Musically, I would enjoy goregrind. It's the gore cover art that sets me off.

It’s not really something I’m ashamed of but I would certainly not scream it from the rooftop but I kinda still like Korn first three albums. They were essential in shaping my taste in heavy music.

I enjoy some songs from the first two Korn albums, particularly Faget. It's hard to push past Jonathan Davis' voice but I do have to respect the band for pretty much inventing nu metal, which was a completely unique style when they first put it on record.

I'm not ashamed to admit that i really dig that whole vampiric black metal scene from the late 90 early 00s. Those corny band pics with ppl wearing plastic teeth and stupid bat capes and whatnot. I really dig the type of music and i have a considerable cd collection of it.

The whole concept of a "guilty pleasure" left my brain eons ago. I was so embarrassed when I realized that I really liked Billy Talent (I'm not Canadian so they aren't a rite of passage here) and it didn't take long for me to realize that A) other people's view of your taste doesn't matter at all, like I always say, I have the best taste in music because I never disagree with myself, and B) what really is the motivation behind considering something a guilty pleasure? It's not just something that doesn't mesh with your usual genres, because I had liked plenty of unmetal stuff before and never cared. No I think it might stem from wanting acceptance from a social group and whatever your "guilty pleasure" is tends to be something that your social group already declared is no good so your brain reconciles that it must be bad but you like it for some supernatural reason anyway. Maybe I'm projecting my own teenage insecurities outwards (all my friends were metalheads so I didn't want to admit that I listened to BTII six times last weekend or they'd all think I was gay or whatever) but I think with younger people, it's not an uncommon reason to be ashamed of something that you genuinely enjoy.

Remember: Every fun thing is cringy as hell to anybody who isn't part of the group doing the fun thing. Y'all here can make fun of me for liking The Offspring and my dad can make fun of me for all the corny devil music I listen to. Just enjoy things.

Not really ashamed of anything really, I'll own up to liking what i like without shame...even embrace it.

Yeah, nothing at all. I like some pretty stupid stuff.

I think BH put it well, it's mostly just social pressure and a feeling of wanting to conform. Which is kind of funny given we're using metal as the starting point of accepted taste.

SAME! It used to mess with me a lot. It still does, actually. Some of it is just disturbing.

Quite a few TRL-era pop punk bands are fun to listen to, barring a couple that have aged like milk left out in the Sahara desert for several weeks (see: Good Charlotte).
I have seen New Found Glory several times, intentionally.

I'm pretty sure the only thing I've ever been embarrassed about when it comes to music is some of the slam/brutal death metal stuff I enjoy. Outside of a Malignancy show, the occasions are rare that you can respond to the question of 'what are you listening to?' with 'Oh, you know, Vaginal Skin Grind Vomit by Amputated Genitals' and not feel a little abashed. Some of the album art problems that others have brought up also qualify here.

"I only listen to brutal stuff, my d00ds" is 1000Xs more cringy than someone enjoying any form of music or art. The closeminded make me feel shame...for them.

This. I absolutely love 70s easy listening / pop / singer-songwriter stuff such as the Carpenters, Barry Manilow, Simon & Garfunkel, and scores of others. Elton John's 70s output is especially awesome. Those CDs sit on my shelf right next to De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.

Yeah - the only thing you should be ashamed of in liking music is hating stuff with an extreme closed-minded attitude.

I know we're all having a love fest in here, but I'm still gonna talk shit about music others listen to.

Obviously, I'll be joking but giving others shit about their music and having people talk shit about mine is a part of life.

I hate kid rock as a human, and i hate nu metal/rap-rock, but goddamn it why the fuck do i love his songs in the summer time?

Damn man… I pray you find a cure for that soon.

I like Kid Rock (well, not so much as a person anymore). The first album I ever bought was The History of Rock. I think the run from Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp (1996) up to and including Born Free (2010) is really good.

Kid Rock is Limp Bizkit levels of bad. OK, byee...

the crazy thing is - I AGREE WITH THIS.

But god help me, i cannot turn off I Am The Bullgod when it's 30 degrees outside.

I like Limp Bizkit too.

Manowar - Pleasure Slave

Interesting. I didn't know that liking Kid Rock was a phenomenon that happens.

Lol, up until now I thought it was a distant myth. Something practiced only by suburban white guys in 2002.

I really like the first 2 Limp Bizkit albums. I also enjoy Six Feet Under, minus the covers and Barnes current vocals.

Their covers album(s?) is arguably worse than Kid Rock.

i really bawitdaba'd this thread. Sorry OP.

Lol, no worries. I can probably figure out how to upjump the boogie, or whatever the hell he says, haha.

I associate listening to music with joy, and nothing else, so I see no trace of guilt or shame. But it never ceases to surprise me how people experience and cope with cognitive dissonance.

Not much. I unabashedly love the cheesiest power metal, specifically Pathfinder and Twilight Force. The first two albums from those bands are all absolute bangers.

Non metal: I really like ultra-cringe happy hardcore electronic music. It's like eating pure sugar, so I can only handle it for a few songs at a time. It's still super fucking good.

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This.

I once had a few Bad Boys Blue albums on vinyl...

Man, that’s a mess.

I don't think anyone that really knows me would be surprised at anything I like. But there are certainly certain groups of people that would probably have no idea that I enjoy certain styles, so depending on which slice of people I know, it might be extreme metal, hip-hop, bluegrass, girlier pop artists, etc.

Just bought Slipknot’s self titled, and I am enjoying it. There, I said it.

Don Johnson's "Heartbeat" is a great song.

It's something I laugh about now as a 39 year old, but when I was 16/17, I was really into Insane Clown Posse. I was more impressionable at that age than I'd like to admit, but I also thought a lot of their lyrics were funny and I liked their beats. The only thing that I can consider a saving grace about that misstep is that I was only into the music. I never cared about juggalo culture and did not want to be associated with those people. There were quite a few of them in my grade and every one of them was as big a loser as their reputation made them out to be.

I was into all the nu-metal acts in highschool.... now, 20 years later, sometimes when I'm alone and I have an urge for a guilty pleasure I'll pump my fists in the air for songs like Break Stuff, Freak on a Leash and One Step Closer.

Also I can recite over a dozen Katy Perry songs.

I like some nu metal. There is a big difference, between the frat boy douche nu metal, and the good nu metal. The douche bands(kid rock, disturbed, Limp Bizkit), have lower quality, and more of a butt rock sound. The good bands took from groove metal, some sludge, some death, some industrial, and weird avant-garde stuff, post hardcore. And the good bands do a good job of the insane vocalizations. It’s the difference between psychosploitation mall music, and mall music that does a realistic portrayal of trauma and anguish.

I’m not ashamed of my music tastes, at all. But I don’t share it, with everyone I meet. If some stranger asks me, I tell them that I listen to stuff that’s really obscure and has only 100 downloads on Bandcamp, but if we have some common ground, I’ll talk about that. I mostly listen to metal, and other styles of rock music. I like some acoustic stuff, usually things that remind me of rock and roll. I’ve seen sitar dhrupad performances, and it reminds me of post rock, with more extreme dynamics. I saw a Tuvan folk band in a bar, and I worshipped Tengger Cavalry at the time.

Listen to mostly rock music is considered a bad thing, by music critics, so they hate me, and want to ascribe all sorts of negative traits to me. But I don’t think the average person cares. If I was ashamed of something, I would probably stop liking it, and stop listening to it.

I never got into ICP. I first heard about, from the juggalos themselves. As someone who always valued things like literacy, condom use, wiping one’s ass, washing one’s hands, and not having heart attacks, I couldn’t.

Edit: okay, actually, I did something shameful, earlier this year. Out of boredom, I listened to the first three Limp Bizkit albums, all the way through, one weekend. They have some more listenable songs, and I was really burned out on life, and drinking a lot. So I asked myself, “why is this considered so bad?” I thought that it was like, 50-60% good? I thought back to 1999. Did the douche Limp Bizkit fans, that were in second grade with me, go on to have happier lives than me? Hadn’t I been jealous, of the lives they lived? Was I missing out on something? If I could fall asleep, and wake up, in the late 90s, and do my life over again, and maybe, just maybe, not have all the health problems, not make the same mistakes, not listen to the same bad advice…imagine that, living in 1999, and being happy. Just some stupid, unintellectual, happy life, listening to Fred Durst’s douche anthems, what would that be like?…I sobered up, and came to my senses. It was more like 5-20% good music, but made almost completely unlistenable, for a variety of reasons. And the rest of what I was thinking was just stupid bullshit anyways. Limp Bizkit still sucks. They even titled their last album that.