What music do you like that you don't quite want to admit to liking?

For me, Lionel Richie.

I don't normally like the sort of poppy and slightly sappy ballads that he does so many of. But, what can I say . . .

"You're once, twice, three times a lady."

Nothing wrong with Lionel Ritchie. He wrote some great tunes.

Guilty pleasure? I like me some Weird Al Yankovic. Not afraid to admit it though!

ABBA. There...I said it.

Problem is that one's guilty pleasure is another's best of all time. For instance, I consider Def Leppard's "Photograph" to be a guilty pleasure song; hair metal pop is not my favorite genre, but others might consider them Gods. But here goes:

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Originally posted by oddball:
Problem is that one's guilty pleasure is another's best of all time. For instance, I consider Def Leppard's "Photograph" to be a guilty pleasure song; hair metal pop is not my favorite genre, but others might consider them Gods. But here goes:

Oh, for sure. But this is purely subjective, so it is something you like but feel guilty about, even if others think it is true genius.

I know what you mean about Hall & Oates.

I have several, but I'll go with Barry Manilow.

Clap for the Wolfman!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_eIZ7tWhak

And this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSMVflSBKx8

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
I have several, but I'll go with Barry Manilow.

Ditto…

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Journey, Steve Perry. Don’t stop believing!

1970s disco and 1980s new wave. Examples:

These are the same guys who did that disco thing that was in Napoleon Dynamite.

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Originally posted by chbibc:
And this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSMVflSBKx8

Rubberband Man ALWAYS makes me think of the movie Stripes.

I like to boogie to Deee Lite.

After all, the groove is in the heart.

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Originally posted by 83v45magna:
These are the same guys who did that disco thing that was in Napoleon Dynamite.

Jamiroquai rocks. I've been listening to them since way before Napoleon Dynamite.

I have been accused many times of having an eclectic music tastes. Some, like Weird Al, I am quite proud to have several albums of his. And there are some that I like, but some do get tucked away on the play list.

I recently started listening to K-Pop:


Or Bagpipe Rock:


And while Disco still does suck, ABBA made it work and is has become timeless. And a few other hits of that genre looking back were not that bad. At the start of COVID my brain must have been infected because I was even considering downloading "Staying Alive" from the BeeGees! But I got better.
This video had me roflmao for a while..

I will play.

I am going to give the link, but not imbed.
You have to click the link to see......


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayGkA-vxrMc

My norm is Rock and Jazz.

However, I love Frankie Valli.

Not just this one either:


A big swing from Lynyrd Skynyrd, Joe Satriani and Metallica to Frankie!


Another sorta embarrassment of songs I grew up with and like are the Monkees

My musical guilty pleasures are driven by nostalgia...

I actually really enjoy a bunch of 70s-80s-90s soft rock and adult contemporary music that was playing on the radio while I rode around in the car with my mom as a kid. I would say the ultimate guilty pleasure of that music, thanks to Office Space, is something like this:


or maybe:


Lastly, I also grew up listening to a bunch of Christian "rock" music and still like to throw some of that one, as well. Old Steven Curtis Chapman or a few lesser known ones like:


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