Guilty Pleasures

Snuggles the DESTROYER · Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:39 am

Thought I'd post this in Curb so to get more genres...

There are bands/artists that you love that you get shit for, basically becoming guilty pleasures. They probally don't get rave reviews and at the very least you can't play it around your friends much (if at all).

Its hard to tell if its a guilty pleasure or if the people around you are fucking morons...(ie alot of my friends dont like Isaac Hayes....they are fucking morons)

Everyone has one....

Personally....

Nat King Cole (Grew up with my Grandpa blaring this, and still love it)
Mudvayne (My worst I think...I just like their style)
Orange 9mm (Like all their albums......)
Cypress Hill's rap ppart of Skull and Bones

A couple to start things off.....

cascarrabias · Post by **cascarrabias** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:33 am

FreshShabazz · Post by **FreshShabazz** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:19 am

those teen-gross-out-t&A films of that blew up in the the late 90's:

American Pie
Road Trip
Eurotrip

All that shit.

I'm such a film nerd, but when I watch these... I just want to see hot bitches and gross shit.

Career Over Like Mike(NJJ) · Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:05 am

I think when you reach your early twenties the concept of any music or movie or whatever being a guilty pleasure becomes null and void
if you like it, you like it
and that's all there is to it.

Having said that, though, there's always going to be one exception to the rule that you feel a little embarrassed about liking
and it's usually going to be a rock-band that strive desperatly for credibility but are a total joke.

So, for me, it's the first Hole album
i can't stand Courtney Love and find her both unpleasant and fraudulent
i'm not generally fond of women playing rock because i'm a sexist pig stuck in a rock-as-machismo fantasy
and the album is so feminine and pre-menstural it's like an audio equivalent of my wife or close personal friend at work during their time of the month
or even my childhood when my father and brother would walk on eggshells to try and avoid the wrath of a mother and two sisters in the midst of female hormone oblivion only for them to erupt at the sight of the toilet seat left up
but, despite all this, this album really is quite spectacular.

zizek · Post by **zizek** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:17 am

Most of the time I just think other people have bad taste. For instance, I
really like the Faces & the first four Rod Stewart albums, but most people dismiss these albums out of hand because of Rod's admittedly shitty late 70s-present period.

Dids · Post by **Dids** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:52 am

Nat King Cole shouldn't be a guilty pleasure.

I've embraced the fact that I enjoy shitty pop music sometimes, so no longer feel guilty about it.

Eurotrip is a great movie if only because of SCOTTY DOESN'T KNOW.

mud · Post by **mud** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:54 am

Eurotrip is the worst film i have ever seen

Dids · Post by **Dids** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:56 am

UNCREDITED MATT DAMON CAMEO!!!!

Kirstin Keurek in a school girl outfit!!!!

(I agree, the rest of it is horrible, but the first 5 minutes are great)

mud · Post by **mud** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 12:01 pm

actually its not quiet the worst that "me skewzy" scene was quite comical

Beek · Post by **Beek** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 1:42 pm

I love America's Funniest Home Videos. A lot of people consider that a guilty pleasure, but I say that if you don't find AFV funny, you're an uptight faggot.

Sebastian gets busy · Post by **Sebastian gets busy** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:18 pm

i frequently blast soca music which is usually oriented towards dancing. but i dont be giving a fuck

T-Wrex · Post by **T-Wrex** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:21 pm

I watch Friends.

I prefer small cars.

I've seen Tori Amos in concert.

I'd rather have White Castle than a gormet Italian steak.

FoJaR · Post by **FoJaR** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:27 pm

T-Wrex wrote:I prefer small cars.

I'd rather have White Castle than a gormet Italian steak.

the steak thing probably 50% of the time....

i've been listening to billy joel since i was a kid... still really like him (nohomo)

T-Wrex · Post by **T-Wrex** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:39 pm

FoJaR wrote:
T-Wrex wrote:I prefer small cars.

I'd rather have White Castle than a gormet Italian steak.
the steak thing probably 50% of the time....

i've been listening to billy joel since i was a kid... still really like him (nohomo)

Billy Joel is the man. Been a fan ever since I watched The Chipmunks and they did a bad ass cover of Uptown Girl.

cascarrabias · Post by **cascarrabias** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:04 pm

Beek wrote:I love America's Funniest Home Videos. A lot of people consider that a guilty pleasure, but I say that if you don't find AFV funny, you're an uptight faggot.

Co-sign.

What's not funny about a Christmas tree falling on a two year old?

Snuggles the DESTROYER · Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:09 pm

cascarrabias wrote:
Beek wrote:I love America's Funniest Home Videos. A lot of people consider that a guilty pleasure, but I say that if you don't find AFV funny, you're an uptight faggot.
Co-sign.

What's not funny about a Christmas tree falling on a two year old?

Whats funnier, is if the same two year old, in a terrible two rage, kicks his father in the nuts who than stumbles into the dining room table, kocking it over and destroying X-Mas dinner.

Dids · Post by **Dids** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:37 pm

Bob Sagat is what's wrong with AFMV. Just show me the videos and don't make me watch fuck faced families and gay intros and maybe I'll let it slide.

T-Wrex, all of those are find but friends, which was a horrible show after the 2nd season.

I watch One Tree Hill and Everwood every week. Althought Everwood is actually a pretty good show, so I don't feel bad about it.

aresem · Post by **aresem** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 5:03 pm

my guilty pleasure is..... the oc.

shopvack · Post by **shopvack** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 5:07 pm

i watch full house reruns on my lunch break.

Psychosis · Post by **Psychosis** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 5:27 pm

cascarrabias wrote:
Beek wrote:I love America's Funniest Home Videos. A lot of people consider that a guilty pleasure, but I say that if you don't find AFV funny, you're an uptight faggot.
Co-sign.

What's not funny about a Christmas tree falling on a two year old?

It'd be funnier if it was Trademark's kid that got smashed by the tree.

rakesh1 · Post by **rakesh1** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:08 pm

Psychosis Again wrote:
cascarrabias wrote:
Beek wrote:I love America's Funniest Home Videos. A lot of people consider that a guilty pleasure, but I say that if you don't find AFV funny, you're an uptight faggot.
Co-sign.

What's not funny about a Christmas tree falling on a two year old?
It'd be funnier if it was Trademark's kid that got smashed by the tree.

but only if he was seriously injured

Gregg Popabitch1 · Post by **Gregg Popabitch1** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:43 pm

i don't believe in guilty pleasures.

if you like it, you like it. what is there to feel guilty about?

T-Wrex · Post by **T-Wrex** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:12 pm

Gregg Popabitch wrote:i don't believe in guilty pleasures.

if you like it, you like it. what is there to feel guilty about?

i like teen porn. should i not feel guilt?

SeaTownBlues · Post by **SeaTownBlues** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:28 pm

I like Everwood also. I actually made an Everwood appreciation thread a while ago and lots of people popped up in it like "yeah this show IS dope, word".

I'm not joking, that really happened.

Gregg Popabitch1 · Post by **Gregg Popabitch1** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:31 pm

T-Wrex wrote:
Gregg Popabitch wrote:i don't believe in guilty pleasures.

if you like it, you like it. what is there to feel guilty about?
i like teen porn. should i not feel guilt?

that's not a guilty pleasure.

THATS A FUCKING CRIME DOGG

BayAreaHustla408 · Post by **BayAreaHustla408** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:33 pm

Andrew Lloyd Webber..........but that aint guilty...dudes a BEAST

intuition · Post by **intuition** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:54 pm

T-Wrex wrote: Billy Joel is the man. Been a fan ever since I watched The Chipmunks and they did a bad ass cover of Uptown Girl.

holy fucking shit.

i thought i was the only person that knew/remembered this shit.

my mom used to have that on vinyl when she was a third grade teacher and i was in a class down the hall from her. i would rock the fuck out to that song every day after school while waiting to go home.

sneed · Post by **sneed** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:06 am

I Drive A Lexus wrote: the first Hole album

are you talking about Pretty on the Inside or Live Through This??

Personally Live Through This is one of the best albums I've heard...The rumor is that Kurt wrote it all, so that wouldn't surprise me, as she had Billy Corgan come in and write Celebrity Skin...

someone needs to upload this album in mp3x

De Seven Free · Post by **De Seven Free** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:02 am

Cable wrote:are you talking about Pretty on the Inside or Live Through This??

Personally Live Through This is one of the best albums I've heard...The rumor is that Kurt wrote it all

Pretty on the Inside's the first one (guess you knew that?). They were both pretty good, but I thought the latter was better, sounding like Kurt had a lot of input.

GM Dizzy Skillespie · Mon Jun 06, 2005 11:52 am

shopvack wrote:i watch full house reruns on my lunch break.

my roomate gave me so much shit one day because I literally shouted out loud: "Awww Full House is over! damn it!!"

i immediately regretted the comment and the fact i had missed it.