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Jude's avatar

Am I a big cheese ball for loving this song (details). What's your guilty pleasure song?

Asked by Jude (32198points) April 1st, 2011

The Sweetest Thing (don’t hate!)

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12Oaks's avatar

Here’s my guilty pleasure song. Listent o it all the way through, it is pure genius.

What’s the Name of That Song?

marinelife's avatar

For me, it is Linda Ronstadt’s When Will I Be Loved?

crisw's avatar

Don’t know (since Youtube is blocked at work) if that’s a link to U2s “The Sweetest Thing”- in which case I love that song; it reminds me of a fun college summer with good friends, one of whom was a U2 fan suffering through the breakup of a long-distance relationship, who introduced me t0 the song.

My guilty pleasure songs are Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like the Wolf ” and Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love.”

creative1's avatar

Oh I remember this song and loved it when it first came out years ago, its an awesome song. One of Juice Newton’s greatests hits

One song I really loved from years ago is The Rose by Bette Midler http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR6okRuOLc8

crisw's avatar

@creative1

“The Rose” came out when I was in high school. I loved that song too. I even performed it in sign language for a class I was taking. And the movie was so sad…

creative1's avatar

@crisw We must be from the same time warp then because I think I was in Junior High when it came out and couldn’t get enough of it back then and yes the movie was very sad

JilltheTooth's avatar

Yes, @Jude , you are. Me, too. I hadn’t heard it in years, thanks for bringing it back to me!

ETA: I’m probably the bigger cheese ball for loving this

Seelix's avatar

I wondered whether I should answer this, because my guilty pleasure is so guilty. Whatever – judge me if you will. Life in plastic, it’s fantastic.

P.S.: I have a friend who looks a lot like the guy in this video, and when this song came out, he dressed like him (in the blue tux, with stupid shaved hair and all!) for Halloween. I wish I knew where that photo was!

Randy's avatar

My cheesy, guilty pleasure song is a little more current than most so far. I hate that I like because it’s horribly written and the lyrics are SO CHEESY! It’s just so damn catchy though. If I’m with some friends and it comes on the radio or somewhere I have to stop myself from trying to sing along for the next several hours because it gets stuck in my head so easily.

Anyway… UGH! Here it is. Grenade

etignotasanimum's avatar

@Randy I know, right! That song always gets stuck in my head!
My guilty pleasure song is a little odd because it came out twenty plus years before I was even born. It’s the song I play in my head whenever I’m feeling especially young and sweet.

Seelix's avatar

@etignotasanimum – At least that’s not as bad as my guilty pleasure song by the same group.

marinelife's avatar

@JilltheTooth Oh, no, I love that one too! We could grab a cheese ball and have a cheese fest listening to John Denver.

JilltheTooth's avatar

@marinelife : We should grab Chyna,too, and add in the WV song…now that would be cheezy!

optimisticpessimist's avatar

I love Heaven by Los Lonely Boys.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Iz is another favorite of mine.

BarnacleBill's avatar

Colour My World was our prom theme song.

marinelife's avatar

@optimisticpessimist I would not class “Somewhere over the Rainbow” by Iz as a guilty pleasure. It’s just a pleasure.

downtide's avatar

My guilty pleasure is Nickelback. Everything by Nickelback. Yes I know everyone else hates them but I love them, so there. :-D

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

I’m sorry but I’ve got you all beat. This is my guilty pleasure. I love this song, despite the “cheese factor”.

12Oaks's avatar

More cheese than Wisconsin but you gotta love this one!!

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

@12Oaks Never heard it before.

Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

This Never Happened Before by Paul McCartney
At Last by Etta James

But the one that really, really moves me every time I hear it is this version of Nat King Cole’s Sweet Lorraine. I bought a CD with this on it one time for a friend named Lorraine, and when we listened to it together, she just looked at me with wide eyes and said, “That will be my wedding song.”

cak's avatar

@downtide ssshhh! I’m a secret Nickelback guilty pleasure person. I’ve even seen them in concert. Of course it was probably my last concert, but I still had fun.

Jude's avatar

@cak You and I can longer be friends.

marinelife's avatar

@Pied_Pfeffer How are Paul McCartney, Etta James and the incomparable Nat King Cole guilty pleasures? They are all wonderful artists!

Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

@marinelife Thank you. Some people feel that these songs are sappy. Obviously, they have not experienced true love.

marinelife's avatar

My new guilty pleasure song: Sara Ramirez singing The Story in Grey’s Anatomy last night.

Jude's avatar

You had me at Sara Ramirez.

jonsblond's avatar

I secretly enjoy Walkin’ On The Sun by Smash Mouth.

please let this be our dirty lil’ secret

jca's avatar

too many to list – starting with anything by the Carpenters or Olivia Newton John circa 1975.

@JilltheTooth: anything by John Denver reminds me of a babysitter I had when i was in 3rd grade. She Love Love Loved John Denver!

anaham's avatar

Just a Friend: Biz Markie

MissAusten's avatar

Better to be a cheeseball than to love this. I could listen to it over and over and yeah, sometimes I do because it makes me so cheerful. It reminds me of college. :)

john65pennington's avatar

I had completey forgotten about Juice Newton and her music. Thanks for the reminder.

I lover her 1982 song of Break It To Me Gently.

cak's avatar

@Jude Puddle of Mudd was there, too. I really wanted to see them…that’s my true guilty pleasure. Does my honesty and openness allow us to be friends, again? :)

Jude's avatar

I’ll always lurve you, @cak .

cak's avatar

I’ll always love you too, @Jude.

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