QueenZone discussion #1180004

aion wrote:   Do you have any guilty pleasure favourites?   I have one big guilty pleasure favourite band: Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was one of the first bands that I ever liked because I loved the big choruses and the irresistible hooks in their songs. Since then my musical tastes have changed and most of the music I listen to is very far from Bon Jovi (I'm probably the only person in the world who likes both Radiohead and BJ), but this band has kind of stuck with me. I'm not a huge Bon Jovi fan and I don't like any of their new stuff at all, but I still like their albums from the late 1980s and 1990s. The problem is, it's hardly fashionable to like this band and they have never exactly been the critic's choice if you know what I mean. We know the deal with this band: they are an extremely slick and commercial band that makes bland, middle of the road songs and making money has always been more important to them than making music. Their lyrics are not very deep (to put it nicely), they always do the same songs over and over again, they love to pose in photographs and show their unnaturally white teeth. The band's image is terrible and their audience mostly consists of 40-year-old women ("soccer moms") who stare at Jon Bon Jovi's butt while their husband is at work. I can't watch live bootlegs of this band because I can't stand the sight of this guy making huge smiles and wiggling his ass to the women. This is all bad stuff and it's not hard to understand why they have never had any respect from critics and fellow musicians. And all this makes it very hard for me to accept that I still like (some of) their music. I'm often on the verge of taking all of their albums to a second-hand music shop but then I put in the stereo some old song of theirs that I always liked, like "I Believe", "Someday I'll Be Saturday Night" or "Something For The Pain", and I realise that I still honestly like those songs. Yeah, Bon Jovi music is clichéd and shallow, but at their best times their songs were inspired and genuine to them, and "Bad Medicine" is still a fun, brainless rock song and some songs like "Bitter Wine" or "These Days" are surprisingly beautiful. So I say fuck 'em all. I mean, I'd be a real coward if I rejected some band that I like simply because I "shouldn't" like them, and decided my music favourites solely based on what critics and other music fans like, right? So Bon Jovi continues to be my secret love... I'll never admit in public that I like them, but once or twice a year I listen to an old Jovi album to get that guilty pleasure.   Do you have a similar situation with any band?  

Dan Corson V: December Boy wrote: I don't have any 'guilty pleasure' music. If I like something, I like it. No need to feel guilty about it.

queenside wrote: why would dio be a guilty pleasure? he's considered one of the best metal singers ever and for a good reason. who else can say he (or she) made 3 classic albums with 3 differents bands like dio did with rainbow (rising), sabbath (heaven and hell) and his band dio (holy diver). no one should put dio in the guilty pleasure music, he's nothing like bon jovi (i like some songs), ratt, poison, cinderella or other shit hair metal bands

queenside wrote: why would dio be a guilty pleasure? he's considered one of the best metal singers ever and for a good reason. who else can say he (or she) made 3 classic albums with 3 differents bands like dio did with rainbow (rising), sabbath (heaven and hell) and his band dio (holy diver). no one should put dio in the guilty pleasure music, he's nothing like bon jovi (i like some songs), ratt, poison, cinderella or other shit hair metal bands

its_a_hard_life wrote:

  Dan Corson V: December Boy wrote: I don't have any 'guilty pleasure' music. If I like something, I like it. No need to feel guilty about it.

      That's like me.

Brian_Mays_Wig wrote: bROS

GuitarGod_ wrote: You guys have pretty much said all I wanted to say. I love 80's rock and metal bands like Whitesnake, Bon Jovi, Dokken etc, but I don't feel guilty about it. I do however also have a small liking for Catherdal choir music which I'm not so fond of letting everyone know I like.

Yara wrote: Hi, aion! How are you? I hope you're doing fine. Ah, I love this topic. :-)) Thanks for opening the thread. It's happened to me so many times, and it still happens. I have a similar situation with a lot of bands, some of which it would be really embarrassing to mention. I have lost count of how many lonely nights I spent as a teenager listening to Bon Jovi's "In These Arms" on the discman while letting myself fall into a deep, platonic and romantic sleep. :)))  "Baby I want yooou, like the roses want the rain".  There's one by Mick Jagger I listen to up until today: the song is so ridiculously catchy and the lyrics are so absolutely and deliciously lame that I couldn't avoid being hooked on it: it's called "Throwaway".  Lo and behold! It's more embarrassing than Bon Jovi could ever get - it's all so lame and deliciously ridiculous. And catchy! The lyrics are priceless: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUhn-vUT5Po  It's worth listening. :) "I used to play the Casanova, faster than a roller coster..." Hahaha.  Hug, Yara

Dan Corson V: December Boy wrote: I don't have any 'guilty pleasure' music. If I like something, I like it. No need to feel guilty about it.

Saif wrote:

queenside wrote: why would dio be a guilty pleasure? he's considered one of the best metal singers ever and for a good reason. who else can say he (or she) made 3 classic albums with 3 differents bands like dio did with rainbow (rising), sabbath (heaven and hell) and his band dio (holy diver). no one should put dio in the guilty pleasure music, he's nothing like bon jovi (i like some songs), ratt, poison, cinderella or other shit hair metal bands

True! Dio is a fucking legend...and don't group Bon Jovi with the hair metal bands... it's an insult to them. :P

Zebonka12 wrote: People should be on their knees wishing they were half as great as Dio.... Bon Jovi on the other hand, would better serve mankind if he were sent to Pluto forever. Lost Highway?  Do us a favour and stay lost, Mister Jovi...

Holly2003 wrote: Guilty pleasure music? Hank Snow and Hank Williams. For those of you under 40 years of age, they are c&w singers.  

aion wrote:

  Holly2003 wrote: Guilty pleasure music? Hank Snow and Hank Williams. For those of you under 40 years of age, they are c&w singers.  

  Country music gives me the creeps.  

aion wrote:

Dan Corson V: December Boy wrote: I don't have any 'guilty pleasure' music. If I like something, I like it. No need to feel guilty about it.

I wish it was that simple. I always feel that I'm not a "real" music fan because I like Bon Jovi. It's even more embarrassing because I'm a guy and this band has all those sappy, syrupy power ballads which men shouldn't like at all. Bon Jovi is my dark secret.

Saif wrote:

queenside wrote: why would dio be a guilty pleasure? he's considered one of the best metal singers ever and for a good reason. who else can say he (or she) made 3 classic albums with 3 differents bands like dio did with rainbow (rising), sabbath (heaven and hell) and his band dio (holy diver). no one should put dio in the guilty pleasure music, he's nothing like bon jovi (i like some songs), ratt, poison, cinderella or other shit hair metal bands

True! Dio is a fucking legend...and don't group Bon Jovi with the hair metal bands... it's an insult to them. :P

Insult to Bon Jovi or insult to hair metal bands? And yeah, I also don't think Dio is guilty pleasure.

Saif wrote:

aion wrote:

Dan Corson V: December Boy wrote: I don't have any 'guilty pleasure' music. If I like something, I like it. No need to feel guilty about it.

I wish it was that simple. I always feel that I'm not a "real" music fan because I like Bon Jovi. It's even more embarrassing because I'm a guy and this band has all those sappy, syrupy power ballads which men shouldn't like at all. Bon Jovi is my dark secret.

Saif wrote:

queenside wrote: why would dio be a guilty pleasure? he's considered one of the best metal singers ever and for a good reason. who else can say he (or she) made 3 classic albums with 3 differents bands like dio did with rainbow (rising), sabbath (heaven and hell) and his band dio (holy diver). no one should put dio in the guilty pleasure music, he's nothing like bon jovi (i like some songs), ratt, poison, cinderella or other shit hair metal bands

True! Dio is a fucking legend...and don't group Bon Jovi with the hair metal bands... it's an insult to them. :P

Insult to Bon Jovi or insult to hair metal bands? And yeah, I also don't think Dio is guilty pleasure.

Insult to hair metal.

Saif wrote: Bon Jovi is not and never were hair metal. They were just a sleazy hard rock band. I goddamn hate Motley Crue, RATT, Poison, etc. and all those other shit bands of the '80s. They weren't metal either, but MUCH closer to metal than Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi are quite anti-metal, if you ask me. Few people considered Bon Jovi metal even in the 80's. What do you guys think of W.A.S.P.? They were an 80's plain old heavy metal band often mistaken for hair metal. That's partially their fault since they look ridiculous with the glam-influenced make-up and stage outfits. They're big among metal buffs in India but I think they're shit. They rave about the (racist) lead singer Blackie Lawless having a fantastic voice and inhuman vocal range but I don't see it.