I have an idea to kick off JSP's suggestion about "Music Friday". Of course, what I am about to propose I am also going to win...
Tell us about the the guilty-pleasure song (or songs) you don't tell anyone about on your Ipod, or in your CD collection. This MUST be a song you purchased or listen to, it can't be a B-side or extra song on a CD collection. I will open the shame-fest, and I very much doubt anyone can beat this.
I have, wait for it, "All Out of Love" by "Air Supply" on my Ipod. That's right you Sons of Bitches, I said it, "Air Supply". I knew I was a man the day I admitted to someone that I had an "Air Supply" song. Beat that....
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Wow, Air Supply. That's hard to beat.
Oh wait! Think I got it. "Sk8ter Boi" by Avril Lavigne. When I was in the Lego build-off thing at Legoland in 2006, they had a loop of upbeat, family friendly music that played through about six times during the two hours we were furiously building. Among old chestnuts like Rock Lobster was Sk8ter Boi, and I snagged it off of iTunes when I got home.
I had no idea I was declaring such a high cheese level, but there it is. I still love it.
Oh I definitely have a list of shame. I won't waste time on all the 80s new wave, which I love (yes, "Too Shy" is on my Ipod). Here's a few,
Ryan Leslie's "Diamond Girl"
The Association's "Never My Love"
Alan Parson's Project "Eye in the Sky"
God, I can think of about 20 more.
JPX wins.
let me try too:
"emotion" by the bee gees
"desire" by andy gibb
"guilty" by (echh) barbara streisand and barry gibb
"loving you" by minnie riperton
"how much i feel" by ambrosia
and that's just off the top of my head. a little actual digging through my mp3 collection would yield a wealth of cheese that my conscious mind can't access at the moment.
to top it off, of the tracks mentioned so far by the other horrorthonners, i own all but sk8ter boi.
Yeah, I think "All Out of Love" pretty much begins and ends this discussion. Impressive.
I own a Vertical Horizon cd that I bought with my own money. Oops.
I also kinda dig, but don't own, the soundtrack to Dirty Dancing. The Swayze tune is probably going a bit far, though.
I'll add Olivia Newton John's "Magic" from Xanadu.
"..Have to believe we are magic, no one can stand in our way..."
Cripes! These are all blowing mine away. "Too shy?" "Guilty" with Babs? Cheesetastic!
Btw, what's the "Music Friday" suggestion?
Octo doesn't understand my thing with Justin Timberlake. I know that's got to top this list. That's not even old. That's current cheese. I think I did buy his album. Probably because I thought he was so fantastic in Alpha Dog. He won a lot of points with me for that and for his SNL stuff. I think the guy's cool, so I gave his music a shot. Then I put one of his songs on a mix I made for Octo, and Octo skips that song every time he listens to the mix.
Wow! I opened a can o'worms, I love it. AC, that is impressive...
Julie, I have told anyone who will listen, that Timberlake was one of the best SNL hosts I have every seen. His Cup Of Noodles skits and Robin Gibb kill me.
Landshark, I will let JSP explain his Music Friday. I expect he will also be the one to comment on the lovely dog in the picture.
You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
Good lord Miko - Air Supply?!?! That's like casually admitting that you enjoy wearing your grandmother's underwear.
JPX made a great guilty pleasures cd filled with 80's cheese. But then he went to the well once too often when he made a sequel can only be called "Jeff's Dirty Little Secrets". It featured some atrocious 80's Rod Stewart (and not the good ones, believe me).
I also have an awesome guilty pleasure cd from AC that I somehow got my hands on (likely through JPX). It starts with "Ain't No Woman Like the One I Got".
As for me, I'm a sucker for 80's hair bands a la Poison. I used to want to be Bret Michaels and I suppose I still do.
Off the top of my head, the most embarrassing songs on my IPOD:
Arrested Development - Mr. Wendall
Hall & Oates - Greatest Hits
Foreigner - (But I didn't buy it, I copied it from my former landlord when he was on vacation and I was feeding his cat so no one's the wiser!)
The very idea of the "guilty pleasure" is interesting. If you enjoy something and it doesn't hurt anybody, why the guilt?
One answer might be "Because it's friggin' Air Supply! I mean, come on - Air Supply!"
"I'm lying alone with my head on the phone
Thinking of you till it hurts
I know you hurt too but what else can we do
Tormented and torn apart"
You were starting to hum the tune as you read...admit it! Don't lie!
I DO feel like a great weight has been lifted. It feels good to admit my great shame. One of these days I'll have to post a "how many homeless guys have you buried in the backyard" question to unburden myself further. (Oh crap, what if I'm the only one?)
Well since you opened up to us like you did Miko, I guess it's appropriate to share another secret that I've been afraid to say publicly in fear of the consequences. But since it's in the spirit of today's mood and it ties in a couple of things, here goes. (Just don't tell anyone.) I farted on a homeless guy once in Boston. He was lying outside of Back Bay station and I had to step over him to get to work. As I was stepping over him I realized that I needed to release gas. In a fraction of a second I gave it some serious thought and convinced myself that I really had no choice. The reasoning was "This could be the only chance I ever have in my entire life to fart on a homeless guy". And the rest is in the history books! Said fart was released, the homeless guy kind of grunted and I've been chuckling ever since!
Someone tell me I'm not a bad person...
Oh jeez, I have to come after the "Fart Confession?!"
I think my guiltiest pleasure is that I have a CD of all Neil Diamond songs that I hand picked off of several albums.
"You don't bring me flowers, anymooooooorrrre..."
miko, thanks for suggesting this awesome blog topic.
julie,thanks for the timberlake reminder. who could forget "i'm bringing sexy back" and "dick in a box."
landshark, superprops for dirty dancing.
johnny, special circle of hell for you (for your farting, not for your musical taste, which i respect tremendously).
i could do a decade by decade shame list (starting with the 50s) no problem, but my 70s cheese collection is healthiest. again, off the top of my head, i know i have linda ronstadt... peter frampton... olivia newton john... soundtrack from grease (one of my first albums, thank you)... seals and crofts... cliff richard....
is it bad that i now want to listen to those songs?
Running Freak has a weird thing for Neil Diamond. I don't get it.
Miko - I'd like to know what was going on through your head when you decided take the Air Supply plunge. Were you consciously aware of what you were doing or did it just kind of "happen"?
To answer your question, Landshark, JSP suggested a music-related post on Fridays so we could all talk tunes. Based on the volume of comments I have to say it's a pretty good idea.
We had the first two Air Supply albums (Lost in Love and The One That You Love) on vinyl at our house, and I admit I was obsessed with them for a while. This would be in the embarrassing slice of time when I got really into music but hadn't yet found any of my own so I glommed onto my parents'. Neil Diamond, Barbara Streisand and even a little Barry Manilow would be in there too.
However, I burnt out on Air Supply, so that hearing their songs invokes that bizarre reaction combining "oh yeah, this song, I've got every note memorized here in my head" with "ARRRGH!! Turn it off! Turn it off!" Or course, when it's already in your head it gets bad just hearing a smidgen of it. That was the one thing that put me off about the movie Slither; it championed the Air Supply hit "Every Woman in the World."
While I have thought about revisiting Streisand, the only music from that era that I still listen to is The Moody Blues. Love 'em.
And Johnny, I hear you about guilty pleasures. I would've declared myself immune from such a concept until a month or two ago when I got genuinely interested in the show Gossip Girl.
moody blues are great. i've seen them twice in concert.
i have to post this every year or so: my mom was friends with streisand when they were little girls in brooklyn.
(Octo, I must admit that I am having a hard time drawing a mental picture of your dad grooving out to "Air Supply")
JSP, I have no good answer for you. It was a conscious decision to purchase the song on ITunes, but as to why?
My insomnia keeps me up past 2AM most nights, and there WAS a Time Life collection of cheesy love songs being advertised one night, it may have started there....
When I was filling in the gaps of my KISS Kollection (yes I have every song they ever recorded, many of which are unlistenable), I felt like ITunes was trying to dissuade me. It would ask "Are you sure you want to purchase 'Bang Bang You'?" This forced me to kind of glance the other way as I quietly clicked "yes".
Terrible, terrible song, that one. If you're ever thinking of diving into the wonderful world of KISS be advised to avoid the Asylum and Crazy Nights albums. You've been warned.
Oh yeah, I also own a Carpenters greatest hits (after getting sucked into a Behind the Music.)
"Why do birds suddenly appear?"
Octo and I saw the Moody Blues together - jeez in 198...4? Octo? My first concert.
They were awesome. I lerve them in a big way.
Wait, how am I catching flak for ONE "Air Supply" song from JSP when he owns an ENTIRE album of "Carpenters" songs.
I demand a ruling from the blog!
The ruling is what the ruling always is: flak for all! I believe we've all turned the blog into a big cheese factory together. There is no prize.
My first concert was Duran Duran in 1984, so I'm gonna say the Moody Blues concert DCD and I saw was in 85 or 86.
jsp owning a carpenters album is the shocker of the day for sure. i don't know if i'll ever recover.
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