guilty pleasure bands

[Samus Aran]

I think we did a thread similar to this before, but oh well. Yes, I know that "guilty pleasures" in music are silly because you shouldn't feel guilty at all, but it's really the only phrase that sums up the idea of loving a band that people tease you for.

Anyway, for me, Cheap Trick immediately comes to mind. I love Cheap Trick, but they're so goddamn poppy and silly and fluffy and ridiculous and cheesy that I get teased by my hard rock friends.

[Wrench]

I don't have any guilty pleasure bands. The only band I really get teased about is Green Day and I absolutely fucking love them. Nothing to be ashamed about.

[YPrrrr]

Bands/musicians I get crap for liking:
Cake
Sum 41
Bubba Sparxxx (I sort of hate most of his material too actually lol)
DJ Splash
Gogol Bordello
Smash Mouth

[Thyme]

Slipknot

[Cookie]

Radiohead.

[Hiro]

Radiohead.

How is that guilty pleasure? 

[Cookie]

How is that guilty pleasure? 

I feel embarrassed for listening to it.

[Hiro]

I feel embarrassed for listening to it.

Why, what's wrong with liking Radiohead

[Cookie]

Why, what's wrong with liking Radiohead

They're turning into every other mainstream band....

[Placebo Headwound]

They're turning into every other mainstream band....

wut

[Hiro]

They're turning into every other mainstream band....

How so

[Samus Aran]

They're turning into every other mainstream band....

excuse me what

more like furthering themselves from every other mainstream band

they used to just be an alternative rock band and now they're like a combo of that and progressive/art rock

they're only being "mainstream" in the idea that they're one of those great bands that everyone can admit is awesome and they've become hugely popular

[strongbad]

They're turning into every other mainstream band....

mainstream and popular aren't the same thing

[Houdini]

They're turning into every other mainstream band....

Are you serious? They started out as a mainstream band. Ever heard Creep? With each album they grow farther away from the mainstream rock mold.

[Geno]

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