I like hair metal. Unironically.
I am not proud. I actually like it. I have a CD in my car right now that has Hurricane, Bon Jovi, Y&T and Tora Tora on it.
It isn’t that I don’t know any better. I am a classically trained musician. I have a minor in vocal performance from an accredited four year university. I know what is good music and what is crap and not only do I know why, I could probably still write it out as sheet music. Oh, I know the difference. Sometimes I just don’t care.
This is a lot like how I love hamburger helper. I know that it is shit – all salt, preservatives and food coloring mixed with noodles and ground beef, but I like it.
I also like “Unskinny Bop” by Poison. Poison isn’t a good band and “Unskinny Bop” isn’t even one of their better songs. Much like the famed honey badger, I don’t care. C.C. DeVille is a shitty guitar player and I don’t feel bad saying that. DeVille studied music theory at NYU so he already knows this.
For two years in a row I have driven an hour away to attend a two day music festival featuring bands like Whitesnake, L.A. Guns and Faster Pussycat. Last year I even ponied up $175 for VIP tickets. You know why? Because I am old, and I have a job and I don’t want to use a a port-a-potty if I don’t have to. Plus you get better pictures of JetBoy from up that close.
Yes. I said JetBoy.
I have seen KIX live three times in the past 18 months.
I feel so much better just saying that out loud.
Sometimes I think it is okay to admit that we like things that we know aren’t good. I like McDonald’s french fries, I like Stephenie Meyer books, I like Storage Wars and I like Dokken.
Come on, you know you like shitty music too. Out with it. Who are your guilty pleasures?
Photo Credit – Me. I told you the VIP seats were close. I wish that dick in front of me hadn’t put his hand up right then.
About Goon Squad Sarah
I have no guilty pleasures. None.
http://www.dignews.com/blog/monks-blog/30-days-of-song-day-14/
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I secretly rock out to House of Pain’s Jump Around…but only when I can do it with the windows rolled up in the truck.
I also secretly love a couple of Limp Bizkit songs. I kind of hate myself for that.
Twitter Name: goonsquadsarah
Same here, dude. I even saw them live once, back in their heyday. Hayday? Heydey?
I did too, but it was a Lollapalooza so I think I can claim seeing them accidentally.
RIght?
Twitter Name: goonsquadsarah
I recently wrote about ’70′s Story Songs. Which I still love. Guilty.
Because they are awesome!
Twitter Name: goonsquadsarah
Bless you. I did meet Kip Winger once, but I will see your hair bands and raise you all of this shit:
I listen to “MmmBop”, like a lot. That’s right, bitches. Hanson.
I run to “Love Touch” by Rod Stewart.
I warm up to said run with “Could’ve Been” by Tiffany.
In addition to having a thing for Cher, I own an assload of soundtracks (see Love Touch) which are the Hamburger Helper of albums.
Whew. That was the best therapy session ever. I feel so much better now that this is all out in the open.
Twitter Name: julieinthelou
I almost feel like I was there, a few of these places. Power of suggestion, I’m sure.
It makes me smile that “Guilty” is my favorite Tora Tora song.
Twitter Name: lauriewrites
(Even I hate Unskinny Bop. Terrible. Terriblest of the terrible. I Won’t Forget You, however…)
Twitter Name: lauriewrites
OMG. I love all of that. I like some newer artists too, SOME. But my car is constantly tuned to the 90s on 9 XM Radio. I seriously doubt I can live without it. Unskinny Bop…maybe I don’t know good music, but I turn that shit up when it comes on. Baby Got Back. yes please. Vanilla Ice hellz ya. Scorpions, Bon Jovi, any 90s hip hop/rap. Sign me up. Haven’t been to a concert since the Crue a few years ago…we should go again. Thanks for the inspiration.
Twitter Name: jibbertwit
Baby Got Back. Vanilla Ice. Bon Jovi. You and I could so be friends.
I like a lot of music that would be considered “cool” but my iPod is a testament to my numerous guilty pleasures ranging from 70′s easy listening to disco to crap like the Spice Girls and N’Sync and possibly a Nickelback song. *shameface*
Twitter Name: Izzymom
I secretly love the Spice Girls. Sssshhhh, don’t tell anyone.
Twitter Name: escameron
Sarah, did you ever listen to Ballard when he did mornings on BIG 100? He did a guilty pleasure song every morning, and I have a streak fo 3.5 weeks straight where every song he played was on my iPod. I actually have two versions of “Billy, Don’t Be a Hero” (the better known Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods version, and the Paper Lace version that hit #1 in the UK) on my iPod. And Stephen Bishop’s sad-sack “On and On.” After all, who can resist a lyric of “he climbs a ladder, steals some songs from the sky, puts on Sinatra and starts to cry”?
Twitter Name: MamaKaren
I own everything Hootie and the Blowfish have recorded. Also, um, I own some Amy Grant albums. But that’s because she’s a dead ringer for my high school girlfriend and I absolutely have to be sure it’s not her every time I see her (the tennessee accent gives Amy away).
I LOVE Hootie and the Blowfish. In an unhealthy way. I should be ashamed, but I’m totally not.
Ah, nuts. I had a blogpost about all the crappy music I love rolling around in my head, and then I read this. And you win. In every stinkin’ way. Unskinny Bop is an awesome song, and it’s worse than anything Barry Manilow sang, which are ALL my favorites.
Twitter Name: about100percent
I’m not even going to deny it. I came of age during the boy band era and ‘NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys, and even 98 Degrees still bring a smile to my face. I sing along, I giggle like the 12 year old that I was when all of this was the shiznit, and I’m not even embarrassed enough to turn the radio down at the red light when other people see me rocking out to really bad music from the late 90s. I know it’s crap. It’s beyond crap. But I can’t help it. I like it.
TORA TORA!!! Loved them in 1990. Saw them in concert in a little hole in the wall in 1991. One of the most underrated bands ever.
Korn, damn it. Korn.
Really cheesy music is the only thing that keeps my road rage in check…and soothes me when my middle finger is on auto pilot.
How can you possibly flip someone off when Copacabana is on? (I downloaded it for my husband’s guiltypleasureosity and it ended up on my iPod) Also, ABBA. Reminds me of childhood because my parents and aunt and uncle had their albums. See also Kenny Rogers The Gambler.
I am not sure there is a non guilty pleasure song in my years of collection. I might have one classical cd, but I think it’s Mozart or Bach for Dummies, so I think that negates the classiness of it.
I am a music snob yet love anything by the cast of Glee, Barry Manilow, and Katy Perry. Sick and wrong, I know. I can’t help myself.