Guilty Pleasures: Music. It's Bad But You Still Love It.

[Coasterman29]

Guys.

Look what Varien did with his Orchestral music. Skrilly! Got onto his new EP Banagrang o.o

[sporb]

The weird thing is that I really don't like rap.
Yet I love this song...

[Mister Visceral]

The weird thing is that I really don't like rap.
Yet I love this song...

That's because it's 90s rap.

[Coasterman29]

haters gon hate

[deathsbuddy]

That's because it's 90s rap.

wait but that isn't a guilty pleasure at all

[Dmatix]

I don't hate Nickelback. Its far from my favorite band, but I don't really get the hatedom around it.
Hell, While I'm at it, I quite like Coldplay. Their music anyway.

E: Bluh at typos

[Gzar]

Nickelback are mediocre. They get so much hate because they get so much attention.

[deathsbuddy]

Coldplay's instrumentation has been pretty good since Eno's been helping them.

That can't really save them from Chris Martin, though.

[TheLonging]

I love Coldplay. Even if people think it's stupid, I can't help but adore them and In My Life is one of my favorite songs.

[Superfrequency]

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They're kind of hipstery but they also have made some enjoyable music.



Don't get me wrong. I love Cassius. 1999 and Au Reve are two of my favorite records. But this EP on Ed Banger is some serious hipsterelectrobullshit. Hoover patches in 2010? Really?

It's still well made music.



Ugh fuck what happened to dance music

it used to be fun

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DATTE NANDAKA DATTE DATTE NANDA MON~

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UGUU~

Not sure why J-pop is more embarrassing than happy hardcore

This is about as guilty as it gets for me guys

[deathsbuddy]

J-pop

[CSJ]

J-pop

Don't make me post PONPONPON again, yo.

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TOO LATE.

Whenever I'm not with someone who actually knows two shits about music, Prog is probably the most embarrassing thing to listen to.

[Superfrequency]

I would argue that nothing is more socially embarrassing than J-pop due to its saccharine hyperactivity and associations with shitty anime, both attributes that are frowned upon by everyone who is not a 13 year old girl or 30 year old manchild. In this country, anyway. At least in my experience, progressive rock is afforded the same sort of romanticized reverence as "classic rock", whatever that is. People shit their pants over Pink Floyd.

I get the impression that the Commonwealth countries are not as kind to it.

Most forms of rock are afforded romanticized reverence in the States due to prevailing white male heteronormative social memes about what good music sounds like. Yes, I'm serious.

Never gonna hear these dudes championing a Funkadelic record I can tell you.

[deathsbuddy]

I know exactly what you're talking about and it hurts me inside that it is true.

[Superfrequency]

It hurts me inside that I have to append "yes, I'm serious" directly after complaining about living in a sexist, racist, homophobic country because I live in a sexist, racist, homophobic country. I've noticed some people tend to respond negatively when women and minorities have opinions.

I'm sure every American reading this thread who doesn't almost exclusively listen to rock knows exactly what I'm talking about. It's the same reason why commercial radio is so fucking horrible and limited in this country, and the situation perpetuates itself. It's in the classic "I like everything but rap and country" lie where what they really mean is "I like rock".

Sorry this sort of has nothing to do with guilty pleasures anymore

[CSJ]

I would argue that nothing is more socially embarrassing than J-pop due to its saccharine hyperactivity and associations with shitty anime, both attributes that are frowned upon by everyone who is not a 13 year old girl or 30 year old manchild. In this country, anyway. At least in my experience, progressive rock is afforded the same sort of romanticized reverence as "classic rock", whatever that is. People shit their pants over Pink Floyd.

I get the impression that the Commonwealth countries are not as kind to it.

At University, having friends who are into anime and the aforementioned makes it a lot less of an issue. But for 90% of the population, yes. For anyone over the age of 25, Rock is the definition of music in Australia.

Not that I mind rock (I don't, though I simply can't dig metal); for me, Contemporary RnB and Pop is way more of a pet peeve. When I called Stevie Wonder a 'RnB musician' once, I got weird stares, so I proceeded to explain to them all the entire history of the term.

And they still had no clue.

[Mister Visceral]

I can proudly say that yesterday I took listening to radio commercials over listening to Nickelback.

[deathsbuddy]

I like everything but rock and country.

[illisid]

I just like everything, even the stuff in this thread :I

[Stij]

I would argue that nothing is more socially embarrassing than J-pop due to its saccharine hyperactivity and associations with shitty anime, both attributes that are frowned upon by everyone who is not a 13 year old girl or 30 year old manchild. In this country, anyway. At least in my experience, progressive rock is afforded the same sort of romanticized reverence as "classic rock", whatever that is. People shit their pants over Pink Floyd.

I get the impression that the Commonwealth countries are not as kind to it.

Most forms of rock are afforded romanticized reverence in the States due to prevailing white male heteronormative social memes about what good music sounds like. Yes, I'm serious.

Never gonna hear these dudes championing a Funkadelic record I can tell you.

I dunno, prog seems to be the butt of a lot of jokes from rock purists because it's not "authentic" enough or something dumb like that. Pink Floyd seems to get a pass though.

Incidentally, whenever someone uses the "I like everything but rap and country" line on me, I want to play death metal or free jazz or something for them and act surprised when they hate it. "But... but I thought you said you liked this stuff!"

[ArmsAreLoud]

Prog gets loved and hated by pretentious bull shitters on both sides of the spectrum. It's either art (with the implication that there is no other deep/artistic rock music available) or it's watered down with too much fancy and not enough "soul" (with the implication that all rock music should be some form of punk rock).\

Classic Rock gets reverenced despite not being a real genre because it's what our parents listened to and we've been conditioned into considering it like the epitome of music. Only a select few manage to break out of that mindset and say "hey wait a minute, this just just watered down blues".

Here in Houston we have four different Classic Rock stations. The kicker? Two of them are the same station; we had a really good alternative station that focused mostly on the 80's/90's stuff that got booted out so The Arrow could get another frequency.

[Stij]

True, I guess both extremes exist. And I've definitely been guilty of the former before.

[ArmsAreLoud]

I don't really think there's anything wrong with prog musically but I do get the feeling that prog bands have the habit of spending way too much time on a single idea. It's the same problem I have with The Doors; when I have to listen to practically the same measure repeated over and over again for like six minutes with nothing to spice it up I begin to get a little impatient and wander off to some punk rock.

It's funny, really. Earlier in my music listening days I was all over the stupidly long stuff (this was when I had just been introduced to Dream Theater) but now you have to do something pretty incredible to keep my attention on a single song for longer than five minutes.

[Nocturne]

just gonna leave this here and say that in high school i could do the whole dance

:|

[Stij]

I don't really think there's anything wrong with prog musically but I do get the feeling that prog bands have the habit of spending way too much time on a single idea. It's the same problem I have with The Doors; when I have to listen to practically the same measure repeated over and over again for like six minutes with nothing to spice it up I begin to get a little impatient and wander off to some punk rock.

It's funny, really. Earlier in my music listening days I was all over the stupidly long stuff (this was when I had just been introduced to Dream Theater) but now you have to do something pretty incredible to keep my attention on a single song for longer than five minutes.

I see what you're saying about the Doors (Light My Fire, as much fun as it is to play, is basically just vamping on the same two chords for six minutes), and I think Pink Floyd is the same way, but I don't see how Dream Theater and the like "spend too much time on single ideas". Most of DT's long songs have like dozens of chord and time signature changes. Are they self-indulgent sometimes? Yeah, definitely. But I certainly wouldn't call them repetitive.

Anyway, this is the Guilty Pleasures thread, not the Defend Stuff You Like thread, so here's something I think we can all agree is a guilty pleasure: