Here I go, then, with my “So bad it’s good” musical list - all of which can be found on my iPod - inspired by Q magazine’s Top 10 Guilty Pleasures, and already blogged about at Love and Liberty.
Think of these songs as the musical equivalent of eating a cold, leftover pizza slice with salad cream to nurse a Tequila hangover - the taste might be shocking, but sometimes nothing else will do.
- All Saints (Never Ever)
- Alvin Stardust (My Coo-Ca-Choo)
- Andreas Johnson (Glorious)
- Avril Lavigne (Sk8er Boi)
- Bananarama (Love in the First Degree)
- blink-182 (All the Small Things)
- Boney M (Rasputin)
- Brian McFadden (Real to Me)
- Busted (Year 3000)
- Charlotte Church (Crazy Chick)
- Daphne & Celeste (U.G.L.Y.)
- Darius (Rushes)
- Dolly Parton (Jolene)
- Emma Bunton (Maybe)
- Falco (Rock Me Amadeus)
- 5ive (Everybody Get Up)
- G4 (Creep)
- Girls Aloud (Racey Lacey)
- Hanson (MMMBop)
- Julian Lennon (Saltwater)
- Mark Owen (Four Minute Warning)
- Nena (99 Red Balloons)
- Rachel Stevens (Sweet Dreams My LA Ex)
- Ricky Martin (Livin' La Vida Loca)
- Robbie Williams (Radio)
- S Club 7 (Don’t Stop Movin’)
- Shampoo (Trouble)
- Shania Twain (That Don't Impress Me Much)
- The B-52s (Love Shack)
- Wheatus (Teenage Dirtbag)
3 comments:
Think of these songs as the musical equivalent of eating a cold pizza slice with salad cream to nurse a Tequila hangover
I am scandalised that you know of such things...:)
But will agree on Wheatus and Nena. Do you have the English version of 99 Luftballon? I could only find the German one when I looked. But I have fond memories of the year it was in the charts (1984 I think?). I believe Wheatus's keyboard player (though not when "Teenage Dirtbag" was current) is an Oxford chap (played at Catweazle once).
All Saints (Never Ever)
Disgraceful. "Pure Shores" is far superior ;-)
Your've got me guiltily looking at my ipod playlists, most I'd be prepared to admit to in polite company, but there are a couple of frankly dodgy choices as well.
Perhaps worst by some margin is Eros Ramazzottii (I was going theough my Euro power ballads phase), also B52s (Roam), Gabrielle (what was I thinking of) and Sash (whatever did happen to them?). Wang Chung - takes me back but very dated.
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