I’m afraid my guilty pleasures are all about food. But there are plenty of examples of music I’m embarrassed to own, such as all my Genesis albums - not because I don’t like any of the songs, but because the sound quality is so poor.
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It gets worse - I have a ‘party piece’ where a dear Scottish friend and I sing it together … I think she is the one that makes it bearable 
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No guilt, but there have been odd things out of my normal range that I have liked. Where I have liked more of the artist’s work I’ve bought an album, but most commonly its a one-off.
First I remember, back in the 60s, was Time is tight / Heng ‘em high by Booker T and the MGs.
Then there was Escape goat dub by Garland Jeffries.
Lord of the dance 1970s? no idea who was singing)
Floral dance - Bighouse band 1970s
Abba Fandango
Boots were made for walking - Nancy Sinatra
Streets of London Anti-Nowhere League, which I thought really captured the essence of the song., a bit like the Sex Pistols version of My way which I couldn’t stand with crooner Sinatra singing. But I also like some other Pistols songs.
Lily Allen’s Not fair
So kiss me - Sixpence none the richer
That’s all I can immediately think of.
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Any universe where someone likes it!
You misunderstand me - We Are Family is a stone cold classic and in no way, shape or form is it a ‘guilty pleasure’
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Classic in its unbearable awfulness perhaps!
I have a playlist called Cheese, which includes Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep.
It also includes…..
Early in the Morning - Vanity Fayre
White Horses - Jackie
The Lightening Tree - The Settlers
That Same Old Feeling - Picketywitch
New World in the Morning - Roger Whittaker
What Would I be - Val Doonican
I Don’t Want to put a Hold on You - Berni Flint
…..and many more in a similar vein.
Most of it is stuff my I heard around the house in the late sixties/early seventies.
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I have “Could it be Forever” on 7” single: a fine song, sung well. Bought new in 1972, iirc.
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Sun Arise. Rolf Harris.
(Still gives me goosebumps)
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Year 3000 by Busted. It’s simply impossible not to sing along to this if it plays in the car.
Also, Mandy by Barry Manilow. There, I said it.
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Sounds like they just don’t like that era or genre. I’m definitely with @crispyduck on classic vs guilty pleasure
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As indicated in the cant’g stand thread, I never liked soul or funk, nor mist of what was in the charts
The first records I heard at a neighbour’s house on his radiogram were his vast collection of James Last (Hansi). ‘American Patrol’ is an occasional nostalgic vice. When I visited Frankfurt in the 70s ‘Big Band’ was still popular with the older age group.
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To us they are not necessarily different.
Kung Fu Fighting- Carl Douglas.
Love is in the Air - John Paul Young
Floral Dance - Terry Wogan
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I think that is the same Floral Dance that I credited to Brighouse band
Yours by the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band is the instrumental version mine is the one with vocals by Terry with the Hanwell Band.
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I have to admit to rather liking this lot, despite no-one else rating them, but such is my shame I only ever listen to them when nobody’s around.
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Oct 73 went to see Status Quo at the Rainbow, they were riding high with Caroline, they were meant to be the “butt end of British rock”. Saw them several times afterwards, just a great live band until they blew it in the 80s. But when Rossi and Parfitt locked those telecasters it was special!
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