Guilty Pleasures

Yippee38 said:
Don't you think everybody but you is wrong all the time?
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According to Webster:

Main Entry: (5)pop
Function: adjective
Etymology: by shortening
Date: 1880
1: popular <pop music>: as a: of or relating to popular music <pop singer> b: of or relating to the popular culture disseminated through the mass media <pop psychology> <pop grammarians> <pop society> 2 a: of or relating to pop art <pop painter> b: having, using, or imitating themes or techniques characteristic of pop art <pop movie>
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Oh please. Tecnically if it's not classical all music, including Metal, is considered "popular" as an overall catagory. It is all part of the popular culture. Nevertheless, when almost anybody says "Pop" music they're talking about top 40 dance club music. Britney Spears today, Micheal Jackson yesterday, and Live... never.

Quotng a dictionary definition to prove you're right in a general conversation... ugh. You can do better than that.

Back on topic: Billy Idol rocked too.
 
Magius said:
Oh please. Tecnically if it's not classical all music, including Metal, is considered "popular" as an overall catagory. It is all part of the popular culture. Nevertheless, when almost anybody says "Pop" music they're talking about top 40 dance club music. Britney Spears today, Micheal Jackson yesterday, and Live... never.
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Ok. Whatever.

Quotng a dictionary definition to prove you're right in a general conversation... ugh. You can do better than that.
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Didn't quote it to prove I was right, just that that's where the name "pop music" came from. You can take it to mean whatever the hell you want. I take it to mean popular music. But whatever. It's not so big a deal that you need to get upset about it.
 
I think most everything I like is a guilty pleasure in some way or another. This time, I think I'll give the nod to Styx and Rick Springfield, two acts I grew up with in the 1980's. Styx's pseudo-prog-rock made an impact and it probably a direct reason I listen to metal. Springfield has a masterly way around a song hook.
 
Ruthven said:
I think most everything I like is a guilty pleasure in some way or another. This time, I think I'll give the nod to Styx and Rick Springfield, two acts I grew up with in the 1980's. Styx's pseudo-prog-rock made an impact and it probably a direct reason I listen to metal. Springfield has a masterly way around a song hook.
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squee!!! i LOVE me some rick Springfield! of course, i grew up with him as Dr. Noah Drake on General Hospital, but well...his music does not suck, either :)
 
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hmm, guilty pleasure: M, "Pop Music" :lol:

Aside from some obvious (and good) choices mentioned already like +Live+, Duran Duran, etc., here are a few of mine:

Diesel, "Sausalito Summer Nights"
Icicle Works, "Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly)"
Q-Feel, "Crosstalk"
Donny Iris, "Ah, Leah" (spelled "Leia" if you're a Star Wars fan :))
Chilliwack, "My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)
Placebo, "Pure Morning"
The Hunger, "Vanishing Cream" (the rest of this CD stank, though)
Zug Izland, "Cry Little Sister"
The Smiths, "How Soon Is Now?" <--- opens with one of the most recognizeable guitar riffs ever

And of course all the bands that my "lighter side" likes, including Dead Can Dance, The Cruxshadows, Ozric Tentacles, Hidria Spacefolk...but I don't feel guilty about liking them, either. :p

Ruthven said:
Oh, I need to mention the White Stripes, since Pellaz gives me hell for liking them.
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hehehehehe

That's okay, you can officially give me hell for liking Tokio Hotel's "Don't Jump" :lol:
 
I've gotten into some of the crossover country stuff that gets shoved down my throat here in Tennessee. I can't freakin' get enough of Taylor Swift or The Wreckers! Taylor has laid down some of the best pop country tracks I've ever heard in my life....stellar stuff! Oh yeah, Lady Antebellum and Little Big Town are great as well! :blush:

Also, I tend to dig some of the British pop acts like Coldplay, Snow Patrol and James Blunt. I have no idea why, but I like the atmosphere those artists create.

For those of you that gave the Gin Blossoms props, I'm right there with you. :kickass:

~Brian~
 
back in the day (i.e. the 80's), while slowly easing into metal I also liked a lot of the radio stuff being played:

STYX
Gary Numan
David Bowie
Prince (only up through the album '1999')
Madonna (only up through the third album)
Human League
Thompson Twins
Animotion
Scritti Politti
Soft Cell
Men At Work
Duran Duran
Loverboy
Eurythmics
Billy Squier
Joan Jett
The Bangles (mmmmm)
INXS
Janet Jackson (so sexy!)
and yes, even some early Culture Club. :blush:

granted I do not currently own a single cd by any of these artists, but I did like them on the radio and still enjoy listening to the XM 80's radio station on weekends.

oh, hey does anyone remember Honeymoon Suite?



Loved their first two or three albums, then lost complete track of them through the nineties. I know they still record and tour. I need to find them again.

:rock:
 
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