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Re: Guilty pleasures: bands you aren't supposed to like but like anyway

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 8:56 am
by DaveA
A bunch probably, but off the top of my head...

Englebert Humperdinck's "Up, Up, and Away." This is a truly special song. Always good for a laugh. For better as well as worse they don't make music like it anymore. Sounds like he's drunk and on nitrous but the engineers/producers are so lax (possibly due to 'ludes) that they don't even pretend to care.

Re: Guilty pleasures: bands you aren't supposed to like but like anyway

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 11:22 am
by zircona1
TonyAsh wrote: Sun Jun 13, 2021 8:19 am
Elastica Elastica

Additionally, that Elastica album has a really great bass sound. Listen to "S.O.F.T."
Maybe among this crowd this is a guilty pleasure, but I love this album as well. It does sound great.

Re: Guilty pleasures: bands you aren't supposed to like but like anyway

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 11:32 am
by A_Man_Who_Tries
Can't be doing with Elastica, but recall seeing them when Baby Chaos opened. Not guilty at all but I still enjoy Love Your Self Abuse, the second Baby Chaos album. Tidy pop-rock.


Re: Guilty pleasures: bands you aren't supposed to like but like anyway

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 1:43 pm
by Andy
Tool. I love Tool :(

Re: Guilty pleasures: bands you aren't supposed to like but like anyway

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 3:55 pm
by Wood Goblin
zircona1 wrote: Sun Jun 13, 2021 11:22 am
TonyAsh wrote: Sun Jun 13, 2021 8:19 am
Elastica Elastica

Additionally, that Elastica album has a really great bass sound. Listen to "S.O.F.T."
Maybe among this crowd this is a guilty pleasure, but I love this album as well. It does sound great.
That first record is great.

The second record has two or three great songs but is otherwise terrible. I think they’d become junkies by that point.

Re: Guilty pleasures: bands you aren't supposed to like but like anyway

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 8:13 am
by seby
Ryan Zepaltas wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 2:32 pm Don't really believe in guilty pleasures, or believing that I am supposed to like or not like a band. I'm way past high school. I'll bite.

Ratt
Pantera
Bob Seger
Twisted Sister
Twisted Sister are fucking fantastic. Stay Hungry is one of the best high-octane rock albums ever made. Every single song is wonderful

Re: Guilty pleasures: bands you aren't supposed to like but like anyway

Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 9:46 am
by Leeplusplus
Mushroomhead

Re: Guilty pleasures: bands you aren't supposed to like but like anyway

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:40 pm
by benadrian
I like all the bands I like, and I don't feel like I'm not suppose to like them.

Come on, most of us old timers here are pushing 50! Let's just let us enjoy the shit we enjoy :)

But my wife still shakes her head if I crank Z.Z. Top or old AC/DC, even though they are well loved and accepted here.

Re: Guilty pleasures: bands you aren't supposed to like but like anyway

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 1:03 pm
by benadrian
jason from volo wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:55 pm
benadrian wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:40 pm I like all the bands I like, and I don't feel like I'm not suppose to like them.

Come on, most of us old timers here are pushing 50! Let's just let us enjoy the shit we enjoy :)

But my wife still shakes her head if I crank Z.Z. Top or old AC/DC, even though they are well loved and accepted here.
He he, I get it. My intention wasn't to make people think that there are bands they shouldn't like. It's that I'm mentally insecure and really wanted to let everyone know that I love Duran Duran.

I'll stop now.
I recently re-watched the "A View to a Kill" video and it is SO terrible. Those jerks got to film it in Paris, too. I can get with some Duran Duran though.

Who am I to relegate people's fun by having them be fake shamed for their enjoyment of things, though? ;)

Re: Guilty pleasures: bands you aren't supposed to like but like anyway

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 2:07 pm
by kokorodoko
benadrian wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:40 pm I like all the bands I like, and I don't feel like I'm not suppose to like them.

Come on, most of us old timers here are pushing 50! Let's just let us enjoy the shit we enjoy :)
In my latest posts I've been interpreting the thread more in line with the second part of the title, things that are very unexpected or things I shouldn't like but do. Because except for 24 there is nothing I can find myself remotely embarassed about. Seems to hold for most posters ITT. Bit of a surprise for me in itself but I guess that is some sort of advancement.