Okay, fine.
Guilty pleasures
bakamomo
#22
I love melodrama ā one of the underrated art forms of the 19th and 20th century.
And on the theme of songs from grand 80s melodramas ā¦
DougoBlue
#26
My guilty pleasures are old teeny bopper songs from when I was a kid:
Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, The Monkees, The Guess Who, etc.
bakamomo
#27
So many great ones Saf! Maybe I am particularly grateful for Seether ā I had completely forgotten that one and it beckons deep in the (very) dark grunge/post-grunge waters in my once teenage soul.
Ely_Plains
#28
I like Iron Maidenās Wasted Years
Simply Redās Holding Back the Years
Future and Post Malone stuffā¦
and I actually think those arenāt guilty or embarrassing, so I donāt think Iām eligible.
Ely_Plains
#29
Iāve wept while listening to Stingās āFortress around your heart.ā Am I getting closer?
Ely_Plains
#30
Thereās a form of female rapping/singing that sounds close to baby talk and it doesnāt bother me, and I might like it. I think DojaCat does it, idkā¦
bakamomo
#31
Agree ā great stuff! (although personally I do think that Post Malone should be put in an old sack and beaten with bamboo sticks)
I guess that the guilty pleasures part might be a generational thing ā whereas I was brought up under the reign of a credibility code, most Millennials do not seem to give a damn about the dosā/and donātsā that to some extent shaped my musical preferences. It is a curse I live with.
bakamomo
#32
Yes - bang on target!
I myself think this is pretty grand (though I would never be caught dead with a Sting album):
DougoBlue
#33
My embarrassment stems from the fact that a lot of the songs I like in that regard are over 50 years old. When humming along in the grocery store iām outed as being old as dirt.
bakamomo
#34
Yeah, scary stuff. When I was in my late teens in the early 90s, I though the Beatles were from another century and the early 60s were all in black and white. But when you do the maths, there is only a 30 year gap between the early 60s and 90s ā¦ and 2022 minus 30 equals 1992.
mutineer
#35
Thatās such a great song. I took a train from Berlin to Hamburg when I was 13 to see Sting on the Dream of the Blue Turtles Tour because I liked that song so much.