Posted March 14, 200817 yr This will be different for all of you as to what you consider to be a guilty pleasure but what are those tracks that are generally considered to be a bit naff but you love 'em anyway! 2 Unlimited - Get Ready For This I should hate this. Euro disco nonsense, it was even on PWL forgodsake! Ace of Base - Beautiful Life Swedes responsible for lots of tosh in superb pop song shocker! Gina G - Ooh Aah Just a Little Bit God this is embarrasing! Menswear - Stardust I love this to bits despite it being by the runts of Britpop Kula Shaker - Hey Dude Considered soooo naff now but I still like this one. Lennie Kravitz - Let Love Rule Off his excellent 1st album chock full of hippy nonsense. Hothouse Flowers - Don't Go The best known track off an album I still love from start to finish. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk Why I like this ode to Mick Fleetwood's member is beyond me. Baby Bird - You're Gorgeous Generally considered incredibly irritating but I love it. Babylon Zoo - Spaceman Hyped to the max but an irresistable pop tune. Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag For some reason I find this quite affecting. Marillion - Assassing Still awesome.
March 14, 200817 yr ^ I actually like all the above tracks with the exception of the Menswear track. Lets see how uncool I can get .............................. My Guilty Pleasures are: 1. Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight - The fact they were discovered & signed to John Denver's record label tells you all you need. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q-YBMT81uqY 2. Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again Naturally - The "c**p Elton John" had a brief run of hits in the early 1970s, this sentimental track with incredibly dated twee lyrics was by far his biggest topping the US charts.http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8 3. Spitting Image - The Chicken Song - It might be a deliberate parody of all those awful Black Lace records yet it is still infinitely preferable to all those awful Euro Cheese records today from the likes of Cascada, Infernal, Alphabeat.. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=njez8hs5O4s 4. Debbie Gibson - Only In My Dreams - The 1980s Pop Princess stormed onto the scene in the immediate aftermath of Tiffany and quite frankly wiped the floor with her because (as this her first ever Top Of The Pop clip proves) she really could sing well live. Plus she wrote all her own material. Seeing as Girls Aloud covered I Think We're Alone Now, I'd love to see the Sugababes cover this. :lol: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=g6AAqQdPHVg 5. Rick Astley - Cry For Help - Stock Aitken & Waterman's tea boy in really good record shocker. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRfPon9vmU 6. Olivia Newton John - Magic - Australia's greatest ever female singer/actress (sorry Minogue fans) had a US#1 hit with this track taking from the utterly appalling movie Xanadu. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0_5DiOW4s90 7. John Paul Young - Love Is In The Air - Such a wonderfully naff song oooohhh oooohhhh oooohhh. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NNC0kIzM1Fo 8. Dennis Waterman - I Could Be So Good For You - OOOH, You want me to star in it, write the feem toon, sing the feem toon... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GtuM2qO7uOk 9. The Osmonds - Crazy Horses - Who needs the Jacksons when you can have this family of mormons. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6n9Hj-Vxboo 10. Genesis - Illegal Alien - In today's Politically Correct liberal can't hurt the minority's feelings society that we live in this song & video (it has to be seen to be believed) would get banned and it's Phil Collins too. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=p7q1H3VKdp0 11. David Bowie -The Laughing Gnome - The puns to this track are dreadful, but you can't help but smile at this track. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=B_YhN_mwPUY Finally 12. Paul McCartney & The Frog Chorus - We All Stand Together - Excluding Mull Of Kintyre this is his best selling post Beatles single. It sold over 750,000 in Xmas 1984 but was "robbed" of the Xmas #1 spot by "obscure" Xmas singles by Band Aid & Wham! I still think this song is brilliant even though I know it is naff! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0auCDOERZyE
March 14, 200817 yr 1. T'Pau - China In Your Hand - It's one of those songs that my mum sang a lot when I was younger so I blame her for me liking it. :lol: 2. Whitney Houston - How Will I Know - I like most of Whitney's earlier stuff and I think this is the most worthy of guilt. 3. Olivia Newton John - Hopelessly Devoted To You - When I was younger me and my mum always used to watch Grease a lot and I really liked this song and still do. 4. Fairground Attraction - Perfect - It's got to beeeeeee perrrrfect 5. Madonna - Papa Don't Preach - I'm not a big fan of Madonna's material, but this is one of the few I like and it's one of her cheesiest I think. :lol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY1RNuzT4XU 6. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth - So cheesy but good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQahvFdQVu8 7. Fontella Bass - Rescue Me - An old classic, but still a guilty pleasure in my opnion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwt3kr0_l6I 8. Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World - I think this is an obvious one, the lyrics are quite cheesy but I like it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O15Jkvd3nvs 9. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart - I don't know if this is a guilty pleasure, but it was on that show and it's a song I have always liked. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55nTwg5NIPM 10. Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal - I don't think this is as much of a guilty pleasure as most of them but I don't think Michael Jackson is as 'cool' as he used to be. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WjOn5TNjBM 11. Oleta Adams - Get Here - This has got to be a guilty pleasure with the lyrics hasn't it? :lol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBSodK6WO_k
March 14, 200817 yr 1. Bananarama - Only Your Love No 'guilty pleasures' can omit the best British girlband ever, surely? This was the Youth-produced epic, with Sex Pistol Steve Cook on drums, saw a commercial slump for them - but an NME cover - I think it's one of the best singles of the 90s - a corker. This one got in, narrowly beating Preacher Man, I Heard A Rumour and Nathan Jones... go on, treat yourself - give it a listen... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2yd6HA7sEw 2. Baccara - Yes Sir, I Can Boogie Covered in style by Goldfrapp (we can forget Sophie Ellis Bextor's excruciating massacre of it on that TV show the other week), these 2 sisters (at one point rumoured to be transsexual brothers - really!) had a few hits in the late 70s then disappeared - until they re-recorded a dance mix of this some years later - it was awful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTMl4c-fAu4 3. Boney M - Bahama Mama Nobody did tack like Boney M - and, however bad they were, there's no getting away from the fact they released a clutch of great pop singles. This isn't one of them - I think Bahaha Mama was an album track and this 2006 incarnation of the band features only Liz Mitchell, who's now 89. Bendy Bobby (who, it's rumoured didn't sing on a single Boney M track) has gone... as has Marcia and the other one. So here we have Liz, aka Brittle Boney M.... ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWSaXJoUiVM 4. Dollar - Videotheque Naff wasn't the word - but Therese and David had a certain charm about them - and Trevor Horn helped with that tricky thing called music. Here's their pretty fab single Videotheque which was a minor hit in summer 1982 - fab Horn production and it should've been a massive hit, I think..... and so does David van Day who surely wouldn't be selling beefburgers in Brighton if this had been the hit it deserved... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZLs8x7UyvM 5. Divine - Shake It Up He's best known for his shameless Top of the Pops appearance for You Think You're a Man, but heavyweight drag queen Divine was revolting audiences all over the world way before that. The dog-dung-eating drag diva was an underground star of the early John Waters movies and this song, the appropriately titled Shake It Up, was a bit of a classic. Moroder-influenced HI-NRG at its very best. As were all his singles, actually. I bet he's turning in his grave at the travesty that is John Travolta in that Hairspray re-make... also see Love Reaction, Native Love and, of course, You Think You're a Man. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7AX3eTt9cg 6. ABBA - Tiger From the 1977 album Arrival, this wasn't a single, but it should've been. ABBA in a more raunchy, rocky moment.... this, alongwith 'Hole In Your Soul' from The Album, showed another side of a band who were always far more than their usually poppy singles suggested. 7. Olivia Newton John - A Little More Love The end of the 70s saw Olivia riding high after her success in Grease and this single was the best of her later career - and the last really good single she ever made to be honest... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IME0Ch7WAF0 8. Culture Club - Victims Way before George became better known for drug taking and chaining rent boys to apartment walls, he actually wrote and sang some classic songs. This one, a 1983 Christmas hit for Culture Club, is a bit of an epic. Featuring the colossal talent of the, quite frankly, colossal Helen Terry, here he shows that, yes, he really was one of the greatest white soul singers the world had known. Other notable classics of his to check out are the Jesus Loves You track 'I Specialise In Loneliness', the phenomenal 'Generations of Love' and his solo singles 'Il Adore' and the fabulous 'Funtime'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT5ndfXXJTM 9. Marilyn - Cry and Be Free The less successful follow-up to his only major hit Calling Your Name, Cry and Be Free (dubbed 'Try And Be Me' by Boy George) was a great single - and it features Soul II Soul songstress Caron Wheeler. Here's Gwen Stefani's rival for Gavin Rossdale's affections, the once-beautiful Marilyn.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISGox7mimMU 10. Altered Images - Don't Talk To Me About Love Classic 1983 single from Altered Images, the first of 2 fabulous singles from their album 'Bite', the other was the superb 'Bring Me Closer', but I couldn't find that on YouTube - so here's the lovely Clare Grogan and the lads, Don't Talk To Me About Love 11. Howard Jones - Hide and Seek A great ballad from the questionably coiffured early 80s hit machine.... Hide and Seek 12. Ellis Beggs and Howard - Big Bubbles, No Troubles ex-KajaGooGoo man Nick Beggs formed Ellis Beggs and Howard in the late 80s and released this debut single to widespread nonchalence. I think it's a really great track - still do.... I had no room for Arcadia's 'Goodbye Is Forever', CaVa CaVa's' Where's Romeo', the 80s hit I can't remember who sang - 'Living On Video', BA Robertson's 'Bang Bang', Jona Lewie's 'You'll always find me in the kitchen at parties' or a single song by those living legends The Dooleys..... but I sense a Volume 2 may be just around the corner.... this could run and run - think Now That's What I Don't Call Music... Part 359.
March 15, 200817 yr oh lord.... where do i begin?..lol.. ill have to consider this when ive more time later :) i dont think 'fontella bass' or altered images 'dont talk to me about love' qualify as 'naff' enough to be considered 'guilty pleasures' do they?...lol.. well i like them and own them both on vinyl!
March 15, 200817 yr Author I think I will really have to think about a volume 2 as I don't think mine was uncool enough! :lol:
March 15, 200817 yr 1. Bananarama - Only Your Love No 'guilty pleasures' can omit the best British girlband ever, surely? This was the Youth-produced epic, with Sex Pistol Steve Cook on drums, saw a commercial slump for them - but an NME cover - I think it's one of the best singles of the 90s - a corker. This one got in, narrowly beating Preacher Man, I Heard A Rumour and Nathan Jones... go on, treat yourself - give it a listen... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2yd6HA7sEw 12. Ellis Beggs and Howard - Big Bubbles, No Troubles ex-KajaGooGoo man Nick Beggs formed Ellis Beggs and Howard in the late 80s and released this debut single to widespread nonchalence. I think it's a really great track - still do.... the 80s hit I can't remember who sang - 'Living On Video', BA Robertson's 'Bang Bang', I agree Bananarama are the best british girlband of all-time. Only Your Love was a great track. Loved the Ellis Beggs and Howard track, great song. BA Robertson's Bang Bang is a guilty pleasure too. It was TRANS-X that had a hit with Living On Video, another superb track. Here's the video -h1fYhuM8AA
March 15, 200817 yr I agree Bananarama are the best british girlband of all-time. i dont :P...i prefer girls aloud or even the sugababes, the supremes though must be the best.
March 15, 200817 yr ok.... heres my effort in the time ive got, i could have loads from the 00's, lol, but it aint retro enough . so heres a small selection to be going on with.... b*witched - 'to you i belong'... dont laugh! :lol: but i like this slushy load of c**p! :lol doop - 'doop' a great catchy bit of nonsense! strawberry switchblade - 'since yesterday' oh dear, very uncool but a smashing little track! kajagoogoo - 'big apple' good bit of pop imho! reperata - 'shoes' utterly bizarre nonsense but quite good! (without her 'delrons') love city groove - 'love city groove' one of our best entrants in eurovision gilbert becaud - 'a little love and understanding' the oddest track ever... scott fitzgerald and yvonne keeley - 'if i had words' gloriously ott but good. vicky leandross - 'when bouzoukis played' lol... i like it...
March 16, 200817 yr How revealing! I reckon I can beat the lot of you though HA! Here is my album of guilty pleasures (and a large bulk of them hail from a certain production trio...) Kylie Minogue - Hand On Your Heart I just love that chunky, bouncy SAW sound that they used towards the end of their chartlife span... I love Kylie anyway, but this one is a real secret track I just adore! T'Pau - China In Your Hand I can't help playing the air sax break in the middle! Sonia - You'll Never Stop Me From Loving You/Listen To Your Heart Any credibilty I had has well and truly been lost! A hysterical ginger scouse chirping in a gymnasium... you wouldn't get away with it now! (which, secretly, is a real shame!...) Sonia - Only Fools (Never Fall In Love) And here, she's ditched SAW for a synthetic, plasticy 60 soul. Pure toilet in retrospect, but hey I love it! Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart Pure unashamed trashy 80s diva fun! Corona - The Rhythm Of The Night This was THE summer/pop anthem of 1994, along with... Whigfield - Saturday Night I love that 'oink oink oink oink oink oink' noise that runs through the entire track! Bananarama - Robert De'Niros Waiting To some this is probably a little dodgy, but I think this is actually ice-cool! Swing Out Sister - Breakout I think it's yuppie-esq quality (a sound also used by Level 42 at the time) makes this a little dodgy, this is great fun and you can't beat a dodgy key-change! Gina G - Ooh Aah Just Little Bit After a few too many, this was my anthem on a Friday at the SU! Lonnie Gordon - Happening All Over Again And another from the SAW stable, Lonnie was more of a one hit wonder and this was later covered (embarassingly) by Tracy Shaw! Mel & Kim - Get Fresh At The Weekend (Showing Out)/Respectable And ANOTHER from the SAW team Edited March 16, 200817 yr by ScottyEm
March 16, 200817 yr Author i dont :P...i prefer girls aloud or even the sugababes, the supremes though must be the best. Um but The Supremes aren't British!
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