June is Music Month here at Bookmans, so we asked our employees what their musical "guilty pleasure" was. Check out some of the responses:

Marshall- "My guilty music pleasure is Gucci Mane. Ringtone Rap."

Denise- "If I had music I felt guilty about liking, why would I want the Bookmans website to post it?"

Cas- "John 5, because he was in K.D. Lang's band, Lita Ford's band and Marilyn Manson. Hah!"

 

Cory- "Meat Loaf. I love Marvin Lee Aday, better known as Meat Loaf. Not in an ironic hipster way. Oh no. I love Meat Loaf's music deeply and sincerely. I have a cherished concert T-shirt. I know pretty much of 'Bat Out of Hell' and 'Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell,' by heart. Meat Loaf comes on the radio, I stop what I'm doing, grin like an idiot, and sing along. Even in public. I have been accused of loving anything campy. That's true, and it's part of what I love about Meat Loaf. He owns his camp value, he loves it, he rocks it out..."

Pokey- "Phil Collins. 'In Too Deep' is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I've heard in rock... Phil Collins' solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like 'In the Air Tonight' and 'Against All Odds'... But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist. 'This is Sussudio,' a great, great song, a personal favorite."

 

Elaine- "Bananarama. Every generation needs a girl-group to giggle and scoff at and then sing to alone in the car.  Bananarama, ABBA, Ace of Base, Spice Girls, Expose, En Vogue... Need I go on?"

Ginger- "ABBA! My tie into loving ABBA has to do with the awesome 90's film Murial's Wedding. I saw it when I was about eight or nine and Murial lip syncs & dances in costume to Waterloo by ABBA. I was instantly obsessed not only because it was the funniest scene but that I always tried to like music and movies that other people thought was weird, dont ask me why haha but basically basically it was that scene that made me run to my pappy and ask if he had any ABBA CDs I could dance too."

Mark-  "There’s actually quite of bit of intelligent classic rock represented in Rhino Records mammoth compilation of ephemeral but unforgettable seventies Top 40 hits by one-two- and three hit wonder singers and groups. What I love about this series is the stuff I’m really embarrassed about, and there’s plenty of it. Schlocky story songs (Vicki Lawrence’s 'The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia'), pathetic ballads (Austin Robert's 'Something’s Wrong With Me'), not-so-funny novelty hits (Meri Wilson's 'Telephone Man')…and best of all, track after track of beautiful bubble gum. Even the inner notes recommend that anyone who went out and purchased all 25 volumes of this series should seek a good psychotherapist, and I can’t entirely disagree. But if ABBA can make it in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, then shouldn’t my favorite song in this series, 'Who Do You Think You Are?' get some long overdue respect?"

Meg- "My guilty pleasure is The Used's self titled album. I don’t want to call it lame, I’ll feel bad, but its soooooo good at the same time. It’s so bad that is awesome.  My favorite track is 'Blue and Yellow' because it's very sad but so catchy that it gets stuck in my head all the time. The Used is just a played-out band and now they aren’t even doing anything with their lives (at least I don’t think) and its not my normal style of music."

Katie- "My guilty pleasure is Adam Lambert. I love him because he is super sparkly! And he sounds like Lady Gaga if she were to do musical theatre. I guess I feel like it’s a guilty pleasure because he started on American Idol and that’s just dorky!"

 

Michael- My musical guilty pleasure is the album "The Wild Heart" by Stevie Nicks. Although I have a soft spot for all of Stevie's work, this album is my favorite because it was when she really started to develop her solo sound as something distinct from what she was doing in Fleetwood Mac. It exists in a place somewhere between the hard-edged pop/rock of Mac and a strong dance-based, driving sense of rhythm. During my lonely teenage years, Stevie was a favorite artist - and I didn't care that nobody else I knew seemed to get it. 'Enchanted,' the album's fourth track, even helped me work up the nerve to ask a girl out for the first time. (She turned me down, but nonetheless...) Even now, when my musical collection is more hard rock and metal, I still find a lot of energy and fun in the songs on this album that moved me in my youth. But hey, 'don't blame it on me - blame it on my wild, wild heart.'"

Sarah- "O.K., so it hit me while getting in the shower, as these things always do. I am soooo stick in the mud. My GUILTY musical pleasure would be Elton John. And if you think I am going to pose in a Donald Duck suit for the website, you are crazy! By the way, I hope all of you are old enough to understand the Donald Duck reference with Elton John...If not, ask Mark Urias -- HE WAS AT THE CONCERT."