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Location: Chicago | Classical pianist Glenn Gould had Petula Clark as his "guilty pleasure." Most of us are serious about "our" genre (classic rock, jazz, country etc). So what is your MUSICAL guilty pleasure?
Confession: I will take in a side of Pantera now and then, especially from "Vulgar Display of Power." Then I worry: does it speak to my inner National Socialist? |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I don't feel guilty about any of it. From classical to jazz to bluegrass to heavy metal to grunge, to folk to blues, any of it, if it is played well is good. I'm proud to own up to all of it. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Presidents of the United States of America (Lump / Peaches)
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Danny Elfman's "Nightmare Before Christmas" soundtrack.
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Freddy & the Fishsticks |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Hmmmm, guilty pleasure.
Presupposes an ability to feel guilt.
Or the ability to do something worthy of it.
PUSA??!! great band; teachers who can make you dance! |
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Location: Newington, CT | Great question!
Unfortunately, I probably have too many to list, but I'll try. Including many I used to treat with utter disdain. I've liked one whole heckuva lot of genres in my day, then left them, only to work my way eventually back to them all...
So, here goes: pop, rock, hard rock, jazz (and its various flavors: free, smooth, improvisational, contemporary), classical/orchestral (and most of its flavors: baroque, classical, romantic, impressionistic, contemporary, opera, light opera, light orchestral), flamenco, Russian folk, Italian folk, French folk.
I'm sure I missed more than a few.
I really like lots of examples of all of 'em. Though I feel guilty, I s'pose, only about pop, rock and hard rock.
Never really cottoned to disco, grunge, punk, death metal, heavy metal, rap, hip hop, and don't have any guilty pleasures in any of 'em. |
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Location: CA | Pink Floyd.
Only guilt I feel is when my daughters moan, "Not AGAIN, Dad!" |
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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | Guilty Pleasure....Country. I tell people it's not really music but...then I hear one that I really like so I sneak off and learn it. |
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Location: Tennessee | Banjo. Up front and loud. It speaks to my inner toothlessness. |
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| Broadway musicals... |
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Location: Caribou, ME | Bagpipes
The Archies
"Don't Leave me this Way" - Thelma Houston
Anything by David Lindley
Fiddler on the Roof
Selected 60s truck drivin' songs
Sgt. Barry Sadler
The list could go on a long time.... |
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Location: Texas | ...THE BEATLES... |
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Location: Alagoas, Brazil | Frank Zappa, especially Sheik Yerbouty |
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| Wynonna. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Susan Tedeschi. |
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Location: Caribou, ME | Ain't no guilty pleasure in a 40 year old Tele spankin' blonde, that's just good taste, my friend. |
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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | OK...this one is really bad. I like to watch Glee. If I was 17, that wouldn't be a big deal but I'm 51. I enjoy all the singing and dancing. It's like a head on collision between American Idol and You Think You Can Dance. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Old jazz standards. (oh, and watching topless OMA videos) |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | ABBA. |
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Location: Corpus Christi, TX | Mamma Mia - liked all that Abba music so much I want to see it again. Now that is downright shameful. |
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Location: Utah | I still play Stairway sometimes... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Progressive Rock and any tunes with really good harmonies. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Anything by Freddie "Boom Boom" Cannon. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | none |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Dan Fogelberg. Not really out of my genre, just out of my vocal range, but I try to sing along anyway. |
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Location: Chicago | Glee, yes... Dianna Agron DOES hold my attention! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Mamma Mia was pretty lame but the thing I liked about it was that they actually had to sing, it wasn't a real singer dubbed in. Yes, Pierce can't sing but I give him a 10 for singing anyway, and pulling it off (sortof) |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Since others are being brutally honest... John Tesh on piano backed-up by Estaban on one of his own masterpieces. |
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Location: SoCal | A small Chinese woman walking on my back and then, no wait, we're not talking those kinds of pleasures.
Never mind.... |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | I guess if you're watching "Veggie Tales" snuggled up on the couch with your granddaughters, it doesn't count... ;) |
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Location: Chicago | PERFECT DAY still brings a tear to my eye.... So many years of Beatrix Potter (books & video) with the little ones who are no longer little.... |
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Location: Ohio | John WIlliams(THe classical guitarist) Cavatina (Favorite song) |
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Location: GA USA | Tom Jones |
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Location: south east Michigan | That's not unusual. |
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Location: closely held secret | Help yourself. |
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Location: GA USA | Help Yourself may be my favprite! |
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Location: NH | The Bee Gees. |
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Location: Chicago | As a mild form of the guilty pleasure: I'll often remember suddenly some Top 40 tune I have not heard for 40 years. What a KICK to get it instantly on YouTube. For example, the other day, I rediscovered the "Rapper" by the Jaggerz.... what a great tune! Or "Little Green Bag" by George Baker Selection (looking back on the track for my little green bag...). Today I recalled a weird tune with pedophile overtones, can't quite place it "into my room he creeps.... without.... making... a sound....) Man, the 60s and 70s were WEIRD! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally by dobro:
Today I recalled a weird tune with pedophile overtones, can't quite place it "into my room he creeps.... without.... making... a sound....) Man, the 60s and 70s were WEIRD! Stay Awhile :mad: :p |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | Sir Elton's new tribute to Bin Laden; 'Sandal in the Bin' |
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| Well, I guess my only guilty pleasure is admitting that I like the sound of some Taylors. hee hee.
Michelle |
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Guilty Pleasures?