A few weeks back I asked my friends on Twitter to pass along their favorite musical “guilty pleasures” – you know, the songs you really don’t admit to anyone you like…..but you really, really, secretly do.
Thanks to many online “confessors”, we now have a list of 46 songs that fit that bill.
Now we need to winnow them down to 10 – the ones that the entire blogosphere can declare as the songs they absolutely, positively love to hate.
So I need your help – and I’m willing to make it worth your while. After the list of candidates you’ll find a survey. If you take the survey and pick your 10 favorites, you’ll be included in a random drawing for this fabulous prize package:
- A three DVD package including:
Iron Man (2-Disc deluxe version)
Leatherheads
Mamma Mia
- $200 Discount Voucher for SOBCon09, May 1-3 in Chicago Illinois
That’s nearly $300 worth of stuff just for confessing your Gulitytunes!
Here’s the list of nominees:
Weekend in New England – Barry Manilow
Welcome to the Jungle – Guns and Roses
Mr. Roboto – Styx
Babe – Styx
U Can’t Touch This – MC Hammer
White Wedding – Billy Idol
Want U – Savage Garden
Turning Japanese – Vapours
Maria Maria – Santana
Never Gonna Give U Up – Rick Astley
Seasons in the Sun – Terry Jacks
A Minute Without You – Hanson
Shot Through The Heart – Bon Jovi
Thriller – Michael Jackson
Shakira is a Dancer – JIROB v Shakira v Snap
Why God Why – Miss Saigon
Mexican Radio – Wall of Voodoo
Concrete & Clay – Unit Four Plus Two
Escape (The Pina Colada Song) – Rupert Holmes
Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now – Starship
Der Kommissar – After the Fire
Afternoon Delight – Starland Vocal Band
Louie Louie – The Kingsmen
California Dreaming(Remix)– The Mamas & the Papas & Tupac
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go – Wham
Knock Three Times – Tony Orlando and Dawn
The Sign – Ace of Base
Karma Chameleon – Culture Club
My Own Private Idaho – B-52’s
Take on Me – Ah-Ha
Come on Eileen – Dexys Midnight Runners
Who Let the Dogs Out – Baha Men
Broken Wings – Mr. Mister
YMCA – Village People
La Macarena – Los Del Mar
Celebration – Kool & The Gang
Girls Just Want to Have Fun – Cyndi Lauper
The Night Chicago Died – Paper Lace
My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion
The Reflex – Duran Duran
Hey Mickey – Toni Basil
The Wind Beneath My Wings – Bette Midler
Funky Cold Medina – Tone Loc
Stayin’ Alive – Bee Gees
Copacabana – Barry Manilow
I Gotcha – Joe Tex
Pick your 10, and then go to here to record your votes (and enter the drawing):
Click Here to take survey
The voting will be open until March 22, and then I’ll publish the 10 ‘best”, as well as the contest winner.
Thanks to the following Twitter friends for their nominations:
@lfamous, @juliewright, @gregoryanne, @aJayBoulder, @levydr, @shyndarkly, @TimeWasting, @jleray, @musecrossing, @douglaspaul, @MizFitOnline, @dawnnicole, @Ramona_W, @merkprof and @easton.
Let’s see your picks, and good luck in the contest!
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Ha! Great contest. I can’t wait to see what the winning songs are. Thanks for doing this Terry!
hey there, there was no voting spot for “knock three times”, LOL!
People like Barry Manilow? HAHAHA. Terry, you rock!
What fun is this! I don’t even know what Iron Man is but hey, I’m game to win it. Thanks for a break in the work-a-day, every one is either cranky or worried, can’t we all just get along, twit this not that, world we live in Terry.
Terry, I count on you and @perrybelcher to keep me humming along in life. This list had me smiling and singing. The prizes are awesome! Off to vote!
Hi Terry, you’re always doing such fun and creative things with music so I have named your blog for a Premio Dardos award. The The Premio Dardos is “bestowed for recognition of cultural, ethical, literary and personal values transmitted in the form of creative and original writing.”
Fun list, Terry! I am a bit concerned personally, however, that there are quite a few on the list that I would admit to liking.
Terry, how do we vote Come On Eileen out if we already took the survey?