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post #1 of 88
3/20/08 at 11:32pm
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The sounds you enjoy that contradict your hipster cred. Tunes that many have suffered, and will never win respect. Music your friends would blacklist you for listening to. Whatever gives you shame to sing in the shower.

For me, "Millennium" by Robbie Williams. I loathe the fucker's over-emoting on songs like "Angels", which is terrible by any other poor fuck's estimation; that tune sends me reeling to thoughts of murder and suicide, and I consider myself to be fairly mild-mannered. But when the British equivalent of the Grammys had the nerve to nominate "Love Will Tear Us Apart" against such tripe for a "Best song of the last twenty-five years" award, I puked in my mouth and swallowed the bile down my throat as a reminder of this performer's inherent shittiness.

But later I walked into a liquor store and "Millennium" blared from their PA system. When I vomited the following morning, I had to reconcile my enjoyment for at least one of his tunes. Goddamn it.
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post #2 of 88
3/20/08 at 11:34pm
Technotronic: Move This. It's so good and so bad.
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post #3 of 88
3/21/08 at 5:52am
In chewer eyes? Avenged Sevenfold. I don't know, they just don't get the overexposure here that they probably get in the US.

I think if you're a hard-rock/metal fan, you could do worse than liking this band, even if you don't like their stuff, you have to admit that they're talented, at least (especially the drummer).
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post #4 of 88
3/21/08 at 9:29am
I dug the last Evanescence album. Quite a bit, actually.
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post #5 of 88
3/21/08 at 7:18pm
I find it hard to feel guilty about anything I listen to, since so many of my friends haven't a clue about what I listen to, it's all weird to them. But I sometimes hesitate to show my love for ABBA, The Carpenters and Dusty Springfield.
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post #6 of 88
3/21/08 at 7:46pm
Puffy Ami Umi...I love them so much it makes my hipster hurt.
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post #7 of 88
3/21/08 at 7:59pm
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Originally Posted by dreary louse View Post
For me, "Millennium" by Robbie Williams.
You know it heavily samples YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE by Nancy Sinatra, right? Ancient James Bond theme song, and it's lovely. Anyway, it goes without saying that it's Williams' best song.
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post #8 of 88
3/21/08 at 8:07pm
I take back "Move This", I don't feel guilty at all. I replace it with Gwen Stefani's "What You Waiting For", which I enjoy for it's Cyndi Lauper feel.
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post #9 of 88
3/22/08 at 7:18am
For me it's The Bangles. Eternal Flame, especially.

It's completely at odds with the music I hear but it's connected in my mind to the best summer of my whole life. 18 years later I still get nostalgic and misty-eyed if I happen to hear this.
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post #10 of 88
3/22/08 at 2:36pm
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Originally Posted by Nicholas View Post
I sometimes hesitate to show my love for ABBA, The Carpenters and Dusty Springfield.
I'd say all three of those are eminently defensible....well, maybe not so much The Carpenters.
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post #11 of 88
3/22/08 at 2:36pm
70s arena rock - Foreigner, Foghat, and April Wine in particular.
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post #12 of 88
3/22/08 at 2:43pm
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Originally Posted by Paul McCartney View Post
Anyway, it goes without saying that it's Williams' best song.
Wrong. "Rock DJ" is his best song. Thanks for playing.

If Robbie Williams and his ilk are your particular guilty pleasure (as they are mine), might I suggest streaming Virgin Radio? It's a magnificent way to soothe such urges, with a small helping of more hipster cred-friendly songs thrown in. The Geoff Show got me through my Master's thesis.
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post #13 of 88
3/22/08 at 4:21pm
Stryper & Yanni
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post #14 of 88
3/22/08 at 5:51pm
Kate Bush - Rubberband Girl

Yeah, it's a great song, but try to explain that one away when Winamp shuffle brings it up on a Friday night.
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post #15 of 88
3/22/08 at 8:35pm
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Originally Posted by PoppySeeds View Post
Kate Bush - Rubberband Girl

Yeah, it's a great song, but try to explain that one away when Winamp shuffle brings it up on a Friday night.

Nothing Kate Bush does should qualify as "guilty".
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post #16 of 88
3/22/08 at 8:53pm
Vitamin String Quartet "tributes." And Chumbawumba. I'm very sorry.
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post #17 of 88
3/22/08 at 9:01pm
The Beach Boys - Kokomo

And the theme song to Days Of Our Lives
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post #18 of 88
3/22/08 at 9:01pm
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Originally Posted by Ratty View Post
Nothing Kate Bush does should qualify as "guilty".
Yeah, at first I read it as Kate Nash.

Which brings me to my entry for the thread: Kate Nash.
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post #19 of 88
3/22/08 at 9:22pm
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Originally Posted by Paul McCartney View Post
The Beach Boys - Kokomo
I'd call it "ear rape" but that song is too smooth; it's the zenith (or would that be the nadir?) of Yacht Rock.

So anyway, I'd probably go less with "ear rape" and more with "ear sexual co-ercion"
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post #20 of 88
3/22/08 at 9:24pm
The Chicago soundtrack.
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post #21 of 88
3/22/08 at 9:43pm
Bryan Adams' Waking Up The Neighbours. Best $4 CD I ever bought. It was worth it to rekindle the glories of junior high.
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post #22 of 88
3/23/08 at 2:31am
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Originally Posted by Rob Hughes View Post
The Chicago soundtrack.
Nothing guilty 'bout that. It's a great soundtrack.

For me it's certain 70s tunes. "Don't Pull Your Love", "The Night Chicago Died", "Convoy". Good shit.
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post #23 of 88
3/23/08 at 9:06pm
Anybody remember Vanity 6?

The group consisted of Vanity (from Action Jackson) and Apollonia Kotero's backing singers in Purple Rain. They also had the hit, "Nasty Girl" which was played in the strip club in Beverly Hills Cop.

Their one album is fun and sexy trash.
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post #24 of 88
3/23/08 at 10:17pm
Vanessa Carlton's first cd gets mad play during my commute. I don't so much feel "guilty", but I feel strongly that I should feel guilty.

Also, I've recently been getting back into a lot of trance music, which I'd pretty much abandoned after high school. Yeah, it's all pretty similar and formulaic and the "lyrics" are as surface as you can get. I still dig it, and I blame Audiosurf.

Also:

Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor

Kylie Minogue - Fever
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post #25 of 88
3/23/08 at 10:32pm
I'm pretty much a metal head through and through...but every once in a while I'll get a hankering for something with a dance beat. God help me, I'll throw in ABBA or KC and the Sunshine Band and love every second of it.

'Keep it...comin' love, keep it...comin' love...'
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post #26 of 88
3/23/08 at 10:38pm
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Originally Posted by Cogs of Fate View Post
Kylie Minogue - Fever
DDR Max 2 pulled a Manchurian Candidate on me with this album. Just so damned catchy....
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post #27 of 88
3/23/08 at 11:12pm
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Originally Posted by Paul McCartney
Anyway, it goes without saying that ("Millennium" is) Williams' best song.
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Originally Posted by MissZooey View Post
Wrong. "Rock DJ" is his best song. Thanks for playing.
Now, now, no need to argue. You're both wrong. The best Robbie Williams song is "Kids", his triumphant duet with Dame Kylie Minogue, because his science is so tight.

I'm an honorary Sean Connery/Born '74, there's only one of me
Single-handedly raising the economy/Ain't no chance of the record label dropping me
Press be asking do I care for sodomy/I don't know, yeah, probably
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post #28 of 88
3/24/08 at 4:17am
I'm sure I posted about this before, but my all-time guilty pleasure/secret shame has to be the celebrity rock album. If I'm in the store, and I find a celebrity album for under, say, 2 dollars, in all likelyhood, I'll buy it. Which is how I wound up with a Russell Crowe album and Peter Gallagher's soul album.
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post #29 of 88
3/24/08 at 12:07pm
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Originally Posted by Cogs of Fate View Post
Vanessa Carlton's first cd gets mad play during my commute. I don't so much feel "guilty", but I feel strongly that I should feel guilty.
I don't feel guilty about this one until the "Paint It, Black" cover kicks in.
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post #30 of 88
3/24/08 at 12:12pm
I actually prefer Carlton's second album...
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post #31 of 88
3/24/08 at 12:24pm
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post #32 of 88
3/24/08 at 12:29pm
Far as I'm concerned, the man who wrote Rainbow Connection gets a free pass for the remainder of his days.
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post #33 of 88
3/24/08 at 12:32pm


Yeah.. I know. I win the thread, but fail at life. Just go easy on me you cruel, cruel people.
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post #34 of 88
3/24/08 at 12:34pm
Juggatrejo?
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post #35 of 88
3/24/08 at 12:35pm
So, wait, is that an ICP spin-off group? Wow.
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post #36 of 88
3/24/08 at 12:39pm
I don't want to out-myself further by explaining it in great detail, but no. They aren't a "spin off" group, they were their own act and got signed to the label.

I mean.. I like, have no idea? I just think it's a nice picture.. a.. haha.. ahah..

Fuck. [run away]
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post #37 of 88
3/24/08 at 12:46pm
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Originally Posted by Phil View Post
I'll throw in some guilty Williams love. I have a mix CD with "Flying Dreams" on it.

I am also a closet fan of Live, even though they haven't had a solid, non fluff album since Mental Jewelry.

Also, Phil Collins "No Jacket Required" finds a home in my player at least once every couple of years.
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post #38 of 88
3/24/08 at 1:55pm
I'm waiting for someone to start a thread on the new B-52's album...

so I think posting in here is the safer option.
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post #39 of 88
3/24/08 at 2:13pm
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Originally Posted by Trejo View Post
I don't want to out-myself further by explaining it in great detail, but no. They aren't a "spin off" group, they were their own act and got signed to the label.

I mean.. I like, have no idea? I just think it's a nice picture.. a.. haha.. ahah..

Fuck. [run away]
Dude, that isn't guilt you're feeling. That's shame.

Get back in your juggalo closet where none of the rest of us will have to look at you.
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post #40 of 88
3/24/08 at 2:19pm
I don't know what any of you are talking about.

*sigh* Whew.. edit button, save my fragile shell of a self esteem
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post #41 of 88
3/24/08 at 2:41pm
The Refreshments entire album Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big and Buzzy.
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post #42 of 88
3/25/08 at 4:59am
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Originally Posted by gravedigger View Post
I don't feel guilty about this one until the "Paint It, Black" cover kicks in.
Well....

I have that cover on my playlist for Burnout: Paradise.

:/
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post #43 of 88
3/25/08 at 8:08am


I love it soooo much.
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post #44 of 88
3/25/08 at 9:08am
That's just... evil.
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post #45 of 88
3/25/08 at 3:50pm
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Originally Posted by Trejo View Post


Yeah.. I know. I win the thread, but fail at life. Just go easy on me you cruel, cruel people.
I don't understand how KISS's Dynasty could possibly be a guilty pleasure when it's such a great fucking record.
I'll hold a copy of that shit in my hands on the mountaintop and scream it out to the world without shame.
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post #46 of 88
3/25/08 at 4:23pm
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Originally Posted by Ryan S~ View Post
The Refreshments entire album Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big and Buzzy.
Hell. Yes. I'm listening to it right now, at work on my iTunes player. Roger Clyne is a master of blue-collar lyricism. Please feel no guilt about this Ryan, and pick up "The Bottle & Fresh Horses" to ease your soul.
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post #47 of 88
3/25/08 at 4:39pm
I used to have guilty pleasures, then I grew the fuck up. Don't like my copy of the Annie soundtrack? Kiss my ass.


Seriously, though, I like early KISS but I'm not proud of it. Dumb, dumb music on just about every level. Bad lyrics, bad singing, tepid guitar playing. Sometimes, though, that's what I'm in the mood for. (This same rule applies to McDonald's.)
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post #48 of 88
3/25/08 at 7:17pm


and



hey one can only take so much Sigur Ros and Brian Eno
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post #49 of 88
3/25/08 at 8:32pm
Despite the massive amounts of pretension, I do enjoy me some Coheed. Some of their more upbeat stuff weirdly sounds like something out of an early 90's beat-em-up video game. "Crossing the Frame" comes to mind.
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post #50 of 88
3/25/08 at 9:02pm
Thank god for this thread. I feel I can get alot off my chest in here...

Just last night, I downloaded "When I'm With You" by Sheriff onto my iTunes. And then I played it three times in a row. And happily squealed like a small child every time (in my defense, I haven't heard the song since 1989, so I was due).

I should also use this thread to confess that I love Madonna. Really, just freakin' love and adore the woman. She can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned. There. (*Whew!*) That felt good. And also, I have the coolest Madonna avatar in the world, so if you see me sporting it around here at some point in the near future, don't say you weren't warned.
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