Can I be a right old tosspot and mention I disagree competely with the idea of "guilty pleasures", cos they and this thread appear to be a clever way of ironically distancing something you actually like from your public taste-hip indie rock persona?
Which, as we are all complicated, beautiful children of God, ultimately may simply cause us pain?

well, duh.

johnnyshape wrote:Can I be a right old tosspot and mention I disagree competely with the idea of "guilty pleasures", cos they and this thread appear to be a clever way of ironically distancing something you actually like from your public taste-hip indie rock persona?
Which, as we are all complicated, beautiful children of God, ultimately may simply cause us pain?

Salut!

I, too, will throw the crockery!

Allentown by Billy Joel
Rasberry Beret by Prince ( I fuckin Hate prince)
Maggie May by Rod Stewart

johnnyshape wrote:Can I be a right old tosspot and mention I disagree competely with the idea of "guilty pleasures", cos they and this thread appear to be a clever way of ironically distancing something you actually like from your public taste-hip indie rock persona?

However the thread may have developed, this was definitely not my intention. I was soliciting songs you genuinely love but that are anomalies--great songs by otherwise worthless bands. I used the "guilty pleasure" moniker just to reference it to seemingly related threads. The idea is Hope: that even the most reprehensible outfits might muster one nugget of Beauty.

And we're not real big on irnoy where I'm from, at least not insofar as it is practiced these days: Down here we call it "lying."

The Rolling Stones: "Sympathy for the Devil" (until it gets to the end and Mick Jagger starts blathering a bunch of annoying shit...at least i think that was the thing that really annoyed me...)
and "Under My Thumb" (except for the chorus...the verse is really goddamned great and then the chorus somehow manages to suck...well, i guess the somehow is being that it's The Rolling Stones...)

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:However the thread may have developed, this was definitely not my intention. I was soliciting songs you genuinely love but that are anomalies--great songs by otherwise worthless bands.

"I'm Gonna Keep On Lovin' You" by REO Speedwagon.

I fucking love this song.

I have learned to play a cover of it, that (like every other cover I have don so far) will never be heard by anyone else. It is an amazing tune.

The rest of REO? I don't think I can remember another song by them. Therefore the rest of their oeuvre must be crap-ola.

creed "with arms wide open"






















just kidding.

Everlong - Foo Fighters.

I've never met anyone that has told me they hate this song. I expect that will change very shortly.

I second that first White Stripes single.

Beer by Reel Big Fish.

Strike by Millencolin.

I hate Audioslave but I feel like they might have had one decent song? Eh, maybe not.