K I’ll be the first to come out with my five.

Linkin Park, Ace of Base, Limp Bizkit, Richard Marx and Cyndi Lauper.

Good job picking Journey, En Vogue and Bush, they would’ve made my list if you hadn’t mentioned them already!

ELO, Stereophonics, Yes, Phil Collins, Christopher Cross

Bush for sure. My friends and I still rock out to them when we’re drunk.
Also, Dave Mattews Band.

Rush

A great live band, incredible musicians…never been cool, never will be cool.

Barenaked Ladies
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Bush
Paula Cole
Better than Ezra

Poison, RUSH, Creed, Survivor, Reo Speedwagon, Cheap Trick, Warrant, Slaughter, Dokken, Scorpions, Anthrax, The Fixx, The Outfield, Level 42, Big Country, 3 Doors Down, White Lion, Garth Brooks, Simply Red & the fictional band from Mark Wahlberg’s “Rockstar” movie, STEEL DRAGON!!! God wish Jeff Scott Soto (Journey new lead singer), Jason Bonham, Zakk Wylde and Jeff Pilson would tour together. Great Music!

I could go on and on. But tell me anyone out there who didn’t rock out to a little Poison. I know that is more than 5, but maybe it will spur some debate. RUSH Rules!!

Journey, Fifth Dimension, The Bee Gees, Wings

The Lovin’ Spoonful, The Turtles, Maroon 5, Kid Rock, The Killers, Matchbox 20, Twisted Sister, Cheap Trick and Rush definitely. Every single person I know likes at least one Rush song but no one ever says they like Rush.

RUSH, Trans Siberian Orchestra, Elton John, They Might Be Giants, Steve Miller Band

ABBA

Yes, Asia, Europe, Neil Diamond, ELO

the darkness, dokken rhymes with rockin, sweet, loverboy were the real jukebox heroes and motorhead may be too cool for the nature of this list,,

Chicago, Candlebox, Better Than Ezra, Erasure, Elton John, Maroon 5, Third Eye Blind. just to name a few.

Obviously Journey. I gotta go with ABBA too.

the doobie brothers (’cos ‘what a fool believes’ really is an awesome song).

ANDREW WK, Hootie and the Blowfish, Phantom Planet, Incubus

STYX

guided by voices

ELO
Barenaked Ladies
Semisonic
Fastball
Weez er

Counting Crows, Dragon Force, The Fray, Matchbox 20, Third Eye Blind, Bush, The Offspring, Matisyahu,

Black Flag, Pixies, Neil Young.

OK, Joke.

Foreigner, Scorpions

barry manilow

Meat Loaf
Hootie and the Blowfish

Goo Goo Dolls, Pre-Blues Guitar John Mayer, Maroon 5, Simple Minds, No Doubt, The Doobie Brothers and yes, RUSH

Rush
My Chemical Romance
Foreigner
Weird Al Yankovic
Billy Joel

fall out boy

The Gin Blossoms.

Some kick ass pop songs there.

FOREIGNER

In Order

1. Bon Jovi

2. The Monkees

3. Kiss

4. Motley Crue

5. Boston

Journey
Billy Joel
Jewel
Neil Diamond
Shania Twain

Abba
Carpenters
KC & The Sunshine Band
Monkees
Bread

Supertramp
Foreigner
Boston
Al Stewart
ABC

electric light orchestra

Third Eye Blind

Maroon 5 and Kaiser Chiefs. Everyone finds their songs catchy, but are their posters hanging in even one person’s room?

Bob Dylan
Pixies

Kelly clarkson!

Come on, Dylan is no guilty pleasure.

http://www.frcphotos.com

John Mayer

my chemical romance

and seal

Doors of the 21st Century: Everybody made fun of the band when they went out with two original members and Ian Astbury singing lead, but they just STOMPED the crowd when I saw them.

Blink-182
Flipper
The White Stripes
Elliott Smith
The Smashing Pumpkins
Radiohead
The Ataris
The Used
The Decemberists
Brand New

Journey for sure, Bon Jovi, Third Eye Blind, and Gin Blossoms

kiss, poison, the monkees, the bee gees, bread, the raspberries, ‘new’ journey, slaughter, alan parsons project etc…

oh, and one time when i was a teenager, i did you-know-what while listening to ‘heat wave’ by linda ronstadt…

two of the biggest guilty pleasures of all time…duran duran and culture club. that song, time clock of the heart is pure pop sugar perfection.

The White Stripes, Smashing Pumpkins and Radiohead?

Here’s something I never thought I’d write in a post: SATAN, you’re an idiot.

Elliott Smith
for being almost this “EMO” that’s so…ridiculous these days, but still genious.

kc and the sunshine band, foreigner, ELO, whoever wrote ‘precious and few are the moments we too can share’ (i heard it in walgreen’s this morning) etc…

oh yes; and you can’t forget hamilton, joe, frank and reynolds!…

wouldn’t you know SATAN is standing behind the white stripes!? – what a jerk!

Air Supply
Bread
Association
Pa rtridge Family
Seals and Crofts
America
Chicago
REO Speedwagon
The Monkees
The Archies
Captain and Tenielle
The Carpenters
Bay City Rollers
Howard Jones
Simply Red
Rick Astley
and many many more

Why is there a big bold picture of Journey’s Trademark emblem in this weeks pole? Lack of quality or coolness, but still manage to rock, or at least inspire serious if shameful adoration on a mass scale? What the f*#k? Journey is more of a band then the 15 minutes of fame bands Rollingstone continuously puts on the front of their recent magazines. RollingStone magaizine is the biggest thing to “sellout” since The Black Album, and I don’t mean Jay-Z, even though he is a sellout.

I hate to admit, but Loverboy can kick some ass!

Beach Boys
Panic! At The Disco
Kelly Clarkson
Journey
Madonna
Angel s & Airwaves
Shakira
XD I feel pathetic.

I take that first part back,
Beach Boyz 4 Lyfe!!!
I don’t feel guilty. (:

Definitely Jack and Diane by John Cougar Melloncamp.

Tragic, i know.

and whoever put that rush is a guilty pleasure is a retard

Journey
Fall Out Boy
Panic! At the Disco
Angels and Airwaves
Styx
…what is wrong with me?

the macarena,, catchy as hell!!!!!!!

styx
culture club
whitney houston (pre-crack)
billy idol
tori amos

ready for this –

Michael Bolton – Everyboyd’s Crazy

from back in his “metal” days, but totally over the top cheese-tastic songwriting, great great stuff

I like RUSH and I’m not ashamed of it

Europe

Hate to admit

John Cougar
Eddie Money
Boston
Elton John
Green Day

All corny as hell, but very enjoyable

captain geeche and the shrimp shack shooters

by the way elliott smith, bob dylan, pixies, cheap trick, yes, elton john, white stripes, decemberists, smashing pumpkins should not be considered guilty pleasures

panic! at the disco, my chemical romance, fall out boy, styx, air supply, journy, bush, 3 doors down, maroon 5, weezer, hootie and the blowfish, john mayer and kelly clarkson, linkin park, limp bizkit however, are the kinds of bands/artists that should be considered guilty pleasures hehe
…in my opinion

Journey, what an awesome band and steve perry, arguably the best rock vocalist of all time. That band rocks the casbah!!

my list:

kenny loggins, aqua, barenaked ladies, and billy joel. But hes not that much of a guilty pleasure…

Oh!! and of course, my #1 guilty pleasure, my favorite band, journey.

This magazine is one of my guilty pleasures, shoddy reporting and reviews that cater to the masses. In short pleasant but spineless.

Rush, hands down. Non-fans associate Rush with “Tom Sawyer” and, without knowing what the song actually means, pass them off as a novelty band. Kimonos and leotards and songs called “By-Tor and the Snow Dog” are definitely “uncool” but they are three of the greatest musicians of all time, and Peart is a highly underrated lyricist. They’re probably a guilty pleasure to people who will randomly break into the drum fills at the end of “Tom Sawyer” but they have one hell of a lot of passionate fans (see the Rush In Rio DVD, where 100,000 Brazillians SING along to “YYZ,” an instrumental).

Hole, the Vines, KISS

Kelly Clarkson, Yes, Boston, Gretchen Wilson, Iced Earth, Dave Matthews Band, Iron Maiden, Blind Faith… cuz admit it Blind Faith does suck… but they suck awesomely. Kiss is pretty cool i dig them. I like two songs by Limp Bizkit their cover of george michael’s “faith” and “breaking stuff”.

But i fuckin hate journey
theres nothing that will ever make me enjoy journey
to hell with that crap

again with Bush..fuckin hate them too.

I agree with Steel Dragon. Who doesn’t feel a little ashamed to rock out to Poison, Twisted Sister, Ratt, Cinderella, Journey, Warrant, and Dokken? But I’ve seen all but TS live, and they still kick it onstage!!!!!

oh yeah Fuel and Andrew WK

Steve Perry best rock vocalist?????
god you suck

I’m thinking Bread, Elton John & America

rolling stone use to be a great pleasure now its a left wing political whos who of bush bashing and anti american trickery. Only the young and unwise would actually pick up a copy and pay for it . shit they even hired huey lewis’s son to work for the establishment now that takes some balls. lol

I like some of the “Art Rock” bands that never seem to get much credit or respect from the critics, and some of my friends for that matter.

Moody Blues (early years)
Yes
Genesis (Gabriel years)
Jethro Tull
King Crimson
David Sylvian
Kate Bush

Too artsy fartsy for some I suppose, but I rather like them.

People relax, I have the list right here.
1) Billy Joel when he had hair
2) Reo Speedwagon’s first 3 albums, can’t justify the hi-fidelity era
3) Billy Squier – he has more than 5 hits – it’s true, I won a bar bet – it’s around 6.5.
4) Young M.C.’s “bust a move” ok, 1 hit wonders are not the topic but damn smarty go to a party
5) bon jovi

311 is the correct answer to the question.

Journey is a good pick, although “Lights” and the “Na Na Na Na Na” song are the only 2 good songs–everything else by them is awful.

Boston is another 70’s corporate rock band that I feel a little guilty for liking, although they’re much, much better than Kansas/Styx/Journey so I don’t feel too guilty. But when I was reading a bio. of Joe Strummer and he kept bashing on Boston in every single interview, it did make me feel guilty for liking them.

Elton John , Madonna , Bread , Maroon 5 , George Michael

and then there’s the bands that I worry might call into question my heterosexuality:

Elton John
Garbage
The Smiths
Tori Amos

DURAN DURAN!!!!

Dragonforce: They are just so epic…you have got to love them.

Gotta have ELO. Simple Minds and Thomas Dolby. Hey I’d buy it.

Neil Diamond? David Sylvian? Come on they dont belong here at all! Worse than everything else is stuff like
JOURNEY
AMERICA
THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT
BARCLEY JAMES HARVEST
ROD STEWART
ASIA
CHRIS DE BURGH
– bands that were shite in the 70ies and now celebrate themselves as “CLASSIC ROCK” – Fuck that term!

At least theres one GOOD THING about them – you can get vintage vinyl-pressings of their albums at low prices. If you’d like to turn your record collection into a CHAMBER OF HORRORS!

I left out Talk Talk. They didn’t receive much negative attention, but then they never got much attention period. Great band, they just got overlooked.

The Pet Shop Boys!

Every time I mention them I get funny looks, but great tunes, great attitude. More rock and roll than people like the ‘phonics. Mock me if you will, but I stand firm.

Survivor, Live(any CD including V), Hulk Hogan, The Offspring, Bush, Lily Allen, Hootie and the Blowfish, Crash Test Dummies,STONE TEMPLE PILOTS (which at the time, WAS unjustly a guilty pleasure according), Bill Shontz’s the Teddy Bears’ Greatest Hits, Creed, Morningwood, Meat Puppets, and the Dresden Dolls.

The Monkees.

Blink-182

i would like to punch you right now matt, journey rox!

ABBA ABBA ABBA Are you kidding me? ABBA.

Oh, and Air Supply. Their wussiness is undeniable.

OK, fuck Neil Diamond. Just putting that out there.

1. Bon Jovi
2. Panic! At the Disco
3. Yes

Kelly Osbourne’s Sleeping in the Nothing. Sooo 80’s sounding.

Grand Funk Railroad

all the critics hated their music and lyrics, but so many of us understood just how great GFR was.

Oooohhhh my, this brings back memories: I remember when Bush was constantly being attacked, about how they were cheap imitations of Nirvana…. but I have a different take on this…. bare with me:

Well, for one, I don’t think they sounded like Nirvana at all…. Nirvana was one of the greatest, most innovative rock bands of all time, with a disinct musical flavor that no one could copy, no matter how clever they were, while Bush was just a pop band with “grunge-like” decorations, and with little talent and with even less to say, besides, “I’m a machinehead / from green to red.” So much depth, huh? Gavin should have just been a model. I always thought all this was obvious, so I never really understood the whole copy-cat ordeal, apart from the fact that the industry people needed a “grungy” void to fill in the market. That I got.

Yeah, definitely, Bush is the guiltiest of pleasures. But, getting to my point: I was watching the video for “letting the cables sleep” the other day, and I had the strangest feeling that the pre-chorus of the song sounds EXACTLY like something from another song… and then I remembered: it sounded exactly like, get this, the pre-chorus part of George Michael’s “father figure”!!!! Isn’t that hideous?

So, all and all, Bush didn’t copy Nirvana ( it would’ve been too obvious, and they never would’ve gotten away with it legally ) they copied other bands/artists who seemed like unlikely ( and less risky ) targets at the time.

Anyone up for a Bush reunion???

Say what you want about Foreigner, but Lou Gramm is one HELL of a singer. That’s why I love Foreigner. And “Midnight Blue” is a great gem from the 80’s.

forgot to add A-ha, Tears for Fears, Bryan Adams, Spice Girls, INXS, Robbie Williams (he’s a terrific singer, with no respect in the US)

And last week on the rumors one,. I forgot to add how Michael Hutchence supposedly died of hanging himself why performing something sexual.

I believe it is Rainbow who does the coolest song in the entire history of rock, that being “Man on the Silver Mountain”. This is the only song ever(and I mean EVER!) that I can actually create an entire mental music video around w/out ever actually seeing anything by them. It automatically marks them as the ultimate rock act in history. The Beatles and Dylan would kill to be able to create such awesome imagery as this song does.

Aha, Roxette, Jackson 5. Dean Martin!

I refuse to feel guilty about listening to any of the above-mentioned artists…oh, except for Rush. Nails on a chalkboard, man.

Chicago
Foreigner
Journey
Bon Jovi
Motley Crue

lots of 80s bands (like duran duran, i love them!) and every once in a while (i can’t believe i’m going to say this) my friends and i bust out some backstreet boys or spice girls for a bit of childhood nostalgia and it’s pretty fun to sing and dance around. oh man, i can’t believe i said that. i have to go listen to live at leeds now to cleanse my palate. ughhhh.

VAN HALEN …………

BOB SEGER…not even a mullet like that can make him be loved any less

Suzanne Vega has a voice like an angel, and Hank Williams (Sr.)

WOW, what a list of posts…i’ve always wondered about the whole “guilty pleasure” syndrome. Was it a concept invented by HIPsters to describe the fact that sometimes music is good but not COOL enough to be actually considered “legit”. Why is America singing about “the Horse with no Name” (about that “kid who thinks he took acid”-RandyNewman) any less valid than Alex Chilton singing about “No Sex”…is the common denominator for G.P.’s the RADIO?
Music is everywhere, and I doubt it would work for most people to walk into Walgreens and hear “I wanna be your Dog” over the “in-store”, or a Slits set in an elevator.
Now, I don’t know for sure who chooses the FOREVER songs,they aren’t really “oldies” because they keep playing them, like “Sailing” and (my FAV) “Will a Little more LOVE Make it Right”:::OLIVIA!!!!!!!, but I think it might have something to do with perceived “normalcy”.
So crank up the Radio and enjoy those dweeby HITS that are NEVER EVER going away, but when you get home into your POD, try a little musical creativity.
Today’s Recommend?
the CACTUS BROTHERS.

The Doobie Brothers !

3EB

Spind Doctors
Technotronic
PM Dawn
Snow

Boz Scaggs
Cinderella
Counting Crows
Daughtry
Iron Maiden
Poison
Queensryche
Ratt
Skid Row

simply red

definitely Andrew W K and Focus (remember Hocus Pocus?!)

My three guilty pleasures remain:
Sweet
Electric Light Orchestra
The Carpenters
ABBA

Hooters

ELO, Warrant and The Verve Pipe! Three of the most underrated bands of all time, so I guess you can also call them guilty pleasures!!

limp bizkit
Justin Timberlake
Kasabian

Panic! At The Disco
Fountains of Wayne
ELO
Fall Out Boy
Coldplay

You all know it has happened. That one song, about the candle, maybe a little wind, you teared up, and no amount of RAWK will save you now. So, Elton, Sir Elton if you know him -I don’t – but Elton should be on here along with cheesemeisters Meat Loaf and Jewel. And yes, I can admit it, one time back in 1987 I recorded over a metallica tape with . . . oh god help me – White Lion. But the most craptastic “white” monikered band, Whitesnake, is not on my list because I need room for REO Speedwagon. Can they even be touched in this category? SuperMullets, ballads, pianos, ubiquitous use of the word “baby” in several songs, more mullets, guilty guilty guilty. I suppose the pleasure part of the equation is discretionary.

Rush
Andrew W.K.
They Might Be Giants

Rush
Andrew W.K.
They Might Be Giants

- Beach Boys.
- Hootie and the Blowfish.
- Justin Timberlake.
- Huey Lewis and the News.

Chicago
Meat Loaf
Hoobastank
X JAPAN(Huge in Japan)
GLAY(Huge in Japan)

Maritimer, it’s better not to say anything and let people wonder if you’re idiot than to say the Beach Boys are a guilty pleasure and announce your ignorance to the world.

Brian Wilson is one of the most important and influential (the beatles, Floyd, radiohead, U2, etc, etc, etc.) artists of the past fifty years. I very seriously doubt that Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney feel guilty about being inspired to create their finest work after hearing ‘Pet Sounds.’

Foreigner
Bon Jovi
A-Ha
Billy Idol
Guns N Roses
Blues Traveler
Boston
Dio (seriously though, he’s like the essence of rock)
Kiss
Motley Crue
ZZ Top

Here are some embarassments that i love:
Nelly
Panic! at the Disco
Marcy Playground
Afroman
Avril Lavigne
Bee Gees
Black Eyed Peas with Fergie
Bow Wow
BRITNEY SPEARS-shoot me in the head immediately
Eamon
ELO
Eddie Money
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Jewel
Kelly Clarkson
Lil’ Jon
NSync
Our Lady Peace
Papa Roach
Quiet Riot
Steppenwolf
Sum 41
Tatu
Tiffany
Tommy Tutone
Whitesnake
William Shatner – he made a CD with Ben Folds

Some peaople are listing that I don’t think deserve to be “guilty pleasures”:
Early Weezer
Early Green Day
whoever listed Bob Dylan is a complete idiot

Dream Theater
E.L.O.
Sparks
Yes

Non e of these seriously warrant “cool” status today but – far more importantly – they’ve all got some seriously good music in their catalogue. What did the man say… “Listen Without Prejudice.”

Journey
Billy Joel
George Thorogood
Def Leppard
Panic! At the Disco
FOB

C’mon people you’ve got to dig deep to make the list of guilty pleasures…if it stings to admit it, then your headed down the right path

Vanilla Ice (and not rap vanilla, rock circa ‘98 vanilla)
Enigma (what can I say, it puts me in a good mood)
Bush (Got to love some glossed up grunge any day of the week)
3EB (a borderline entry. Hard to admit to in some circles, but Slow Motion w/ lyrics is possibly the greatest song ever…ohya)

Chuck Klosterman setteled it a couple years ago in his column in Esquire: there is no such thing as a guilty pleasure. It’s not important what you like – what is important is WHY you like it. E.L.O. rocks!

hall and oates
cyndi lauper
en vogue
a few select songs by the cure

oh eric, i really hope (for your own good) that you’re joking about the dylan thing. umm wham!

do soundtracks count? grease is the word, the word that you heard…

Billy Idol and Skid Row. o_o

ok….good list so far…here are a few of mine..

-journey…makes me look like an old man…
-britney spears…maybe its just cuz she’s hot…well…used to be hot…
-swv…i luv these girls…and i’m a loser…
-panic! at the disco…self explanatory…
-justin timberlake…guiltiest pleasure…
-michael jackson even after he became white
-jamiroquai…no one even remembers them anymore…
-the new pornographers…well just cause when i say the name…people look at me weird…
-relient k…esp since i’m muslim…and they’re sorta a christian band…
-third eye blind…that’s sooo 90’s…

oh!!!…and ub40…white guys…singing…with a jamaican accent…classic…

ABBA — everyone loves ABBA!

VANILLA ICE!!!!!!!!

Admit it ‘Ice Ice Baby’ was one of the best rap songs ever!!

ok Dammit- here’s a List.
1. Crazy Horses- the Osmonds
2. SHOUT- Tears for Fears
3. MmmBop- Hanson
4. Believe- Cher
5. Marrakesh Express- CrosbyStills&Nash
6. Monsters & Angels- Voice of the Beehive
7. Will a Little More Love Make it Right?- Olivia Newton-John
8. Just When I Needed You Most- Dan Hill
9. Pop Muzik- M
10. Without You- Mariah Carey

incubus ( + Brandon boyd abbs!!!!!)

crap mine is probaly toby keith and tim mcgraw i love ozzy and pearl jam and u2 but i grew up listen to those two

but think about it…
The MOST UNCOOL BAND EVER?

which actually rocked?

CHEESE and EXTRA CHEESE?

and it’s no BIG secret.
(and they are already here)

ABBA ABBA & ABBA.

think about it. there was so much cheese they should have been from Wisconsin. But the songs are undeniably little godamn ROCKERS.
Take a Chance on Me, Does Your Mother Know?, holy infectionary germ war-fare Bat-kids!!!
but COOL? they are not even in the same Congressional District as Cool.

the Meatmen- Abba,God and Me…(find THAT one, NOW.)

mine is definitely SPINAL TAP. also, ANY smooth jazz artist.

I would say The Carpenters
I loved the william Shatner disc with Ben Folds 5 STYX pre Mr Roboto. Bat out of hell 1 by Meatloaf.

Ambrosia, Christopher Cross, Player, Michael McDonald, and Rupert Holmes

can’t believe nobody has named WHEATUS here, I mean they’re like the definition of guilty pleasure on music

Heaven
Coverdale Page
David Lee Roth Solo stuff

harvey danger – flagpole sitta
Who doesn’t secretly love that song?

Kelly Clarkson? Really? I throw up in my mouth a little whenever I hear one of her songs.

White Snake – Here I Go Again
Bon Jovi – Livin’on a Prayer, Wanted Dead or Alive, Blaze of Glory
Scorpions – Rock You Like a Hurricane
Billy Idol
Young MC
Kenny Rogers The Gambler

Neil Sedaka, Poison, Foreigner, The Monkees, Vanilla Ice… To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal, light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle…

- Early songs of Jewel…I still think she was good
-Yes
-Kate Bush (so dramatic…so ridiculous….so painful!)
-my chemical romance
-Björk (she is the new cheesy lady)
- Chris Isaak
-The dixiie chicks
- ABBA (who doesn’t love ABBA?)
-Sheryl Crow
- Guns n’ roses
-Daddy yankee and every reggaeton artist

ELO

The Bee Gees.
Duran Duran.
Boston.
Tears for Fears.
Rush.

Honorable mention to the soundtracks for the following movies.

Dirty Dancing
Grease
Saturday Night Fever
Top Gun
Pretty Woman
Aladdin
The Lion King
Titanic

Paul McCartney- Some of his solo stuff is so dorky and cheesy

Lynryd Skynryd- I feel a little bad whenever I hear Sweet Home Alabama and they bash Neil Young. Plus there’s the guilt about listening to a band with conservative politics

Beach Boys- I love Pet Sounds as much as the next guy, but there’s nothing very cool about them. They always seemed to be presented as good boys. Maybe it’s because they were Ronald Reagan’s favorite band.

REO Speedwagon rules the world!!!

Damn the critics, what do they know?

my guilty pleasure musicans would have to be Journey (though i do not deny i like them), some Hall&Oates (or hallin’oats) and the incomparable Stevie Wonder.

A Flock of Seagulls’ one hit: I RAN!!!

apples in the stereo.. u cant deny the cheesiness of new magnetic wonder

Pinball Wizard…what on Earth makes you think Skynyrd had “conservative politics”. I guess you’re another one that just didn’t get Skynyrd.

ELO, Supertramp , Styx
The Eighties Big Hair Bands Rocked

third eye blind

Oh man, before I even looked around I was ready to list Boston, Tears for Fears, and Bee Gees of course. Not to mention Kelly Clarkson. I do have a hard time feeling “guilty” about stuff I like though.

Michael Jackson has become a high contender for this list I would think, with how un-cool he has become. Still, what great tunes!

The Moody Blues, Franz Ferdinand, April Wine, ELO, Taylor Hicks, My Chemical Romance.

elo
justin timberlake
men at work
bob seger
dashboard confessional

ELO is a guilty pleasure to be sure. “Livin’ Thing” was such a perfect song to play of the closing credits to “Boogie Nights.”

One word: Rush

Primus anyone?
Tears for Fears
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Collective Soul
Ludacris!

Ace of Base
John Mayer
Prince (although I personally don’t feel guilty about this one)

My 10 favorite Gulity pleasures

Kenny G.
Taco I just love the LP with Puttin on the Ritz
George Michael (Solo is the Bomb)
Poison
Def Leppard
Carpenters
Garth Brooks
barry Manilow
hall & oates
Phil Collins/genesis (Phil Collins Songs only as Peter Gabreil lead songs are not chese too me

genesis, Backstreet Boys, POD, ELO, Bee Gees

The Violent Femmes
Steve Perry/Journey
Starship
Kenny Loggins
Robert Palmer
Placebo
Phantom Planet
Men At Work
Lisa Loeb
House of Pain
Fall Out Boy
Eddie Money
Everclear
Digital Underground

lifehouse
gin blossoms

Cheesy yet good to listen to after a dose of rockk!

The Bangles, Vanilla Ice, Bee Gee’s, and Eazy E.

neil diamond, styx, the B-52’s, barry white

Marillion.

The end.

Marillion. end.

After reading through these answers, alot of people are confused about the topic – and by alot – i mean 90 percent of the answers. Youre supposed to list guilty pleasures like new kids on the block or backstreet boys. Not old rock bands like Rush or cheap trick.

Barry Manilow
Sheila E.
Rick Springfield
Nelly Furtado
Olivia Newton John

all stuff I might jam like crazy to until i spot someone i know lol

-The Monkees, mostly because they weren’t a real band.
-Blue Suede, because of Hooked on a Feeling
-Smash Mouth
-Yes
-Damien Rice

Why would any one feel guilty about loving ELO?? They’re one of the best bands ever!!! And Hall and Oates are great!!
Guilty pleasures for me would be if I liked someone like Barry Manilow, which I don’t. Anyone I listen to – I don’t feel guilty about. And neither should you.

The “above average”…

10cc!

Foreigner
Guns N Roses
ELO
Van Halen
Duran Duran
Toad the Wet Sprocket

If I listen to them … they’s Cool!

REO Speedwagon
38 Special
The Sweet
The Smiths
Jouney – great 2006 show
Def Leppard – great 2006 show
Billy Idol
Hall and Oates have always been good. Some of the mid 80’s stuff is dated, but I don’t think of them as a guilty pleasure, just a great band with great songs.

Wings? Same thing just a great band

JAMIROQUAI is on here somewhere..i like very little dance music, but man does that JAY KAY sing his ass off….he is the man.

Boney M
Glenn Campbell
Erasure
Air Supply
England Dan & John Ford Coley

ELO:OK Go:Barry Manilow:Neil Diamond: Fall Out Boy

meat loaf
steely dan

1)Bread 2)Rush 3)Raspberries 4)Abba 5) Boston

kiss
the sweet
jethro tull
early Elton John

Guilty is in the eye of the beholder, but…
Jethro Tull
Polyphonic Spree
The Killers
E.L.O.
The Bangles

THE OUTFIELD…….BEEEEOCH

The Flaming Lips are kind of cheesy, but I LOVE THEM.

….Rod Stewart.

EUROPE…

Stone temple pilots
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Bloc Party

hmm… interesting how many people list Weezer as a guilty pleasure…. I don’t think there’s anything guilty about listening to them, I think they’re dead-on cool…

the first two albums really had their moments……..

okay, the top5:
5. Belinda Carlisle
4. Steve Winwood
3. Shakespear’s Sister
2. Marcy Playground
1. Bush

Also, why are the Pet Shop Boys considered embarrassing?? Take a listen to “Home & Dry” and THEN try to tell me they’re embarrassing!

The Grass Roots

Tommy James and the Shondells

Jay and the Americans

Don McLean

Iron Butterfly

Sweet idea for a list. Here’s some of mine:

Third Eye Blind
Foreigner
Shakira
Bus h
All-American Rejects
Linkin Park
Panic! At the Disco
Phil Collins

How come multiple people have put Radiohead on their lists? Since when do you have to feel guilty about a band like them?

P.S. I refuse to follow the anti-Coldplay trend and put Coldplay on my guilty pleasures list. I don’t think I should feel any shame.

the carpenters bitch!!!!!!!!!!

ELO-ABBA-MANDY MOORE-PANIC! AT THE DISCO-THIRD EYE BLIND

It seems to me that 90% of the submisions are 80’s bands. That’s like telling your parents it’s a guilty pleasure to listen to Frank Sinatra. COME ON!!

james taylor, reo speedwagon, styx

The Four Seasons
Petulia Clark
The Lovin’ Spoonful
Johnny Rivers
Paul Revere & The Raiders
The Monkees
Glen Campbell
The Moody Blues
Bob Seger
Emerson Lake & Palmer
Three Dog Night
The Bee Gees
America
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Nazareth
The Eagles
April Wine
Ted Nugent
The Outlaws
KC & The Sunshine Band
Styx
Al Stewart
The Doobie Brothers
John Miles
(Ritchie Blackmore’s) Rainbow
Santa Esmerelda
Meatloaf
Pat Travers
Eddie Money
UFO
Toto
Simple Minds
REO Speedwagon
Journey
38 Special
Billy Squier
Bryan Adams
Saga
ABC
Asia
The Fixx
Huey Lewis & The News
Cyndi Lauper
Quiet Riot
Howard Jones
Wham
Yngwie Malmsteen
Mr Mister
Def Leppard
Jane Child
Queensryche
Mariah Carey
Gin Blossoms
Crash Test Dummies
Roxette

need to add more:
George Michael (solo)
Stryper
Men at Work (their albums are really good)
Styx
King’s X
Rush (i’ve mentioned them twice, but they deserve to be in the RNR Hall of Fame)
Metallica (black album to now, that is guilty because nothing compares to And Justice to Kill’em All)
John Mellencamp
Europe
Slaye r
Wh ite Lion
Winger
Accept
Danger Danger
Icehouse
Christina Aguilera
Daughtry
Dixie Chicks (they are hated still in Texas)
Echo & the Bunnymen
Erasure
Pet Shop Boys
John Denver
Living Colour
Nickelback
Roxet te
S ade
Sheena Easton

I could go on and on

sheryl crow
the go team

I’m surprised no one said Creed. C’mon, tell me you didn’t buy the Weathered album when it came out.

But I agree with most of you
Linkin Park
Journey
Korn
Rush
STP

Top 5:
NOFX
Third Eye Blind (totally agree “Slow Motion” is a great one !)
Cansei De Ser Sexy
Crash Test Dummies
The Darkness

elo
styx
kansas
death cab for cutie
jewel

Def Leppard. Sad as it is, we all know we have “Pour some sugar on me” on our iPods

Panic!At the Disco

Spice Girls! (I’ll tell you what I want, what I really really want..)

Queen, ELO, Eminem

Chicago
Michael Jackson
Bon Jovi
Maroon 5
Hall & Oates
Journey
Justin Timberlake

Why should anyone feel guilty for liking Rush?

what the hell…
since when i should be feeling guilty when i listen to Incubus, Primus, Placebo or Björk…

FALL OUT BOY IS THE WORST BAND IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC. SAME WITH NICKELBACK. GREEN DAY IS AWESOME, ALL YOU DUDES ARE MORONS.

The Presidents of the United States of America. “Movin’ to the country gonna eat me a lot of Peaches”

Definitely Rush. Also ELO, Toto, Fall Out Boy, Evanescence and Sufjan Stevens.

ABBA
Olivia Newton-John
Mötley Crüe
Go-Go’s
ELO

There!

Presidents of the USA
KC and the Sunshine Band
Peter Gabriel
Rob Zombie
Juelz Santana

ABBA
That’s the guilty pleasure of all guilty pleasures
Barry Manilow
Michael Bolton
Lionel richie

Interpol
My Chemical Romance
Everything but the Girl
Duncan Sheik
Wilco
Radiohead

Kelly Clarkson
ELO
Death Cab For Cutie
Bright Eyes
Ween
The Vines

ween and bright eyes
im so guilty

as well as dire straits and huey louis and the news

kanye west, johnny cash, wilco, nirvana, hinder

I’m not embarrassed to say I like ELO and I think they deserve more respect, but I’m usually careful to not play all but a few songs in front of others. I know every word to ‘Jungle’ but only when I’m singing alone.

I wouldn’t add En Vogue or Kelly Clarkson (Maybe her first album) to the list. They are actually good. I can begrudgedly add Hall & Oates to the “Not Guilty” list as well.

Guilty pleasure for me is something I know I should hate because it’s unoriginal and banal, but I don’t.

1. Phil Collins
2. George Michaels
3. Billy Joel
4. The Monkees
5. Poison

I think you guys need to do a list of songs that are guilty pleasures. When I was doing this list, I kept thinking about all those one hits wonders that I liked but are guilty pleasures like “Mickey”, “I’m Too Sexy” and “Baby Got Back”.

Styx
Meatloaf
ELO
and…
G eorge freakin’ Michael

Jeff Lynne is a musical genius. I love ELO! I’d also add Panic at the Disco and Scissor Sisters.

The concept of “guilty pleasures” is completely stupid. The music is the music. Your feelings about it are just that. If you like something, listen to it. If you don’t like something, don’t listen to it. If you hear something you like, but feel guilty about it for some reason, take it up with your therapist. Because the music doesn’t change depending on who is listening to it. Everybody needs to get over themselves, and just go with whatever moves you.

i think a couple of abba tunes and i think somebody mention richard marx. i used to used to have the tape to richard marx when i was a kid, i’m glad i lost it.

What about The Alan Parsons Project? Don’t pretend that you don’t love “Eye In The Sky”! I would also add ELO and Genesis.

Dokken, but at least George Lynch gives the band some credibility.

well here are mine
1. Styx
2. A Flock Of Seagulls
3. Ace Of Base
4. Kelly Clarkson
5. Madonna
and of course
6. ABBA

I’d have to add Third Eye Blind, Styx Shania Twain, and the Titanic Soundtrack

How ’bout any Andrew Lloyd Webber music. Or just show tunes in general.

How about most country. Garth Brooks is good, but he ain’t getting remembered quite the way you would think he should.

Someone said, the Chili Peppers. I’m so confused. The Red Hot Chili Peppers are possibly the least guilty pleasure out there.

Hootie and the Blowfish definately.

Barry Manilow
Richard Marx
Air Supply
Anyone that says they don’t like these artists are lying to you.

Spin doctors
Argent
Gwen Stefani
Hootie
John Mayer
Huey Lewis & the News
H&O

LOVERBOY!!

Lily Allen is a guilty pleasure. I mean she could tie up George Bush and throw him in the Antartica if she had the chance. Haha.
Vanilla Ice is a guilty pleasure of course! “Ice Ice Baby!” rocks!
QUEEN can never ever be in the guilty pleasure list, unless you screw the guilty.

ELO, THE CARS, MADONNA, PRINCE, LIONEL RICHIE.

Third Eye Blind for sure, still listen to them though

a lot of the cheesy pop that came out around 1997-98 – Aqua comes to mind.

ABBA is a guilty pleasure for everyone who is old enough to remember when it was uncool to like them. I’m not .

Wilco? Radiohead? you kiddin me!

1-John (Cougar) Mellencamp
2-Tonic
3-Top Gun Soundtrack
4-Live (up through Samadhi)
5-Hootie & The Blowfish (first 2 records)

Rascal Flatts
Justin Timberlake
Third Eye Blind
That sandstorm song
New Radicals
Prince
AFI
Michael Jackson
Andrew WK
The Rembrants

How about REO Speedwagon

ELO, but I’m becoming less and less guilty listening to them. Another one would be Toad the Wet Sprocket. ha.

Ianm, I HATE all of those “artists” and I am NOT lying!

1.Spin doctors
2.Presidents of the United states of America
3. Hootie and The Blowfish
4. Blink 182 (old stuff)

nickelback is a definite guilty pleasure. and avril lavinge

bryan adams and tom cocharne

snook ur a 13 yr old douche aint ya??? johnny cash is so far from a guilty pleasure its not even funny

This is not funny. snook, Cash does not belong here. Cuck T – stop taking yourself so seriously, seriously. Cheap Trick, Off Broadway, Shakespere’s Sister, Michael Jackson when he was someone of color, Prince – when he was someone of music rather than permeated sexuality, and Durna Duran.

U2!!!!!
Really, if they weren`t the greatest rock legend alive (The Rolling stones? Please………) any media doesn`t play their songs.

Styx
Led Zepellin
Simply Red
Norah Jones
Sufjan Stevens (let years go by…..)
Elton John
Erasure
Shakira
Metall ica
Jethro Tull
Genesis and Peter Gabriel
Bruce Springsteen (a great guilty pleasure)
Beach Boys

Simply Red
Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Men At Work
Thompson Twins
The Romantics

journey, cheap trick, huey lewis and the news (despite american psycho, i still love hip to be square), poison, and bell biv devoe. still love them, still listen to them, still dance like a nerd to all of them

michael bolton (80’s)
avril lavigne
phil collins
boston
duran duran

1) Styx
2) Ace of Base
3) Watching American Idol
4) Michael Jackson
5) Blink 182

Mm Hm was right to mention Klosterman’s article saying that there is no such thing as a guilty pleasure when it comes to music. It’s music. You like it or you don’t. How can you possibly be ashamed of sound preference? Just because you like music that critics rag on doesn’t make it a guilty pleasure.

That said: Madonna’s song ‘Hung Up’. And half of Kid Rock’s ‘Devil without a Cause’.

Johnny Cash, Radiohead, Dylan, Neil Young are guilty pleasures??? what???

my list: Journey, Bon Jovi,Kelly Clarkson, Fall Out Boy, Barenaked Ladies, Bryan Adams

Eve 6
Everclear
Semisonic
Van Halen
Justin Timberlake
and any musical soundtrack. ever.

If I see Radiohead on this list one more time I’m going to vomit. Are people just using this as a chance to write down their favorite bands without looking at the question? Some guy put Radiohead, Interpol, and Wilco on his short list. Disgusting.

Panic! At the disco and Fall Out Boy ARE HORRIBLE BANDS WHO SHOULD BE DRUG OUT TO A FIELD AND SHOT.
1.Styx (too much Time on my hands)
2.Journey (Wheel in the sky)
3.Culture Club
4.Loverboy
5. Dirty ghetto boys (damn it feels good to be a gangster)
6. Charro
7.Gyspy Kings
8. Pat Benitar
GREATEST BANDS EVER
1.QUEEN
2.AEROSMITH
3. LED ZEPPELIN
4.AC/DC
5. PINK FLOYD

although most wont admit it, charro is one of the better Acoustic Guitarists.
ONE MORE PLEASURE
1.Tenacious D AKA THE D

Kelly Clarkson
Matchbox Twenty
Justin Timberlake

The Bee Gees
George Michaels
Kelly Clarkson
Styx

Grease Soundtrack
Rocky Horror Soundtrack

and I am horribly embarrassed to admit that I have Fergilicious on my IPOD and love to sing it loud and proud when home alone.

Keyshia Cole

Remy(rugged,raw,talent ed,sexual chocolate…I can boast continuously and relentlessly about her)Ma

Little Brother(the new tracks on myspace are so serious)

Pharrell Williams(the voice,the mind,the drive-anything he pursues or approaches-music,business,or vice versa-he does miraculously)

Gym Class Heroes

I unabashedly, unironically love REO Speedwagon.

The Corrs.

Beat that!

The Corrs.

Beat that!

Chuck Klosterman setteled it a couple years ago in his column in Esquire: there is no such thing as a guilty pleasure. It’s not important what you like – what is important is WHY you like it. E.L.O. rocks!

The Monkees still being considered a guilty pleasure 40 years later? I thought all the hipsters finally “got” The Monkees and the wealth of great material they have. Must be something to them…people still listen/care/talk about them enough for them to make these lists.

Same thing goes for Duran Duran…who absolutely kicked in concert when I saw the original lineup 2 years ago.

Guilty pleasure – Boston.

WTF: HOW CAN SOMEONE PUT RADIOHEAD!?, I THINK I SAW
‘THE SMITHS’ AND ‘PIXIES’ ON SOMEONES LIST…..
‘KAJAGOOGOO’ IS A REAL GUILTY PLEASURE

Mr. Mister
Wang Chung
The Carpenters

..Being straight and liking
erasure

I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this band yet, but I’d like to put my vote in for Chicago. Now THAT’S a guilty pleasure.

ELO
Duran Duran
solo McCartney
Jimmy Eats World
Travis

Beyonce,Ciara,Nelly Furtado…any girl with loosely,vivacious hips(alongside pure,quality clubbangin’ music) and instant chart success.

For the record,the lists i’ve posted wouldn’t count as being cheesy,but just definite guilty pleasures.So there you have it.

I find myself playing Kid Rock Cowboy in bars when exceedingly intoxicated.

AEROSMITH

WALLFLOWERS

EM INEM

BRYAN ADAMS

Lionel F’n Richie

puddle of mudd, ELO, wolfmother, the darkness!

Oh boy, who can forget Fastway or Ted Nugent????? Kick ass rock!!

tom delonge’s bands – blink 182, angels and airwaves, box car racer

something about that guys music i love but am deeply ashamed about…

Rush… never been cool, never will be cool???

Are you crazy??? I am proud to say I am a Rush fan and always will be. Amazing musicians and good role models for young people. I am a music teacher and I even encourage my high school students to listen to them! We need more musicians out there like them!

And yes, I already have my tickets for their Snakes and Arrows tour this summer…

Osmond Brothers

what about KISS

the Afternoon Delight band…Starlight blah blah blah!

ELO
Journey
REO
McCartney and Wings
The Yardbirds
Parliament

Sorry, you’re going to have to take Rush off of there. One of the few bands that never sold out in a long career, so I listen to them with pride. Besides, alternative time signatures is too cerebral to be a guilty pleasure. Finally, you’re looking at arguably the best drummer ever, and certainly one of the best bassists.

BLONDIE

THE CARS

B’52S

DEVO

CULTURE CLUB

A-ha

Simple Minds

Human League

looks like RS disregarded what everyone here posted and decided to put Rush at no. 1 anyway. Why does RS hate Rush so much? Obviously blinded by a false ideology. How facist.

rush is the best band ever period. I will no longer be subscribing to your totally unincitful magazine.

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