We have have that band that we love but are ashamed to listen to in front of our friends.
Name them here. There will be no shit talking about the band someone chooses to listen to. Unless said band is so gay that something needs to be said.



Here's mine

Ghostland Observatory
www.myspace.com/ghostlandobservatory

Norma Jean even though they stole the Botch sound, they have some good jams.

Circa Survive- I know they're a chick band, but damn they have some catchy shit.

I hope ya'll still see me the same way now.

I love The Offspring, Green Day (old), Less Than Jake, Weezer, Biffy Clyro, probably loads of other stuff as well.

Pah, call those guilty pleasures?

Check this lot out

Sugababes - proper pop music and no mistake
Erasure -as above. I'm not gay, honest
Duran Duran - gods amongst men
Queen - have loved them all my musical life
Depeche Mode - got into industrial via a mate who was into this lot
The Cure - used to be borderline obsessive about 16 years ago, have recently rediscovered them
Oasis - used to hate them, but have developed a grudging respect for them
Bon Jovi - if you’re drunk, and Living on A Prayer is played loud and it doesn’t move you, you are dead inside

And many more…I'm not embarassed at all

I dont do guilty, as shame is a foreign concept to me.

Heres some shit that you dont like that I do.

Hilary Duff
Steffy
HIM
My Chemical Romance
Good Charlotte - Good Morning Revival
30 seconds to Mars
Fall Out Boy
Paramore
New Young Pony Club
CSS
Le Tigre
The Faint
Bright Eyes
Papa Roach
Rilo Kiley
Roisin Murphy

You win. Or lose, depending on how you look at it.

Especially with Papa Roach, a miserable excuse for a band.

abba

Chevelle by far. One of my closest friends, an old college buddy was/is pretty into them, and somehow I still listen to them. I know they're shitty radio rock but I can't help myself. For radio rock they play some pretty kickin' tunes.

Chevelle? Never heard of them.

Oh, and talking of shitty radio rock, I'll add

Counting Crows - First album whatever it was called
Live - first album. Pearl Jam rip offs, but I fell for it
Paul Simon - Graceland

Throwing Copper was one of the first CDs I ever owned, and holds a special place in my black heart.

human waste project
duran duran (ordinary world album/era only)

these dudes i know in a band called Electric Banana

they rule!

The Doobie Brothers w/ Michael McDonald
"What a Fool Believes"

Yacht Rock FTW

Hear, hear
I don't think I generally listen to bands anyone on this board would frown upon, but when it comes to seeing bands live at festivals I can think of a few I wouldn't want to miss:

- Linkin Park
- Good Charlotte
- The Hives (although I think their music rocks)
- Eagles of Death Metal (same as the Hives)
- Slipknot
- Papa Roach (and Infest rox)

I'm not ashamed of going to see any of them as they are good live bands (except for Good Charlotte but hey it's fun hanging around 14-year-old goths).

Millencolin - all of my buddies slag me for listening to them. Their new stuff is pretty weak though.

yep.
Linkin Park are studio perfect live.
MCR are not, while I love their music and Frank 'The sex' Iero , live they are abyssmal.

However further to our earlier convo Matt, I think Human Waste' have probably a lot more cool points than everything else mentioned and don't think they should be on the list.
However, I'm not from your part of the world so IDK how thats going down?


The stuff I actually get laughed at for at work =

Roxy Music (the later stuff that Housewives love)
and Billy Joel.

Eagles of Death Metal a guilty pleasure band? Pfft I crank that shit way up and dance to it. I am never ashamed of listening to different music...even if it is "mainstream." I listen to ABBA to Hanson.

kylie minogue... i can't help it. i think she's so hot that her music starts to sound ok.

also the occasional willie nelson song (but not all of them).

http://board.mastodonrocks.com/viewtopic.php?t=2057

I like Creed, and some evanescence once in a while only for the pleasure of listening to Amy Lee's voice.

The Spice Girls
Duran Duran - Rio is one of my favourite albums
Simon & Garfunkle
Bon Jovi
Skid Row

I knew this thread seemed familiar.

New Religion
The Chauffeur
are heavy tunes.

I want to hurt myself for liking Jordin Sparkss / Chris Brown's "No Air". Can't help it.

Slipknot would be a decent band if they dropped the gimmick, extra twenty guys in the band they don't need, and their shitty fanbase. They've actually got some really talented guys in the band.

Actually I agree, I've found myself quite liking some of their stuff but all the 'maggot' business is *yawn*

And blokey has got a really good voice. In fact add Stone Sour to the list.

*Studio Stone Sour, live he's all loose and shitty sometimes.

Trivium
Duran Duran
Def Leppard
Styx
Mastodon lololololololJayKay

Triviums first 2 albums do get rocked everyone once in a while. Their last one had nothing to attract me.

Trivium was my first heavy band that i actually listened to so from there i just grew and branched out to good types of metal, instead of just sticking with metalcore. I still listen to them every now and then but they get ripped a new asshole every time they're mentioned anywhere so shhhhh.

My "guess" is that everyone who's into metal started out that way. Commercial bands lead to more and more obscure ones. 8)
My journey started with Korn - Follow the leader.

Guilty pleasures huh.
I sure don't feel guilty listening to
Dwight Yoakam
The Move
Nat King Cole Trio
Modern Jazz Quartet
Alien Sex Fiend
Gerald Collier
Soul Stirrers
Billy Joe Shaver
Ian MaLagen & the Bump Band
Limp Wrist
Eugene Chadbourne

Slayer

...Justice is the first metal album I ever got into, I'm happy with that being my gateway album.

Very, VERY, metal. Very.

Not guilty pleasures bands/artists... but unexpected pleasures given my general taste in music:
Antony and the Johnsons
Norah Jones
Jimmy Eat World
Alicia Keys
Toto
Emilíana Torrini
Simon and Garfunkel (some songs)
10cc
Nelly Furtado
Damien Rice

...and probably some others I can't remember right now...

Not specifically AJFA, but Metallica in general got me into metal.

Trivium, however, makes me ashamed of being a metal fan sometimes.




God I hate those guys.

lolz they need to accept the fact that they're metalcore, i say they did it really well, but then they started claiming that they were thrash and lost fans.

What's metalcore? I have heard even Mastodon being called that. I think most "metalcore" bands would have being called thrash(by the way, a heavy metal/hardcore crossover, as far as I remember) in the 80's.

wikipedia it man

The guitarist is genuinely cool.


The rest of the band go fuck itself up it own arse, changing their own opinion of themselves and insulting their own music to distance themselves from it. SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU MAKE MY SKIN CRAWL.

The music isn't bad, just really unoriginal.

Norah Jones and J.E.W. are a couple of my guilty pleasures. I'd say some of the worst for me are movie soundtracks (LotR, Nightmare B4 Xmas, Phantom of the Opera (Broadway), Aladdin, Little Mermaid (go ahead and laugh. I grew up on that shit so whatever), and FF7: Advent Children). I also dig some Billy Joel from time to time. And bluegrass, which is like acoustic metal with all that fast picking.

Crowded House

Although I don't consider it guilty, some others might.

I lap up Beethoven like a saucer of milk.

Elton John has some really good stuff.
Also, I actually like American Idiot :oops:
It's so damn catchy.

Bluegrass is kickass, but then again, I live in Texas. But if most of thise bluegrass banjo and guitarist picked up an electric guitar with distortion, they would rock ass.
And Willie Nelson is nothing to be ashamed of.

GWAR
lamb of god - Ashes of the wake and as the palaces burn
depeche mode, cars - i dont really feel guilty for liking them though


i dont understand how queen are a guilty pleasure - they have some really great albums and brian may is a hell of a guitar player

What's wrong with Lamb of God?

Jesus H fucking Christ, that makes me feel old

Are you serious?

:mrgreen:

Were you always a metaller? you know likt those guys that dressed like Hell's Angels and listened to Iron Maiden.
It was FNM The Real Thing and Slayer Reign in Blood that got me into it.

Hmmm, I went through a big chunk of the nineties not being into metal really. But my early music history went something like….

Aged 8-10 ish: Queen, Ultravox, Beatles, Duran Duran

Aged 11/12: AC/DC, Motorhead, Maiden, Saxon, Scorpions, Led Zep, Whitesnake (!), Van Halen

13-18: The Cure, Echo & The Bunnymen, Dead Kennedys, King Kurt, New Order, The Mission, The Cramps, Bowie, The The

19-25: Ministry, Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr, Lemonheads, Nitzer Ebb, Orbital, Husker Du, Faith No More, RATM, Soundgarden, Janes Addiction, Fugazi

25-30: Nofx, Rancid, QOTSA, Kyuss, Fu Manchu, Beastie Boys, SOAD, Supersuckers, Prodigy, Killing Joke

And then got massively back into metal after seeing Maiden when Bruce rejoined, and now I'm much more metal than I've ever been

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD4YE3F0btI
Well, watch this. TRY to not laugh at ~1.40 when there is a big fat man with disgusting blonde hair doing a 'helicopter' dance. And around 1.45 there's a whole bunch of metalheads doing it. What the hell is that kind of digging called?!?!?
TRY TO NOT LAUGH I DARE YOU!!

P.S The song sucks.

Ashes and Palaces burn are quite good though at making you want to cut people up into tiny teeny little pieces.

Dude I was only pointing the uselessness of the term.