Guilty Pleasure (and Much Hated) Songs of 2005

[Joubert[$]]

So what caught your attention on the radio this year? What was your guilty pleasure song(s)? What about the ones you couldn't or can't take anymore?

I will admit it. She's not my type, I don't find her attractive, her pipes aren't as strong as some others, but Kelly Clarkson's Because of You gets me every time. The thing sounds like Jim Steinman wrote (she co-wrote it, he's not on the credits).

I also really liked just about everything Eminem did this year, especially Mockingbird. I adored everything Green Day put out from American Idiot. I was calling Wake Me When September Ends a hit last year. Jesus of Suburbia is the fifth or sixth single off the album. Won't chart as high, but is an awesome piece of music. I also hummed Carrie Underwood's Inside Your Heaven until the damn American Idol stuff went away.

Songs That Really Ticked Me Off:

I liked Nickelback's Photograph the first 200 times I heard it. It can go bye-bye for another decade or so. Absolutely hate the Black Eyed Peas' My Humps. At least when 50 Cent did the same type of song, he said, "Look, y'all, we're gonna get nasty, but we're gonna have fun." What's-er-name just screeches and struts her way through the song. Can't take it, and it's played every hour. I didn't mind Destiny's Child's stuff this year, but I think they sold out in the hopes of one last big payday, which sort of ticked me off a bit and made it hard to listen to.

What about you guys? I'm sure I missed tons of good and bad music.l

[phoenixx]

Strong negative feelings toward "My Humps". Musical Vomit. And it is sad, because the Peas can be oh so good when they have their sh*t together.

Guilty pleasure? Probably "Gold Digger" by Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx.

Biggest disappointment in an album goes to Marc Broussard. His song "Home" reached up out of the radio and grabbed me. I went to iTunes to support the artist and get the whole CD - and ended up just downloading "Home". Nothing pisses me off more than artist who does one truly outstanding song in one genre, then the rest of the album is not only sub-par all around but an entirely different sound (how do you go from the heart pumping roots rock of "Home" to the R&B slow as heck "I wish I was in the 70s but I'm not good enough to pull it off" whine of the rest of the album?? blech). Too bad, "Home" showed promise.

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

I couldn't tell you what was released this year. I rarely listen to the radio except for NPR.

[lynnzop[$]]

I'm on the opposite side of the fence from George this time.

The Kelly Clarkson song grabbed me the first time I heard it. I remember driving home and hearing it, and saying "That's Kelly Clarkson. Put a bullet in my head for knowing that." And sure enough, it was Clarkson. But the 2000th time I heard it, I wanted to rip my eardrums out.

The Nickleback song I love. I even like hearing it on the clips for whatever ad it's selling right now (can't remember the product, some phone maybe?).

ANYTHING from Rob Thomas's solo CD. I got it for Bree for Christmas, put it on my CD player and couldn't stop moving in my chair.

RENT soundtrack is my guilty pleasure.

[Joubert[$]]

I forgot about Rob Thomas. He's my favorite contemporary artist now so I just sort of spaced on him. Yes, awesome album.

Lynn, if you have iTunes, go to Kelly Clarkson's page and listen to the 30 second clips of Because of You and its *9* remixes. There is a pretty acoustic version and one with all the strings pulled out. Then there is a dance club mix that will anger you.

[theworm[$]]

I sort of like that Kelly Clarkson song, too, but they're playing it too much and I'm embarrased to like her because I hate many of her other songs.
Radio down here is SOOOO bad that I don't even know what is new this year.
I like Rob Thomas.
Which Nickelback are you talking about? I love one of their songs, but I don't know the group that well. And there is a Three Doors Down song that I like, but I don't know if thats from this year.
And I hate a bunch of Gwen Stephani's stuff. Ick.

[taurusmoon]

I'm with MJ. I completely eschew Pop radio. Sounds like I'm lucky I do.

[lynnzop[$]]

theworm said

Which Nickelback are you talking about?

Photograph.

Looking at a photograph, every time I do it makes me laugh
Every time I do, it makes me

blah blah blah (I can't remember all the words and I have something else on)

George, I don't think that Kelly Clarkson song can be redeemed in any form for me. I swear, I have heard it three times in one two hour period of time.

I listen to a lot of radio when I'm on road trips or on my commute (30 minutes one way)...I was just listening to Classic Rock and talk radio, but decided after being chided by George that I needed to open my options a little.

[Joubert[$]]

Well, will you at least watch American Idol starting in a couple of weeks? We can be catty in that thread.

[phoenixx]

American Idol starts again in two weeks... and I have a DVR now so I don't have to make honey watch... hmmmmmm


Is it still Simon, Paula and Randy?

[CurtisEdmonds]

I don't ever want to hear a Rob Thomas song again. When I'm in the car with my fiancee, we listen to XM Channel 22, the inoffensive adult contemporary "Mix" station, and they play the living hell out of Rob Thomas, and that stupid Green Day "I walk alone" song, and the whole Sensitive Guys Soundtrack, featuring Maroon Five for Foo Fighting Ben Matthews Band.

Plan for 2006: listen to a whole lot more bluegrass.

Best albums of 2005: James McMurtry's "Childish Things" and Robert Earl Keen's "What I Really Mean".

[phoenixx]

the whole Sensitive Guys Soundtrack, featuring Maroon Five for Foo Fighting Ben Matthews Band.

Curtis! Now I have to clean my monitor!

[Joubert[$]]

CurtisEdmonds said

and the whole Sensitive Guys Soundtrack, featuring Maroon Five for Foo Fighting Ben Matthews Band.

(slinks away and makes note to never let Curtis see his iPod)

Bluegrass is cool too. In really small doses. But living in Virginia, it's a law tha you have to listen every so often.

And, Curtis, I had you pegged as a battle rapper wanna-be. I'm very disappointed.

[Magick1]

My favorites this year are surrounded by Wiggles this Wiggles that.

Hot Potato and Fruit Salad & Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red Car.

I don't get an opportunity to really listed to radio and rarely if ever do I get the treat of "real" music, whether it's some of my old stuff or new music on the radio.

Hubby bought me a 8 MG Creative Zen MP3/Photo player thing though. Hopefully, he can teach me to rip stuff off & then I can listen to real music again.

It's also able to record off of FM and that will be neat (if I ever figure it out).

[pippadaisy[$]]

What Kim said.

Although I'm really liking what's his name... Mike Doughty? 27 Jennifers. Love that song. That was this year, right? I think?

Now ask me what's on Radio Disney. I know all the words to most Hilary Duff songs, most Aly & AJ songs, and that blonde kid with the streaks.

Someone please shoot me now.

[lynnzop[$]]

BANG. I watched portions of Dick Clark's NYE and remembered why I don't listen to Radio Disney.

And I finally heard that Black Eyed Peas song (MY HUMP) yesterday. OMG. It's horrible! How in the dickens could they have even contemplated releasing that POC??????

[murasaki]

I don't listen to pop as much as country. I do, however, like the Kelly Clarkson song that Avril Lavigne wrote ("Breakaway") but I have no idea if that was released in 2005 or 2005.

Cannot stand Trace Adkins' "Honky-Tonk Badonkadonk" or Toby Keith's "Honkytonk University" (I'm guess I'm having issues with anything that has "honky tonk" in the title. Anything by Montgomery Gentry grates on my nerves particularly "Speed" and "'Cause She Don't Tell Me To."

I also had issues with Tim McGraw's "Do You Want Fries with That?" because, while a funny song, it's a false portrayal of where the money goes after a divorce--it's usually the woman who not only has the kids but also isn't getting her child support (alimony is rarely awarded these days).

[frazzledspice]

Melissa Etheridge's "I Run for Life" (and her new CD) is a guilty pleasure for me.

I got goosebumps when I saw her perform it on Oprah, bought her CD right away, and learned she'd had a whole good body of work I'd never known very much about....

[theworm[$]]

Ok, all this thread has proven to me is that perhaps its not such a bad thing that S. Florida radio sucks so much. I never even heard of most of those songs. Apparently, I'm still listening to radio with really bad songs from 1999.

[CurtisEdmonds]

Wormie, you gotta go satellite. Satellite radio does just one thing; it makes radio station executives look like the idiots they are.