It is music that you can't help but love...yet can't tell anyone. It is:
- ...still trying to learn the words to "Ice, Ice, Baby" well after it started plunging down the charts.
- ...being a 20 something male and singing Sarah McLaughlin in your room when you think no one is at home.
- ...rolling up your car windows so that you can crank up Kelly Clarkson (another one for you guys).
- ...having any fond memories whatsoever about New Kids on the Block.
Sadly, some of these aren't hypothetical!
I'm not counting Marshall's unabashed enjoyment of Pink in this...he has no problems singing it in public. I mean the kind of thing that you fear could ruin budding relationships, get you fired from your job and uninvited from the family Christmas.
I am now giving you all a chance to come clean, expose your secrets and live in the light. Give me a comment on your all-time worst guilty music pleasure. You can even do it anonymously if you'd feel better...
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Dude, you're awesome. I've actually had this idea for a blog before, but didn't have the guts to do it. So here it goes...worst guilty music pleasure...no, no...I can't do it! OK, deep breath...whew...this is only viewable by the whole world...ok [eyes closed]
ReplyDeletePretty much the entire "Let Go" album by Avril Lavigne.
Pretty bad, isn't it?
p.s. I'm so ashamed!
ReplyDeleteNot that I am ashamed, but I will state publicly that my knowledge of the entire dance of "Thriller" hasn't really gotten me many dates....and I went to a New Kids concert, so who knows what to do with that....
ReplyDeleteI will have to think of the rest, since I don't think the British punk scene is anything to be embarrassed about....
You are my hero....
PS -- Aaron, I don't know that I could sing 2 of Avril's songs, but it could be worse. For instance, Clay Aiken (isn't that the freak from American Idol?)
I'm pretty sure that my guilty pleasure would get me invited to many a party - in Kentucky. I just can't help myself, but I love the banjo-playing Bela Fleck (with or without his accompanying Flecktones).
ReplyDeleteMy wife says this isn't very guilty pleasure like. She loves John Denver, the Moody Blues and Barry Manilow. Just kidding...she hates John Denver.
Okay, I'll try again. She doesn't like Barry Manilow. Englebert Humperdink -- and Celine Dion. "All by myself...don't wanna be all by myself...anymore!!!!"
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, and Liberace. Yeah. She seriously does like John Denver. It embarrasses me that we have his BOX SET! and the Moody Blues Box Set. Are you listening? I have a few box sets, mind you, but they're Led Zeppelin, The Police, and the original Star Wars Trilogy Soundtrack. I'm a nerd, but I don't listen to John Denver or the Moody Blues.
I'll be sleeping on the couch. Listening to "nights in white satin"
Okay...Sheryl Crow's Saturday Night Music Club, anything by Sarah McLaughlin (you called it, Matt), and the Indigo Girls. Oh yeah, and Alanis Morisette. Seriously. And I also like No Doubt. Not enough to buy a CD, but I'll seriously crank it up on the stereo as long as no one I know is around.
ReplyDeleteI'm ashamed, but at least only four of you who read this even know who I am.
I would have to say I do hate it (and I am not ashamed to admitted ) when I get Shanya Twian's "Man I feel like a women", Or No Doubt " I'm just a girl" stuck in my head and can not stop myself 1. from changing the channel & 2. From stopping myself from singing them out allowed.... Like I have no entermonologe..
ReplyDeleteI also love anything by the rap genius Young MC....
By the way Joker I still have your tape of his. :)
Coach,
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's a bad time (considering your previously stated feelings of anonymity), but I must announce that I completely destroyed my previous daily record for visitors. Today I am at 353 and counting...plus another 150+ page loads. I have to assume that more than 4 of those people know who you are...Michael.
I'm going to follow in the Coach's lead and do a post for LP. So LP go to dance for Super Bowl 30 Stealer vs. Cowboys per-game. Super cool right well she played the video for me and I said some thing to the affect I like this song......and her response was really who are the Doobie Brothers.......................
ReplyDeleteI don't necessarily feel guilty about any of these, but I imagine they don't jive with my recognized persona. I have purchased on tape/CD/itunes music by: Tone Loc (I prefer Wild Thang to Funky Cold Medina); Prince (He didn't sing any of my favorites at the Super Bowl); Boyz II Men (I can still sing all the words to I'll Make Love to You), and I am deeply devoted to the entire Office Space soundtrack, including D*** It Feels Good to be a Gangsta.
ReplyDeleteCoach--if it makes you feel better, I grew up listening to the Moody Blues on LP. I feel your pain.
Nice work guys!
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your honesty. I guess I never submitted my entry so in the interests of full disclosure I must admit that I sometimes do have trouble changing the station if a Kelly Clarkson song comes on...there I said it.
I hate that I have a small (and I mean really small) soft spot for someone from American Idol. Actually I hadn't thought of Avril Lavigne but I think I have a similar problem with her songs.
Long time reader, first time blogger. From the guy that reloads his own ammunition, rides a motorcycle, and works in a correctional facility...my guilty pleasure comes from a CMT made for television movie starring Toby Keith by. "Broken," by a diminutive Lindsey Haun(spl?) that I downloaded off of i-tunes. The melody is sweet, and the bridge just rocks the house...
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the addiction, Mark. Thanks for adding your 2 cents.
ReplyDeleteYou don't by any chance reload 300 Win Mag do you? I hate paying for those suckers.
Yes, Amanda introduced me to this new found communication, but it is great to really understand what you're up to. Answers to the questions in your mind: No, I do not currently load .300wm, just .40s&w and .223rem, but a new load is only an afternoon away (not counting dies, bullets, powder, primers, and brass-always save your brass). It seems only years ago you and I were watching World Cup play in your basement...I'm glad you've kept up the sport of footy in the American mind. Anyway, for what its worth, I'm proud of what you're doing over there, and Amanda and I look forward to supporting when and how we can in the coming months and years...Mark
ReplyDeleteMark,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the encouragement. I always save my brass anyway. My buddy has the dies for reloading 300 but he lives in WY.
If you're interested in supporting us right now, I am helping raise funds for a Polaris UTV for the camp. We have 13 acres, hundreds of trees scattering branches and leaves, 13 buildings, half a million chairs, tables, etc. and no camp truck. We move everything by hand and it takes far too much valuable time. I can email you the specifics if you'd like. Just send me a message at mgaw@global-act.org.