Songs of shameful pleasure

Guardian article on Q Magazine's Guilty Pleasures - the songs the UK loves but does not want to admit to liking.
Here's the Top 10
1 Livin' Thing - ELO
2 More Than A Feeling - Boston
3 Don't Stop Movin' - S Club 7
4 I'm Not in Love - 10CC
5 Rock 'n' Roll Part 2 - Gary Glitter
6 Cold As Ice - Foreigner
7 Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
8 Whatever You Want - Status Quo
9 Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
10 I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
Personally, I wear my lack of highbrow taste with pride and freely admit to owning every Kylie CD including the Stock Aitken and Waterman ones.


Sorry but I love Devil Woman (for me that's the best ever Cliff song by miles) and as for Dennis Waterman, the "I'm gonna love ya!" bit deserved a Grammy. End of.
So what are your songs of guilty pleasure (although I'm against shame per se - see above)?

EDIT: 3 Lions, this thread is dedicated to you my friend

wait a minute- what's wrong with ELO?

Rosanna from Toto must be in there somewhere, not that I'ld know, I'm too busy listening to my Jewel albums.

Anything where Jim Steinman was wielding his songwriting cudgel has to get a honorable mention. The aural equivalent of eating dried trifle mix (or munching Jello crystals for the USA faction), it's wrong but hey you've started so you might as well finish it.

Hooked on a Feeling

I love the ooga-chuckas
EDIT: Blue Swede (also on the soundtrack of Reservoir Dogs)

I've got far too many to list

Likewise - that song is quite simply, genius.

Last Christmas - Wham!
Daylight in Your Eyes - No Angels

Ha! I'm with you on that No Angels song, sarabyrd.

I like "Walking on Sunshine," too, from Katrina and the Waves, and all the cheesy Abba songs like "Chiquitita."

Oh. And John Denver, "Follow Me."

almost anything Barry Manillow

Joe Dolce - Shaddupayaface

Whats a madda you? Hey...

You know what, the first thing I thought when I saw this thread title was Rosanna . For some reason I've heard that on the radio a lot here, and I never listen to radio. So, I admit to loving Rosanna. For that, I will forgive you for owning Jewel albums (for today, anyways)

hmm.. so:

1. Rosanna: Toto
2. Small Town Boy: Bronski Beat
3. Don't Stop Believing (among others): Journey
4. Steppin' Out: Joe Jackson
5. Maneater: Hall & Oats
6. Horse with no name: America
7. Rock Lobster: B52's
8. Hazy Shade of Winter: Bangles
9. You Should Be Dancing: Bee Gee's
10. She Bop: Cyndi Lauper

..might be some American ones. I admit to it anyways.

Whitesnake - Here I go again

It's wrong in so many ways it must be right.

November Rain - Guns N Roses
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
In Your Eyes - Stevie B
Winds of Change - Scorpions
Take My Breath Away - Berlin

Oh the list could go on and on.

Up, up and away - 5th Dimension

The cartoons - oh eeh, oh ah ah, ting tang, wolla wolla bing bang
EDIT: aka The Witch Doctor

seconded!

Britney Spears - Slave for u.

I dont want a lot for Christmas, there is just one thing I need...

Wicked Game by Chis Isaak. The instrumental version is used in the David Lynch film Lost Highway.

Billy, Don't Be a Hero- Paper Lace.

I have an entire collection of bad music that I very much enjoy listening to though.

Open Arms - Journey

Well, I rather like "Cold as ice" and "Baker Street" (from the list in the first post). I didn't know it was so wrong.

Mmmm - got "Baker Street" going through my head now and likin' it...

none of my 'oldies' are bad taste! How can it be bad taste when you like it?
I prefer to call it 'classics'.

yes.


yes.


and yes.

And another one: Lucille by Little Richard.

Texas Lightning - No No Never.

Hell it's basically Country & Western.

Jebus boy, is you one of dem dere buysechsuals ?

Now, is it country or is it western ?

My love shines brighter than your chocolate star
baby no matter where you are
And my love keeps bumming like an eternal flame
you can feel it, when I’m calling your name

Shuck, that'll be western, why didn't you say so in the first place ?

Brilliant tune been listening to it all day.


Don't be ashamed of anything that makes the Top Gun CD. Undoubtedly the best CD ever produced.

Hollywood Nights by Bob Seeger and The Silverbullet Band.

LMNT - "Hey Juliet"

They sing like this:

"Hey I've been watching you
Every little thing you do
...
I've tried to page you twice
But I see you rolled your eyes
Wish I could make it real, but your lips are sealed...that ain't no big deal...

Girl, you got me on my knees
Beggin please, baby, pleeease...

I think you're fine
You really blow my mind
Maybe, some day, you and me can run away,
I just wanna let you know,
Hey Juliet, I wanna be your Romeo..."

Hehehe, lovely song, lovely songgggg!!!

Look of love - ABC

http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/its-a-tot...4198269300.html

One Australian list

OUR PICK OF GUILTY PLEASURES

1 Living on a Prayer Bon Jovi

2 Physical Olivia Newton-John

3 Computer Games Mi-Sex

4 Bette Davis Eyes Kim Carnes

5 I've Never Been to Me Charlene

6 Jessie's Girl Rick Springfield

7 All Out of Love Air Supply

8 Take on Me A-ha

9 I Will Always Love You Whitney Houston

10 Total Eclipse of the Heart Bonnie Tyler

I love those two songs. The first much more so.

Me too! The first sends shivers down my spine and I love the second from the movie Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Opening Scene)

"Never Been To Me" has been an Ohrwurm of mine for about the last ten years. For some reason it just keeps popping into my head.

"Betty Davis Eyes" is just great. Damn cool voice!

MGP's

Mike Oldfield- "Moonlight Shadow" and "To France"

Love Maggie Reilly's voice.

Also

Gene Pitney and Marc Almond "Something's Gotten Hold of my Heart"

Mm, brings me way back. Thanks for that.

I just downloaded it on itunes... Just Brillant

Eighties by Killing Joke
Fire Woman by the Cult

Makes me want to get out the kohl eyeliner and little black boots

Kelly Clarkson "Since You've Been Gone". I love the video when she takes the scissors and cuts the spaghetti sleeves of all dresses of the girlfriend of her friends'. Makes me shiver with joy!!!
Uhmmm!


Here it comes:

google video parody version

"Since you've been gone
I can breeeeeeeeeeathe for the first time

Thanks to you
Now I get
You should know
That I get
What I waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaant"

Britney Spears - Toxic

Ronan Keating

Sorry but I think there's a difference between shameful pleasures and commiting an offence worthy of being burned at the stake. The above two posts implicitly prove this point.

Just saw this in GeorgiaGirls profile. I have this album. It is the rather nattily titled "Fatherfucker" and the first track is called "I don't give a shit". Clever and witty lyrics as follow:

You know
I wanna tell you something
I wanna tell you something
You know what?

I don't give a damn about my reputation
I don't give a fuck!
I don't give a fuck! I don't give a fuck!
I don't give a fuck! I don't give a fuck!

I don't give a damn about my reputation
You know what else?
I don't give a shit! I don't give a shit!
I don't give a shit! I don't give a shit!
(I don't give a damn about my reputation)

I don't give a fuck! I don't give a fuck!
I don't give a fuck! I don't give a fuck!
I don't give a fuck! I don't give a fuck!
I don't give a fuck! I don't give a fuck!

I don't give a damn about my reputation
I don't give a shit! I don't give a shit!
I don't give a shit! I don't give a shit!
I don't give a shit! I don't give a shit!
I don't give a shit!

I don't give a damn about my reputation
Fuck, shit
Fuck, shit
Fuck, shit
Fuck, shit

I don't give damn, I don't give damn
I don't give damn, I don't give damn
I...Don't...Give...A...Damn...

That's Amore by Dean Martin. I love this song... always have done since I was a nipper and could hear my mum downstairs playing it on the old Bush (that one where you could stack 6 records).

Funny thing is, just after Ian Dury died I was driving to Heathrow on a Friday morning and listening to Desert Island Discs on Radio 4 (because I knew that they were going to do Ian Dury from a programme recorded just before he died). He obviously went for some Gene Vincent (the man had taste after all), and then he comes to a piece that he explained how he had to keep his love of it quiet throughout his punk days for fear of ridicule. They they started to play... That's Amore by Dean Martin.

I nearly fuckin' crashed laughin'.

What's wrong with you. They're both classics.

ER, you missed the point. Both the "friend" and his "girlfriend" are away from the house while she is doing that... it is good to watch it, but it is shameful in the same time that it makes me cheer up... Devilish, no?
I couldn't find the original video to post that one, since Kelly is on some tour now, looks like, and everybody is posting videos of her live performances right now, I have no patience to browse over 4,000 live videos for a studio one...

However, here is another one, sweeter version, I still feel ashamed for rocking along with this girl, but she is goooood, hm:

Miss Independent - Kelly Clarkson

I used to work in radio and just went through my CD collection...

The worst songs have got to be:
1. My heart will go on(Titanic theme)-Celine Dion
2. The Barbie song
3. What is love? -Haddaway

Yugh!

I have to say, there's been some strange suggestions on this thread...
to me, there's absolutely nothing shameful about liking e.g. B52's Rock Lobster, Killing Joke's Eighties, quite the opposite in fact.

And Something's Gotten Hold of my Heart is one of my favourite songs EVAH, and I do not feel even a tiny inkling of embarrasment about admitting it. It's FAB!

*boots up computer and plays it full volume, while singing along with tears in eyes*

Okay if Sin is out of the closet I can admit to my Dean Martin problem, but mine is "Little ol' winedrinker me".

As well as a plethora of Elvis songs, which are obviousky coded messages from a higher power.