Real Actual Guilty Pleasures

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

More a mid-week topic this. I mentioned elsewhere (wrt Merritt and zip-a-dee-doo-dah) that it has only just occurred to me that there really is a category of "Guilty Pleasures" - just not the latest gutless variation on "so bad its good". There can be music you really like, but for some reason the song is actually morally wrong or tainted. And not in the indie ("S club Juniors that's so wrong") or mirror-indie ("all indie boys can't sing they should all die"*) sense. The only good example I can think of right now is

Gary Glitter.

I love you love. Leader. SMASHing, real fun songs. Sung by a man with a twisted brane of badness cubed. (Of course there is a whole vein of pa3d0 british pop which we can take as read here.) But what else is there? Anybody here enjoy fascist/nazi/racialist music? dancehall homophobia i suppose. wot sa u?


(* naming no names, cos we're done with that, right?)

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

well i have never LIKED gg's work (in the face of MUCH POPTIMIST HIVEMIND STUBBORNNESS back in the day) so i am inclined to argue that attractions and replusions really ARE present, like, empirically

but actually identifying the strands is the work-not-done that i am invoking (rather than, say, DOING it)

(the kind of work i'm talking abt = like when kogan sez a GREAT musicologist wd be able to link up doors basslines with meltzer's vomit-pill)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

the good side of GG

Green Gartside
Gina G
Gloria Gaynor
GoGo's

the bad side of GG

G*ry Gl*tter
Gus Gus
Goo Goo Dolls