Guilty Pleasures - Music Edition

ABBA- Dancing Queen; just a joyful tune and a joyful time in my life.

 

I remember a Kenny Loggins “This Is It” being the NCAA montage music at least one year in the early 1980s.

 

I have zero guilt about Crenshaw or The Bangles. Marshall wrote two dead solid classic pop songs in "Someday, Someway" and "There She Goes Again". The Bangles were a fine girl group with a recognizable sound and great taste in cover songs.

I was severely hooked by ELO as soon as I heard the album version of "Roll Over Beethoven" on my local college radio station when ELO II came out in '73 or so. I never had a reason to change my mind.

 

My guilty pleasure is Bananarama, and throw in the Fun Boy Three records that were done with them. Trigger warning: Severe 80's hair.

What can I say, I like girl groups, and that stretch with them, The Bangles, The Go-Gos, The B-52s (who weren't a girl group, exactly, but they fit in) in the 80's stuck with me.

 

I don't have any guilty pleasures. I'm pretty comfortable in my musical tastes. I listen to plenty of things that have been mentioned on this thread with no shame.

I was going to write some high-minded thing about how there are no guilty pleasures and you shouldn't feel bad about listening to anything... and then I remembered a conversation I had with a co-worker last week when she explained her deep, obsessive love for Kid Rock's music. Fuck that, she should be humiliated by that.

 

A high school girlfriend was a big B-52s fan.

I liked them just fine until Fred opened his annoying pie-hole and ruined every song on which he sung.

Three's a crowd, buddy!

 

Think I still have the Fred Schneider & the Shake Society cassette somewhere.

 

I'm a sucker for immediate post-Beatles power pop and later jangle-pop bands who emulated that sound.

Badfinger, Raspberries, T. Rex, etc etc.

 

Raspberries. “Side 3” is so good. Wally Brison is a low key, no frills rock and roll guitar master. Saw and heard them for the first time on “Don Kirshners Rock Concert” in my apt with some friends tugging on a chillin and a few Js. They played “I’m a Rocker”. Pure pop gold. 1973 I believe.