Just had to pop in to say that, while essentially a
guilty pleasure itself, for me, karaoke has given a
new lease to a host of guilty-pleasure type songs
(think "Careless Whisper," Boston's "Long Time", and
the entire oeuvre of The Little River Band) whose very
bombast and bathos make them a sheer joy to belt out
(with the gleefully given aid of a barful of drunken,
tuneless yayhoos.)

And while I agree with Stewart that there should
probably be no guilt, I think the guilt in guilty
pleasures to me is not in love of the song, but in
acknowledging that an otherwise disdainfully dismissed
songster has craftily created something that burrowed
deeply past the sentinals I posted at the gates of my
better judgement - in a word, I am outfoxed.  

Then again, if the foundations of my better judgement
were built in a youth during which my favorite song
for an entire year was "Perhaps Love," a sap-strewn
duet between Placido Domingo and John Denver, for
god's sake, how could it be expected to withstand any
onslaught now? 

respectfully,
--kelly






--- Hersh Forman <hiforman@yahoo.com> wrote:

> And Styx....even the Denis De Young stuff!
> 
> "Babe I'm leavin'...."
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jaimie Vernon <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Sent: Saturday, February 3, 2007 2:44:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Guilty Pleasures
> 
> 
> At Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 11:54:44 Lawrence wrote:
> 
> >Yup.  Can take or leave the band.  But I do dig the
> guitar riff in the 
> >chorus to
> >"Double Vision."
> 
> I guess this is where the term 'guilty pleasure'
> makes sense...cause 
> Foreigner was an influence for me at one point when
> I was starting to really 
> dig rock beyond the obvious KISS introduction for a
> teenage boy.
> 
> I'll defend 'Double Vision' and most of the first
> album (forget "Cold As 
> Ice" and "Feels Like The First Time"....the killer
> track was "Long, Long Way 
> From Home"...the only song not written by Mick
> Jones). 'Head Games' is where 
> it fell down for me....especially hearing Lou Gramm
> spouting inane drivel 
> about 17 year-old girls. Ick.
> 
> I've heard the terms "despised" and "crap" levelled
> in the same breathe as 
> Foreigner so I guess I'm not hip or cool (though
> that was never a 
> consideration anyway). And I'll gladly confess to
> Boston's debut, Triumph's 
> "Just A Game" and the first Motley Crue album before
> Elektra Records decided 
> to try and remix it...oh, and any Ozzy-era Black
> Sabbath.
> 
> Jaimie Vernon,
> President, Bullseye Records
> http://www.bullseyecanada.com
> 
> SWAG:
> http://www.cafepress.com/bullseyecanada
> BULLSEYE LIVE 365 RADIO:
> http://www.live365.com/stations/bullseyerecords
> 
> Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
> http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/
> 
> http://www.myspace.com/jaimievernonsmovingtargetz
> 
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