Guilty pleasure song time!
For today, at least, it's Hooked on a Feeling as covered by Blue Swede. Also known as the Ooga Shaka version.
Please, tell me yours!
Posted Jan 20, 2010, 4:38 PM UTC
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“… anti-intellectualism is a dangerous problem , but it’s not as annoying as pretend intellectualism, which inevitably manifests itself as antipopulism. Which is why I always want to blow up my brain whenever I hear people talking about “guilty pleasures”. I am not sure if anyone actually invented the term “guilty pleasure,” since – in and of itself – it seems like a reasonable way to describe certain activities. For example, it is pleasurable to snort cocaine in public restrooms, and it always makes you feel guilty; as such, lavatory cocaine fits perfectly into this category. Drinking more than five glasses of vodka before (or during) work generally qualifies as a guilty pleasure…. These are [both] guilty pleasures in a technical sense. However, almost no one who uses the term “guilty pleasure” is referring to situations like these; people who use the term “guilty pleasure” in casual conversation are often talking about why they like Patrick Swayze’s “Road House”. This drives me insane for two reasons: by labeling things like Patrick Swayze as “guilty pleasures”, it somehow dictates that (a) people should feel bad for liking things they sincerely enjoy, and (b) if these same people were not somehow coerced into watching “Road House” every time is comes on TBS, they’d just as likely be reading “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.”
— -Chuck Klosterman
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Thanks for that, but if I were going to watch Road House, I'd watch it on DVD because TBS blocks out all the titties.
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I feel no shame/guilt for the things that I enjoy in this life.
But "Party in the USA" would probably qualify if I did.
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A mashup of Party in the USA with Biggie Small's Party and Bullshit. They go together like beans and cornbread.... It's available on grooveshark if you dare.
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...user name TheProle...song titles all include Party...I'm thinking this is an attempt at subliminal suggestion.
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"We can dance if you want to."
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Men Without Hats, The Safety Dance.
Always makes me want to watch BioDome.
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You know, that dance isn't as safe as they say it is.
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...a great way to alienate people.
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I think Toxic is a really, really good song.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGG2mCyEhbA Every time I hear it i think of the Doctor Who episode "The End of the World" where its played on the "iPod"
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You posted this entry 3 hours ago and YouTube already blocked it.
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Snoop Doggy Dogg - Ain't No Fun (If the Homies Can't Have None)
Matthew Sweet - Magnet and Steel (originally performed by Walter Egan)
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"Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees. If it's playing on my Zune while I'm walking I invariably start walking in beat with the music and strutting like John Travolta.
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That song is exactly 100bpm which is coincidentally the tempo recommended for doing chest compressions during CPR. If you ever find yourself in that position just sing that song in your head while you're working.
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do you also throw your jacket over your shoulder?
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Cracks me up every time.
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I just heard something about Sir Mix-a-Lot that I had no idea. Looked it up, turned out to be true.
He wrote Jump On It!.
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'The Loving Kind' by Girls Aloud. Written by the Pet Shop Boys sung by hotties! Nice!
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Oh, high school and the Distillers. I'm cringing right now.
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Taking care of business.
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Not that I think anyone should feel guilty for liking any kind of music... but if I had to answer, I'd say anything from Aqua.
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Johnny Rebel - Nigger Hatin' Me
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take your pick:
- lady gaga's hits on the radio
- anything from genesis's invisible touch album
- anything from the human league's dare album
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Just wondering, why do you feel guilty listening to Invisible Touch?
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it's common to hate on phil collins and genesis (mostly for phil's crappy '90s music), so usually when someone goes through my music library and sees that i have that, i usually get shit about it.
anyway, my mom likes it, and listened to it when i was growing up, so that's why i like it.
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Shai If i ever fall in love
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- Spiral Starecase - More Today than Yesterday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j45ezAAeMDw
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They play this song daily on the radio station I'm forced to listen to every day at work. I assumed the dude was black...for whatever that's worth.
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songs from musicals. especially oklahoma and disney cartoons. aladdin, the little mermaid, etc...
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The Glee Soundtrack. All of it.
I have a similar fascination with The Across the Universe sound track. Even though, as a hard core Beatles fan, I'm told I should hate it, I can't help but enjoy it.
I hate that movie with the burning intensity of a thousand suns. But to each his own.
I'm an incredibly hard core Beatles fan and I think that soundtrack is incredible. "I Am The Walrus", "Revolution 9" and "I Want You/She's So Heavy" especially.
The next logical question is do you like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band starring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton?
I've actually never seen the whole thing... the one part I have seen is the "She's Leaving Home" act.
Wait, why is this a guilty pleasure? ;)
Actually, I agree with you. It's not guilty, just awesome.