Topic: What's your guilty pleasure?

[The Bournemouth Red]

We've discussed songs we hate, but what about that song you secretly love but really, really don't want anyone to know?

Kicking off with Relight My Fire, the Take That classic, wouldn't play it at volume, a headphones only dance-along.

[McrRed]

All those shit songs from my twenties? Yeah, they're okay now.
Except come on Eileen.

Guilty pleasures. Just songs or are we going wider than that?

[AlphaDelta]

I am a fan of Dina Carroll's Don't Be A Stranger, random I know but when it came out in 1993 I had just left school and was seeing a girl who lived in Ashton in Makerfield. This was miles from my house in Huyton and I wasn't really into pubs then, so that song reminds me of sitting off either in her room or sitting on the 320 bus which used to go from town to Wigan.

[liverbloke]

We've discussed songs we hate, but what about that song you secretly love but really, really don't want anyone to know?

Kicking off with Relight My Fire, the Take That classic, wouldn't play it at volume, a headphones only dance-along.

Mandy - Barry Manilow has a few good tunes to be fair but I love this track (nerd bit: the original was called Brandy)

Home - Westlife hate this band but this makes me think of, well, home - and my family too

Hero - Enrique Iglesias I should HATE everything about this song but secretly I LOVE IT!!! oh the shame I'm sorry pleeeease forgive me

[Crosby Nick]

^
The bar has been well lowered there.

I was going to offer up The Sweet Escape by Gwen Stefani (woo hoo).

[Zeppelin]

I've got a soft spot for cheesy metal stuff like Manowar.

[Davidbowie]

You Win Again - Bee Gees

[Crosby Nick]

You Win Again - Bee Gees

Ooh, what a belter! Off to YouTube.

[gerrardisgod]

Sugababes - Freak Like Me

In fact, quite a few of their songs, Sophie Ellis-Bextor too.

[rob1966]

Bee Gees - Staying Alive

Barbra Streisand - Woman in Love.

ABBA - Winner takes it all.

[Nitramdorf]

Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
Carole Bayer Sager - You're Moving Out Today
ABBA - Chiquitita
Laura Brannigan - Gloria
The Nolans - Im in the Mood for Dancing (although I do usually keep that one quiet)
Bonnie Tyler - Lost in france
Barbara Streisand - Woman in Love

[Dench57]

ABBA - Winner takes it all.

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it's a good song!

[Stubbins]

The Bee Gees - Jive Talkin'
Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
Leo Sayer - Moonlighting
The Chilites - Have You Seen Her
The Chilites - Oh Girl
The Three Degrees - When Will I see You Again.

All mid 70's stuff, when me & Mrs Stubbins were 'stepping out'

[El Lobo]

A few of the early Lady Gaga tracks (Paparazzi, Poker Face, Bad Romance)

[Ravishing Rick Dude]

Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On

[Andy @ Allerton!]

The Wurzels.

Proper super-band.

[Sheer Magnetism]

I Want Action by Poison. It's probably not the most consent-friendly song ever written, let's put it that way.

[liverbloke]

I'm seeing you all in a different light

[red mongoose]

I Want Action by Poison. It's probably not the most consent-friendly song ever written, let's put it that way.

Ha! I was just coming in to post this:

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But this is the one that really shames me.

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[bradders1011]

Sugababes - Freak Like Me

Spent an afternoon stripping the wallpaper in my aunty's kitchen years ago and she had the single on CD that she had on repeat. The Viet Cong never came up with such effective torture.

ABBA - Chiquitita

Came here to say ABBA - Fernando, but the consensus seems to be that ABBA are just a pleasure.

The Boys of Summer - Don Henley...is that one?
Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - Cher
Mama Weer All Crazee Now - Slade
Hall and Oates' Greatest Hits

Is liking prog (Supertramp, Genesis, Floyd etc.) considered guilty these days?

[afc tukrish]

Ha! I was just coming in to post this:

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Best moment when she kicks the dude in the cubes...

[bradders1011]

Oh and Grease Is The Word from Grease. Floorfiller if it weren't from a kitschy film.

[rob1966]

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it's a good song!

I know it is, but ABBA is not in any way the type of music I'm into, I'm more likely to be found listening to Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Suicidal Tendencies, Pantera, Slipknot, Slayer, Megadeth or Metallica. I'd certainly never play ABBA in the car..............

I have started to listen to Country Rock lately though, Katie Pruitt, Blackberry Smoke, Travis Denning and the like.

[jillcwhomever]

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it's a good song!

It's a brilliant song. 

[jillcwhomever]

I know it is, but ABBA is not in any way the type of music I'm into, I'm more likely to be found listening to Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Suicidal Tendencies, Pantera, Slipknot, Slayer, Megadeth or Metallica. I'd certainly never play ABBA in the car..............

I have started to listen to Country Rock lately though, Katie Pruitt, Blackberry Smoke, Travis Denning and the like.

I bet you have a secret Abba playlist that you play all the time on your own! 

[Stubbins]

An eclectic selection here lads & lasses. Worth putting a playlist of it all together.

Another two.

Harry Nilsson - Without You  (written by the late Pete Ham of Badfinger, which leads me to;)

Badfinger - Baby Blue

[red mongoose]

I have started to listen to Country Rock lately though, Katie Pruitt, Blackberry Smoke, Travis Denning and the like.

That's what you should feel guilty about, Robbo 

[Zeppelin]

Is liking prog (Supertramp, Genesis, Floyd etc.) considered guilty these days?

Definitely not - unless it's the Phil Collins version of Genesis

[kellan]

I never know where this song in its post-meme days but I've always genuinely loved Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up in a completely unironic kind of way.

[Seebab]

Some of the songs listed above are definitely not guilty pleasures and are actually good (Badfinger, Hall and Oates, some of the Bee Gee songs)

[So… Howard Philips]

Bee Gees - Staying Alive

Barbra Streisand - Woman in Love.

ABBA - Winner takes it all.

The end of night slowie for many a desperate bloke in clubs up and down the country in the early eighties.

Mississippi - Pussycat (regularly on a jukie in a pub in Garston mid 70s when we'd meet up to chew over our latest trophy)
Hazard - Richard Marx
Daughter of Darkness - Tom Jones
Seasons in the sun - Terry Jacks

[Lee1-6Liv]

Westlife - World of Our Own

S Club 7 - Don't Stop Movin'

Spice Girls - Momma

[Davidbowie]

I'd like to add a few of the 60's female artists, such as:

Spooky - Dusty Springfield
Downtown - Petula Clark
It's Too Late - Carole King

[Crosby Nick]

S Club 7 - Don't Stop Movin'

Stone cold classic!

See also 5ive - Keep on Movin’ (all about that apostrophe).

[sinnermichael]

All 4 One- I Swear.

[So… Howard Philips]

I'd like to add a few of the 60's female artists, such as:

Spooky - Dusty Springfield
Downtown - Petula Clark
It's Too Late - Carole King

Definitely Downtown but disagree about Dusty and Carole being guilty pleasures - but 'May as well rain until September' is definitely guilty.

I'd add Shirley Bassey 'I who have nothing' to your 60s female artists.

[rob1966]

Some of the songs listed above are definitely not guilty pleasures and are actually good (Badfinger, Hall and Oates, some of the Bee Gee songs)

You try wearing leather, riding bikes, going to rock pubs and clubs, having hair halfway down your back and saying you like an ABBA or Bee Gees song.

I bet you have a secret Abba playlist that you play all the time on your own! 

I rob my Stepdads CD's

I have been putting Now 70's on the telly and not switching over when in the past I would.


Does Wichita Lineman count as a guilty pleasure?

[Ray K]

Stone cold classic!

See also 5ive - Keep on Movin’ (all about that apostrophe).

Absolutely.  If it fills a floor in a nite club, then it shouldn't qualify as a guilty pleasure.   Keep on Movin' ain't no All Rise, though 

I watched TOTP Australian Hits last week on BBC4, and there's a bunch of songs that veer between classic pop tunes (Torn) and guilty pleasure (You're the Voice).  I think it has to have a certain amount of fromage to qualify as a guilty pleasure, and a bagpipe solo in You're the Voice qualifies that. Torn is a classic pop song, whereas Holly Valance is just cheesy and thus a guilty pleasure. (Holly herself was certainly a guilty pleasure in her neighbours days).

The Carpenters, for example, have always been a 'guilty pleasure band', but Superstar is too good a song to be one. Anyone who listens to the Sonic Youth version can testify to that.

Does Wichita Lineman count as a guilty pleasure?

Absolutely not.  It's one of the greatest pop songs ever recorded.  'And I need you more than want you / And I want you for all time' is quite possible the greatest lyrics in modern music.

[liverbloke]

You try wearing leather, riding bikes, going to rock pubs and clubs, having hair halfway down your back and saying you like an ABBA or Bee Gees song.

I rob my Stepdads CD's

I have been putting Now 70's on the telly and not switching over when in the past I would.


Does Wichita Lineman count as a guilty pleasure?

does it fuck - that's a blimmin classic

Underrated our Glen

[Barneylfc∗]

Feels like I've just walked into an 85th birthday party