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'Guilty Pleasure' Pimpin' [Song Pimpin' Club Special Edition]

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Mon Oncle Ignatius

15:36 / 27.10.07

While dressed as a) a hunchback or b) a leather-clad Goth rocker? and with swords, I trust?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

16:54 / 27.10.07

No, with chains and while riding motorbikes.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

23:24 / 27.10.07

With (brackets)

Janean Patience

07:48 / 29.10.07

It's great that this thread doesn't really work. No sooner has a Barbeloid tremulously confessed to liking an artist considered by most to be beyond the pale than someone else steps in to stridently affirm that there's nothing wrong with Meatloaf/Taylor Dayne/Mike And The Mechanics. It becomes a search for something truly unforgiveable, something so awful that the tolerance of other posters will be tested, and I'm coming up empty. I don't think even my towering love for Bruce Springsteen would be condemned here. Barbelith: making you feel good about your errant musical taste.

Sjaak at the Shoe Shop

09:41 / 29.10.07

I may have a few that people may be less prone to accept:

John Denver: thank god I'm a country boy

Play it loud at any party and start singing/dancing, and the way people look at you is enough to confirm that yes, you are indeed very drunk,

Falco: Jeannie

Is this just not the worst song ever? Bombastic, with German exclamations, makes the life of a child molester sound like a rock opera.

Janean Patience

09:57 / 29.10.07

I always wanted to hear John Denver's Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas) after spending much of one Christmas laughing about the title with a friend. Never could find it to download.

10:23 / 29.10.07

I concur with the Jim Steinmen genius / Meatloaf as pleasure - for me it's always been 'Paradise by the Dashboard Lights', the song we girls always left the house to on our way out rock clubbing. The heavy breathing par excellence, the heady build up and the exploding climatic finish...er, perhaps I'll stop there.

Given that I generally listen to rock, metal, and the odd bit of folk / female singer-songwriters, my guiltiest pleasure has to be "I like the way you move" by BodyRockers. Whenever this comes on air there is much singing and gyrating in the Teleute household. It is quite disturbing.

Disco is My Class War

14:24 / 29.10.07

I must have missed this thread for five years or so, but I can't believe that last year Rothkoid mentioned the Cabaret soundtrack as a guilty pleasure. Canonical queer literary and historical document, much?

(I can't believe anyone would mention Bruce Springsteen as a guilty pleasure either.)

It's my life's work to renounce guilt. This means guilty pleasures go out the window, too. Cheesy music shall be enjoyed because it is beautiful, aesthetically! Kula Shaker, however, shall not be enjoyed at all.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

16:56 / 29.10.07

Quite. There's nowt wrong with Springsteen OR Cabaret.

ONLY NICE THINGS

17:39 / 29.10.07

Kula Shaker, however, shall not be enjoyed at all.

Well, I think there's a difference there. Rothkoid might think of the Cabaret soundtrack as a guilty pleasure because it is at odds with his construction or presentation as a manly, rockabilly man. So, guilty despite no actual wrongdoing. So, it could be a guilty pleasure for him, much as Sugababes might be a guilty pleasure if you are Sir Simon Rattle. I do hope not, on the Sugababes issue.

Kula Shaker, on t'other hand, are not a guilty pleasure, but a culpable pleasure.

01:20 / 30.10.07

I tend not to feel very much guilt, but sometimes a band's name makes me incredibly uncomfortable. Iron & Wine, though they make some of my favorite music, music I think is excellent and would suggest for others, have a name that smacks of puffy-sleeved shirts and inappropriate velvet.

That said, I am downloading Michael Sembello's Maniac and envisioning a fast, leggy dance done in a leotard and torn sweatshirt, with perhaps a very battered pair of ballet slippers. This is not a fact I plan to advertise widely.

15:56 / 30.10.07

Further to my previous post, I realised with some horror earlier today that I'd just shimmied around my kitchen whilst being a domestic drudge for an hour to the sounds of Girls Aloud with no shame whatsoever. I particularly enjoyed Biology and Love Machine.

I think I need a spank.

Regrettable Juvenilia

16:03 / 30.10.07

Maybe you're just maturing?

Regrettable Juvenilia

16:04 / 30.10.07

That's not even the word I'm looking for.

21:13 / 31.10.07

Maybe it is a sad sad sign of psuedo-nostalgia seeping in, but lately I've been listening and dancing to music I once abhorred. For some reason, it has come to pass that the boy who once sat alone in the auditorium reading his books and generally (and smugly) shunning lovers of electronic dance-music (in this one of its' most simple forms) has begun to feel a certain nostalgia for music once dubbed "Happy Hardcore".

The music differs so much from what I usually like. The lyrics are entirely unimportant, the beats are very monotonous and it is very predictable. It is almost insanely too happy most of the time. The very predictability of it would in the past have caused me to snort with derision (which was in the sad time before I discovered the joys of punk in its often predictable way). Yet often when this music is played I end up dancing ecstatically uncoordinated, and actually enjoy it.

Examples of Happy Hardcore hits

The Party Animals - Have you ever been mellow?
Charlie Lownoise & Mental Theo - Harcore Feelings
Nakatomi - Children of the Night
DJ Paul Elstak - Rainbow in the sky

To show the weight and seriousness of my guilty pleasure, here is a video of one of the songs named above.*

Mea Culpa Mea Culpa Mea Maxima Culpa

It is horrible, I know.

*
I must note that there have been a lot of people associate the Hardcore/Gabber scene nowadays with far right politics/nazi-sympathizers. This in part was aided by the fashionable shaving of heads at the time (as seen in the video). I have often been told by ex-gabbers or party goers that the original hardcore scene that sprung up from older house was in many ways a scene open to people of all colour and cultural background.

Wow...

misjudged the intent of the thread here.

I'm not actually here to pimp this kind of music.

I think I was just responding to an idea put forward that there seemed little that could be put forward as a guilty pleasure that someone on Barbelith would not thereafter claim as not a guilty pleasure at all, but in fact, quite enjoyable.

02:58 / 27.06.08

i can't stop listening to the latest dragonforce album (as usual, thanks /b/...). i don't know anything about power metal, but from what i can tell from dragonforce, it seems to be sort of like yngie malmsteen joining rush and making happy hardcore tunes.

here's some youtube epicness

21:53 / 29.06.08

The Muzak at work has been out of commission for quite some time, but it used to be the highlight of my day whenever Savage Garden's "I Want You" came swirling out of the overhead speakers.

*sigh*

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