Guilty pleasure music?

Aw, c'mon, Black Flag never sucked - especially not with Mike Watt's wife Kira on bass. Circle Jerks...welll, I don't know. My guilty pleasure music is defined as the music that makes my wife either complain loudly, or make fun of me. I have to listen to Stereolab, Edie Brickell, Celtic Frost or Foo Fighters among others when she's not home ;-)

I'll fess up to Bad Company, Alice Cooper (those two arent' really "fessing", though), Winger, Warrant, Great White, Rage Against the Machine, Alice in Chains, Fat Boy Slim, Alanis Morrissette, New Radicals, Kiss, Lynyrd Synyrd, Ratt, Motley Crue, Madonna, Brian Adams, Billy Idol, Judas Priest, Seal, Boston, .38 Special, Foreigner....I could go on, but my fingers are bleeding...DEF LEPPARD IS MY FAVORITE BAND EVER, and if any of you have seen them live, you'd know why. Many dismiss them as a "glam-hair" band, but they're the best rock 'n roll band to come from the 80's...AND NOBODY better disagree with me on that one!!

That's funny about not fessing up to liking Flock of Seagulls and Bread -- I absolutely agree in general. BUT the true Guilty Pleasure Confessor admits that even these godawful bands can almost accidentally write something that the GPC does not automatically shut off when it comes on the radio. No, we would never actually BUY an album/CD issued by one of these groups, but we do not absolutely bar them from our audio space. So, in that spirit, I will confess to admitting that I will listen to Bread's "Guitar Man" when it comes on the radio. It has a strong electric guitar lead and a cool, drifting-off ending. Yes, it's pretty insipid, just like everything else Bread did, but the presence of that showcased guitar work pushed it over the line in my head on the listen/won't listen demarcation.

Oh my, I'm so lame. I like: Abba Jimmy Sturr Orchestra (Polka) Barry Manilow - I Write the Songs; It's A Miracle John Denver Gee, I always thought Black Flag, Dead Kennedy's, Flipper, TSOL, Agent Orange, Firehose, Minutemen, Husker Du, etc. were the "way" cool bands! And what's wrong with Angel and Celtic Frost? Try some old Witchfynde or Angelwhitch for grins to cheer you up!

I kinda feel like a dweeb when I listen to them sometimes, but RUSH was one of my favorite groups when I was a teenager. They became kind of a synth-rock let-down, but some of their early stuff, especially 'Fly by Night' still has a raw edge that I really like now and again!