“When I used to be really young, after going out, I would walk home listening to The Pretender by Foo Fighters and Criminal by Eminem and I would pretend to be in some kind of gang fight in a Bruce Willis movie. I haven’t done that in a while, now when I get drunk it tends to be even weirder songs. Maybe because I’m more mature. I love to listen to this song by a band called Bent, So Long Without You; it’s a seven minute cowboy song.”
“That Don’t Impress Me Much by Shania Twain. And Beyoncé also has very good ones.”
“Recently we’ve met Snow Patrol, they were the loveliest guys I’ve ever met. I really wanna see them again. Chasing Cars was a guilty pleasure, but now I don’t feel as guilty anymore listening to it.”
“Is Elton John a guilty pleasure?”
“That’s just straight pleasure, nothing guilty about it. It’s so good. I can listen to Elton the whole year round. He’s the same category as George Michael.”
“A Different Corner is such a sad song, it’s so good. His best one.”
“Katy Perry also got a lot of hits. It has got to be said. I wouldn’t put it on myself but if it comes on the radio I have to say I enjoy it.”
“I’d say Wham is the weirdest guilty pleasure there is. It’s so strange to listen to it any other time of the year than Christmas.”
“Also, we really love the Vengaboys. That’s a Dutch band! Whenever we do a dj set we play at least four songs by them. Vengaboys must be the best music The Netherlands has produced. We where dj’ing at the Locked Tavern when somebody came up to ask us to please not play another Vengaboys song, but we did.”
“Also the songs which we grew up with were just amazing because they also had amazing videos. Toxic by Britney Spears and My Humps by The Black Eyed Peas, they don’t make things like that anymore. Coming home from school and watching clips on MTV – it was like six pounds for a text to the screen – those were times.”
“The majority of us used to played a lot of Tony Hawk when we were young and a year ago we got to play a festival in Austria with Suicidal Tendencies. They watched our entire set and we got to meet them afterwards. That was a guilty pleasure dream come true. They were all wearing the same Suicidal Tendencies cap. What is it with metal bands wearing their own merch though? They all look like tour managers.”