Guilty Pleasure Bands

I was thinking the other day about this. Personally I have a soft spot for Panic At The Disco, which I am slightly embarrassed about. What about you?

Possibly the Wallflowers or Placebo maybe even The Beatles but I don' know

how can the Beatles be a guilty pleasure? If you feel guilty about lsitening to the beatles then you must be in an Iron Maiden tribute band or something.

Mine is the smiths, there I've said it! after 20 years of ignoring them (mostly because so many people I knew wore their smiths fandom on their sleeves like a pseudointellectual badge of pop music honor) as of Wednesday I am digging johnny marr's 1st band again... his tone got a ot better, but the songs still hold up and that damned morissey is such a clever bugger... their john peel sessions still stand the test of time, and I don't think I have heard them since the late 80s or early 90s

Well not necessarily a guilty please but a few mates take the piss out of me over it haha I love the later stuff they did like ''get back'' etc

blink 182

Well not necessarily a guilty please but a few mates take the piss out of me over it haha I love the later stuff they did like ''get back'' etc

just punch your 'mates' in the arm next time they mouth off about the fab 4

I was brought up on the smiths, and it seems to be the total opposite here. If you like the smiths you are stereotyped as pretentious, and middle class. I love the smiths music, but frankly Morrisey's a massive git, and Johnny Marr isn't far off. I was just wondering the other day; do you American's have Irn Bru?

I was brought up on the smiths, and it seems to be the total opposite here. If you like the smiths you are stereotyped as pretentious, and middle class.

same here in America... I'm 35 and when I was a little kid the Smiths didn't really break here, they got big in the USA after they broke up right when I was coming of age so to speak... I really identified with Johnny Marr's guitar playing more than Morrisey's lyrics that all the cool kids would snipe about. For me having come up on the cure, the police and all that heavily chorused and flanged clean 80s stuff the smiths sound was a familiar antidote to grunge and shoegaze (both of which I quite liked at the time and still have a soft spot for)... as a cure and Bauhaus fan (as well as a closet skinny puppy, 242 and ministry fan) I found myself hanging out in the goth scene a lot in the mid 90s and all the goth kids who wouldn't dream of going to a rave (especially all the girls I dated back then) loved the smiths and it turned me off them for the longest time, I don't know why, seems silly now... when you are young you go through this phase of wanting everything you listen to to sound unbelievably current, and then you can't find anything current you like and that's the day you realize your old.... next thing you know they are calling your band retro

I love the smiths music, but frankly Morrisey's a massive git, and Johnny Marr isn't far off.

I don't know how he behaves when he's home, but he's very intelligent, self-effacing and gracious when hes visiting the states (marr, never met morrisey), then again he really loves blackface fender amps and I can talk about vintage amps all day with guys who know and when you get into those conversations with famous types the fame just drips away and their passion for all things guitar takes over

I was just wondering the other day; do you American's have Irn Bru?

nope, all of our malt beverages designed to get low income people really drunk come in big cans or the once ubiquitous 40oz of hip hop fame... these days the cool thing seems to be craft beers in enormous bottles, though I don't know wh buys them, that's just what I see where I shop...

I suppose I am a bit of a stereotypical smiths fan since I was always more likely to drink French wine right out of the bottle than malt liquor or cheap beer when I was trying to get hammered without reaching for the bourbon... god its been years since I've been able tog et really drunk with falling asleep instantly

I was just wondering the other day; do you American's have Irn Bru?

nope, all of our malt beverages designed to get low income people really drunk come in big cans or the once ubiquitous 40oz of hip hop fame... these days the cool thing seems to be craft beers in enormous bottles, though I don't know wh buys them, that's just what I see where I shop...

Just wanna point out that irn bru is a soft drink like coke, pepsi etc haha but in Britain a lot of people love it

Just wanna point out that irn bru is a soft drink like coke, pepsi etc haha but in Britain a lot of people love it

I just assumed it was booze. Of course we wouldn't have a softdrink that wasn't American made (or at least owned by US company), coke and pepsi pretty much own this country and would have a shipment of a UK soft drink heaved into the sea the minute the ship docked, Sons of Liberty style

oh, here's a really guilty pleasure because its just so uncool:

BILLY JOEL

What do you think Irn Bru even tastes of (Besides "GURDERS!")?

For me I would definitely say that it's emo/pop punk stuff, such as FOB, and P!ATD, that I think is a bit embarrassing. Even scarier I found myself humming that Bieber idiots latest song. I'm thinking about getting urgent medical help/therapy.

Oh and some electronic styled stuff as well. Not like techno, or house, or club, etc., but more of the CHVRCHES style stuff. Skrillex still needs to get a haircut, and rethink his career (I never mixing flatulence, with a tr808 could make so much money)

I'm not honestly sure what I think it tastes of, would help if the corner shop was open so I could grab a bottle not had any since like September haha. It just tastes awesome to me. What about you?

I don't dislike it, but then I don't love it. It's just very odd.

Haha, I love it but I must admit it doesn't really have a taste as such compared to a weird metallic acidic taste haha

Maybe that's what it is? The remains of the working class families George Osborne disintegrates as Saturday night entertainment? Hey why can't George Osborne be a bus driver?

Also what about that coke life stuff? It tastes of the froth from the top of normal coke

George Osbourne as in the nobber who has no clue of how to control this Countries finances? can't stand him haha. That stuff just tastes damn weird! half the sugar but weird! You tried that coke flavoured KX energy drink?

Looked it up!!! Irn Bru tastes of barely sugars, bubblegum, and a hint of ginger. I'm not an energy drinks guy really.