Guilty Pleasure Music

[xenophobe]

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

Yeah. But sometimes you can't really tell from someone's music what their influences are. I usually never really bothered looking into it.

I was also into Front Line Assembly, Fugazi, Current 93, Daargard, Numb, Decoded Feedback, Aesma Daeva, Wumpscut, Sephiroth, Faith and the Muse, Coil, Antimatter, Cat Rapes Dog, and a bunch of stuff like that... but none of it is really worth mentioning in a 'embarassing music you listen to" thread. It's just obscure weird stuff.

[decadence5423]

I mostly listen to metal. Given what I listen to, admitting that I enjoy listening to the occasional Trivium and Slipknot on Pandora does seem embarrassing. Also Micheal Jackson and Snoop Dogg can get thrown in the mix.

[Endrik]

Yeah. But sometimes you can't really tell from someone's music what their influences are. I usually never really bothered looking into it.

Specially when it comes to all the "wave" and electronic bands.
Of course prodigy has certain punk-ish tunes, a nod to their roots.
A lot of confusion comes because after the classic punk, post-punk/new wave started using a lot of afro-american, caribbean and euro electronic music influences.... and since the 90's the focus went totally on funk beats and dub/reggae sounds, specially in UK. Of course some old-schoolers used them too, like The Clash... or Bad Brains did many reggae tunes.
Rip Rig + Panic sounded very far away from classic punk from the start, they influenced the whole Bristol sound which Smith & Mighty generated and Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead etc. conquered the world with. Whole thing was about sounding dark and moody but Tricky did many punk-ish tunes too and some of the later Massive Attack tunes were quite metallic.

[toejam]

DAD, I remember them. I loved the song Sleeping My Day Away. I might have that CD somewhere in the collection... I don't remember.

As for a guilty pleasure... I'm a big Tori Amos fan and have a lot of her CDs. Love her voice and piano playing.

[straycat]

Always dug female singers that were good no matter what genre.
Lately I have been listening to Rick Huckaby and got the chance to see him live so thats my country flavor of the day.Old country is better IMO.
Newer metal Mercenary,Evergrey.All the screamo gets tossed out the window.
Just can't take the chugga chugga for too long.No heart in it.
Lots of classical lately too.

[Endrik]

Vengaboys

oh my.... one of the main reasons I once hated electronic dance music with passion, utter garbage and almost every asshole liked this shit, even self-proclaimed tough guys. Tough... yeah right!

[Flatpicker]

I'm so all over the place musically that I'm not sure I have a main genre to compare a guilty pleasure to.

I guess if I have to pick something, I'd guess those sappy 80's style "Richard Marx type" ballads.

[Hellbat]

oh my.... one of the main reasons I once hated electronic dance music with passion, utter garbage and almost every asshole liked this shit, even self-proclaimed tough guys. Tough... yeah right!

I would have asked them if they felt carousels were "tough" because vengaboys always sounded like carousel music to me.

[jacksoncsplayer]

I've been going backwards in musical time for the last year. I've been listening to a lot of America, Dave Mason, Al Stewart, Grand Funk, The Doobie Bros, and that kind of shit. I love the 60's and 70's music, you can tell they just loved to get stoned and fuckin jam.

[Nightbat]

oh my.... one of the main reasons I once hated electronic dance music with passion, utter garbage and almost every asshole liked this shit, even self-proclaimed tough guys. Tough... yeah right!

I would have been one of 'that' generation, '91, hair and hormones started to grow, then came T99 - "Anastasia", which sounded fresh, epic, intense
Then came "James Brown is dead" by LA Style, with its boring beat and lack of actual melody which turned me off of that scene indefinitely

Having buddies I'd meet either stoned or loaded on pills, hardly capable about discussing anything else than drugs and beats -even when occasionally encountered sober-
didn't help my criticism for the whole 'scene'

By 1992 when 2Unlimited hit, comercialisation started to produce crud that made Stock Aitken and Waterman Productions sound like a bloody concerto of Mozart


....And looking for introduction years I just found out that the guy that formed the Vengaboys was also responsible for LA Style

[Endrik]

I would have asked them if they felt carousels were "tough" because vengaboys always sounded like carousel music to me.

I somehow have much better memories of carousel music.
I grew up with soviet cartoons (probably the best in the world) and one of the series was Carousel and its theme tune is forever in my head

And I always relate circus music with carousels... when I grew up and watched French and Italian flicks, that music was always the case and also later when I visited those countries... man they love their carousels, specially the french, they are everywhere.

Nino Rota did a certain circus/carousel tune for pretty much every Fellini film, he loved that stuff, the most famous is probably the beginning in this suite.

This is pure nostalgia for me... but vengaboys was and always will be a headache... the worst kind

[Endrik]

I would have been one of 'that' generation, '91, hair and hormones started to grow, then came T99 - "Anastasia", which sounded fresh, epic, intense
Then came "James Brown is dead" by LA Style, with its boring beat and lack of actual melody which turned me off of that scene indefinitely

Having buddies I'd meet either stoned or loaded on pills, hardly capable about discussing anything else than drugs and beats -even when occasionally encountered sober-
didn't help my criticism for the whole 'scene'

By 1992 when 2Unlimited hit, comercialisation started to produce crud that made Stock Aitken and Waterman Productions sound like a bloody concerto of Mozart


....And looking for introduction years I just found out that the guy that formed the Vengaboys was also responsible for LA Style

The Dutch have given so much to the culture but in the 90's some Dutch music was definitely one of the reasons I felt like El Cid against all euro-trash dance & trance invasion. I hated Tiesto and the like probably even more than Vengaboys.
For a while I even hated synths in rock music because all this synthetic garbage polluted the airwaves, specially in eastern Europe.
But then I discovered some of the cooler UK producers who actually used groovy, funky beats and tasty, moody sounds etc. But this euro-trash garbage still remains as some of the worst music I've ever heard in my life... the Swedes managed to top the Dutch though.... with Rednex of course.... worst abomination one can possibly imagine... eurodance meets country/western

[guitarsjb]

Forgot to mention Dean Martin, he kicks ass...smooth!!

[VitaminG]

Always dug female singers that were good no matter what genre.

me too. Fergy tore it up on that song she did on Slash's first solo album. She needs to fuck off the BEPs are get her ass in front of a good rock band.

I got it kinda bad for Pink too. Her live dvd from Sydney from a few years back gets a good workout at our place. As much as anything because Justin D'errico rips on it. Love his extended solo on Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

Forgot to mention Dean Martin, he kicks ass...smooth!!

love Dino. I have a brat pack dvd from around '62 and Dean & Sammy are marvellous on it. Frank's okay too, I guess. But Dean is a master. I've love to pick up that Best of the Dean Martin Show dvd set

[Snoogans]

I was also into Front Line Assembly...

That's some good stuff there!