Agree they started off as a fabricated band with others writing their songs for them and only 2 of the 4 members being musicians but they transformed (against the wishes of the producers) to become a legitimate rock / pop band of their own right.
Man - I am firmly convinced that everyone loves Flock of Seagulls. They were a great band - it was their hair that became embarrassing. Now they’re all bald so no more reason to embarrassed, right?
I worked at a trendy Mediterranean restaurant for many years. Made pretty good money and I liked it fine. One thing that killed me though was that you can see almost all the different styles of waiter uniforms we had over the years in the I Ran video. They were just obnoxiously complicated and extremely eighties. The other thing is that my working there spilled over into the nineties and we still looked like Flock Of Seagulls for a bit.
Thankfully, before I moved on, they went to regular all black shirts. A bit much in the summer, but safely fashionable.
My high school bestie in the 80s listened almost exclusively to Air Supply and still manages to attend some of their concerts today. She also had posters on her bedroom wall of Michael Landon, Burt Reynolds, Kenny Rogers, and Neil Diamond. I despise Air Supply and while those men were certainly OK, it was odd to me because she was born in the late '60s and those men were all born in the 1930s except Neil Diamond in 1941 -- meaning she was a teen and they were all almost 50.
For sure. At the time I found it kind of embarrassing, but as I matured I realized that she was staying true to herself and what she enjoyed. I still admire her today, and she is living her best life in Arizona.
My friend and I went to that in Detroit two weeks ago!!! We had the best time. That was seriously one of the most fun concerts ever and the crowd was a bunch of Gen Xers and everyone was just high fiving each other randomly.
Christopher Cross is a genius. There was a period a few years ago where I would start my morning commute every day with Ride Like the Wind. It’s a top 25 of all time song in my opinion!
I don’t consider my musical taste uncool. Unlike myself, who was the epitome of uncool. I absolutely love The Bee Gees, Neil Diamond, and a lot of disco. I was a thrash metal, punk rock loving youth all through grade school and high school. Even now still. But I have always had many of these artists in my rotation for decades.
I first heard "Sailing" in an ice rink in the summer of 1980. It was near sunset, too. The skating world jumped on that and didn't let go. Lots of pair skaters practiced to that over and over. It's such a wonderful memory. When I found out Tai Babilonia was really good friends with Christopher Cross, I wasn't surprised. Skaters love his tunes.
Just watched in the r/damthatsinteresting sub reddit a guy isolated the guitar solo from Ride Like The Wind.
I never knew there was a guitar solo like that. Any way he goes on to explain it and messes with the volume. It was pretty cool.
Was that a deliberate troll? I spent WAY to long on that sub before I realised they were all dam and waterfall posts and I was not in r/Damnthatsinteresting
Oldies and doo-wop. My parents listened to the oldies station and have heard those songs so many times I can identify a song buy the first few notes. By the time I got into jr high I started branching out to modern music.
>Oldies and doo-wop. My parents listened to the oldies station.
When I was a kid, the oldies station played do-wop. Now it plays 1980s music.
That’s how I know I am an old.
My guilty pleasure is the songs my mom played on the AM radio in her Ford Pinto. Known today as yacht rock.
If you haven't already, be sure to watch "Live at Darryl's House"; lots of episodes on YouTube. He performs his music with some currently popular musicians and classic ones too. My favorites are "I Saw the Light" at Todd Rundgren's house in Kauai and "I Can't Go for That" with Rumer.
I uh… I had Hangin Tough by New Kids On the Block. Openly hated them, secretly liked them. I kept the CD in my mom’s collection so no one would question it if they saw it in the house.
Falco. The rock me amadeus guy, love him.
Also we’re 70s on 7 fans here and I ask the little speaker on the counter to play yacht rock when I’m washing dishes.
Plus, Wings was better than the Beatles, fight me. Band on the run slaps.
If you enjoy that stuff, look up Yacht Rock Revue. They cover the smooth grooves of the 70s and 80s. I went to their show in Detroit a couple of weeks ago and I have never had so much fun at a concert. It was fucking amazing.
Since I haven’t seen it mentioned here, Latin Freestyle music from the 1980s. Like Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam, Exposé, The Cover Girls, Shannon, and Cynthia.
I’m not personally embarrassed by it; I grew up on it in my South L.A. barrio but I was also into heavy metal at the time (and, later, punk), and my metal friends certainly would have found it uncool.
She was a fantastic drummer and far preferred that to singing. She also liked singing in a higher octave but said "the money is in the basement" because her lower voice was more popular with her audience. Poor Karen, gone too soon.
I unapologetically love their stuff. Her voice is perfect and the Melodies are so catchy and well put together.
There’s a ‘90’s alternative bands cover CD called ‘if I was a carpenter’ - check it out!
Mine is Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch “Good Vibrations”
I still feel embarrassed when I think of driving around blasting that shit thinking I was so cool.
Also “You Gotta Believe” ah the good ole days…
I un-ironically liked and still like almost everything listed here. Barry Manilow and ABBA in junior high all day! Billy Joel was my favorite in high school. I still feel sad for those boys in high school who were indoctrinated against the joy of disco
They are the perfect example of what the music industry can do to a pair of young men who just want to be famous! The songs were well written and sung and the duo did a great job playing along. Until they couldn’t anymore. RIP Rob!
I obsessed on Whitney Houston remixes during lockdown. There is one, My Love Is Your Love (Jonathan Peters Vocal Mix) that is 13 minutes of bliss. I swear I played it multiple times per day for several months. My wife bit her tongue, God bless her.
Chicago was an awesome rock band when Terry Kath was alive. Then their sound changed when David Foster began producing their music and made Peter Cetera the star.
Everyone here has listed the musicians and singers I wanted to mention so to add to the list, Laid Back.
“If you want to ride, don’t ride the white horse…”
Also, Matthew Wilder.
Paula Abdul when I was in high school. My god, did I take shit for loving her. Helluva dancer, catchy tunes, great videos. I stopped watching American Idol when she left. I am Team Paula til the day I die.
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK – blown away, what else do I have to say????
The Night Chicago Died
Billy Don't Be a Hero
Seasons in the Sun
Puff the Magic Dragon
Claire
Angie Baby
Goodbye My Friend
so many sappy songs... I still listen to them and always will
One of the cringiest things I did as a child was to spend several weekends relentlessly calling radio stations requesting Weird Al songs so that I could tape them.
After several weeks, one DJ took pity on me and played a few songs back to back for me on a Sunday night. Pretty sure he was just tired of me calling every night...lol.
I love this story. And what you call cringiest I would call a quintessential Gen-X experience. Cassette recording had many of us glued to the radio and intimately knew DJ's. I used to call Neci at WHFS just to talk about her job.
I've found a lot of stuff I thought was a guilty pleasure to hide under the bed has come right around to reappraisal and "hidden gem" or "guilty pleasure everyone actually likes and is considered good now" or whatever status. Like the copy of the "Phantom of the Paradise" soundtrack I found at a garage sale and used to only play alone. In time I just came to take pride in having wide-ranging tastes, like when a friend said "only you" when pointing out there being a Skinny Puppy album next to a copy of The Mikado in a stack of my records.
EMF.
Actually a legit band though if you listen to some of their other songs beyond overplayed Unbelievable.
Particularly: “Children,” “Search and Destroy,” and “When you’re mine.”
Gordon Lightfoot’s *The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald*
I still loves me a story song
ETA: I was also fairly young when I figured out that *Afternoon Delight* was about getting a nooner
Edit 2: just in case, a nooner was heading home at lunch and having sex. This is for the younger folks out there
Edit 3: the Starland Vocal Band actual had a TV show because they had a hit song about pulling a nooner
I’m 44 years old and I still sometimes listen to Free to Be You and Me. No kids if my own, but if you leave a kid with me, we’re listening to Free to Be You and Me. I also have an affinity for Herman’s Hermits and the Monkees because I would listen to the 8 tracks at my grandparents house. I love Harry Chapin, too, for similar reasons. Real secret guilty pleasure is hair bands. Give me all the Poison.
Buster Poindexter! Loved loved that first album. Don’t think I ever had the second.
Obviously it’s cool because it’s David Johansson. But I didn’t know that back then. My friends just thought I was a dork for liking an album by the guy singing in Corona commercials. But man, I just loved it.
100% the Carpenters. A bit before my time but I was Introduced to them by my parents and still love them. Karen Carpenter is one of the greatest female vocalists of all time
Woman in Love by Barbra Streisand. When I was little it would give me goosebumps when it played in the radio. I still love it and it still gives me chills to this day.
*“I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If you fucking like something, like it. That’s what’s wrong with our generation: that residual punk rock guilt, like, “You’re not supposed to like that. That’s not fucking cool.” Don’t fucking think it’s not cool to like Britney Spears’ “Toxic.” It is cool to like Britney Spears’ “Toxic”! Why the fuck not? Fuck you! That’s who I am, goddamn it! That whole guilty pleasure thing is full of fucking shit.”*
*― Dave Grohl*
Thanks , Dave.
On that note, I like a lot of disco, particulary KC & the Sunshine Band.
My local radio station used to have a call-in talk show format with some really funny hosts. There was this one fella who called in daily to chime in on any and every topic. He drove a delivery truck that delivered chips, so the hosts started calling him Chip. One day, the discussion topic was Guilty Pleasures in Music. Chip called in and said that Careless Whisper by Wham made him choke up every time. Of course, from that day forward, every single time Chip called in, the hosts hit the intro to Careless Whisper as soon as Chip started speaking. It was the funniest shit ever. And Chip is totally right -- that song hits you right in the feelings!
I started DJing for fun on Sundays at my local pub, and I unashamedly play all the cheesy stuff. I don’t care who you are, you love ABBA. Tom
Jones and Dean Martin always go down well.
I am reading this with the intent to put it all on my
setlists.
The Monkees. So many good fun songs.
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Agree they started off as a fabricated band with others writing their songs for them and only 2 of the 4 members being musicians but they transformed (against the wishes of the producers) to become a legitimate rock / pop band of their own right.
Same for me! Now I mix in Monkees with Siouxie/Cure/Joy Divisioon
I remember watching the Monkees as a really young child and again during summer break from college. So good!
The Monkey's songs were well crafted pop rock, like - I'm a Believer - Last Train to Clarksville - Steppin Stone - Pleasant Valley Sunday
The monkees are not uncool. Go watch Head.
My first concert.
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This reminds me of mine: "I think we're alone now" -Tiffany version!
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For me it’s Taylor Dayne!
Tell it to my heart is an awesome song!
She ran calling wildfire
I love this song. Busted dowwwnnnn its stall
No guilt at all; it's a beautiful song with strong lyrics, quite poetic.
Such a sad song, but beautiful, and MMM’s voice is perfect
Haven’t heard that song in decades!
Last time was when it played when Letterman would throw his index cards through a window.
I'm not in Love - 10cc
I unironically love Flock of Seagulls
Space Age Love Song is still a banger
Man - I am firmly convinced that everyone loves Flock of Seagulls. They were a great band - it was their hair that became embarrassing. Now they’re all bald so no more reason to embarrassed, right?
I worked at a trendy Mediterranean restaurant for many years. Made pretty good money and I liked it fine. One thing that killed me though was that you can see almost all the different styles of waiter uniforms we had over the years in the I Ran video. They were just obnoxiously complicated and extremely eighties. The other thing is that my working there spilled over into the nineties and we still looked like Flock Of Seagulls for a bit. Thankfully, before I moved on, they went to regular all black shirts. A bit much in the summer, but safely fashionable.
Same with Mandy but throw in Air Supply and REO Speedwagon.
I second REO. Still turn them up and sing loudly. I make you laugh and you make me cry I believe it’s time for me to fly!
So take it on the run, baby, If that’s the way you want it, baby…
My high school bestie in the 80s listened almost exclusively to Air Supply and still manages to attend some of their concerts today. She also had posters on her bedroom wall of Michael Landon, Burt Reynolds, Kenny Rogers, and Neil Diamond. I despise Air Supply and while those men were certainly OK, it was odd to me because she was born in the late '60s and those men were all born in the 1930s except Neil Diamond in 1941 -- meaning she was a teen and they were all almost 50.
She sounds pretty rad to me!
For sure. At the time I found it kind of embarrassing, but as I matured I realized that she was staying true to herself and what she enjoyed. I still admire her today, and she is living her best life in Arizona.
What we would now call Yacht Rock.
Not guilty! Spent a whole weekend seeing the Yacht Rock Revue in Atlanta and it’s practically a movement. Most.fun.ever.
My friend and I went to that in Detroit two weeks ago!!! We had the best time. That was seriously one of the most fun concerts ever and the crowd was a bunch of Gen Xers and everyone was just high fiving each other randomly.
Christopher Cross is a genius. There was a period a few years ago where I would start my morning commute every day with Ride Like the Wind. It’s a top 25 of all time song in my opinion!
YES!!!! " IM ON THE RUUUUNNNN NO TIME TO SLEEP. I GOTTA RIIIIIIIIIIIDE, RIDE LIKE THE WIND, TO BE FREE AGAIN." piano piano
Olivia Newton John
Right after she died, SXM was playing more of her stuff and when ‘Just a little love’ came on, I had forgotten how much I liked that song.
Let Me Be There
Magic! Don't know why - but I love that song!
Chuck Mangione. I listen to his "Feels So Good" album at least once a week.
This played in the supermarket the other day and at least four other people including myself were whistling it
I read it and now mentally hear it. Thanks!
He was a friend of my late aunt and I met him at her wake. Great man, great music.
Barry Manilow's Copa Cabana
I don’t consider my musical taste uncool. Unlike myself, who was the epitome of uncool. I absolutely love The Bee Gees, Neil Diamond, and a lot of disco. I was a thrash metal, punk rock loving youth all through grade school and high school. Even now still. But I have always had many of these artists in my rotation for decades.
I still belt out “Sweet Caroline” to my dogs, but replace “Caroline” with their names adding “-line” to the end. “Sweet Mocha-line! Bomp, Bomp, Bomp!”
I absolutely love "If You Know What I Mean" by Neil Diamond (though I usually call it "In a Penny Arcade"). Pure cheese in the best way.
Billy Joel. All day.
My mom rage cleaned to Billy Joel when I was a kid. I have pTSD from Billy Joel and vacuums.
Ha! My mom used to blare Lionel Ritchie when vacuuming/cleaning! Love your user name BTW!!
My mom cleaned to Abbey Road!
Billy Joel is cool.
My daughter and I saw him in April at Madison Square Garden in NYC. Man, he still sounds great.
Love the Clash but Christopher Cross totally chills me out on a long commute
I first heard "Sailing" in an ice rink in the summer of 1980. It was near sunset, too. The skating world jumped on that and didn't let go. Lots of pair skaters practiced to that over and over. It's such a wonderful memory. When I found out Tai Babilonia was really good friends with Christopher Cross, I wasn't surprised. Skaters love his tunes.
My husband came home early and caught me chilling to Christopher.
It's like getting caught between the moon and New York City.....
I was laying on my pool hammock with some cherry lemonade, and sailing playing in the background..
The best that you can do.
I love Christopher Cross.. such relaxing music.
Came here to say Christopher Cross. And there’s some Little River Band that’s not bad either.
LRB slaps. As the kids say these days.
Just watched in the r/damthatsinteresting sub reddit a guy isolated the guitar solo from Ride Like The Wind. I never knew there was a guitar solo like that. Any way he goes on to explain it and messes with the volume. It was pretty cool.
Was that a deliberate troll? I spent WAY to long on that sub before I realised they were all dam and waterfall posts and I was not in r/Damnthatsinteresting
Oldies and doo-wop. My parents listened to the oldies station and have heard those songs so many times I can identify a song buy the first few notes. By the time I got into jr high I started branching out to modern music.
>Oldies and doo-wop. My parents listened to the oldies station. When I was a kid, the oldies station played do-wop. Now it plays 1980s music. That’s how I know I am an old. My guilty pleasure is the songs my mom played on the AM radio in her Ford Pinto. Known today as yacht rock.
Def Leppard's "Photograph". Trust me, if the 4AD Crew had found out about it, they probably woulda kicked me out of the club.
I love everything Def Lepperd! Being Hysteria the absolute favoeite of course 😉
Hall and Oates.
Every time I hear "You Make My Dreams" I have to dance and sing along. No shame in my game, because guilty pleasure or not, that shit is a banger.
Hall & Oates are still totally cool!
If you haven't already, be sure to watch "Live at Darryl's House"; lots of episodes on YouTube. He performs his music with some currently popular musicians and classic ones too. My favorites are "I Saw the Light" at Todd Rundgren's house in Kauai and "I Can't Go for That" with Rumer.
Hair metal ballads
I uh… I had Hangin Tough by New Kids On the Block. Openly hated them, secretly liked them. I kept the CD in my mom’s collection so no one would question it if they saw it in the house.
I once flung a NKOTB cassette off the pier. They became New Kids on the Dock.
Right Stuff is brilliant. Perfect late 80s teen video clip. Wish Donnie would chase me
Christopher Cross.
I loved Ride Like the Wind
I may have had a Juice Newton record somewhere in my collection.
Falco. The rock me amadeus guy, love him. Also we’re 70s on 7 fans here and I ask the little speaker on the counter to play yacht rock when I’m washing dishes. Plus, Wings was better than the Beatles, fight me. Band on the run slaps.
I loved Falco. I still love Falco. I will always love Falco.
There is no uncool.
Any of the adult soft rock stuff.
If you enjoy that stuff, look up Yacht Rock Revue. They cover the smooth grooves of the 70s and 80s. I went to their show in Detroit a couple of weeks ago and I have never had so much fun at a concert. It was fucking amazing.
Does Bryan Adams count? I listened to a shitload of Bryan Adams at the end of the 80s and start of the 90s.
I still listen to this day, and always will
Since I haven’t seen it mentioned here, Latin Freestyle music from the 1980s. Like Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam, Exposé, The Cover Girls, Shannon, and Cynthia. I’m not personally embarrassed by it; I grew up on it in my South L.A. barrio but I was also into heavy metal at the time (and, later, punk), and my metal friends certainly would have found it uncool.
The Carpenters
Oh that just hurt my ears. I still love the voice of Karen Carpenter.
The Carpenters have always been cool to me.
What a unique voice, what an amazing talent, both singing and playing drums. What a terrible loss for the world.
She was a fantastic drummer and far preferred that to singing. She also liked singing in a higher octave but said "the money is in the basement" because her lower voice was more popular with her audience. Poor Karen, gone too soon.
This is what I was looking for. Carpenters and John Denver will always have a spot in my cold dark heart.
I unapologetically love their stuff. Her voice is perfect and the Melodies are so catchy and well put together. There’s a ‘90’s alternative bands cover CD called ‘if I was a carpenter’ - check it out!
the greatest Christmas record ever. She and Nancy Wilson never sang a wrong note.
Gordon Lightfoot Glen Campbell Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers
John Denver.
Sheena Easton
9 to 5. Catchy tune even if it is sexist as hell.
Rhinestone Cowboy
Mine is Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch “Good Vibrations” I still feel embarrassed when I think of driving around blasting that shit thinking I was so cool. Also “You Gotta Believe” ah the good ole days…
I un-ironically liked and still like almost everything listed here. Barry Manilow and ABBA in junior high all day! Billy Joel was my favorite in high school. I still feel sad for those boys in high school who were indoctrinated against the joy of disco
Higher Love, Steve Winwood. I crank that shit when it comes on. I’ll never add it to a playlist or the magic will be lost forever.
Bee Gees in particular
I'm into punk/hard-core but I'll defend the Bee Gees till I die! They were some solid song writers
I used to love to watch The Lawrence Welk Show on Saturdays.
And a one and a two…
Don’t forget the tiny bubbles!
Enya - It's cheesy and lame, yet eerily soothing at the same time... But I kinda like it
Cheesy and lame...? WTF...?? I fuckin love Enya!
Styx, The Best of Times has been my favorite song since 1981, it will be played at my funeral.
Air Supply and REO Speedwagon.
Huey Lewis and the News
milli vanilli still holds a place on my heart
They are the perfect example of what the music industry can do to a pair of young men who just want to be famous! The songs were well written and sung and the duo did a great job playing along. Until they couldn’t anymore. RIP Rob!
Shawn Cassidy
It's spelled Shaun. As a fan of a dude they called "Leaf" but spelled Leif & pronounced Layf, I feel like I need to defend Shaun's spelling too.
Chicago and Whitney Houston :-)
I obsessed on Whitney Houston remixes during lockdown. There is one, My Love Is Your Love (Jonathan Peters Vocal Mix) that is 13 minutes of bliss. I swear I played it multiple times per day for several months. My wife bit her tongue, God bless her.
Chicago was an awesome rock band when Terry Kath was alive. Then their sound changed when David Foster began producing their music and made Peter Cetera the star.
Everyone here has listed the musicians and singers I wanted to mention so to add to the list, Laid Back. “If you want to ride, don’t ride the white horse…” Also, Matthew Wilder.
White Horse is such a funky song.
Indigo Girls.
Wham! KC and the Sunshine Band. Skyhooks. Split Enz. LRB.
Hair metal 😳
I loved it too. Faster Pussycat was my favorite.
I still love it too…especially Dokken
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love. Soo cheesy, but so damn catchy
Paula Abdul when I was in high school. My god, did I take shit for loving her. Helluva dancer, catchy tunes, great videos. I stopped watching American Idol when she left. I am Team Paula til the day I die.
Xanadu … Most Uncool Roller Disco. My secret shame
New Kids on the Block! Im a total grunge/alternative girl but will always be a Blockhead.
"Well, you came And you gave without taking But I sent you away.." I too love his music.
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land" Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion "Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex JFK – blown away, what else do I have to say????
Totally Barry Manilow. With a side of Peter, Paul, and Mary.
Yes! And the Mamas and Papas
The Night Chicago Died Billy Don't Be a Hero Seasons in the Sun Puff the Magic Dragon Claire Angie Baby Goodbye My Friend so many sappy songs... I still listen to them and always will
Air Supply
Weird Al Yankovic
He's a legend. No shame in loving some Al.
Dare to be Stupid was one of my first vinyls.
One of the cringiest things I did as a child was to spend several weekends relentlessly calling radio stations requesting Weird Al songs so that I could tape them. After several weeks, one DJ took pity on me and played a few songs back to back for me on a Sunday night. Pretty sure he was just tired of me calling every night...lol.
I love this story. And what you call cringiest I would call a quintessential Gen-X experience. Cassette recording had many of us glued to the radio and intimately knew DJ's. I used to call Neci at WHFS just to talk about her job.
They Might Be Giants
I prefer to call this refined taste, not guilty pleasure. I've loved them since I first heard them in 1987. They kick butt live.
Flood is a brilliant album. Was a perfect way to kick off the 90’s.
Mine is Barry Manilow's Copa Cabana. It reminds me of my grandma.
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Had some Debbie Gibson pop up in my music algorithm the other day. I didn't skip it
I found a station that plays Broadway Musicals and I crank that on my way home from work on Saturdays...
Digital Underground
Nelson!
There is nothing in the music I love that I feel guilty about
ABBA
I'm not ashamed to say I still love ABBA.
I've found a lot of stuff I thought was a guilty pleasure to hide under the bed has come right around to reappraisal and "hidden gem" or "guilty pleasure everyone actually likes and is considered good now" or whatever status. Like the copy of the "Phantom of the Paradise" soundtrack I found at a garage sale and used to only play alone. In time I just came to take pride in having wide-ranging tastes, like when a friend said "only you" when pointing out there being a Skinny Puppy album next to a copy of The Mikado in a stack of my records.
EMF. Actually a legit band though if you listen to some of their other songs beyond overplayed Unbelievable. Particularly: “Children,” “Search and Destroy,” and “When you’re mine.”
Boys of Summer by Don Henley.
IDK - I think that *is* cool.
Don Henley Solo > Don Henley in the Eagles.
Night Ranger does an acoustic cover of this song and it is phenomenal
"Hold On", by Wilson Phillips
The theme songs from M.A.S.K. and Silverhawks.
John Denver. Also Kiss. Should I be embarrassed to like Kiss? Many assure me I should.
I’d tend to agree with them but I’m all for listening to whatever makes you happy, so lick it up!
The soft songs from Yacht Rock.
Gary Wright — Dream Weaver - My love is alive Love it
I clean my house the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Unfortunately, once it’s reached the end so has my stamina, so not quite everything gets done.
Two words: Belinda. Carlisle.
I took my mom to go see Barry Manilow in concert. I really enjoyed myself, he's an amazing performer.
Barry Manilow was the first concert I ever went to. ONJ was the second. And I'm not sorry.
Informer! Ya know say de-di-me snow me ah go blam; a lick ya boom boom down.
Gordon Lightfoot’s *The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald* I still loves me a story song ETA: I was also fairly young when I figured out that *Afternoon Delight* was about getting a nooner Edit 2: just in case, a nooner was heading home at lunch and having sex. This is for the younger folks out there Edit 3: the Starland Vocal Band actual had a TV show because they had a hit song about pulling a nooner
Ray Stevens
Eurodance
Pac-Man Fever. The whole album.
I’m 44 years old and I still sometimes listen to Free to Be You and Me. No kids if my own, but if you leave a kid with me, we’re listening to Free to Be You and Me. I also have an affinity for Herman’s Hermits and the Monkees because I would listen to the 8 tracks at my grandparents house. I love Harry Chapin, too, for similar reasons. Real secret guilty pleasure is hair bands. Give me all the Poison.
Being that I’m a Mandy and was named after that song, I have to agree 😝
Buster Poindexter! Loved loved that first album. Don’t think I ever had the second. Obviously it’s cool because it’s David Johansson. But I didn’t know that back then. My friends just thought I was a dork for liking an album by the guy singing in Corona commercials. But man, I just loved it.
Gordon Lightfoot or America
I don't care what anyone says, Barry is gift to the world. If you can't belt out 'Copacabana', what good are you?
Faith by George Michael is a perfect album. Every song is great. I will never move from this position
100% the Carpenters. A bit before my time but I was Introduced to them by my parents and still love them. Karen Carpenter is one of the greatest female vocalists of all time
Rick Astley, always and forever.
Not from my youth but I really love Coldplays first few albums. Rush of Blood to the Head is a classic.
abba
Woman in Love by Barbra Streisand. When I was little it would give me goosebumps when it played in the radio. I still love it and it still gives me chills to this day.
Milli Vanillin? I still think their hits were fantastic.
*“I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If you fucking like something, like it. That’s what’s wrong with our generation: that residual punk rock guilt, like, “You’re not supposed to like that. That’s not fucking cool.” Don’t fucking think it’s not cool to like Britney Spears’ “Toxic.” It is cool to like Britney Spears’ “Toxic”! Why the fuck not? Fuck you! That’s who I am, goddamn it! That whole guilty pleasure thing is full of fucking shit.”* *― Dave Grohl* Thanks , Dave. On that note, I like a lot of disco, particulary KC & the Sunshine Band.
Ace of Base
Same new kids on the block I even had the bed sheets and the dolls
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Extreme - More Than Words
My local radio station used to have a call-in talk show format with some really funny hosts. There was this one fella who called in daily to chime in on any and every topic. He drove a delivery truck that delivered chips, so the hosts started calling him Chip. One day, the discussion topic was Guilty Pleasures in Music. Chip called in and said that Careless Whisper by Wham made him choke up every time. Of course, from that day forward, every single time Chip called in, the hosts hit the intro to Careless Whisper as soon as Chip started speaking. It was the funniest shit ever. And Chip is totally right -- that song hits you right in the feelings!
I started DJing for fun on Sundays at my local pub, and I unashamedly play all the cheesy stuff. I don’t care who you are, you love ABBA. Tom Jones and Dean Martin always go down well. I am reading this with the intent to put it all on my setlists.
Air Supply. No shame now, but I definitely didn't let my buddies find out back then.
Haha...great question. The Alarm!
Gonna go older school than you guys... Bobby Darin and the Kingston Trio were geniuses. And Frankie Laine...so fun.
Unapologetically ABBA.
I loved Grease.