Name Your Musical "Guilty Pleasures"

KC and The Sunshine Band......love them, but my wife thinks I am a dweeb, especially when I listened to them with head phones to enjoy the musical nuances that is KC

 

i never really understood the deal with the milli vanilli album, you either liked the songs or you didn't ... what on earth does the video and facade have to do with it ... i reckon they just showed the industry and the public up for what they were

 

i don't know if it's cool or not, but some of those kc and the sunshine band songs were great

 

Laura Branigan - "Self Control"

 

Always loved it. And it was some of the earliest Bowie I could afford as a pre-teen because there were budget compilations of that era!

 

great voice

 

No guilt. Period.

Anything I think is far afield will be loved by many anyway.

 

Peter Frampton. A friend gifted me Frampton Comes Alive and I grew to like it.

 

Cliff Richard's late 70s and early 80s stuff.

I'll fight anyone who doesn't think We Don't Talk Anymore and Wired For Sound are good songs.

 

Lipps Inc. - Designer Music. Pure cheese!

 

I don't feel guilty about anything I like, but I do have some favorites that may raise eyebrows among my friends and require an explanation (or defense), such as Marmalade's "I See the Rain," ELO's Eldorado, also Bread (I love "Down On My Knees"), the To Sir With Love soundtrack, Grand Funk Railroad's Grand Funk album, "You Sexy Thing" by Hot Chocolate and "Hocus Pocus" by Focus (although I must admit there are some bits that make me cringe).

 

The parent album is terrific!

 

Middle of the Road and their unforgettable ditty 'Tweedle Dee and Tweedle dum ' , one of a number of hits from the Scottish 4 piece .

The singer with the Hot Pants has nothing whatsoever to with this guilty pleasure!

 

Debbie Gibson's Think With your Heart and Deborah albums. Her strongest vocal and songwriting period.

 

Yacht rock in general, Pablo Cruise in particular.

Oh and, of course, the mighty Leo Sayer!

 

Linkin Park themselves are not a guilty pleasure for me, though their sellout pop record One More Light is dull and only in my collection as it's by a band I already liked. However, I really grew to love the track "Invisible". It seems to do every modern pop trick in the book...and yet it is genuinely moving and I listen to it a fair bit.

 

Abba
The Carpenters
Bubblegum music in general
Debbie Gibson's "Only In My Dreams"
"Bust A Move"
"Jump Around"

 

Culture Club
Wham!
Bananarama
Rick Astley
Tiffany

 

Paula Abdul Forever your girl album
Milli Vanilli Girl you know its true album
Michael Bolton Soul Provider album
Information Society debut album
Tone Loc Loc-ed after dark album
Young MC Bust a Move album
When In Rome I promise

 

I don't care what anyone says - this is one of the great live albums of all time, although just how "live" it is remains to be seen! Regardless, I loved it when it first came out, and still love it today.

And as far as a Guilty Pleasure is concerned: Twisted Sister!

 

Katy Perry

 

I love KP. I have friends who want me to feel guilty, but I don’t.