Guilty pleasures or not?

[aedagnino]

Ok, just read somewhere something about musical guilty pleasures and I wanted to know if this is something that is common or not here in PinkFish. Vote!

 

[Gaius]

I quite like The Carpenters, does that count?

 

[JensenHealey]

Actually so do I! Most often in the car. If I fancy a lonesome sing-along

 

[Still]

Apparently TheDecameron is a massive Steps fan.

 

[Whaleblue]

Gosh, all sorts! Lilly Allen* anyone?

*could have picked 20 or more others I’m sure.

 

[RickyC6]

I love the new Morrissey album. I'm one step down from Hitler.

 

[Alex N]

I quite like Wish You Were Here.

 

[Whaleblue]

I quite like Wish You Were Here.

Oy!

 

[Joe Hutch]

I love the new Morrissey album. I'm one step down from Hitler.

Is that the title of his album?

 

[BJP]

On a sunny day when I'm cruising in my soft top I've got a CD going on that just fits the bill ,The Stylistics Greatest Hits .

 

[narabdela]

ABBA?

 

[aedagnino]

ABBA's great. No guiltiness there...

 

[GJO]

The Thompson twins.

 

[Brown Bottle]

I listen to Simon Mayo's all request Friday on Radio 2, it's the only time I ever listen to Radio 2. We call it the Middle Class Request Show at home.

Cheers BB

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

Can anybody think of any guilty pleasures that are not in a broad 'pop/rock' genre (for these purposes, I'd class 'country' as in that genre, being broadly 'popular music')? My point being that I can't readily think of any classical music I'd call a guilty pleasure, nor Jazz. I guess the closest I'd come in 'classical' would be Ravel's Bolero, or the 1812 Overture, perhaps, but I don't really consider those to be guilty pleasures. I'm not a Wagnerian, but do his politics make Wagnerians experience any guilty frissons, now and then?

 

[Colin L]

Haircut One Hundred - Pelican West. Brilliant album.

 

[Rockmeister]

guilt = admission that fashion matters = no guilt.

 

[Lee T]

Guilty of what precisely

I imagine I could fill the entire thread with unfashionable, low brow, unintelligent , non thought provoking musical nonsense I listen to on a daily basis

I have no shame or guilt, exactly as it should be where music is concerned.

 

[venton]

Stylistics... love em but of course it's corny

 

[manicatel]

Does weird Scandinavian jazz count? Examples such as Esbjorn Svensson Trio & Tord Gustaven Trio.
I can understand why others think it’s plinky-plonky nonsense, but I kinda like it.
Equally, I have never “got” Pink Floyd or Eric Clapton. Leaves me absolutely cold. I’m guessing lots of others would call for me to be burned at the stake.