This is a little embarassing, but I need to get this off my chest...

[ssampier]

I love the Skater Boy song by Avril Lavene(sp).

Ska8er Boy is okay. I enjoy it when it on the radio, but I won't make any effort to listen to it otherwise. For a brief period of time I really liked her Complicated song. I don't know why.

 

[Sandain]

I still like A-HA

 

[Thunderfoot]

I too, have a weakness for 1970s pop. ABBA, Electric Light Orchestra, etc.

But, my bigger confession...I actually kind of liked the Spice Girls. And not just because 4 of the 5 of them were hot.

At least ELO is cool...

SPICE GIRLS - you are so lame.

 

[Thunderfoot]

I grew up in the '80s, so I'm right there with you.

Straddle the line, in discord and rhyme
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Mouth is alive with juices like wine
And I'm hungry like the wolf

I was quite young then so no fashion influence. That'd come later with the jeans with holes in them.

Her name was Frito and she made some corn chips, yeah... (or something like that. )
/yep, I've been making fun of songs for a very very very long time./

 

[Thunderfoot]

I still like A-HA

A-HA ROCKS!!!!
Mostly because I can sing along and hit that high A over C and watch peoples chin hit the floor (male musician with MANY years of experience.)

 

[kenobi65]

At least ELO is cool...

SPICE GIRLS - you are so lame.

Well, in my defense...

I don't actually own any Spice Girls albums (and only have 2 MP3s from them). OTOH, I own every ELO album.

 

[Kid Socrates]

I tend to stick to rock or intelligent pop. I am a huge Sting fan, own every album and most of the B-sides. I like my required number of current bands (Green Day, Dave Matthews Band, Maroon 5, Franz Ferdinand), I dislike the required number of current bands to keep an indie cred (Coldplay, Papa Roach, half of what's played on Top 40), and I even like some local bands, including ones that have broken up so I can talk about how great music was "back then." (Washington D.C.-based Dismemberment Plan and Lawrence, KS band Anything But Joey)

But, um, well. Okay, there's this song by Marc Anthony called "I Need To Know." When it came on the radio a while back, my friend Brian and I were driving around, and both of us, immediately, "See, this is why music is going downhill." "Oh, yeah! It's trite, it's sophomoric, the music is over-the-top and the sampling is bad." "Not to mention..."

And then less than a minute later, both of us, top of our lungs, "TELL ME BABY GIRL 'CAUSE I NEED TO KNOOOOOW!"

Every time that song comes on I am required by my soul to turn my radio up as loud as it goes and turn into a Latino singing sensation. And I'm not happy about it.

I also really like N Sync's "Pop." I'm so ashamed.

Also -- is it possible to hear Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" without singing along to it in a ridiculously over-the-top campy style? I have so far been unable to resist.

 

[Atavar]

Yarr! Argh! Fiddlee dee!

For some reason I llike the song "You're a Pirate" from that kids' show, LazyTown. I even have it as my MySpace page's song. I keep picturing playing that song as background music during a pirate-themed D&D session. Savage Tide, anyone....?

Later,

Atavar

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"Yarr! Argh! Fiddlee dee! If you love to sail the seas, you--are--a PIRATE!" - You're a Pirate (LazyTown)

 

[somecallmetim]

I prefer the Backyardigans "A Pirate says ARRRR!" and sometimes even sing along with it.

Tim

 

[jeff37923]

Another closet ABBA fan here.
Please don't tell my collection of Punk Rock cassettes...