Guilty Pleasures

[Here Comes Mongo]

By which I mean songs you like which are manifestly uncool but which you're prepared to admit to liking. I'll go first; I quite like Rebecca Black's latest release https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ivdRyuKVI

What are your favourite uncool songs? This is a judgement free thread by the way, so don't be inhibited!

[Mr Brightside]

Fuckin ell. Great thread. Where do I start?

Man! I Feel Like A Woman - Shania Twain
What's Up? - 4 Non Blondes
We Built This City - Starship
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
Barbie Girl - Aqua
Mandy - Barry Manilow/Westlife
YMCA - Village People
Mambo No. 5 - Lou Bega
I Touch Myself - Divinyls
My Love - Westlife
Blue - Eiffel 65
The Bad Touch - Bloodhound Gang
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
Escape - Rupert Holmes
Two Princes - Spin Doctors

[Here Comes Mongo]

Some classics there, and thanks for kicking things off Mr Brightside! Anyone else feel like 'coming out' as far as schlocky music goes?

Here's another: I quite like 'Baby boy' by Me and My: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uTW4EKz7tw

[Lemming]

Mentioned it in previous threads, but the ultimate example for me is One Week by Barenaked Ladies, which is genuinely fucking wicked to the point where I absolutely cannot understand the hate

Some more:
Closing Time - Semisonic
All The Things She Said - t.A.T.u
Fatlip - Sum-41
Kitty - Presidents of the United States of America (getting mixed signals on whether or not this is actually a "guilty pleasure" band, but Lump and Peaches are great songs too)
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Island in the Sun - Weezer
Butterfly - Smile.DK
Come Sail Away - Styx
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
A few Status Quo songs
Fireflies - Owl City

[newbridge]

Little Mix -Love Me Like You

I still maintain that it's the best pop song of the last 20+ years. Whoever wrote it, probably a Google supercomputer somewhere.

[Twed]

May as well post my entire Spotify 'starred tracks' playlist.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds. Oh god, Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds!

[zomgmouse]

I recently discovered myself enjoying several hits by Dead or Alive which seems totally unlike me:
"Something in My House"
"My Heart Goes Bang Bang Bang Bang"
and of course the most famous one, "You Make Me Go in Circular Directions Like What an LP Does"

[Dr Syntax Head]

Rick Astley. The she wants to dance with me song. Maybe that's because of Bob Mortimer though.

People think U2 are uncool so all U2 albums up to Pop.

[Repeater]

One of my favorite songs, particularly for getting me into the mood when doing BJJ competitions is, Basement Jaxx - Rendez-vu.

[Sebastian Cobb]

https://youtu.be/2gARwUU5_5I

[Kane Jones]

Hair metal/80s rock. Pretty much all of it.

[Norton Canes]

Yeeeah! Straight from the top of my dome
As a rock da rock da rock da rock da rock da microphone

FREESTYLER

[Jockice]

I don't really believe in the whole guilty pleasures concept, but uncool songs I really like include Lindisfarne's Run For Home, Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes' Up Where We Belong, Meat Loaf's Deadringer For Love, TWO by Will Young (Evergreen and Leave Right Now), and Atomic Kitten's Whole Again. Oh yes, and What's Up? by Four Non Blondes. Come on, admit it, it's great.

[hedgehog90]

Fuckin ell. Great thread. Where do I start?

Man! I Feel Like A Woman - Shania Twain
What's Up? - 4 Non Blondes
We Built This City - Starship
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
Barbie Girl - Aqua
Mandy - Barry Manilow/Westlife
YMCA - Village People
Mambo No. 5 - Lou Bega
I Touch Myself - Divinyls
My Love - Westlife
Blue - Eiffel 65
The Bad Touch - Bloodhound Gang
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
Escape - Rupert Holmes
Two Princes - Spin Doctors

Bold = choons!
Especially that Spin Doctors song. I watch the video to that quite often, love it.
THE 90S WERE NICE WEREN'T THEY?

[Artie Fufkin]

The first one that popped in my head was Run To Me by The Bee Gees. Gorgeous. Harmony-tastic !

[Brundle-Fly]

The 1950s Light Orchestral music. Can't get enough of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFJHcnhsirQ&index=2&list=PLoshmbf_dCUjCj9aT_yDBl5ABh2jU7Wsy

[wosl]

Heard Holding Back The Years in Morrisons this morning.  Yeah it's Hucknall and it's blue-eyed soul mush, but it's a pretty magnificent song of its type.  They played Brass In Pocket afterwards and it came off second in its wake, which you wouldn't have called, given how excellent Brass In Pocket is.

[manticore]

All The Things She Said - t.A.T.u

That's a great example of guilt-inducement because of the dodgy and tacky way they were promoted, but it's a really great pop song. I didn't dare buy it though.

[Dr Syntax Head]

Road to hell, Auberge, Workin' on it. Chris Rea.
If you love somebody set them free. Sting.
A couple of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch songs (nostalgia)
Monkey-George Michael.
Heat is on Glen Frey.
Hip to be square-Huey Lewis (an all time favourite)


I've had a little think about it see.

[DrGreggles]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9u7-lWE54M

Actually there's nothing to feel guilty about there.
One of the best pop songs of the 90s.

[ASFTSN]

Don't believe in the concept.

BUT in keeping with this thread, I like the Eurythmics 1984 "soundtrack".

[ASFTSN]

Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds. Oh god, Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds!

COME ON THUNDERCHILD

[Steven]

ugh

[royce coolidge]

Cher, Gypsies Tramps and Thieves.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Cher, Gypsies Tramps and Thieves.

I love her cover of Buffalo Springfield's For What It's Worth, I think that's more down to The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section though.

[Brundle-Fly]

Don't believe in the concept.

BUT in keeping with this thread, I like the Eurythmics 1984 "soundtrack".

It is the motherlode of all music chatroom threads.

[Custard]

Whigfield - Think Of You

Roughly 4 million times better a pop song than Saturday Night

[Mr Brightside]

Some more. A more contemporary list than my last one.

This Love - Maroon 5
I Kissed a Girl - Katy Perry
Fancy - Iggy Azalea
All About That Bass - Meghan Trainor
She Bangs - Ricky Martin
Hey, Soul Sister - Train
Thrift Shop - Macklemore
Cooler Than Me - Mike Posner
Born This Way - Lady Gaga

Also heard this last week and like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN4ooNx77u0

[Kane Jones]

Whigfield - Think Of You

Roughly 4 million times better a pop song than Saturday Night

I agree with this. It reminds me of college discos. Good melodies/memories.