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

[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.