Guilty Pleasure Music

[javert]

You mean before Aqua, Danes made music too?

Well, some of us consider Aqua Norwegian...

[javert]

DAD had a bit of a hit over here back in the day. Top20, maybe Top10? Can't recall the song, but it was everywhere on the radio & tv at the time. I didn't really like it or the video, so I never checked out the album

Huh, didn't know that. Sleeping My Day Away maybe? Or if it was later, Bad Craziness? I assume it's not Counting The Cattle or the funny Sad Sad X-Mas Anyways, they're still going strong over here, touring the big festivals every summer.

[Endrik]

Well, some of us consider Aqua Norwegian...

The only thing Norwegian are the breasts. I know many of you would like to erase this abomination from your collective memory but trend experts are expecting some sort of 90's revival soon so good luck with that! I'm not sure how I'm going to be prepared for this considering the euro-garbage produced over here in the 90's makes "Barbie Girl" sound like Carl Nielsen's 5th compared to our post-soviet trash.

[Gartron]

Holy crap, you guys know of DAD? I thought nobody outside of Denmark knew of them.

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They got quite a bit of coverage over here as well...I still listen to them too, have grow or pay and laugh and a half from their second album on my ipod

for me Crowded House , Dire straights, 70's Bruce Springsteen ,Simon and Garfunkel, CCR and when the house is empty and no one can hear...I lock the door , shut the curtains and pop on some Manowar,,,,,shhhh!

[xenophobe]

A lot of the things listed I don't consider guilty pleasures...

Lemme see...

Girl stuff? Alanis Morrisette's first couple, Sarah McLaughlin's first, Diana Krall, Flyleaf, Jewel, Hayce, Jarboe... Hell, I even liked Christina Aguliera's first album. Poe, Pink... I dunno, I like female vocalists.

Peter Gabriel, Marilyn Manson, Skinny Puppy, Future Sound of London, My Dying Bride, Cocteau Twins, Deftones, Prodigy, Slipknot, Beats Antique, etc...

I got a lot of stuff, it's hard to remember all of it since most of it is packed away in storage...

[Snoogans]

A lot of the stuff that you guys have mentioned so far has been perfectly respectable, and nothing to feel guilty about!
I have to admit that I really like Jamiroquai, and lot of '70s funk and disco.

[horns666]

Hmmmm most non-metal stuff I really love is stuff most don't know or like. I also love female singers. I'm a total fanboy when it comes to anything with Anneke Van Giersbergen..ever since The Gathering's '97s "Night Time Birds" came out. I was just in awes for whatever reason. So I found bought everythings she's done to date, EPs and all..with many guest performances on bands that are Metal ..like Moonspell and Novembers Doom. Avante gard ..trip hop or whatever the fuck ya call it.

I also LOVE anything King Crimson..or in that family tree. From past to present..

I'm also a big Tea Party fan and heard Jeff Martin was supposed to be writing and working with Jimmy Page. He's just has a very genuine identity and style I connect with. Prolly because he reminds me of Page.

Ironically my favorite Metal band..well ..was. Nevermore covered "Temptation" , which Gary (Vit G) posted a clip of because I bought the release when it came out without that song on it. They usually make any cover song their own..but that on is pretty true to form.

Ohhh Snoogans gate me into a progressive, odd metal band called Sleppytime Gorilla Museum. Then there's a weird Techno Metal stuff o LOVE like The Project Hate, Eyes Of Eden, and Enemies of the Sun (w/ splashes of cool guitar playing). My family usually loves what I like eventually but can never get into that stuff. They love the Tea Party and Anneke tho. I like to see a collaboration with those two really. Jeff Martin and Anneke would seem like a natural fit.

Of course..I know it's "metal", but not all of it. I have everything Jorne Lande and Mats Leven ever recorded..that is ALOT right there..some is very 80's AOR to classic rock vibes to balls out bashin' ..and they both played with my favorite player of all time. Uli Roth..and he's not metal.

The only thing I may feel a tad gay about is I love No Doubt, and Missing Persons. I can shake my ass when on ambien. But usually my pants fall down..which is kinda embarassing but ...ahhhh fuggums. I like it!

[horns666]

Fuck the typos..lick 'em...suckle upon each and every mispelled word..fuck you!

[Endrik]

Peter Gabriel, Marilyn Manson, Skinny Puppy, Future Sound of London, My Dying Bride, Cocteau Twins, Deftones, Prodigy, Slipknot, Beats Antique, etc...

Interestingly enough thrash and extreme metal have the same roots as many of those British electronic bands... punk/hardcore scene.

[Snoogans]

I'm a total fanboy when it comes to anything with Anneke Van Giersbergen.

I love the stuff she's done with Devin Townsend!

Also a big fan of Voodoo Glow Skulls, but not guilty about it - they rock!

[markD]

hmmmm, for me it would be....

kelly clarkson (i LOVE her - even auditioned to be her guitarist at one point. didn't get it. got beat out by jason hook from hillary duff's band)

lady gaga

jeffree starr

HIM

most southern rock

acid jazz

techno

though, for the last two i don't know any specific artists...i just stream random selections from rhapsody.

* ah, i forgot....

ICE-T - the original gangsta!!!!!

[Jayster]

hmmmm, for me it would be....

kelly clarkson (i LOVE her - even auditioned to be her guitarist at one point. didn't get it. got beat out by jason hook from hillary duff's band)

Mark I'm pretty sure that gigs open again, no shame having lost out to him(ferocious player)!

[DonP]

I can tolerate some of the stuff mentioned, but if left to my own the dial on the radio would be on Boneyard or Hair Metal or one of the other stations in that group. Sorry, no guilty pleasures from me.

[VitaminG]

Huh, didn't know that. Sleeping My Day Away maybe?

yea, that one. I just watched the video, it was definitely that song. I didn't dislike it as much as I did back then - but I was an opinionated, contrary 17 year old music snob in '89

Just tried to find some Oz chart position info, but there's not much info out there about that song. I see they released a new album last year. That's cool. Even though I wasn't into them, it heartens me to see a band staying the course for so long, even if out of the general public's eye.

I'm also a big Tea Party fan and heard Jeff Martin was supposed to be writing and working with Jimmy Page. He's just has a very genuine identity and style I connect with. Prolly because he reminds me of Page.

Ironically my favorite Metal band..well ..was. Nevermore covered "Temptation" , which Gary (Vit G) posted a clip of because I bought the release when it came out without that song on it. They usually make any cover song their own..but that on is pretty true to form.

have you watched any of Jeff's acoustic stuff on youtube? I saw a community tv show out of Melbourne (Guitar Gods & Masterpieces) in July and he performed solo. Just mesmerising. Tea Party is a band I've always enjoyed but never got around to buying. Really should remedy that

[Nightbat]

I know many of you would like to erase this abomination from your collective memory but trend experts are expecting some sort of 90's revival soon so good luck with that! I'm not sure how I'm going to be prepared for this considering the euro-garbage produced over here in the 90's makes "Barbie Girl" sound like Carl Nielsen's 5th compared to our post-soviet trash.

Please, I spent a friend's B'dayparty at a "Back to the 90's" festival early september
Vengaboys, Paul Elstak, and a whole bunch of those now-saggy-assed-hanging-tits hasbeens playbacking on cheapass tunes
I told my friend, if he pulled a stunt like that again, he wouldn't live to see another birthday (He said we were going bowling)
Even worse: It was actually wel attended, I didn't score, and half the chicks there lived the 90's and gained some weight after their 10 year XTC-diet

Anyways
Some of my guilty pleasures
J-Pop/Anime Soundtracks
80's Synthpop and Italo

I have some Enya, Genesis/Phil Collins, LL Cool J
Most of the stuff is from 'remembering from childhood till now'

Modern stuff, there isn't much around
I like some Rihanna (probably one of very few recent acts in my playlist) and Gaga songs, think Sia is an interesting voice

Probably the biggest "WTF?!?" in my playlist is Devine's "Shoot your shot"
The memory of realizing what the lyrics really meant (it was released when I was 6 and english not my native tongue) years later still cracks me up