Our favourite guilty songs

[Paul]

UK News (Sky news)

Status Quo Our Guilty Favourite Songs

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Hits by the likes of Status Quo and S Club 7 are among the Top 50 tracks people are too embarrassed to admit they own.

Q magazine's Top 10 includes Rebel Yell by Billy Idol and Rock & Roll Part 2 by Gary Glitter and Quo's Whatever You Want.

Barbra Streisand's epic Woman In Love, Devil Woman by Sir Cliff Richard and I Could Be So Good For You by Minder star Dennis Waterman also make the list.

But the top spot goes to the Electric Light Orchestra with their 1976 hit Livin' Thing.

"ELO may never be fashionable, but in terms of sheer aural elation, this betters more revered bands' entire back catalogues," said Q.

More Than A Feeling by Boston was second, followed by S Club 7.

Also hiding away in the Top 50 were Ronan Keating's Life Is A Rollercoaster, Letter From America by The Proclaimers and Livin' La Vida Loca by Ricky Martin.

Q said: "They're the records it's OK to love."

Top 20 Guilty Pleasures

1 Livin' Thing - ELO
2 More Than A Feeling - Boston
3 Don't Stop Movin' - S Club 7
4 I'm Not In Love - 10CC
5 Rock'n'Roll Part 2 - Gary Glitter
6 Cold As Ice - Foreigner
7 Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
8 Whatever You Want - Status Quo
9 Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
10 I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
11 Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow
12 Centrefold - J Geils Band
13 Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
14 Never Ever - All Saints
15 Mr Boombastic - Shaggy
16 Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Yes
17 Manic Monday - Bangles
18 Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
19 Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
20 Rock On - David Essex

[Paul]

1 Livin' Thing - ELO
2 More Than A Feeling - Boston
3 Don't Stop Movin' - S Club 7
4 I'm Not In Love - 10CC
5 Rock'n'Roll Part 2 - Gary Glitter
6 Cold As Ice - Foreigner
7 Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
8 Whatever You Want - Status Quo
9 Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
10 I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
11 Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow
12 Centrefold - J Geils Band
13 Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
14 Never Ever - All Saints
15 Mr Boombastic - Shaggy
16 Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Yes
17 Manic Monday - Bangles
18 Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
19 Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
20 Rock On - David Essex

I have to admit to quite a few of those! Add Girls Aloud. I like the S Club 7 song too. :hide:

[Troll]

Some interesting songs.

[canoilers]

I like some of those too, but I defiantly don't feel guitly about anything I listen too.

[UllaCountryGal]

I'm guilty of some of these songs.... But to have it straight I don't really feel guilty about owning them and listening to them but I don't flaunt the fact

[randine]

1 Livin' Thing - ELO
2 More Than A Feeling - Boston
3 Don't Stop Movin' - S Club 7
4 I'm Not In Love - 10CC
5 Rock'n'Roll Part 2 - Gary Glitter
6 Cold As Ice - Foreigner
7 Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
8 Whatever You Want - Status Quo
9 Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
10 I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
11 Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow
12 Centrefold - J Geils Band
13 Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
14 Never Ever - All Saints
15 Mr Boombastic - Shaggy
16 Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Yes
17 Manic Monday - Bangles
18 Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
19 Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
20 Rock On - David Essex

Interesting. I listen to some of those songs and I really like them. Actually, I don't feel guilty about listening to them... I really kinda like them.

[aFinn]

Guilty Favourite Songs
13 Summer of '69 - Bryan AdamsI don't know what that song is doing there, it's one of the best songs ever :p

I have tons of songs from the 80´s that are my guilty pleasure songs. Funny, some days ago we actually chatted at work about songs from 80's plus all kinds of weirdest songs, it all started when I asked my colleagues what is the most embarrassing album they got :p Discussion soon turned to single songs. Funny how everyone knew the lyrics to all the 'bad' songs by heart :p

[twaintrain]

10 I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
13 Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
14 Never Ever - All Saints
17 Manic Monday - Bangles
19 Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper

Those are the only ones I've heard of but I like them.

[matty]

8 Whatever You Want - Status Quo
11 Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow
13 Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
15 Mr Boombastic - Shaggy
18 Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds

I don't get the whole "guilty" thing. If you like something listen to it :rolleyes:

[Paul]

Maybe its supposed to mean we're not "supposed" to like it. Uncool.....which I am. :p

[matty]

Well I'd rather be uncool than listen to the music that's on TV nowadays.

I sound like an old man :p

[Paul]

Ah well the thing with listening to fashionable music is that it goes out of fashion. Most of the stuff on this list will be around for a long time. I still like the stuff I listened to as a kid, I guess I come in and out of fashion every few years.....my friends love that I'm a Queen fan, they all really like Queen, yet when they were in the charts people laughed at me. Every time I go out Queen are played, maybe more than they used to be.

Like going to see the Quo, I couldn't care less, I walked into the gig 10 mins before it started, managed to go right to the front and it was one of the best gigs I've ever seen. :p I still can't explain the Girls Aloud thing though, maybe they will be on this list in 20 years time!

[~Lisa~]

1 Livin' Thing - ELO
2 More Than A Feeling - Boston
3 Don't Stop Movin' - S Club 7
4 I'm Not In Love - 10CC
5 Rock'n'Roll Part 2 - Gary Glitter
6 Cold As Ice - Foreigner
7 Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
8 Whatever You Want - Status Quo
9 Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
10 I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
11 Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow
12 Centrefold - J Geils Band
13 Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
14 Never Ever - All Saints
15 Mr Boombastic - Shaggy
16 Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Yes
17 Manic Monday - Bangles
18 Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
19 Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
20 Rock On - David Essex

Some of these songs I don't feel guilty about listening too, I quite like them.

I have to admit to quite a few of those! Add Girls Aloud. I like the S Club 7 song too. :hide:

I love Girls Aloud :D