My Musical Shame--Reveal Your Guilty Pleasures Here!

[maycocksean]

Okay, this a thread where you can confess all those bands that any self-respecting U2 fan should by all rights despise. And yet. . .when no one is around, you take this disc out of it's hiding place in the Coldplay CD case, you surreptiously dial this tune up on your ipod. It's shallow, it's cheesy, it's blatantly derivative, it's unoriginal, cliche-ridden, and dammit you know you love it anyway.

You can include a particular song, a particular CD, or an artist. It can't be a song or CD that you bought once on a whim and never listen to. This needs to be music that you sneak into rotation on a fairly regular basis.

Here's my "musical shame."

Michelle Branch
Janet Jackson's "Design of a Decade"--esp. "Escapade", "Love Will Never Do"
Michael W. Smith
Poison "Every Rose Has It's Thorn"
Linkin Park
Van Halen
LFO "Girl On TV" and that one about how he hates this girl but loves her. Had a relationship just like that.
untold 80's pop and hair band songs including but not limited to: "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake, "Heaven is a Place on Earth" by Belinda Carlyle (loved that weird tremor in her voice), all the Madonna stuff from the 80's, "Man in the Mirror" by Michael Jackson.


There I've said it.

Go ahead and laugh. And I dare you to post your own!

 

[beau2ifulday]

Kelly Clarkson is my main one. There are plenty of others, but I don't feel like committing virtual social suicide right now, so i'll refrain on mentioning those for the time being

 

[maycocksean]

Yeah, I'm beginning to think I must be kind of crazy. I'm fairly new here, not particularly well known or anything, and this could spell the end of any respect I might've had on the boards.

Oh well . . .

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

I think 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' is one of the greatest songs ever written.

 

[1stepcloser]

Take That and Five. both boybands from the 90's. Great pop music and i don't care what people think!

 

[barlowdog]

Kelly Clarkson is my main one. There are plenty of others, but I don't feel like committing virtual social suicide right now, so i'll refrain on mentioning those for the time being

I like that Kelly Clarkson song "Since U Been Gone." No shame in that. I also liked Hanson's MMMbop.

 

[Flying FuManchu]

None...

 

[JCOSTER]

Tom Jones
Tony Bennet
Pat Benetar
Bon Jovi

 

[phanan]

Van Halen

Van Halen is on your "musical shame" list?

I like that Kelly Clarkson song "Since U Been Gone." No shame in that.

I'll admit it - that song is quite catchy...

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

Kelly Clarkson - Because of You
Michelle Branch - a few songs
A lot of 80's one hit wonders

If I had my iTunes readily available I could shame myself in public even more than I just have.

 

[angel_of_L.A.]

I still listen to Milli Vanilli really really loud!


Girl, you know it's true....

 

[U2Man]

U2

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

Take That

'Back For Good' is a brilliant song.

I actually like too much UK chart pop for my own good. Some I don't mind saying I like (Sugababes, for example, are fantastic) but I think I have no excuse for liking James Blunt.

 

[beau2ifulday]

'Back For Good' is a brilliant song.

I actually like too much UK chart pop for my own good. Some I don't mind saying I like (Sugababes, for example, are fantastic) but I think I have no excuse for liking James Blunt.

The Sugababes are the best thing to happen to British pop in a long, long time

 

[daygloeyes2]

-Kelly Clarkson
-Black Eyed Peas
-Justin Timberlake
-The Knack...well, actually just "My Sharona."

 

[impy13]

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[daygloeyes2]

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It takes a strong person to admit that.

 

[barlowdog]

-The Knack...well, actually just "My Sharona."

Don't be ashamed of The Knack. They rock!

 

[AEON]

Yes, I admit, I like Journey's "Anyway You Want It" from Caddyshack.

 

[Tiger Edge]

My entire music library qualifies for this thread.

 

[got_edge]

U2

Dammit, you beat me to it

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

Ok, back...

Aerosmith
Aha
Cher/various other 70's disco
DMB
Kylie Minogue

 

[love_u2_adam]

Kylie Minogue
venga boys- sex on the beach
Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
virgin prunes-The Moon Looked Down and Laughed
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me
Van Morrison - Searching for Someone Exactly Like You

 

[BonosBaby12]

Can't believe Im saying this but The Back Street Boys. They really do have some great songs!

Huey Lewis and the News

 

[ultravioletluvv]

Christina Aguilers has the best voice in the music world today. I love listening to her sing. She has more talent than all of the other female singers combined!

 

[Catman]

Kelly Clarkson...

Yeah...

 

[nminor]

i tap my foot to kelly clarkson, i admit it.

i like,

the monkees,
coldplay,
keane,
billy joel, even the 80's stuff
bon jovi
old school musicals- (singin' in the rain )
gavin degraw- finally a new dude that can play piano!
the goo goo dolls- dizzy up the girl = drool:
styx
journey
oooh, old school jazz. i know frank sinatra, count basie, and louis armstrong don't have a lot of emotional depth to their songs, but do they count? do they have the approval of the 'acceptable police'?

 

[Tiger Edge]

Can't believe Im saying this but The Back Street Boys. They really do have some great songs!

Huey Lewis and the News

Only I'm so not ashamed to have Huey Lewis and the News on my laptop.

It's so Hip to be Square.

 

[VertigoGal]

Some of the older stuff by the Cranberries, Goo Goo Dolls, and Matchbox 20. oh and i really like that song "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia.

I was a huge Backstreet Boys fan when I was like 10. Don't know where any of the albums are but I'm willing to bet if I found them I would still love them.

 

[easytiger]

let's see...

Paula Abdul
Ashlee Simpson
Kelly Clarkson
Avril Lavinge
Celine Dion
Fall Out Boy
Wham!
Jennifer Lopez
Linkin Park
Maroon 5
T.a.t.u.
Black Eyed Peas
Coldplay