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Thanks to rhiannonhero, I found the audiography community, which seems to be an ideal venue for my predeliction for song posts with rambling autobiographical stabs at relevance. They're having a "guilty pleasures" theme at the moment, and I posted the songs behind the cut...

( guilty pleasure songs )

I really don't have a lot of song guilt. I genuinely love a lot of things that are apparently high cheese, but I don't understand why. For instance, Petula Clark's Downtown. What's wrong with it? It's expansive, celebratory, catchy and happy, and it's well-done on all levels. Plus, there's old footage of Petula lipsynching it on the Ed Sullivan show with a big, blonde beehive in a little, black dress all alone on a bare stage - I like it because she seems so oddly brave trying to fill that space with the spread of her skinny, girlie arms.

I don't think that music has to be obscure to be good (a lot of obscure music is obscure for a reason) but I do think that anyone who believes they actually care about music owes it to him or herself to go beyond what commercial radio has on offer. And here's where I erased a long diatribe about what's good and what sucks because I was just saying elsewhere yesterday that fighting over aesthetic choices is pretty much pointless. But let me just say, if you love Good Charlotte, you really need to listen to more music ;)