Musical Interlude: Guilty Pleasures

[madbaker]

Do you have a few songs that you secretly enjoy listening to? Even though you know you shouldn't, because the songs in question are utter schlock / top 40 / emo / otherwise antithetical to your normal playlist?

I'll start the ball rolling.
Alphaville, "Forever Young" (slow version)
Depeche Mode, "Black Celebration"

Comments

[ornerie.livejournal.com]

I listen to disney songs. I have the Gaston song from Beauty and the Beast on the "highest rated" playlist on my ipod. that and the song from the Tiki Room...

the shame! the shame!

I also listen to musical soundtracks but that's not so out there for me :)

normally its obscure canadian rockbands, MIdnight Oil and right now I'm big on Diva Jazz/Blues.

Disney Dork

[mad-duchess.livejournal.com]

I'm a huge Disney dork--I have all the attraction songs on my iPod including Tiki Room, Pirates, and Grim Grinning Ghosts (Haunted Mansion). But then, all my best friends are Disney dorks too, so it's no prob when these pop up on the shuffle.

Re: Disney Dork

[ornerie.livejournal.com]

I knew I liked you for a reason ;)

Dorks untie! oops, I mean unite!

No one's got a swell cleft in his chin like gaston!

[wingedcorset.livejournal.com]

The Gaston song is faboo!

Re: No one's got a swell cleft in his chin like gaston!

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

When he takes a dump, noone shits like Gaston!

Re: No one's got a swell cleft in his chin like gaston!

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

When B&B came out in the first place, Sir Gaston Bonneville de la Croix was a bit behind the rest of us getting around to seeing it. He entered the hall where the Canyons Christmas Ball was taking place and people started humming The Gaston Song and giggling. I'm the only one who had the decency [or cojones?] to take him aside and explain what was going on.

By Twelfth Night, he had done himself a Mongol-ish outfit with "antlers in all of his decorating." Hee.

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

I don't think I have any songs I *secretly* enjoy listening to. My love of "Walking on Sunshine" is without shame.

I'm especially good at expectorating!

[wingedcorset.livejournal.com]

Dynamite Hack (white boys doing mellow acoustic versions of gangsta rap), mashups, ummm...I dunno

I watch more bad movies than listen to bad music...

[mad-duchess.livejournal.com]

LOL. Great question. You have to understand I was a total heavy metal chick in high school, but late at night in the dark you could catch me listening to:

Alan Parsons Project
The Moody Blues
Styx, for God's sake--somebody stop me.
Oh, and super-poppy stuff from the 50s/60s--Lollipop, Teen Angel, My Boyfriend's back. Eek!

It's stuck with me and I still indulge on occasion, but now that I'm a "grown up" TM, I couldn't care less what people think, so I listen to it late at night with the lights on.

not what others think

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

The intent was songs that you are ashamed to like and listen to, but do anyway.

Alphaville? Overly pretentious German English language dance music. (And I should know overly pretentious, having listened to the Moody Blues in high school.) Totally does not fit with my usual Who / Led Zeppelin / Stones / metal CDs. Or the Gregorian chant, or the cartoon soundtracks. None of which shame me.

But for some reason, I like that damn song.

Re: not what others think

[mad-duchess.livejournal.com]

I am still ashamed of them--I still don't listen to them if there's anybody else in the room... (Though as I get older, I find I'm not really ashamed of much of anything anymore...) Heck, just admitting to them here is a huge step for me. :-)

Re: not what others think

[mad-duchess.livejournal.com]

To explain further--normally I listen to stuff like Social Distortion, Green Day, The Clash...so before I'll sing along to "It's My Party and I'll Cry if I want to" I've got to look over both shoulders to make sure nobody can hear me lest it blow my "cool" cover. :-)

[mastersantiago.livejournal.com]

I love the Alan Parsons Project! "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" is still one of my all time favorite albums.

[loup_noir]

I don't really care what anyone else thinks about my musical tastes.

I love soundtracks, old country-western, Russian pop, Dead Can Dance, Clancy Brothers, medieval music, and Scandinavian folk. Music!

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

No no, the intent was to bring into the light songs that you are ashamed to listen to. But that you do anyway.

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

"Elvira". Oak Ridge Boys.

[lifeofglamour.livejournal.com]

There's quite a lot of them, but recently I was *horrified* when I had my iPod hooked in to the speaker in the living room providing background music and "Living on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi came on. I freakin' like that song, but I'm extremely embarassed about it. Even when I'm alone.

"Someone Like You" Bang Tango (bet you've never heard of them)
"Fire Woman" The Cult
"The Humpty Dance" Digital Underground
"Oops I did it again" Britney Spears
"Baby got Back" Sir Mixalot (bet you ALL have that one on your list)

These are all songs by artists that have exactly 1 song in my iPod, and every time they come on my ears burn in shame and I enjoy it anyway.

Baby Got Back

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

I prefer this version: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/music/thingaweek/BabyGotBack.mp3

[mastersantiago.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, just on my playlist currently --

Belinda Carlisle - Shades of Michealangelo / Runaway Horses / Summer Rain / Circle In The Sand

Christopher Cross - Ride Like The Wind

Eifle 65 - Blue / Silicon World

Jive Bunny and The MasterMixers - Hawii Five-O Mix

Steve Perry - Oh Sherry

Asia - Daylight / Midnight Sun / True Colors

Men At Work - Land Down Under / Be Good Johnny

Mr. Mister - Kyrie

Nena - 99 Red Ballons

Peter Schilling - Major Tom

Yello - Oh, Yeah

Cars - Drive / You Might Think

A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV


And I *hated* the Alphaville "Forever Young." It was my Senior Year Prom Theme. It was that or the Rod Stewart "Forever Young" which was much cooler. *smile*

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

I loathe Rod Stewart. I don't know why, I just do.

[mastersantiago.livejournal.com]

Generally I do too. But for some reason I liked that song! LOL!

[mad-duchess.livejournal.com]

Irrational but understandable gut reaction. I quite like Rod Stewart, but Morrissey makes my skin crawl....:-b

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with Mr. Mister at all. Or Men at Work.

If you feel shame it should be about having the *english* version of 99 Luftballoons...

[mastersantiago.livejournal.com]

Nope. I have both the English and the German Versions. I also have a Techno-Dance Remix version somewhere. *smile*

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Muskrat Love. Really. I even know all the words. It's not my fault; it was popular when I was in junior high.

But of course I also like the Dr. Demento "Hamster Love" which is about hamster sandwiches.

[ermine-rat.livejournal.com]

My head thunders with music ALL THE TIME and I can summon up lyrics of cartoons and albums back from their origins on my old 8-track. Conversations summon these things up note by note in my head (at least they're not voices). The current ones I am the most ashamed of....

Apeman --the kinks
most Styx--- I feel for you Trish!
My Faire lady-- soundtrack
who will save your soul?--jewel
the logical song--supertramp
i know what boys like--the waitresses
going through the motions--Buffy soundtrack
heart of glass--Blondie

I will spare you the Kansas, Cyndi Lauper and Heart, but at least I didn't get into Poison and the hair bands!

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Disneyland ride tracks that make everyone else puke

"Something to Sing About" from the Buffy "Once More With Feeling" CD, particularly in my depressive moments

Star Trek soundtracks [still geeky after all these years!]