Guilty pleasure music

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wounded mullet

wounded mullet

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So as much as i and others rag on some liking certain music (ex Nickelback) we all have bands or songs we really like and our friends might think we are slightly homo for it. This is a thread for a judgement free zone of bands or artist that might get you kicked in the jewels if admitted around your friends.

Guess i will start

Sugar Ray, yes their earlier stuff was good dammit.Even when i hear "Every Morning" it gives me good feelings of years past.Wife beaters and frosted tips, somebody tell Guy Fieri its not really cool anymore...

Limp Bizkit- FIRST ALBUM 3 dolla bill yall (i think)
If you heard thier first album it was at that moment i guess really progressive and addictive. Hell i still think its worth a listen, granted not as cool as when i was 17.

so i got the ball rolling

or should i say rollin rollin rollin

acually im going to add 311 to this list, because theres alot of people that just hate 311 with a passion and i acually kinda see where they are coming from, but always loved them ,its just upbeat feel good music. sometimes i dont want to have to ponder life in my music..
 
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Only a gay Hinder fan would double post

of course im j/k, honestly i know the band name im trying to think of a song though..
 
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Sadly, I admit to liking Lily Allen........If you don't know who that is, do a quick YouTube or Google search, and you'll see why that's somewhat gay.
 
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nickknx865 said:
Sadly, I admit to liking Lily Allen........If you don't know who that is, do a quick YouTube or Google search, and you'll see why that's somewhat gay.
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not at all my friend, she likes to get drunk and flash herself, thats good in my book.
 
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coming of age during the 80's, and now in my early 40's I still find myself listening to:

a-ha- best known for "Take On Me" but have a listen to their second album "Scoundrel Days"
Duran Duran - check out the videos for "The Chauffeur" and "Girls On Film"
Depeche Mode - "Shake the Disease", "Black Celebration", "But Not Tonight" to name a few that you may not have ever heard
The Cure - "Pictures of You", "The Love Cats"
ABC - "Poison Arrow", "The Look of Love"
When In Rome - "The Promise"
Alphaville - "Forever Young", "Big In Japan"
Real Life - "Catch Me I'm Falling", "Send Me An Angel"

and so on.

more recent "guilty pleasures" include Nora Jones and Natalie Merchant.
 
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Well, I was in high school in the mid to late 90s so my guilty pleasures are a bit different I'm sure. Of course, I was big into Nirvana back then but that's still considered cool. For stuff that "may" not be I will consult my cardio playlist that I use at the gym......

Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's
Meredith Brooks - Bitch
Blessed Union of Souls - Hey Leonardo
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Third Eye Blind - Jumper
Presidents of the USA - Lump
Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy
Abba - Dancing Queen (a throwback favorite)

I'm also a humongous Oasis fan but I don't know if that is considered uncool anymore or not.
 
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there's absolutely nothing wrong with listening to Coldplay.

I don't feel guilty about any of the music I listen to though. Anything that is actual country (and that would include Taylor Swift when they aren't making pop remixes, Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood), James Taylor, Jim Croce, Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Goo Goo Dolls, Matchbox Twenty, DMB, Kutless, The Elms, OCMS, Queen, Pearl Jam, southern rock (most notably the Allman Bros.), Queen, Sister Hazel, Third Day, Switchfoot, Eric Clapton, Motown, Rod Stewart, Elton John, Billy Joel, I could go on and on. There's nothing I'm afraid to blare out to with the windows down. I even will listen to the first Creed album once in a blue moon because no matter how craptastic the last two albums were, the first one was pretty gosh darn good.
 
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Coldplay is sort of a slippery slope, you are suppose to love them because they are the award winning "it" band of the moment, which of course leads to the anti movement backlash that will happen with this kind of hype where people will hate them because you are suppose to like them. IMO i could take them or leave them, not too bad but not in Radiohead or Muse's league.
 
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wounded mullet said:
Coldplay is sort of a slippery slope, you are suppose to love them because they are the award winning "it" band of the moment, which of course leads to the anti movement backlash that will happen with this kind of hype where people will hate them because you are suppose to like them. IMO i could take them or leave them, not too bad but not in Radiohead or Muse's league.
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Basically, leading to the "Dave Matthews Band Effect", where literally any commercial success will cost you the die hard fans.

There are other names and terms for that effect, that's just the one I've heard most often.
 
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nickknx865 said:
Basically, leading to the "Dave Matthews Band Effect", where literally any commercial success will cost you the die hard fans.

There are other names and terms for that effect, that's just the one I've heard most often.
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Very true, but its a real clash of cultures, for example with DMB in the late 80's early 90's you had mainly a more earthy underground type of fan who 10 years later are greeted by frat guys in Areo shirts and plaid shorts. Of course you as the original fan are going to question things.
 
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wounded mullet said:
Very true, but its a real clash of cultures, for example with DMB in the late 80's early 90's you had mainly a more earthy underground type of fan who 10 years later are greeted by frat guys in Areo shirts and plaid shorts. Of course you as the original fan are going to question things.
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Oh, yea, no doubt about that. Your original fans, at least sometimes, are going call you a "sellout", even if the core elements of your music are still the exactly the same as they were 10-15 years ago.

I do think that some of the time, that it is quite founded to question if a band has gone towards the mainstream culture. However, I feel most of the time, people oppose the mainstream music, just to sound like they know what they're talking about.

And to be honest, I'd be guilty of being a prick about mainstream rap, even if I do like the songs. But a lot of times, I feel my criticism of the music industry is well founded. I get sick of rappers "selling out", for more money, even if deep down, I know I'd do the exact same thing, given the opportunity.
 
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nickknx865 said:
Oh, yea, no doubt about that. Your original fans, at least sometimes, are going call you a "sellout", even if the core elements of your music are still the exactly the same as they were 10-15 years ago.

I do think that some of the time, that it is quite founded to question if a band has gone towards the mainstream culture. However, I feel most of the time, people oppose the mainstream music, just to sound like they know what they're talking about.

And to be honest, I'd be guilty of being a prick about mainstream rap, even if I do like the songs. But a lot of times, I feel my criticism of the music industry is well founded. I get sick of rappers "selling out", for more money, even if deep down, I know I'd do the exact same thing, given the opportunity.
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Honestly its a lose/lose situation, i know bands that i have been into before they hit big, you have this feeling of entitlement, during the ride to stardom its a feeling a pride and "i knew this band when they were nothing" then a few years later you hear their song on a Taco Bell commercial and wondered what just happened? In this day of age where you can just turn on the computer and find out everybodys opinion on every band i guess sellout or not its all about how the music moves you, unless its Nickelback of course.
 
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