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Since I have seen a few submissions in the 2018 guilty pleasures results thread, I think it's proper to post a new topic in preparation of the 2022 edition of the poll. Please refrain from songs that made it in our top 200.

To start off, I find this a complete earworm for years, whether I like it or not...

Chimo Bayo, ""Así Me Gusta A Mí (X-Ta Sí, X-Ta No)" (1991)
The song was a major hit in Spain, Greece and South America as well as reaching number one in Japan, Israel and elsewhere.

It's a pretty catchy eurodance song nothing special, then the lyrics kick in:
Chiqui tan, chiquiti tan-tan-tan
Que tumban-ban, que tumban
Que tepe-tepe
Tan pan-pan, que tumban, que pin
Exta sí, exta no ...

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What are your thoughts on the following artists or bands and if you think they should be included in my next list cause I’m on the fence whether they should be included.
Just could use some feedback if you look upon them favorably or not or kind of on the novelty side:

*Mike and the Mechanics
*Indigo Girls
* Del Amitri
* Miami Sound Machine
* Robbie Williams (I’m in the US where he never so much as scratched the charts)
* the Corrs
* Nelly Furtado
* Natalie Inbruglia
* Puffy AmiYumi
* Apples in Stereo
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luvulongTIM wrote: Mon Sep 27, 2021 7:15 am What are your thoughts on the following artists or bands and if you think they should be included in my next list cause I’m on the fence whether they should be included.
Just could use some feedback if you look upon them favorably or not or kind of on the novelty side:

*Mike and the Mechanics
...
Everyone has his or her own personal feelings, tastes, or opinions of a song or an artist. I've read somewhere "if something brings you enjoyment, then others’ judgements about its quality should have little to no bearing on your experience of it." If the artists you've listed brings you enjoyment and you think others think lesser of them then consider them your guilty pleasures. I personally think they each have very well-crafted songs (many have entries in the last edition of the guilty pleasures poll).

On the other hand, the artist below I think is very well-respected (even in AM) with respect to her electro-dance songs ("Dancing on my Own" even ranked 20 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs) but there was a time when she was a teen-pop artist, in a sea of 90s teen-pop artists. This song especially was a bop better than any Jessica Simpson, Mandy Moore, Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears (except for "...Baby One More Time") came up. I consider this a guilty pleasure because the lyrically it's the same run of the mill love song but the song's bassline and Robyn's singing elevates it.

Robyn, "Show Me Love" (1997)
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Someone else mentioned industrial music (as in made to promote a company's wares rather than as in NIN or Ministry.
Here's my suggestion:
[spotifytrack]https://open.spotify.com/track/0JHjDC1v ... l_branch=1[/spotifytrack]
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Hope we get to do a favorite guilty pleasures artists/bands poll some day.
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We Were There (from industrial musical Diesel Dazzle, 1966)


If you want to listen to the whole album, Diesel Dazzle: A Musical Moment in the Pursuit of Solescence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnDpY2hwf-Q
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Yowsa! Guilty As Charged

Richard Cheese - Buddy Holly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kocmfjJWNZ8
Richard Harris - MacArthur Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRwYQgk05DY
Curt Boettcher - Tumbling Tumbleweed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGGRyxyhY9U
Pilot - Get Up And Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQnj-w3bvkE
Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLf6MIdE1BE
Flash And The Pan - Communication Breakdown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDgpkoKagA0
Kim Wilde - Tuning In Tuning On https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjuBdXlBjjc
Los Cuates de Sinaloa - Negro Y Azul (The Ballad Of Heisenberg) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DPGjjCBcAg
Atomic Swing - Stone Me Into The Groove https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffG7_wjdJnc
Connie Stevens - Sixteen Reasons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itAtYKklaSc --- or --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnZKD-EqMQA
Rita Lee - Reza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDit29hYY3w
Bye Bye Birdie Cast - The Telephone Hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8xc-fmS_RA
Yellowman - Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g73fhu8TAg
Carly Simon - Let The River Run https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxHrH8z2V90
George Baker Selection - Little Green Bag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b1wt3-zpzQ
Trevor Jones & Randy Edelman - Promentory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-b0K7mLWak
Steve Miller Band - Jet Airliner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYH3orzrItA
Trammps - Disco Inferno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5lSeYd_riw
Tyler Bates & Joel J. Richard - Story Of Wick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQquH1Y4U7Q
Fidlar - By Myself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My_FCRu8mnM
John Phillips - Mississippi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMOs-POECE4
Diana Ross & The Supremes - In & Out Of Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1oW-c9SbEQ
Gabriella Cilmi - Sweet About Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvuyYj5ROmk
Lily Allen - The Fear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-wGMlSuX_c
Laura Nyro - Once It Was Alright Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3N7TBrfOA
The Flirts - Jukebox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ3XOqm0miA
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luvulongTIM wrote: Mon Sep 27, 2021 7:15 am Just could use some feedback if you look upon them favorably or not or kind of on the novelty side:

* Miami Sound Machine
Honestly, this is the only artist I would attach the term "guilty pleasure" to though I wouldn't call myself a "fan" of any of the others (save Indigo Girls).
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Would there be criteria to exclude any song listed on AM for this tournament? Because it would probably be best to establish such rules before we start (not that I have much to shout about on that front for the polls I've ran).
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mileswide wrote: Sat Oct 23, 2021 11:09 pm Would there be criteria to exclude any song listed on AM for this tournament? Because it would probably be best to establish such rules before we start (not that I have much to shout about on that front for the polls I've ran).
Are you talking about NOT guilty pleasures? :)
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Fred wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 9:37 pm
mileswide wrote: Sat Oct 23, 2021 11:09 pm Would there be criteria to exclude any song listed on AM for this tournament? Because it would probably be best to establish such rules before we start (not that I have much to shout about on that front for the polls I've ran).
Are you talking about NOT guilty pleasures? :)
Quite the opposite! I'm talking pleasures that have so much guilt attached you feel like you're being trialled at The Hague- nothing that can be perceived as having been acclaimed at any time should be eligible for this poll, in my opinion, so nothing on AM. But it's just an idea 8-)
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*DIGGED deep for this one

1. Richard Marx- Hazard
2. Miami Sound Machine- Bad Boy
3. Celine Dion- To Love You More
4. Patty Labelle & Michael McDonald- On My Own
5. Tony Braxton & Kenny G.- How Can An Angel Break My Heart
6. John Tesh- Roundball Rock
7. The Jetts- You’ve Got it All
8. Chumbawumba- Amnesia
9. Stevie Wonder- Overjoyed (it’s 80s Stevie Wonder after all)
10. Celine Dion- It’s All Coming Back to Me Now
11. Mike & the Mechanics- the Living Years
12. Nelly Furtado- Powerless
13. P!nk- Fun House
14. Color Me Bad- All 4 Love
15. 3rd Eye Blind- Never Let You Go
16. Spice Girls- Stop
17. Take That- Back for Good
18. Phil Collins and Marlyn Martin- Separate Lives
19. Carly Simon- Coming Around Again
20. Presidents of the United States of America- Peaches
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And since it got decimated in the COVERS poll post I guess it’s safe to assume that this cover is not well received so…..

21. Gorkys Zygotic Mynci- Fresher than the Sweetness in Water
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Most of the mainstream EDM.

In fact, although I always boast of being an "elegant" indie rock nerd, there are still considerable "Top-100-DJ" music, which IMPOSSIBLY exist in my Best-song-of-the-year list, in my personal weekly music chart. For instance, my #1 single this week was Pretty Little Words by Mike Williams, and a few weeks ago, Diamonds by Martin Garrix: http://musictrack.cn/chart/2757/
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