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
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
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 Dovira
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.
