*dances around in underpants for several minutes*

Country music, I'm afraid- give me Hank Williams and a bottle of bourbon just don't tell anyone

Raves were a favorite pastime of mine in the early 90's. I still love techno old house etc. Reminds me of the young days.

Oldschool
Oldies
Rap
Boleros
Trios
Classical
Native American Songs and Music
Corridos
Salsa
Cumbia- Oldschool cumbia

I love the Crystals, the Cookies, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, the Marvelettes and of course Nancy Sinatra...

not ashamed though )

50's-early 60's pop
Elton John
Girls Aloud
And those power ballads/soft rock albums going around just now

*curls up in shame*

legendary rock poet Stevie Nicks!

Guilty as charged, when it comes to Metal. I'm not talking about neanderthal-rubbish, like MANOWAR or wannabe shockrock retards such as SLIPKNOT, but bands, who were originators in a field of music, which often gets its slagging undeservedly. Just talking about early SABBATH, early CELTIC FROST or even early METALLICA, who all have in common, that they broke down musical (and even lyrical) boundaries at their time being. Admittedly there was and still is A LOT of utterly useless bullshit around, nowadays even more so than -let's say- in the 80s or 90s, but underneath the more popular crap-bands' media coverage, there's still heavy (!) bands out there deserving more attention, e. g. KHANATE or DEATHSPELL OMEGA to name but a few.

What the hell should I ever feel guilty about ?

I appreciate at least one band of each style mentioned because I am an open-minded person (well, that's what says my resume) and I shall never be ashamed of my tastes nor compare them against Morrissey's music.

By the way Emo is not a musical style.

Shakin Stevens..oh & i've also been known to sing along to .........
"bum,bum,bum..by ay ya....."
Incase you didn't get that it is the frog song thing by Mr Mcartney.......

But I'm not sure that it's a 'guilty' pleasure...

Johnny Cash is a God

And Elvis' country stuff is not too shabby either.

This is the worst excuse for a poll I've ever seen. By what right should pants like this make the cut as opposed to the myriad of other good Morrissey-related ideas sent in weekly?

I'd expect to see something ghastly like this on Yahoo! or AOL.

Shame.

Not sure I'd call it a guilty secret, cos I like the stuff, but a lot of other people can't seem to see why I like this lot:

- French rock music - especially a band called'M'
- A lot of Brazilian tunes
- Prince - I like his music - I can't help it....
- 10CC

"Straight outta compton, crazy muthafucker called Ice Cube, from a band called Niggaz with attitude".

Why be ashamed? Rap can be great when done by a pioneering group/artist.

Jessica xx

Just because I like The Smiths doesn't mean I shouldn't like any other type of music. Hip hop is great for relaxing, not gangster rap but stuff like Nas, Antipop Consortium, Dead Prez, Mos Def, Roots Manuva etc. although I will listen to some gangster rap, The Chronic by Dr dre is well good. If you stay in your room all day listening to Morrissey,The Cure,Depeche Mode etc. shunning other types of music then fair enough but that's not for me. For me there is a time and a place for Mozza and a time and a place for hip hop, drum n bass, reggae and many other types (never really listened to country but I've no doubt that some of it is quality).

Cultural labels that is (though record labels and their big corporate nastiness also suck).
I never could pin myself down to one category of music. After all I grew up listening to my mum's reggae records and my dad's heavy metal and punk collections; my parents (bizzarely) seemed united by their love of Simply Red, The Pretenders, The Eurythmics and Robert Palmer.
My guiltiest confession would be that, aged 7, I knew all the words to Meatloaf's Bat Out Of Hell Album and used to dance around the house to Michael Jackson records ... I've since had therapy.
Anyways, after Moz and The Smiths, I suppose I mainly listen to Ryan Adams, The Cure, REM, The Shins, Counting Crows and Suede. You can't really collect all those artists under one label ... and yes, I've anticipated that some bright spark will say, you can; the label is 'shit'. Well, if my musical taste is labelled as such, I'd be rather proud.

Morrissey or Smiths
In Spanish !

Markmustb1

that The Smiths/Morrissey isnt an option- surely some of those who come here do so via their closet. ive heard of and am suspect of many closet Moz fans and iam familiar with far too many of the ignorant sort who believe Moz should be taken as a guilty pleasure if at all. let me just say to any of those here who may be in the closet to proudly standup and be counted- you hav nothing to be ashamed of.

from that list itook glam/hair, but that within that "genre" to which ido subscribe ifeel anything but guilty about- New York Dolls, Roxy Music, Queen, Guns N' Roses, Placebo, The Darkness to name a few. some of these might not be considered to be what was meant by the poll, but rest assured iharbour only the most intense loathing for bands such as Poison, Motley Crue and Bon Jovi.

If you have small kids, you gotta check out Dan Zanes, former lead singer of Del Fuegos, who now puts out hip, organic music for kids and adults. He collaborated with Lou Reed, Susanne Vega, and Cheryl Crow. It's much better than the other kids fluff out there.

I like The Cure (especially from their peak daze of 1989). Can't understand why Moz and Smith hate each other so much. Ignore the personalities, embrace the music.
ACTON

Not Guilty your honour

Pixies, The Clash, The Jam, T Rex, The Stones, Bob Marley, The Specials, The Cure, ACDC, The Who, The Sex Pistols, The Beatles, The Crystals, The Doors, Otis Redding, The Supremes, Dusty Springfield, Jeff Buckley, Massive Attack, Bowie, Nirvana, The Undertones, Dylan, The Fall, Doves, Hendrix, Joy Division, Kraftwerk, Iggy Pop, Primal Scream, The The, The Wedding Present et al.

Give me some BRUTAL Black or Death Metal i'm happy!! Its the only honest music that and Morrissey LOVE IT LIVE IT

back in the 80's, but i don't think i could sit through Poison right now.

Queen, yes.

Jewish music is fun. seriously. like German polka, but with the funky tonalities.

there are a few hymns here and there that are hummable. as are a few bits from Phantom of the Opera.

i like the Blues Traveler's "Hook" even though i really don't like the band that much.

morrissey is my musical guilty pleasure.
but i certainly don't feel guilty about it.

i usually listen to stuff like the orb, orbital,
aphex twin, autechre, plaid, squarepusher, etc.

I listen to 60's girl groups, glam bands, and reggae. I don't feel guilty about any of it. In fact, just the opposite. I cannot stand most reggae made past the 1970's though. I do love Chicory Tip, Sweet, Slade, even a lot of Cheap Trick. I draw the line with Poison, and the rest of those 80's trainwrecks though.

No mention of blues music (and, no, I'm not talking about Eric fucking Clapton). Skip James (the single most haunting voice next to you-know-who), Son House (Library of Congress recordings), R.L. Burnside (rest in peace), Sleepy John Estes, Blind Willie Johnson ('Dark was the Night'... astounding) Fred McDowell, John Hurt, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Leroy Carr, Scrapper Blackwell, Robert Johnson, Leadbelly...

Tell me I'm not alone.

He can still run the old piano.

Hip hop/ rap is not music. It is vile to the extreme. No melody, no notes, no singing, no live drums.

I had to vote other in spite of my secret love of old American country music because there are few pleasures guiltier than being a grown-up and established thirty year old who still swoons to a Morrissey fan site; so here I am, guilty of passing work time at the computer as I await the alleged next album.

I think I should own up. I was and still am an old school anarcho-punk/thrash hardcore fan. I first got into it with Heresy/L'arm/Concrete Sox, and graduated to Napalm Death (Scum era), Stupids, Electro Hippies (oh yes) Oi Polloi, Sore Throat et al. I left it for a while until I heard Nile and Mortician. The best gigs I have ever been to are Morrissey (St Georges Hall 2002), Pixies (St Georges Hall, errr....), Nile (Rios, 2002) and Mortician, the same year. It's strange they have all been relatively recent. It's also strange there is this split between the beauty and the beast. I can't explain it, but I equally enjoy Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Corpus Christi Carol, Instinct Of Survival (Napalm Death) and Chapter For Transforming Into A Snake (Nile) - all works of majesty in their own right. My favourite song however is Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself. Goodnight.

Sk.

i fuckin' love kylie and i don't care who knows it.

and i remained a massive oasis fan. even during the lean years of BHN and SOTSOG.

Love the 80's power ballads...OH GOD, REO SPEEDWAGON, WHY?! WHY?!!! Also, I do sing along to the New Kids On The Block when they play it on the noon 80's hour on the radio...I was 10 when they came out, it was my 1st concert, and I LOVE YOU DONNIE AND JORDAN! LMAO, oh god i just vomited!

Maplefreak.

Everybody my age grew up on hair metal. No Warrant or Motley Crue for me -- only the good stuff ;)

Better musical taste came later, but in middle school you don't know any better...

I have no guilty pleasure about her. I even have tattoo of her name. Now by saying that, about 4 of you know who i am. But anyways, as much flack I may get i never deny it. I love Britney Spears. Her music to me is great. I don't relate to a lot of the things because I’m not a pre-pubescent teen. And moreover, I'm not a 40 year old pervert with a boner. I'm 2 weeks older than Brit herself. I love the music and her voice is great. People want to bash her for not writing her own lyrics (90% of the time) but look at Elvis. Then again that's a whole other issue. But for Britney i enjoy it on a production stand point as well as a vocal stand point. I could go on, but you get the general idea. However, i am a die-hard Morrissey fan to the core. And i will never change that. Andso Britney to me (and i am probably speaking for all of us whether it be Britney or anything else mentioned) doesn't blemish my love for Moz in anyway. Well let the blood bath begin.

The boy with the buttons

I must add my voice to the others who have stated that, in the eyes of the world, Morrissey seems to be the guilty pleasure. I have been a musician since the '80s, and very few people I have worked with will admit to being a fan of Moz in his post-Smiths years.

I listen to a lot of Jazz from the '20s and '30s: Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, King Oliver, Bix Beiderbecke, etc. Music was never sweeter, sadder, or more charmingly raunchy.

I also have a great fondness for Rammstein.

Oh, and Marc Almond is a genius.

Here's to feeling no guilt about listening to whatever music gives you pleasure!

Jazz...say no more.

As for opera...Puccini, bar-none.

Does that count?

I love truckin' music... not even a guilty pleasure... I'll tell everyone. There's just no one like Red Sovine -- "awww --- l'il joe" -- I'd like to hear Moz cover "There will be no country music, there will be no rock 'n roll"

oh how quickly you all forget!

my guilty pleasure in music is Melanie...she has a voice that will be my favorite forever!

I would call Morrissey a guilty pleasure however, because that is so obvious, I can happily, confidently and courageously say that I LOVE classical piano and absolutely can't stop listening to ABBA! I think that was probably my mom's influence. I think she is the original dancing queen! I also like 70's disco but not all the time.

I tend to focus on songs/bands rather than genres.... so I can't really choose a whole category.
My guilty pleasure though ~ Boney M..... they're so much fun, I can't help it.

Mr Frank Sinatra

i have none...

just give me pleasures, forget about the guilt

i'll like what i like and be damned

whats emo??

Emo is not a guilty pleasure.

...Rick Astley.

1. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Soundtrack
2. Weird Al Yankovich "Fat"
3. Def Leppard "Hysteria"
4. Neil Diamon's Greatest Hits
5. Meatloaf "Bat Outta Hell 1 & 2"
6. Hall and Oats Greatest Hits
7. Anything Backstreet Boys
8. Garth Brooks "No Fences"
9. Kanye West "College Dropout"
10. "Catching Up With Depeche Mode"
11. Sir Mix A Lot "Baby Got Back"
12. Bon Jovi "Slippery When Wet"

I love daydreaming to the Star Wars soundtracks.
He is an amazing composer!
I saw him perform at the Hollywood Bowl with the LA
Philharmonic, which was a great show.
It felt weird to go thru the front gate to the Bowl
without going thru the hardcore security checks I'm used to at
Morrissey concerts! LOL

No guilt here! My friends know I'm a Star Wars and Morrissey
fan!

I love show tunes. I don't see why I should feel guilty about it though. My dream come true would to see Moz himself in a Musical. I love all kinds of Musicals from Rent to Les Miserables to West Side Story to Oklahoma! Morrissey could choose whatever he wants. I'd be there front row center every night :)

I don't see why 60's girl bands or glam rock is listed considering Moz and Marr were influenced by such music when they were young.

house is great ... but not the plastic, biscuit-base, mass-produced shit, oh, no, that is house - sorry, still love it. Radio 1 on a Friday night, oh yes! Drum and bass, Motown, Francoise Hardy, jazz, Psychedelic Furs, Skunk Anansie for the great big bald dyke who headed it up and now the Kaiser Chiefs! God, wish I could be more underground!

Gotta love em all!

Where do I begin?

"This is my Life" - Shirley Bassey
"He'll have to go" - Jim Reeves
"You're having my baby" - Paul Anka
"My Way" - Frank Sinatra

An obvious penchant for 'Crooners'at the tender age of 46 !!!
My soul is cleansed however by my love of Moz.

I like showtunes, but I am not at all ashamed of this fact.

So, I suppose my only guilty listening pleasure is a bit of emo.

Bon Jovi, Slaughter, Poison, Motley Crue, Nelson, everything else that had spunky guys in tight pants... Those were the days...

Has anyone read The Dirt? It's so wrong, yet I couldn't put it down. Why do I like Nikki Sixx so much...

But then I turned to Moz...

Also - Placebo, Dandy Warhols, Blur, Jeff Buckley, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (Hail Sir Nick!!)... too many to count...

I stand accused
Of Love in The First Degree

Yeh Stock, Aitken and Waterman are my guilty pleasure. "I'd Rather Jack" by The Reynold's Girls

"Golden Oldies, Rolling Stones, we don't want them back.
I'd rather jack, than Fleetwood Mac.
No Heavy Metal, Rock 'n' Roll, music from the past,
I'd rather Jack, to Fleetwood Mac."
The lyrical dexterity.

F****** HELL I just went on t'internet to find out more of these lyrics and it transpires that Peter & The Test Tube Babies did the original!!!WELL YOU LEARN SOMETHING NEW.....
Um so I hate Stock Aitken and Waterman now. Wheres the originality? :-) Grrr.

I like "electronic" stuff, back in the day Tribal Gathering, Universe, happy faces on one. Still love Underworld, Leftfield, Nightmares on Wax and all those 90's bands who were going to "do" for guitar music (Check out Dubnobasswithmyheadman... one of the best LPS ever) Lovely. Going to see the Prodigy on their greatest hits tour. I also like(d) progressive house but trance is just rubbish as is happy hardcore. Drum n bass is ok to listen to in the house but I ain't a jar of glue how I'm emant to dance to it, even on copious amounts of the other...

Um I like 60s girl groups too and glam rock. When I was a kid I used to like AC/DC and I confess to having owned Appetite For Destruction.

can't rememebr the other options but I do own Cisco "The Thong Song"..... and Nelly "Getting Hot In Here" though as a general rule I am not a fan of RnB (apart from So Solid Crew... Ahem)

And I'm going to see A-ha in December and all. Oh and Frankie Goes to Hollywood minus Holly!
GO on slap me on the patio
GUILTY YOUR HONOUR.

And I'm going to a gig by myself tonight which is something I ain't dun since 1991. Art Brut.

(And the Fall a guilty pleasure? If more people listened to the Fall then this country wouldn't have gone to the dogs. And thats a fact!)

BLUEBIRDS

One day, I was with this mature peer of mine, she was telling me she sang opera in her spare time, we sat in this 'hip' café and the servers, to spook every one out, began to play songs from Bad, by Michael Jackson. I discovered I still kinda of like him! He might look like one of his monsters from thriller now, but boy did he have energy! Ah, and I confess I like Pet Shop Boys too - much to Morrissey's distress... I love "It's a Sin", "King's Cross", "I Wants to Wake Up".... and I don't feel BAD.

M.I.A., Kanye West, and that Gwen Stefani album. yeeeah.

I am actually quite surprised after viewing this poll for a few weeks that over 200 people have admitted to 'Hip Hop' as being their musical guilty pleasure? I have been around since the beginning of Hip Hop and Rap and it still shows me absolutely nothing {as far as individual talent] to write this type of music. It has nothing to do with Morrissey's views on the very same types of music. I guess it just bugs me that the majority of the younger kids nowadays are wasting their money on this instead of giving it to bands who are really worthy of it! The bands I am speaking about are the ones that have musicians who can actually place an instrument and sing without having to accent every other fourth word. You know, the ones who are not scratching records and sampling everybody else's riffs to then turn around and call it their own. Your musical taste always changes as you grow older. You will start to appreciate the better music that is out there. I guess their are still many a DJ out there that still need a proper hanging and burial.

elvis presley, cyndi lauper, duran duran, 60's french pop, the 5d, otis redding, honor blackman & patrick mcknee, buddy holly, nancy sinatra, frank sinatra, patsy cline, etta james, barry manilow...yes barry manilow & many more.

Is it really a guilty pleasure if you openly admit it?

If so, my musical guilty pleasure is Ricky Martin. Any and everything by him. He's a lot like Moz if you think about it. Questionable sexuality, dulcite tones... He's a better dancer though.

I admit it! I like the healers.
Ok, I lied.. but if I did like them I would feel VERY guilty about it.

the return of good metal.

ok...don't hate me for this...Yoko Ono...sorry :-)

Daryl Hall&John Oates

1. Slipknot....
2. Bleeding Through
3. Danzig
4. Johnny Cash

and people, I know this defies all logic but I kinda like.....

5. My Chemical Romance

Heeheeeheee

There I said it.

...I've always had a massive soft spot for Adam Ant. Do a google search for an mp3 of Adam Ant playing "Shakin All Over" from around 1995. Boz is on it and he plays guitar like he's sold his soul!

TT

... Half Biscuit.

Great Songs:

99% of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd

4AD 3DCD

I Left My Heart In Papworth General

Tending The Wrong Grave For 23 Years

Look Dad, No Tunes.

By far the Greatest Band to listen to when Pissed. (Apart from the obvious)