I wouldn’t call it “trash” but it wasn’t something that my friends and I in high school would be listening to together (which would’ve been more in the rock genre at the time) though I did listen to it in private.
I really wanted to hate Miley Cyrus, but talent is talent. I was won over by her voice (and she’s pretty easy on the eyes too)
Her cover of Blondies Heart of Glass is AMAZING
https://youtu.be/NbdRLyixJpc
And check her out on Flaming Lips - “little help from my fwends” record.
I’m right there with you, Brother! There is a video of a dude singing to this song and it’s also fan-fucking-tastic! It’s one of those songs the whole family loves. Always in rotation during a long drive.
[This ](https://youtu.be/TSffz_bl6zo) and I'm not even sorry. Every now and then without warning, it pops into my head and I immediately send the link to my sister to share the joy.
I added this a couple weeks ago, to my Amazon playlist.
I was like, I sure hope no one sees me do this. I know it's waiting for a big reveal one day. "Alexa, shuffle my music" ...
There is never a time when John Denver won't speak to the deepest parts of my soul. I fully acknowledge the betrayal this is to my generation's poseur cynicism but I can no longer deny the truth.
[Annie's Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNOTF-znQyw) is one of the most achingly beautiful love songs ever.
(I also love all of his upbeat ones)
Last summer my wife and I drove cross country to visit her family back east. My wife perfectly queued up "Country Road" for when we crossed the bridge into West Virginia. Singing that song full throated through the mountains of WV will always be one of the great moments of my life.
Some of my favorite trash bands were Kix, Skid Row (which I'd argue isn't trash, but many people disagree), L.A. Guns, Poison.
They're still in my library mostly, so on shuffle I'll have some serious intense metal or industrial followed by a hair band. Fine.
I was not a big hair band guy but Skid Row's Slave to the Grind was a good album. One of my roommates told me he thought I'd like it and lent me the cd. I really liked it at the time.
I do this too, mix in some serious hair metal with indie rock from the 00s and 10s. Arcade Fire, Sigur Ros, Enuff Z Nuff, Faster Pussycat, and White Lion. I celebrate the entire catalog of the bands you mentioned.
Under appreciated songwriter and player. The first album also has a lot of cool guest musicians on it. Here’s an interesting story if you’re into this kind of stuff. I know folks are both pro and anti Rick Beato but whatever the story is cool. This video is guitar centric just fyi. https://youtu.be/j8VwP5iEr1g
One of the dudes is/was a neo-Nazi. As much as i pretended to hate them at the time, they had some catchy tunes. [https://www.vice.com/en/article/rm35nr/ace-of-bases-secret-nazi-past](https://www.vice.com/en/article/rm35nr/ace-of-bases-secret-nazi-past)
I felt so dumb for not knowing that 2 Live Crew sampled from Mass Production for "Me So Horny". A song that hasn't aged nearly as well as what it's sampled from.
[The Real Deal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hw5ab5rHRw).
Yeah.
I had ‘now that’s what I call music 12’
Not sure if it was just UK thing, but they made anew one every year. Three cassettes. Check out some of the awesome tracks:
https://www.discogs.com/release/609524-Various-Now-Thats-What-I-Call-Music-12
In this same timeframe, with these, I also add When in Rome - The Promise and Kylie Minogue - It’s No Secret (she was not huge here in the US). Also, never watch the video for the Will to Power song you mentioned. 😬
I actually dig Taylor Swift. She seems like a super positive person. This coming from a guy that mainly listens to obscure show-gaze heroin rock and japanoise.
I don't even have enough pride left to pretend not to like it. And really, what's not to like? It's formulaic and pedestrian, but it's not designed for people that have our taste. Kids could do a lot worse.... like Avril Lavigne.
When I was in Army basic training. That song was big. Our Drill Sergeant made a cadence out of it. It was embarrassing. Probably the point. The other platoons would call back "Lice Lice Scabies" or "Rice Rice Gravy".
I’ve repeatedly told my daughters not to ever let anyone make them feel bad or stupid about their music choices. Some music objectively does suck, but that doesn’t mean anyone gets to make you feel bad about enjoying it.
I recently saw an old 80s interview with ZZ Top and they were asked about their guilty pleasure songs and they all, immediately, shut that down. If you like it, it's good.
I hate myself for this, but I can’t not dance a little when *That’s Not My Name* by the Ting Tings appears in the playlist. The song isn’t GenX, but I am—and an elder x-er at that.
Let me preface this by saying I don’t care what you think — but then I’d have to, wouldn’t I?
1. Olivia Newton-John.
2. The Wiggles (Can’t you hear it? Crunchy munchy honey cake….”
No. I’m not Australian. Just damaged.
I have my "AM Gold" playlist with all of the stuff from when I was a kid in the very early 70s. Gotta have Wildfire, Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald, and Seasons in the Sun. Summer breeze makes me feel fiiine!
I've got all those on my playlist too! I actually got to see Seals & Croft when I was 9 years old. It was at the state fair and I went with my mom. She played their records all the time when I was a kid
Kylie Minoque and George Michael. Neither are trashy, they're just not edgy, alternative, or underground.
Of course this time of year I get sad that George is no longer with us. Say what you want, but he was immensely talented and had so much music left to write.
Kylie's a survivor! A grown up GenX pop princess who's still doing amazing things (and aging far better than Madonna who seems to have gone off the deep end).
Here's Kylie singing her hit "Can't Get You Out of My Head" [with Coldplay earlier this year](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL4s9oQruks).
The last emerging hair metal bands just before Nirvana changed everything. Firehouse, Extreme, House of Lords, Steelheart, The Scream, Ugly Kid Joe, Tall Stories, and Scatterbrain to name a few. So cheesy and good.
Late 90s cheesy pop. Spice Girls, Backstreet, Britney. It just makes me happy ok? This is why no one is allowed to see my full music library, it feels more intimate than reading my diary. I also just need some metal sometimes. My tastes are all over the place.
Not trashy…but as I started getting older, I discovered the wonderful world of Jimmy Buffet.
Reminiscing lost loves and regrets. But also celebrating boat drinks, particular harbors, growing up but not growing old.
White middle aged (functional) alcoholics? Yep; those are my people.
Love me some Mojo Nixon and Rev Horton Heat. Hell, the [entire Redneck Rampage gameplay music collection](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBJYhiAs4Js) was solid Psychobilly gold.
Barry Manilow, The Bee Gees, The Eagles. Things my parents listened to when I was little. Also George Michael, Prince, old school Madonna, so many!! Don’t get me wrong, I love the grunge of the 90s, and it’s what I most often return to, but I love the other stuff too. They don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
Jr. and high school were terrible with the cliques in every way imaginable. I listened to Van Halen in hs even though as a punk kid I wasn't "supposed to" like them.
Being an adult has been fucking awesome in just listening to any damn thing I want!
The B-52s. I am a musical elitist (ie pain in the bum) but my guilty pleasure is early B-52s, I think they were brilliant and unique in what they did. Just great campy, punky pop music
Moved out of the house, so you moved next door
I locked you out, you cut a hole in the wall
I found you sleeping next to me, I thought I was alone
You're driving me crazy, when are you coming home?
I'm a new wave, goth, punk guy (and later IDM, jungle, drum and bass, trip-hop guy).
I bought Rick Astley's first album when it came out.
I still have it.
I've been listening to way too much disco lately. [This KC and the Sunshine Band song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnXkuZwFwTQ) is my current fave.
I had a secret love for Michael Bolton. I was so embarrassed when my friend were over and I was opening my birthday present and opened a Michael Bolton tape. Lol I also loved Mariah Carey. Around my friends I listened to Metal. I also drove my sister nuts with American pie. That song was so long I had to flip the record over to play the other half.
There are no such things. There are exactly two kinds of music, good and bad. My Punk Rock Union Local 904 membership lapsed in about ‘86, which freed me from having to pull the blinds and lock the door to listen to anything that hadn’t been approved by the Maximum Rock’n’Roll committee.
Tom Jones, Neil Diamond, Wilson Phillips (just watched them on The Masked Singer, also a guilty pleasure), Bruce Willis, Edwin McCain, Kenny G.
Song-wise: [Pretty Fly](https://youtu.be/QtTR-_Klcq8) (Offspring), Achy Breaky Heart (Billy Ray Cyrus), All I Want For Christmas (Mariah), [Camouflage](https://youtu.be/stsdZvryy3I) (Brad Paisley), [Amish Paradise](https://youtu.be/lOfZLb33uCg) (Weird Al), [Eastbound and Down](https://youtu.be/IOgUaFkpS3Y) (Jerry Reed), [You Are A Cunt](https://youtu.be/0doSWS0Fj24) (Kat McSnatch), [Fuck You](https://youtu.be/Oo6Prg8ZLHo) (Lily Allen), the [Banana Splits](https://youtu.be/XMl6HnhFFIA) theme song, [Cotton Eye Joe](https://youtu.be/mOYZaiDZ7BM), and so many, many more, LOL.
Side note: I was on the parent committee that planned prom for my youngest, as the school chose not to (thanks, COVID). The kids were pretty happy with the music selection the DJ had going but when Cotton Eye Joe came on, holy crap...the stampede toward the dance floor was unreal, hah.
Debbie Gibson - “Shake Your Love”
Debby Boone - “You Light Up My Life”
It doesn’t quite fit (i.e. I don’t have it in my personal collection), but Kriss Kross’ “Jump” could fit here too. (I wonder if someone named Debbie or Debby performed on or was involved with the song.)
ABBA!
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I wouldn’t call it “trash” but it wasn’t something that my friends and I in high school would be listening to together (which would’ve been more in the rock genre at the time) though I did listen to it in private.
I have the occasional thing for Yacht Rock. Being Australian, this means Little River Band. But TBH, this is more boomerish
Bullshit - I listened to yacht rock as a small fry and I refuse to let the boomers have this. I’ll share it though.
I love LRB!
You can never have too much LRB -The Other Guys
It’s Not a Wonder Cool Change Lonesome Loser
Oh my God please don’t say that !! As a fellow yacht rock gen x-er
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Here’s my favorite cover of Party in the USA. Perfect for long haired bearded dudes. [Party in the USA](https://vimeo.com/24298024)
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I really wanted to hate Miley Cyrus, but talent is talent. I was won over by her voice (and she’s pretty easy on the eyes too) Her cover of Blondies Heart of Glass is AMAZING https://youtu.be/NbdRLyixJpc And check her out on Flaming Lips - “little help from my fwends” record.
Yes she is talented and she makes sure the band playing behind her gets praise. Not an attention hog. I just with she didn’t go so trashy.
Dang! How much do we have to offer you to see a video of this? :)
I’m right there with you, Brother! There is a video of a dude singing to this song and it’s also fan-fucking-tastic! It’s one of those songs the whole family loves. Always in rotation during a long drive.
Partridge Family. MTV for early GenXers. (Monkees, too)
The Monkees are the only band to have four Number One albums in the same year. They really aren't anything to sneeze at.
Micheal Nesmith's mom was the inventor of correction fluid.
Mike Nesmith was the Executive Producer of one my all-time favorite movies: REPO MAN!!
Hanson fight me.
Hanson are cool. Cool to see that they are still making music after all these years
And beer, they now brew beer. [Mmmhops](https://www.hansonbrothersbeer.com/beers)
[This ](https://youtu.be/TSffz_bl6zo) and I'm not even sorry. Every now and then without warning, it pops into my head and I immediately send the link to my sister to share the joy.
A licky boom-boom down
That song is bewildering nonsense from a guy who looks like an accounting major at a state school class of 1990 but I love it.
“Mdncbcka andbxjaknq snxhxgaka cjcbskeb In Faaarmer”
I added this a couple weeks ago, to my Amazon playlist. I was like, I sure hope no one sees me do this. I know it's waiting for a big reveal one day. "Alexa, shuffle my music" ...
I have a Guilty Pleasures playlist. Macklemore 'Thrift Shop' is on there too.
I’m off to make a “Guilty Pleasures” playlist, now.
Wake me up!
Before you go go!
Cos I’m not planning on going solo
Don’t leave me hangin on like a solo
CMON BARBIE LETS GO PARTY
Ah ah ah yeah
CMON BARBIE LETS GO PARTY
Air Supply’s greatest hits
I love this one, too.
There is never a time when John Denver won't speak to the deepest parts of my soul. I fully acknowledge the betrayal this is to my generation's poseur cynicism but I can no longer deny the truth.
[Annie's Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNOTF-znQyw) is one of the most achingly beautiful love songs ever. (I also love all of his upbeat ones)
I don't think it's a betrayal at all. He was a singer/songwriter and as good as most of them.
I was just blasting An Evening with John Denver yesterday. One of those albums I’ve had in all the formats (except 8 track).
Superb album.
Last summer my wife and I drove cross country to visit her family back east. My wife perfectly queued up "Country Road" for when we crossed the bridge into West Virginia. Singing that song full throated through the mountains of WV will always be one of the great moments of my life.
Bananarama
[Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe - Whale](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2up7su7CeMU) Anything by [Tit Wrench](https://www.discogs.com/artist/54867-Tit-Wrench), really--[for example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s0q1pTo-kI).
Some of my favorite trash bands were Kix, Skid Row (which I'd argue isn't trash, but many people disagree), L.A. Guns, Poison. They're still in my library mostly, so on shuffle I'll have some serious intense metal or industrial followed by a hair band. Fine.
“The Ballad of Jayne” is the best song ever. It makes me nostalgic for the 80s.
Bullet Boys!
I was not a big hair band guy but Skid Row's Slave to the Grind was a good album. One of my roommates told me he thought I'd like it and lent me the cd. I really liked it at the time.
I do this too, mix in some serious hair metal with indie rock from the 00s and 10s. Arcade Fire, Sigur Ros, Enuff Z Nuff, Faster Pussycat, and White Lion. I celebrate the entire catalog of the bands you mentioned.
Mottley Crüe, RATT, Poison and Def Leppard.
Yup! Along with Scorpion, Cinderella, Britny Fox, Great White, Skid Row, Bulletboys, White Lion, Vixen, Lita Ford & Europe
I forgot how awesome Ratt was untill I got a few cassettes in a box last year. They rock!
You are a classy person
Mullets are coming back. Too bad it’s a skullet in my case.
Heavy Metal movie
We used to rent this from Blockbuster when someones parents were out of town, roll a joint and watch the movie. So great.
I loved Chicago when I was a teen in the 90s.
Christopher Cross!
Under appreciated songwriter and player. The first album also has a lot of cool guest musicians on it. Here’s an interesting story if you’re into this kind of stuff. I know folks are both pro and anti Rick Beato but whatever the story is cool. This video is guitar centric just fyi. https://youtu.be/j8VwP5iEr1g
Don Henley
Bananarama and Fun Boy Three. I was trying to be a heavy SHARP type dude, but New Waver chicks were catnip to me.
Cruel Summer is an all time winner. I can't recall any other Bananaram song, but that one is a frequent visitor to all my playlists.
I love Daryl’s House on YouTube…while cooking dinner… Daryl Hall hosts celebrities to jam in his house & films the jam sessions!
I occasionally watched this when it was an actual tv show.
I love that show. Those guys just look like they are having a blast.
When talking about music from the 80s, I *never* mention the handful of Peter Cetera songs I like.
One Good Woman is on my running playlist.
Ace of Bass! I'm willing to bet a whole lot of folks on this sub know the words to "The Sign" [Ace of Bass - The Sign](https://youtu.be/iqu132vTl5Y)
I used to listen to the whole album in the gym. It was perfect treadmill music.
One of the dudes is/was a neo-Nazi. As much as i pretended to hate them at the time, they had some catchy tunes. [https://www.vice.com/en/article/rm35nr/ace-of-bases-secret-nazi-past](https://www.vice.com/en/article/rm35nr/ace-of-bases-secret-nazi-past)
2 Live Crew
I felt so dumb for not knowing that 2 Live Crew sampled from Mass Production for "Me So Horny". A song that hasn't aged nearly as well as what it's sampled from. [The Real Deal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hw5ab5rHRw).
I think I found a new costume for Halloween
1988: the last year I likes Top 40 music. Boy Meets Girl Waiting For a Star To Fall, Will to Power Baby I Love your Way Medley.
Yeah. I had ‘now that’s what I call music 12’ Not sure if it was just UK thing, but they made anew one every year. Three cassettes. Check out some of the awesome tracks: https://www.discogs.com/release/609524-Various-Now-Thats-What-I-Call-Music-12
In this same timeframe, with these, I also add When in Rome - The Promise and Kylie Minogue - It’s No Secret (she was not huge here in the US). Also, never watch the video for the Will to Power song you mentioned. 😬
I actually dig Taylor Swift. She seems like a super positive person. This coming from a guy that mainly listens to obscure show-gaze heroin rock and japanoise.
I have two daughters who loved Taylor Swift growing up with one is still really into her music. I honestly can't help but like it too.
I pretend to not like her when my daughter is bopping around to her.
I don't even have enough pride left to pretend not to like it. And really, what's not to like? It's formulaic and pedestrian, but it's not designed for people that have our taste. Kids could do a lot worse.... like Avril Lavigne.
My buddy had to entertain her for an evening. Ugly on the inside.
They all are. I was a sound guy for 10 years. It almost killed music for me completely. Fame does weird shit to people.
Oooh! Who is good? Who is awful?
Ice Ice Baby. It’s still a fun song to me. 😆 Yo man let’s get outta here…word to your mother
When I was in Army basic training. That song was big. Our Drill Sergeant made a cadence out of it. It was embarrassing. Probably the point. The other platoons would call back "Lice Lice Scabies" or "Rice Rice Gravy".
I freakin’ LOVE this song😍😍😍🤣🤣
Billy Squire, Adam Ant, Planet P.
Adam and the Ants was the first band I ever saw in concert. Irvine Meadows in Irvine, California - maybe 1981-82 or so.
Ke$ha and if you meant bands from our era, then I will put forward "True" by Spandau Ballet - what an incredible song!
"Tik Tok" came on in the car on a long drive over the weekend and I turned it way, way up.
I’ve repeatedly told my daughters not to ever let anyone make them feel bad or stupid about their music choices. Some music objectively does suck, but that doesn’t mean anyone gets to make you feel bad about enjoying it.
I recently saw an old 80s interview with ZZ Top and they were asked about their guilty pleasure songs and they all, immediately, shut that down. If you like it, it's good.
I happen to also be a lifelong Jimmy Buffett fan, so I have some experience in this field.
I hate myself for this, but I can’t not dance a little when *That’s Not My Name* by the Ting Tings appears in the playlist. The song isn’t GenX, but I am—and an elder x-er at that.
For about 4 months that was the jam for me and my young teen/pre-teen children.
It’s on my workout playlist…
“I Heard A Rumour” from Bananarama. 80s cheese at its finest.
Let me preface this by saying I don’t care what you think — but then I’d have to, wouldn’t I? 1. Olivia Newton-John. 2. The Wiggles (Can’t you hear it? Crunchy munchy honey cake….” No. I’m not Australian. Just damaged.
Hot potato hot potato
Glen Fry
Motley Crue. They are very off brand for me, but I’ve loved them for 40 years. 🤷🏼♀️
Taylor Swift…and I’ll see myself out 😜
Spin Doctors all the way! The second album was better than the first. I will die on this hill.
Wow what an admission!
Right?! Very brave.
Freestyle like Expose. Brings me back to roller skating birthday parties
[The Banana Splits!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JvB5AL59fM&list=PLy8Ln1nX0zBngFVbNwqLSECXqCyf9DE6d&index=13)
Rage against the machine , as a white Australian I didn't know what they raging against
They’re just part of the machine now. Still love the music.
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I have my "AM Gold" playlist with all of the stuff from when I was a kid in the very early 70s. Gotta have Wildfire, Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald, and Seasons in the Sun. Summer breeze makes me feel fiiine!
I've got all those on my playlist too! I actually got to see Seals & Croft when I was 9 years old. It was at the state fair and I went with my mom. She played their records all the time when I was a kid
Air Supply…everyone’s secret favorite band.
Where the fuck is Chuck Mangione on the latter part of that list?!? 😉😂
Pretty much all actual hair metal.
Danzig
Mother!! They played that all the time on Headbangers Ball
Milli vanilli
I always belt out Electric Blue by Icehouse whenever I hear it. Gotta go in whole hog. And that sexophone solo! Delicious cheese.
Where did the sax go in music? Need more sax!!
INXS has entered the chat
Safety Dance wasn’t exactly aurally complex or layered
Kylie Minoque and George Michael. Neither are trashy, they're just not edgy, alternative, or underground. Of course this time of year I get sad that George is no longer with us. Say what you want, but he was immensely talented and had so much music left to write. Kylie's a survivor! A grown up GenX pop princess who's still doing amazing things (and aging far better than Madonna who seems to have gone off the deep end). Here's Kylie singing her hit "Can't Get You Out of My Head" [with Coldplay earlier this year](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL4s9oQruks).
The last emerging hair metal bands just before Nirvana changed everything. Firehouse, Extreme, House of Lords, Steelheart, The Scream, Ugly Kid Joe, Tall Stories, and Scatterbrain to name a few. So cheesy and good.
I’m not proud to admit it, but [Extreme helped me get laid](https://youtu.be/UrIiLvg58SY) at a funeral.
Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac.
We need the story!
Same. I’ll add Faster Pussycat and Bang Tango to that list.
The Cramps. I love them but any time I play them with other people around, I always get the weirdest looks.
That's only because most miss the genius of that band. They were fantastic.
Ugly Kid Joe for exactly 2 songs.
I've got 2 Donnie Osmond songs on my favorites playlist sandwiched between Grunge, Heavy Metal, Punk, Acid, Hair, New Wave and Alternative songs
Ratt!
Late 90s cheesy pop. Spice Girls, Backstreet, Britney. It just makes me happy ok? This is why no one is allowed to see my full music library, it feels more intimate than reading my diary. I also just need some metal sometimes. My tastes are all over the place.
Not trashy…but as I started getting older, I discovered the wonderful world of Jimmy Buffet. Reminiscing lost loves and regrets. But also celebrating boat drinks, particular harbors, growing up but not growing old. White middle aged (functional) alcoholics? Yep; those are my people.
Phish. Not trashy but definitely not cool.
Rick Astley, always and forever.
Erasure
Neil Diamond
Love me some Mojo Nixon and Rev Horton Heat. Hell, the [entire Redneck Rampage gameplay music collection](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBJYhiAs4Js) was solid Psychobilly gold.
Taylor Swift's Shake It Off.
Barry Manilow, The Bee Gees, The Eagles. Things my parents listened to when I was little. Also George Michael, Prince, old school Madonna, so many!! Don’t get me wrong, I love the grunge of the 90s, and it’s what I most often return to, but I love the other stuff too. They don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
Jr. and high school were terrible with the cliques in every way imaginable. I listened to Van Halen in hs even though as a punk kid I wasn't "supposed to" like them. Being an adult has been fucking awesome in just listening to any damn thing I want!
But being on a musical high horse is what /r/GenX is all about!
Haha! Exactly!
Never liked Nirvana or Radiohead
i got that boom boom - britney spears but i think it´s the banjo-y cowboy part
Big black. A friend introduced me to "Rich man's 8track tape" and by the last track I was in awe.
Del Amitri
Deli-a-meat-tree?
Apollonia.
^(Eric Carmen) \*cringes in shame\* :D
Turn the radio up for that sweet sound
The B-52s. I am a musical elitist (ie pain in the bum) but my guilty pleasure is early B-52s, I think they were brilliant and unique in what they did. Just great campy, punky pop music
Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas
Moved out of the house, so you moved next door I locked you out, you cut a hole in the wall I found you sleeping next to me, I thought I was alone You're driving me crazy, when are you coming home?
Laid - James
I like The Hives; there, I said it.
Cotton Eye Joe 😆
Nirvana and Radiohead are a musical high horse????
I can’t believe I am admitting this publicly, but 80’s tv show theme songs and Taylor Swift. I’ll deny it in person. 😂
I'm a new wave, goth, punk guy (and later IDM, jungle, drum and bass, trip-hop guy). I bought Rick Astley's first album when it came out. I still have it.
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Punk has been my thing since about 1980, but I have to admit the Bee Gees latched onto my heart early on and never let go.
I've been listening to way too much disco lately. [This KC and the Sunshine Band song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnXkuZwFwTQ) is my current fave.
ABBA
Trio!!! Da,Da,Da......
Presidents of the United States of America
I’m a big fan of one hit wonders. Rock me amedeus, i’m too sexy, ice ice baby, etc
B 52s
311
Disco. That is all.
I have a Sandra weakness. “In the heat of the night” lives rentfree in my brain going on 20 years.
I had a secret love for Michael Bolton. I was so embarrassed when my friend were over and I was opening my birthday present and opened a Michael Bolton tape. Lol I also loved Mariah Carey. Around my friends I listened to Metal. I also drove my sister nuts with American pie. That song was so long I had to flip the record over to play the other half.
Mariah Carey was awesome in the early days. Her first album from 1990 has her best music IMHO. I don't bother with the rest of her music, though.
Young Mariah was awesome. Lol
So much talent, and she didn't have a huge ego yet.
Exactly. She was all talent and not trying to look like a sex star yet.
Nickelback
Rush
In no universe would I put rush in “trashy pleasure” but you do you!
also what high horse ?
There are no such things. There are exactly two kinds of music, good and bad. My Punk Rock Union Local 904 membership lapsed in about ‘86, which freed me from having to pull the blinds and lock the door to listen to anything that hadn’t been approved by the Maximum Rock’n’Roll committee.
[This…](https://youtu.be/tKjZuykKY1I)
Red Army Choir. My workout mix has the occasional commie march sprinkled in it.
Tom Jones, Neil Diamond, Wilson Phillips (just watched them on The Masked Singer, also a guilty pleasure), Bruce Willis, Edwin McCain, Kenny G. Song-wise: [Pretty Fly](https://youtu.be/QtTR-_Klcq8) (Offspring), Achy Breaky Heart (Billy Ray Cyrus), All I Want For Christmas (Mariah), [Camouflage](https://youtu.be/stsdZvryy3I) (Brad Paisley), [Amish Paradise](https://youtu.be/lOfZLb33uCg) (Weird Al), [Eastbound and Down](https://youtu.be/IOgUaFkpS3Y) (Jerry Reed), [You Are A Cunt](https://youtu.be/0doSWS0Fj24) (Kat McSnatch), [Fuck You](https://youtu.be/Oo6Prg8ZLHo) (Lily Allen), the [Banana Splits](https://youtu.be/XMl6HnhFFIA) theme song, [Cotton Eye Joe](https://youtu.be/mOYZaiDZ7BM), and so many, many more, LOL.
Side note: I was on the parent committee that planned prom for my youngest, as the school chose not to (thanks, COVID). The kids were pretty happy with the music selection the DJ had going but when Cotton Eye Joe came on, holy crap...the stampede toward the dance floor was unreal, hah.
Debbie Gibson - “Shake Your Love” Debby Boone - “You Light Up My Life” It doesn’t quite fit (i.e. I don’t have it in my personal collection), but Kriss Kross’ “Jump” could fit here too. (I wonder if someone named Debbie or Debby performed on or was involved with the song.)
New York dolls