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  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,140
    AddicksAddict said:
    https://youtu.be/WPDvsLSnUGc

    There's a quite good film about Joe Meek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Meek), the bloke who 'made' the Tornados and the German pop star Heinz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Burt) who played bass on this, 
    The film is called Telstar. It is very good.  
  • AllHailTheHen
    AllHailTheHen Posts: 3,063
    There are a couple of shows on at the moment that I've been enjoying. BBC doing an hour long Top of the Pops show on various individual years. Then Channel 5 are running through the biggest songs of the 80s year by year. Been some brilliant songs that I'd completely forgotten about and a couple of guilty pleasures from this;

    Hands Up - Ottawan
    Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    edited March 2021
    https://youtu.be/fWNaR-rxAic Carly Rae Jepson - Call Me Maybe

     Absolute belter.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    AllHailTheHen said:
    There are a couple of shows on at the moment that I've been enjoying. BBC doing an hour long Top of the Pops show on various individual years. Then Channel 5 are running through the biggest songs of the 80s year by year. Been some brilliant songs that I'd completely forgotten about and a couple of guilty pleasures from this;

    Hands Up - Ottawan
    Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners
    Why would Geno be guilty pleasure, it's a classic.
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    edited March 2021
    https://youtu.be/nfWlot6h_JM Taylor Swift - Shake It Off

     Never fails.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,140
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
    AllHailTheHen said:
    There are a couple of shows on at the moment that I've been enjoying. BBC doing an hour long Top of the Pops show on various individual years. Then Channel 5 are running through the biggest songs of the 80s year by year. Been some brilliant songs that I'd completely forgotten about and a couple of guilty pleasures from this;

    Hands Up - Ottawan
    Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners
    Why would Geno be guilty pleasure, it's a classic.
    I mentioned when the thread originally appeared that people were including things that were not "guilty pleasures" at all. Might not be to your normal taste (mine would be "Would I Lie to You" - Charles and Eddie.) but it's not "Agadoo"...  :D  
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    As has been pointed out earlier in this thread by Mr Thundercock music shouldn’t be defined as a guilty pleasure. Music connects on an emotional level and if you like a song then you like it. It doesn’t matter if some think it’s not ‘cool’ or it’s cheese. Music snobs piss me off and they should get off their high horses.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,433
    AddickUpNorth said:
    https://youtu.be/fWNaR-rxAic Carly Rae Jepson - Call Me Maybe

     Absolute belter.
    Always loved singing this with my kids.
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    AddickUpNorth said:
    https://youtu.be/fWNaR-rxAic Carly Rae Jepson - Call Me Maybe

     Absolute belter.
    Always loved singing this with my kids.

    I can’t use my daughter as an excuse. She looks at me like I need sectioning when I’m belting this out.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,433
    https://youtu.be/48apI4bpnSo
    Zombie Nation

    My kids used to love this.
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  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,779
    AddickUpNorth said:
    Wham - Club Tropicana 
    The Village People - YMCA 
    Chesney Hawkes - The One and Only
    Taylor Swift - Shake It Off.

    Bona fide classics indeed.
    YMCA is truly dreadful and therefore a real guilty pleasure. It doesn’t matter if it’s a guilty pleasure for half the world’s population, it’s still a guilty pleasure. 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,779
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    https://youtu.be/UvjLgjtJKsc

    Possibly the best song to come out of Ireland.
    And that explains K-pop. 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,779
    AddickUpNorth said:
    https://youtu.be/nfWlot6h_JM Taylor Swift - Shake It Off

     Never fails.
    That still looks like Taylor belongs on the sex offenders register. 
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,862
    https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=gooI9E4KY4Q&feature=share

    Guilty pleasure.

    I don't know the current situation in regards to the with allegations. 
    I hope it's all not true. No idea.

    As an artist, he's a genius.
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,179
    Windmills of your mind. Noel Harrison...  reminds me of my first love
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,433
    edited April 2021
    https://youtu.be/GWHZxXuJFzw

    The campest video of all time with some dreadful dancing.

    Boystown gang


  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,433
    https://youtu.be/kIRe1MxLb6U

    Europop classic from Sabrina
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,433
    edited April 2021
    https://youtu.be/eBShN8qT4lk

    Stupid but fun

    Beastie Boys - You Gotta Fight
  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    https://youtu.be/eBShN8qT4lk

    Stupid but fun

    Beastie Boys - You Gotta Fight
    Sorry but nothing the Beasties ever did was stupid. 
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,760
    AddicksAddict said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    https://youtu.be/6Zbi0XmGtMw

    Arguably the finest Vengaboys song.
    That's like saying the least smelly turd.
    Or “The winner of ‘Miss Bermondsey’”
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  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,740
    kentaddick said:
    favershamaddick said:
    Dont generally like Manic Street Preachers stuff as I dont particularly like his voice, that said 'If You Tolerate This' is the bollox.
    agreed, a lot of their stuff just sounds like your average pop-rock songs made by a group of boring blokes. But it's a great song.
    Wtf? Pop rock? You obviously have never listened to Generation Terrorists or The Holy Bible.

    As for 'boring' - try listening to the lyrics.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,740
    My guilty pleasure is 'Margate' by Chas and Dave
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,796
    edited April 2021
    Stone cold killer of a pop tune

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bBPtP4t2J1k&feature=youtu.be#dialog

    https://youtu.be/bBPtP4t2J1k
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,433
    jimmymelrose said:
    My guilty pleasure is 'Margate' by Chas and Dave
    https://youtu.be/z9S9_TpFSwo
    The best Chas and Dave - Musn't grumble.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,897
    Abba 
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    https://youtu.be/kIRe1MxLb6U

    Europop classic from Sabrina
    ‘Ooh, my bikini top’s slipped down. What am I like?!’
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,455
    AddickUpNorth said:
    As has been pointed out earlier in this thread by Mr Thundercock music shouldn’t be defined as a guilty pleasure. Music connects on an emotional level and if you like a song then you like it. It doesn’t matter if some think it’s not ‘cool’ or it’s cheese. Music snobs piss me off and they should get off their high horses.
    But sometimes the guilt is related to the source. For example, being totally against the X Factor, everything it stands for and how it manufactures musicians/groups, but enjoying a song from an artist who was on it - that’s a guilty pleasure.
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    I once worked with a born-again Christian and he had to pretend he didn’t like David Bowie any more. I couldn’t stand him so I didn’t pursue it. He was also always saying that people were making a point of coming only to him and making the sign of Satan.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,435
    I hate modern pop music. The over-production, the auto tune, the mumbling - I find it offensive that it's allowed to be called 'music'. But, every now and then... Damn.

    https://youtu.be/ffxKSjUwKdU

    PS: Don't ever find yourself as a 47vyear old man belting this out while sat at a set of traffic lights, to find three teenage girls stood at a bus stop, looking at you with a mixture of what can only described as mirth, pity and disgust... 
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    JaShea99 said:
    AddickUpNorth said:
    As has been pointed out earlier in this thread by Mr Thundercock music shouldn’t be defined as a guilty pleasure. Music connects on an emotional level and if you like a song then you like it. It doesn’t matter if some think it’s not ‘cool’ or it’s cheese. Music snobs piss me off and they should get off their high horses.
    But sometimes the guilt is related to the source. For example, being totally against the X Factor, everything it stands for and how it manufactures musicians/groups, but enjoying a song from an artist who was on it - that’s a guilty pleasure.

    So talking about the source I have to admit that in the early 90s I was a huge fan of R Kelly. His music, anything he produced for other artists, I thought he was a genius. Obviously my opinion changed about him after the revelations about his deviancies but I haven’t gone as far as getting rid of my collection of his CDs, 12” vinyl etc. I’d feel a bit dirty listening to his tunes but taken on their own his songs still stand the test of time.

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