[jsaliga]

I don't mean the guilty pleasures that you don't mind talking about on the forum.  I mean the real guilty pleasures...the ones you would rather no else know about. 

I'll get things started.  I don't own a lot of these types of albums because when I do buy them it is almost always for one song.

Barry Manilow - Even Now - No, I'm not a closet Barry Manilow fan outting myself.  I usually cringe when I hear his music.  I think he has a great voice but my problem is that most of his songs have a this huge cheese factor that I can't get past.  His big, over-the-top ballads just never did anything for me.  I think that he and Kenny G have a lot in common: they are both artists that serious music lovers like to poke fun at.  But I have to admit that the song Copacabana, as silly as the lyrics are, has a nice salsa beat to it.  As much as I think the tune doesn't suck (how's that for taking the shine off of it), I wouldn't go out of my way to buy the album.  But I did pick it up at a yard sale recently for $1.  I probably could have gotten it cheaper if I bought more vinyl at that yard sale...but I wasn't willing to take a box full of Ray Conniff records just to shave a few pennies off of a Barry Manilow album (I kid you not).

--Jerome

[loki1957]

George Michael,  Faith

[TheChairGuy]

Dolly Parton, John Tesh (on CD...hey, I do like the guys music, tho), Cyndi Lauper.

Ok, I'll wear a bag over my face today

John

[SteveRB]

The Best of Bread

[rcag_ils]

What's wrong with the best of bread? I like every song in that album. In fact I have several copies of it, one of them still sealed.

I also like Barry Manilow's songs like Mandy, I write the song, they remind me of my childhood.

I don't have any record that I feel guilty or embarassed about....maybe.....Bon Jovi slippery when wet....when it just came out, I hated it, then I picked up a copy twenty some years later, and I love it.

[Lyndon]

The Perfect Storm:
Moved into my first college apartment
Set up my first decent stereo, PE 2020 TT, Black and Gold Empire cartridge, Eico Receiver with mods from resident college hotshot at competing nearby college, no-name speakers from the Kansas City Speaker Company.
I find the previous resident has left one record behind the sofa.  Back of album says, "Sound GREAT in stereo"
Good enough for me.  Great first song, rest of LP, bleh.  But it sure as shootin' did sound great in STEREO!
Lou Christie's Lightnin' Strikes'

[rayr0683]

You should be Shot admitting to that stuff!!!!    Just Kidding...LOL I like the same ones you mentioned, childhood memories, even throw in Engelbert Humperdinck....Ray

What's wrong with the best of bread? I like every song in that album. In fact I have several copies of it, one of them still sealed.

I also like Barry Manilow's songs like Mandy, I write the song, they remind me of my childhood.

I don't have any record that I feel guilty or embarassed about....maybe.....Bon Jovi slippery when wet....when it just came out, I hated it, then I picked up a copy twenty some years later, and I love it.

[orthobiz]

The Best of Bread

Bread is great and qualifies as a guilty pleasure in my mind. I don't have any Bread BUT I do have (and love) David Gate's first solo album, called, ummmm "First."

Paul

[Bill]

For me, it's gotta' be Poor Side of Town by Johnny Rivers. I was in 9th grade and a huge Stones fan at the time, and to admit you liked anything other than rock with an attitude, was taboo. Bands like the Animals, Kinks, Standells and so on were de rigueur. But when I got home after school, I would quite often put my 45 of that song on the parent's stereo and really enjoy it. I still love it and am not afraid to admit it now!