This was my favorite livejournal post of all time. I made a guilty pleasure mix junior year because I was spending a saturday afternoon at home and was bored as hell. I absolutely love every song on this list and actually listened to this CD once this past year just to take a trip down memory lane. Enjoy.
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Everyone has guilty pleasures, especially with music they like to listen to. Any metal fan has a favorite pop song, and every rap fan has a country song they love. Not too many people are willing to admit it though which leads to a life of denial... which is bad. So recently i made a guilty pleasures mix which most juniors will be hearing whithin a couple of days if you are in the junior lot. because i refuse to live in denial, here is the list of guilty pleasures and WHY i like them.
1. Crazy for You - NSYNC - not afraid to admit i enjoy this song. Its the first real song i learned to play on guitar and is produced well. Talent is talent no matter where you may find it.
2. Getting Away With Murder - Papa Roach - you may remember them as the band that crooned out "last resort" a charming teen anthem about suicide. I remember them as a band i saw live and gave a KICK ASS show. The singer is an incredible front man
3. Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice - say what you will, this song kicks ass. If you are alone in a room and the song comes on, you know you are dancing around singing along to the blatently ripped off hook. If nothing else, this is just a fun song to laugh at... so what if i know all the words.
4. Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benetar - incredible snippet of the 80's with an incredible guitar solo by pat's husband. If you've heard anything about her personally though, you would know she's a really caring person that gave up her career to stay with her ailing husband when he was ill.
5. Jesse's Girl - Rick Springfield - sick 80's song. it may be cheasy but its toe tapping fun... 'nuff said
6. Let Me Clear My Throat - DJ Kool - don't know if this one is even guilty... fun song heard at a lot of dances. Maybe its a little embarrasing that i actually possess the song, but its all good. If you listen to it i bet your foot wil start tapping.
7. If I Am - Nine Days - this song WAS my 6th grade year. the madding crowd was my favorite album for about 8 months and i still occassionally pop it in to take a stroll down memory lane. Its nice to go back in time... even if its for 4 minutes and 18 seconds.
8. Why Not - Hilary Duff - ok... not much explanation on this one. Ben and I were going to cover it but never got around to it... i learned the guitar part and the tune stuck with me... its catchy
9. Rock You Like A Hurricane - Scorpions - my love for this song knows no bounds. this song was written by a foreign rock band in english but its spoken like we would speak spanish... almost as if its translated on babel fish.... its incredible
10. Tainted Love - Soft Cell - ever seen coneheads? that's why i like this song
11. Pulling Mussels From the Shell - Squeeze - the same squeeze that wrote tempted by the fruit of another. Yet another song ben wanted me to learn to cover sometime in the future that sort of stuck with me... listen to it 3 times straight and you belong to it forever
12. Here I Go Again - Whitesnake - there's no need to explain this one
13. Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac - to tell the truth, i just like this song... i can't really give too much explanation to it because i can't even explain it to myself.
14. Tearin' Up My Heart - NSYNC(again) - see #1
15. Get Your Hands Off of My Woman - The Darkness
16. Cash on Delivery - Spinal Tap
- i'm putting these together because i like them for the same reason.... anything that mocks, (or appears to mock) hair metal but actually is well-done, deserves a bit of credit.
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