coming back to Dir en Grey. Love the visuals, love the vocals, love the sound *hearts*
-
Skinny Puppy are heavily respected and pretty damn popular in the industrial community. There's nothing guilty about liking 'em.
-
Now if only anime wasn't so hideous and bad in every way applicable to cartooning.
Psh. If you're talking about a lot of what's aired on US television during normal hours, then I suppose so.
Not that I was talking in the first place, but IME anime is just hideous and bad in general. Akira does score bonus cool points, but the whole thing falls to bits at the end.
Anyway, back on topic: I have a banjo instrumental version of Carmina Burana. If that doesn't win the thread, nothing will.
-
Now if only anime wasn't so hideous and bad in every way applicable to cartooning.
Psh. If you're talking about a lot of what's aired on US television during normal hours, then I suppose so. But Adult Swim has had a lot of excellent shows. Full Metal Alchemist, for one, is great. It's basically a show that poses the question, what really makes us human. Good times. Also, Trigun is an example of the ultimate hero. Someone so bad-assed, he can stop people without having to kill them. I love the show tremendously, it made me cry at one point.
But that's an arguement for another thread.
Trigun made me cry TWICE!
Do I win TEH PRIZE?
-
Anyway, back on topic: I have a banjo instrumental version of Carmina Burana. If that doesn't win the thread, nothing will.
That depends on whether you are willing to share it.
-
Anyway, back on topic: I have a banjo instrumental version of Carmina Burana. If that doesn't win the thread, nothing will.
That depends on whether you are willing to share it.
I second that.
-
Now if only anime wasn't so hideous and bad in every way applicable to cartooning.
You obviously haven't seen Cowboy Bebop.
-
Now if only anime wasn't so hideous and bad in every way applicable to cartooning.
You obviously haven't seen Cowboy Bebop.
Sure have. It's better than most anime, but it still gets old pretty quickly.
And as far as guilty pleasures are concerned, I like old Insane Clown Posse albums, specifically Ringmaster and Riddle Box. Beat that, I DARE YOU.
-
And as far as guilty pleasures are concerned, I like old Insane Clown Posse albums, specifically Ringmaster and Riddle Box. Beat that, I DARE YOU.
I love Meatloaf in a way that some would consider illegal?
-
Anyway, back on topic: I have a banjo instrumental version of Carmina Burana. If that doesn't win the thread, nothing will.
That depends on whether you are willing to share it.
I second that.
Do I win the thread if I do share it, or if I don't?
Either way, don't say I didn't warn you (http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=018S1FUDLPR8Y0M7R7I2HZN59E).
-
I love Meatloaf in a way that some would consider illegal?
I have every CD Meatloaf's ever released, including the compilation/re-recording CD he released with Bonny Tyler where they sing the male and female parts in each others songs.
Beat THAT.
-
Aw man. I only got Bat Out Of Hell.
My record collection is like, TINY.
-
That's the embarrasing part. I'm not going to count, but I'm almost certain I have more Meatloaf CD's than by any other artist, except possibly Black Sabbath.
-
That is actually kinda cool... in a Meatloaf sorta way.
I own more Guster CD's than any other artist... followed close by Barenaked Ladies.
Yeah... I've got skeletons in my closet. Just, most of em sing catchy pop tunes.
-
lamb of god.
-
i own the first bullet for my valentine cd
and the last funeral for a friend album (which, in my defense was a free promo i had to review)
and all the korn albums up to and including untouchables (the first one really ain't that bad!)
and the end of heartache by killswitch engage (i have alive or just breathing too, but its nothing to feel guilty about)
i don't really listen to any of them and they aren't really "my thing", but i still sneak them on every now and again
-
That's the embarrasing part. I'm not going to count, but I'm almost certain I have more Meatloaf CD's than by any other artist, except possibly Black Sabbath.
I'm pretty sure I own a fair amount of Meatlof's discography. In terms of other artists I really should probably chill out on, I have every Frank Zappa cd that isn't just some silly compilation thing his family released post-mortem, and pretty much every singel thing Bill Laswell, Buckethead, and Les Claypool have ever done.
-
I... I listen to Lemon Demon... and I think I like it... a little too much. Nobody else I know likes any of their songs EXCEPT The Ultimate Showdown (yes, THAT band did that song... :D)
-
i own the first bullet for my valentine cd
and the last funeral for a friend album (which, in my defense was a free promo i had to review)
and all the korn albums up to and including untouchables (the first one really ain't that bad!)
and the end of heartache by killswitch engage (i have alive or just breathing too, but its nothing to feel guilty about)
i don't really listen to any of them and they aren't really "my thing", but i still sneak them on every now and again
As I said before, I used to be an angsty nu-metal kid, and as such, I also own all KoRn albums save two, one of which is the newest one which I haven't gotten around to yet. But really, in retrospect, I kind of think Untouchables is their best. It has more melody than the others, and I put a lot of value in melody. Also, Hollow Life is probably their most interesting track ever, to me.
Also, I used to be able to do Twist in its entirety. Which freaked people out.
-
There are a couple of Funeral for a Friend songs I like. They aren't hopelessly bad and I saw them open once. When they forget they're eternally depressed and start shredding the guitar a bit they get better. I like coheed & cambria and alkaline trio but that's all the emo i an really listen to and neither of those two bands make it obvious in their sound. Actually I find Coheed fucking awesome. Lol and then there's Gym Class Heroes. The idea of emo rap just amuses me. I don't listen to their stuff except for Taxi Driver which is hilarious. I think i'm pretty guilty of finding early Ace of Base awesome too.. If its happy and inane I usually like it
-
I... I listen to Lemon Demon... and I think I like it... a little too much. Nobody else I know likes any of their songs EXCEPT The Ultimate Showdown (yes, THAT band did that song... :D)
The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny is one of the single best songs ever written.
-
There are a couple of Funeral for a Friend songs I like. They aren't hopelessly bad and I saw them open once. When they forget they're eternally depressed and start shredding the guitar a bit they get better.
ffaf are okay live once they get round to being loud and shouty, but they often seem to be supported by much better bands.
eg million dead, yourcodenameis:milo, gratitude, the haunted, onelinedrawing and so on...
their cover of metallica's damage inc on the other hand is utterly atrocious. they try to update it with an all new "metalcore" style and fail miserably in my opinon.
Actually I find Coheed fucking awesome.
probably the best of that wave of bands from the US at the moment, they have some nice ideas and obviously have the talent and ambition to really step beyond the genre tag they've been lumped with.
-
i love coheed =/ though for more guilty pleasures, i think fall out boy are the greatest thing ever, and panic! at the disco, while being a second rate FOB, are catchy as well. All American Rejects.. pretty much all of this pop-punk/emo whatever the fuck the kids wanna call it these days.
-
ska............almost the entire genre.
-
i love coheed =/ though for more guilty pleasures, i think fall out boy are the greatest thing ever, and panic! at the disco, while being a second rate FOB, are catchy as well. All American Rejects.. pretty much all of this pop-punk/emo whatever the fuck the kids wanna call it these days.
I have to second Panic! At the Disco. They're so...catchy. Haha. I tend not to share this with many people (though knowing my friends they'd probably either never heard them or P!ATD would be their favorite band. And that's why I can't talk about music with most of them.)
-
i also adore p!atd...oh the shame.
in addition i really like old timey country music...like hank williams sr. hank is the fuckin' MAN
-
Hank Williams (Senior, fuck his kid), Johnny Cash, and Van Morrison are about the extent of the country that I will ever really listen to.
BLuegrass, now there's a different story.
-
i like a lot of "alt country". songs: ohia, neko case, and magnolia electric company are all really good. what i really hate is when some new country artist covers an old country song, and you hear it, and go to check out there other material, and it's all that "tequila makes her clothes fall off" bullshit. *cough* eric heatherly *cough*
-
How can you have an alt couinteyh? It's like a countryu ot NOT!
AHFJG
-
Your welcome ti it, but your not having any of my fucking drugs!
Shit, I cann0pt believe this iS LEGA:!
-
Hank Williams (Senior, fuck his kid), Johnny Cash, and Van Morrison are about the extent of the country that I will ever really listen to.
BLuegrass, now there's a different story.
Bluegrass is awesome. Charlie Poole, Grandpa Jones, Bill Monroe, and too many others to mention. Simple, fun music that alternates between bombastic piety and killing people who doublecross you.
Hank and Johnny are great too, and they almost verge into rockabilly, one of the best genres EVER.
-
Rockabilly can be alot of fun.
But bluegrass was honestly the music I fucking grew up on. From about 8 years old to about 14, that was what I listened to, where other kids had their pop music and whatnot. Imena, my parents would drag me to all these various festivals and whatnot. Great times.
-
ska............almost the entire genre.
Ska rocks. The ska songs I like are among my favorite of favoritest songs. The problem I think a lot of ska bands have is that they sing about depressing stuff. That'd be like trying to sing about something sad with a banjo, it just doesn't work.
"Ska Boss" by the Aquabats is probably my most favorite song recently. "Onamae wa nan desu ka?"
"Watashi wa... SKA BOSS daiyo."
"Sumi-masen?"
"SKA BOSS DAIYO!"
As for Bluegrass: Creedance Clearwater = the win.
-
Daft Club. Well, it's still in the archives, anyway.
I feel guilty about listening to Dr. Dre's "2001," then later, when driving and bored, I tune the radio to 106.1 MHZ and realize that it's brilliant, sublime sophistry compared to what the kidz listen to these days.
I like listening to the incidental music from System Shock 2.
I thought Seven's Travels was a really fun album.
I really like Cypress Hill.
-
As ashamed of it as I am, there's a fair amount of hip hop that I can totally enjoy. I mean, I already mentioned Tech N9ne, Cypress Hill are a ton of fun. I generally enjoy Dr. Dre. Del The Funky Homosapien and his various projects rock out. Does this make me a bad person?
-
Not at all. Hugs?
-
As ashamed of it as I am, there's a fair amount of hip hop that I can totally enjoy. I mean, I already mentioned Tech N9ne, Cypress Hill are a ton of fun. I generally enjoy Dr. Dre. Del The Funky Homosapien and his various projects rock out. Does this make me a bad person?
Nah, it just means your taste is relatively questionable. ;)
But then again, I think "Toxic" by Brittney Spears is kinda catchy. =\
-
But I'm pretty sure that the rest of the stuff I rock out to is better than just about everyone on the board's music. So it's all good.
-
Old school hip hop is great. Like who didn't like snoop dogg in 93'... Nowadays they sing about more relevant things though like bitches cars and how much money they have.
-
As ashamed of it as I am, there's a fair amount of hip hop that I can totally enjoy. I mean, I already mentioned Tech N9ne, Cypress Hill are a ton of fun. I generally enjoy Dr. Dre. Del The Funky Homosapien and his various projects rock out. Does this make me a bad person?
You just have to remember that Cypress Hill did collaborate with Sonic Youth and use it as an excuse.
-
And they totally toured with Henry Rollins, which makes it okay too.
-
del is really good though. i have to buy another copy of deltron 3030 though. my other copy got scratched to hell.
-
Yeah, Del, mc chris, and the X-Ecutioners are the only hip hop/rap/whatever artists that I'm totally not embarassed about and will totally listen to with other people.
-
sage francis is really awesome too.
-
Sage Francis is freaking awesome. Sun vs. Moon hits constant replay with me.
I'm ashamed to say that I absolutely love MC Hammer.
-
Yeah, Del, mc chris, and the X-Ecutioners are the only hip hop/rap/whatever artists that I'm totally not embarassed about and will totally listen to with other people.
Run DMC, Kurtis Blow, and most old school rap from that era work for me. Can someone say Double Dutch Bus? :)
And I still stand by rockabilly as being the most fun genre ever. Sonny Burgess' perpetual happiness makes it so. Serious, "Feelin' Good" is the happiest song ever written.
-
(http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/5/58/180px-Beastie_Boys1.jpg)
The hip-hop that no one should be ashamed of.
-
speaking of great 'hip-hop' that no one should be ashambed of and that isn't bitches this and hos that - Buck 65
if he even is still considered a hip hop artist these days.
even if he isn't you should still listen to him, because whatever you style you wanna call him he's really good.
-
I feel guilty about listening to Dr. Dre's "2001," then later, when driving and bored, I tune the radio to 106.1 MHZ and realize that it's brilliant, sublime sophistry compared to what the kidz listen to these days.
I apologise on behalf my generation for that horrible shit. I have no idea why everyone is into this crap. I mean 50 cent and pussycat dolls are you shitting me? I would be into hip-hop if the culture wasn't so sickening right now.
-
you make it sound like that's the only modern hip-hop. i love hip-hop, three 6 mafia, lil wyte, lil flip, lil jon, ludacris, there's a lot of great stuff out there, you just have to figure out where to look. You'll find the three biggest "modern hip-hop" scenes are Houston, Memphis, and Atlanta, look into some artists from each area and you'll probably find something you like. I've taken a mean liking to Memphis, whereas my buddy will listen to nothing from outside of Houston. There's really something for everyone though.
edit- dude chronic 2001 was fucking great.
-
outkast records are fantastic examples of hip-hop/pop as well
-
The only remotely hip-hop stuff I listen to now is Skindred, as Rare Form shut down his goddamn homepage, the loser.
Actually, Skindred should DEFINITELY be a guilty pleasure for me...
"Nuff ah dem ah come an dem ah try dog we out,
Born down pill we are the Ruffneck scouts,
Music we make to make the crowd jump up,
Crowd get hyped explode and erupt ah,
Blend up the ragga metal punk hip-hop,
Unity sound killer groove non-stop
In ah fe dis pit only the strong will survive
Strength and power gonna keep them alive
My sound we come to take over,
MC you better look over your shoulder,
Yeah you know we on and on, oh well now.
Skindred we in ah you area,
Bring the raucous you know we superior,
Yeah you know we on and on...
Ah-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na!
Nobody gets out of dis ya pit alive;
Nobody, nobody gets out alive,"
So awesome live. Does anyone know any other band that sounds like them, and isn't lame?
-
Some Fall Out Boy, bad europop techno.
-
I feel guilty about listening to Dr. Dre's "2001," then later, when driving and bored, I tune the radio to 106.1 MHZ and realize that it's brilliant, sublime sophistry compared to what the kidz listen to these days.
I apologise on behalf my generation for that horrible shit. I have no idea why everyone is into this crap. I mean 50 cent and pussycat dolls are you shitting me? I would be into hip-hop if the culture wasn't so sickening right now.
I have no idea what the appeal of 50 cent is, but as for the Pussycat Dolls, some of them are fucking hot. Sex sells, obviously.
-
As well as stupidity, when you in all seriousness call a song Stick Wi U or some shite there's gotta be something wrong.
I liked it better when it was Marvin Gaye and Bill Withers who stood for black music culture, nowadays the mainstream is appalling.
-
Sage Francis is freaking awesome. Sun vs. Moon hits constant replay with me.
it bothers the hell out of me when i hear people say this. have you heard the rest of the record? there are so many better songs on 'a healthy distrust' then sun vs. moon.
-
outkast records are fantastic examples of hip-hop/pop as well
Outkast are brilliant.
-
Skindred
So awesome live. Does anyone know any other band that sounds like them, and isn't lame?
i assume you're already familiar with the work of Dub War, yes ?
-
I have no idea what the appeal of 50 cent is,
Hey, he needed a white guy to promote him - he must be good.
In related news, there's a rapper who took the name Buc Fifty as a direct dis to 50 Cent.
-
OOH, DISS
-
Hey, he needed a white guy to promote him - he must be good.
In related news, there's a rapper who took the name Buc Fifty as a direct dis to 50 Cent.
Hah, Buck 65 beats em both. And, he's better!
-
There is no such thing as a musical guilty pleasure listen to what you like.
-
There is no such thing as a musical guilty pleasure listen to what you like.
Okay, I have heard this one too many times in this thread.
I would like to say, to everyone that has said something along the lines of "there are no guilty musical pleasures", that you best never, ever, ever make fun of something that another person likes. You cannot ever think a band is too popular for their own good / too popular for the talent they actually have, that there is no such thing as degenerate music, and that there are no social stigmas attatched to listening to a certain form of music or band.
There is too such a thing as a guilty musical pleasure, because people will try and make you feel bad for something that you like. I really hope what you're trying to say (and everyone else who has said something along those lines) is that you shouldn't let other people's notions of what is worthy to like and what is supposed to be hated should not bother you. That's a valid point. Saying that there is no such thing as a guilty musical pleasure, whether a person actually feels guilty or not, is fallacy.
And I am going to edit this into the first post so people who read just that and then make a reply will see this.
-
All right then Hanson I love Hanson
-
the white stripes and limp bizkit
-
OK, I believe we've got enough information to purge the forum of undesirables now. Who's got the barbed wire?
-
Hanson back when everyone thought they were girls. I have their CDs lying around somewhere. Sad thing is I know every word on all three CDs.
For my birthday I got their "Tulsa Tokyo and the Middle of Nowhere" VHS (shows you how long ago this was) and I took off around the house screaming.
God, I hate myself sometimes. =]
-
There is no such thing as a musical guilty pleasure listen to what you like.
Okay, I have heard this one too many times in this thread.
I would like to say, to everyone that has said something along the lines of "there are no guilty musical pleasures", that you best never, ever, ever make fun of something that another person likes. You cannot ever think a band is too popular for their own good / too popular for the talent they actually have, that there is no such thing as degenerate music, and that there are no social stigmas attatched to listening to a certain form of music or band.
There is too such a thing as a guilty musical pleasure, because people will try and make you feel bad for something that you like. I really hope what you're trying to say (and everyone else who has said something along those lines) is that you shouldn't let other people's notions of what is worthy to like and what is supposed to be hated should not bother you. That's a valid point. Saying that there is no such thing as a guilty musical pleasure, whether a person actually feels guilty or not, is fallacy.
And I am going to edit this into the first post so people who read just that and then make a reply will see this.
There are no guilty pleasures, there are only people who secretelyenjoy shitty music and they should rightly be chastised and peer pressured into renouncing it.
-
There are no guilty pleasures, only guilty people.
-
I apologise on behalf my generation for that horrible shit. I have no idea why everyone is into this crap. I mean 50 cent and pussycat dolls are you shitting me? I would be into hip-hop if the culture wasn't so sickening right now.
You can be into hip-hop and not be into modern hip-hop. If it ain't Black Star, Ghostface, Common, Roots or Outkast, there is no new hip-hop for me.
Last 2, Currently Playing and Next 2 Hip-Hop tracks:
1. Watch For The Hook - Cool Breeze feat Dungeon Family
2. The Genesis - Nas (damn right I play intros & interludes... calling Pete Rock, you are needed!)
->3. Public Enemy No. 1 - Public Enemy (Not even the likes of Puff Daddy can sour this all-time classic)
4. I Gotcha Back - The Genius/GZA (you are a real Wu-Tang fan if you got this song the first time it was out on the soundtrack for Fresh)
5. Push Up Ya Lighter - The Roots (not hard to call them the best hip-hop band when so very few black people play instruments in the first damn place... which is a damn shame since they invented most modern music.)
-
To further stroke the actual topic.
I don't like country but I do like Brad Paisley. So much in fact, I am attending his concert with Sara Evans later this month.
Beat that!
-
Who was it that Anthrax did that one song with, Public Enemy? I can still totally rock out to that song.
-
Yep- it was a Public Enemy Track: Bring The Noize.
Personally, I've always suspected that I shouldn't enjoy Dream Theater as much as I do... well they have their moments.
-
Dream Theater are great if you ignore LaBrie's vocals at points.
-
Dream Theater is one of my favorite bands and they have been for a long time. But man, I have so much more respect for LaBrie after seeing them live a few weeks ago.
Plus, while LaBrie may get over the top at times, at least he stays in fucking key, which puts him ahead of pretty much every country, punk, all metal subgenres except for power*, and grunge vocalist ever, not to mention plenty of mainstream rock ones.
*and Iron Maiden, but they're godly, so they don't count.
And for metalheads who don't believe male vocalists could sing high, I say to you: Rob fucking Halford.
I think a lot of the reason LaBrie's voice doesn't really bother me is because I got into Judas Priest and Rush and their respective high-pitched vocalists first. Just like how I was able to finally get over my hate for death metal vocals by listening to Testament's The Gathering and loving it.
-
Oh man, Rob Halford's voice could fucking break glass three times over.
-
it bothers the hell out of me when i hear people say this. have you heard the rest of the record? there are so many better songs on 'a healthy distrust' then sun vs. moon.
Um... I wouldn't know? I just have Sun vs. Moon from a mix cd an ex girlfriend gave me.
-
Oh man, Rob Halford's voice could fucking break glass three times over.
Exactly, and the thing is, I've talked to numerous metalheads over the intarwebs who go "I don't really like Dream Theater, their singer sounds like a pussy because he sings so high all the time." So I ask, "Well, do you like Judas Priest?"
They naturally respond, "Fuck yeah, Rob Halford is a god!"
This just makes me go wtf.
-
Exactly, and the thing is, I've talked to numerous metalheads over the intarwebs who go "I don't really like Dream Theater, their singer sounds like a pussy because he sings so high all the time." So I ask, "Well, do you like Judas Priest?"
They naturally respond, "Fuck yeah, Rob Halford is a god!"
This just makes me go wtf.
Can't think why. Halford sings at low and normal pitches as well as high, and he's got a good enough voice to pull it off. I haven't heard Dream Theater <washes hands>, but if the guy always sings shrill it's perfectly fair to call him a nonce and Halford a god.
-
Death Cab for Cutie
Yeah I know. I don't even feel guilty for liking them but I really should.
-
I really enjoy Blink 182s first 3 albums (Buddha, Cheshire Cat, Dude Ranch).
*blush*
-
Oh man, Rob Halford's voice could fucking break glass three times over.
Exactly, and the thing is, I've talked to numerous metalheads over the intarwebs who go "I don't really like Dream Theater, their singer sounds like a pussy because he sings so high all the time." So I ask, "Well, do you like Judas Priest?"
They naturally respond, "Fuck yeah, Rob Halford is a god!"
This just makes me go wtf.
It's not the pitch or anything of LaBrie's voice that bugs me, it's the voice itself. It just grates on my nerves.
-
I won't deny that he can get a tad annoying at times on their recordings, but he actually toned it down for the most part when I saw them.
Then again, this might be because of their song choice. Caught in a Web was mildly grating, but the high parts in Fatal Tragedy were significantly more subdued.
His performance on Learning to Live gave me fucking chills, though. The entire band just went all out on that one, it was amazing.
EDIT:
Can't think why. Halford sings at low and normal pitches as well as high, and he's got a good enough voice to pull it off. I haven't heard Dream Theater <washes hands>, but if the guy always sings shrill it's perfectly fair to call him a nonce and Halford a god.
First of all, LaBrie doesn't sing high all the time, and usually when he does it's only for a part of the song. His voice is great when he keeps to the lower registers too (for evidence, I point to his performance on The Human Equation), and I don't know what Halford you're thinking of, but the Halford I know is in shrieking-falsetto mode 90% of the time. I love Judas Priest and all, but Halford's voice grates on me just as much, if not more, than LaBrie's.
-
My main musical guilty pleasures are:
"Wedding Bell Blues" by The 5th Dimension
"The First Single," by the Format
"Daydream Believer," by The Monkees
That last one kinda deserves a category of its own, because while the song itself is fun, I hate the Monkees and everything they represent. They were pretty much the first boy band, and set the precedent for such abominations as The Archies, The Backstreet Boys, and the whole slew of corporately-created "artists" who are so popular today. The thing that really annoys me about the Monkees is that they pretended to be a real band, to the extend of fake-playing their instruments during live shows. Unfortunately, about 90% of the people I've talked to about music believe that the Monkees were a genuine 60's rock band, while nobody believes that Ashlee Simpson or Usher write their own songs or do their own choreography.
Sorry if I'm preaching to the choir here...
{edit} ....or if I'm being annoying.
-
I won't deny that he can get a tad annoying at times on their recordings, but he actually toned it down for the most part when I saw them.
Then again, this might be because of their song choice. Caught in a Web was mildly grating, but the high parts in Fatal Tragedy were significantly more subdued.
His performance on Learning to Live gave me fucking chills, though. The entire band just went all out on that one, it was amazing.
Well that and the fact that his vocal chords are still probably a little iffy from when he fucked them up like crazy.
-
Speaking of high pitched voices, does The Darkness count? I like 'um. Total Queen vibe.
-
Okay, I'm looking at my last.fm and there's a few more I'm feeling guilty about.
First, Cattle Decapitation. Not guilty for liking them, but for liking them so much and so disproportionately. They're a pretty average band, yet they easily come top of my traditional death metal listening by FAR. They must be, what, over 200 places on my overall chart above Carcass and 80-100 above Bloodbath and Grave. It makes my taste in death metal look poopy. Same is the amount of Children of Bodom I've listened to. I know it's because old Children of Bodom will automatically cure me of being glum in any situation, and the same with 3 Inches of Blood, who, by the way I feel guilty for far out-stripping Judas Priest.
-
Speaking of high pitched voices, does The Darkness count? I like 'um. Total Queen vibe.
I think you misspelt "total Queen ripoff and rapers of Marc Bolan's corpse" there. The Darkness aren't a guilty pleasure, they're a war crime.
-
Okay, I got one. I like Soundgarden's more radio-friendly stuff (Superunknown) more than their older, Zeppelin inspired work.
-
Okay, I got one. I like Soundgarden's more radio-friendly stuff (Superunknown) more than their older, Zeppelin inspired work.
Nothing wrong with that. Cornell's voice is aural orgasm anyway you can get it, and the Zeppelin inspired stuff, well, sounds like Zeppelin. (not a fan)
-
I listened to pretty much only mainstream rock until a little over a year ago, so some of those bands have stuck with me, although I don't listen to them as much as I used to. I enjoy listening to Linkin Park every once in a while, as well as Evanescence. System of a Down I still like quite a bit. I also tend to like a lot of 80's music, including Duran Duran.
-
I am ashamed of nothing! The following bands and artists would probably have me scourned,but I gives no fucks!
Coheed and Cambria!
Sarah McLaughlin!
Dido!
Idina Menzel (The goddess!)
Occasional My Chemical Romance!
Occasional Early The Used!
Various Musical Soundtracks! I fucking love 'em!
Claudio Sanchez scares the fuckin hell out of me.
I do enjoy My Chemical Romance though. It bothers me immensely.
-
You like Soundgarden?
Hah!
I like SAVAGE Garden!
-
I like Madison SQUARE garden!
Take that!
-
I OWN THE O-ZONE CD (think numa numa)!!!!!!!
-
I once downloaded and burned the entire Crazy Frog album for my raving mad little sister.
That is, after my brother refused for the sake of her soul or something to that effect.
She's a tough girl since it seems she has lived through it unscathed.
-
If I was your sister I would have actually shot myself in the ears.
-
If I was you I would have shot my sister in the ears.
-
Brothers and sister, come togther! Can't we just once hunt down the wanker behind the Crazy Frog and shoot him in the head instead? Unity!
Oh, a guilty pleasure? Bat Country by Avenged Sevenfold. Say what you will, it's a pretty decent track with great solos and HST references. No real love for the band or their devotees though.[/i]
-
While I don't particularly appreciate you saying I should shot my sister(even though I know you're joking). She is twelve and as such she listens almost exclusively to what any sane person would define as "dire".
And now some of you are probably going say I listened to the Beatles(or something) at that age. Well, the Beatles is shite and don't you ever forget it punk ;)
-
She is twelve and as such she listens almost exclusively to what any sane person would define as "dire".
By definition, I should think.
And now some of you are probably going say I listened to the Beatles(or something) at that age. Well, the Beatles is shite and don't you ever forget it punk ;)
Them's fighting words.
Mind you, I totally disagree with the idea that the music from when you were 15-19 is the music that shapes your taste. I didn't listen to much music during that time, but I do now. Of the music I listen to now only two acts had their peak in the period 1989-1994; one of those I didn't discover until around 2002, and I'd hardly say The Orb shaped my musical taste.
-
Okay, I got one. I like Soundgarden's more radio-friendly stuff (Superunknown) more than their older, Zeppelin inspired work.
Super-Unknown was their best album by far.
-
And now some of you are probably going say I listened to the Beatles(or something) at that age. Well, the Beatles is shite and don't you ever forget it punk ;)
Dude, when I was 12 my favorite band was Echo and the Bunnymen.
Really, my father played them all the time.
-
I actually think "Toxic" by Britney Spears is a fucking brilliant song. I mean, in the context of going out dancing? Good god, it's like crack!
But hey, if you thought I couldn't top that, just wait. One of the songs that makes me happier than anything ever is a cover of J-Lo's "I'm Real" by The Starting Line. It's basically taking the two lowest forms of music and fusing them into one, but somehow it ends up fun as hell. The most amusing thing to do with this song is to slip it on a mixtape inbetween two of your most pretentious bands, think early Animal Collective and Deerhoof. It's great to watch hipsters caught off-guard.
-
I disagree with the 15-19 theory too as I listened to Ace of Base and Celine Dion back then. Well, I did get into Barenaked Ladies about the age of 19, but that's something else entirely.
Well, Ace of Base is still awesome...
-
I'm not afraid of my love for any band, but I am embarrassed somewhat of my love for musical theater.
I mean, I don't like Sondheim, but I love old 40's-50's cheese like Carnival! or stuff like Little Shop Of Horrors.
-
You like Soundgarden?
Hah!
I like SAVAGE Garden!
Preach it!
-
I'm not afraid of my love for any band, but I am embarrassed somewhat of my love for musical theater.
I mean, I don't like Sondheim, but I love old 40's-50's cheese like Carnival! or stuff like Little Shop Of Horrors.
Just as long as you don't call yourself Mr. Mephistopheles and walk around with a top hat on at home.
-
oh man savage garden are wicked!
so is s club 7 (SHUT UP!! IT IS SO TRUE!!!)
THERE AIN'T NO PARTY LIKE AN S CLUB PARTY! and don't you haters forget it
-
as long as you don't call yourself Mr. Mephistopheles and walk around with a top hat on at home.
most ridiculous confession ever: when I was 11 i had a secret crush on mr. mistopheles. i saw Cats in London and the same actor from my Cats videotape was playing him, and I think I blushed in my seat.
YEAH OKAY I'M DONE NOW.
-
Hey! I know sarcasm when I see it!
I DO like Savage Garden. I am NOT ashamed to admit it.
-
Also, another guilty pleasure of mine is going into full elitist mode on any forum that doesn't actively deal with music where a music thread pops up. It's such fun to watch them go off on me.
I guess that makes me an asshole.
-
I it bad that I don't ate that new Bad Day song by Daniel Powter? It's just...it doesn't suck! it's on MTV 467 times a-freaking-day, but it doesn't suck! it's just too catchy to shake.
also, I don't really feel that guilty, but my two favorite classic rock songs as of late are Sympathy for The Devil, and Bohemian Rhapsody. The Flaming Lips cover of it actually isn't too bad either.
-
Is it wrong that I was feeling bad for watching the Tenacious D DVD concert? If so, I don't want to be right. I just love their song Dio, and how it is pretty much like a giant comedy routine, with rock music.
-
Tenacious D are so fucking awesome it hurts. Do not feel bad about it at all.
-
I mean, they cover the Flash Gordan theme. I feel bad about feeling guilty about it at all, but they way they talk to the audience like they would never know that Dio was in Black Sabbath hurts me deep inside.
-
Jack Black is one of my many heroes. There is no shame in listening to Tenacious D.
Why don't YOU invent something? Like inward singing?
-
Fuck Her Gently is my favorite song on that album.
"What's your favorite posish?
That's cool, it's not my favorite but I'll do it for you
What's your favorite dish?
No I'm not gonna cook it but I'll order it FROM ZANZABAR!"
-
Tenacious D are so fucking awesome it hurts.
I'm going to assume you typoed there and meant to say they're so fucking awful it hurts. Easy mistake, the keys are next to one another...
-
Dude. Get OFF OF THE INTERNETS.
No, I serously love Tenacious D and that album is one of my favorite albums of all time.
-
As discussed elsewhere, I *am* an Oasis fan. So nyeh.
Uh, what else? I will admit to owning The Eminem Show and Hybrid Theory in my CD collection... hey, I was young once, I didn't know any better. Oh, and the obligatory first CD you buy and never know why you did it: Astrolounge from Smash Mouth.
Ah, here we go. Winnar: CHEF AID. Y'know, the South Park Album.
-
Oh, and the obligatory first CD you buy and never know why you did it: Astrolounge from Smash Mouth.
Huh. First CD I bought was Dark Side of the Moon, and I know exactly why I did it. Then again, I was a late adopter of CD technology (due to lack of money). First album I bought full stop... actually, I think that might have been my original cassette copy of DSotM. Oh, well.
-
Ah, here we go. Winnar: CHEF AID. Y'know, the South Park Album.
I am gopher boy, pondering reality.
I am gopher boy, won't you buy my raspberries?
-
The Postal Service immediately comes to mind.
-
The Donnas and The Sahara Hotnights, just because alright
-
I it bad that I don't ate that new Bad Day song by Daniel Powter? It's just...it doesn't suck! it's on MTV 467 times a-freaking-day, but it doesn't suck! it's just too catchy to shake.
I have the exact same problem, man. And I've had this conversation with other people too. It gets people all confused and flustered because they really don't dislike it, haha.
-
I had that problem with Larger Than Life by the Backstreet Boys. I heard that song on the radio at work and didn't recognise who'd sung it. And so an hour later I was humming it under my breath when one of my friends asked me why I was singing a Backstreet Boys song.
I felt... dirty. And ever since then I've thought that I *should* hate that song, but every time I hear it it gets stuck in my head.
-
Oh, and the obligatory first CD you buy and never know why you did it: Astrolounge from Smash Mouth.
Mine was The Offspring - Americana. I think I did pretty well.
-
Oh, and the obligatory first CD you buy and never know why you did it: Astrolounge from Smash Mouth.
When I was 11, I got my first 3 CDs for Christmas, exactly what I wanted--The Backstreet Boys' "Millenium", Britney Spears's ... whatever her first album was, and yes, LOU BEGA. That's an astronomically awful trio. Anyone who can make it through that Lou Bega CD deserves a medal.
-
First CD I ever bought was the Cranberries "Everyone Else is Doing it So Why Can't We?" I still love that CD. So enh.
PS: Tenacious D is freaking awesome and anyone who disagrees has a stick stuck so far up their ass that they're obviously being used as a puppet by someone who is obviously the antichrist.
Edit: Mambo #5 is still fucking catchy. The rest of the album is shit, but fuck I shake my ass whenever #5 comes on at like... Best Buy heh.
-
The first CD I ever bought, besides some Joe Hisaishi soundtracks, was Singles by The Smiths. I don't regret it.
-
The first CD I bought with my own money was Turn On the Bright Lights by Interpol. Up until then I never had to bother 'cause my dad bought loads of good cds
-
Mine was The Offspring - Americana. I think I did pretty well.
It was my first buy too. Not the most embarrasing disk to own but I've only kept it because it was the first.
-
My first CD was Snow Patrol (Final Straw.) My first tapes (which I had obtained much prior to the first CD) were Led Zeppelin (Houses of the Holy), Ramones (some compilation album), and Soundgarden (Louder than Love.) I figure I did pretty well.
@Ghostwriter: I love The Postal Service, don't be ashamed!
-
So theres this song I've been hearing on the radio lately. Its by that Sean Paul character and damn does it have some beats. I mean you kind of have to ignore the lyrics but shit that song is good.
-
My first was Santana's Supernatural.
My guilty pleasures are Jewel, Enya, and Loreena McKennitt.
And now, I'm going to go cut off my balls.
-
My first cd I bought was Elephant by White Stripes, I don't regret that at all.
My guilty pleasure is probably The Goodies. I think they made very good comedy-pop songs. In fact, I'm actually listening to one of their songs now, Stuff That Gibbon, Graeme Garden has an alright voice, and it suits this song, but Bill Oddie has the best singing voice in the group by far, and the other two admitted it.
-
Right now I'm listening to "Islands in the Stream". I win.
-
Sorry to practice thread necromancy, but I thought it'd be better than to create a duplicate of an existing thread.
I'm ashamed to admit that I rather like a fair chunk of Mandy Kane's stuff.
He made a brief grab for fame at the end of 2003, but ended up fading into obscurity.
-
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/sandmanccl/threadnecro.jpg)
I actually have nothing new to say. I just wanted an excuse to use that image.
-
i've recently broken out the old new found glory and northstar cds from my younger teen years. i'd have to say they are my two biggest guilty pleasures. "nothing gold can stay" (new found glory) is one of the best albums, and northstar is always good. oh man.
-
I'm always slightly ashamed of my liking for Shania Twain, and that my first CD was Sandi Thom. Not that either of those women are bad singers, but Shania Twain sings songs that are not of my moral slant (heh I sound so pompous) and Sandi Thom blends so well she should be a shade of paint.
-
Right now I'm listening to "Islands in the Stream". I win.
I was jamming that song on my headset at work one day. These were open-air headphones so pretty much everybody could hear.
My friend, who sat across, flagged me down and told me, "Not sure if you got the memo but hmm, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton is NOT METAL!".
I responded by cranking it even higher.
-
I'm new. Love indie/alternative, but I also really dig:
Pink
Some of Shakira's stuff from, like, 2002
Lily Allen
The new Maroon 5 single, forget what it's called, sounds kinda disco-ey
That song that goes "Take a look at my girlfriend, she's the only one I've got"
KT Tunstall (although I don't know if she should really count as a guilty pleasure)
Rhianna's "Pon de Replay"
KC and the Sunshine Band's "Get Down Tonight" (I think that's what it's called, anyway)
I've heard that the Gorillaz are a guilty pleasure, but I totally disagree. I have absolutely no guilt for loving the Gorillaz. I'll shout it from the rooftops if I have to. I. Love. The. Gorillaz.
-
Mars Volta's Deloused in the Comatorium :oops: I kinda like some of the songs
-
I love how so many people think this band is essential just because Cobain liked them. I'm not saying you're one of them, but it's really hilarious. Everything I've heard of the Melvins is dire.
I hate Kurt Cobain, and I love the Melvins. The Melvins may be one of my favourite bands, actually; every release they've done (including earlier albums and Ipecac stuff) is highly rated in my books. I'm not posting this to say you should like the Melvins, I just disagreed with the Cobain link being the only reason to like them. Nirvana even stole a few of the Melvins' riffs!
And I like the Mars Volta too. Bollocks to the lot o' ya!
-
"I keep Sheryl Crow on my iPod under 'Cat Power" - Michael Showalter in the highlight of his commentary of popular music...second maybe to this.(http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p316/darkbluerabbit/CreedRider.jpg) Okay maybe you had to be there, but I am going to be pretentious and post out of context jokes because I SAW THE MICHAELS of STELLA live and MET THEM!...Yayyyyy.
Okay. My not so guilty pleasures are Bonnie Tyler, Journey, Shakira (I love her, actually) and...actually I might be gulity of this one.. I LIKE FALL OUT BOY. Sorry, they're catchy.
-
I have very few guilty pleasures but, the biggest one has got to be Say Anything. Damn them!
-
Justin Timberlake... please don't hurt me...
Also, Mika.
-
Oh, that and the Card Captor Sakura beginning ("Catch You Catch Me") and ending ("Groovy") themes.
I love Catch You Catch Me. In fact, I have a soft spot for most JPop
Oh, I forgot about Jpop. I kinda have an old nostalgia for it (an old friend of mine was nuts for it) and I'm slightly ashamed of it.
Yeah, I know the post is really fucking old, but as I obsess over a number of J-Pop songs I had to quote this one.
Click link in sig. And I'm also working on transcribing (with MIDI magic) a couple really awesome songs from the Bleach soundtrack (Disc 2 track 9: phenomena) in the style of Yuzo Koshiro, as it happened to develop.
Another guilty pleasure: Do As Infinity's Fukai Mori, for the same reason as the link in the sig. Japanese pop love song.
I'm big on the old school VG music scene, as dropping such a name suggests. The Streets of Rage soundtracks ARE FUCKING AWESOME.
Rie Fu is NOT A GUILTY PLEASURE BECAUSE RIE FU IS ALSO AWESOME, but in a completely different way from Koshiro.
(BTW, Koshiro and Michiru Yamane apparently both contributed to one Castlevania DS title soundtrack. I must hear it because it MUST BE ABSOLUTE SEX!)
But for real guilty pleasures:
Vitamin C's "Vacation"
Tom Jones's "Ring of Fire" cover
Hairspray soundtrack (though I dislike the way that musicals' soundtracks are mixed usually)
The Protoypes' "Kaleidoscope"
-
I LIKE FALL OUT BOY. Sorry, they're catchy.
I actually went to one of their concert, I never saw so much Black All-Stars Converse in my entire life
I like Green Day (the old stuff (pre-Dookie)) and I also like Gorillaz(That's not so bad though)
-
Billy Joel
-
Billy Joel
There is absolutely no shame in that.
-
I love Fatman Scoop. All he wants is for people to put their hands up and to party! He is really looking out for everyones best interests. And that Madison Avenue song "Who the hell are you" came on at work the other day and I totally shook my butt to it while I worked. I am ok with this. I've really had to learn to enjoy cheesy dance music.
-
There is plenty of shame in it when you drive down the street screaming Movin Out with the windows down in your ghetto neighborhood.
-
Wu Tang Clan and Dr.Dre, but more for the comedy value than actually enjoying the music. I also enjoy some stuff by The Shins on occasion.
-
There is plenty of shame in it when you drive down the street screaming Movin Out with the windows down in your ghetto neighborhood.
Okay, I totally visualized that, and giggled way too loudly in the computer lab.
Shame might not be the right word...someone yelling out their windows doesn't have much shame. Well, perhaps in retrospect.
-
Wu Tang Clan and Dr.Dre, but more for the comedy value than actually enjoying the music.
you obviously hate fun and things that are genuinely awesome
-
No Doubt.
-
I used to like Barenaked Ladies until my roomate last year kept fucking listening to him. Now when I hear their songs all I can remember is his SMELL! He stunk like 4 bags of pure, unfiltered ass that had been covered in compost and poo. He could stink up the room in 30 seconds. So yeah, I can't listen to Barenaked Ladies anymore due to the horrible case of PTSD it brings up, but they used to be on my 'Guilty Pleasures' list.
As for now, any and all Power Metal stands on top of that list.
DragonForce
Blind Guardian
Turisas
Rhapsody of Fire
and etc.
-
TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT
Apparently nobody else likes this song, but it gets stuck in my head so quickly.
-
The first CD that I ever got was Aqua's first CD, I used to be in love with bopping along to Barbie Girl, Oh, and Spice Girls, memories always come flooding back to me whenver I'm listening to them..... *dreamy sigh*
-
Sum 41's Chuck, oh, the shame.
-
in my book, Tom Jones is anything BUT a guilty pleasure. the man's my lord and savior.
(http://johngushue.typepad.com/blog/images/tom_jones_atomic_jones.jpg)
well, i have these floating around my mp3 player right now:
Avril Lavigne "Girlfriend" remix with Lil Mama
Lil Mama "Lipgloss"
The Real McCoy "Another Night"
Johnny Gil "Rub you the Right way"
Down "Lean like a Cholo"
Jefferson Starship "We Built This City (on rock and roll)"
Duplex "pooping and peeing"
-
Natalie Imbruglia would have to be mine. I'm not just talking about Torn either for which I have no guilt for liking, (best pop song of the 90's) but basically everything she does.
-
in my book, Tom Jones is anything BUT a guilty pleasure. the man's my lord and savior.
(http://johngushue.typepad.com/blog/images/tom_jones_atomic_jones.jpg)
His work in "Mars Attacks!" changed my life! The man can summon wildlife as if he were a Disney princess.
I just found some of my old mix CDs from high school, and I have to say, I completely forgot how much fun it can be driving around blaring "Mr. Brightside" while doing one's best imitation of Brandon Flowers.
-
Mine would probably be the lost prophets.
-
(http://a3.vox.com/6a00c2251d4b7cf21900c2251d8413f219-500pi)
-
I listened to and enjoyed the entire 'Treasure of the Carribean: Reggae Gold 2006' compilation.
heres the cover
(http://www.irieites.de/pkritiken/bilder/2007_va_reggaegold_2007.jpg)
-
I am not sure whether my love of the New Young Pony Club should be classified as a guilty pleasure or just me digging on some pop music for once.
-
(http://a3.vox.com/6a00c2251d4b7cf21900c2251d8413f219-500pi)
Jamiroquai is fucking awesome, and you know it!
That said, my guilty pleasure would be Killswitch Engage.
Yeah, their songs all sound the same, but fuck it. I like 'em, and they're awesome live.
Plus, their drummer has a huge, flame-red beard and uses a cowbell on the live versions of some songs. How can you not love that?
-
'Kay, I'm just gonna come out and say it:
I like Jason Mraz.
I think it's cool how he can cram 47 words into each line of his songs.
Also, I think The Hollies' "The Air that I Breathe" is cool. And "Bus Stop" is my most favorite song of all time.
-
Yellowcard. I have "Ocean Avenue" on my iPod just in case I get the urge.
I worked at Tower Records when it still existed, and when I claimed the promotional copy of that album I got crap for days and days.
-
Al Stewart, people. Overwrought 70's folk-rock with Sorta-Deep Lyrics Often About Historical Events, with less street cred than Cat Stevens or James Taylor.
I can't help it... it's a strange compulsion...
-
'Kay, I'm just gonna come out and say it:
I like Jason Mraz.
I think it's cool how he can cram 47 words into each line of his songs.
I had a pretty serious Jason Mraz phase for the same reason.... Then I noticed that 10 out of those 46 words was the word "wordplay" or one of its synonyms. I wanted to hit him over the head with a copy of "Love's Labour Lost" or something. Still, his voice is so... Sujan. I love it.
Anyway, I guess my guilty pleasure would be Kelly Clarkson's "Since You've Been Gone." But is it a guilty pleasure if you enjoy it on an ironic level?
-
I listened to and enjoyed the entire 'Treasure of the Carribean: Reggae Gold 2006' compilation.
heres the cover
(http://www.irieites.de/pkritiken/bilder/2007_va_reggaegold_2007.jpg)
please upload this. It pretty much looks incredible.
-
It reminds me of a couple porn ads I saw one time in the Phoenix.
Yes, I know I'm not in the region for which the Phoenix is relevant. Not now, anyway.
-
Kanye West. I don't know why. I just love his beats. I hate hip-hop nowadays too. I'm more of a Daft Punk guy (Discovery > All) but the Flaming Lips, Buckethead, the Police, and Queen.
Kanye just doesn't fit, but I love it.
-
I'm almost certain if I had been born 10 years earlier, I'd be citing "New Kids On the Block" right now :o.
As it is, hmm, my guilty pleasures (as long as we're using this thread for confessions)... would probably include Moby. And (early) U2.
-
Kanye West. I don't know why. I just love his beats. I hate hip-hop nowadays too. I'm more of a Daft Punk guy (Discovery > All) but the Flaming Lips, Buckethead, the Police, and Queen.
Kanye just doesn't fit, but I love it.
See, I don't count Kanye as a guilty pleasure. That goes double for Queen. I count those as valid life choices.
-
Anyway, I guess my guilty pleasure would be Kelly Clarkson's "Since You've Been Gone." But is it a guilty pleasure if you enjoy it on an ironic level?
Yes. It wouldn't be if you just liked it though, it's a good song. As it is, you should feel guilt.
-
I mainly listen to rock so the rihanna and kelly clarkson floating around my computer would qualify as my guilty pleasures. my friends would say Jethro Tull is a guilty pleasure but they are way too awesome to be guilty for anyone.
-
Kelly Clarkson's latest album had Mike Watt playing bass on it. Mike Watt is one of the most rocking men ever. Therefore, Kelly Clarkson rocks as well as most music on your (or anyone's) computer. Rihanna's patchy but when she's on form it's hard to find too much to fault with her.
People really need to stop having so much guilt over perfectly good music. The only thing to feel shame over is liking things ironically (because that's just annoying).
-
There are some things that are impossible to not like ironically.
For example (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APHm8DbYkL0)
-
There are some things that are impossible to not like ironically.
For example (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APHm8DbYkL0)
No.
Not ever.
-
You know you love it. That song is so awful it qualifies as comedic genius.
-
The R&B Spinal Tap? :o
I'd still take Timbaland over that no-talent sack of shit, anyday.
Timbaland fucking rocks, by the way.
-
CURSE YOU,
LUMMER MICHAELICIOUS!
-
What?!
-
Sorry, got it wrong. Thought you had posted the link, but I was misreading who had quoted whom, I guess. I fixed it, now.
-
Fleetwood Mac.
-
There are some things that are impossible to not like ironically.
For example (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APHm8DbYkL0)
I'm with Lummer, that was just crap. There's never a good reason to like something purely because you think you shouldn't, it's just irritating. Irony is a dead scene after all.
-
I work part-time in inventory, and thus have to spend a large amount of time in places like CVS, Walgreens, Shaws, Stop and Shop. They always have very mainstream music playing. (It's obvious wherever they cull their playlist from is a Clear Channel property.)
Some of the mainstream music I hear I enjoy. I don't usually find out the names of the songs or the bands that play them, but sometimes a really catchy pop hook can be really enjoyable.
-
I feel no guilt, only regret.
-
Right, the musical guilty pleasure that immediately sprung to mind when reading this thread:
Dread Zeppelin.
Has to be one of the most gimmicky bands around. They do reggae covers of Led Zeppelin songs. They have an Elvis impersonator as the lead singer. And they released a Christmas album. I think I have it, somewhere.
I can't help but listen to their music with a big, fuck-off cheesey grin.
-
Fleetwood Mac.
You, my friend, are doing the thread wrong. You have, however, inspired me to throw on Rumours.
-
Bloodhound Gang is the guiltiest of pleasures. And yet they totally make with the bootyshakins.
-
I am buying Justin Timberlake's new album today.
Fuck you!
-
I'm pretty convinced that I'm the only person on Earth who doesn't like "Since You've Been Gone". I do like quite a few other Kelly Clarkson songs though. Plus Mike Watt is her new bassist. That's gotta count for something. Also, the first Natalie Imbruglia album. some really tight session playing on that one.
-
"Since U Been Gone" is stunning, it really is. I, conversely, can't stand any of her other songs.
Is Natalie Imbruglia's first album the one with "Torn" on it? It's a decent song, and I think that album might be in the house. I might listen to it on your rather questionable (considering the thread title...) recommendation.
-
Yup, I really like "Since U Been Gone" too!
Other than that, Britney, Aguilera, Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake, the occasional Klaxons and Shakira is fucking amazing.
So mostly female pop singers (including JT). What do ya' know.
-
T-Pain, wanna fight about it?
Also, Freebird.
-
Fleetwood Mac.
You, my friend, are doing the thread wrong. You have, however, inspired me to throw on Rumours.
What do you mean I'm doing the thread wrong?
-
I mean there is no reason to feel the remotest bit of guilt when it comes to Fleetwood Mac.
-
Weezer, Kylie Minogue, uhhh Will Smith....
and a crapload of German/Japanese techno
-
I mean there is no reason to feel the remotest bit of guilt when it comes to Fleetwood Mac.
Yeah, I'm a sucker for the vocal harmonies.
And I liked Tusk as well.
-
Probably Aqua. They have the most ridiculous lyrics and sugary pop techno beats ... but I can't help but feel stupidly happy every time I listen to them.
-
I listened to Thriller today
-
isn't the reason that 'Since U Been Gone' is so good is that it stole the riff from 'Maps' by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs?
-
Nah, that riff's totally incidental to the excellence of Since You Been Gone. It's only there once near the end! It's the vocal that makes it and since it's far from Clarkson's only good effort I'd say it was her that makes it so good.
-
I listened to Thriller today
God, 'Billy Jean' is such a good song.
-
guilty pleasures as of lately
billy joel's "we didn't start the fire"
john williams star wars soundtracks any of em'
i still like classic rock... thanks dad
and i like a few nu metal bands (SOAD and deftones)
jeff waynes war of the worlds... not guilty for liking it but some may call me weird for the fact
-
Thrice...
-
Panic at the disco :roll:
-
I have a couple as Asylum Street Spankers, The fray and System of the down
-
This ridiculous spanish "folk metal" band Mägo de Oz (Wizard of Oz, with an umlaut thrown in for good measure). I heard them everywhere when I was studying in spain and now I can't help but listen to them every once in awhile. Crazy metal with celtic flutes and accordions and other weird stuff. Everyone I've played it for thinks it's shit, but i can't help but think it's fun.
-
Steely Dan - Aja
-
billy joel's "we didn't start the fire (http://youtube.com/watch?v=lueRaOwFK0Q)"
-
Sometimes when I'm in the mood for a laugh...
I listen to Freezepop :-(
-
I actually like a few Killers and Coldplay songs.
Please don't kill me.
-
i have pulled a few all-nighters recently watching pharell (mostly his collaboration singles) and usher on youtube.
-
I actually like a few Killers and Coldplay songs.
Please don't kill me.
I saw the Killers at a festival in Scotland and it was the best concert I've ever been to.
So...
-
Steely Dan - Aja
I own most of Steely Dan's material.
Whoops.
-
This ridiculous spanish "folk metal" band Mägo de Oz (Wizard of Oz, with an umlaut thrown in for good measure). I heard them everywhere when I was studying in spain and now I can't help but listen to them every once in awhile. Crazy metal with celtic flutes and accordions and other weird stuff. Everyone I've played it for thinks it's shit, but i can't help but think it's fun.
Oh man. At work we had a running joke about how shit they are, and one opf my friends would randomly start singing one of their songs while dancing around like a pixie. One time, a guy we didn't like overheard us and approached us, saying that it was sych a good song, i didn't quite know how to react.
-
Mago De Oz are actually one of the first folk metal bands (though they didn't record anything for years), which is really quite worrying, as they've spent the bulk of their career pretending to be Skyclad. They even called their live album 'Fölktergeist' (See the Skyclad's 'Polkageist', on the album 'Folkemon'), which is just lamentable on a number of levels. For example, if you pronounce the umlaut, it sounds a lot like 'Felchtergeist'. Also, just the fucking 'Belfast' album. That album is basically a collective act of oral sex performed on Skyclad.
Also someone better not have fucking badmouthed folk metal up there. Fo' real. Folk metal is the best metal.
-
yeah, f- yeah blondie were wik!
i listen to patsy cline way too much but she was way awesome so i don't feel bad about that. i listen to the proclaimers sometimes, though mostly just to decipher their lyrics for the benefit of their perplexed audiences. joe cocker is an old fave particularly all the trashy covers and the sweaty woodstock footage. and 'kung fu fighting', 'knock on wood', 'footloose' oh yeah.
mark owen (of take that fame) put out this song called 'believe in the boogie' once upon a time and it stuck to the inside of my brain for far too long.
will i be pummelled for liking prince? the man is a genius. he's short, sure, but he makes up for it in the size of his saxophone.
-
Dread Zeppelin.
Has to be one of the most gimmicky bands around.
You want a Gimmicky band? try Beatallica. Metal covers of Beatles songs, combined with Metallica songs. Truly gimmicky, and kind of funny
-
...Jimmy Eat World's Futures album. I really, really like it.
Some System of a Down (*braces self for flaming*)...
Also, Audioslave's second album.
And Alien Ant Farm. They are amazing.
-
I adore Alien Ant Farm. They get a lot of unnecessary crap for "Movies" and "Smooth Criminal" but if the whiners saying this had ever actually listened to that album they'd have a different point of view. "Attitude" is one of my favourite songs. The drummer is a fuckin' virtuoso and I love the entire half hour of music from "Attitude" to the end.
-
The Zutons, but now i mention it I don't feel guilty that much 'cause they're really fun.
-
I adore Alien Ant Farm. They get a lot of unnecessary crap for "Movies" and "Smooth Criminal" but if the whiners saying this had ever actually listened to that album they'd have a different point of view. "Attitude" is one of my favourite songs. The drummer is a fuckin' virtuoso and I love the entire half hour of music from "Attitude" to the end.
+1
Their second album was pretty good too, I never heard the third...
-
will i be pummelled for liking prince?
Only by people who have no idea what the fuck they're talking about. Prince is one of those musicians pretty much everyone I know agrees on. Different people like different phases of his stuff, though. I think his best album is his first, Dirty Mind, which is basically a punk rock soul album. I also enjoyed his early-90s singles like "Seven" and "My Name Is Prince".
Also, he fucking shreds on guitar.
-
"My Name Is Prince"? Now THERE'S a timeless album title.
I, for one, am not ashamed to admit my love for Billy Talent, as well as just about any country music pre-1998. Which is funny, because most of the Alan Jackson that I love is post-1998 (he had his "let's play hokey shit" period before he really blossomed as a songwriter), and my favourite Billy Currington came out in 2005.
-
It's not so much that I'm ashamed of liking the following bands, I just don't go on about them.
Nightwish
Yo Latengo
Massive Attack
Lacuna Coil - Our Truth specifically
Joshua Radin
Machine Head
I also don't really mind some more poppy stuff providing I don't have to listen to it on repeat for 12 hours straight (yes, this has happened when I worked in retail) like Ashlee Simpson or Kelly Clarkson.
-
Oh man, guilty pleasures? I have soooo many of them
Pop! Goes my heart(The video just makes the song)
Girlfriend ~ Avril Lavigne
Most Panic!At the Disco
... There's really no music I really dislike besides a good chunk of modern hiphop
-
Whilst I'm usually rather discering with my music, I must admit to owning a few dodgy singles back when I was 12-ish... Think along the lines of Tatu...
I still think the brunette from that band is hot...
*buries head with shame*
-
Whoa! Hold up. Nobody is allowed to start saying Tatu's 'All The Things She Said' is a bad song. It really shouldn't be a guilty pleasure, it ought to be a song your band covers (the Bonsai Kittens version is superb).
-
Chiodos.
'Nuff said...
I'm really sorry guys. :(
-
Tatu aren't bad.
I saw a live concert of them from a year ago or so and their band seriously rocked.
-
I saw a live concert of them from a year ago and I masturbated furiously like any sensible person.
Fixed that for you.
-
I listen to a few pretty cheesy metal bands like Queensr˙che and Dragonforce, I actually have quite a few other "guilty pleasures" but they're mainly individual songs rather than bands. For example I really like LoveStoned by Justin Timberlake.
-
Also, he fucking shreds on guitar.
prince does shred on most instruments...obviously different terms of virtuosity/awesomeness apply to different instruments but yeah he shreds. i liked sign o' the times, but i will never buy the soundtrack for purple rain! my mum once suggested that prince should stop beating around the bush and make an album completely about sex...i didn't have the heart to tell her about 'come'.
-
Oh come on, every Prince album is entirely about sex.