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What guilty pleasures are on your iPod?

post #1 of 49
3/30/08 at 9:31am
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We've had threads about our top 10 playlists, but what about those guilty pleasure songs that you have on your iPod (or other player)?

Here's a couple of my more recent guilty pleasures:

Piece of Me - Britney Spears
See You Again - Miley Cyrus
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post #2 of 49
3/30/08 at 2:34pm

Re: What guilty pleasures are on your iPod?

I don't really think of any of these as guilty pleasures but they get the most comments from friends when they're checking out my iPod Touch:

"I Want You Back" The Jackson 5 -- Hey, I'm from Detroit so all Motown is fair game plus the rocking bass beat just grooves.

"Rhymes and Reasons" John Denver -- He was a heck of a songwriter.

"All God's Angels" Kate Rusby -- Neo-Celtic song with a very dark streak.

"American Anthem" Norah Jones -- Makes me cry. 'Nuff said.

"In the Air Tonight" Phil Collins -- Yes, I'm a bit ashamed but I still like it.

"World on Fire (Marius DeVries Mix) Sarah McLachlan -- The remix takes this into a whole new territory.

There, I think I've been plenty honest. Please be gentle.
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post #3 of 49
3/30/08 at 2:37pm
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There, I think I've been plenty honest. Please be gentle.

I don't think there's much I could say considering I have a Miley Cyrus aka Hannnah Montana song on mine.
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post #4 of 49
3/30/08 at 7:34pm

Re: What guilty pleasures are on your iPod?

Brand New Key - Melanie
She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds
King of Road - Roger Miller

And the #1 embarassing track on my iPod ...

Prince Ali - Aladdin: Soundtrack from the Motion Picture

Now, in the vein of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles ("How bout them Bears!") -- Led Zepellin IV was their peak right guys ...
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post #5 of 49
3/30/08 at 8:34pm

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Nooey-no. Houses of the Holy and Physical Grafitti FTW!

I don't think I have enough shame to have a "guilty" pleasure. I have the complete line of Fruit of the Loom Fruit Guys songs, and I am proud of that fact. I guess if I think of it in terms of "songs I'd turn down the radio over at a red light," maybe the Cardigan's Lovefool.
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post #6 of 49
3/30/08 at 8:56pm

Re: What guilty pleasures are on your iPod?

Well Greg, my most embarrassing track would be Donald Fagen's Nightfly.

Just kidding.

I don't have any embarrassing tracks, but if anyone has Play that Funky Music, White Boy, I'd like a copy.
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post #7 of 49
3/30/08 at 9:39pm

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How about the Number Ones album by ABBA?
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post #8 of 49
3/30/08 at 10:43pm

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Heh, I have the ABBA box set with quite a number of the songs ripped to my hard drive.

I also have the theme song to the Wonder Woman TV show from the 70s.
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post #9 of 49
3/30/08 at 10:45pm

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"Walking on Sunshine" Katrina and the Waves.

(I'm so ashamed. )

Joe
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post #10 of 49
3/30/08 at 11:07pm

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Originally Posted by JohnRice
Well Greg, my most embarrassing track would be Donald Fagen's Nightfly.

Just kidding.

I forgot about my "member location" thing, so my draw jopped for a moment there when I read that anyone could be ashamed of the Nightfly.
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post #11 of 49
3/31/08 at 4:17am

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I guess if I think of it in terms of "songs I'd turn down the radio over at a red light,"
Andy Kim - "Baby I Love You"
Archies - 'Sugar Sugar"
I remember having a box of Honeycombs that had a 45 of "Sugar Sugar" printed in it. You cut it out and it played. (For all you young wipper snappers out there - a 45 is a record!)

As far as "guilty" goes, I never play these around my teenagers who I would like to wait for sex until they get married.

Romeo Void - "Never Say Never"
Animotion - "Obsession"

I also have these but I don't turn it down.... Should I?
She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds
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post #12 of 49
3/31/08 at 5:37am

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(For all you young wipper snappers out there - a 45 is a record!)

Gotcha. What's a record?



Joe
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post #13 of 49
3/31/08 at 9:03am

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Originally Posted by Al.Anderson
Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds

Dunno why you'd consider that a "guilty pleasure". Great song IMHO.

My guilty pleasure? Debbie Gibson

And J-pop girl groups Speed and Shojotai (bonus points to anyone else here who has actually heard of the latter...)
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post #14 of 49
3/31/08 at 9:36am

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I remember having a box of Honeycombs that had a 45 of "Sugar Sugar" printed in it. You cut it out and it played.
Cutting out the disc from the back of the cereal box and playing the rather warped 45 on the family 'record player' is a clear childhood memory. Years later when while watching an interview with John Fogerty, I learned that the CCR hit, Proud Mary, never made the number one slot on the Billboard Top Ten because of Sugar, Sugar; oh the shame . . .

They say confession is good for the soul. While compiling music for my family's first ever reunion, I collected top hits from 1954 through 1975. Here are some that, um, stuck with me.

Theme From "A Summer Place" by Percy Faith & His Orchestra
I Got You Babe by Sonny & Cher
These Boots Are Made For Walkin' by Nancy Sinatra
Three 'Hits' by The Monkees: Daydream Beliver, Last Train to Clarksville and I'm a Believer

Becoming musically aware in the late 60's - early 70's, I was a slave to AM radio and have many guilty pleasures from that period:

Top of the World and (They Long To Be) Close To You by The Carpenters
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves, Half-Breed and Dark Lady by Cher
Rock Me Gently by Andy Kim
Winchester Cathedral by The New Vaudeville Band
The Way We Were by The Anti-Christ of the music world (Barbra Streisand)
Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas
The Streak by Ray Stevens
Love's Theme by Love Unlimited Orchestra

A couple of Disco (Gasp!) Hits:
That's Way I like It and Please Don't Go by KC and the Sunshine Band

And, um, some Lionel Richie hits that will remain un-named.
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post #15 of 49
3/31/08 at 11:57am

Re: What guilty pleasures are on your iPod?

I love all your guilty pleasures!

My Ipod contains many "guilty pleasures".


Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus

Britney Spears

Fergie

Merrill Bainbridge

Cathy Dennis

The Divinals

MC Hammer (from the Addams Family soundtrack)

Chumawumba
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post #16 of 49
3/31/08 at 12:46pm

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I don't have any embarrassing tracks, but if anyone has Play that Funky Music, White Boy, I'd like a copy.

Which one, John? The original by Wild Cherry or Vanilla Ice's 2nd lawsuit?

There are too many guilty pleasures on mine to name.
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post #17 of 49
3/31/08 at 1:50pm
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There are too many guilty pleasures on mine to name.

Awww, come on. Pick a few and share. You think the two I named are the only guilty pleasures on my iPod?
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post #18 of 49
3/31/08 at 3:42pm

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Snow - The informer
In Extremo - This corrosion (Sisters of Mercy cover)
Hurra Torpedo - Total eclipse of the heart.
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post #19 of 49
3/31/08 at 4:53pm

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Given that I've got 2.5 gigs of 80's music in my iTunes collection I've got a pretty long list of song's that would fit the bill
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post #20 of 49
4/1/08 at 11:05am

Re: What guilty pleasures are on your iPod?

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Originally Posted by Andrew Pratt
Given that I've got 2.5 gigs of 80's music in my iTunes collection, I've got a pretty long list of songs that would fit the bill
Ditto.
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post #21 of 49
4/1/08 at 3:23pm

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from what I've read nearly my entire Ipod is a guilty pleasure. It is totally 80s and big hair. There are a few others, one of the more embarrasing is Arron Carter "Iko-Iko"... but had you seen the cheerleader routine that I saw with it in college - it may not be so guilty. Actually, now that I think of it, it must've been another artist's version - it was 1989 - but I still like his version best.

I also have a few videos- such as Bob Nelson at Dangerfields (I had a thread about this years ago and finally found it on Youtube.)

I would absolutely LOVE to find more of Randy of the Redwoods. There is precious little of it on YouTube and the net. My favorite one was where he told of his friend who hadd a telescope and liked to "look at stuff, you know - like the sun" Dang I wish I could find that...
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post #22 of 49
4/1/08 at 4:38pm

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oh man I forgot to mention Ugly Kid Joe " I Hate everything about you"
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post #23 of 49
4/1/08 at 5:44pm

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Looking through my iTunes collection quickly, here are a few songs that would qualify:

The Bangles - Manic Monday
Bay City Rollers - Love Me Like I Love You
Bread - Make It With You (and others from a greatest hits CD)
Abba - Dancing Queen (and others from a greatest hits CD)
Walter Egan - Magnet and Steel
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post #24 of 49
4/10/08 at 12:36pm

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Retro-Euro-chick-pop: Swing Out Sister and Basia
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post #25 of 49
4/12/08 at 11:59pm

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Theme song from the Muppet show.
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post #26 of 49
4/13/08 at 5:04am

Re: What guilty pleasures are on your iPod?

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Originally Posted by Clinton McClure
Which one, John? The original by Wild Cherry or Vanilla Ice's 2nd lawsuit?
Heh. I was thinking Wild Cherry because I didn't know about the Vanilla Ice.

I thought about it more, and I really don't have much I consider embarrassing. Probably because I don't really have any single tracks. Just full albums. One that would fit though is The Best of The Art of Noise. Then I remembered I have Welcome to the Pleasuredome by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, though it's not loaded up in iTunes. The most embarrassing thing is, I think I actually bought that CD, but it's been so long, I can't remember.
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post #27 of 49
4/14/08 at 1:24pm

Re: What guilty pleasures are on your iPod?

Being a "child of the '70s", I'm almost embarrased to say I have:

All 25 volumes of the Rhino collection: Super Hits of the 70s: Have A Nice Day
The first 10 Barry Manilow Albums
The Carpenters' box set: From The Top

in addition to:

The entire Beatles' catalog
The first 6 Zeppelin albums
The entire Springsteen catalog
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post #28 of 49
4/15/08 at 8:12am

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I have a couple that I will publicly acknowledge. One of them is Invisible by Clay Aiken. As they used to say on American Bandstand - "It had a good beat and I could dance to it."

My other guilty pleasure is MacArthur Park by Richard Harris. I was a freshman in college in 1968 when this song was first released. I get a flood of great college memories everytime I hear this song.

This thread could probably get more hits if it was moved to the Music Forum.
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post #29 of 49
4/15/08 at 10:03am

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I just added three tracks from AmIdol contestant, David Archuleta. I assume that counts?
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post #30 of 49
4/15/08 at 1:56pm

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I wear my guilty pleasures badge proudly.

I have nearly every song that everyone has mentioned here, especially if they're from the '80s.

I never did get into the hair metal bands, though.
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